Email: contact@souliology.com
Welcome to Souliology
Our aim is to help people from all walks of life to evolve, heal and transform their worlds from the inside out through our various different retreats, workshops and online trainings. All of our retreats, workshops and online trainings are led by experts in their field and we feel very privileged to offer you the opportunity to enjoy a deeply personal and transformative experience in their capable hands.
As Oscar Wilde famously said, “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” If your love affair with yourself hasn’t begun yet, we hope to ignite it while you’re with us at one of our beautiful locations in Europe, the USA, Costa Rica or Mexico. We sincerely hope you’ll find an event here that sparks your curiosity, desire, and thirst for knowledge. So you are invited to come and join us!
PATHWAY TO SELF DISCOVERY RETREAT WITH MARY KRUGER - USA, 2025
Mary Kruger, MS, LMFT, is the founder of Rimmon Pond Counseling, an IFS-based private practice in Connecticut. With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in addictions, eating disorders, trauma, and relationships. Mary integrates IFS with her unique experiential approach, developing innovative methods to work with parts and access Self-energy in individual, relational, and group settings. She enjoys sharing her expertise through teaching and consulting on a national level. Mary is renowned for her humor, creativity, passion, and love of dancing and connecting with people.
We are excited to host Mary to run a 5-day residential retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from March 3rd - March 7th, 2025
TRANSCENDING TRAUMA - A RETREAT WITH FRANK ANDERSON - IRELAND - 2025 - NEARLY FULL
Dr. Frank Anderson, MD, is a Lead Trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self Leadership. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.
We are very honoured to invite Dr. Anderson to lead a five-day residential retreat with us on the charming Island of Ireland from March 31st - April 4th, 2025.
HEALING AND UNBURDENING OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SYSTEMS - A 4-DAY WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA MOSE - ONLINE, OCTOBER, 2025
Melissa Mose, LMFT, a level 3 trained and certified IFS clinician and the President of OCD SoCal, has developed an integrative method to treat OCD and related disorders within a compassionate and non-patholigizing IFS Framework.
We are thrilled to invite her to lead this 4-day online workshop where you will learn an IFS informed approach to the assessment and treatment of obsession and compulsive (OC) systems.
This workshop will be delivered online over two weekends - October 18/19 and October 25/26, 2025.
ANCESTRAL LINEAGE HEALING RETREAT - PALERMO, SICILY - 2025 - NEARLY FULL
Dr Daniel Foor is the founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine.
Ancestral healing emphasizes learning to relate directly with one’s recent and more ancient blood ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing.
Daniel’s training draws from his experience in diverse lineages of ritual arts; his academic work as doctor of psychology; his clinical training as a marriage and family therapist; and over 25 years of implementing the teachings of earth and ancestor reverence in his personal life.
Applications are currently open for this 5-day residential retreat in Palermo, Sicily from 17th February - 21st February, 2025.
IFS AND EATING – A 6 DAY INTENSIVE RETREAT - USA - NEARLY FULL
The messages we absorb from the dominant culture as well as from family, friends, and others, in addition to other stressful or traumatic experiences and traumas, motivate parts of us to focus on food and the body to alleviate the shame, worthlessness, and anxiety other parts of us hold. Since these toxic messages are pervasive, we often don’t notice or question them. We continue to engage in diets and wellness plans that keep us stuck and also perpetuate these corrosive practices at the cultural level.
In this six-day retreat, you‘ll explore the different beliefs, emotions, and energies parts of you carry regarding food and your body. Through a combination of large group discussions, small group experiential exercises, and live demonstrations, you’ll get to know and heal the parts of yourself who carry burdens and are stuck in painful cycles of dieting or disconnecting from the body.
Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 9th -14th , March 2025
TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION INFORMED INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS RETREAT - PORTUGAL - 2025
Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, MA. She has over thirty years of experience working with C-PTSD and dissociative disorders and provides trainings and consultation.
Besides her book, Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems, she has written on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, on EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and on working with perpetrator introjects. Her commitment to helping her clients heal and to providing quality training has resulted in her becoming an EMDR Consultant and a Trauma and Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Certified, and an American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Consultant.
