WORKSHOPS FOR WOMEN

Linda Mastro and Anna Harding offer workshops for groups of women based on their book Petite Retreats: Renewing Body, Mind, and Spirit without Leaving Home.

Workshops can be customized to meet the needs of groups of women who meet as friends, in book groups, through faith communities, and as professional colleagues. The process is designed for women who want to explore the possibilities for enhanced well being.

The length of a Petite Retreat workshop can be as short as a one-hour overview of the Petite Retreat concept and as long as a full-day experience.

In a Petite Retreat workshop, women will examine the excuses that keep them from taking time for themselves. Together, they will imagine activities that they can practice to enhance their creativity, joy, health, productivity, and spirituality. In a longer workshop, each woman will experience a Petite Retreat and leave with a recipe for creating a two-hour or full-day retreat in the sanctuary of her own home.

For more information about how to book a Petite Retreat workshop, call 410-822-6452 or email renew@petiteretreats.org.

Women who have participated in Petite Retreat workshops say:

“It brought back into focus many things that I have been taking for granted.”

“I gained increased self awareness. I feel validated by the other women sharing experience.”

“I am worthy of giving myself permission to explore and be for myself. It has already changed my life.”

“The workshop jump started me to do what I need to do for myself!”

“Anna and Linda were very good at making a wide variety of women comfortable.”

“It gives me joy just to plan a time for myself, and knowing that the time is marked off on my calendar is a kind of petite retreat 'moment' all by itself. Kind of like the background joy of knowing one is going on a vacation in the not too distant future.”

“Despite my knowing I need ‘down time’ on a somewhat regular basis (and I am pretty good about scheduling it), I have never planned what that down time will look like. No plan, no thought about what else might be exciting and expanding for me to ‘do.’ I am happy to have had the Petite Retreat workshop to cause that ‘wow’ realization.”

"Thank you for this opportunity to start my life again."