Program Focus: A nature-based wellness experience offering mindful self-regulation tools, vision alignment, and supportive peer community for mental health professionals.
Program Objective: Practice what we preach. We want clinicians to leave with practical clinical tools, renewed energy, meaningful connections, and strategies they can immediately implement with both themselves and the people they serve.
Who It’s For:
- Licensed Clinical Psychologists
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Social Workers
- Licensed Professional Counselors
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists
- Peer Support Specialists
- Case Managers
- Behavioral Health Professionals
- Other professionals working in emotionally intensive helping professions
Retreat Overview:
This retreat is designed to be much more than a traditional CEU conference.
Our goal is to create an experience where helping professionals don’t simply learn evidence-based practices; they experience them firsthand.
The first day will focus primarily on continuing education and client-facing clinical content, but not in a lecture-heavy format. Instead, we’ll use experiential learning, discussion, movement, outdoor environments, reflection, and active participation to model the same approaches we encourage our clients to use.
The second day shifts toward clinician wellness, restoration, connection, and sustainability. We’ll have honest conversations about burnout, moral injury, compassion fatigue, decision fatigue, stress management, systemic barriers, and how we continue caring for others while also caring for ourselves.
Location: Camp Ondessonk, Southern Illinois
Date: September 11-12, 2026 (Friday–Saturday)