Equine facilitated therapy is a safe, spiritual, emotional and physical working relationship with horses for mutual learning. The pairing of horses and humans results in discoveries about unconscious aspects of one's true self. This weekend workshop will help you develop self-confidence and personal empowerment, as well as recognize behaviors that may block your potential for healthy relationships.

By participating in this workshop, you will be able to:

• develop and strengthen your ability to establish and maintain boundaries,
  
  
• understand and work through fears in your daily life,
  
  
• develop a spiritual awareness as to how we are all inter-related in the universe.
  

  *Please note: Be sure to bring casual clothing appropriate for the weather. The actual workshop activities will be held on Caron's main campus in Wernersville, PA, however, participants will be housed at the Center for Self Development's new location in Mohnton, PA. Van transportation will be provided to and from the main campus on a daily basis.

Many of us spend our time trying to juggle our daily activities. It becomes a real magic trick to keep all the balls in the air. This interactive and energizing workshop will explore ways to keep all those balls grounded.

After completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the area in your life that creates the most pressure or chaos
  
• List and prioritize daily activities
  
• Utilize techniques of relaxation to feel harmony on a daily basis

This workshop will increase participants' knowledge of ineffective feelings management as a major factor in the relapse process and help to develop strategies to support effective feelings management needed for ongoing recovery.

By attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Increase their understanding of why feelings management is critical for relapse prevention and how ineffective feelings managment supports relapse
  
• Increase their understanding on how patterns of avoidance result in discomfort with vulnerability and are foreign for many addicts reinforcing the need to have and utilize a 12-Step program, including a sponsor
  
• Develop skills to implement into their recovery plan to assist with feelings management

This experiential workshop will focus on the practice of "letting go" and explore the barriers to the process of detachment. As part of this process all participants will engage in an overview of codependency and the roles and messages learned in childhood that continue to dictate self-defeating behavior even while engaging in a recovery process. The workshop will also practice self-affirming strategies and begin to connect the spiritual aspects of detachment and letting go.

Codependency, as defined by the National Mental Health Association, is a learned behavior that can be passed down from one generation to another. It is an emotional and behavioral condition that affects an individual's ability to have healthy, mutually satisfying relationships. This interactive workshop will explore how many of our relationships have been affected by this "relationship addiction" and how we can better take care of ourselves in order to change the dynamics of these relationships.