(BY RESERVATION ONLY- class size will be kept small preferably to 10 participants)
Cost: $400 due on registration refundable up to 1 week prior to the retreat start date.
We will offer AVRT Retreats twice a year, most likely in January and July. The Retreat is based on the AVRT: The Class curriculum with the subtle difference that it is a retreat, meaning you are asked to leave your cell phones and other electronic communication devices behind, and give yourself two days to heal without distraction from the outside world. We will provide an emergency number should something arise in your daily life, but you will be asked to leave your cell phone with our receptionist at check in.
AVRT: The Class is two full days of face-to-face instruction on AVRT-based recovery. Sessions begin at 8PM on Friday, and run till approximately 11PM, then start up again on Saturday at 8AM and run till 11PM. This is intense training. The purpose is to achieve secure, permanent abstinence (total recovery) within the time allotted. In those two decisive days, I will guide you across the threshold into life after addiction and recovery.
AVRT: The Class is strong action against addiction, often at a time of crisis and emotional turmoil. Direct instruction cuts through the fog which accompanies addiction, allowing you to immediately seize control and enjoy the freedom of self-determination.
While The Rational Recovery office recommends attending with a family member, I highly discourage that. In addition to the additional cost, I feel that AVRT is a self healing program, and is something that you must and can only do alone. The Retreat offers intensive instruction into AVRT techniques, especially in avoiding relapse after your honeymoon period and I highly recommend it for anyone coming into my therapy program. We have kept the cost as low as possible ($400 for the course, and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Saturday and Sunday). We try to find a hotel that gives us good rates also, and make the retreat as cheap as possible.
AVRT: The Class is an uplifting experience with little, if any, self-disclosure, discussion of your past, or searching for your personal hangups and shortcomings. Your session will not exceed 15 participants, including yourself, so you‘ll get plenty of individual attention, and possibly observe others also learning AVRT-based recovery. You’ll have every opportunity to ask clarifying questions so that AVRT® makes perfect sense. We provide a copy of Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction, plus a wide variety of other learning materials.
Between now and when you appear for AVRT: The Class, learn some AVRT® so you are somewhat familiar with concepts such as Addictive Voice, Beast, and Big Plan. Here is your introduction to AVRT-based recovery.
By taking strong, decisive action now, you may return home from Northern California fully confident that your addiction is ended, over, finished, kaput, defeated. If you can imagine your relief to know you are fully recovered, you should take that image as your hope that your addiction is nearly over.
After all of your struggles against your addiction, you now have full access to all of the information you have desperately needed for many years. We hope you are ready for a very short journey to life after addiction — and the rest of your life after recovery, too!
Your Beast will not survive the retreat, and you’ll return home as you were before the onset of your addiction. You must be fully detoxified from alcohol and other drugs when you appear for AVRT: The Course Class
Dress is casual, just be comfortable.
We will offer AVRT Retreats twice a year, most likely in January and July.