The Personal Boundaries Retreat
Building healthy boundaries — without violence, and without silence.
To understand myself·to find an anchor within·to stay in connection.
The group is limited to 15 participants, for deep practice and meaningful learning. Includes a nourishing, healthy vegan meal — so you can simply arrive and surrender to the process.
Two voices, holding the space
Clinical social worker, specialist in early-childhood mental health, CPP graduate, attachment-based parent guide, and certified in Polyvagal Theory by the Porges Institute. For a decade she has treated and accompanied parents through the challenges of parenthood, teaching and lecturing on regulation, trauma and attachment — and exploring why it hurts so much to be a parent.
Certified Journey-method therapist, attachment-based parent guide, EFT counselor, musician and music teacher, and a guide in healing and remembering through the voice. Founder of 'Negia — the home of the inner voice,' exploring the link between sound and attachment: 'the secret of sound is secure attachment.'
Who is this retreat for?
This retreat is for women for whom the word "boundary" meets a great deal of pain, confusion or guilt — and who are ready to meet it differently.
- Find it hard to say "no" without feeling guilty.
- Find themselves pleasing, adapting, or caring for others at their own expense.
- Give a great deal, then feel exhausted, angry or depleted.
- Sense what is right for them, but struggle to act on it.
- Fear disappointing, angering or hurting others.
- Feel their own needs pushed again and again to the end of the list.
- Want to stop swinging between self-abandonment and outburst, rigidity or withdrawal.
- Want to understand deeply why boundaries trigger them so much — and how to build a new way.
It is for mothers, therapists, facilitators and educators — and for any woman who feels her relationship with boundaries shapes the important relationships in her life.
What will we explore together?
Through the day we go deep into the questions beneath the patterns:
How did our personal and family history shape our relationship with boundaries?
What is the intergenerational transmission of boundaries, people-pleasing and dysregulation?
What happens in our nervous system and our voice when we need to say "no"?
Why can setting a boundary stir guilt, anxiety or fear of separation?
How can I stay connected to myself and the other, even amid frustration, disappointment or distance?
What do rigid, blurred and healthy boundaries each look like?
What will we do at the retreat?
Teaching & depth
Depth work in attachment theory, the nervous system, people-pleasing and regulation — the map beneath the feeling.
Unique voice practices
Practices built especially around:
To find in the voice the stronghold of healthy refusal, strengthen the bond between body and psyche, and learn to trust the body and the voice more.
Meditation & movement
Meditations, movement, body-listening and experiential work — so we don't only understand the material, but feel it.
Writing & reflection
Writing exercises and reflective questions to help recognise our own personal boundary patterns.
Voice is a gateway to remembering. And when we remember, the "yes" and the "no" reveal themselves to us — ready to be spoken in fullness, with a luminous spine.
What will you leave with?
- A deeper understanding of your own personal boundary system.
- Acquaintance with the old wiring that runs you around pleasing, guilt and refusal.
- A new, kinder language toward yourself.
- Practices you can keep applying at home.
- An understanding of how boundaries shape your bond with children, partners, family and the world.
- A clearer sense of direction about where healing begins — through learning what healthy boundaries are.
But more than anything, we hope you leave with a new felt experience:
That a boundary is not war.That a boundary is not disconnection.That a boundary is not selfishness.
That we can protect ourselves without growing distant. That we can stay in connection without abandoning ourselves. And that we can build boundaries that are both protection and connection.
To understand myself.To find an anchor within.To stay in connection.
This is the heart of the retreat. 💛
Thursday · 26.7 · 10:00–18:00 · Hararit, Lower Galilee