We’re excited to offer this new and exciting Trauma Resolution Retreat! Take part in The Cortina Method (TCM) to resolve your trauma. Imagine a life free of the pain and symptoms created by PTS. Replace that with joy, gratitude, relief, and excitement! This retreat features trauma resolution expert, Michael Cortina, and his team, equine therapy and holistic wellness sessions such as yoga, Reiki, and reflexology.

The Cortina Method (TCM) is a brain-based healing methodology to resolve trauma. It utilizes a strategic protocol rooted in neuroscience for efficient outcomes with an emphasis on people NOT having to relive or reexperience distressing emotions. It involves brain optimization and reprocessing. Brain optimization is getting the brain to respond to life, in the most enticing and optimal way possible.

TCM resolves trauma/PTS in as little as a single visit. The outcome is that people share that painful emotions are replaced with joy, gratitude, relief, and excitement. It resolves and removes triggers and symptoms. People say that they are AMAZED at how they feel, and think are so much more productive, advantageous, and desirable after TCM. Changes are sustainable.

Learn more about Michael Cortina and The Cortina Method at his website https://michaelcortina.com/.

Lodging, meals, and activities are provided at no cost to participants. A registration fee of $50 will be refunded one week after the completion of the retreat. You must arrange for your own transportation.

Space is limited to 10 men.

Apply now at Project New Hope! www.projectnewhopema.org/home/retreats/

Please contact Susan Wilder for questions regarding this retreat. smwilder@projectnewhopema.org (508) 762-9738

The Veterans Equine Retreat offers a weekend of connecting with two friendly horses, Ida Mae and Tessa. These two Veteran-owned mares are incredible creatures who require a great deal of care and patience. Just like Veterans, horses can be strong-willed, hard-working, and very skilled in their training activities. Connecting with horses allows Veterans to connect with themselves.

Equine therapy is a fun way to express care and concern for the horses, rekindling a sense of responsibility in a safe environment. Veterans can experience greater self-awareness while caring for something other than themselves. It can benefit those who struggle with PTS, substance use disorders, service injuries, and mental health conditions. This Retreat will help remind participants that they need patience and care in their recovery process.

Veterans will engage in horse-related activities, including grooming, feeding, and leading it around an enclosure. There will be no riding the horses. Overcoming potential fears or anxiety when being around such large animals and seeing how gentle they are when properly cared for reinforces the skills needed to: increase self-esteem, grow emotionally, become more self-aware, focus on well-being, solve problems, and enhance social skills.

Lodging, meals, and activities are provided at no cost to participants. A registration fee of $50 will be refunded one week after the completion of the retreat. You must arrange for your own transportation.

Please send questions to Sue at smwilder@projectnewhopema.org or call (508) 762-9738

This retreat is for individual Veterans and/or Couples

Escape the darkness of PTS and other life struggles with a clear goal and a solid plan. This Ladder UPP retreat will help you figure out where you are going and how to use your traumas and trials as fuel to live.

You will learn tools for recovery, PTS, and depression, or just a difficult trial or transition in life. Join us on this weeklong retreat in beautiful Maine and take a step towards living free. “The Ladder UPP” is a data-driven program and has been proven effective and might just be the step up you need. Thankfully, he found his “reason to live” and the journey has continued. Wherever you are at, welcome to this retreat.

Then challenge yourself by taking part in exciting and relaxing activities on the 133 acres of property, walk down to the beach (just 3 blocks away) and enjoy the sunrise. Head out to the observation deck and watch the birds and other wildlife. Sit around a campfire and roast marshmallows and enjoy each other’s company. Wellness activities like hiking, yoga, reflexology, massage, reiki, IET, Mindfulness to name a few.

Learn more about Silouan and “The Ladder UPP” at www.silouan.com.

Veterans, you are invited to discover the power of storytelling! Are your stories untold? Veterans often bear the burden of past experiences in silence because they are too painful and want to enjoy time with loved ones. This storytelling weekend will empower you to share these stories and lift the weight of your experiences. The Phoenix Tales Storytelling team will guide you in crafting a true, short, verbal story about a past event from your life.

By creating a new story about a past challenge, you’ll re-author the story you’ve been telling yourself. Gain new perspectives, actively engage in personal healing and growth, and find a new avenue of creative expression by discovering your own Phoenix Tale. You will have an opportunity to share the finished stories with other Veterans at the end, but there is no obligation. This story is for you! You have fought for the freedom of others. Now, set yourself free from the past, have a little fun, and celebrate your triumphs through the magic and power of one of our oldest forms of connection and communication – storytelling!

Phoenix Tales Storytelling uses the art form of personal narrative storytelling as a framework for connection, recovery, growth, change, and healing. This is especially powerful for Veterans who have lived through separation, trauma, violence, and loss. Grief can be particularly challenging for Veterans facing major or chronic illness and mental health or substance use challenges. Phoenix Tales Storytelling team are humans who have met many challenges themselves and have all found healing and growth in the storytelling process. They care greatly about fostering safe, brave, trauma-informed spaces for fun, connection, and creative expression through storytelling.

Lodging, meals, and activities are provided at no cost to participants. A registration fee of $50 will be refunded one week after the completion of the retreat. You must arrange for your own transportation.

Please send questions to Sue at smwilder@projectnewhopema.org or call (508) 762-9738

REGISTRATION CLOSED – RETREAT FULL

Would you like to improve your family getting along better than ever and having fun together in Ocean Park, Maine. In today’s fast-paced world, the greatest challenge is creating opportunities to spend quality time with family. As a result, many parents have difficulty connecting and understanding and helping their children with their problems and children have difficulty with communication and coping skills. Would you like to build family resilience? If so, this Project new Hope family retreat may be just for you. It is free to Military and Veteran families; married two-parent and single parent families and their children

In addition to workshops, the retreat will include – Campfires, Beach and Pool time, Miniature Golf and more. Located just over an hour north of Boston, 15 minutes south of Portland, Maine, and a quick walk (just 3 blocks away) to the beach and a 20-minute walk to the pier in Old Orchard.

Lodging, meals, and activities are all provided at no cost to participant, there is a $50 dollar registration fee that is refunded one week after completion of retreat. You must arrange your own transportation to and from Ocean Park, ME.

Please send questions to Sue at smwilder@projectnewhopema.org or call (508) 762-9738