Carolyn Black, CT of PEI, CCC with CCPA, EMDR & Hypnotherapy practitioner

Friday: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Welcome to the sanctuary of your recovery journey. This opening session gently bridges the transition from the fast-paced demands of daily life into a dedicated space of deep rest, validation, and restoration.

Burnout is not a personal failure—it is a physiological and emotional response to prolonged strain on your nervous system. Prior to our gathering, each participant will have completed Assessments for Burnout, giving us a clear, validated baseline of personal, work-related, and client/service-related burnout dynamics.

Together, we will step out of isolation, unpack what these results mean, and map out how the structure of this retreat directly supports your nervous system reset, burnout prevention, and long-term recovery.

Key Session Elements

• Warm Welcome & Connection: Soft icebreaker activities designed to build psychological safety, ease social anxiety, and build trust within the circle.

• Assessment Insight & De-Stigmatization: A guided analysis of your Inventory results to help you contextualize your fatigue and release self-judgment.

• Retreat Roadmap: A clear overview of how the weekend’s design addresses autonomic nervous system regulation, helping you move from fight-or-flight into restorative rest.

• Introductory Hypnotherapy Experience: A guided entry into a peaceful meditaive state using suggestions for profound calm. You retain complete agency throughout—choosing to consciously remember or comfortably drift—while allowing your nervous system to absorb deep physiological relaxation.

• Restorative Evening Meditation: A closing meditation engineered to soothe the mind, release physical tension, and ease you into deep, restorative sleep as well as set your intentions for how you might shift the patterns of your behavior to what you desire in order to restore yourself.

Christina Campbell, Certified 9D Breathwork Facilitator and Yoga Instructor  Anchor Point Breathwork 

Saturday 9 am - 12 noon

Escape the cycle of burnout and chronic stress with an immersive 9D Breathwork experience designed to calm an overworked nervous system. Guided by certified facilitator Christina Campbell, this transformative session combines conscious connected breathing with nine dimensions of sound—including binaural beats, Solfeggio frequencies, and targeted vocal coaching—to help you bypass the noisy mind and release deeply stored tension.

Through gentle movement, rhythmic breathwork, and structured reflection, you’ll journey from high-pressure stress into a state of profound relaxation and emotional clarity. Leave feeling lighter, recharged, and truly reconnected to yourself.

Ground. Breathe. Come Home.

Designed specifically for anyone looking to step out of the cycle of burnout and return to a state of calm alignment.

Lisa Marmen, CT of PEI, CCC with CCPA, Somatic, EFT anf IFS practitioner

Saturday 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Are you feeling the heavy weight of job burnout and life stressors? This interactive session is designed specifically for caring professionals and anyone struggling to switch off at the end of the day.

While a sense of meaning and purpose gives us compassion and satisfaction, a lack of boundaries between work and personal life can impact our bodies, minds, and relationships negatively. Just like a fully-charged battery, keeping our social support networks and personal resources healthy allows us to provide consistent, quality care without burning out.

What You Will Learn:

• Navigating Work Boundaries: Learn how to counter the culture of self-sacrifice, recognize that self-care is not weakness, and practice saying "no" to overload.

• Balancing Home Life: Discover how to prioritize physiological, emotional, and spiritual needs—from nutrition and sleep to creative outlets and time in nature.

• Creating Transition Rituals: Master symbolic and sensory "trigger" habits (using sound, smell, and touch) to successfully shift your brain from "work mode" to "personal mode".

• Working From Home Strategies: Establish effective spatial, psychological, and time boundaries when your office is also your living space.

Join us to reclaim your time, protect your well-being, and learn sustainable, small-step practices to keep your inner lamp burning steadily without going out.

Amy Mcfeely, CT of PEI, CBT, DBT & experienced ADHD/neurodiverse practitioner

Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 pm

Burnout rarely happens simply because we have too much to do; more often, it is fueled by the relentless internal pressure to do everything flawlessly and keep everyone else happy. When your self-worth is tied to over-delivering, avoiding conflict, or anticipating everyone else's needs, rest can feel unsafe—or even selfish.

In this interactive, practical workshop, we will look beneath the surface of chronic over-functioning to understand how perfectionism and people-pleasing quietly drain your energy reserves. Grounded in evidence-based strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), this session moves beyond simply telling you to "just say no." Instead, you will learn how to identify the hidden rules driving your exhaustion, tolerate the temporary discomfort of setting limits, and redefine what "enough" looks like—so you can protect your energy without sacrificing your core values or relationships.

