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 heavily therapeutic.
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
Relationships
Strengthen your marriage, family relationships, and friendships.
- Couples Bootcamp
- Family Matters
- Love Addiction/Love Avoidance
- Healing Intimate Treason
- Mastering Boundaries
Personal Growth
Understand your own needs, desires, emotions, habits, and everything else that makes you who you are.
- Men’s Sexual Recovery
- Mind & Heart
- THRIVE
- Journey of a Woman’s Heart
- Life Without Ed®
- Coming Home: For LGBTQ+
- Wellness Reset
Professional Development
Gain additional skills and insights for your work as a mental health or addiction professional.
- Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model
- Mind & Heart
- Horses Helping Clinicians
- Relational Trauma Repair
- Post-Induction Therapy (PIT)
- Advanced PIT Training: Inner Child and Feeling Reduction
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
Nov 18 - 22, 2019
Dec 16 - 20, 2019
Jan 13 - 17, 2020
Feb 17- 21, 2020
Mar 23-27, 2020
Apr 20 - 24, 2020
May 18 - 22, 2020
Jun 22 - 26, 2020
Jul 20 -24, 2020
Aug 17 - 21, 2020
Sep 21 - 25, 2020
Oct 19 - 23, 2020
Mending Heartwounds: Bringing Closure And Healing To Ungrieved, Forgotten or Healing Loss
Dec 2 - 6, 2019
Feb 3 - 7, 2020
Apr 6 - 10, 2020
Jun 15 - 19, 2020
Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2020
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Abusive and Exploitive Relationships
Dec 2 - 6, 2019
Mar 2 - 6, 2020
Jun 1 - 5, 2020
Sept 7 - 11, 2020
Dec 14 - 18, 2020
Couples Bootcamp
Nov 4 - 8, 2019
Dec 9 - 13, 2019
Jan 6 - 10, 2020
Feb 10 - 14, 2020
Mar 9 - 13, 2020
Apr 13 - 17, 2020
May 11 - 15, 2020
Jun 15 - 19, 2020
Jul 20 - 24, 2020
Aug 24 - 28, 2020
Sept 21 - 25, 2020
Oct 26 - 30, 2020
Love Addiction/Love Avoidance
Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2019
Nov 18 - 22, 2019
Dec 16 - 20, 2019
Jan 13 - 17, 2020
Feb 17 - 21, 2020
Mar 16 - 20, 2020
Apr 13 - 17, 2020
May 11 - 15, 2020
Jun 8 - 12, 2020
Jul 13 - 17, 2020
Aug 10 - 14, 2020
Sept 14 - 18, 2020
Oct 12 - 16, 2020
Nov 9 - 13, 2020
Dec 7 - 11, 2020
Healing Intimate Treason: For Partners of Sex Addiction
Nov 11 -15, 2019
Dec 9 - 13, 2019
Jan 27 - 31, 2020
Feb 24 -28, 2020
Mar 30 - Apr 3, 2020
Apr 27 - May 1, 2020
May 25 - 29, 2020
Jun 29 - Jul 3, 2020
Jul 27 - 31, 2020
Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2020
Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2020
Oct 26 - 30, 2020
Men's Sexual Recovery
Dec 2 - 6, 2019
Jan 6 - 10, 2020
Feb 3 - 7, 2020
Mar 2 - 6, 2020
Apr 6 - 10, 2020
May 4 - 8, 2020
Jun 1 - 5, 2020
Jul 6 - 10, 2020
Aug 3 - 7, 2020
Sept 7 - 11, 2020
Oct 5 - 9, 2020
Nov 2 - 6, 2020
Dec 7 - 11, 2020
Journey of a Woman's Heart: Finding True Intimacy
Feb 10 - 14, 2020
Jun 22 - 26, 2020
Oct 19 -23, 2020
Success Is An Inside Job: Professional Growth
2020 Date - TBD