Workshops

Revolutionary findings in neuroscience have demonstrated that we can literally re-architect the very structure of our brains. In fact, we can even rewire our neurology to be more focused, calmer, and happier.

In this workshop, Dr. Shauna Shapiro — a leading scientist studying the effects of meditation on well-being — will teach you the most powerful science-based practices for increasing the neural pathways of happiness. She’ll explain basic brain science and offer a clear roadmap for living a joyful, connected, and meaningful life. Be prepared for unexpected transformation and delight.

During this weekend workshop, we’ll learn:

• Science-based practices to increase your baseline level of happiness.
• How to cultivate greater joy, gratitude, and connection.
• To integrate these practices into our everyday lives.

Recommended Reading: Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire the Brain for Calm, Clarity + Joy and Good Morning, I Love You: A Guided Journal for Calm, Clarity + Joy by Shauna Shapiro.

This workshop includes an additional $375 faculty tuition. *For anyone facing financial hardship, Dr. Shauna Shapiro invites you to contact her directly for tuition scholarship at slshapiro@scu.edu.

Your legacy is not just something you leave behind. It is something you create through the way you live each day. This is an invitation to reflect on the deeper impact of your life, relationships, work, creativity, and leadership — and to consciously embody the legacy you are here to live.

Through guided practices, storytelling, visioning, and transformational dialogue, participants will reconnect to what truly matters and align their lives with enduring meaning, authentic contribution, and purposeful action.

Together, we will explore questions such as:

• What is the unique contribution only you can make?
• How do you want the people you love to experience you today, not just remember you tomorrow?
• What values, wisdom, and way of being are you here to embody and pass forward?
• What old identities or stories are ready to be released so your authentic legacy can emerge?
• How do you live in a way that allows your presence to become your greatest gift?

Leave with greater clarity about the life you are creating, the relationships you are cultivating, and the enduring gifts you are already living. Whether your contribution is expressed through your family, community, creativity, leadership, service, or the way you show up each day, discover practical tools, renewed inspiration, and a deeper commitment to creating your living legacy.

Most people don’t actually fear failure; they fear their own brilliance. In this weeklong journey, we’ll explore how subtle self-sabotage, shrinking, and doubt prevent us from claiming our gifts. Through coherence coaching, embodied exercises, and radical self-honesty, you’ll discover the courage to live as the powerful being you already are.

Participants will:

• Engage in guided movement and meditation to release constriction and embody expansive power.
• Use reflective journaling prompts to surface patterns of self-betrayal and write new declarations of possibility.
• Practice storytelling and peer coaching circles that mirror back wholeness, strengths, and hidden capacities.
• Enter creative play exercises to rehearse new ways of showing up boldly.
• Make commitments to sustained daily practices that anchor your dopeness as a lifestyle.

When we embrace our greatness, we move beyond fear into freedom, clarity, and contribution. You’ll receive practical tools and experience a supportive community for the embodied confidence to live your dopeness with courage and joy.

What if peace begins not with agreement, but with our capacity to remain human, alive, and connected in the presence of difference?

This five-day retreat invites you into a joyful, energizing, and deeply experiential exploration of how we move — within ourselves, toward one another, and as part of the larger human systems we share. Weaving together 5Rhythms® Movement, the Enneagram, relational practice, and human diplomacy, Dr. Deborah Egerton and Douglas Drummond will create a dynamic space to move, reflect, connect, play, and restore — building greater capacity for love, belonging, resilience, and peacemaking.

The Enneagram offers a map for recognizing the patterns through which we protect, connect, belong, and make meaning. 5Rhythms brings those patterns into the living body, where they can be felt, expressed, softened, challenged, and moved. Drawing from Dr. Egerton’s work with race, belonging, inclusion, and the dismantling of othering, and Douglas’s work in mediation, reconciliation, and restorative systems, we will explore what helps us stay connected when our identities, histories, and perspectives are not the same.

A central inquiry will be how we move from tolerance toward acceptance and belonging. Belonging asks us to see one another more fully and make room for difference without requiring sameness. Love becomes a practice of courage, truth, compassion, boundaries, and repair. Peace becomes something we cultivate through presence and relationship. And joy becomes an essential resource — a way of restoring energy, expanding possibility, and remembering the aliveness that makes connection worth fighting for.

Through a trauma-informed approach grounded in choice, consent, pacing, agency, and relational safety, participants will:

• Explore Enneagram patterns of personality, protection, identity, and belonging.
• Move through 5Rhythms practices supported by music, rhythm, and embodied inquiry.
• Practice human diplomacy through dialogue, witnessing, and relational exercises across difference.
• Explore love as a courageous relational practice that can hold truth, compassion, accountability, and repair.
• Actively cultivate joy, play, creativity, and collective energy as resources for resilience, connection, and renewal.

Expect movement, music, insight, honest conversation, laughter, depth, and moments of surprise. This is not only a space to understand ourselves more clearly, but to feel more resourced, more connected, and more alive.

Together, we will explore what becomes possible when we remain fully ourselves while learning to move with one another — with greater courage, curiosity, joy, belonging, and love.

