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Designed to profoundly support  Beginning and Intermediate level NVC women.

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN NVC NURTURING…

This retreat is about Learning, Growing and Glowing!

January 23-28, 2017 Manzanillo, Mexico, Yes!

Imagine: A liberating six days spent in the bosom of the warm sand, welcoming waves and exciting Pacific ocean. SIX amazing days of Self-Care: being deeply, empathically supported to re-new yourself, clear up chronic issues, bask in the Mexican sun and surf and make life-long international friends.

“I've always loved independent women, outspoken women,
eccentric women, funny women, flawed women.”
Diane Keaton

Help us create memories to last a life-time, while compassionately tending to the discovery, care and feeding of needs and freeing of our beautiful Life-Energy! Treat yourself to an NVC women’s immersion in a supportive environment where ALL needs matter; yours, mine and ours. Would you like to join us?

“We must believe that we are gifted for something,
and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie

Compassionately, gently and intently, with the power of NVC and sisterly empathy, we will share our stories in safety, be tenderly heard and lovingly accepted. We’ll embrace and revitalize our Life-Force..

“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.
I think of myself as somebody who from an early age
knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
Oprah Winfrey

This retreat is for those of us who have had enough of dragging ourselves around. It is for those of us who yearn for freedom to be our best selves, who feel a deep inner calling to express our fullest potential and who want to upgrade our NVC skills in order to use our precious energy to contribute to Life with radiance and excitement.

“Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love! What you can accomplish!
And what your potential is!”
Anne Frank

The calm of the evening at the beach...

Sharing, listening, learning, caring, growing, bonding, healing… We need each other. We need connection, compassion and caring support in order to spread our emerging wings and take flight…

Relaxing in the hotel pool...

Time out for shopping… (of course)

Sharing Bananas Flambé with new-found friends...

Will you join us dear friend? You can count on exciting moments of inner awareness and precious sharing moments of kindred souls growing closer… We would love to have you join us. Sign up here or if you have a question, write Holley under “Contacts"… I look forward to hearing from you and better yet, welcoming you to my beloved home-away-from home in the gated community of Club Santiago, Manzanillo, Mexico. This will be an adventure you will remember all your life.

Skill Level:
Wild Women in the Waves™ - MEXICO 2017 is especially designed to support beginning and intermediate level NVC women.

What to Expect:
Most often people who experience one of Holley’s Wild Women™ Retreats, whether in Mexico, the USA or France, typically are amazed at how Holley’s passion for NVC makes Marshall’s whole process come alive. Holley has a loving, playful presentation style that carries the underpinnings of many years of dedicated spiritual training and energetic medicine. She is a Reiki 2 practitioner. Women have reported that Holley's NVC-skill teaching and Empathic Listening work has a fine attunement that is life-changing. As a professional educator, Holley respects the needs of audio, visual and kinesthetic learners by offering hands-on, interactive and visually colorful experiences. There will be a combination of fine-tuning NVC skills and inspiring, enhancing, personal work. Holley offers her vibrant Presence to whatever your Life energy brings to the circle. For her retreats, she always chooses nature-filled environments as a strategy to invite deeper integration by being surrounded with peaceful, nurturing, restorative energies. At the end of the retreat, people have reported feeling refreshed, empowered and enthusiastic to return to whatever challenges they left behind. They speak of needs being deliciously and richly fed; needs such as a new level of self-confidence, being deeply seen, held and heard, hearts overflowing from the nurturing and loving support, having the joy of new friends and sisterly community, lightness of Being and freedom from having released painful issues, feeling a new sense of comfort with NVC skills and gaining a deeper understanding of self-care and self-lovingness.

Retreat Dates: Monday, January 23 through Saturday, January 28, 2017. This is planned so you may come a day early** and have the possible ease of a travel day on either side of our week together. **The sooner you let me know if you want one or two more days at the hotel, the greater possibility that I can get another day reserved for you. It is high season… need I say more?

Languages:
Wild Women in the Waves™ will be held primarily in English. Holley does speak Spanish, however the retreat is not intended to be bilingual. NOTE: If your native language is NOT English, you do not need to speak English fluently. Our need is that you have a comfort level in expressing yourself and understanding others in English. For example, Holley says she speaks Spanish “fluidly but not fluently.” People understand her and for the most part, she understands them. If you can say this about your English, then please come!! If you are a native Spanish speaker and if you wish to do some deeper NVC empathy work with Holley, we are hopeful to be able to provide a Spanish/English speaking translator for that process time. We value and encourage you to use your native language during deeper work, in order to access the most relevant needs.

Number of Participants:
For the "Wild Women in the Waves™ Retreat - MEXICO," we are inviting up to 10 women. Many trainers invite up to 100 or more participants. Holley prefers the profound and intimate; the impactful and precise. She values the customized learning and radical changes one can accomplish in small numbers. It meets her need for meaningful contribution. We hope you sense a golden opportunity in this decision and (smile) want to take advantage of it...

Requested Retreat Fee:
$700 for the six day retreat: $300 deposit. Remainder due within 15 days.

Early-bird discount of $100 up to 30 days before the event.

Negotiable Fee: 17 days before the retreat date, if there are openings, there is an option for people to offer "to pay whatever you can" for the retreat over the $300 deposit, taking your Self-Care and our sustainability into consideration.” The cost of lodging is not available for negotiation. We chose 17 days because sometimes the cost of airfare is better with 14 days advance notice.

