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In addition to this event, you can enjoy all of the daily activities that Woodside offers, see a sample daily schedule.

The musician Jeffrey Buckley said, that “love heals all wounds, and not just time alone.” He was certainly on to something that rings true, but we might be left wondering, how is this possible? At this heart centered, soul-enriching retreat we will get to the how by experiencing the energy of love as our most powerful tool for growth, healing, and connection with others. Learn practical techniques and tools to elevate and create more self-love in order to connect with your authentic self and have true compassion for our world.

In addition to this event, you can enjoy all of the daily activities that Woodside, CA offers. Explore our sample schedule.

Scott Stabile is a self-declared “love activist,” who speaks and writes about the transformative healing that comes from love. Scott raises one’s awareness about the power of self-love and universal love, but not from a space of naivety. He shows how love is indeed our greatest healer. By centering love at the root of our words and actions, Scott teaches us how we can create real healing for ourselves and our world. Always with the intention of reminding us that we are worthy, whole, and loved human beings, Scott has traveled extensively to share his teachings on love and additional subjects such as authenticity, trust, fear, compassion, joy and conditioning. He is the author of Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart, and Just Love.

Learn to integrate tools like intention, visualization, active empathy and soul-writing in order to connect you more readily and deeply to self-love, authentic desires, and compassion for all.

You will discover how powerful you are to create potent, positive changes in your life when your open heart takes the lead.

Friday, February 11
Morning Session: The Many Gifts of Self-Love
Our daily habits and thoughts create our behaviors and actions towards others. In this session we explore a variety of tools to learn how to root ourselves in self-love. We will also look at how the habits we have developed can take us away from loving ourselves fully. We will authentically connect and reflect on questions such as: What do you think about yourself? What words do you speak to yourself? What actions do you take that support or don’t support self-care? We will learn how when we love ourselves, we love the world. There is no more important choice you can make than the choice to love yourself because it affects your relationship with others and all things.

Afternoon Session: Let Go and Move Forward
Blocks are a hinderance to progression. In order to move forward with our intentions with clarity, we need to clear away the blocks we have created. One way is to name them, write them down, and let them go. This afternoon we will gather by the fire to look closer at the beliefs, fears, and insecurities that are obstacles to our connection to love. We will then take our written-down blocks and release them into the roaring fire.

Saturday, February 12
Morning Session: Write into Your Heart
What happens when we listen to the guidance of our hearts, rather than the demands of our minds? How might we show up more honestly from this heart-centered place? In this session, we’ll put pen to paper and invite our hearts into the conversation about our lives – our fears, our creativity, our relationships, our purpose. You don’t need to be a writer to be a part of this class, but you do need to be someone ready to listen to the whispers (and sometimes shouts) of your open and loving heart.

Afternoon Session: The Power of Empathy
Living with a wide-open heart necessitates recognizing the humanity, and divinity, in our fellow human beings. With empathy as a guiding force, we will explore how to move beyond the mind’s debilitating compulsion to judge and dehumanize others, and instead approach one another with the understanding that we are much more alike than we are different.

Sunday, February 13
Afternoon Session: Visualize It!
If you can see it, you can believe it as the expressions goes. The practice of visualization can be one of the most potent tools for making manifesting the life we desire. It also happens to be a lot of fun. In this session, we will play with visualization to remind ourselves we are not only beautiful, worthy humans, but also the powerful creators of our own life experience and connection to love.