When: June 5-8, 2025
Where: New Harmony, Indiana
Facilitator: Heather Maritano
CE Hours: 18 optional
Early-Bird Pricing: Ends April 4
Equity Pricing: (Learn More)
A weekend retreat to calm the mind & ground the body
Step out of your busy life and into the simplicity and quiet of New Harmony. We will use creative expression, inner reflection & gentle movement to experience a settling into ourselves and resetting of our nervous systems.
Our mindful practices will include art, meditation, natural inquiry, reflection, portions of silence, and a labyrinth journey. In tending to the full wellness experience, we’ll also eat a plant-based diet and encourage disconnection from technology in order to fully immerse ourselves in the experience.
Guided Expressive Arts Activities
Our art practices, like the movement pieces, will guide us into the interior self to find soothing expression of our creative selves. Like TRE®, engaging with our creativity can unblock old patterns or habits of thinking. Expressive arts allow users to laugh, let go, and relax, which helps decrease depression, anxiety, and stress.
All materials will be provided to engage with clay, meditation water painting, sand, collage, and mandalas for activities which have been selected for their accessibility and impact. Materials will also be available for use on your own outside of the activities selected.
No art background necessary.
Silence
A portion of this retreat will be conducted in silence from a sunset walking meditation on Saturday through the labyrinth walk on Sunday morning.
Labyrinth Meditation Walk
On Sunday morning, we’ll end our retreat in a walking labyrinth meditation. The pattern of this labyrinth duplicates the original at Chartres Cathedral, built in the 12th century near Paris, France. Labyrinth designs have been used by humankind for over 4000 years in many cultural traditions, including Southwest Native Americans.
The Where
The Abbey Barn
The Abbey Barn is nestled next to a wooded area overlooking the Wabash River. Imagine yourself being guided in gentle movement with a full window view edged with trees, a large field and just beyond a bend in the river. Birds alighting on branches and vines, while you take inspiration for your own settling.
Looking at the map below, the Abbey Barn is located at the edge in the upper right side, just beyond the Swan Lake tributary. It’s the last white rectangle, encircled with dark paths.
The vaulted ceiling of the dining hall gives an airy sense of space, yet also feels cozy as it is surrounded by the individual sleeping rooms. Each person will have a private room with a bunk bed. There are 4 shared group bathrooms and showers, 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs.
We will be nourished with lovely plant-based meals.
The Who
Heather Maritano
Retreat Facilitator, LCSW, RPT-S
Heather Maritano, founder of Inner Resources Counseling & Training, has been supporting the growth and healing of clients, colleagues, and community for over 25 years through therapy, education, mentoring, and advocacy. She creates soothing spaces, relationships, and experiences that invite exploration and discernment through steady presence.
Heather has clinical specialities in play, sandtray, & expressive arts therapies. She has traveled and trained throughout the world.
She maintains a sense of awe, regularly practices her belief in the healing powers of play, and is particularly fond of dancing.
On top of the ripples,
there is stillness
which is both
welcomed and unwelcomed.
How do we remain
steady despite constant
motion around us?
Can we find peace?
See you at The Abbey!
Cost includes all materials, meals, lodging and 18 CEs.
This retreat provides 18 CEs for mental health practitioners.
Inner Resources Training Institute is approved to provider CEs through the state of Indiana, NBCC, and APT. See the retreat action items below for additional information.
Objectives
- Utilize movement, art, and reflection to release tension.
- Apply principles of art, movement and play therapies to deepen understanding of how to shift embedded patterns of stress and trauma.
- Identify how mindful practices impact the nervous system.
- Create images of inner landscapes
- Utilize meditation and movement to explore and release.
- Compile activities to use in clinical practices, as well as for one’s own wellbeing.
- Revise old patterns held in neural networks.
Continuing Education Credit Requirements
Inner Resources Training Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7363. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Inner Resources Training Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Association for Play Therapy Approved Provider #07-200
To ensure you that the credits you receive are applicable for your purposes, please contact the agencies for which you are seeking credit directly. You must attend the entire session to receive credit, no partial credit will be issued. Inner Resources Training Institute follows all CE guidelines and maintains responsibility for the program.
Inner Resources Training Institute is an approved provider for the Indiana Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapist, and Mental Health Counselor. Boards have approved this organization to provide category 1 continuing education units for LSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs. Provider # 98000765A
Retreat Action Items
All sections must be marked as complete to receive certificate.
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