1 Lady Carrington Rd
Otford NSW 2508
Australia
Therapy Space will again be holding their annual Gay Men’s Personal Development and Meditation Retreat at the Govinda Valley Retreat Centre near Helensburgh .
We shall provide you with a serene and spiritual atmosphere in a beautiful 30-acre property at the edge of the Royal National Park.
We hope this retreat will serve many purposes and fulfil many different needs. Previous retreats have drawn a cross section of gay men from different cultural backgrounds, different age groups, different areas of work, different socio-economic contexts, people with different HIV status, generally, just people with vast, rich life experiences.
One of the most recurring comments made during these retreats has been about the unique experience of sharing time with a group of gay men in such an open transparent way.
One of the hopes of the retreat is that a commonality, a universality of experience will become apparent and with this senses of isolation and difference, both imagined and real, dissolve. When this environment of safety is established we can drop, relax, allow aspects of ourselves that we may ordinarily keep hidden, places of some of our greatest struggles, to surface and be seen. We hide our ’selves’ for so many different reasons but what is universal here is that when these things surface we change, again in a whole variety of ways. Relief from carrying secrets, greater self acceptance of all aspects of ourselves, we’re able to understand something about ourselves better and perhaps make changes in ways that are going to serve our sense of happiness and wellbeing. Feel more a ‘part of’ rather than ‘different from’.
Over these 2 ½ days we will draw on many different traditions that are found in various forms of healing and exploration of the human experience. From meditation to group therapy and discussions.
We invite you to join us, relax, rejuvenate, feel nourished, enjoy the company of other gay men in a relaxed open contemplative environment. The weekend will be facilitated by Peter East and Curt Mason who between them have many years of working with gay men in group work experience.
Cost and Booking $495 per person. There will be a maximum of 12 persons allowed on the retreat. This includes: All accommodation Therapy Groups and Meditation Friday – Dinner Saturday – Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Sunday – Breakfast.