Educator Strong Peer Support Group (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

A peer support group focused on how your trauma is currently affecting your life. We will also be discussing and sharing resiliency strategies and how our lived experience has given us the opportunity for growth.

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Positive Mind/Positive Body (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

There is a strong link between "positivity" and health. Studies have found that a positive attitude improves outcomes and life satisfaction across a spectrum of conditions. Another thought is that hope and positivity help us make better health and life decisions. Positive Mind, Positive Body will mix positive psychology with yoga (regulatory).

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Survivor Strong – Weathering the Storm (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

This is a peer support group. We will be discussing and sharing resiliency strategies and how our lived experience has given us the opportunity for growth. We will share tools and resources to help us move forward and receive and offer support.

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Book Discussion – The Little Prince (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths

A guided book discussion on The Little Prince, a novella by French aristocrat, writer and military aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery that addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love and loss.

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths

Educator Strong Peer Support Group (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Giving and receiving support and sharing a sense of community are important resilience builders. This peer support group is a safe, confidential place to feel connected with other educators, and brainstorm ways to cope and discover how Resilient Retreat can continue to be a support to educators.

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Reflective Journaling (In-Person)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

This workshop will introduce how journaling can be used as a tool for healing, releasing, responding to situations with purpose, mindful awareness, and reminding yourself of what is positive in your life. This may include prompted writing exercises and group discussions. To register, call 941-343-0039.

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Free Your Mind (Online due to the weather)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Join Van Wezel Foundation Teaching Artist and Theater and Mediation Specialist, Maria Schaedler-Luera in a series of experiential and self-reflective exercises inspired by techniques of Rainbow of Desire (Augusto Boal). […]

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Educator Strong (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Giving and receiving support and sharing a sense of community are important resilience builders. This peer support group is a safe, confidential place to feel connected with other educators survivors […]

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Rapid Journaling (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

An atypical journaling workshop for trauma survivors. Peer to peer. The focus is on identifying current emotions that deregulate us, recognizing the link to past experiences and organizing both sets […]

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Rapid Journaling (Online)

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

An atypical journaling workshop for trauma survivors. Peer to peer. The focus is on identifying current emotions that deregulate us, recognizing the link to past experiences and organizing both sets of information into opportunities to regulate our brain circuitry. (A 3-week program). (Space is limited). To register, call 941-343-0039.

  • Building Interpersonal Strengths
  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths