CE Retreat

In an oasis of beauty on Whidbey Island, we invite you to disconnect from the hurry of life, bring peace to your mind, relax your body, and connect to your heart.

Come celebrate spring while getting your continuing education credits: Warm up with a 24 hour sauna, fireplace, warm nutritious food, and an abundance of connection and support to connect to your mind, body and heart.

• Art Therapy Process Painting
• Relaxation
• Massage
• Financial Health
• Sauna Detox in Ceremonial Cordwood Sauna
• Meditation
• Self-Reflective Journal Writing
• Somatic Engagement & Movement
• Eco-therapy & Nature-Based Healing
• Sound bath
• EMDR resourcing
• Nutrional Wellness
• Experiential Continuing Education Credits
• Community Resourcing
  

Nourishment and Amenities

• Self Serve Breakfast, Meals accomodate most* dietary needs
• Nourishing Catered Lunch and Dinners
• Welcome Dream Big Wellness Bag of Creative Writing Journal, and all needed Art Materials

*Please inform us of any allergies, dietary restrictions and needs in your registration.

Meals provided by Dream Big Wellness and Rachel Hungerford, MS RDN CD IFNCP

Lodging

"Aldermarsh is situated on the edge of a beautiful marshland in the Maxwelton Valley at the south end of Whidbey Island. The wooded 5 acre facility is a human-created space integrated within its natural setting where community, collaboration and sustainability thrive". -Aldermarsh

• Shared lodging* in one of Aldermarsh's beautiful houses or cabins.
• Comfortable Bedding, Beautiful Rooms and Restorative Accommodation in Nature
• Abundance of Beautiful Spaces to Release Stress and Tension

*Please indicate in your registration if you would like to lodge with another registered individual(s). Otherwise retreat facilitators will assign lodging randomly.

Workshops:

(updates soon on our full offerings)

Art Therapy and Relaxation

This workshop will include experiential practice of techniques, and offers informational materials and resources
for use in practice.

Process Painting:

a kinesthetic experiential integrating nonverbal creative expression and art-making with verbal processing, and journaling.

Shifting Perspectives on Money:

an experiential using visual metaphors to explore stuck parts of participants' financial attitudes and how financial conversations can be part of therapy. This course will include experiential practice, and offers providers informational materials and resources to utilize in their own practice.

Lymphatics and Self Massage 101: including demonstrations, information, and experiential led by Lara Sopchak

EMDR Resource Development for Mental Health Providers

This workshop will help clinicians identify and strengthen their own trove of personal resources in service of sustaining and grounding their therapeutic work with clients. We will review the basic EMDR mechanism, the AIP model (adaptive information processing), and the central clinical themes that ground EMDR work. From there, we will explore different types of personal resources (including internal, relational, and symbolic) and strengthen these through the use of bilateral stimulation.

Natural Connections, An Eco-Art Therapy Approach

After being introduced to the theoretical underpinnings and benefits of eco-art therapy, participants will be guided through an experiential that combines spending time in nature, creating with natural materials, and connecting with others.

Retreat Service Providers:

• Bonnie Walchuk, MA, LMFT, ATR-BC
• Katie Kapugi, MA, LMHC, ATR.
• Rachel Duncan, MA: Certified Financial Social Worker
• Rachel Hungerford, MS RDN CD IFNCP
• Lara Sopchak LMT: Over eighteen years experience as a massage therapist
• Stephanie Leftwich-Needham LMHC ATR-BC: Works across the age range, creatively helping clients move through trauma, loss, and life transitions.
• Carolyn Maret, LICSW, OSW-C: Palliative care and Oncology Social Work fellow. 12 years experience in the field of healthcare, serving patients in oncology, palliative care and long term settings
• Kellie Mathay: Yoga Instructor and Sound Bath Healer