2008 Public Workshops and Retreats

Most retreats at the Lodge are private groups: weddings, church groups, and organizational retreats. We do host a number of events each year that are open to the public. We offer a list at this site; please bookmark this page and check back with us to see what is coming up. This is a partial listing; as new events are booked, and leaders send their descriptions, we'll post them here. Please contact the retreat organizer directly for cost, more information, and registration. You may also browse previous year's events for 2005, 2006, and 2007.  Some of these people will be returning in 2008 and haven't yet provided listing materials; you may contact them directly to see if they're returning.

March 14-16, 2008 (SOLD OUT)  Great Big Dreams Retreats with Christine Kane.  Christine has been facilitating her Great Big Dreams retreats for five years. These retreats have become every bit as popular as her live performances. Four times a year, she reserves a three-day weekend at Bend of Ivy Lodge and invites groups of 20 women to convene for reflection, silence, examining life directions, and mapping out plans for creating a more authentic life. More information at ChristineKane.com or email info@firepink.com

April 18 - 20, 2008  The Savvy Savory Self-Care Retreat- A Retreat of and for Extraordinary Women.  A weekend gathering of extraordinary, creative, empowered, inventive women. Together we will experience what extraordinary self-care feels like and explore what "being fully expressed in our lives" means by sharing our gifts and our inspirations. Think: fun, nurturing, creative, stretch, expressive, in the moment, slooow down, play, surprises, movement, yummy food, great connections, breath, and rich memory-moments. To learn more, email Corrie Woods or visit the events page at WomansFieldGuide.com

April 24 - 27, 2008  Tantric Path for Men with Rudy Ballentine.  Tantra is a path to awaken the mind, heart, and body. Classical Tantra is a rich philosophy concerned with the masculine and feminine energies that dwell within each of us, and the ways in which they express the many and varied forms of the divine.
Join Rudy Ballentine in an intensive exploration of the impulses and habits which can hold us back, and the powerful energies which can feed our creativity, strengthen our relationships, and connect us to the wider universe. The focus will be on channeling life force that bring energy up the spine, activating the higher chakras, shifting our view of the world, opening our awareness of subtler realms, and enabling us to move with more ease and grace along our own unique path of spiritual unfoldment.  For Gay and Bisexual men.  More details at SpiritJourneys.com or contact us at 800.754.1875, info@spiritjourneys.com

April 28 - 30, 2008  CHANGE AGENT SERIES: The Art of Mindful Coaching. This highly experiential retreat focuses on coaching as a practice for both developing others and for cultivating mindfulness on the part of the practitioner. For all professionals, regardless of coaching experience, the retreat will draw from Lodge owner Doug Silsbee's book: The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping People Grow. The emphasis will be on discerning the roles of the coaching process that are most helpful to the client in moving to deeper levels of understanding and commitment to action. Participants will also receive real-time coaching on topics of their choosing. More information is available at DougSilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@DougSilsbee.com

May 27 - June 1, 2008  CTI Co-Active Leadership Program.  Bend of Ivy Lodge is proud to be the official East Coast venue for CTI's acclaimed leadership development program.  The program is a powerful experiential program designed to uncover, deepen, and build on your natural strengths as a leader.  International in scope, this program encompasses a series of four residential retreats and in-between projects over a 10-month period.  The program is designed to foster the development of an international community of peers and leaders (approximately 22 participants per group) who grow and learn together through a variety of experiences that include adventure-based activities, lively discussions, interactive exercises, physical challenges, and ongoing feedback.  Visit TheCoaches.com for more information.
Retreat #1:  May 27- June 1, 2008
Retreat #2:  September 9-14, 2008
Retreat #3:  December 10-14. 2008
Retreat #4:  March 4-8, 2009

June 6-8, 2008  Great Big Dreams Retreats with Christine Kane.  Christine has been facilitating her Great Big Dreams retreats for five years. These retreats have become every bit as popular as her live performances. Four times a year, she reserves a three-day weekend at Bend of Ivy Lodge and invites groups of 20 women to convene for reflection, silence, examining life directions, and mapping out plans for creating a more authentic life. More information at ChristineKane.com or email info@firepink.com

