Join us for a weekend retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains this Fall:
Coming home to joy: inner child healing retreat
Join us November 6-8, 2026
for a restorative weekend retreat
Coming Home to Joy: Inner Child Healing Retreat
at Mount Madonna Center!
Our retreat is filling up - if you are interested in joining, please do!
“This was one of the best retreats of my life. Alison provided such a safe and well guided space that I really was able to feel completely comfortable in my own skin and open up and do the work.”
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This weekend retreat has been created to support actual healing. Our focus will be to gently examine our current emotional relationship to ourselves, which is likely in need of some restoration. So many of us feel disconnected from our deeper selves, are critical toward ourselves, ignore, neglect or do not care for ourselves, or have some other version of an unhealthy relationship to ourselves. We will support you to start right where you are to turn toward yourself with love and care. This weekend is about exploring and restoring this underlying and primary relationship. Inner Child Healing will be our lens for the weekend. We’ll use toy work (creating scenes and interacting with toys), journaling, sharing, learning, art, self-reflection, play and movement to do our work together. Emotional safety, kindness, laughter, playfulness and connectedness will create the tone. In between our retreat schedule, you will have some time to explore the beautiful property and offerings of Mount Madonna. Although our time together will be relatively short; we will go deep. Energy healing is used throughout the retreat. We would really love to have you join us; everyone is welcome.
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Please note: This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Friday, 11/6/2026
3-6pm Arrival at Mount Madonna
5:15-6:15pm Dinner (All meals are Vegetarian)
6:30pm-8:45 pm Retreat Programming
Saturday, 11/7/2026
8-9:45am Retreat Programming
10-11am Brunch
11am-1pm Retreat Programming
1-2pm Snack
2-3:00 Retreat Programming (Optional)
3:30-5pm Retreat Programming
5:15-6:15pm Dinner
6:30pm-8:45pm Retreat Programming
Sunday, November 8, 2026
7:30am-8:30am Retreat Programming (Optional)
8:30am-9:30am Breakfast
9:45am-12:00pm Retreat Programming and Closing
(We will break at 10:30am or so you can check out of lodging.)
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-5:00pm Participants are welcome to enjoy the property
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Program cost: $332
Room and Board: Variable, depending on your lodging choices. Room and board is roughly between $400 and $800.
HOW TO REGISTER AND PAY FOR THIS RETREAT:
Buy your Retreat Ticket by clicking the black “Add to Cart” button and following the instructions
Reserve your Room and Board by clicking the blue “Room and Board” button
Join us for a weekend retreat that supports actual psycho-energetic healing. We use the framework of the Inner Child to address wounding that is getting in the way of our happiness today. Toy work (creating scenes and interacting with toys), interactive exercises, journaling, sharing, learning, art, self-reflection, play and movement are all part of this loving retreat. In between our retreat schedule, you will have some time to explore the beautiful property and offerings of Mount Madonna. Although our time together will be relatively short; we will go deep. Energy healing is used throughout the retreat. *PLEASE NOTE - THIS TICKET PAYS FOR THE RETREAT PROGRAMMING, BUT YOU MUST PAY FOR ROOM & BOARD SEPARATELY THROUGH MOUNT MADONNA CENTER.
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