After each meditation sharing in community is welcomed to orient us to our feelings, moods and sensations. Generally we will do process work until lunch around 1pm and enjoy a ninety-minute to two-hour break including lunch. We recommend a nap, a stroll and sharing stories with other participants. We reconvene our group process around 3pm and go until 8pm for dinner. We attempt to finish all the deep process work by dinner and, at our final evening gathering between 9:30pm and 11pm, we offer time for final sharing, some review of the day’s work, homework from prior weekend’s work or chakra dancing or shamanic drumming tension reliever exercises. Short breaks are interspersed throughout the day.

Participants are welcome to close their day with an excursion to the hot tub, gathering in community for laughter and music or simply venture off to dreamland. LEAP is about empowering each of us to choose what’s best for us during these free times, as well as in group.

It is important to realize that LEAP workshops are psychotherapeutic and transformative in nature. Therefore, highly emotional content can arise producing the need for significant group process time as allotted above.

The first day of every LEAP workshop is called the Teaching of the Theme Day. This orients us to each other and the focus of the work. The second or third days (for the 4 day weekend workshops) are generally deep process days for clearings, psychodramas and other therapeutic exercises geared toward the weekend’s theme. The final day is dedicated to our transdisciplinary breath work. This is where participants discard the remnants of past issues related to the workshop theme and leave the weekend with a greater sense of vitality, invigoration, regeneration and renewal.