September 17 - 23, 2008  Sacred Bodywork/Lomi Lomi Retreat & Training.  Transform yourself and your bodywork with a week of training, dancing, dreaming, meditating, and living the ancient ways of O'Hana (family).  This traditional Temple Style Hawaiian bodywork is brought to life by the hands of your facilitator, Gloria Coppola LMT.  Walk the labyrinths of the psyche and gently unwind years of tension and pain from your body, mind, and spirit.  Listen to the heartbeat of the majestic blue ridge mountains as you find your footpaths in all that is sacred within yourself.  Nourish your body with sumptuous organic feasts lovingly prepared fresh each day.  For more details and information visit www.BothEndsOfTheRainbow.com or contact Gloria.

September 26 - 28, 2008  Life is a Verb:  Unmasking the power of our personal stories.  Often, there is a gap between the story we meant to live and the one we’ve lived so far. This gap mutes the colors of our lives and inhibits the quality of our engagements with other people—in our families, our organizations, our communities. Maintaining that gap diminishes our creative impulse and often splits our intentions. Why don’t we do more to shorten that distance? This retreat, led by Circle Project co-founders Patti Digh and David Robinson will do just that by exploring six core practices for more intentional living from Patti’s new book, Life is a Verb. Retreat participants will receive the first copies of Life is a Verb, which won’t hit bookstores until October 2008. For more information, go to 37days.

September 29 - October 1, 2008  CHANGE AGENT SERIES: The Art of Mindful Coaching. This highly experiential retreat focuses on coaching as a practice for both developing others and for cultivating mindfulness on the part of the practitioner. For all professionals, regardless of coaching experience, the retreat will draw from Lodge owner Doug Silsbee's book: The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping People Grow. The emphasis will be on discerning the roles of the coaching process that are most helpful to the client in moving to deeper levels of understanding and commitment to action. Participants will also receive real-time coaching on topics of their choosing. More information is available at DougSilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@DougSilsbee.com

October 3-5, 2008  Great Big Dreams Retreats with Christine Kane.  Christine has been facilitating her Great Big Dreams retreats for five years. These retreats have become every bit as popular as her live performances. Four times a year, she reserves a three-day weekend at Bend of Ivy Lodge and invites groups of 20 women to convene for reflection, silence, examining life directions, and mapping out plans for creating a more authentic life. More information at ChristineKane.com or email info@firepink.com

October 7 - 12, 2008  CTI Co-Active Leadership Program.  Bend of Ivy Lodge is proud to be the official East Coast venue for CTI's acclaimed leadership development program.  The program is a powerful experiential program designed to uncover, deepen, and build on your natural strengths as a leader.  International in scope, this program encompasses a series of four residential retreats and in-between projects over a 10-month period.  The program is designed to foster the development of an international community of peers and leaders (approximately 22 participants per group) who grow and learn together through a variety of experiences that include adventure-based activities, lively discussions, interactive exercises, physical challenges, and ongoing feedback.  Visit TheCoaches.com for more information.
Retreat #1:  October 7-12, 2008
Retreat #2:  January 27 - February 1, 2009
Retreat #3:  April 29 - May 3, 2009
Retreat #2:  July 22-29, 2009

October 27 - 29, 2008  Advanced Retreat:  Presence-Based Coaching.  Graduates of any 3-day Art of Mindful Coaching retreat are invited.  This retreat is based on Doug Silsbee's forthcoming book from Jossey-Bass.  The retreat will focus on the development of coach presence through practices of mind, body, and heart.  Simultaneously, we will explore how the coach, through his or her awareness, extends that presence to the client, evoking new possibilities.  The result is self-generative coaches, self-generative clients, and a better world.  Retreat fee includes all materials, lodging, gourmet meals, and a one-on-one coaching call after the retreat.  More information is available at DougSilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@DougSilsbee.com

December 27-29, 2008  Great Big Dreams Retreats with Christine Kane.  Christine has been facilitating her Great Big Dreams retreats for five years. These retreats have become every bit as popular as her live performances. Four times a year, she reserves a three-day weekend at Bend of Ivy Lodge and invites groups of 20 women to convene for reflection, silence, examining life directions, and mapping out plans for creating a more authentic life. More information at ChristineKane.com or email info@firepink.com

Additional offerings will be posted on this website as they are booked and descriptions are provided to us. 2009 events will be posted in January 2009. You can bookmark this page to keep up with our offerings, or email us to be added to our mailing list (mailings are very occasional, and we'll never provide your address to anyone else.) Thanks!

