Sponsored Day Retreats

*Remote Via Zoom* Are you interested in improving the quality of your life by identifying the sources of your suffering and eliminating these obstacles to the Sunlight of the Spirit? This workshop will focus on finding the obstacles in us that are blocking the Light: Fears, Sex, Secrets, Guilt and Shame. These unhealthy beliefs and habits are “cancers” - emotional and spiritual - and need to be surgically removed. You will learn and acquire tools to perform this “soul-surgery” and the process of permanent healing. Part 8 of the Spirituality Series

*Remote Via Zoom* New Quarterly Series: 2nd of Four Workshops on Emotional Sobriety. Emotional Sobriety and the 12 Steps: In this four hour workshop, Dr. Berger and Herb K. will unpack each of the 12 Steps focusing on how they help us achieve and sustain emotional growth. This very powerful experience will give both the long timer and the newcomer an opportunity to look at the 12 Step process from a fresh perspective.

*Remote Via Zoom* Honestly ask yourself: Are you experiencing life as serial suffering? Are you unhappy, irritable, or discontented? Do you find yourself frustrated by self-defeating patterns of negative thinking, feelings, and behavior? Through this workshop you will experience a process for removing the primary obstacles to a healthy relationship with yourself & others and taking responsibility for a process of effective actions for establishing and sustaining abstinence. This will foster your personal growth toward a life of contentment and purpose.. Part 9 of the Spirituality Series

*Remote Via Zoom* Part 5 of the Path to Personal Freedom Series: 12 Steps. Step Four: Moral Inventory | Fear Sex Dishonesty - Identifying More Obstacles to Power
• Fear: why do we have it? • Sex: what are our operating guidelines? • Dishonesty: how do I misrepresent myself? • Secrets: how do I hide?

*Remote Via Zoom* Happiness is not a product: it is a by-product! Human beings have an intrinsic need to have meaning through connecting to a value larger than themselves. Human beings create a life of purpose through the actions of serving others. This is now not just common sense, historical experience, good philosophy, or eloquent poetry. It is confirmed by the hard evidence of the science of HAPPINESS. When we have a meaningful connection beyond ourselves and live a life of actually helping others - we find personal HAPPINESS! Part 10 of the Spirituality Series

*Remote Via Zoom* Part 6 of the Path to Personal Freedom Series: 12 Steps. Steps Five, Six and Seven: Removing Our Obstacles to Power | Rite of Passage - Process of Accepting Responsibility • Revealing all of our Step Four to someone • Identifying and removing the obstacles in us to our relationship with Power

*Remote Via Zoom* Part 7 of the Path to Personal Freedom Series: 12 Steps. Steps Eight and Nine: Repairing the Damage | Forgiveness - Process of Releasing & Being Released • Making a list of harms we have done to others • Changing our behavior; Repairing the damage we have caused others • Forgiveness: a process of releasing them and being released

*Remote Via Zoom* 3rd of Four Workshops on Emotional Sobriety. Emotional Sobriety and the 12 Core Principles: Dr. Berger and Herb K. will unpack 12 Core Principles of Emotional Sobriety that sustain personal growth. This powerful experience will give each participant an opportunity to look at the current quality of life from a fresh perspective and have a new experience. Transformation creates a new attitude and experience towards ourselves, others and Reality.

*Remote Via Zoom* Part 8 of the Path to Personal Freedom Series: 12 Steps. Step Ten: Achieving and Fostering Emotional Sobriety | Conscience - Practice of Personal Inventory • “Spot check” inventory – the formula for serenity • Emotional Sobriety – the approach and benefits of self-regulation

*Remote Via Zoom* Part 9 of the Path to Personal Freedom Series: 12 Steps. Step Eleven: A Practical Approach to Improving Conscious Contact | Consciousness - Practice of Meditation • Prayer • Meditation • Contemplation • Intentional Consciousness

*Remote Via Zoom* Part 10 of the Path to Personal Freedom Series: 12 Steps. Step Twelve: A Practical Approach to Enlarging Our Spiritual Life | Compassion • Spiritual Awakening - Change • Carrying this message – Being a Lantern • Sponsorship / Step-Guide - Helping

*Remote Via Zoom* 4th of Four Workshops on Emotional Sobriety. Our Way of Life: Optimal Living & Personal Happiness: Dr. Berger and Herb K. will discuss a solution not only to addiction but for dealing with our human condition - unmanageability. Carl Jung had suggested “The Spirit is the antidote to spirits” = optimal living and personal happiness. Bill Wilson states in the Big Book “…our way of living has its advantages for All.” This workshop will be a deep dive into the application of tools for optimal living.