Mary Kruger, MS, LMFT, is the founder of Rimmon Pond Counseling, an IFS-based private practice in Connecticut. With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in addictions, eating disorders, trauma, and relationships. Mary integrates IFS with her unique experiential approach, developing innovative methods to work with parts and access Self-energy in individual, relational, and group settings. She enjoys sharing her expertise through teaching and consulting on a national level. Mary is renowned for her humor, creativity, passion, and love of dancing and connecting with people.

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We are excited to host Mary to run a 5-day residential retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from March 3rd - March 7th, 2025

Dr. Frank Anderson, MD, is a Lead Trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self Leadership. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

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We are very honoured to invite Dr. Anderson to lead a five-day residential retreat with us on the charming Island of Ireland from March 31st - April 4th, 2025. 

Dr Daniel Foor is the founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine.

Ancestral healing emphasizes learning to relate directly with one’s recent and more ancient blood ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing.

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Daniel’s training draws from his experience in diverse lineages of ritual arts; his academic work as doctor of psychology; his clinical training as a marriage and family therapist; and over 25 years of implementing the teachings of earth and ancestor reverence in his personal life.

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Applications are currently open for this 5-day residential retreat in Palermo, Sicily from 17th February - 21st February, 2025.

The messages we absorb from the dominant culture as well as from family, friends, and others, in addition to other stressful or traumatic experiences and traumas, motivate parts of us to focus on food and the body to alleviate the shame, worthlessness, and anxiety other parts of us hold. Since these toxic messages are pervasive, we often don’t notice or question them. We continue to engage in diets and wellness plans that keep us stuck and also perpetuate these corrosive practices at the cultural level.

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In this six-day retreat, you‘ll explore the different beliefs, emotions, and energies parts of you carry regarding food and your body.  Through a combination of large group discussions, small group experiential exercises, and live demonstrations, you’ll get to know and heal the parts of yourself who carry burdens and are stuck in painful cycles of dieting or disconnecting from the body.

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Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 9th -14th , March 2025

Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, MA. She has over thirty years of experience working with C-PTSD and dissociative disorders and provides trainings and consultation.  

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Besides her book, Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems, she has written on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, on EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and on working with perpetrator introjects. Her commitment to helping her clients heal and to providing quality training has resulted in her becoming an EMDR Consultant and a Trauma and Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Certified, and an American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Consultant.

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Applications are currently open for this retreat in Portugal from May 12th - May 16th, 2025. 

This retreat will allow you to discover your own parts who need reparenting through deep, exquisite attunement, and you will learn how to offer the same level of attunement to your own children and build stronger relationships with them. You will learn to give your parts the attention and love they have always needed. Then, we will apply these skills toward doing the same with your children, whether they are young, teens, or on their own, or even estranged. 

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Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 6th - 10th of October, 2025

In this creative, experiential 5-day retreat, you are invited to gently tend to parts deeply impacted by the death of someone dear to you. Whether your loss occurred recently, long ago or some time in between; you are warmly welcome here.

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Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 3rd - 7th of November, 2025

Toni Herbine-Blank MS RN is a senior trainer for The Centre for Self Leadership. Her expertise is in the use of IFS with couples and has developed trainings and retreats presenting these nationally and internationally. She is an experienced group leader with a reputation for being compassionate and empowering . . .

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The retreat will take place over 5 days starting on Sunday evening, December 28th, 2025 when we meet for dinner, and concluding Friday morning January 2nd, 2026 after our morning session. 

Susan McConnell’s amazing Somatic IFS retreat is a retreat not to be missed.

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Somatic IFS is a branch of IFS that blends the principles of somatic therapy - like movement, touch, sensation and breathwork – with the traditional tools of IFS. Somatic IFS explores the embodiment of the internal family with the goal of restoring the client’s SELF to leadership and allowing parts that express through the body to come into relationship and alignment with the client’s SELF.

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The retreat will take place near the charming town of Chester, Connecticut - merely a 12 mile drive away from Long Island Sound.