Everything of course starts with our parents and the upbringing in our family – with the values and lessons they taught us. With the way we exeperience the world because of them. With the atmosphere in our home, the support and love we felt or did not. Things that, if you really think about, you’ll see that they define our lives today.

Which of them would you like to repeat and preserve? 

And what do you try to avoid and change at all costs, so that the same scenario you witnessed then does not play out to you now?

But this story doesn’t end here…..

The same scenario tends to repeat further in time – with our friends, our peers, our classmates, teachers. First thrills, first love, first dreams and aspirations.

And then, when something happened for the first time, we absorbed it like a sponge. Without expectations for what will happen, without knowing what will happen, without fear of what will or will not happen, because we have not had the experience yet. Because that experience was created exactly in those precious moments, when we went through these events.

However, those experiences had different outcomes. Some brought us happiness and made us feel good and some led to discomfort and pain – strong negative overwhelming emotions, strong fear and insecurity, unbearable blame and judgment.

Whatever it is, it imprints itself and leaves such a distinctive mark in our consciousness that every time this discomfort or a hint of it occurs, whether the experience is the same, similar or very different, we raise the defenses to protect ourselves!

In this 4 week virtual retreat, we are going to deep into the nature of these defenses, which each of us carry within.