“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi
Advanced Developmental Intensive
Over the course of this workshop you will be invited into the way of being of what ex-Harvard business professor Bill Torbert calls the Alchemist level of psychological development. In particular we will be exploring identity, perception, and enactment at the Alchemist stage of development.
We will begin the journey of this retreat with an exploration of patterns in our psyche that once served a useful purpose, but at this point are undermining the depth and degree of fulfillment that we feel in our everyday lives.
One of the many inner skills that we'll be practicing in this retreat is emotional alchemy. You will be guided in the ancient practice working of living in closer contact with your core energy. Tworking with the energy underneath emotions: in particular previously unwanted emotions. Our intention is that through these teachings you will be better equipped to harness more of your own life energy so that you can live in a more inspired and creative way.
This retreat is intended to support you to:
(A) increase your capacity for in-the-moment awareness, as well as broad and deep perspective taking
(B) enact more intimacy and love in all of the relationships of your life, and
(C) step more fully into your own personal power.
Ultimately we want to support you to experience more fullness and inner freedom in your life - or to say it in another way, to become better at creating the life that you want for yourself.
This retreat will be held approximately 75 minutes drive outside of Sydney from December 5 - 11, 2023. The price is $2340 AUD for a single bed or $2460 for your own bedroom. This price includes catered food and lodging.
If you would like to to better understand the space from which this work emerges, we recommend familiarizing yourself with our approach to working with emotions, the practices of Action Inquiry and Integral Engagement, our understanding of embodied Integral consciousness, and the background of the retreat designer: Jesse Mckay.
For more details, or to register please contact Eliot Redelman
"We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are - when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed, and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.
When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy. It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.
Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world, but to un-glove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable."
―Mark Nepo