Applications are currently open for this retreat in Portugal from May 12th - May 16th, 2025.
SELF-LED PARENTING: EXQUISITE ATTUNEMENT WITH YOUR PARTS AND YOUR CHILDREN - A RETREAT WITH SETH KOPALD - OCTOBER 2025 - USA
This retreat will allow you to discover your own parts who need reparenting through deep, exquisite attunement, and you will learn how to offer the same level of attunement to your own children and build stronger relationships with them. You will learn to give your parts the attention and love they have always needed. Then, we will apply these skills toward doing the same with your children, whether they are young, teens, or on their own, or even estranged.
Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 6th - 10th of October, 2025
GRIEF RELIEF: MEANINGFUL CONNECTION FOR BROKEN-HEARTED PARTS - NOVEMBER, 2025 - USA
In this creative, experiential 5-day retreat, you are invited to gently tend to parts deeply impacted by the death of someone dear to you. Whether your loss occurred recently, long ago or some time in between; you are warmly welcome here.
Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 3rd - 7th of November, 2025
GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER - A TRANSFORMATIVE NEW YEAR'S RETREAT IN COSTA RICA FOR ANY INTIMATE PARTNERS - JANUARY- 2026 - COSTA RICA
Toni Herbine-Blank MS RN is a senior trainer for The Centre for Self Leadership. Her expertise is in the use of IFS with couples and has developed trainings and retreats presenting these nationally and internationally. She is an experienced group leader with a reputation for being compassionate and empowering . . .
The retreat will take place over 5 days starting on Sunday evening, December 28th, 2025 when we meet for dinner, and concluding Friday morning January 2nd, 2026 after our morning session.
STEP 1 - SOMATIC IFS RETREAT WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL IN CHESTER, CONNECTICUT, USA - SEPTEMBER 20TH - 26TH, 2025
Susan McConnell’s amazing Somatic IFS retreat is a retreat not to be missed.
Somatic IFS is a branch of IFS that blends the principles of somatic therapy - like movement, touch, sensation and breathwork – with the traditional tools of IFS. Somatic IFS explores the embodiment of the internal family with the goal of restoring the client’s SELF to leadership and allowing parts that express through the body to come into relationship and alignment with the client’s SELF.
The retreat will take place near the charming town of Chester, Connecticut - merely a 12 mile drive away from Long Island Sound.
54-HOUR ONLINE SOMATIC IFS TRAINING WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL - NOVEMBER, 2025 - JANUARY 2026 - ONLINE
This 54-hour Step 2 Somatic IFS Online Training will build on your immersion into the practices of Somatic IFS that you experienced in the Somatic IFS Step 1 program. Each weekly session of this clinical training will focus on the integration and application of the somatic practices of awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch with the IFS Model of psychotherapy.
This Step 2 Training Program will run online from November, 2025 - January 2026
Client reviews
Dr. Lissa Rankin - Internal Family Systems & Memoir Writing Retreat. November, 2024. Malta.
This retreat far far far exceeded my hopes & expectations for Memoir Writing. We were together with magical souls on a special journey together.
Susan McConnell - SIFS. Retreat. October, 2024. USA.
I found Susan to be warm, inviting and nurturing as she used experiential exercises to connect her IFS approach to body, mind and spirit. I was deeply and profoundly moved and gained a greater understanding of myself through this retreat experience. -
Faye, USA
Pamela Krause - Self Energy and Self-Like Parts Retreat. October 2024. Ireland.
An incredible, heartwarming and growth experience. Pam's warmth and generous sharing of wisdom was a thrill to experience. Ciara and Souliology are fantastic and professional. I cannot fault this retreat. I have many wonderful memories to take home and knowledge/insight to integrate my work and personal IFS therapy. Very grateful. Well worth the expense and distance travelled.
Daniel Foor - Ancestral Lineage Healing Retreat. October, 2024. Northern Ireland.
