• Survivor Strong Peer Support Group (online)

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

    This is a peer support group.The focus will be 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. Call 941-343-0039 to register or e mail info@resilientretreat.org.

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Steampunk Jewelry Crafting (in-person) – PROGRAM FULL

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

    Join us creating unique jewelry. Crafting with our hands is an effective tool for emotional regulation and mindfulness because it lowers stress hormones and directly forces the brain out of anxious overthinking. When you engage in tactile, manual projects, your brain shifts away from the Default Mode Network—the region responsible for negative rumination and worry. Instead, […]

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Trees as Teachers and Allies – (online)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Trees are wonderful, helpful companions in our wellbeing lifestyles. From their ability to create clean air and teach us to ground, to their roles as metaphors for personal growth and even messengers, we will explore our connections to trees. Please have a notebook and pen available (colored pencils if you want) and, if possible, a […]

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Mindful Meditation (online)

    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Mindfulness meditation is a guided technique you can use to develop focus, clarity and balance as well as to increase inner peace, resilience and happiness. Participants receive affirmations after each program to continue the practice at home. We focus on a different intention each time we meet. Please call us at the retreat (941) 343-0039 […]

    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Stretch & Breathe (in-person)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Whether you are new to yoga or simply seeking a softer, more restorative experience, this class will support your nervous system, help you reset emotionally and physically, and prepare you […]

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Essential Oil (in-person)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Using essential oils on pressure points and meridians in conjunction with yoga to facilitate the release, balance and connection of our emotion’s energetic patterns and unique frequencies. Encouraging the release of […]

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Creative Pause – Needle Felting (in-person)

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Needle crafting is the process of creating 3D shapes out of wool.  Using a repetitive motion, we agitate the wool fibers which causes them to bond together to create a unique piece […]

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Zentangle® (online)

    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Zentangle®  is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles. You create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple […]

    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Guided Meditation and Musical Experience (Sound Bath) (in-person)

    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    The intention of a sound bath is to create a state of harmony using sound to clear discordance. Among the benefits are relaxation, an increased sense of well-being and an expanded awareness. The different frequencies of sound healing instruments such as tuning forks and crystal singing bowls, affect different organs, emotions, illnesses, diseases, chakras and trauma. […]

    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Stretch & Breathe (in-person)

    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Whether you are new to yoga or simply seeking a softer, more restorative experience, this class will support your nervous system, help you reset emotionally and physically, and prepare you for a restful and intentional week ahead. A combination of yoga poses, gentle stretch and mindful breath work. Call (941) 343-0039 or e mail (info@resilientretreat.org) […]

    • Building Regulatory Strengths