I am excited to invite you to join me for a five day intensive focused on cultivating and dwelling in life enhancing energies -- the Beauty of Needs -- and deepening the practice of Self-Compassion.
In the retreats and workshops that I offer, people consistently share with me how grounding, opening and inspiring these practices are for them. I want to support an inner consciousness of Being that I see as having fundamental importance in the development and cultivation of living life authentically and fully in relationship.
This Beauty of Needs / Self-Compassion Intensive provides an environment and community support to practice and deepen the foundational consciousness of the spirituality inherent in each of us.
This five day retreat will take place
October 3 - 8, 2010
and will be held at the
Alton L. Collins Retreat Center
near Portland, Oregon.
www.collinsretreatcenter.org
This intensive will include opening talks, questions and answers, daily meditations, a body movement time, and opening (remembering) and closing (celebration and mourning) circles.
Daily meditation practices will take various forms: practice in pairs, in small groups, in the whole group as well as walking meditations.
With intensive meditation on the Beauty of Needs, what can arise are deep woundings, mourning or contractive patterns. Recognizing this, I want to incorporate practice of the "Compassionately Embracing Process" which I find supports and complements an embodied fullness of Beauty of Needs work. The "Compassionately Embracing Process" has grown out of my work with transforming core, non-life serving beliefs and is one of the most profound processes I have experienced for developing deep and abiding self-compassion.
This retreat has evolved from an experience that took place in June 2009 when a mix of people who participated in the 06, 07 and 08 NVC LIFE programs came together for a three day "Beauty of Needs Intensive." In last year's intensive, participants expressed how much they enjoyed a retreat with the singular focus on the Beauty of Needs. This focus allowed them to go much deeper than they had in the past and supported a more full integration of the consciousness. Having shared the common experience of working with the teachings of the LIFE program, the group quickly bonded and created a close community in the short three days of the workshop.
This year, I welcome anyone who has participated in one or more years of the NVC LIFE program as well as anyone who has worked with the "Beauty of Needs" through the NVC Training Institute's "Living Energy of Needs" trainings or my "Deepening into Living Compassion" retreats. I look forward to joining in community with participants who already have experience with the "Beauty of Needs" who want to build on their prior experience and to contribute to the total group learning.
The cost of this intensive is
$975 for single occupancy;
$725 for double.
This cost includes tuition, room and board.
Single occupancy rooms are limited and will be available on a first requested basis.
To register for this intensive:
email Phyllis Brzozowska at phyllis [at] prescottnvc [dot] org (click dots to get full address) or call 928-771-2420.
Warmly,
Robert