• Survivor Strong (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. Please call 941-343-0039 or e mail info@resilientreat.org to register.

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Meaning-Making 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 curves, S-curves and orbs. These patterns are drawn on small pieces of paper called “tiles,” which can be assembled them into mosaics. Zentangle® art is unplanned […]

    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Exploring Hygge (online)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths

    Hygge is a Scandinavian word that roughly translates to “cozy”. Those from Demark, where the term originates, say it is a cozy, warm feeling inside when you enjoy the company of friends and family. Hygge has become more popular here in our country, mostly through making our environments more cozy, and enjoying simple pleasures. Many […]

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • The Ringling Inspires (in-person)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    The Ringling Inspires – Explore an artwork with the museum, then create your own masterpiece. All materials are provided and no experience is needed, inviting everyone to explore their artistic potential. Engaging in artistic activities promotes mindfulness, reduces anxiety, and builds coping skills. Call 941-343-0039 or e mail info@resilientretreat.org to register.

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Creative Memoir (online)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    Writing your story (memoir). A memoir is a recounting of a part or a theme in our life. We don’t start at birth and tell the story of our life, we share something specific. There are many reasons to write our story and different approaches we can take. If you are writing for others to read, […]

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Ease into Being – Gentle Yoga with Extended Meditative Savasana (in-person)

    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    This gentle beginner yoga program is designed to help you reconnect with your body through mindful movement and conscious breathing. Perfect for those new to yoga or anyone seeking a slower, more nurturing practice, this class focuses on simple, accessible stretches synchronized with the breath. We’ll move gradually through foundational poses that improve flexibility, release […]

    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Empowerment Journaling Peer Support – (Online)

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths

    An Empowerment Journaling Peer Support program that is a guided, trauma-informed space where individuals come together to reflect, write, and grow while navigating shared human experiences. Through structured journaling prompts, facilitated peer dialogue, and compassionate listening, participants build self-awareness, resilience, and meaningful connection. This program recognizes that while each healing journey is unique, many of […]

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

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths

    Transition from the "doing" of the day to the "being" of the evening with this short, restorative mindfulness practice. Designed for when you are short on time, this session acts as a, mental and physical "reset button," helping you let go of lingering tasks, worries, and tension. A guided technique you can use to develop […]

    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Free your Mind Peer Support Group (online)

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

    Join the Foundation for Sarasota Performing Arts Center, Teaching Artist and Theater and Meditation Specialist Maria Schaedler-Luera in a series of experiential and self-reflective exercises inspired by techniques of Rainbow of Desire, created by Brazilian activist and director Augusto Boal. In this monthly offering participants will be supported in learning to identify and transform the […]

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
    • Building Regulatory Strengths
  • Observing Spring Equinox (online)

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths

    Yes, we have seasons, even here in Florida! And learning to honor the seasons both inside and outside us is a component of greater enrichment in life. Spring is traditionally a time of rebirth., of new growth. How can you use self-care, nature and neuroscience to support your new dreams? This program will be part […]

    • Building Interpersonal Strengths
    • Building Meaning-Making Strengths