Weekend Intensive Retreat Summary

Immersion, Integration & Renewal: A Weekend for Therapists, Healers, and Inner Child Work.

This weekend intensive is a heartfully designed retreat for play therapists, clinicians who work with children, and any healing professional who wishes to deepen their understanding of what it truly means to attune, co-regulate, and hold space.

Led by Julia—Certified Play Therapist with over 25 years of experience supporting children, families, and clinicians—this retreat offers a rare opportunity for deep immersion in the healing art of therapeutic presence. The retreat will take place in the intentionally curated CLARITY playrooms and group spaces, designed to foster warmth, safety, creativity, and reflection.

With a maximum of 6-8 participants, this small-group format ensures intimacy, safety, and spaciousness for deeper personal integration and rich shared learning. Over the course of 2½ days, you’ll be guided through embodied practices, creative processes, meaningful rituals, and reflective integration.

We will move slowly, intentionally, and symbolically through practices rooted in play therapy, narrative exploration, somatic regulation, and collective meaning-making. With an emphasis on symbolic play, emotional attunement, co-regulation, and the sacredness of the therapeutic relationship, this retreat offers both a professional learning space and a soulful personal journey.

Retreat Highlights:

  • Strengthen foundational play therapy skills through group discussion, collaboration, and shared learning

  • Participate in experiential exercises such as role-playing and symbolic exploration

  • Reflect on the therapist’s role as a safe container for emotional exploration, with a focus on self-regulation and attunement

  • Explore the physical and emotional elements that create a playroom environment rooted in safety and growth

  • Engage with spiritual and symbolic themes that support therapeutic presence and deepen the meaning of the work

  • A nourishing, trauma-informed learning environment where your nervous system is invited to settle and expand

  • Gentle rhythms, optional nature connection, and embodied invitations throughout the weekend

Who is this for?

  • Play therapists and child clinicians

  • Any therapist seeking deeper skill in co-regulation, symbolic understanding, and emotional attunement

  • Professionals and clients longing to understand and nurture their inner child

  • Helpers, healers, and holders of space looking to replenish and reconnect

Location & Logistics:

  • Hosted at CLARITY in Hanover, Ontario — a beautiful and thoughtfully designed therapeutic space

  • All-inclusive experience: Includes facilitation, materials, journal, snacks, tea, coffee, and lunch each day

  • Accommodation is not included, but options are available nearby for out-of-town guests

Continuing Education: This training qualifies for 12 hours of Continuing Education Hours (CEH). A certificate of completion will be provided at the end of the retreat.

Included Bonuses:

  • Post-retreat group integration call to support continued reflection and connection

  • Digital bundle of journal prompts to carry your growth into the weeks beyond

  • Certificate of completion documenting your participation and CE hours

Training Cost: $1111
1111 is considered a powerful and symbolic number representing new beginnings, enlightenment, and spiritual growth.

Retreat Flow:

  • Friday evening: Grounding, altar creation, and co-creation of group container

  • Saturday: Deep experiential and relational work rooted in co-regulation, reflection, and symbolic exploration

  • Sunday: Integration, clarity, and closing rituals

Whether you come as a therapist, a seeker, or simply someone ready to reconnect with your inner world—this retreat invites you to pause, to feel, and to be held.

We’ll be Holding Space. Together.