Retreat Information
Inner Child Healing for Men
Inner Child Healing for Men
Inner Child Healing for Men
Our annual healing retreat for men is an opportunity for you to rediscover and connect with your inner child.
Mother's Healing Retreat
Inner Child Healing for Men
Inner Child Healing for Men
At our annual healing retreat for mothers, you will learn to understand how your own healing may benefit your child and family, process your own wounds, and learn to foster healthy boundaries within your home.
Father's Healing Retreat
Father's Healing Retreat
Father's Healing Retreat
At our annual retreat for fathers, you will receive training and develop skills that will help to secure and stabilize a strong attachment with your child.
Parenting Course
Father's Healing Retreat
Father's Healing Retreat
Our year-long parenting course meets over Zoom video. In this class, you will meet other parents who are learning new skills and understanding how real love may be demonstrated in your home.
Father's Healing Retreat
Key to Your Child's Heart Father's Healing Weekend
Dates TBA 2025
This weekend will give you the opportunity to connect with other fathers that are in the same position as you, and learn together how you can rise up and face the challenges that affect our families and children! You will gain great insight into your child’s needs by learning, growing, and taking part in group activities with each other during this interactive weekend!
You will be empowered by understanding how your own background has influenced your parenting, while at the same time, realizing how you can lead your children and family into a healthier future.
This weekend away is set at a beautiful country farmhouse retreat in rural Maryland. Our small group of fathers is a safe place to process, learn, and heal. You will leave with answers, tools, techniques, and hope to help yourself, your child, and your family.
This weekend will be facilitated by IHF Executive Director, Christopher Doyle, MA, LCPC and expert parent coach, Hilde Wiemann.
Location:
Hagerstown, Maryland (approximately 75 miles from BWI Airport in Baltimore, MD). Participants may also fly into Hagerstown Regional Airport by connecting through Dulles International Airport (IAD).
Agenda:
Friday (dinner on your own, light snacks and refreshments provided): Fathers arrive at 5:00pm (Seminar 6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Saturday: Seminar 9:00am - 5:00pm (lunch and dinner included)
Sunday: Seminar 9:00am - 4:00pm (lunch included)
Cost:
Early registration of $449; $499 until the start date. Cost includes 3 meals, light snacks and refreshments, and all seminar materials. Lodging is not included.
Scholarships:
A limited amount of scholarships are available for participants in financial-need. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact: Hal@InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org.
** Participants are responsible for travel costs. **
Testimony
I didn't realize how much of my identity, beliefs, values, and behaviors as an adult were tied to my childhood experience. Having been able to understand the background of my childhood can be reviewed and reprocessed really helped me to break free of some bad habits, bad beliefs, and grow as a person. I also became aware of family patterns that were unhealthy and now I have broken those patterns and will not pass them onto my children.
Men's Healing Retreat
Break Free Your Inner Child Healing Retreat for Men
May 28 - June 1, 2025
Our annual inner child healing retreat is a place where you can connect with other men and work toward discovering and healing childhood wounds.
Working with other men, you have a chance to discover your true self and overcome those things that hold you back from really flourishing.
Space is limited and will fill up quickly!
The group will work through:
- Discovering and healing childhood wounds
- Learning how your inner child adapted from his true self
- Learning how to get authentic needs met
Location:
Lake Anna, Virginia
Dates:
May 28 - June 1, 2025
Cost:
Seminar fee, lodging for five days/four nights and nine meals at the retreat facility: $749 ($699 for early registration before April 1, 2025). Participants are required to pay and fill out a registration form at least 4 weeks in advance. First come, first served. Space is limited.
Scholarships:
A limited amount of scholarships are available for participants in financial-need. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact: Hal@InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org.
** Participants are responsible for travel costs. **
Testimony
I was able to accept myself for the first time in my life in my own skin, down to my core. I know now that I was created to be artistic and sensitive, passionate and beautifully unique! My heart feels warm as if light is shining in places that have never seen the light before, almost like the first day of a new life! A wall came down.
Mother's Healing Retreat
Key to Your Child's Heart Mother's Healing Weekend
DATES TBA 2025
The weekend is designed for mothers of a same-sex attracted or gay-identified child. The goal is for each mother to grow personally and as a Parent/Coach, to learn how to better love and understand your struggling child, and to uncover how your own unresolved issues may be blocking your family’s path to healing.
This weekend away is set at our beautiful country farmhouse retreat in rural Maryland. Our small group of 8-12 mothers is a safe place to process, learn, and heal. You will leave with answers, tools, techniques, and hope to help yourself, your child, and your family.
This weekend will be facilitated by IHF Executive Director Christopher Doyle, MA, LCPC and Family and Relationship Coach Hilde Wiemann.
Location:
Hagerstown, Maryland (approximately 75 miles from BWI Airport in Baltimore, MD). Participants may also fly into Hagerstown Regional Airport by connecting through Dulles International Airport (IAD).
Agenda:
Friday (dinner on your own): Mothers arrive at 5:00pm (Seminar 6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Saturday: Seminar 9:00am - 5:00pm (lunch and dinner included)
Sunday: Seminar 9:00am - 4:00pm (lunch included)
Cost:
Early registration is $449 by March 28; $499 until the event.
Includes 3 meals, light snacks and refreshments, and all seminar materials. Lodging is not included. There are several options for lodging off-site. Contact us for more details. Participants are required to pay and fill out a registration form at least 4 weeks in advance. First come first served, as space is limited.
Scholarships:
A limited amount of scholarships are available for participants in financial-need. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact: Hal@InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org.
** Participants are responsible for travel costs. **
Testimonial
The Mother's Healing Weekend was an awesome experience. We are all struggling... In the shared struggle, my burden is lighter... I am breathing easier. This journey is bearable. I am moving forward with love and confidence. I no longer feel the panic. It is gone. The "I-need-this-to-be-over-now" feeling is gone. I am peaceful, restful, stilled. I am filled.
Information common to all retreats:
Retreat Facilitators
All healing retreats are led by IHF Executive Director, Christopher Doyle, MA, LPC, LCPC. Retreats for mothers and fathers also have co-facilitation by an expert in family and relational coaching, Hilde Wiemann.
Ride Sharing
Some clients who live near each other reduce the amount of their expenses by sharing a ride to and from the retreat location. Email us if you are interested in ride sharing with another participant.
Payment
A payment deposit must be received at the time of registration equal to half the cost of the retreat. Full payment is due by the date specified in the deposit confirmation email or according to special agreement with IHF.
Scholarships
Our generous donors provide scholarship money for us to reduce the cost of retreats for participants. If you are in need of a scholarship, please email us at ihfinfo@instituteforhealthyfamilies.org and request information to see if funds are available. Scholarships are based on financial need for the cost of the retreat, not for airfare or travel expenses. Payment plans are also possible.
Disclaimer and Code of Conduct
All participants are required to sign a code of conduct upon registration that they are attending the seminar as a participant for educational, therapeutic, and/or healing purposes. No part of this seminar may be recorded electronically or by any other means, and all details of therapeutic processes demonstrated, described, or taught must be kept confidential (except when used in professional or ministerial practice with clients) and are the intellectual property of the Institute for Healthy Families.