Activate the Healing Potential of the Psyche

Creative Rejuvenation for Professional Caregivers

with Mary Anne Pare, M.Ed, RCC, RPT-S, and Jenny Nash, MPCP

Fri. 6 PM Mar. 26 – Sun. 1.30 PM Mar. 28, 2010
Cascadia House on Kraus Rd, Roberts Creek, Sunshine Coast, B.C.

A week-end in a supportive environment with the goal of enhancing our personal and professional selves by nurturing our imaginations and creative expression.Workshop

The focus will be on access to and rejuvenation of our own playfulness.
Structured activities include:

  • story telling
  • crafts
  • singing
  • movement
  • socio-dramatic play
  • game playing

There will also be free time for other nurturing activities, such as writing and painting, walking in nature, socializing, meditation, yoga, etc.

This workshop/retreat offers the opportunity to develop therapeutic skills by both exploring one’s own creativity and witnessing each others’ creative process.

The potential for change and growth resides within the Self of the client and the Self of the therapist/caregiver.

Change comes with shifts in thoughts, feelings and actions. It can also be accessed through the imagination, which activates the healing potential of the psyche.

Facilitators:

Jenny Nash and Mary Anne Pare

Jenny Nash and Mary Anne Pare

Jenny Nash is an experienced child and family therapist and a workshop facilitator. In both settings she brings her love of creative art, play, writing and drama.

Mary Anne Pare has worked with children and families in numerous mental health and therapeutic settings for thirty years. Her special interest and area of expertise is working with families, using an integration of play therapy and family therapy.

Location: Cascadia Retreat Centre, Roberts Creek, Sunshine Coast.
Cost: $350.00 – includes delicious meals from a wonderful caterer and comfortable beds, shared rooms for 2 or 3 women.
This retreat will be for a maximum of fifteen women.
Registration Deadline: February 15, 2010
Please register by email to Mary Anne Pare: maryannepare@shaw.ca
Enquiries welcome: Phone Jenny Nash: 604-759-3567

January 2010 Circle of Women

The Circle of Women reconvenes this coming weekend at Cascadia House, to reconnect, review the past year and set intention for the new. Things are shifting quickly now for almost everyone we know, and the richness of life’s intensities, as always, brings beauty, challenges, promises and adventures. If you are interested in the circle and what we’re about, leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you.

Kitchen and Dining

Fully appointed kitchen with all amenities

Bright large kitchen space opens to the dining area

Dine indoors at the large dining table, or open patio doors to the outdoor deck

A generous coffee and tea space on the table in the kitchen area

Workshop and Meeting Spaces

Large carpeted workshop space with plenty of natural light.

The second large workshop space opens to the garden and grounds.

Feedback from the November Getaway Weekend

“Cascadia is a wonderful warm cozy retreat, tastefully lovingly furnished, gorgeous comfortable twin beds with lovely sheets and duvets, fluffy towels all provided. The meals prepared by Jonnita, an amazing chef, are not only delicious, but artistically presented too and leave one longing for a cook book to enable one to experience these tastes again.

The guided walk led by Carol in Cliff Gilfry  Park was magical with waterfalls, varied mushrooms, large trees and well marked trails.  The beach is another optional walk and on the way are interesting shops. I loved sharing stories and fun with those women I met for my first time and of course having fun with my old friends. Collaging, dancing, experience Reiki, walking in the park, playing Balderdash and Upwords just leaves me extremely happy and smiling inside.

This is a perfect getaway to go with friends or alone.”

Jenny Nash

“Take a group of amazingly keen women with right intention…add pinches of connecting, sharing, laughter, song, movement, creativity, nature, leadership, nurturing…mix to satisfaction with right action…feed in doses of Jonnita’s fabulous food…stir with right love…then slow bake for two days in the magical womb of Cascadia Centre…and voila, a magical transformation into a larger group of friends, new insights, new skills, new perceptions, and lives forever changed.

Thank you to each and every one of you for a wonderfully fun, inspired and inclusive weekend.”

Judy

“I would like to convey how I feel about this weekend. I was at ease with every woman there.  I feel so blessed, filled, affirmed, and enriched.  The good energy, the deep connection, the laughing, sharing and respectful creating of our own mystery found a safe haven at Cascadia.  My belly is full of good food and good humour.

Thank you all for spending the weekend with me.  I would love to see you all again, and feel pretty sure this will come.  It’s too good to not do it again.”

Deanne