Men’s Intensive – Healing Addiction and Trauma

What should I expect in attending the men’s intensive?

This intensive will focus on healing the emotional wounds underneath addictive disorders to allow for a deeper recovery foundation.  While many treatments focus on helping individuals achieve abstinence or sobriety the underlying trauma and sympathetic activation can remain.  In addition to providing significant psychoeducation and processing around addiction, this intensive will also explore the traumatic imprints underneath our disconnection and compulsive cycles.  Through a group-oriented experience you will find the safety necessary to begin deeper healing from our past.

This intensive will provide multiple opportunities for participants to connect with and expand their felt sense of self in a safe and caring setting. 

What will be covered in the Intensive:

  • The neuroscience behind addiction, emotions and trauma

  • The addictive cycle and its connection to our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems

  • Sharing our trauma history and narrative

  • What is complex emotional trauma and how it's affected us

  • Understanding trauma from a physical/emotional/spiritual perspective

  • How denial manifests to support our self-medicating rituals

  • Preventing relapse - staying in healthy, secure adult self

  • How addictive behaviors build and support each other

  • Addiction as an intimacy disorder and why deep healing requires community

  • Creating a future vision for self

Therapeutic Modalities: 

The framework of Experiential therapy is to bring unconscious emotional and mental experiences into one’s consciousness by using an action-oriented model of therapy that goes beyond what many “talk” therapies access.  This group will allow an opportunity to delve deeply into one’s self to find the clarity and truth of your authentic self and continue to understand the impacts of developmental trauma.

 Somatic therapies will be utilized to explore our development and forms of complex trauma.  Understanding attunement and how addictive processes form in absence of secure attachment will aid in understanding and identifying trauma responses in the body.

Psychoeducation through audio, video, group process and workbook exercises will be provided to explain the disease of addiction (including compartmentalization, depression and narcissism). Creating understanding in how the disease forms through an individual’s childhood and life experiences. 

This intensive will allow participants to fully immerse themselves in the process to experience increased levels of growth and transformation.  Participants will receive the equivalent of months of individual therapy within a 4 day period.  

Intensive Schedule and Cost:

The intensive is scheduled for October 27th-30th starting on Wednesday 27th at 10am. 

Daily Schedule: 

Wednesday 10am-8pm 

Thursday     9am-8pm  

Friday          9am-5pm (group dinner at 6pm)

Saturday     9am-4pm

The cost is $3750 and includes all books, materials, intake assessments and consultation with a referring therapist.  Lunch and dinner will be provided in addition to snack/beverages throughout.

This intensive will be limited to 6 participants to maximize the impact and allow for extensive individual time and experience.  

Other Details: Flight, car and hotel recommendations will be provided by request.