2009 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,  2007, and 2008. 

March 5-8, 2009  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

March 17-22, 2009  CTI Co-Active Leadership Program: New Year-Long Series Starts
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.

March 23-25, 2009  The Leader's Guide to Personal Resilience: Sustaining Your Capacity to Lead
This retreat explores the power of resilience in a world buffeted by change. This retreat addresses the challenge of resilience explicitly and directly. You will have the opportunity to apply cutting edge tools, perspectives, and strategies to the challenge of cultivating your own resilience and capacity to lead. The retreat features the Presence-Based Resilience model, grounded in five mutually reinforcing elements essential to building a sense of possibility, perspective, and optimism. so.  More information is available at DougSilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@DougSilsbee.com

March  26, 2009  The Leader's Guide to Personal Resilience: A Workshop for Western NC Non-profit Leaders.
The non-profit world is undergoing massive change. Reduced resources, increased complexity, and changing demands contribute to greatly increased stress levels, and resulting burnout, among the very leaders that must navigate and lead through this challenging landscape.  This one-day workshop addresses the central issue of personal resilience explicitly and directly. Participants will learn and apply cutting edge tools, perspectives, and strategies to develop a personal resilience toolkit. As a result, participants will be increasingly able to sustain themselves as leaders and agents of change, and to support others in doing so.  Click here to download full description or email Doug at ds@DougSilsbee.com

March 27-April 2, 2009  Birthing From Within Advanced Mentor Retreat, led by Pam England. 
We offer many workshops, classes and products for parents and birth professionals. This six-night retreat is for people enrolled in our Mentor Certification Program. (Not open to the public). Visit our website for more information about our events and programs BirthingFromWithin.com.  Birthing From Within is unique in that we offer individualized, holistic classes. We focus on the process of birth, not on achieving a particular birth outcome. Proven pain-coping practices, birth art, visualization, and lively discussions are just some of the hallmarks of our unique and transformative classes

April 5-8, 2009  Presence-Based Coaching I: Being a Development Partner.
This course is part one of a two-part program designed to provide coaching and change professionals with a pragmatic toolkit for accelerating your own life-long development and that of your clients. We hold a dual emphasis on building and extending our own presence, and on the specific coaching moves that build long term competence and self-generation in our clients. You will build a foundation of presence-based coaching skills, with a particular orientation toward developing the whole person. The entire curriculum is grounded in a developmental model of human change, leading toward the self-generative capacity to be present and a learner in all of life.  More information is available at DougSilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@DougSilsbee.com

April 21-24, 2009  Extraordinary Game Certification Workshop. 
The world is demanding new leadership and new ways of thinking together. The next few years will determine how leaders reshape their companies through the work of their teams. If you are an experienced coach and wish to add a model for leading innovative conversations as you coach high performance teams, please join Master Coach Darelyn "DJ" Mitsch of The Pyramid Resource Group for certification in The Extraordinary Game, a team coaching process that has been refined over the past 13 years. Pyramid will be offering certification for internal corporate coaches or external leadership coaches who are experienced coaches, or are enrolled in a coach training program. Each participant will leave with a proven model for coaching teams, facilitator certification and membership to the Extraordinary Game web community. Visit pyramidresource.com or call 919-677-9300 for more information.