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As you gently glide from your first amazing night’s sleep, you awaken to the sounds of locals starting their day - local monkeys, that are celebrating a new morning in the giant Guanacaste tree shading your casita.
You notice this is not another boring hotel. Maybe your room has round or angled walls or looks directly out into the treetops or filters the morning light through stained glass windows. |
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During this deeply experiential training retreat, you'll gain the power of new emotional processing skills powered by RIM (Regenerating Images in Memory). RIM's 15 evidence-based tools are designed to generate instant and permanent change with your clients.
In addition to all the RIM training, you'll enjoy other retreat activities like RIM-infused yoga classes, breathwork, sound healing, RIM meditations, and magical surprises designed to take you deeper than ever before. You’ll fall more in love with yourself as you slay your saboteurs and stand in your worthiness. Imagine the joy you’ll feel as you create more loving self-talk and more client successes! Get ready to own your boundaries, speak your truth, ask for what you need, command the respect you deserve, and help your clients do it too! Imagine the connection and love you’ll feel as part of this creative, fun, and supportive community this level of work attracts. Sense the pride you’ll feel, growing your business with powerful skills that differentiate you and translate into deep, tangible results. A boundless bounty awaits, as greater mastery and self-worth, allows you to confidently charge what you’re worth. All this, while making a magical difference in the world! |
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Costa Rica is soulful, alive, vibrant and real, just like you! We love the Pura Vida attitude here and we love our jungle, river, and our completely undeveloped beach, Playa Buena Vista. All easily found by our shuttle drivers, and perfectly hidden from traffic, tourists, and distractions.
Con Smania (means with passion) Retreat Center is located on the west coast in the Nicoya peninsula of Costa Rica. It is one of 5 Blue Zones in the world where more people live past 100 years, and for good reason. Just a ten-minute stroll to the Pacific Ocean, nestled in the shade of giant Guanacaste trees filled with monkeys. Your unique and artistically created oasis awaits. |
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The name Con Smania means with passion and so does mealtime. Your senses come alive as you take in the brilliant colors, textures, tastes, and scents of simple and delightful homemade meals. Ingredients are farm to table, fresh and organic. Exotic fruits are grown on property and eggs come fresh from the farm next door.
You’ll bond with new friends as you explore consciously prepared meals inspired by the ingredients that make this one of the world’s five Blue Zones. |
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Can't eat this or that? Dietary restrictions are celebrated here. The bountiful buffets are very vegetarian friendly, plus fish. Your culinary adventure includes traditional homemade Costa Rican food and surprises to delight the adventurous foodie.
We believe in honoring the land through connecting closer to source in all ways. Buffet style, we encourage you to take what you need knowing you can always return for more. |
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Breakfast and dinner are included every day. Anytime you need more nourishment, blend yourself a smoothie at the included all day smoothie bar. You'll find local fruits, greens and nutritious add-ins. Also, grab a snack – you never know what we may conjure up that day.
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Your retreat begins as soon as you clear customs. We take care of everything. Relax and connect with new friends on your scenic shuttle ride through the countryside enroute to the Con Smania Retreat Center.
Upon arrival, settle in and explore the grounds or even take a dip or nap. We’ll bond over a group dinner and a special welcoming ceremony weather permitting, perhaps a fire or a sacred circle ceremony. |
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Enjoy a leisurely morning followed by a group breakfast and a day of immersion into living the work. As you immerse yourself into several experiential RIM activities today, you and your group will be creating a safe and sacred space for the week. You will discover your own custom growth path, learn group agreements, (in a RIM way) for how you will be learning, growing, and playing together.
Group Dinner and evening at your leisure. |
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Don't set an alarm, the monkeys will tell you when it's time to get up. Start with an early morning walk and beautiful guided beach meditation designed to expand your worldview of our planet, and the inner-scape of how you think, feel and work.
After breakfast, the classroom of the day might be poolside under a thatched roof, or in the open-air converted airplane hangar. Whichever magical space we’re in, you'll be learning about the River of Emotions, and practice five ways to invite clients into greater awareness and readiness. |
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You’ll also learn unique ways to create greater safety for your clients to easily move from their stories to the root issues and hidden blocks they don’t even know they have.
Group Dinner and evening at your leisure. Maybe an impromptu fire circle, or sunset walk to the beach? |
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Start the day right with a special RIM-Infused yoga class with Jenn, then after breakfast, we'll shuttle to the farmer's market in Samara, where locals and your chef shop for groceries and unique artisan products. Maybe opt for free time, book a massage or other healing treatment.
The afternoon will bring more big learning, taking turns as client and facilitator for deep transformational work. You’ll discover new ways of helping clients identify and give voice to old stuck emotions holding them back. To go even deeper, you'll learn how to shift your clients new-found voice from their thinker brain to their feeler body. |
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Evening - Dinner and a quiet evening to relax, socialize, or contemplate your personal journey to the sounds of nature.
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After a morning beach walk or free time, and breakfast, experience a special healing journey through the power of breathwork. Our breathwork masters will gently guide you into a deeper state of consciousness, where healing, spirit, and love reside.
After lunch, we’ll geek out on some beautiful neuroscience. You'll add more RIM skills to shift coaching questions into body-centered, feeling-based dialogues of deep work. |
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You'll be facilitating your practice client through gentle, yet powerful dialogues, releasing the things that keep them stuck. Then you’ll take your turn as the practice client, releasing more of your own stuck-ness!
