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 and/or Virginia Bobro.

Photo Above – Copyright ©2009 Patti Ramos

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
  • Creating and Leading BIRTHIN' AGAINTM Classes
  • Archetypes of Birth & The Heroine's Journey
  • Storytelling: Inanna's Descent, Initiation, and Return
  • New Birth Art Processes
  • Preparing Parents for their Postpartum Transition
  • Birth Story Listening and Healing & How to Lead Birth Story Circle

Who can attend this Retreat? 

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

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. Certain workshops may have lower maximums, due to location.)

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, Alberta, Canada in May 2006.

Upcoming Advanced Retreats


The Ojai Foundation, Ojai, California

January 10-16, 2012

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Ghost Ranch Retreat Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico

October 28-November 3, 2012

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Govinda Valley Retreat Center, NSW, Australia

2013

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Past Advanced Retreats

Bend of Ivy (North Carolina): 2009, 2011

Menucha (Oregon): 2010, 2004

Mount Madonna (California): 2008

Ghost Ranch (New Mexico): 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 & 2005

Chalice Well (Glastonbury, England): 2007
 

Advanced Retreats are five or six-day workshops. Tuition varies, but is usually $850-$900 (depending on location), in addition to the room and board (usually $400-$650, 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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