Recommended reading: Know Justice Know Peace, by Dr Deborah Egerton; Enneagram Made Easy, by Dr Deborah Egerton; Sweat Your Prayers, by Gabrielle Roth

Learn to call on your spirit guides and tap into your intuitive mind. Join us in a transformative workshop combining scientifically proven brain-enhancing techniques with intuitive guidance to help you break free from self-limiting patterns and create the life you desire.

This workshop brings together two powerful approaches to help you develop tools for personal growth and transformation. Through easy-to-learn exercises, you will learn how opening neural pathways to your higher consciousness can bring valuable insights into areas where you may feel stuck. By thinking outside the box and accessing your intuitive mind, you have the ability to unlock your creative potential and experience increased productivity and happiness.

Guest faculty Lori Sheridan, a certified psychic medium, will guide you in exploring and developing your own intuitive abilities. Through experiential exercises, Lori will help you recognize the different ways intuition communicates, strengthen trust in your inner guidance, and explore your connection with spirit guides and the unseen world.

Throughout the workshop, you will develop practical tools that you can apply whenever you face important decisions or obstacles in life. By harnessing your intuition and uncovering profound insights about yourself, you will gain the clarity and confidence needed to make positive changes.

Our intention is to empower you to unlock your intuitive mind and carry these transformative practices with you long after the workshop ends. Please come prepared with a notebook or journal and a pen to capture your experiences and reflections.

This workshop has two options on length of stay: a traditional weekend of two nights or a long weekend of three nights. The extended stay workshop will include more workshop content which is reflected in the extended stay schedule.

Recommended Reading: Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius by William Donius and Soul Compass, Trusting Your Intuition and the Wisdom Within by Lori Doupe Sheridan

The most practical thing you can do for yourself is remember how to feel again, and be able to express it. Many men are running on empty, tense in the body, stuck in their heads. This weekend utilizes movement, breath, rhythm and voice to bring you back into your body and into real community with other men.

The what, why, and how of our time together:

• Chronic tension blocks presence. Rasa Yoga and Foundation Training rebuild a strong, resilient back through functional movement, so grounded strength follows you home.
• Stress keeps you stuck in your head. Breathwork, meditation, live drumming, free movement, vocalizing, song, and mantra shift your energy and open your senses.
• Old reactions keep repeating when nobody names them. In paired dyads and sentence stems, you’ll practice shadow tracking: listening to understand first, then responding with appreciation and gratitude.
• Rigid roles box us in. Embodying the Warrior, Lover, Magician, Sovereign, and Alchemist through movement and reflection widens who you can be.
• Isolation grows when there’s nowhere honest to connect. Men’s council, conscious conversation and shared rhythm rebuild real camaraderie.

Discover practices you can use, plus more presence, connection and ease.

This workshop is specifically designed to create a space for sacred brotherhood for participants who identify as male.

Recommended Reading: Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark and To Be A Man by Robert Augustus Masters

This interactive workshop is designed to ignite your creativity and foster connections through the transformative power of improvisation, play, and imagination. Embark on a captivating journey in which science and spontaneity collide, delve into the world of improvisation, and discover its transformative impacts on the brain.

Find out how engaging in playful activities can stimulate the neural pathways linked to flow, enhance cognitive flexibility, and build emotional resilience. Through scientifically grounded interactive exercises, you’ll learn how improv can shape your mindset and improve your well-being.

Together, we’ll experience the delight of collaborative exploration and engage in partner exercises and group games. You’ll forge meaningful connections with fellow participants as you create spontaneous stories and navigate laughter-filled challenges. Through an unforgettable blend of science, creativity, and connection, we will unleash the imagination and welcome the unexpected with open arms!

Whether you’re new to improv or a seasoned performer, our workshop provides an open and encouraging space for exploration, learning, and growth. Join us for this adventure of self-discovery through play that will leave you feeling inspired, energized, and ready to embrace change.

Recommended Reading: Play by Stuart Brown, Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern, Del Close and Kim Johnson and This Is the Voice by John Colapinto

This workshop includes an additional $15 materials fee.

The myths that built this world — the ones that tell us who we are, what we’re worthy of, and what’s possible — are losing their hold, and the body knows it. Long before the mind catches up, the body has been carrying the weight of these stories: in the armor we wear, the patterns we embody, and the creativity we withhold. The good news is that what was trained into the body can be gently released.

This weekend is an invitation to go beyond the veil and begin the ancient, necessary work of returning to yourself. Through Movement for the Movement (MVMT), a practice of dance, improvisational movement, ritual, play, and reflection, we’ll sense where the old stories live in us and where freedom is already trying to emerge.

Like a wave, the weekend builds, breaks, and settles, moving through five elements:

• Earth: the ground we were given. We feel for the stories about who belongs and who leads that live in our posture, and begin to loosen their grip.
• Fire: the urgency and control that have run our inner lives. We burn off what no longer serves and reclaim that heat as creativity and power.
• Water: what we’ve been holding. We let grief, tenderness, and everything we were taught to keep contained move again.
• Wind: breath and voice. We recover the wisdom, histories, and ways of knowing that the dominant culture taught us to keep quiet.
• Ether: the space between us, where a different story unfolds. This is the part none of us can do alone.

Come as you are, and leave with a practice you can take home and keep moving with. This is the work that makes the other work possible, for anyone who senses the world will not change until we do.