Retreat Support
Mental Health Retreat Consulting
Enhance Your Retreat Experience
Malia offers a unique and novel service for those looking to level up and enhance their participants' experiences at retreats.
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As a therapist who loves to travel, Malia understands the unique dynamic unfolding at your events; solo travelers looking to restore or maintain their sense of self, or friends looking to connect with each other and make new lasting relationships.
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Because many retreats provide opportunities for participants to explore their inner world, this also requires psychological safety or what Dr. Stephen Porges describes as neuroception of safety and which can be enhanced by co-regulation, or what many of us know as self-soothing.
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Malia's Mental Health Retreat Consulting allows the retreat directors focus on their presentations and facilitation, while participants can soak up and integrate their retreat experience.
Retreat Activities that Necessitate Mental Health Support
If you're reading this, your wellness retreat has at least one therapeutic component.
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Common elements include journaling to promote self-reflection, body movement to evoke connection to self, or breath work/meditation to strengthen mindfulness practices.
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As a result, attendees can experience emotional flooding, avoidance of activities, or a detachment or dissociation from self and others.
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My presence at your retreat is to mingle among the attendees and use my attunement skills as a therapist to help your attendees get back into regulation.
Malia Offers...
Presence
Inner child exploration can be intense. Malia is available for all workshops and retreat sessions and serves as a model for self-regulation, through breathing, rocking, and other non-verbal cues, and offering safe touch to participants when attunement indicates the participant needs emotional support.
Malia maintains her state licensure as a mental health provider. Malia’s education and experience offer a bridge in understanding and communication from facilitator to participants when needed.
The facilitator can, in real-time, call upon Malia to clarify, model, or serve as an example to illustrate a concept when necessary.
Malia wisely balances the profession’s ethical standards and the needs of the individuals seeking support.
Clarification
Tools
Multi-Sensory items that allow partipants to feel grounded, in-the-body, and cognitively online so as to do the deep work which the retreat host is facilitating
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fidget tools (coils, poms, stress balls, etc.)
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bubbles for playful breath work
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mints, tea and aromatherapy products
and TISSUES! Hella tissues!