Groups
Community Meeting
Community Meeting is a three-hour immersive group that includes mindfulness practices, supportive sharing, authentic relating, open inquiry, and rituals that honor the community’s shared journey. These rituals welcome new members, celebrate progress, and acknowledge transitions as clients move forward on their recovery path. The group concludes by anchoring clients in their recovery and therapeutic focus for the week ahead.
Attachment & Relationships
This group examines the role of attachment in shaping our patterns of relating across various contexts, including family systems, partnerships, friendships, and work environments. Drawing from attachment theory, it explores internal working models, coping mechanisms, and adaptive behaviors that influence how we connect with others. With a focus on recovery, the group addresses challenges related to sex and love addiction, including unhealthy dependency, avoidance, or compulsivity in relationships. Through real-time practice and collaborative reflection, clients gain insight into their relational patterns, develop healthier ways of connecting, and foster authenticity and clarity in their relationships. The group supports clients in creating meaningful connections that align with their recovery goals.
Addiction & Psychoeducation
This group offers an integrated approach by addressing two distinct but complementary domains: general psychological education and addiction education. The psychological education component focuses on foundational concepts in mental health, exploring theories of attachment, development, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), as well as psychoanalytic and Western psycho-spiritual frameworks. This provides clients with a deeper understanding of their emotions, behaviors, and relational patterns.
The addiction education component examines the mechanisms of addiction through the lens of the 12-Step model, the disease model, and attachment and developmental perspectives. Clients learn how addiction impacts the brain, relationships, and personal growth, gaining practical insights into recovery tools and strategies. Together, these domains equip clients with a comprehensive understanding of themselves and their recovery journey.
Psychodrama
Intersubjective Process
This group combines educational and experiential elements, drawing from psychoanalytic, developmental, and spiritual-philosophical frameworks to deepen clients’ understanding of relational dynamics. Participants explore their emotional needs and relational patterns in the moment, learning to support one another while navigating the uncertainty of interpersonal connection. Through guided reflection and interaction, the group fosters awareness of how mutual influence shapes relationships and helps clients access vitality, empathy, and care. This process promotes the development of authentic connections and the capacity to confront the unknown with openness and resilience.
Process
A process group offers a structured environment for clients to explore emotions, relationships, and unconscious patterns that shape their behavior. Rooted in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic traditions, the group focuses on uncovering intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics, fostering self-awareness, and deepening emotional insight. Through guided interaction and reflection, clients confront past experiences and relational patterns, gaining a clearer understanding of their defenses and the impact on their current relationships. Facilitated by experienced clinicians, the group encourages authentic connection and supports the integration of new, healthier ways of relating.
Holotropic Breathwork
Holotropic Breathwork, developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof in the 1980s, is a powerful modality adapted from ancient yogic practices. This group combines deep, intentional breathing with guided facilitation to help clients access emotions, unconscious patterns, and inner wisdom in a safe, supportive setting. The first part of the session focuses on deep breathing, allowing participants to explore transformative states of awareness. The second part involves group processing, where clients share insights, reflect on their experiences, and make meaningful commitments based on what they have learned. Facilitated by a trained Holotropic Breathwork practitioner, this group fosters emotional release, self-discovery, and connection.
Spiritual Experience
Facilitated by a skilled shamanic practitioner, the Spiritual Experience Group invites clients to explore expansive states of love, care, joy, and playfulness. Through carefully guided experiential exercises, participants are encouraged to step outside their comfort zones, accessing new embodied perspectives and ways of being. These practices often evoke meaningful memories and insights, broadening clients’ capacity to connect with higher states of awareness and emotional depth. The group provides a safe, transformative space for clients to cultivate resilience, openness, and a richer, more vibrant experience of life.
Creative Writing
This group explores the intersection of art, language, memory, trauma, and creativity through open-ended prompts that invite clients to delve into their inner worlds. By engaging with the unconscious, clients uncover feelings, images, and narratives that often remain hidden or obscured by everyday defenses. Through the creative process, participants gain access to parts of themselves that may be difficult to reach in traditional verbal or psychodynamic exchanges. This group fosters self-discovery and emotional expression, using writing as a powerful tool for healing and insight.
Philosophy of Recovery
This group integrates insights from Western philosophical traditions to deepen clients’ understanding of their recovery journey. Drawing from thinkers such as Plato and Heidegger, clients explore concepts like the essential self, “thrownness,” and “clearing” as tools to ground their spiritual growth within the rich depth of inherited Western thought. These ideas are synthesized and brought to life through Werner Erhard’s model of philosophical and psychological inquiry, creating a space for clients to reflect, engage, and connect their recovery process to a broader existential framework.
Psycho-Spiritual Process
This group integrates sound healing, guided meditation, and mindfulness practices to create a safe, relaxing environment for deep personal exploration. By softening psychological defenses, these practices open the door to greater vulnerability and authentic connection. Participants are guided to cultivate intimacy with themselves and others, fostering emotional awareness and spiritual insight. The group provides a gentle yet profound space for healing, self-discovery, and the integration of mind, body, and spirit, supporting clients on their journey toward wholeness and connection.
Mindfulness Based Practice
This group focuses on cultivating awareness of stress, emotional states, and activation while exploring the impact of life histories, traumas, and personal circumstances. Through guided mindfulness exercises and group dialogue, clients practice metacognition—observing their thoughts and feelings with curiosity and non-judgment. Drawing on the work of Byron Katie, the group introduces tools to reframe traumatic experiences and recurring patterns, fostering new perspectives and deeper emotional clarity. This practice helps clients develop resilience, self-awareness, and greater emotional balance in their daily lives.
Outdoor Experiential Workshops
These trauma-informed, immersive workshops take place beyond the confines of the facility, offering a unique opportunity to engage with nature as a catalyst for healing and growth. Designed specifically for men, the workshops focus on developing intimacy, strengthening relationships, and fostering emotional resilience through embodied practices and experiential activities. By incorporating play, movement, and connection with the natural world, participants explore new ways of relating to themselves and others. These workshops emphasize not only learning and personal growth but also the joy of discovery and the simple pleasure of being fully present. In this dynamic and supportive environment, clients reconnect with their capacity for meaningful relationships, emotional balance, and authentic enjoyment.
