This immersive weekend workshop with Drs. Jud Brewer, Robin Boudette, and Fabio Giommi explores the qualities that lie at the heart of effective therapeutic work: awareness, curiosity, and embodied presence. While the workshop complements the six-week course, There Is No Cure for Curiosity: Reinvigorating Clinical Practice Through Embodied Inquiry, and the Neuroscience of Connection, it is also designed as a stand-alone training. Whether participants join after completing the course or attend independently, the weekend offers an experiential opportunity to rediscover the conditions that support healing relationships and help revitalize both personal practice and clinical work.
Many clinicians enter the helping professions with a deep sense of purpose, only to find that over time their work can become repetitive, effortful, or disconnected from the vitality that first drew them to the field. Techniques and theories remain important, but lasting transformation depends on something more fundamental: the therapist’s capacity to remain open, embodied, and genuinely curious in the face of suffering.
Grounded in Buddhist psychology, contemporary neuroscience, and decades of clinical practice, this workshop explores psychotherapy not as the application of techniques, but as a process of investigation. Participants will deepen their understanding of how habits of mind—including attachment to particular therapeutic orientations, fixed views, and professional identities—can narrow perception and limit responsiveness. In particular, we will explore the neuroscience of predictive models and how these affect habits of mind. Through experiential practice, participants will learn to recognize these patterns in themselves and their clients, cultivating greater flexibility, presence, and insight.
Throughout the weekend, we will investigate questions such as:
- How do curiosity and embodied awareness restore therapeutic presence and rekindle engagement in clinical work?
- How do theoretical orientations become identities that shape—and sometimes constrain—our perception?
- What can the body teach us about moments of openness and closure in ourselves and our clients?
- How can intention-based values support sustainable practice, integrity, and resilience?
- How does learning and transformation occur through direct experience rather than effort or force?
Participants will develop practical skills for bringing curiosity into therapeutic relationships, using embodied awareness as a compass for clinical decision-making, and working with burnout and stuckness as opportunities for growth.
Designed for mental health professionals—including psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, and psychiatrists—this training offers an opportunity to deepen both personal practice and professional effectiveness.
Ultimately, this workshop supports a shift in the experience of clinical work: from feeling obligated to perform a role to approaching each encounter as an opportunity to explore, discover, and grow together. Participants will leave with concrete practices and renewed inspiration for cultivating therapeutic relationships that foster healing for both clients and clinicians.
NOTE: For mental health professionals—including psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, and psychiatrists currently in practice.
Program Format: The workshop combines lectures, short meditation practices, mindful inquiry, experiential exercises, and small- and large-group dialogue
Camping Option: If you would like to camp, please select the "Commuter" option, and note in the Comments section that you plan to camp. Before choosing to camp, keep in mind that heat, rain, and ticks/mosquitoes are aspects of the camping experience. If you'd like to be on the waitlist for a room, there is a checkbox. All meals are included, and campers have access to restrooms and showers. Please bring your own gear.