PT521 – Community, Group Process, and Co-Creation: How to Build a Successful Retreat, with Alice Dommert & Kara Tremain, ACC
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, Kyle interviews two Vital graduates: Alice Dommert: certified breathwork facilitator and co-founder of retreat company, The Infinite Center; and Kara Tremain, ACC: somatic practitioner and growth and development coach.
A huge part of Vital is the experiential aspect of attending a retreat. Students report that being part of a group process, feeling the power of the proper set and setting, taking a journey as both a sitter and experiencer, and separating from the world and connecting with each other has been one of the best parts of the program – even life-changing. With Dommert behind 13 Vital retreats to date, she and Kyle dive into what they've learned in how to run a successful retreat.
They discuss:
- Facilitator humility and how important it is for everyone to be on the same page
- How much additional activities can add to the experience (tea ceremonies, CrossFit, chanting, fireside chats)
- The importance of allowing enough time and space for everything, from personal time with facilitators to possible issues
- Co-creation and openness: What can facilitators and people coming to the retreat build together? How do we create the most meaningful time together?
If you're interested in Vital, applications are now open with an Early Bird discount! And if you want to attend a Vital retreat, we have a few spots left in two: a transpersonal breathwork retreat in Pennsylvania, July 9-14, and a cannabis + breathwork retreat in Agoura Hills, CA in October. Head to the Infinite Center's website for details.
For links, head to the show notes page.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Psychics today. |
| 0:15.7 | My name is Kyle Buller and I am the host for today's episode. |
| 0:19.2 | And today I get to chat with two vital graduates, Alice |
| 0:22.4 | Dahmer and Kara Tremaine. Alice was a graduate of the first vital cohort, and we actually knew |
| 0:29.2 | Alice from the Dream Shadow Breathwork community and worked with Alice for quite a while. And she's actually |
| 0:34.3 | the person that's been behind all the retreats throughout these past few years with Vital. |
| 0:38.7 | So it's been really exciting to get Alice on to chat about retreats. |
| 0:43.5 | If you're interested in learning more, you can check out her website, Prasada Wholebeing.com. |
| 0:48.0 | That's her corporate wellness business and the infidentcenter.org, which is a new project of Alice and some other vital graduates |
| 0:57.0 | for the retreats. |
| 0:59.0 | And Kara Tremaine is part of our second year that just graduated. |
| 1:03.0 | So congrats again, Kara and Cohort 2, just finishing up back in April. |
| 1:09.0 | And Kara is a coach, also training in somatic experiencing, |
| 1:13.4 | cranial sacral therapy, and a lot more. And if you're interested in learning more about |
| 1:18.5 | Kara's work, you can check out her website, Karatremaine.com. That's K-A-R-A-T-R-E-M-A-N dot com. |
| 1:29.3 | And we'll have all these links in the show notes. |
| 1:31.5 | So be sure to check that out on the website or in the show notes section, wherever |
| 1:36.0 | you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:37.7 | So in this episode, we chat about our vital retreats. |
| 1:40.9 | We chat about the retreat process. |
| 1:42.7 | We talk about things that we've learned over |
| 1:45.4 | the years, and especially Alice shares about what she's learned over the years, helping us |
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