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). Participants will be supported in learning to identify and transform the internal voices that block them from achieving their goals. This personal growth and self-empowerment […]

  • 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 and to brainstorm ways to cope and discover how Resilient Retreat can continue to be a support.

  • 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

Humming for Happiness Level II (Online)

  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Humming is an internal sound bath and the vibrations you create can be intentionally directed to the parts of your body offering pain relief and healing. In addition, humming is a way to bring your mind into a deeply calming and meditative state.

  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Mindful Meditation (Online)

  • Building Regulatory Strengths

A guided technique you can use to develop focus, clarity and balance as well as increase inner peace, resilience and happiness.

  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Survivor Strong Support Group (Online)

  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

This is a peer support group, facilitated by the Director of Wellness, Joyce Carter. 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.

  • Building Meaning-Making Strengths
  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Trauma Informed Chair Yoga (Online)

We practice chair yoga because we want to reap the benefits of a yoga practice but getting on the floor is either inconvenient or not possible. We want to relieve stress, learn to breathe effectively, improve our circulation, increase our mobility and flexibility, strengthen our bodies and seek an overall sense of calm.

Vinyasa Flow Hatha Yoga (In-Person)

  • Building Regulatory Strengths

Vinyasa in the Ashtanga tradition means breath synchronized movement. Poses linked together by the breath. This program will synchronize movement with breathing.

  • 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

Reflective Art Journaling (In-Person)

  • Building Regulatory Strengths