Workshops
at Rio Retreat Center
Workshops
Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows offers workshops that can bring healing and empowerment to individuals in various stages of their journey.
Transform Your Life
We have been offering workshops for more than three decades, and there’s something for everyone. Choose from options in three different categories: emotional trauma, relationships, or personal growth. Some people come to heighten their existing recovery or because they’ve hit a plateau. Others just want to make some changes or experience personal growth. We all have issues. For a lot of our participants, this is their very first time doing something emotionally therapeutic.
On-Campus Workshops In a Safe Setting
As we continue the important work of helping people on their personal journeys of healing and self-discovery, be assured that protecting both staff and visitors is a primary concern. We are committed to maintaining a safe setting and that includes advance screenings for COVID symptoms, double-occupancy rooms for those with the same vaccination status, and social distancing in group settings. Mask are optional at this time.
How Workshops Work
If you are already on a healing journey or want to start down that path, our workshops provide an opportunity to take a deep dive into a topic. Our intensive five-day programs have been highly effective at jumpstarting the healing process or allowing someone already making progress to confront a stumbling block or obstacle that has kept them from continuing to move forward. Participants work on sensitive issues in a concentrated format, allowing them to enhance any recovery work they’ve already done, gaining insight into unhealthy patterns and practicing new relational skills within a safe environment. So much can be accomplished in a week, making workshops a great value in behavioral health.
One thing that sets our workshops apart is that our facilitators are dedicated to workshops. That’s all they do. They not only have specializations in the specific workshop that they are facilitating, but they also specialize in doing it workshop-style, meaning in a five-day intensive format. For our staff, this is their passion — and it shows.
Emotional Trauma Workshops
Address childhood trauma, grief, and exploitive relationships, processes, and situations:
- Survivors I: Healing Childhood Trauma
- Survivors II: Alumni Continuing the Healing Journey
- Mending Heartwounds: Bringing Closure and Healing to Ungrieved, Forgotten, or Hidden Loss
- Spirit Quest: Self-Discovery Through Horses
- The Betrayal Bond: Breaking free of Exploitive Relationships
Personal Growth
Understand your own needs, desires, emotions, habits, and everything else that makes you who you are.
Private Intensives
Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows offers confidential and customized private intensives for individuals who may require a higher level of anonymity. Our team of highly qualified experts utilizes cutting-edge modalities to tailor an intensive workshop experience to the specific needs of each client or family and can accommodate a flexible schedule.
"At Rio Retreat Center, you can accomplish in five days what might take you a year or two in that 50-minute therapy hour every week. It’s really transformational."
JEAN COLLINS-STUCKERT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
When Is a Workshop Not the Right Fit?
Our workshops don’t take the place of inpatient treatment or an intensive outpatient program (our Meadows Behavioral Healthcare family of treatment programs can help those needing a higher level of care). Workshops are not appropriate for anyone:
- Currently in active addiction
- Currently engaging in self-harm
- Having heavy suicidal ideation
- Who has had recent suicidal behavior
While these individuals may likely benefit from our workshops at a later point when they have more stability, they likely need a higher level of care first.
Full Workshop Schedule
Survivors II: Continue the Healing Journey
Oct 24 - Oct 28, 2022
Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2022
Jan 2 - Jan 6, 2023
Jan 30 - Feb 3, 2023
Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2023
Mar 27 - Mar 31, 2023
Apr 24 - Apr 28, 2023
May 22 - May 26, 2023
Jun 19 - Jun 23, 2023
Jul 17 - Jul 21, 2023
Aug 14 - Aug 18, 2023
Sept 11 - Sept 15, 2023
Oct 9 - Oct 13, 2023
Nov 6 - Nov 10, 2023
Dec 4 - Dec 8, 2023
Mending Heartwounds: Bringing Closure And Healing To Ungrieved, Forgotten or Healing Loss
Dec 12 - Dec 16, 2022
Jan 23 - Jan 27, 2023
Mar 13 - Mar 17, 2023
May 8 - May 12, 2023
Jun 26 - Jun 30, 2023
Aug 7 - Aug 11, 2023
Sept 18 - Sept 22, 2023
Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2023
Dec 18 - Dec 22, 2023
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Abusive and Exploitive Relationships
Nov 14 - Nov 18, 2022
Jan 2 - Jan 6, 2023
Feb 20 - Feb 24, 2023
Apr 17 - Apr 21, 2023
May 22 - May 26, 2023
Jul 17 - Jul 21, 2023
Aug 28 - Sept 1, 2023
Oct 9 - Oct 13, 2023
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2023
Couples Repair & Reset
Nov 7 - Nov 11, 2022
Dec 5 - Dec 9, 2022
Jan 23 - Jan 27, 2023
Feb 20 - Feb 24, 2023
Mar 20 - Mar 24, 2023
Apr 17 - Apr 21, 2023
May 15 - May 19, 2023
Jun 19 - Jun 23, 2023
Jul 24 - Jul 28, 2023
Aug 21 - Aug 25, 2023
Sept 18 - Sept 22, 2023
Oct 23 - Oct 27, 2023
Nov 13 - Nov 17, 2023
Dec 11 - Dec 15, 2023
Love Addiction/Love Avoidance
Nov 7 - Nov 11, 2022
Dec 5 - Dec 9, 2022
Jan 16 - Jan 20, 2023
Feb 13 - Feb 17, 2023
Mar 13 - Mar 17, 2023
Apr 10 - Apr 14, 2023
May 8 - May 12, 2023
Jun 12 - Jun 16, 2023
Jul 10 - Jul 14, 2023
Aug 14 - Aug 18, 2023
Sept 11 - Sept 15, 2023
Oct 16 - Oct 20, 2023
Nov 13 - Nov 17, 2023
Dec 11 - Dec 15, 2023
Healing Intimate Treason: For Partners of Sex Addiction
Nov 14 - Nov 18, 2022
Dec 12 - Dec 16, 2022
Jan 30 - Feb 3, 2023
Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2023
Mar 27 - Mar 31, 2023
Apr 24 - Apr 28, 2023
May 29 - Jun 2, 2023
Jun 26 - Jun 30, 2023
Jul 31 - Aug 4, 2023
Aug 28 - Sept 1, 2023
Sept 25 - Sept 29, 2023
Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2023
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2023
Dec 18 - Dec 22, 2023
Men's Sexual Recovery
Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2022
Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2022
Jan 9 - Jan 13, 2023
Feb 6 - Feb 10, 2023
Mar 6 - Mar 10, 2023
Apr 3 - Apr 7, 2023
May 1 - May 5, 2023
Jun 5 - Jun 9, 2023
Jul 3 - Jul 7, 2023
Aug 7 - Aug 11, 2023
Sept 4 - Sept 8, 2023
Oct 2 - Oct 6, 2023
Nov 6 - Nov 10, 2023
Dec 4 - Dec 8, 2023
PARTS Workshop
Feb 13-17, 2023
May 15-19, 2023
Aug 21-25, 2023
Oct 23-27, 2023
THRIVE: Going to the Next Level
Oct 17 - Oct 21, 2022
Jan 16 - Jan 20, 2023
Apr 10 - Apr 14, 2023
Jul 10 - Jul 14, 2023
Oct 16 - Oct 20, 2023
Post-Induction Therapy (PIT)
See page for details
Coming Home: For LGBTQ+
Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2022
Apr 3 - Apr 7, 2023
Jul 3 - Jul 7, 2023
Oct 2 - Oct 6, 2023
Racialized Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oct 14 - Oct 16, 2022