Retreats by APN

EXPERIENTIAL WORK FOR PROFESSIONAL FULFILLMENT

Get three days of experiential growth sessions with a few peers and our expert facilitators to meet you where you are, find clarity around past and current barriers, and set intentions and plans for a professionally successful and personally fulfilling future.

• Get clarity about “what’s lacking” through experiential work like music therapy, art therapy, mindful movement, and psychodrama
• Rest from the mental loops of problem-solving and achieving while still moving toward goals
• Prevent professional burnout through recentering and refocusing
• Transition into the next chapter of growth in your professional and personal life with a tailored plan to help you continue your progress after the retreat
• Get out of your head and into your body through personal training, mindful movement, yoga, walks, and massage
• Bond with facilitators and other professionals in a way that goes deeper than networking – to feel seen, encouraged, and inspired
• Process and unwind around the firepit with a session designed to distill the takeaways and induce a restful night of sleep

Your Fresh Start Begins Now

WELLNESS PLAN FOR MIND-BODY BALANCE

Over the course of your three days at Revive for Professionals, our team will put together a plan for your way forward, including:

• Personalized, guided goal setting
• Strengths and weaknesses assessment
• Coping mechanism instruction and recommendations
• Holistic and adjunctive practice recommendations

The APN team will also evaluate your individual needs over the 3-day retreat in order to understand your goals, tailor programming directly to your pain points, and help you get set up to reach them.

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FITNESS, WELLNESS, & SPA

Experiences to Get Out of Your Brain and Into Your Body

• One 50-minute therapeutic massage
• One 60-minute float experience in our sensory deprivation float tank
• Daily mountain hikes
• Personalized recommendations with Registered Dietitian
• Trauma-informed yoga or gym training sessions
• Full spa access including sauna, steam, and hot tub

PLUS COMPREHENSIVE WELLNESS ASSESSMENTS

Fitness Assessment for Tailored Goals

• Fitness and activity history
• Cardiovascular fitness
• Muscular strength
• Muscular endurance
• Mobility and stability (Functional Movement Screen)

Nutrition Assessment to Fuel Productivity and Wellness

• History of nutrition and health
• 24-hour food recall
• Dietary preferences and diet evaluation
• Supplement analysis
• Nutritional gaps and opportunities analysis
• Q&A

MEET YOUR FACILITATORS

MIMI LEEDS, MS, ADTR

Mimi Leeds holds a Bachelor of Arts in both psychology and dance from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s degree from Hunter College. Currently, living in Houston, Texas, she works as a certified Life and Wellness coach in private practice. She also has an established Skype therapy practice focusing on addiction, trauma resolution, lifestyle coaching and as a facilitator of her individualized healthy weight, and balanced life program. Her experience includes working as a department head and therapist for River Oaks Psychiatric hospital in New Orleans for seventeen years. She has also been a group leader for Onsite workshops in Nashville TN, and as a group therapist for Arizona Family Therapy Intensives. She has been a national speaker and created workshops focusing on the use of creative arts therapy in the treatment for adult survivors of trauma as well as self-care, compassion, and nurturance as a means to healing and growth.

STEPHEN ALFONSO, MT-BC

Steve is a board-certified Music Therapist. Steve earned his degree from Loyola University in New Orleans and has worked with clients who have experienced sexual trauma, sexual compulsivity, eating disorders and substance abuse addictions at River Oaks Hospital since 1995. Steve has been the Director of the Expressive Therapy department at River Oaks Hospital for over 20 years. He is experienced in using non-verbal expressive modalities and has conducted psychodrama groups for the New Orleans Institute, formally a Masters and Johnson specialty program since 1997. Steve is an accomplished musician who is classically trained in voice and has been leading a popular New Orleans band for 30 years. Steve also uses his talents providing drumming workshops to promote community and healing.

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FROM A REVIVE RETREAT CLIENT

HIGHLIGHTED RETREAT MODALITIES

1. Psychodrama/Experiential Work
   • Offers a client an opportunity to look at parts of self that have been disconnected and transform these parts into healthy support. Using role play and sculpting, Experiential therapy opens a human being’s internal landscape allowing them to transform aspects of negative self towards positive and productive choice. Encouraging accountability and ownership in a safe and nurturing way
2. Art
   • Allows a safe and tangible container for emotional expression. This modality allows for authenticity without the habitual behaviors associated with denial and verbal defensiveness.
3. Music
   • Explores elements of communication, connection, group cohesion and mindfulness through drum circles, lyric analysis and recorded music. In addition, we teach meditation and utilize guided imagery.
4. Movement
   • We focus on connection to self and body – employing techniques to decrease self-objectifying and increase physical and emotional self-acceptance.

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FROM A REVIVE RETREAT CLIENT

“My hope for the retreat was to get a new, more helpful perspective on life and my circumstances, sort of a reset. I’ve recently retired from being a professional athlete. Although I’ve been preparing for quite a while, there are still rather significant changes I am managing. Additionally, I’m originally from Ukraine and in my last professional season a war broke out in my country, with my family still living there.

What was absolutely phenomenal was that the therapists on site are trauma informed and were able to let me process some of this stuff with compassion and understanding. More importantly most of the time I didn’t have to use words. With different modalities like watercolor, drum circle, float tank, meditation, mindful walks I was able to ‘take out’ what was inside without having to make sense of it with words. I’m also exhausted from having to retell these stories, they seem to solidify each time I repeat them, so having another outlet with informed therapists was just irreplaceable.

Although I understand that a 3 day retreat is not quite enough to get all my affairs in order, it was a helpful nudge in areas of fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, nature, therapy, coaching among others.

I hope to continue to incorporate modalities I’ve experienced on more consistent basis and do these types of resets more consistently or/and perhaps for longer periods of time.

Thank you APN for a much needed time for myself.”

– V