Your clients (and you) will literally create new neural pathways toward greater health, love, and success. Enjoy dinner and a well-deserved quiet leisurely evening. |
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Morning beach walk or yoga class anyone? After your leisurely morning and group breakfast, you’ll step into another big morning of new RIM skills.
You'll learn to Regenerate Images in Memory, applying the science of neuroplasticity to help clients regenerate their emotional past without reliving old traumatic events. |
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The afternoon will be more relaxing as we have time for a Q&A and review of community support you will receive for the next three months and beyond.
The evening brings local sound healers who will create a special Sound Bath Journey with a vast array of sacred sound instruments and multi-dimensional voice toning. You'll be guided into deep meditative states to connect more fully to your energy body. Enjoy a Light dinner/dessert and sharing circle. |
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Enjoy a morning beach walk or free time, then a group breakfast before we dive into a big RIM practice session. Just like you’ve been doing all week, you’ll take one more turn as a client and one more turn as a facilitator, to anchor all your new skills. You’ll be ready to start practice sessions on “real” people as soon as you get home.
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Spend the afternoon free, sign up for a massage, or enjoy some pool or beach time, socializing, or journaling and packing.
We’ll have a group dinner followed by our closing circle and fire ceremony, weather permitting. |
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Saying goodbye is easier knowing we will be connecting again soon and sensing new lifelong friendships forming.
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Morning free time and breakfast at your leisure. Departures as scheduled.
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By the end of this magical retreat, you will have deeply connected with other beautiful souls, slain your biggest saboteurs, and learned the miracle-level transformational skills of RIM, so you can make a greater impact, and be a natural attractor of ideal clients, while charging your worth.
* A magnificent personal growth retreat.
* The complete RIM Essentials Training program. * Five ways to prep your clients for deeper readiness. * Quick, easy routes to bypass client stories and patterns that keep them stuck. * Techniques to anchor experiences visually, audibly, and kinesthetically. * Three levels of voicing for clients to express what's never been expressed. * How to turn coaching questions into powerful heart-centered dialogues. * New ways to create deeper safety and inner resourcing for you and your clients. * How to screen clients for mental illness and work within your area of expertise. |
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You'll have the same skills offered by some of the world’s top retreat leaders and high-performance coaching programs, so you can expand your own programs and partner with other leaders, to grow your business and increase your impact.
You’ll always be safe and in charge of your own experience that can’t be done wrong. You’ll also learn to replicate this safety to take clients deeper and faster for bigger results. You'll learn the neuroscience behind your new skills, and how to blend the mystical with the scientific, so while serving any client, you can be true to yourself while making a difference in the world. |
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Michael J. Kline & Jenn Schaefer
Master Certified & Licensed RIM Institute Facilitators & Trainers Mike and Jenn have worked and played together since meeting in Jack Canfield's training room in 2018 and countless RIM training events since. In addition to teaching RIM Essentials, both Mike & Jenn continue to assist Dr Deb in her advanced RIM training. and retreats.
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Con Smania Retreat Center
at Playa Buena Vista Sámara, Costa Rica, 55235 There are two nearby towns, Nosara and Samara to connect with community while enjoying the solitude of a very special remote setting. The closest airport is in Liberia (LIR), Costa Rica Scenic shuttle ride to/from airport is included. |
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* Round trip Shuttle to/from Con Smania Retreat Center
* 7 Nights shared Casita Accommodations * 2 Buffet meals daily and all-day smoothie bar and snacks * Sound Healing Journey * Breathwork Healing Experience * Outing to Samara or Nosara, and Farmer’s Market * Beach meditations, circles, fire ceremonies and other activities * Complete 36 hours RIM Essentials Training and Manual * Three months training support * Lifetime monthly RIM facilitation calls * Continuing Ed Credits - 36 ICF, 27 NASW, 36 NBHWC, 36 Naadac * Press Release introducing your training and new services * Marketing content and language for your new services |
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RIM Training class alone on Zoom or elsewhere is regularly $3400. The prices below include the training plus the all-inclusive retreat in Costa Rica.
Maximum of 12 New Students $5297 - Regular Price, Shared Casitas $4497 - Early Bird Price for first 5 registrants (shared Casitas). This is the "Heck-yeah, I know I'm in" special price. When it's gone, it's gone. (Yes, that's correct. It's only $1100 more than the training on Zoom, and it's an all-inclusive retreat)! Options: $500 - add on for single occupancy if available. Contact us, very limited. People who share casitas have a richer retreat experience. $1897.00 add on for well-behaved spouse/partners. They will have access to group activities, meals, outings, everything except our actual class time. During class time, we are not providing spouse activities. Sorry, not appropriate for children. |
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A deposit of $1000 is required or you can choose to pay the total amount up front. Either way, the following cancellation policies apply. You have 14 days from your initial deposit to change your mind without penalty, after which the $1,000 deposit is non-refundable. Full payment is due 90 days prior to the retreat which is April 15th, 2024. If you cancel after May 15, 2024, a loss of 50% of the total retreat price will apply. If you cancel after June 15th, 2024 a total loss of funds will apply. We reserve the right to cancel the trip if it does not meet the trip minimum, resulting in a total refund of amount paid. Your payment and registration does not guarantee acceptance into the program. Although rare, we reserve the right to refuse any participant who is not a fit for the personal work we will be undertaking. Travel insurance is required! This gives you medical insurance while out of the country, as well as protection for cancellation for covered reasons. Two popular providers include Travel Guard Insurance and World Nomads where you can choose from several policy options. |
