Retreats - Shalom Retreats

For more than 30 years, people from all walks of life have been coming to Shalom Mountain and experiencing transformation and healing in their journey of self-discovery. Many people are searching for a new direction in life or to deepen their spiritual journeys. People in partnered relationship come to find new paths in loving each other, with a desire to be fully alive in their relationships. Some come to heal old wounds that they have carried for too long and now want to lay down. Others arrive here because they need to grieve their losses and know joy once again.

Ultimately, Shalom Mountain offers a place to call home in your quest for the true self. This is what we call the Journey to God. Here we honor the One of Many Names—God, Higher Power, Allah, the Divine.

A Shalom Retreat is a place where you can know yourself as whole, complete and lovable—an embodied, emotional, spiritual being. We celebrate the body’s wisdom and its gifts. You can learn to unblock the stuck places and open your heart once again. The retreat takes place within a circle of people, supported by intentional loving, where you can experience a focused time for your own individual work.

Here we discover that love is an art and a skill that can be learned. Here we learn and practice the Principles and Skills of Loving that echo what the masters have taught us about love:

• More than anything else, we want to love and be loved.
• Love is a gift.
• Love is a response to need.

A Shalom Retreat has these essential elements:

• Skilled and compassionate leadership.
• Experiential exercises grounded in Western psychology, including Gestalt, Core Energetics, role playing and story telling.
• Focused time for your own personal work with the retreat leader.
• A community where each person is held with respect and love.
• A reverence for spirit and the mystical journey.

A Shalom Retreat addresses your underlying personality structures that are no longer life-giving. We recommend attending three or more consecutive retreats so that you can more thoroughly explore, shift and ground your retreat experiences and life changes.

Because Shalom Retreats are an intensive growth experience they are well suited as a complement to therapy. If you are in therapy, please be sure to let your therapist know of your plans to attend a Shalom Retreat. If you are interested in an individual counseling session prior to the retreat in order to clarify the focus of your work, arrangements can be made for early arrival on the day the retreat begins. This is recommended particularly for people who are coming to a Shalom Retreat for the first time. The cost for a pre-retreat session is $95.

September

9 - 12

Shalom Retreat

LJ Wooden & Jon Terrell

$650

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October

14 - 17

Shalom Retreat

John Bottone & Nance McGee

Sliding Scale: $650

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November

4 - 7	Shalom Retreat	LJ Wooden & Jon Terrell	$650
18 - 21	Moving into Recovery: The Next Steps	Meg Rayne & Ross Harwood	$550

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December

2 - 5

Shalom Retreat

Sandie Rumold and Jeff Hilliard

$650

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January

6 - 9	Shalom Retreat	Vyana Bergen & Cristian Graca	$650
13 - 16	Women Loving Women	LJ Wooden & Barb Wrigley	$650

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February

10 - 13	The Couples' Journey	Sandie & Gerry Rumold	$1,050 per couple
17 - 20	Shalom Retreat	John Bottone & Nance McGee	$650

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March

3 - 6	Shalom Retreat for Women	LJ Wooden & Sandy Rumold	$650
10 - 13	Supervised Shalom Retreat	TBA--Leaders in Training - By Invitation	$300
17 - 20	Shalom Retreat for Men	Jeff Hilliard & Gerry Rumold	$650

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April

14 - 17

Shalom Retreat

Nance McGee & John Bottone

$650

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May

5 - 8	Moving into Recovery: The Next Steps	Bonnie Moore & Ross Harwood	$550
12 - 15	Shalom Retreat	LJ Wooden & Jon Terrell	$650

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June

9 - 12

Shalom Retreat

Sandie Rumold and Gerry Rumold

$650

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