Overnight Retreats 2024
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 overnight retreats will be held at the Carmelite Spirituality Center in LaCombe, Louisiana. It is nestled on 60 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds abutting Bayou Lacombe, just 40 miles north of New Orleans. This center offers private rooms with shared dorm style baths.
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 bath, and six meals and snacks for the two night retreats. 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
Deep Renewal for Healing Professionals
A two-night residential retreat, Friday, August 9 through Sunday, August 11, 2024
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 personal philosophy of healing and growth, 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?”
Participants will have opportunities to explore their thoughts, feelings and assumptions about healing. You will also be asked to take time to increase your consciousness / intentionality of how you are in relationship with your clients 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 and all persons dedicated to helping others heal and grow.
Working with Our Inner Parts for Personal Healing
A three-night residential retreat, Thursday, May 16 through Sunday, May 19, 2024 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.
Three Centered Awareness: A Residential Retreat
A two-night residential retreat, Friday, October 4 through Sunday, October 6, 2024
To strengthen the connection to your body
To deepen the wisdom of your heart
To quiet and calm your mind
These three centers are our connection to the physical body, the emotional/relational heart space, and the thinking mind. When in alignment these connect us to the universal. Their alignment is increasingly being recognized within spiritual and psychological communities as the doorway to living a life of integrity and joy.
Time & Worthiness: A Residential Retreat
A two-night residential retreat, Friday, November 15 through Sunday, November 17, 2024
This new retreat will bring together material from our Worthiness Groups with the popular daylong Time Retreat. We will engage in practices to help us to deepen our sense of our own worthiness. This inner knowing is foundational for our growth and healing. We will also explore practices that help us develop a more peaceful, positive relationship with time. Anna Maria will offer tools for creating a more intentional life, one where the way we use our time reflects and supports the things that most feed our hearts.
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. 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
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/SignupTimeDaylongRetreat
Cultivating Joy
Saturday, June 8
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/SignupJoyDaylongRetreat
Three Centered Awareness
Saturday, September 7
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/Signup3CDaylongRetreat
Turning Inward: A Renewal Retreat
Saturday, December 7
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.