Actuating an Inborn Longing
for Living the Future

Facilitated by:
Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC
Elias Guerrero, M.D., MPA

"If our souls need both love and freedom to thrive - if that's our souls' reality - then it's no surprise that we and our systems grow self-destructive when we're deprived of them. We need all three together to be creative."
- from: LOVE SOUL & FREEDOM: DANCING WITH RUMI ON THE MYSTIC PATH
by Denise Breton & Christopher Largent

We are all reinventing ourselves. The times we live in demand it. It is a personal and cultural struggle to create meaningful transformation in our work, physicality, spirit, and sexuality. We are people from all walks of life knowing there is "something more" to what we call living. This retreat is about making our reinvention processes more graceful, more conscious, and inviting in others to "resource" our process. We will do so by grasping our soul's desire for love and freedom.

We will demonstrate and experience the benefits of this Institute's award winning research in reducing human suffering. In doing so we will further the understanding of Authentic Process Healing (APH), which inspired the creation of The Institute for Authentic Process Healing. Together we will share a tangible path-way to reclaiming our innate emotional, spiritual & sexual wholeness.

As we create an atmosphere of extraordinary safety, each participant will experience a profound shift in perceptions. Awakening to an authentic sense of self, we will feel empowered to explore and experiment at many levels of intimacy, while learning to self-heal in the mysterious power of community. This self possesses an innate intelligence which can guide a personal metamorphis with uncanny wisdom. We will experience how this method of personal growth is gradually transforming "psychotherapy" and "recovery" as we have known them; the future unfolding before our eyes.

In authentic process healing we non-judgmentally recognize our "barriers" of blocked or frozen energy, bringing them to community healing where we share a "sacred permission" to transform these obstacles (and our personal and cultural histories) into grounded energy and empowerment. The Institute is committed to creating sacred space which supports deep, powerful personal development within a creative, fun, and healing community milieu.

The retreat process of sharing , responding to music and gentle exercises will be a "subtle energy" experience that will come upon us before we know it. As we calmly explore the meaning, purpose and possibilities of our own reinvention, we give our souls the freedom to breathe, and the love and respect that is so profoundly needed on a soul level. Welcomed guests at last, our souls will be free to present themselves through us, come into focus, and consciously align with our daily lives and very being.

This Retreat is Designed For:

• Men and women in recovery from addiction and traumatic or difficult personal histories. Those who have 12- Step experience will discover a loving complementary process. This research sheds light on where addiction recovery and the healing of an entire culture intersects. A place of creative positivism.
• People of all sexual orientations, cultures and lifestyles (diversity is the ground of our healing landscape.
• Anyone in therapy and/or on a personal journey toward wholeness.
• Single or partnered individuals desiring an expanded capacity for more intimate relations and needs fulfillment.
• Therapists and counselors recovering more of their own True Self while building new skills*.

Facilitation:

The retreat leader will be DR MICHAEL PICUCCI, creator of Authentic Process Therapy, author of The Journey Toward Complete Recovery: Reclaiming Your Emotional, Spiritual & Sexual Wholeness, cofounder of The Institute for Staged Recovery (ISR), The Institute for Authentic Process Healing (IAPH) and recipient of national and state awards for Outstanding Leadership in Research.

Cofacilitating will be DR ELIAS GUERRERO , the first physician certified in APT, co-founder of both Institutes, and a long time health care activist. As part of his dramatic reinvention process Elias is presently in Washington, DC as a Congressional Fellow for the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) on health policy issues. Other Institute faculty & core members will be on hand to make their own unique contributions to the process.

The Institute Curriculum:

This retreat is a "standalone" experience, meaning that each participant will have an opportunity to fully experience Authentic Process Healing. It will also be the beginning of a three year curriculum (with three differently focused retreats per year) in community building and our Life Mastery Course. One can choose to do any one retreat or all of them. All of the first year retreats are different and complete experiences in themselves.

Retreat Location:

The retreat will be held at the beautiful Wisdom House Retreat Center in Litchfield, CT.. The retreat starts Friday evening (dinner at 6:00, opening session at 7:30) and you can arrive any time after 4:00 PM. Departure is after lunch on Sunday and directions will be made available to registrants..

Retreat Fees:

The fee is $360 per person and includes workshop, meals, and lodging. A deposit of $175 reserves your space with balances due on arrival at retreat. Partial tuition scholarships or work/ study may be available based on need and availability of space. For tuition assistance, call John McCormack at (718) 318-0468 or email him at john@theinstitute.org

Registration Form:

Click here for a printable form which you can fill out and mail in .

Retreat is cosponsored by:

THE INSTITUTE FOR AUTHENTIC PROCESS HEALING

*Health Care Providers: CEUs are available for participation. Thirteen hours pending approval by NYS OASAS. For practitioners or students who want to enter the Authentic Process Therapy (APT) Certification Program, this retreat is part of the core curriculum and counts toward certification hours.

Read the Report from the November 2001 Reinventing Ourselves Retreat.

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