The ancestral healing retreat was a powerful dive into liberating access to a part of me that I didn't even know was repressed, explicitly access to my ancestral heritage and lineage. Daniel is a skilled facilitator with great gifts and clear mastery in the craft of healing ancestral lineage. If you have an interest in connecting with your heritage, I highly recommend studying with Daniel. "
Stuart Motola, U.S.
Cece Sykes - Heart Lessons of the Journey Retreat. October, 2024. Ireland.
Ciara, Joan and CeCe were all warm, engaging and present. Their warm, hospitable and open energy allowed for great connection to oneself and to others creating a really healing space throughout the retreat. I would highly recommend this.
Jane
Chris Burris - IFS Experiential Intensive Workshop, June, 2024. Ireland.
This workshop was a true gift for my heart, mind and soul. Incredible teacher, wonderful group, heartwarming surroundings. A big thank you.
Griet Op de Beeck, Belgium
Susan McConnell - SIFS Retreat, April, 2024. Malta.
Slowing down and opening up! My body is still connecting into the deep healing from the SIFS Retreat and my system feels very calm. Ciara, you were a fabulous host, and thank you to Susan and the team for the wonderful SIFS experience, thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate the new Somatic IFS connections made and I look forward to more somatic training in future!
Steph, London
Toni Herbine-Blank - Getting to the Heart of the Matter - A Couples Retreat. April, 2024. Ireland.
Our retreat experience was outstanding! Ciara was masterful at taking care of the details so that the group could be fully present with the content. Toni, the retreat leader, was so excellent, I really don't have good enough words to describe. Far above and beyond our expectations, and we came away deeply nourished and enriched. Simply wonderful! -
Eleanor, Seattle, WA, USA
Kay Gardner - A Legacy Burden Retreat, February, 2024. Ireland.
My time at this retreat was one of the best weeks of my life. It was the perfect combination of travel, relaxation, learning, and healing. You can tell when an organization is run straight from the heart and Souliology is from the heart, and for the soul.
Donia from Denver.
Ann Sinko - The Grief retreat, November, 2023. Ireland.
This is the best IFS training I have ever been on. I've met some fabulous people who will be in my life forever. Thank you :)
A lovely time. My only criticism is the hotel in the city. A country location would have supported the grief work better.
Thank you for all you do!
Thanks so much!!
UPCOMING AND FULLY SUBSCRIBED RETREATS (FOR INFORMATION ONLY)
GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER - A COUPLES RETREAT LED BY TONI HERBINE-BLANK IN PORTUGAL - NOW FULLY BOOKED
Toni Herbine-Blank MS RN is a senior trainer for The Centre for Self Leadership. Her expertise is in the use of IFS with couples and has developed trainings and retreats presenting these nationally and internationally. She is an experienced group leader with a reputation for being compassionate and empowering.
The retreat will take place over 5 days starting on Monday evening, May 5th, 2025 and concluding Saturday morning May 10th after our morning session.
STEP 1 - SOMATIC IFS RETREAT WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL IN PORTUGAL - NOW FULLY BOOKED
Susan McConnell, MAPD, CHT, is a senior trainer for the IFS Institute and has taught Internal Family Systems in the US and internationally since 1997. Somatic IFS is the culmination of her experience and teaching of various bodywork, movement, spiritual, and psychotherapeutic modalities that facilitate the embodiment of the internal family—the subpersonalities as well as the essential core Self—to bring compassionate witnessing to the implicit body stories of our individual hurts and societal burdens.
The retreat is over 7 days starting at 7pm on the Sunday evening of April 27th, 2025 when we will meet for dinner, welcome everyone, make introductions and outline the program for the week. We will complete our week on Sunday May 4th, 2025 after breakfast, when you are free to depart at your convenience.
54-HOUR ONLINE SOMATIC IFS TRAINING WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL - ONLINE - NOW FULLY BOOKED
This 54-hour Step 2 Somatic IFS Online Training will build on your immersion into the practices of Somatic IFS that you experienced in the Somatic IFS Step 1 program. Each weekly session of this clinical training will focus on the integration and application of the somatic practices of awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch with the IFS Model of psychotherapy.
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