Work & Life In Balance Day Retreats For Non-Profits

Work & Life In Balance

Topanga Retreat Services

BODY MIND HEART SOUL INTEGRATION

Spring, 2012

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Topanga Retreat Services

Rural Residential Setting In Topanga Canyon

"The homey setting of the retreat enabled us to relax, share and open up to each other without barriers or outside distractions. Dianne helped us feel comfortable and safe enough to share intimate details about difficult topics at work in a way that we've never done before. "

Susie Marco

Family Preservation Program Manager,

Drew Child Development Center

Work & Life In Balance

Dianne Porchia, MA, designs dynamic, fun, educational and healing retreat programs for non-profit and government service organizations through her unique "holistic" approach to Work & Life In Balance.

Work & Life In Balance holistic day retreats provide an opportunity for staff members to share past challenges, heal emotional hurts, inspire new solutions and celebrate each person's unique talents and gifts, while introducing effective communication, team building and stress reduction skills that promote proactive cooperation, health and wellness, supporting an organization team that is functional, efficient and effectual, so your organization can better serve it's population.

Getting to the "heart" & "soul" of creative inspiration in the work place inspires your team from a deeper "inner" source which connects employee's job and career objectives with personal meaning and purpose, which is exampled to others in your organization and to the families and populations they serve.

Think Out Of The Box
Get Out of The Box

Getting out of the office environment and into a relaxed, comfortable and soothing environment aids in breaking down barriers to past communication and facilitates new solutions through mutual respect, appreciation and collaboration.

Porchia selects her venues by considering the following amenities:

Close To Nature

Natural Lighting

Comfortable Seating

Ability to Use Outdoors

Relaxed, Casual Environment

Room For Body Movement, Dance or Yoga

Day Retreats can be held at a number of different venues in and around the greater Los Angeles area, including local rural venues in the Santa Monica / Malibu Mountains and beaches, Ventura County and Santa Clarita Valley.

Take Home Action Plan

Each Porchia's WISH Retreat includes a take home action plan, meditation, gentle body movement, creative expression and touch stone to remind participants of what they learned and have chosen to integrate into their Work and Life In Balance in their daily routine.

Beautiful Mountain Views In A Topanga Retreat Setting

Dianne Porchia, MA sees many of her private clients at the Topanga Retreat because she believes it's healing and nurturing environment facilitates body-mind-heart-soul health and wellness.

Dianne uses Nature as teacher, healer and inspiration in some of her experiential exercises.

Participants have the opportunity to go outside and let the smells, sights and sound of nature with calling red tail hawks, colorful song birds, exotic wild peacocks and horses in this hidden enclave in the Malibu Mountains.

Holistic Approach

Dianne's unique holistic approach includes:

Effective stress reduction tools
Meditation
Guided Visualization
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Compassionate Communication
Somatic Dialogue
Body & Soul Wisdom
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Therapeutic Touch
Cranio-Sacral Therapy
Acupressure
Energy Work

Unique Floating Bed
Multi-Sensory Integration Therapy

At her Topanga Retreat location Porchia has a unique healing amenity called the Floating Bed which is very effective in calming down an over active mind, stressed out nervous system and fatigued body.

Following a private session with her client in which deep healing work has been done on the conscious and subconscious levels, Porchia will have her client spend 10-15 minutes in the Floating Bed to journal and further ground and integrate their transforming work together.

The Floating Bed is also an effective multi-sensory integration therapy for children with Autism, ADD and ADHD. The child feels safe and protected inside a teepee-like structure, suspended off the ground and open to the smells, sights and sounds of nature.

The sensory-integrating affects of filtered sunlight through oak leaves, the gentle swaying movement of the bed, singing song birds, calling red tail hawks, wild peacocks and whinnying horses all play an important part in the neural-integration of the brain and provide a safe shared experience for child, parent and Porchia as facilitator.