Itinerary
Stage One - Retreat Centre
- Welcome
- Confidentiality agreement
- Introduce yourself by sharing your story
- What I want from this retreat experience
- Monitoring Progress: What’s the cushion pointing to: Navigation, Invigoration or Celebration
Stage Two – Retreat Centre
- Discovering your innate authentic identity
- The reality of your true-self
- Foundations of authenticity
- Nurturing true-self from childhood
- Committee members (as metaphors) of your True-Self
- Being the chairperson (metaphor) of your True-Self
- Monitoring progress: What’s the cushion pointing to:
Navigation, invigoration or celebration
Stage Three – Retreat Centre
- Unmasking the persona of your learned false-self
- Exposing the origins of false-self
- Developing a false-self from childhood
- Being the chairperson of your false-self
- The disparity between true-self and false-self
- Annual General Meeting (AGM) as Chairperson of your authentic true-self. A group therapy exercise
- Monitoring Progress: What’s the cushion pointing to: Navigation, Invigoration or Celebration

Stage Four – Outdoors Location (Weather Dependant)
- Healthy Change/Living Requires the Company of Nature
- Health Benefits of Being Eco-Active
- Nature as a Metaphor for Influencing Authenticity/Change/Wellbeing
- Nature, Mindfulness and Body Awareness
- First Eco-Metaphor – Exercise
- Second Eco-Metaphor – Exercise
- Creating Other Eco-Metaphors
- Monitoring Progress: What’s the cushion pointing to: Navigation, Invigoration or Celebration
Stage Four – Retreat Centre (Alternative)
- Healthy Change/Living Requires the Company of Nature
- Health Benefits of Being Eco-Active
- Nature as a Metaphor for Influencing Authenticity/Change/Wellbeing
- Nature, Mindfulness and Body Awareness
- First Eco-Metaphor – Exercise
- Second Eco-Metaphor – Exercise
- Creating Other Eco-Metaphors
- Monitoring Progress: What’s the cushion pointing to: Navigation, Invigoration or Celebration

Stage Five – Retreat Centre
- The Serenity of Living Authenticity
- Celebrating Life as Chairperson of your Authentic Self
- Nurturing your True-Self Committee Members
- Monitoring Progress: What’s the cushion pointing to: Navigation, Invigoration or Celebration
- Chairperson’s Agenda/Priorities
- Ring Fencing Change with Motivational Self-Efficacy
- Cultivating Mindfulness
- Developing Self-Assertiveness and Self-Preservation
- Healthy Critical Thinking and Social Awareness
- Being Guided by Spiritual Affirmations
- Monitoring Progress: What’s defining about your cushion: Navigation, Invigoration, Celebration
- Retreat Conclusion and Evaluation – Retreat Centre
“Nature breathes life into your years, the same way it adds years to your life.”
David Moore
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