2007 Public Workshops and Retreats

February 9-11, 2007 The Somatic Enneagram: Using Brain Science, Movement, and the Enneagram to Integrate toward Wholeness. Certain emotional habits are the cause of our greatest suffering. Awareness alone is not sufficient for us to change those habits because they are embedded in our strongest and most well developed neural pathways. Based on the latest brain research, this revolutionary work includes experiential exercises that will create new neural pathways for alternative emotional reactions. These new pathways can help create a sense of wholeness and emotional balance. The retreat provides easy-to-use tools to carry with you into your daily life. As you continue to engage in new behaviors, you’ll be training alternatives into your neural net and reaping the rewards of more spirit and joy. Email Betsey Upchurch or call 919-789-7966 for more information.

March 26-28 2007 CHANGE AGENT SERIES: The Art of Mindful Coaching. This highly experiential retreat focuses on coaching as a practice for both developing others and for cultivating mindfulness on the part of the practitioner. For all professionals, regardless of coaching experience, the retreat will draw from Lodge owner Doug Silsbee's book: The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping People Grow. The emphasis will be on discerning the roles of the coaching process that are most helpful to the client in moving to deeper levels of understanding and commitment to action. Participants will also receive real-time coaching on topics of their choosing. More information is available at dougsilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@dougsilsbee.com

April 20-22, 2007  The Savvy Savory Self-Care Retreat- A Retreat of and for Extraordinary Women A weekend gathering of extraordinary, creative, empowered, inventive women. Together we will experience what extraordinary self-care feels like and explore what "being fully expressed in our lives" means by sharing our gifts and our inspirations. Think: fun, nurturing, creative, stretch, expressive, in the moment, slooow down, play, surprises, movement, yummy food, great connections, breath, and rich memory-moments. To learn more, email Corrie Woods or visit the events page at http://www.windrivercoaching.com.

April 26-29, 2007 The Tantric Path for Men Classical Tantra is a rich philosophy concerned with the masculine and feminine energies that dwell within each of us, and the ways in which they express the many and varied forms of the divine. Join Rudy Ballentine in an intensive exploration of the impulses and habits which can hold us back, and the powerful energies which can feed our creativity, strengthen our relationships, and connect us to the wider universe. Through yoga, meditation, breathing techniques, and experiential exercises, Rudy will provide a safe and fun space for individuals to explore and experiment with channeling life force through the body's chakras, or centers of power, which begin at the base of the spine and continue to the top of the head. For gay and bi men. Contact info@spiritjourneys.com or 828-258-8880 for more information, or link to the Spirit Journeys website.

May 3-6, 2007 Advanced Hypnotic Changework (a.k.a. Five Gifts for Life) with Adrian Deal, Certified Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. In this four-day course, we will give and receive transformation in in these five areas: Grief Resolution Process (a beautifully respectful process for helping the grieving of loss of a loved one, loss of an ability, end of a relationship, or divorce); Transforming Unhealthy Connections (also known as "releasing emotional enmeshments;") Aligning Perceptual Positions (for problems such as lack of boundaries, codependency, not learning from mistakes, inability to forgive;) Breaking the Brain Code: Submodalities Changework (fabulous for clearing up anger, frustration, and lack of motivation, and for having more creativity, enthusiasm, and energy;) Parts Negotiation & Integration (amazing for resolving internal conflict.)    
For more information, go to http://www.adriandeal.com.

May 18-20, 2007 Rediscovering Your Sacred Self  Led by Jeffrey Goldwasser and Ed Kesgen, facilitators with several decades experience in health care, group process, education, and spiritual inquiry, our retreat is an invitation to reconnect with your own deepest values. The goal for our time together is to establish a safe, sacred space for a community of fellow seekers who desire to example their relationship to a reality larger than self. We will do this through the Medicine Wheel as a model for spiritual evolution, a sweat lodge, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, group ceremony, abundant opportunity for introspection and creative expression, and much more. For additional information, please call Ed Kesgen at 828-508-2123 or visit here.