What You Will Learn

• Spot the "Hidden Rules" Fueling Burnout (CBT): Identify the automatic thoughts, all-or-nothing thinking traps, and core beliefs (e.g., "If I disappoint someone, I’ve failed") that keep you stuck in cycles of over-committing and over-preparing.

• Shift from Rigid Standards to Realistic Flexibility (CBT): Learn practical cognitive reframing techniques to challenge perfectionistic standards and practice "good enough" decision-making when your bandwidth is low.

• Navigate the Guilt of Setting Boundaries (DBT): Use DBT distress tolerance and emotional regulation skills—such as Opposite Action and Radical Acceptance—to sit with the temporary discomfort of disappointing others without immediately backtracking on your boundaries.

• Communicate Limits Clearly and Kindly (RLT and DBT): Practice interpersonal effectiveness scripts (using the provided framework) to say "no," renegotiate expectations, and ask for what you need without over-explaining or apologizing.

Takeaway: A personalized "Good Enough" Boundary Toolkit—including a quick cognitive-reframing checklist to catch perfectionistic spirals in real time and ready-to-use DBT communication scripts so you can say "no" clearly, kindly, and without the lingering guilt. 

Sandra Sheridan, CT of PEI, CCC with CCPA, Somatic Attachment and IFS practitioner

Sunday 9 am - 11 am

Life pulls us, pushes us, and too often demands that we mask our true selves in order to be heard, to be seen, and to feel a (sometimes) false sense of belonging. As our retreat begins to draw together the threads of the weekend, join Sandra for an interactive, meditative, and deeply immersive journey designed to lead you home to yourself—to release the heavy burdens you have been carrying, and to reawaken and reconnect with the unique song of your soul.

Through guided meditative journeying, ceremony, and intentional reflection, this session creates sacred space to lay down the roles, expectations, and survival patterns that no longer serve you. Show up with an open heart and leave secure in the knowing that the more you embrace your gifts and your soul’s calling, the more healing your life and work become—both for yourself and for others.

“The authentic self is the soul made visible.” — e.e. cummings 

What You Will Learn & Experience:

• Unmasking & Releasing What No Longer Serves You: Identify the survival roles, perfectionism, and external expectations that fuel burnout, and participate in an intentional ritual of letting them go so you can move forward lighter.

• Guided Meditative Journeying: Enter a supported, deeply restorative meditative state to quiet external noise, connect with your inner wisdom, and reclaim parts of yourself lost to chronic stress and over-giving.

• Integrating Your Retreat Insights: Weave together the nervous system reset, emotional regulation, and boundary work from the weekend into a cohesive, grounded sense of who you are beneath the exhaustion.

• Reconnecting with Your Soul’s Calling: Clarify your core values and inherent gifts so that your daily life and service to others flow from authentic alignment rather than depletion.

Takeaway: Leave grounded, whole, and anchored in your truth—carrying forward only what aligns with your well-being and spirit as you step back into the world.

Carolyn Black, CT of PEI, CCC with CCPA, EMDR & Hypnotherapy practitioner

Sunday 12 noon - 1 pm

When job and life stressors build up, our bodies and minds lock into a cycle of tension. This restorative workshop offers a mental break from your present setting and emotional state, teaching you how to use powerful guided imagery to calm your nervous system.

Designed specifically for those experiencing burnout, this session introduces three simple, accessible visualization techniques that you can easily practice anywhere:

• Calming Color Visualization: Learn to gently relax your mind by mentally wrapping your thoughts in soothing, comforting shades of color before letting them fade into a peaceful white light.

• Protective Light Visualization: Ideal for moments when you feel vulnerable, overwhelmed, or drained by others' grief and stress. Build a protective mental boundary of light that keeps external pain outside while fostering inner peace, strength, and healthy self-care.

• Nature Walk Visualization: Refresh your body and mind by imagining a peaceful, beautiful natural sanctuary—such as a forest, a body of water, or the mountains—where the weights and worries of your day naturally fall away with every step.

Takeaway: Leave this session equipped with practical mental tools to release physical tension, establish healthy boundaries, and carry a renewed sense of security and calm back into your daily life.