Advanced Retreat


Warrior WAKING THE BIRTH WARRIOR

for ADVANCED MENTORS 

As soon as you've successfully completed your Level One Home-Study, take another life-changing step on your journey to becoming a Certified BIRTHING FROM WITHIN® Mentor

 

Waking the Birth Warrior Retreat is for Mentors whose eyes and hearts were opened wide by mind-blowing paradigm shifts during, and after, their Introductory Workshop (Level One). These Retreats are facilitated by Pam England.

WarriorDuring the Introductory Workshop and HomeStudy, you learn basic techniques and by practicing the step-by-step recipes, you step out of your comfort zone and begin to gain confidence. The Advanced Retreat is more about finding your mentor instinct and intuition, moving beyond following recipes.  

You will meet a cast of archetypal characters within yourself and in the birth world. Before you can awaken the Love Warrior in parents, you must undergo a process of awakening your own Love Warrior. Before you can create powerful paradigm shifts in parents, you must experience those shifts within yourself. Before you can lead ritual and initiate others, you must experience ritual and be initiated.

Belly laughingThroughout this Retreat you will experience moving dialogues, the power of stories and storytelling, processes and rituals that will nurture and accelerate your personal growth, grow your personal power, and clarify and feed your Vision. You will be stretched, softened and forever changed by tears, belly laughter, walking in beauty, singing and drumming, and painting what you've not yet seen.

You will be learning and practicing new techniques, such as leading effective visualizations and hypnosis. You will strengthen your ability to see and to listen deeply, to speak delicious words that inspire parents in a way that reciting research-based information just doesn't!Advanced Retreat

You will give and receive constructive feedback on your mentoring style and skills from peers, senior Mentors, and the Facilitator. Brilliant teaching moments will be applauded, and there will be ample time to explore new solutions and strategies for the flops and faux pas.

Highlights of what you will learn and experience:

  • Creative Visualization and Hypnosis
  • Unfoldment Process (a process that awakens parental instincts and helps parents prepare to welcome their new baby)
  • Creating and Leading BIRTHIN' AGAINTM Classes
  • Archetypes of Birth
  • Storytelling: Inanna's Descent, Initiation, and Return
  • New Birth Art Processes
  • Preparing Parents for their Postpartum Transition
  • Develop a Postpartum Connections Class
  • How to Lead BirthStory Circle

Who can attend this Retreat? 

This Retreat is reserved for Mentors in our Certification Program who have successfully completed their Level One HomeStudy.

Registration & Lodging

When you leave home for this Retreat, know that YOU will not be returning.

Register early for your space in this very special retreat exclusively offered to twenty Mentors on a first come, first served basis. In addition, we reserve four spaces for our Advanced Mentors to repeat this Retreat at a discount. (Registration is limited to allow for personal attention and closely supervised work with Pam England and other dynamic, talented Certified Mentors.)

Waking the Birth Warrior Retreats are held in beautiful, serene locations that allow you to immerse yourself in beauty and solitude while you explore and cultivate new ways of mentoring and make new, life-long friends.

It is a week that will end too quickly. . .
and that you will cherish forever.

Riding Horses

Mentors horsing around at the Advanced Retreat held at Rafter Six Ranch in May 2006.

 

 

Upcoming Advanced Retreats

Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico
November 2-8, 2007

$800 + $400-$500 room/board

Mount Madonna, Watsonville, California
May 4-10, 2008

Schedule:
We begin Sunday, May 4, dinner at 5:00 p.m.
Registration at 6:30, session starts at 7:00 p.m.
We end Saturday, May 10, at 1:00 p.m.

Prices includes tuition of $800, accommodations and meals for 6 nights
Tent: $1170
Dorm: $1270
Triple: $1320
Single: $1530

Advanced Retreats are five or six-day workshops. Tuition varies, but is usually $800-$900 (depending on location), in addition to the room and board (usually $300-$600, depending on location) and travel. We select retreat locations based on affordability, beauty, geography, food, and other amenities. If you have suggestions for future retreat locations, please contact us.

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