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 programs. All of our retreats, workshops and online programs 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 warmly invited to come and join us!
THE THERAPIST'S INHERITANCE - RELEASING LEGACY BURDENS AND EMBODYING LEGACY HEIRLOOMS WITH ANCESTOR WISDOM RETREAT WITH TAMALA FLOYD, MAY 24 - 29, 2026 - PORTUGAL.
We would love to invite you to The Therapist's Inheritance Retreat with Tamala Floyd—a thoughtfully curated experience designed for IFS-trained therapists and practitioners.
As you know, IFS is an inside-out model. This retreat offers you a sacred space to connect with the parts of yourself that carry legacy burdens and heirlooms. By working with your own legacy material, you’ll deepen your healing and become even more resourced to support your clients as they navigate their generational trauma and begin to access their own legacy gifts.
Applications are now open for this retreat in Portugal from May 24-29, 2026.
THE SPIRITUAL ENERGETIC LENS OF IFS RETREAT WITH KAY GARDNER, MARCH 1 - 6, 2026 - PORTUGAL.
This 6-Day Residential Retreat will help you expand your experience and understanding of parts work to include a rich and deep resonance with energy and spirituality. Kay has taken the things that have enriched, inspired and enlivened her along this path and included them in this retreat.
The retreat will take place over 6 days in Portugal from March 1st - 6th, 2026.
PREDICTIVE MINDS: SUPPORTING AUTISTIC SYSTEMS WITH IFS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP WITH SARAH BERGENFIELD - FEBRUARY 7 - 8, 2026.
This 2-day IFS workshop is for IFS trained and/or informed therapists and practitioners who work with neurodivergent clients or who want to learn more about their own autistic systems. Our online workshop will allow you to build connection, both within your own systems using the IFS model, and to the greater autistic community.
FROM EMPTINESS TO EMBODIMENT: AN IFS - BASED APPROACH TO HEALING NEGLECT WORKSHOP WITH JENNY FIEBIG - JUNE, 12 -13 & 19 - 20, 2026.
This 4-session experiential workshop is designed for therapists who want to deepen their understanding of how emotional childhood neglect shapes internal systems and impacts adult clients.
Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) as the primary framework, participants will explore how neglect creates protective patterns, reinforces nervous system dysregulation, and leads to chronic emotional disconnection.
THE QUIET FATIGUE OF THE HEALER - SELF-CARE IS AN INSIGHT JOB - A 6-Day Residential Retreat with Cece Sykes
MAY 3-8, 2026 - Portugal
In a world that asks therapists to hold so much, where the boundary between service and Self can blur, fatigue can quietly take root. This retreat offers a pause—a place to lay down what you’ve been carrying, to rest your nervous system, and to reconnect with the parts of you that long to be noticed, nourished, and restored.
Applications are currently open for this retreat in Portugal with Cece Sykes from May 3-8, 2026.
DEMYSTIFYING DIRECT ACCESS - A 4-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH PAMELA KRAUSE - OCT 25-26 & NOV 1-2, 2026
The IFS model depends on two sources of Self-energy – the Self of the client and the Self of the practitioner. In Level 1 IFS trainings we learn primarily about utilizing the Self of the client to ‘go inside’ to witness and heal their parts; we call this modality in-sight. However, what do we do if our clients aren’t able to do in-sight? We can use the other source of Self-energy (our own) to directly connect with the part(s) of our clients. This is called Direct Access and is the second modality of IFS.
Applications are now open for this 4-day online workshop in Oct/Nov 2026
STEP 2 - 54-HOUR SOMATIC IFS ONLINE TRAINING WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL AND STAFF, NOVEMBER, 2026 - JANUARY 2027 - ONLINE
This Step 2 - 54-hr Somatic IFS Online Training will build on your immersion into the practices of Somatic IFS that you experienced in the Step 1, 30-Hr Somatic IFS retreat. 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.
THE SPIRITUAL LENS OF IFS, A 2-DAY EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP WITH KAY GARDNER - JUNE 26 & 27, 2026
This two-day experiential online workshop with Kay Gardner explores the spiritual dimensions of IFS therapy and how they naturally emerge when we work from Self energy. Through meditation, movement, dyadic inquiry, and group process, participants will explore powerful spiritual doorways within IFS, sacred space, personal vs Self-led power, shadow work, guides, dreams, and synchronicity.
