2011 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 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

January 18-21: Advanced ICF-Approved Coach Training Course

This is the first of two retreats in the second course of Doug's coach training curriculum. Participants receive advanced Presence-Based Coaching training, applying it in a personal and collective exploration of the question of "How do I live into my purpose?" Rigorous coach training is integrated into a committed community of learner. Completion of the Presence-Based Coaching Course is a prerequisite. Graduates receive coach certification credits from ICF. More information is on Doug's website.

February 11-14 Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-awareness approach to trauma being taught throughout the world. It is the result of over forty years of observation, research, and hands-on development by Dr. Peter Levine. Somatic Experiencing restores self-regulation, and returns a sense of aliveness, relaxation and wholeness to traumatized individuals who have had these precious gifts taken away. Peter has applied his work to combat veterans, rape survivors, Holocaust survivors, auto accident and post surgical trauma, chronic pain sufferers, and even to infants after suffering traumatic births. For information about beginning level trainings please see www.traumahealing.com. For more information you can contact the local coordinator, Elli Schmeltekopf, at eschmelt@charter.net or 828-776-6200.

March 2-6 Pathwork

The Pathwork is a body of practical spiritual wisdom that lays out a step-by-step journey into personal transformation and wholeness, down to the very core of our being. It is a voyage of discovery to the Real Self through the layers of our defenses, denial and fear. Mary and Brian Stokes are in the fourth year of a five year journey of self-discovery, coming from places near and far to discover what is already within, often buried. To learn more about Pathwork www.pathwork.org or inquire with Mary or Brian Stokes.

March 8-13 New CTI Leadership Program begins

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 16-20 CTI Leadership (see March 8-13 listing)

April 7-10 Workshop with Patti Digh

The ever-popular Patti Digh is back for another four days of fun and creativity based on her book, Life is a Verb. Contact Patti for more information.

April 11-13 Presence Based Coaching 1: 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. ICF coach certification credits are available. More information is available at DougSilsbee.com or email Doug at ds@dougsilsbee.com

April 14-17 Yoga: a Practice of Self-Inquiry

Yoga is a way to help us learn to not retreat from the world but to be fully engaged in it. The ancient yogis found that through holding certain postures, deepening their breath and focusing inward they could heighten their awareness to a point beyond limited thinking and the logical mind. During this 3 day retreat we will explore these ancient techniques and learn to bring them into the 21st century. Teaching us how to become extraordinary beings living extraordinary lives and transforming the world one person at a time. For further info contact Lisa Lofthouse at 910-977-4476

April 22-24 Ha-Tha Astro-Yoga Retreat with Sati

A very fun weekend of self-exploration through astrology & yoga designed to help you to clearly understand who you are & how you interact with the world so you can emerge feeling alive & free! Re-ignite your Hatha Yoga practice. Rediscover your personal Sun (ha) & Moon (tha) signs & chart placement, and enjoy the way the Soul expresses through unique & wonderful you in this informative and inspirational weekend retreat. Explore and Understand, Play, Renew, & Rebirth yourself and your life's path, built upon a solid, conscious foundation. For more information, call Sati at 719.460.4003 or click here.

April 27-May 3 Birthing from Within Advanced Mentor Retreat

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. 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. More information.

May 5-10 Embody Being with Mary Stokes

Embody Being is a 10 month journey of exploring complementary practices that enable us to be in the Now of our lives, freeing ourselves from habitual patterns that no longer serve us. The practices allow our creativity and the expression of our essential nature and purpose in this life to unfold. The program, EmbodyBeing, is dedicated to integrating spiritual practice into life and life into practice through meditation, movement, sensation, perception, embodiment and experience. More at http://www.embodybeing.com or contact Mary at (919) 601-7121.

May 13-16 Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training (see Feb. 11-14 listing)

May 23-28 Wise Woman Herbal Immersion

In this unique program, we create a safe and sacred circle for women to connect deeply with the earth and themselves. Together, we take an in-depth, hands-on journey into the world of edible and medicinal plants, seeing them, tasting them, opening our hearts to the green world! We harvest and make medicines together. Through workshops, discussions, and plant walks, you deepen your understanding of how to take health care into your own hands. More information.

May 31- June 5 CTI Leadership (see March 8-13 listing)

June 6-9 Advanced Coach Training with Doug Silsbee (see Jan. 18-21 listing.)

June 15-19 CTI Leadership (see March 8-13 listing)

June 20-22 Presence Based Coaching 2: Evoking Self-Generation

This retreat is part two of a coach training course. ICF coach certification credits are available. See more details at the April 11-13 listing, or visit Doug Silsbee's website.

June 23- July 3 Meditation Retreat with Jackie O'Keeffe

Ten day meditation retreat with Jackie O'Keeffe, international teacher of nonduality and author of Born to Be Free: the freedom you look for is where you look from. There will be both talking satsangs and silent meditations each day, with silence observed at other times. For more information, or to register for the retreat, contact Susan Bird or visit Jackie's website.

July 6-10 Pathworks (see March 2-6 listing)

August 12-15 Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training (see Feb. 11-14 listing)

August 28-31 Presence Based Coaching 1

This retreat is part one of a coach training course. ICF coach certification credits are available. See more details at the April 11-13 listing, or visit Doug Silsbee's website.

September 7-11 CTI Leadership (see March 8-13 listing)

September 20-25 New CTI Leadership Program begins (see March 8-13 listing)

October 5-10 Embody with Mary Stokes (see March 2-6 listing)

October 13-16 Yoga: a practice of self-inquiry

Yoga is a way to help us learn not to retreat from the world but to be fully engaged in it. The ancient yogis found that through holding certain postures, deepening their breath and focusing inward they could heighten their awareness to a point beyond limited thinking and the logical mind. During this 3 day retreat we will explore these ancient techniques and learn to bring them into the 21st century. Teaching us how to become extraordinary beings living extraordinary lives and transforming the world one person at a time. For further info contact Lisa Lofthouse at 910-977-4476

October 24-26 Presence Based Coaching 2

This retreat is part two of a coach training course. ICF coach certification credits are available. See more details at the April 11-13 listing, or visit Doug Silsbee's website.

November 11-14 Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training (see Feb. 11-14 listing)

November 16-18 Presence Based Coaching

November 30-December 4 CTI Leadership (see March 8-13 listing)

December 6-11 CTI Leadership (see March 8-13 listing)