READING, PA
LOCATION: hOMe PYM Retreat Center
TIMES: Friday 6-8 pm
Saturday 10-6:00
Sunday 10-5:00
Let’s talk about what too few people in the world of modern day awakening want to say out loud…
If you’ve ever left a spiritual community feeling smaller than when you arrived, handed over your power to a teacher who turned out to be anything but enlightened, or found yourself defending someone’s “divine” behavior that — let’s be real — would be a red flag anywhere else, this retreat is for you.
This is an educational and restorative immersion for people who have had less than favorable experiences with spiritual groups, self-appointed gurus, self-appointed higher up than other teachers, and so-called experts — including folks teaching within long established spiritual traditions.
And also? This is for people who are willing to look honestly at the ways they’ve participated in their own confusion.
Because here’s the thing: it goes both ways.
When you’re being bullshitted
There’s a whole psychology behind spiritual manipulation — and it doesn’t always look like a cult. Sometimes it’s subtle. Often times we’re reminded how much free will we have and that “it’s not a cult.”
A teacher who keeps you just dependent enough to keep coming back. An organization whose love-bombing turns to shame the moment you ask a real question. Charisma weaponized as authority. We’ll look at both unconscious and conscious manipulation — the teacher who genuinely believes their own hype, and the one who knows exactly what they’re doing — so you can recognize the difference between genuine transmission and a well-dressed power trip and also understand that someone can transmit powerful spiritual truths while being incredibly
Psychologically unwell. Both, ironically, can exist at the same time.
When you’re bullshitting yourself
This one’s harder to talk about — and more important. Spiritual bypassing. Gaslighting your own gut because the framework you’ve been handed sounds more evolved than your actual feelings and everyone else is doing it. Assigning cosmic meaning to things that just… don’t deserve that level of intentionality. Staying in something that isn’t working because leaving feels unspiritual or you keep questioning if you just don’t get it. We’ll explore how our very real longing for meaning can sometimes make us the most willing participants in our own confusion — and how to find our way back to ourselves without throwing the whole spiritual baby out with the bathwater.
Reclaiming your own truth
The goal here isn’t cynicism. It’s clarity. We’ll work with grounded, embodied practices to help you reconnect with your own knowing — the kind that lives in your body, not just your beliefs. For some people, that means stepping away from a path that they have outgrown. For others, it means going deeper into a tradition they’d started to abandon — this time on solid ground, with eyes open and their own authority intact.
Honest. Human. Deep. Healing. And yes — irreverent. Because sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is call it what it is.
Early Bird Discount $599 (Ends October 27th)
Full Price of $699 thereafter
If you have trouble checking out, or want to pay through Venmo send an email to info@carolineculverhouse.com
READING, PA
Art of Facilitation is a weekend immersion for people who work with groups — therapists, yoga teachers, business owners, retreat leaders, coaches, healers, creatives, and community leaders — who want to move beyond simply hosting experiences and into the deeper, more skillful art of true facilitation.
Many people can organize an event. Far fewer know how to read a room, regulate group energy, establish emotional safety, work with challenging dynamics as they arise, and guide people through real transformation without causing harm. This immersion is for those who sense that facilitation is not about charisma or performance or even a beautiful face, but about presence, discernment, personal discipline, and embodied leadership.
Caroline “Carrie” Culverhouse draws from over a decade of intensive clinical training, trauma-informed group psychotherapy, spiritual teaching, and more than 200 retreats led around the country. Her approach bridges psychology and spirituality in a way that is practical, grounded, and immediately usable — without bypassing, guru posturing, or performative “holding space.”
This is not a certification mill, formulaic framework, or performative leadership training.
It is an experiential, relational immersion designed to sharpen your facilitation instincts, deepen your nervous system literacy, and help you lead groups with clarity and integrity.
Over the course of the weekend, participants will learn:
The difference between hosting, teaching, leading, and facilitating — and when each role is actually needed
How to establish psychological and nervous system safety in groups without over-controlling or over-sharing
Reading group dynamics in real time: power, projection, resistance, collapse, and dependency
How trauma, attachment styles, and unspoken group roles shape what unfolds in a room
The facilitator’s inner landscape: countertransference, ego, savior patterns, and “spiritual performance”
When to intervene, when to pause, and when to let something unfold organically
How to hold intensity, emotion, and conflict without re-traumatizing participants or yourself
Ethical facilitation: boundaries, responsibility, and knowing what is not yours to carry
This weekend blends teaching, experiential practice, live demonstration, group reflection, and supervised inquiry, allowing participants to feel the material in their bodies — not just understand it intellectually.
Participants leave with:
Greater confidence and clarity in their facilitation style and capacity
A deeper understanding of group dynamics and how to create psychological safety
A toolbox of practices to increase group participation and group satisfaction
A more grounded, embodied relationship to leadership itself by connection with one’s personal spiritual path
This is Phase 2 work — for those who know that true, grounded facilitation changes lives.
This immersion is ideal for people who:
Already lead groups or retreats and want to refine their craft
Feel called to lead, but want to do so responsibly and skillfully
Have outgrown surface-level facilitation or “one-size-fits-all” methods
Want to create spaces that are both spiritually meaningful and psychologically sound
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