At a glance:
- Turning Inward: A Renewal Retreat: August 24, 2024 (Daylong – Abita Springs)
- Cultivating Joy: September 8, 2024 (Daylong – New Orleans)
- Worthiness & Time: November 15-17, 2024 (2-night – Ponchatoula)
- Turning Inward: A Solstice/Advent Retreat December 14, 2024 (Daylong – New Orleans)
- Working with Our Inner Parts for Personal Healing: Parts: April 10-13, 2025 (3-night – Ponchatoula)
Overnight Retreats 2024-25
All overnight retreats will be facilitated by AnnaMaria Signorelli, LCSW-BACS. AnnaMaria began facilitating spiritual and organizational retreats over 30 years ago. She will share insights and techniques developed throughout her many years of work as a psychotherapist and will particularly draw from the successes and explorations of her popular and long standing Joy groups, Parts Retreats and Renewal Retreats. Rebecca Baas, LCSW will assist with facilitation.
All 2024 and 2025 overnight retreats will be held at Rosaryville Retreat Center in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, about 50 miles outside of New Orleans. The center’s beautiful grounds are located on 50 manicured acres of a 1700-acre tract. There are many quiet places for reflection, including a large pond and historic cemetery. Check out http://rosaryvillela.net/ for more information on the center and grounds. This center offers private rooms.
The cost of the retreat includes 11 hours of intensive therapeutic experience including large and small group activities and training, lodging, and 6 meals beginning with Friday evening supper and ending after lunch on Sunday. There will also be time for personal reflection and movement The schedule of these PRIMARILY SILENT retreats will include time for stillness and deep personal reflection, movement, heart practices, small group discussion, and training in tools for daily life.
Important: All retreats will begin with registration between 3:00 and 3:30 pm on the first day with the opening circle at 4:15 and conclude Sunday after lunch.
11 CEUs will be offered via the Louisiana Board of Social Work Examiners for all overnight retreats.
The cost for all 2024 2-night retreats is $ 850 which includes the retreat program, 2 nights lodging in a private bedroom, shared (or private) bath, and six meals and snacks. There are a limited number of sliding scale slots available for each overnight retreat which should be requested at the time of registration.
To sign up, please email Rebecca Baas, rbaaslcsw@gmail.com
Worthiness & Time: A Residential Retreat
A two-night residential retreat
Friday, November 15 ~ Sunday, November 17, 2024
Rosaryville Retreat Center
To truly reach the next level of healing, it’s essential to cultivate a deep sense of self-worth. When our sense of worthiness is diminished, it often shows up in how we manage our time ~~ do we overschedule? procrastinate? spend time doing things that we do not want to do?
Join us for a transformative overnight retreat, designed to help you step away from the busyness of life and reconnect with what truly matters. In a beautiful, quiet setting, you’ll have the space to ask yourself: “Where does my daily life align with my deepest values and desires, and where does it not?” We will engage in practices to help us deepen our own sense of worthiness, the foundation for our growth and healing. We’ll explore techniques to cultivate a more peaceful, positive relationship with time and discuss tools to help you create a more intentional life—one where your time is spent nurturing what truly feeds your heart.
This retreat will be facilitated by AnnaMaria Signorelli, LCSW-BACS, with assistance from Rebecca Baas, LCSW. It will begin promptly at 4:15 (with registration from 3:00-3:45) on Friday, 11/15 and end after lunch on Sunday, 11/17. Rosaryville Retreat Center is located on 50 acres in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. See their website for more details at http://www.rosaryvillela.net
The cost of this mostly silent retreat is $850, which includes the retreat program, 2 nights of lodging in a private room, and six meals. It also includes 11 continuing education credits (including 3 ethics hours) for mental health professionals (through LABSWE). The retreat program consists of 11 hours of intensive therapeutic experience, (including teaching content and small group activities), optional yoga and times for personal space and reflection. For more details or to register, please contact Rebecca at rbaaslcsw@gmail.com
There are a limited number of sliding fee scale spots-please inquire if needed at registration. After registration fills, we will maintain a waiting list.
Working with Our Inner Parts for Personal Healing
A three-night residential retreat, Thursday, April 10 through Sunday, April 13, 2025 Cost:$995
Parts work is a modality of identifying and giving a voice to subpersonalities that are part of us. This process can resolve internal conflicts, free blocked energy sources, and establish an inner harmonious system. Many have found this type of in-depth personal work to be healing in profound ways. This opportunity is by invitation only and is appropriate for both those new to parts work and those familiar with the work. This retreat tends to fill quickly so register early to insure your place.
Deep Renewal for Healing Professionals and Activists
A two-night residential retreat: Date TBD Let us know if you want to be on the list for 2025
Give yourself a gift of time to step back and look at your practice in an extremely quiet, inviting retreat environment.
Together we will clarify and reconnect with the values and intention that underlie our work, looking deeply at what initially drew us to this profession and harnessing that energy to work with greater integrity and joy.
We will reflect on our personal philosophy of healing, growth and change, our own ongoing healing and its role in our professional work. Looking at our daily habits, we will consider how to more fully embody the changes we encourage in those we serve, asking ourselves, “How do we best walk our talk, and what’s in the way?” “How do we work in a sustainable way without becoming exhausted or disillusioned?”
Participants will have opportunities to explore their thoughts, feelings and assumptions about healing and change. You will also be asked to take time to increase your consciousness / intentionality of how you are in relationship with your clients and communities since decades of research indicate that this is the most powerful change agent in the therapeutic process.
Finally, we will tap into the synergistic and collective wellsprings of energy available to all healers, to heal fatigue, prevent burnout, and allow us to do our best work. Along the way, we will reconnect with our deepest selves, share time for stillness and personal reflection, and engage in small group discussion.
This retreat is open to mental health professionals, spiritual directors, medical professionals, activists and all persons dedicated to helping others heal and grow.
Daylong Retreats 2024
Each daylong retreat will be held from 9 am to 3:30 pm and will be facilitated by Anna Maria Signorelli and held in the studio at the Amma Center (unless otherwise noted.) The retreats are primarily silent days that will allow participants to reconnect with their deepest selves, share time for stillness and personal reflection, and engage in small group discussion. We will explore practices related to the topic of the retreat. $110 to $75 (sliding scale available).
Use the links below to reserve your place. (Click the 9:00 button.)
Developing a More Positive Relationship with Time
Saturday, March 2, 2024
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/SignupTimeDaylongRetreat
Turning Inward: A Renewal Retreat
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Abita Springs, La.
https://www.womenscenterforhealing.org/turning-inward-retreat.html
Cultivating Joy
Sunday, September 8, 2024
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/SignupJoyDaylongRetreat
Turning Inward: A Solstice/Advent Retreat
Saturday, December 14, 2024
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/DecemberDLRsignup
Additional Offerings
2024
A Sandwich Retreat: Two weekends of meditation with a week of daily practice in between
Led by Michael Freeman of Southwest Sangha
Friday, April 5 – Sunday, April 14, 2024
This meditation retreat will include instruction, periods of silent meditation, time for silent movement such as walking, Qi Gong, etc. It is designed so that we may experience intensive practice as well as support for integrating practice into daily life.
Beginners as well as advanced practitioners welcome.
This retreat is offered free of charge. A basket will be available for those who would like to practice dana (generosity) as a way of supporting continuing meditation programs.
Michael Freeman has been practicing and teaching mindfulness in various forms for nearly 40 years. He is a founder of Southwest Sangha where he has been providing spiritual direction at for 23 years.
Michael has taught at the Amma Center in New Orleans numerous times since inception in 2002.