Advanced Weekend of Recovery

Survivors are resilient and have developed the ability to feel better and experience safety, self-worth, intimacy, and freedom. But difficult emotions, such as shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, anger, and many others, may continue to challenge survivors by shutting them down and trapping them in unhealthy patterns.

The Advanced Weekend of Recovery helps participants develop a conscious and healing relationship with these difficult emotions – a relationship characterized by exquisite self-compassion, self-respect, and self-direction. Similar to Level 1 WOR, participants will utilize mindfulness skills, body awareness and empowerment, experiential activities, music, art, outdoor exploration, movement, play, and small-group processing to reach these goals.

The Advanced WOR is longer than a Level 1 WOR. We begin the program on Friday morning at 9:00 am and end at 2:30 pm on Sunday. Each year’s Advanced WOR has a unique theme.

Download a sample agenda and schedule (PDF):

Participants in the Advanced WOR will leave the weekend with:

• Increased understanding of the impact of abuse on building and enhancing intimacy
• Ability to connect with other male survivors and their partners, with an intimate partner, with the significant people in your life, and with your own inner experience
• Practical skills for ensuring safety
• Enhancing the intimacy in your life and working together with a partner to further your healing
• The power to identify and remove psychological, emotional, and spiritual blocks to your healing
• If you are a partner of a male survivor, to gain additional support and skills to enhance your own self-care and deepen intimacy in relationships

The Advanced WOR is longer than a Level 1 WOR. We begin the program on Friday morning at 9:00 am and end at 2:30 pm on Sunday. Each year’s Advanced WOR has a unique theme.

Download a sample agenda and schedule (PDF):