Sardinia Residential Therapy Intensive: Movement, Group Work, and Integration

A Residential Intensive is not a retreat in the usual sense. It is a deliberately held therapeutic container, designed for people who want meaningful inner movement in a short period of time, and who know that change does not happen through insight alone.
Set in Santa Maria Navarrese, on Sardinia’s eastern coast, the intensive brings together group psychotherapy, movement-oriented work, and creative process, alongside daily contact with the land. Sea and mountain are not decoration here. They become a lived atmosphere: steady, elemental, and quietly regulating, supporting integration between sessions.

The work

Across the days, we work through a blend of relational psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, and embodied practice (including movement, somatic attunement, and creative exploration). The focus is on patterns that repeat, not as moral failures, but as intelligent adaptations. We track how these patterns show up in the present moment, in relationships, in the body, and in the group field, and we create the conditions for something new to become possible.
You can expect a clear structure, careful facilitation, and an emphasis on consent, pacing, and psychological safety. This is a space where emotions are welcomed, but never forced, and where integration matters as much as intensity.

The landscape as part of the container

Each day includes an excursion, not as entertainment, but as part of the therapeutic arc. We visit places that hold symbolic and emotional resonance: a cave to explore what is beneath the surface, an abandoned village to work with aftermath, an ancient worship area shaped by centuries of human longing, and a prehistoric site, Tomba dei Giganti, where questions of belonging, inheritance, and continuity naturally arise.

What you take home

Most guests leave with three kinds of change:

-A felt shift, not only an interpretation.
-A clearer inner map of the patterns shaping their relationships, choices, and self-worth.
-Practical integration tools, so what opens here can continue unfolding at home.

Who this is for

This intensive is for adults who want a serious, experiential therapeutic process in a small group, and who are willing to meet themselves with honesty and care. It is not a training, and it is not suitable for those in acute crisis who need urgent or intensive clinical support.

If something in you recognises this as the right kind of work, you are warmly invited to read the full details and book your place.