AMAZING, Special Price for Lodging:
For all five nights and six days: $195 US Dollars total.
Double occupancy (includes all taxes and tip)
If you prefer a room to yourself, the cost will be US $390. There is no guarantee of availability, so please let Holley know ASAP. The cost of the hotel has been translated into dollars updated as of November 2016. Please pay in cash or cashiers check to Holley Humphrey at the time of registration before the first evening session. If there is a significant change in the exchange rate, we will adjust accordingly. We have already held two women’s retreats at this hotel and are very happy to report that the staff and owner will do their very best to offer us a wonderful stay. We have always been more than pleased with this location. If you wish to pay in pesos, let us know please.

Early Bird Discount by Dec 28th: The fees are based on when you send in your $300 deposit. The early-bird discount of $100 is available up to 30 days before the event. If the early-bird date is still in effect when you send your deposit, we will automatically confirm your place at the discount price. If you just pay the $300 deposit to hold, remember to send in the remainder within 15 days.

Scholarship Fund: If you wish to contribute to the scholarship fund for someone else, you may do so by telling us how much you are contributing beyond your own amount. Yes, you may also designate someone in particular if you wish. We hope to be able to offer at least one half-price scholarship or work exchange per event.

Payment Plan: In this time of very large NVC events, the beauty of Holley’s retreats is that they are purposefully held to a small group of eager NVC participants. Therefore with care for you we have kept costs as low as possible. If requested, we will gladly arrange a split payment plan to be completed in advance of the event. With care for us, we ask for understanding that we’ve put our love and energy into this 150% and have limited space for fee reductions unless people have offered extra toward scholarships.

Refunds:
All registration deposits are non-refundable. The deposit amount is fully transferable to Holley’s other offerings for up to one year. This includes retreats, workshops, NVC materials and private sessions via Skype.

Potential loss of position:
We will guarantee your space for 15 days after the day of your deposit, so that you can make airline arrangements, encourage your friends to join you etc. After 15 days, if your retreat fee is not paid in full, your position becomes vulnerable to someone who does pay in full. Sending out reminders is not our strength, so we ask that you take responsibility for making sure your retreat space is safely paid before it is overdue.

Location: Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico

Airports: The closest is ZLO… Manzanillo Airport. Just about 20-25 minutes from the hotel. You can also fly into Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara or Mexico City (DF) and take a long bus ride if you want more of an adventure.

Lodging: We have arranged with Hotel Tenisol for double rooms to create an intimate sisterhood community, with special pricing to keep the costs down. We will hold some sessions at the beach, most of our meetings will be in the penthouse on the third floor. Unfortunately, there is no elevator so people need to be mobile regarding stairs.

Transportation to Hotel: You can rent a car or take a taxi-shuttle to get to Hotel Tenisol (inside the gates of Club Santiago). We can help people arrange to share rides if the timing works out well. We will also help to arrange a pick up if you can give us two weeks or more notice. The fee will be cheaper than a taxi, but I cannot tell you the exact price until I get down there and check things out.

Meals: The hotel has a lovely outside restaurant under a palm-thatched canopy which is run by a separate company, so the meals will not be included but are very reasonable. We also know that some people skip breakfast etc or would want to go to the Oasis Restaurant (one of my favorites) or local restaurants along the beach for lunch so we did not want to restrict you to the hotel meals. Healthy snacks, coffee and tea will be offered during the retreat. Dinners will be on your own. There are many restaurants along the beach which can be very fun n’ funky or more upscale. You will receive a list and a map. Since chefs can change each season, my local friends will let me know which restaurants have the best current reputation re food, better service etc. So once again, I will know more once I get there.

Food Preferences Questionnaire: We will provide a questionnaire about food preferences once you register. The local supermarket has adapted its products to include foreign food items, so many American and British choices will be available for purchase. For unusual food needs, we suggest you bring whatever you might not find in a regular store. If it’s really important, then send me some pictures ahead of time and I will double-check availability.

Smoking Policy: With respect for our health and well-being, self-care and consideration for others, we ask for nonsmoking participants during the whole week of the event. The areas around the retreat site are non-smoking spaces due to Holley’s extreme allergy to smoke (even from people’s clothes). Electronic cigarettes will be permitted outside, away from doors and conscious of wind direction please.

Proposed Schedule: Monday will begin with a 4-5:30pm registration, a 6:00 pm welcome dinner and then a short evening session. Tuesday through Friday, the proposed time is ~9:00 a.m. to ~6:00 p.m. with time two to three hours for Self-Nurturing and play each afternoon. Saturday we will end just before lunch, around 12:00-1:00pm. We will take a whole afternoon off at mid-week for extra-fun choices. Due to the value we place on closing ceremonies, we ask that Saturday time be a bit more elastic. For those interested, we will organize a location for us all to have lunch together.

Needs for Balance and Play: When we work intently, an important part of our Self-Care routine is to include spaciousness for relaxation, integration and ease… This time is offered for you to meet your own needs with strategies such as; sunbathing, snorkeling, swimming, walking or running at the beach, connecting, receiving empathy, exploring, shopping, riding horseback, sleeping or whatever… This “Open-Time” will begin each day at lunch and will last for around two and a half to three hours. We will have a communication board available so people can propose activities, express wishes/needs and find like-minded spirits to join in.

Is this nurturing seaside retreat calling to you?

We would love to welcome you.

Would you like to join us?