May 31- June 3, 2007 Tadasana Yoga: Inspiration in the Mountains Exploration beyond the entry level of yoga cultivates passion, discipline, and commitment, and together we will hone our skills finding equanimity, steadfastness, acceptance and stability, just like the mountains that will surround us! We will explore the alignment of asanas (postures) that open body and mind; learn to breathe in ways that raise biological energy (prana) to a higher state; and be drawn to that safe and quiet space inside with meditation, poetry, and creative visualizations. We'll practice using the intelligence of the body to create harmony and ease. Come experience the transformation possible in this inspirational immersion and return home with a smile on your face and warmth in your heart!  

Call Cathy Holt at 919-542-4103 or email cholt@emji.net Website: http://www.cathyholtyoga.com

June 8-10, 2007 Beyond Recovery: Discovering the Path with Heart   This weekend retreat is for gay/bi men in recovery who are ready to discover their vision, set their lives on fire with passion, and manifest their personal vision in the world. Through teaching, sharing, meditation, ceremony and sacred play, we will shed the skin of our old recovery and create a new vision for our lives that incorporates the strengths of traditional recovery, the deepest truths of the world's spiritual traditions, and the latest advances in neuroscience. In loving and courageous community, we will support each other in living a path with heart. With Hunter Flournoy. Contact info@spiritjourneys.com or 828-258-8880 for more information, or link to the Spirit Journeys website.

June 19-24, 2007 A Five Day Insight Dialogue Retreat with Gregory Kramer. For Therapists and Helping Professionals. The practice of Insight Dialogue enables us to be aware and calm at the moment of contact with another person and brings the awareness and tranquility of traditional silent meditation directly into our relational experience. The retreat will include periods of silent meditation, speaking and listening meditations challenged and supported by contemplations that open us to the unconscious assumptions guiding our lives and influencing our relationships, and mindful movement. For questions about the retreat: Contact Mary Burns at marysburns@bellsouth.net or call (919) 967-2091. For further information on Insight Dialogue visit: www.metta.org.

July 22-27, 2007 Ignite Your Spiritual Power with author and renowned Medical Intuitive, Dr. Gregory Antyuhin. Teacher to Shamans throughout the world, Dr. Gregory invites you to this powerful 5 day retreat. You will experience daily classes, meditation, nature hikes, seminars, rituals, tai chi, hot mineral springs, herbal programs, art and nature classes and more. Enliven yourself with all the elements in this holistic wellness retreat and experience a deeper connection with nature from the pristine mountain air, flowing waters, fire ceremonies, labyrinth walks, the Milky Way and Mother Earth -- in all her splendor. 

For more information on Dr. Gregory, visit LifeWorks Wellness Center, Boca Raton, Florida..

For workshop information and registration, contact Liz Sterling. email Ronnie Guenther at LifeworksEvents@aol.com, or call 561-391-9280. 

October 8-10, 2007 CHANGE AGENT SERIES: The Art of Mindful Coaching. This highly experiential retreat focuses on coaching as a practice for both developing others and for cultivating mindfulness on the part of the practitioner. For all professionals, regardless of coaching experience, the retreat will draw from Lodge owner Doug Silsbee's book: The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping People Grow. The emphasis will be on discerning the roles of the coaching process that are most helpful to the client in moving to deeper levels of understanding and commitment to action. Participants will also receive real-time coaching on topics of their choosing. More information is available at dougsilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@dougsilsbee.com

Oct. 30- Nov. 3, 2007 Sacred Bodywork Retreat and Training. Learn the ancient basic dances to prepare for Lomi Lomi massage along with the Temple style strokes for a full massage. Journey through dance, toning, drumming, and rebirthing to enter a deeper level of healing. Lomi training includes salt treatment, supplies, yoga and much more. 32 CE hours through NCBTMB available. Contact Gloria Coppola, LMT at xyonia8@verizon.net or call 828-645-0403. Website http://bothendsoftherainbow.com.