EXPLORE YOURSELF at servants Retreat 

This popular seminar has been given (in its current form / changes have added  information only) for the last fifteen years. If you're engaging in D/s or M/s relationships this seminar is for you.

Be prepared to explore yourself. Servant's Retreat focuses on using tools to be a whole person and bringing the power of everything you are into your service. At Retreat, we will explore in depth who we are, not only as servants/puppies/bottoms/slaves/boys/girls, but as people. We will use various psychological theories and models to illuminate how we serve, how we fortify strong personal foundations, and bottom. This retreat will not provide you with uniform answers- there are no patent answers. It is designed to provide you with tools which may allow you to find your answers while enhancing your service, confidence, and self-esteem. Part of SR is refining your sense of direction. 

Servant's Retreat is not a Service 101 course of study, but rather, it is an intensive, immersive, interactive weekend created for people who submit, bottom, and/or serve. It is for people who bottom, people who are D/s, people who are 24/7, those who submit, take direction, surrender, or bottom-- it is about you deepening your personal strength to pursue your deepest happiness in alternative relationships. It is for people who have been serving 20+ years or for a few months. It is open to all genders and orientations. It is not about fantasy but the realities of being a s-type. It is about the realities of living well and understanding ourselves fully.

Each session has worksheets and focuses on a different emotional or intellectual area of service. Some of the concepts we explore are: who we are
as people; submission/surrender and self-esteem; our past/present and how that effects our service; maintaining submission and obedience; training; self-maintenance, personal growth, concepts of punishment and reward, and much more. Mostly, this Retreat is about exploring who you are, how you live, and making powerful, healthy choices. Those choices are individual for you as a person who serves and/or submits.

Strong personal foundations are the goal and allow s-types to come so from a position of wholeness and strength. Being a powerful person is one of your best tools. Lots of seminars talk about power-- this one gives you the tools to be powerful!!

Servant's Retreat runs Friday through Sunday. Due to the intensity of the seminar, only a limited number of attendees will be accepted. Register early to ensure your attendance by prepaying. We also accept monthly installment payments. Click the link on the top menu that says Register and choose the Servant's Retreat you wish to attend on the registration page.Ad published in The Leather Journal in 2005

 

Caption: Ad published in The Leather Journal in 2005

Audio Feedback: Servant's Retreat in Connecticut 2017 

SESSION information

• Session I: Who are we?
• Session II: Submission & Self-esteem: An exploration of who we are, what submission is, what's realistic and what's not, models of submission and a personal inventory of needs and wants. This session includes a close look at the meaning of self-esteem, the challenges of it and tools to shift your relationship with self-esteem.
• Session III and IV: Understanding our personal past and present. We'll explore how issues we carry with us affect our obedience, submission and the health of our lives. Obedience will be covered in detail, including how we manage to be obedient when we don't feel like it. Expect a path of tools, frameworks, and new approaches to enpower you to adjust, refine and ensure your satisfaction.
• Session V: Keeping your space- We're going to discuss boundaries, ritual, protocols, education, and self-knowledge. We'll discuss self-motivating service, goals within your service, and maintaining your space emotionally and physically. This is a tool box and a personal lens!
• Session VI: Punishment and Reward: How does it mold us, what types of punishment and reward are healthy and what works best to motivate us to learn? What system benefits us personally. What are the options that make sense and feel at home for each of us.
• Session VII: Self-maintenance for growth: Deliberately creating the long road and preparing ourselves for the relationship we may or may not yet have and keeping the one we may be in vibrant. 
• Session VIII: Wrap up the week-end. Go over first few sheets and see what's changed, talk about what we've learned.

This is a generalized overview.  Expect more. Expect depth. Expect something different. Servant's Retreat is the only nationally known retreat that has not changed instructors every few years, started as an event that had multiple play classes, or requires various levels of physical engagement. This is for your head and your heart-- we'll leave your body to you and yours. 

WEEKEND SCHEDULE

• FRIDAY: 7:30pm - 10-11:00 pm 
• SATURDAY: 8:00am -4:30-6:00pm
• SUNDAY: 8:00am - 3-4:00pm 
• Doors open at 7:15pm on Friday, and at 8am Saturday and Sunday

UPCOMING SEMINARS

Servant's Retreat Scheduling for all of 2024
will occur IN THE fall 2023  

July 12 - 14, 2019 Tempe, Arizona 
Sept. 27- 29, 2019 Baltimore, Maryland (cats in this location, they will not be in the space we're in) (SOLD OUT)
Nov. 1-3, 2019 Greenville, South Carolina (cats in this location, they will not be in the space we're in) (SOLD OUT)
Nov. 8-11, 2019 Clinton, North Carolina (SOLD OUT)
Feb. 7-9, 2020 Seattle, Washington (SOLD OUT!)

COVID-19 Cancellations & Date Changes

April 3-5, 2020 Stroudsburg, PA, sponsored by East Stroudsburg MAsT - POSTPONED
May 15-17, 2020 Pembroke Pines, FL - CANCELLED
August 14-16, 2020 The Power Exchange Event Centre in Fairfield, OH (Cincinnati) (POSTPONED/CANCELLED)
Oct. 9 - 11, 2020 Jacksonville, FL sponsored by Submissives of Jacksonsville (POSTPONED/CANCELLED)
Oct. 23-25, 2020 Stroudsburg, PA, sponsored by East Stroudsburg MAsT Won't be in person. May go online. Stay tuned! (POSTPONED/CANCELLED)

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PAYMENT OPTIONS

Seminar weekends are $215 per person. BDSMClasses offers a monthly installment payment plans. Make 3 easy payments of $75.00 or 4 payments of $58.00.

Cost includes meals and refreshments (Friday evening light fare, two breakfasts, two lunches, three snack times and beverages), all materials, and an event pin. 

Contact BDSMClasses to make payments.

How to host Servant's Retreat:  Click here to go to the contact page and be sure to click on the tab that says "For Weekend Seminars" to get more information.

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