Therapeutic Family Retreats
Therapeutic Family Retreats
If your family is like everyone else, hectic lifestyles and a list of responsibilities get in the way of connecting in a meaningful and deep way. Despite your best efforts, there are only 24 hours in a day and even less to spend with the people in our lives that are supposed to be our priority above everything else. This is even more true for business executives in leadership roles who have an even crazier schedule.
Every family looks forward to a vacation but how often are you really able to get away in a way that will not only soothe your need for relaxation but also bring deeper connection between your loved ones?
You can have the best of both worlds by making your next vacation into a Family/ Couples Retreat. Jason Wasser, LMFT, Certified NET Practitioner and Certified Entrepreneurial Coach can help you tie all those loose ends together in as little as 2-4 hours a day in hand-tailored workshops based on your needs.
As part of the planning, Jason will schedule a phone call with your family and then send all participating members some easy-to-complete assessments. This will allow us to tackle as much as possible during our time together on your vacation.
These retreats are for you if you want to enhance the connection amongst your family members and can be done in person or virtually online. It is not designed to be an intervention for high conflict situations, family member reunification or mental health related matters that would require consistent therapy sessions provided by a licensed therapist in the state where you reside. If there is active substance abuse, physical or domestic violence, suspected or diagnosed Personality Disorders or an ongoing court case related to family dynamics, the Family Retreat we offer would not be an appropriate fit. In this case, Family Therapy would be advised with someone who is an expert in those clinical areas.
Workshop Types
This retreat opening workshop focuses on creating a list of hopes and dreams that the individuals, couple and children desire to happen in their lives. Using a whiteboard with different color post it note, you create a personalized vision statement board that will be a reminder of where you want to head instead of where you have been stuck or no longer want. This will guide you throughout our time together and leave you with a basis of where to continue deeper work once you get home.
Each person will complete both questionnaires to have a better understanding of their love and apology languages so that they can share proactively with the other family members. We will draw out situation-specific maps to help each person interact with the others in a more streamlined manner so that everyone’s needs can be met on a deeper level.
Understanding Body Language- This workshop teaches basic body language skills so you can understand what you are saying if you aren’t using your words.
Participants will together pick one hour in the AM and one in the PM that will be consistent throughout their vacation. They will commit to not using technology, or social media, discussing work, and refrain from any negative comments about themselves and others.
Imagine if just 4 simple changes in your life could remove 80% of your issues! Participants will go over the concepts of the book and make agreements on how they will apply them consistently to their life.
Sometimes we get overwhelmed by our circumstances and frustrated by what we expected to happen versus what actually occurred in our lives. This discrepancy causes anger and resentment. Often we begin to blame others or blame ourselves. This retreat session invites you to “Let go of the wish that the past had been different” and to truly learn how to forgive yourself and love others. You will create a list of resentments starting from childhood to today to discover the underlying patterns that are holding you hostage today. You can then start to release resentments.
Many times children feel left out in aspects of family plans that they can actually be part of. Learn how everyone can contribute more to the family culture, goals, and rituals.
Every successful thought leader talks about how one must take full accountability for every aspect of their life. This workshop follows the Letting Go of Resentments workshop and set the tone for a fully empowered experience.
Enneagram personality types are a framework that identifies nine distinct patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Each type is associated with specific motivations, fears, and core desires that shape our actions and interactions with the world. By understanding our Enneagram type, we gain insights into our habitual patterns and unconscious motivations, offering a pathway for personal growth and transformation.
Gain a deep understanding of each family member’s personality style, unlocking a new level of self-awareness and empathy. Recognize the strengths each person brings to the family dynamic and understand potential challenges.
Communication Mastery: Learn to communicate effectively by understanding each family member’s communication style. Enneagram Therapy provides tools to navigate differences, fostering open dialogue, and reducing misunderstandings.
Conflict Resolution: Identify the root causes of conflicts within the family and develop strategies to navigate and resolve disputes. Enneagram insights guide the family toward healthier conflict resolution, emphasizing understanding and compromise.
Family Bond Strengthening: Embrace a shared language that facilitates connection and strengthens family bonds. Enneagram Therapy provides a framework for appreciation, compassion, and mutual support, nurturing a more cohesive and resilient family unit.
Parenting Strategies: Understand your children’s Enneagram types and tailor your parenting approach to meet their unique needs. This personalized understanding enables you to provide the right balance of guidance and autonomy, fostering a healthy parent-child relationship.
Building Resilience: Equip your family with tools to navigate life’s challenges with resilience and adaptability. Enneagram Therapy instills a sense of empowerment, helping each family member to face difficulties and transitions with greater confidence.
Cultivating Empathy: Develop a deep sense of empathy within the family by appreciating each member’s worldview and challenges. Enneagram insights break down barriers, promoting compassion and emotional support.
By incorporating Enneagram Therapy into family sessions, we offer a transformative experience that goes beyond traditional therapy approaches. Whether you’re navigating conflicts, seeking to strengthen relationships, or striving for greater overall family well-being, our Enneagram-based family therapy provides a holistic and effective path to healing.
A crash course in communication skills that incorporate non-verbal communication/body language, the 5 Love/Apology Languages, and Imago segments.
We strongly believe that movement is essential to your overall well-being. It’s not only beneficial for your physical body, but it also helps you process your emotions more effectively. We highly recommend all of our clients engage in some type of physical activity every day, either on their own or as part of their retreat.
In this session, you’ll learn how to identify your old constricting and damaging belief patterns. These patterns continue to emerge and impact your way of thinking and acting. Many of these beliefs were formed early in childhood and have not been updated to a healthy adult viewpoint, which can be the root cause of a plethora of problems. By looking at these belief systems in your life, you will learn to recognize your unconscious ways of dealing with problems.
VBDM is the foundational principle that all proactive decision-making should come from set values on the most important aspects of your life. This workshop will help you identify and create your personalized list of core values to make clear choices and action steps for the rest of your life.
We take our car in for oil changes every 3 months or 4,000 miles, whichever comes first but couples rarely look under the hood of their relationship. Regardless of how long you have been a couple, this workshop allows you to re-evaluate original “Contracts” that were spoken or even unspoken at the beginning of your relationship and update them given present life circumstances. Identify changing needs, expectations, intimacy, financial and time responsibilities, and create a new plan of action to refresh your love life.
Knowing you have skills and talents is very different than Owning that you have them. This session will help the participants identify their uniqueness that can lead to long-standing happiness and success. Learn how to shift personal “issues” into “challenges”, overcome setbacks, and learn how to embrace “failures” as part of resilience.
Are you ready to become the Master of your life? This men’s retreat session will teach you a powerful set of techniques to break through old patterns and belief systems, alleviate stress, and stay centered. The session includes tools that you can incorporate into your daily life to break through anxiety and depressive state of mind.
Throughout your vacation, you will have personalized NET sessions to process and resolve any triggers that are holding you back from maximum success. More info about NET can be found HERE