The Sand Therapy Training Institute

Join us May 24 – 26, 2024

This retreat includes an opportunity to earn 14 CEs. [Find out More]

Our retreat is centered on creating a safe space to deepen personal reflections, a time to recapture the experience of being centered and grounded. A time to re-energize.

In this guided retreat, we will explore the power of stories in our lives. Through guided poetics, sand scenes, journaling, and drawing, the emerging stories give way to meaningful turns in one’s life path. It is a time to empower the wisdom of your intuitive, instinctual self, so essential in every aspect of daily life. It is a time to strengthen healing stories and reconnect with parts of you that may be lost in the rush of everyday stress. It is a time to pause for Being rather than Producing.

Our retreat is grounded with safe boundaries, paced to balance creative flow with reflection, nourishing meals with our small cohort group, breaks to walk the meditative grounds of Bon Secours, commune with nature, and laughter to balance solitude with community.

 

Time. Time to pause. A respite to focus on meaning, purpose, and new ways of being.

We pause the rush of time, to reflect, to consider life’s meaning, to center, to ground.
We pause to find joy despite pain.
We pause time to honor the gifts of who we are, and who we can be.

In time, we seek hope, giving ourselves space to reclaim, repair, and enhance our flow of being, becoming, and belonging.

Registration Fee of $795 Includes:

• 14 hours of deep therapeutic engagement
• Option to earn 14 CEs [Find out More]
• Private room with queen bed
• 6 hot meals prepared fresh each day in Bon Secuors’ kitchen

Co-facilitated by:

• Dr. Preston-Dillon, founder and director of the Center for Culture and Sandplay and co-founder of The Sand Therapy Training Institute.
• Tim Mewmaw, MS, co-founder of The Sand Therapy Training Institute.

Accommodations and Amenities:

• Hosted at the Bon Secours Conference & Retreat Center in Marriotsville, Maryland.
• Each participant will have a private single room with a queen-sized bed, a full, private bathroom, desk, and chairs, cable Internet, and Wi-Fi access.
• Meals are served daily in communal dining rooms. Light refreshments are available throughout the day in hospitality lounges which also have refrigerators.
• There is a quiet chapel for private prayer/reflection, a beautiful landscape with a footbridge that crosses a pond, a peace garden, a labyrinth, and comfortable benches for your rest and quiet reflection.

Agenda:

The retreat runs from 2:30 pm on Friday, May 24 to 2:30 pm on Sunday, May 26, 2024. The agenda is the same if you are attending the retreat without or with earning CE. Find out more about earning CE at this retreat.

Friday

• Your arrival – until 2:30 pm
  • Check into your room and walk through the lovely landscape. 
• 2:30 to 5:30 pm 
  • Introductions, participant goals
  • A poetic invitation on our theme, Pausing Time by Dr. Dee
  • An exercise with two symbols to personalize and connect participants.
• 6:00 to 7:00 pm
  • Dinner
• 7:00 to 7:30 pm
  • Private time, walk, stretch, journal, reflect, meditate
• 7:30 to 9:00 pm
  • Evening session
  • Dr. Dee, an invitation to step into aspects of time
  • Create a personal sand scene mindful of your experience of time
  • Individual reflections from Tim and Dr. Dee

Saturday

• 7:30 to 9:00 am
  • Breakfast
• 9:00 to 9:30 am
  • Private time, walk, stretch, journal, reflect, meditate
• 9:30 to 11:30 am
  • Morning Session
  • Dr. Dee, the second stage of existential time, movement in your sand scene
  • Individual reflections from Tim and Dr. Dee 
• Noon to 1:00 pm
  • Lunch
• 1:00 to 2:30 pm
  • Private time, walk, stretch, journal, reflect, meditate
• 2:30 to 5:30 pm
  • Afternoon session
  • Dr. Dee, images and active imagination, pausing time, integrating time, facing time
  • Voices in your sand scene, continued movement
  • Individual reflections from Tim and Dr. Dee
• 6:00 to 7:00 pm
  • Dinner
• 7:00 to 7:30 pm
  • Private time, walk, stretch, journal, reflect, meditate 7:00 to 7:30 pm
• 7:30 to 9:00 pm
  • Evening session
  • Healing wounds of time, reclaiming time
  • Group sand scene, honoring time
  • Individual reflections from Tim and Dr. Dee

Sunday

• 7:30 to 9:00 am
  • Breakfast
• 9:00 to 9:30 am
  • Private time, walk, stretch, journal, reflect, meditate
• 9:30 to 11:30 am
  • Morning Session
  • Transformation of time in life and in sand scenes
  • Individual reflections from Tim and Dr. Dee 
• Noon to 1:00 pm
  • Lunch
• 1:00 to 2:30 pm
  • Closure for individual sand scenes and for group

 

Payment Options:

Partial payment options are available upon request. Please email us at admin@sandtherapytraining.com for details and to make arrangements.

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations must be requested in writing by emailing us at admin@sandtherapytraining.com

For a full refund, written cancellation needs to be received 30 days prior to the event. Cancellations received between 15-30 days prior are eligible for a 50% refund. Cancellations received fewer than 15 days prior are not eligible for a refund.