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
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
Dec 6 - 10, 2021
Jan 3 - 7, 2022
Jan 31 - Feb 4, 2022
Feb 28 - Mar 4, 2022
Mar 28 - Apr 1, 2022
Apr 25 - 29, 2022
May 23 - 27, 2022
Jun 20 - 24, 2022
Jul 18 - 22, 2022
Aug 22 - 26, 2022
Sept 19 - 23, 2022
Oct 24 - 28, 2022
Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2022
Mending Heartwounds: Bringing Closure And Healing To Ungrieved, Forgotten or Healing Loss
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2021
Jan 10 - 14, 2022
Mar 14 - 18, 2022
May 2 - 6, 2022
Jul 11 - 15, 2022
Sept 12 - 16, 2022
Dec 12 - 16, 2022
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Abusive and Exploitive Relationships
Nov 15 - 19, 2021
Jan 24 - 28, 2022
Mar 7 - 11, 2022
May 16 - 20, 2022
Jul 4 - 8, 2022
Sept 19 - 23, 2022
Nov 14 - 18, 2022
Couples Repair & Reset
Nov 15 - 19, 2021
Dec 13 - 17, 2021
Jan 24 - 28, 2022
Mar 7 - 11, 2022
Apr 4 - 8, 2022
May 2 - 6, 2022
Jun 6 - 10, 2022
Jul 4 - 8, 2022
Aug 1 - 5, 2022
Sept 5 - 9, 2022
Oct 3 - 7, 2022
Nov 7 - 11, 2022
Dec 5 - 9, 2022
Love Addiction/Love Avoidance
Dec 13 - 17, 2021
Jan 17 - 21, 2022
Feb 14 - 18, 2022
Mar 14 - 18, 2022
Apr 11 - 15, 2022
May 9 - 13, 2022
Jun 13 - 17, 2022
Jul 11 - 15, 2022
Aug 8 - 12, 2022
Sept 5 - 9, 2022
Oct 10 - 14, 2022
Nov 7 - 11, 2022
Dec 5 - 9, 2022
Healing Intimate Treason: For Partners of Sex Addiction
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2021
Jan 10 - 14, 2022
Feb 21 - 25, 2022
Mar 21 - 25, 2022
Apr 18 - 22, 2022
May 23 - 27, 2022
Jun 20 - 24, 2022
Jul 18 - 22, 2022
Aug 15 - 19, 2022
Sept 12 - 16, 2022
Oct 17 - 21, 2022
Nov 14 - 18, 2022
Dec 12 - 16, 2022
Men's Sexual Recovery
Dec 6 - 10, 2021
Jan 3 - 7, 2022
Jan 31 - Feb 4, 2022
Feb 28 - Mar 4, 2022
Mar 28 - Apr 1, 2022
Apr 25 - 29, 2022
May 30 - Jun 3, 2022
Jun 27 - Jul 1, 2022
Jul 25 - 29, 2022
Aug 29 - Sept 2, 2022
Sept 26 - 30, 2022
Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2022
Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2022
THRIVE: Going to the Next Level
Feb 21 - 25, 2022
May 9 - 13, 2022
Aug 8 - 12, 2022
Oct 17 - 21, 2022
Post-Induction Therapy (PIT)
See page for details
Racialized Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oct 14 - 16, 2022