Location: Miri Piri Retreat Center
Locality Sborzani, hamlet of Pigazzano, municipality of Travo (Piacenza), Emilia-Romagna region, Italy
Dates: May 30 to June 6, 2027
Times: Arrival time May 30 at 6:00PM / Departure time 3:00PM June 6 (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.
Facilitator: Ame Cutler, PhD
Organizer: Transgenerational Regeneration Institute
Contact: enrollmentservices@transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org
Cost: €2,065.00 (inclusive of lodging and meals)
Rooms can be booked as private/singles up to the first 12 participants to register, (ensuite), or shared 2-3 people in a room. Contant us at enrollmentservices@transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org to arrange choice of room shares. (organized in order of registration)
Receive a 10% discount if you register early and pay in full by February 1, 2027
(For alternate payment options please contact TRI at enrollmentservices@transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org)
100.00 euros non-refundable application fee (if accepted this will be credited to tuition)
500.00 euros deposit required at acceptance of application to hold your spot.
Payment plans available. Limited number of scholarships available.
Description: 7 Day RP Residential Retreat Course—an 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 each person’s commitment to transgenerational healing and culminates in collective regenerative action projects that bring the healing forward into the world.
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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, RP is a somatic-spiritual approach to transformation. RP 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 benefits nature and the whole of humanity. RP 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, must heals all.
In this 7 Day Residential 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. RP 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 RP 7 Day Residential 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 RP culminating in group supported regenerative action that is inspired by each person’s desire for positive change in their community.
Learning Objectives
Apply RP skills as an application of a fourth phase of trauma healing to address the implications of transgenerational trauma on our current social, racial, economic, democratic, 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 RP 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 RP skills to deconstruct the barriers to systemic change caused by trauma-related dissociation.
Engage RP skills to dismantle themes of power.
Apply mindfulness skills to regenerative processes.
Employ RP 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 RP’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!
Application:
100.00 Euros application fee (non-refundable). If accepted into the RP Course program, the application fee will be applied to your tuition fee.
Please download and complete the application. Once complete, email your application to enrollmentservices@transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org