Each therapist will lead 2-3 group sessions with hands-on activities, teaching you methods to increase harmony in your family. In addition you can approach them during the workshop and find out possibilities for private counselling during and/or after the family retreat. All of them offer a free try out session and are available over video call. 

Vigdis Parkins is working as an accountant and as a personal development trainer and a certified NLP practitioner. She has researched and explored the power of the mind from many different angles over the last 40 years, and whether it was science, quantum physics, religion, spirituality or new age, there are certain common denominators which I share in my courses and seminars. imaginationorg.com/self-improvement 

Topics at the retreat:

1. Both positive and negative imagination starts off the creative process: Uncover if you are victim of your own thinking processes. Important learning about the nature of energy.

2. The conscious and the unconscious mind’s relationship: How to become aware of the undercurrents that run your life.

3.  How to connect with your inner dreams and set goals that work.

Margoth T. Kalstad has been working as a certified gestalt therapist since 2008 and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is one of many fields in which she holds a degree. Through the gestalt process, clients become more aware of how their own negative thought patterns and behaviors are blocking true self-awareness and happiness. imaginationorg.com/therapy

Topics at the retreat:

1. Introduction to Gestalt therapy and Non-violent communication

2. Game: »no foult sone»

Janine Förster & Jonathan Makkonen are self-employed social education workers with certificates in e.g. Multy-Family Therapy, “Familie im Mittelpunkt” (modeled after HOMEBUILDERS - IFPS) and systemic therapy. Their methods are also based on the theory of attachment and NVC. dasrelationship.com/ueber-uns

Topics at the retreat:

1. Applied Attachment Theory

2. Anger and Aggression Management

3. Communication und relationship improvement

Heidi Mayr holds a diploma for counseling of families, partnership and education. She does couple counseling and parents advising. She worked for 10 years in a social association which is connected to the governmental Youth and Family Office. 

Topics at the retreat:

1. The three aspects of a balanced upbringing of our children.

2. Parenting styles and what is the outcome, and where does our upbringing go. We have to rethink where our education is aimed.

Ming Niku is the director of Spånga Wellness Health Center in Spånga, Stockholm, Sweden. Her speciality is Integral Craniosacral Biodynamics Therapy (Integral-CST) in seeing body-mind-spirit as an thorough oneness. She is skilled in fields such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yoga, Zhineng Qigong, Holism and several manual therapies. www.spangafriskvard.se

At the retreat she and members of her team will lead the morning sessions (Qigong, gentle exercise) and offer individual treatments Craniosacral Therapy parallel to the program.