Here is a sampling of Retreats & Programs:

I can come to your retreat/conference center to lead one of these retreats or a variation on these themes. The program can be tailored to the needs of your group.

Email: CarolDavisOP@att.net

The Gifts of Dreaming

(This is a favorite. We have fun and the possibilities for growth are limitless!)

An unexplored dream is like an unopened letter. If you want to learn how to access the healing, practical guidance and spiritual wisdom available to you through dreams, this retreat is for you! Learn tips for how to remember dreams, how to go back into a dream for more information or to resolve issues, how to bring dream guidance into daily waking life. Explore your own dreams and learn how to support friends and family in their dream explorations.

If you pay attention to dreams you will be in good company. Jane of Aza had a dream that her yet to be born baby would carry light to the nations.

Her son, Dominic, founded the Dominican Order of Preachers. Joseph saved lives in Egypt because he understood a message in Pharaoh’s dream. Many years later another dreamer named Joseph would save his wife and newborn son, Jesus, by following the message of an angel who spoke to him in a dream. Therese of Lisieux was depressed because she was ill and dying. A dream brought her comfort and reassurance. Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky, Billy Joel have written music influenced by their dreams. What dream gifts await you?

Healing through Dreaming

Our dreams show us body, mind and spirit. When we become ill, our dreams give us fresh and powerful images that open pathways to recovery, healing and new life. This weekend, in a supportive community with other seekers, you will learn ways to help you explore dreams and will grow a healing dream for yourself.

Your client has a dream about drinking or drugging. Another one dreams about a beautiful little child who looks like herself. A man dreams about being chased by monsters. An adolescent dreams about a librarian who helps her do research for school. What do you do? There are ways to gather dream guidance that lead to strengthening recovery, avoiding relapse and improving relationships. Participants will learn methods for exploring dreams that can be used with clients and for themselves in the service of recovery and wellness.

Specific teaching goals during this lively, active, training will enable participants to:

Ø Learn how dreams provide practical guidance in daily life for growth and healing, for relapse prevention and for personal counselor wellness and creativity.

Practice methods for exploring dreams including the Lightning Dreamwork developed by Robert Moss.

Heart and Soul Quest: What is my purpose in life?

This is a weekend expedition to the lands of heart and soul. In these lands are found your deepest desires and the wishes of the Divine. The structure for the retreat includes brief teachings, meditations and guided imagery. There are questions for reflection followed by time for prayer, dreaming and journaling. Participants gather for sharing within a supportive community of seekers.

Bring a journal or paper, your favorite writing implements or a laptop computer.

The Heart and Soul Quest can be offered in pursuit of different questions according to the need and desire.

For example: Heart & Soul Quest: What is my purpose in life? How can I heal? How can I deepen my spiritual life?

            We form a sacred circle where we dream together and honor women’s gifts. No one is left on the sidelines. All present are part of the circle. There is a time of healing and affirmation. There is opportunity to release bonds to make room for the power of Soul to speak her truths in each woman’s heart. In this community we encourage each one to bring to birth and claim her divine gifts.

There will be stories, conscious dreaming together, sharing, music, prayer, and no doubt, some tears and laughter.

v      Bring a drum, finger cymbals, tambourine, or percussion instrument if you have one.
v      Bring a small symbol of beauty, light, love, grace, holy power, or fun to place at the center of our circle.

Moving from Codependence to Co-Creation

This retreat is a special time to provide opportunities to identify patterns of codependency and to find pathways to freedom and serenity. This retreat will support you in cherishing who you are, with all your foibles and gifts, acknowledging your wounds and the extraordinary power of healing that is yours. There is opportunity to focus on your own self, and to listen to the deepest desires of your soul in order to be more free to love and to be loved. We will pray and dream together, opening our hearts to guidance and grace.

I lead healing retreats for special groups – survivors of sexual abuse and adult children of addictive families.

Opening Pathways of Healing

For Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Come to a gentle retreat designed to nurture the healing process through lecture, small group sharing, guided imagery and creative arts. A self-protective response to trauma often leads to shutting down and blocking off areas of life. This keeps out the bad stuff, but also blocks the good. This is a weekend to continue opening to the process of healing and loving heart and soul.

The Grace of Saying “Yes” to Life

A special retreat for women survivors of sexual abuse.

Dear Woman of Courage,

You said “yes” to life when you survived the death-dealing ordeal of sexual abuse. All of your coping methods, healthy and unhealthy, are ways to live. This retreat is an opportunity to more fully claim the gift of living life well while honoring and letting go of those coping styles that are no longer needed. The grace-filled love of a Higher Power will light our way showing what to release and what to embrace.

The retreat includes lecture, small group sharing, guided imagery, prayer and more. Please consider joining us for this special retreat. You deserve it. You will be in the company of other brave women survivors. You are not alone.

Your sister in healing,

Carol