About this Retreat
Stephen Brown is an Irish Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Level 3 Internal Family Systems Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Gestaltist. In private practice, he combines all these modalities and approaches with the people he sits with.
With a passion for working with groups, Stephen utilises what he calls the Four Pillars of Connection – Connection with Self, Connection with Community, Connection with Environment, and Connection with “something greater than”. This work often takes place on Retreat, in Ireland, the Sahara Desert and Bali. Stephen’s Retreats involve nature, adventure, ceremony, and ritual, utilising his therapeutic skills as well as those of a Master Firewalking Instructor and Experiential Educator.
Group work with Stephen also extends into the corporate and community sectors providing training, retreats, and team development experiences for businesses, charities, and sport teams. This has led to extensive travels throughout Europe and beyond for companies such as Google, Hugo Boss, Barnardo’s, TKMaxx, Queen’s University Belfast, Special Olympics, and The Tamer Group.
Stephen is a member of Faculty for Compassionate Inquiry, facilitating the learning of students in the professional year-long training. He additionally Mentors Students as they prepare for Certification as Compassionate Inquiry Practitioners, he trains new Mentors and facilitates the Mentor Support Program.
Details of this retreat
A 8-week programme that helps you connect with your true nature by shining light on the stories you tell your Self through acquired beliefs and assumptions, adaptive behaviours, and body states.
By unveiling your unconscious drivers, you have the possibility to liberate your Self from them and live a Self Led Life.
The Four Pillars of Connection
There are Three Pillars of Connection at the core of this work. Connection to Self, Community, Environment and something greater than (spiritual). These pillars will support you as you make the unconscious conscious, thus revealing more of your Self.
Trauma Informed
This Trauma Informed work and includes many theories, modalities, practices, teachings, and philosophies. You should note that this is not a theoretical experience. We call it work, because in many ways, that is what you will be doing – working on your Self, connecting with your body, examining your inner and outer world experiences.
You can expect to get in touch with parts of you that have been suppressed, hidden, and maybe forgotten. Together we will create safety to allow space to explore the feelings, body sensations, emotions, and stories we tell ourselves. This container of safety is crucial when it comes to allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, to see, speak and feel our truths.
12 Guiding Qualities
We will work together so that you can Come Home to your true Self. Your true Self is the aspect of you that has the qualities of Compassion, Curiosity, Creativity, Calmness, Clarity, Confidence, Courage, Authenticity, Presence, Persistence, Perspective, and Playfulness.
These 12 qualities will guide your work.