SURVIVING THEIR INFIDELITY: A 2-DAY INTENSIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP IN BETRAYAL TRAUMA FOR THERAPISTS WITH WAYNE BAKER, LPC - JUNE 18 & 19, 2026
This comprehensive, interactive workshop offers a framework grounded in IFS, trauma-informed care, somatic therapy, attachment theory, and relational neuroscience.
Applications are now open for this 2-day online workshop in June 2026
COURAGEOUS COMMUNICATION: STAYING THE COURSE DURING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS WITH TONI HERBINE BLANK - MAY 11 & 12, 2026
Courageous Communication allows us to stay the course during difficult conversations so we can build bridges with people and not build isolated islands to protect ourselves.
Applications are now open for this 2-day online workshop in May 2026
TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION INFORMED INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS A NON-RESIDENTIAL EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP WITH JOANNE TWOMBLY CONNECTICUT, OCTOBER 19-23, 2026
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.
Applications are currently open for this non-residential experiential workshop in Connecticut from October 19-23, 2026.
RELATIONSICK - AN IN-PERSON RESIDENTIAL RETREAT FOR HEALING RELATIONAL TRAUMA TO OPTIMIZE HEALTH OUTCOMES, OCTOBER 26-30, 2026
In addition to her public health advocacy and health care reform activism, Lissa leads workshops- online, at US retreat centers like Esalen, 1440, Omega, and Kripalu, and internationally.
Applications are currently open for this retreat in Connecticut from October 26-30, 2026.
Client reviews
Dr. Lissa Rankin - Internal Family Systems & Memoir Writing Retreat - 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 - STEP 1 - SOMATIC IFS. Retreat - 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 -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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - STEP 1, SOMATIC IFS Retreat - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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!!
INFO LINKS FOR FULLY BOOKED RETREATS & PROGRAMS
STEP 1 - SOMATIC IFS RETREAT WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL IN COSTA RICA FEBRUARY 7 - 14, 2026 - FULLY BOOKED
On this retreat, you will be invited to explore your internal system with the practices of Somatic IFS. Through guided exercises, journaling, live demonstrations and small group interactions you will listen to your parts through sensations, movement and touch. Your experience of the Embodied Self can transform your personal and professional life.
The retreat will take place in Costa Rica from February 7th to 14th, 2026.
54-HOUR ONLINE SOMATIC IFS TRAINING WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL - NOVEMBER, 2025 - JANUARY 2026 - 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.
This Step 2 Training Program will run online from November, 2025 - January 2026
STEP 1 - SOMATIC IFS RETREAT WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL IN COSTA RICA FEBRUARY 21 - 28, 2026 - WEEK 2 - FULLY BOOKED
On this retreat, you will be invited to explore your internal system with the practices of Somatic IFS. Through guided exercises, journaling, live demonstrations and small group interactions you will listen to your parts through sensations, movement and touch. Your experience of the Embodied Self can transform your personal and professional life.
The retreat will take place in Costa Rica from February 21st to 28th, 2026.
DEMYSTIFYING DIRECT ACCESS - A 4-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH PAMELA KRAUSE - JANUARY 2026 - FULLY BOOKED
This four-day online workshop for IFS-Level 1 Trained therapists and practitioners is a rare opportunity to demystify Direct Access and explore it's many applications with Pamela Krause, an expert on this topic.
This workshop will take place over two weekends: January 16–17 and January 30–31, 2026.
STEP 1 - SOMATIC IFS RETREAT WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL AND STAFF - APRIL 22 - 29, 2026 - PORTUGAL - FULLY BOOKED
On this retreat, you will be invited to explore your internal system with the practices of Somatic IFS. Through guided exercises, journaling, live demonstrations and small group interactions you will listen to your parts through sensations, movement and touch. Your experience of the Embodied Self can transform your personal and professional life.
Applications are now open for this retreat in the Portugal from April 22 - 29, 2026
Let’s get Social . . .
THE GLIMPSE AHEAD:
Souliology’s 2026–2027 Retreats & Online Experiences
(not yet open for registration)
