Retreat Description: "Re-Membering the Healer's Spirit"

3 day retreat: registration fee is $350
(includes cost of books used for reading assignments)

To register for retreat, call 559.561.4671
or email elsahc@dishmail.net

Offering 24 hours CE's for CA and NV nurses
California Nursing Board Provider #13161

The retreat size is limited to ten persons to foster a smaller group experience.
The retreat starts on day one in the morning and ends on day three in the evening.
It is advised that only persons who are enrolled in the workshop accompany you for the retreat.
For lodging located nearby in Three Rivers, visit the where page.

The retreat is organized around six passages, with one and six occurring before and after the retreat. Each passage involves individual reading assignments, some creative projects including mandala making as a contemplative exercise, gathering together for group sharing, and a directed meditative walk among the Giant Sequoia trees at Crescent Meadow in Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park (if snow has closed the road to the meadow, an alternate site with a shorter walk will be chosen, along with time spent in nature at lower elevations.)

Retreat Objectives

1. To present the participant with an opportunity to engage "job burnout" as a creative process, one that is dynamic, organic and inherently healthy.

2. To provide foundational information about origins and stages of burnout, both from the individual's perspective and within a broader nursing professional perspective.

3. To allow for a retreat setting to encourage the participant to read, journal, and discuss a diverse range of ideas, approaches and bases of knowledge about many aspects of healing.To offer practical ways to experience burnout transformation.

4. To offer practical ways to experience burnout transformation.

5. To support the person in this experiential exploration in ways that are compatible within a holistic healing philosophy.

6. To nurture what happens without judgment, preconceived ideas or pressure. To allow for a natural enfoldment of the person's own process, one that intertwines within the person's professional practice.

7. To serve and support the person's re-membering of spirit, enhancing the dignity of the human spirit and bringing healing and authenticity to the world.

burnout blip:
Some times the way out is also the way in.
Pay attention to where you are.
Exactly what you need may be right in front of you.

Burnout blips are posted each morning on twitter @burnoutblip and @thedeeperwell.