Resources
Seminars & Retreats
“I want to understand myself.” “I want to communicate better.” “I want to grow alongside others who are willing to do the work.” Dr. Regier’s seminars and retreats bring self-reflection and relationship education into a group setting. Explore the topics below, ask about current opportunities, or invite Dr. Regier to teach at your group, organization, or venue. Contact the practice about group learning or hosting an event. Dates, format, participation requirements, and availability are confirmed with the practice.
We change when our hearts experience the emotion of love and compassion. Using his original songs, poems, and stories, Michael will entertain, encounter, and guide you as you listen to and respond to his creative offerings. Michael is delighted to respond to requests from small groups and organizations that would like to explore how we love as humans and spiritual beings. Invite Dr. Regier to spend an evening sharing his original music, poems, and stories about the “Ten Faces of Love.”
Dr. Sue Johnson has developed a Hold Me Tight retreat for couples, an experiential model for escaping negative cycle conflict. Dr. Regier combines this approach with his own relationship foundations work, which he has written about in his and Paula’s book Emotional Connection: The Story & Science of Preventing Conflict & Creating Lifetime Love.
This Central California coast retreat is for couples who want to reflect on their own responses, listen more openly, and strengthen emotional connection. Contact the practice to ask about upcoming dates and availability.
Many therapists do not know where to start when a client is in a relationship crisis. This four-hour seminar provides an overview of attachment theory and how EFT therapists work with couples to help them break out of their cycle of conflict and find emotional connection. Contact Dr. Regier if your organization wants him to offer this seminar.
“I want to be a better husband.” “I want to be more emotionally present.” “I want to talk about what I feel.” This retreat invites men who are motivated to understand themselves and practice more open communication. The focus is on your own growth: noticing when you pull away, understanding what is happening inside, and considering how you want to respond as a spouse, partner, parent, or friend.
The proposed weekend format brings guided reflection, conversation, and experiential learning into a group setting. Participants can explore the emotional patterns behind withdrawal, reflect on their own choices, and consider more attentive ways of listening and expressing needs. Contact the practice to register your interest and confirm the current schedule, group size, format, and participation details.
Dr. Dan Siegel has integrated the Enneagram system with his Interpersonal Neuro-biology approach to working with clients. He has organized this integration in a way that incorporates the psychospiritual power of working on ourselves using positive psychology and the ancient wisdom of spiritual transformation in an open and inclusive way. This seminar is open to any organization with members who have some knowledge of the Enneagram and want to dig deeper in using it as a coaching or therapy tool.
This seminar (in development) will be collaboratively offered by Dr. Michael Regier and Dr. Robert Inchausti, an Emeritus literature scholar. Michael and Robert, close friends, aim to share what they have learned throughout their careers about psychospiritual development, using examples from psychological theory and the writings of mystics. Robert, a Thomas Merton Scholar, is an authority on Merton’s psychospiritual approach to transformation. Michael and Robert share a passion for employing Jungian theory as guidance to uncover the unconscious messages that make us aware of the motivations driving our behaviors. They also share an interest in Dr. Rene Girard’s mimetic theory as a means of grounding Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and making it accessible. This is a highly interactive seminar with recommended readings for those who want to explore the why of our existence and to consider an evolving understanding of human transformation.