Beyond Abuse Retreat

Committed to Freedom’s Beyond Abuse Retreats are for people who have experienced the intimate violation of abuse. We offer spiritual tools to help abuse survivors move beyond their abuse. While our approach is from a Christian perspective, we never use Scripture or religion to manipulate or as a weapon. Instead, through the spiritual tools offered, we help you to discover spiritual health and hope. Christians, seekers, and doubters are all welcome and treated with great respect and inclusion. Retreats are offered at various locations and dates for adult men and women.

The Beyond Abuse Retreat does not focus on the past, but looks to the future. In other words, you will not sit around and talk about what happened to you. Instead, we consider the impact of past abuse on the current challenges you face, and then help you put together a strategy for your future. We help you to determine how to best take ownership of your choices and your life. You will not only get the tools to move Beyond Abuse, but you’ll put them in a tool box and know how to use them!

During the Beyond Abuse Retreat, ideas and perspectives are presented that will empower you. The lies you believe about yourself and your value will be exposed, dismantled, and exchanged for healing truth. You will see the prison of self-defeating behavior in a new light and learn how to unlock the prison gate to escape. The hidden message from God to trauma survivors will be revealed as you closely examine the experiences of Christ – a fellow abuse survivor. Each session becomes a building block in your own monument to personal freedom. By the end of the Beyond Abuse Retreat, you will be able to identify a new path toward spiritual health.

Along with other survivors who understand, you will learn more than you can imagine; experience spiritual growth in new and intimate ways; and handle practical ideas through teaching, small group workshops, art, music, personal prayer and quiet meditation, problem solving activities, metaphors, and community with others. This may be hard to believe, but you will even have moments of fun.

You don’t have to be “falling apart” to have a life changing experience at a Committed to Freedom Beyond Abuse Retreat. Many people attend who are well on their way toward healing. They just want to take some time out to connect with God, to receive comfort and understanding, and perhaps do a little fine-tuning for their journey.

The Beyond Abuse Retreat schedules and locations vary. You are required to stay at the retreat facility in order to give yourself time to learn, think, pray, and reflect without the pressures of everyday life crowding you. You will also be required to be present throughout the entire retreat from beginning to end. The exact facility location will be provided after you have registered in order to provide greater confidentiality and security for our retreat participants.

Beyond Abuse Retreats are not intended to be a substitute for professional counseling or therapy. They are designed to be a special time of focused spiritual growth for those who are spiritual seekers as well as for those who are devout believers, and everyone in-between. At the conclusion of the retreat, you will have an opportunity to purchase other resources to help you continue the momentum of growth.

Upcoming Beyond Abuse Retreats

November 9 – 11, 2012, Staten Island, New York: Click here for registration information or click here to download the registration form.