LIVING FULL OUT
Intensive Retreat for Gay Men
Facilitated by John Bottone & Richard White

Thursday, March 22 - Sunday, March 25, 2012 - WAIT LIST ONLY
Thursday, June 21 - Sunday, June 24, 2012
Thursday, October 11 - Sunday, October 14, 2012
Thursday, December 6 - Sunday, December 9, 2012

Limited to 12 participants!

Join us for an intensive 3-day retreat to create a safe and loving community with a small group of equally motivated gay men. Within this community—with its support and witness—you will have the opportunity to do individual experiential work in which you journey deeply into yourself to reconnect with the sources of your energy and your deepest essence. This retreat uses Gestalt, psychodrama, and the techniques of Core Energetics to help you free the blocked and frozen energy locked away in the passionate parts of yourself that you disconnected from as a child, including your sexuality. In this structured retreat, you will take steps toward finding out what stands in the way of realizing your potential for being fully alive. If you have not previously participated in Living Full Out, registration will include a telephone interview with one of the facilitators. We recommend that participants in the retreat have some prior experience in psychotherapy. If you are currently in psychotherapy, we suggest you discuss this retreat with your therapist prior to registration.

If you have participated in Living Full Out previously, you may register by calling us at 800.553.8235 or 518.692.8023. If you are new to this program, please sign up online for a telephone interview to ensure this program is a good fit for you.

"These retreats have been an intense and enriching experience. The power of caring and support created by Living Full Out has given me the courage and hope to move on in my life." Jerry

"For three blissful days I felt completely safe in the company of caring and accepting men.  The experience was unique: not only did I learn a great deal about myself, I also learned how much and how deeply I care for my gay brothers." Wayne

"Living Full Out is about possibility, about safety and healing. It's about reclaiming my power. For me, it was truly about finding a place where my wounded gay self could begin to heal, where I could really believe that healing is possible." Elliott

About the Facilitators
John Bottone is a NYS licensed psychotherapist in private practice on Long Island and NYC. He has been leading intensive retreats and men’s workshops for over 10 years. He is a certified Gestalt therapist and is on the training staff of the Gestalt Center of Long Island and Shalom Mountain Retreat Center in Livingston Manor, NY.

Richard White’s interest is the body/mind connection, especially the ways we hold our emotions in our bodies. He is a Certified Practitioner of Core Energetics, a powerful body-based approach to unblocking our emotions and learning to work with our natural expressiveness. He has trained in process work at the Shalom Mountain Retreat and Study Center in Livingston Manor NY and at the Institute of Process Therapy in New Haven CT. He is nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork (NCBTMB) and is a graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics in New York City.