7 Day RPM Retreat Course in Ireland

Friday, April 9, 2027 3:00 PM
Friday, April 16, 2027 3:00 PM

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Location: An Tobar Retreat and Spirituality Centre Ardbraccan, Navan, Co Meath

Dates: April 9—16, 2027

Times: Arrival time 3PM April 9 / Departure time 3PM April 16 (following lunch together)

Full days' schedule includes a 9:30 daily start time with morning, afternoon, and evening meeting blocks for instruction, experientials, group discussions and community building. There is also ample time scheduled for reflection and regeneration.

42 hours of CPD credits available to Ireland and UK participants.

Facilitator: Ame Cutler, PhD

Local Organizer:

Catherine Slattery: +353860320321 - slattery.ce@gmail.com

Carol Duffy: +353868058622 - carolduffyie@gmail.com

Cost: 1,950.00 euros (inclusive of lodging and meals)

Single rooms with private bath are limited in number (organized in order of registration). Spaces for this retreat are limited, please register early.

100.00 euros non-refundable application fee (if accepted this will be credited to tuition)

450.00 euros deposit required at acceptance of application to hold your spot.

Payment plans available. Limited number of scholarships available

This is an in-person offering. If you feel sick prior to the beginning of the retreat, please let us know so we can make arrangements for you to join at a future date.

Description: · 7 Day Regeneration Process Residential Retreat Course—In-depth exploration of the 6 phases of the Regeneration Process [RP]. This course is designed to be personally regenerative and growth inspiring. Participants will be supported to go through each of the 6 phases of RP while building community in a beautiful retreat setting. The week begins by exploring Ancestral healing and culminates in personal and communal regenerative action projects supported by the entire cohort.

Abstract
When we look to our natural environment, we can see its need for us to make large scale changes to mitigate global warming and balance the relationships we have with one another as humans. The disparity in basic survival needs is sharp when we see the global concerns of ecological destruction. Eco-Anxiety is felt by our children the most when they try to see a future in which they have a solid sense of opportunity. Thus, the question of our current times is, how do we create regenerative change on a large scale? How do we support the individual to make the necessary changes and choices that will not only benefit their family, but aide in the regeneration of the larger world in which we all live?
The tools we are provided with from Western psychological theory and psychotherapy practice are insufficient to address the persistence of the cycles of violence, oppression, racism, and consumption of natural resources that continue to escalate today. Perhaps even the way we attempt to create change must change. Now is the time in our shared human history to re-member the principles of regeneration, to understand what it means to live a regenerative life, and to apply this understanding to taking regenerative action that benefits the individual and the collective. Persistent systemic legacies of transgenerational trauma often leave us in a position to view change as happening to us; thus, faced with a fear of losing control, our animal defenses are engaged to flee or fight it, freeze or submit to it, rather than inviting change as a necessary element of spiritual growth and human development.
Although much has been addressed in acknowledging and treating PTSD over the last several decades from a somatic psychotherapy framework, it has not adequately addressed the need to heal the legacies of trauma inherited from our Ancestral lineage. It is essential that we expand those psychotherapeutic tools, and call for a fourth phase to the treatment of trauma (Cutler, 2014) in which the Ancestral legacies of transgenerational trauma become visible, acknowledged, and ultimately healed--for both the oppressed and the oppressor, the survivor and the perpetrator of violence. It is only through healing both sides of the cycle of violence that we will have the possibility to live in a shared existence of peace and reciprocity as humans-in-relation.
The Regeneration Process [RP] is positioned as a tool for a fourth phase in the treatment of trauma expressed by Herman (2023) as a phase of seeking social justice for harms done. To create this possibility, we must ensure that a fourth phase of trauma treatment includes more than survivors seeking justice, it must also include the deconstruction of internalized beliefs based in an oppressive system, for both the survivor/perpetrator, oppressed/oppressor. A fourth phase of treatment must address the healing of transgenerational trauma in-community, the reconnection of the individual to the natural world and its principles of regeneration, and bring about planetary well-being for generations to come.
The Regeneration Process [RP] provides a framework for this fourth phase through the process of deconstructing what has impacted our ability to live in a reciprocal relationship with nature and embrace the principles of regeneration, which are embedded in our Indigenous roots. Through deep inquiry in community, RPM is a somatic-spiritual approach to transformation. RPM is designed to support each participant in the commitment, deconstruction, and illumination necessary to transform outdated ways of co-existing so that we may expand our ability to take regenerative actions that benefit nature and the whole of humanity. RPM is a comprehensive process that restores our personal and collective energy, giving us more vitality for lasting systemic change. In an ecosystem, what heals one, heals all.
In this 7 Day Retreat course you will learn the foundations of the Regeneration Process for working with legacies of transgenerational trauma and the systemic cycles of violence and oppression that continue to block our ability to create lasting positive change. RPM will support you to develop new skills and expand your worldview from which to inspire new levels of transformations in yourself, your clients, and your communities.
Participants in the RPM 7 Day Retreat course will meet in a beautiful retreat setting. The course format is intentionally designed to be balanced in our personal and collective need for regeneration, supported by short lectures, demonstrations, small group experientials, group discussions, community building experiences and personal reflection time in nature. Collectively participants move through the six phases of RPM culminating in group supported regenerative action that is inspired by each person’s desire for positive change in their community.
Learning Objectives
- Apply RPM skills as an application of a fourth phase of trauma treatment to address the implications of transgenerational trauma on our current social, racial, and ecological crises.
- Understand the role of commitment in engaging processes of systemic change.
- Deepen your understanding of accountability in relation to Ancestral lineage and social transformation.
- Apply the foundational techniques of RPM to assess and work with psychological and emotional barriers to systemic change.
- Utilize specific practices from Western psychology, Eastern philosophy, Spirituality and Shamanism to help resolve transgenerational trauma.
- Apply RPM skills to deconstruct the barriers to systemic change caused by trauma-related dissociation.
- Engage RPM skills to dismantle themes of power.
- Apply mindfulness skills to regenerative processes.
- Employ RPM techniques to move through blocked emotional pain and grief.
- Explore the roles of optimism and inspiration when working with what seems impossible.
- Learn to apply sustainable practices to support resilience.
- Understand the importance of “doing less” to “do more.”
- Identify ways to support regenerative action in yourself and others.
- Understand the importance of community-based social change.
- Harness RPM’s six phases as potential to transform your own relationship to living a regenerative life.
- Apply the 6 Phases of the Regeneration Process to:
- Help to heal transgenerational trauma in yourself and others.
- Challenge privilege and confront systemic racism and oppression.
- Work with eco-anxiety, helplessness, and grief in your community.
- Integrate spirituality as a necessary means to lasting change.
- Engage in collective healing through regenerative action.
The Regeneration Process can be applied as a complimentary framework to current psychotherapies or engaged as a standalone method. It is designed to support the systemic regenerative change of an individual, group, business, community, and society. Please join us in creating a community of regenerators!