Welcome to the first 5-Day Inner Bonding Intensive in the United Kingdom. Co-leading this Intensive will be Nancy Swisher and Stel Fine, two senior Certified Inner Bonding Facilitators in the gorgeous, inspiring environment of The Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, with beautiful medieval buildings and grounds in Oxfordshire that has been hosting conscious retreats for decades.

In this peaceful, healing environment, we invite you to bring your challenges and painful issues, which are limiting your ability to live whole, celebrated, fully self-expressed and free lives.

Each of us has issues that get in our way of loving ourselves completely. The purpose of Inner Bonding is to retire those old, false beliefs, throw off the constricting behaviors and labels and learn how to be loving to yourself in any circumstance with any person, as well as when you are alone.

Most of us are unaware of how conditioned we are to judge, control and protect ourselves (in conscious and unconscious ways), and how much that closes our hearts and affects our lives, opportunities, relationships and the world.

Inner Bonding’s proven 6-Step Process allows you to strengthen your willingness and ability to learn how to become present and attuned to your feelings, desires, and intuitions. It also helps you heal the wounds of rejection, abandonment, abuse, trauma, shame, and neglect which often result in addictions, relationship conflicts, low self-esteem, and victimhood.

Some specific issues covered in the Intensive are:

• Heal the fears, judgments, and false beliefs that limit you, moving into the ability to manifest your dreams.

• Heal the abandonment, shame, and self-abandonment issues that lie at the center of anxiety, depression, addictions, anger and relationship problems.

• Heal caretaking/taking control issues, and their resulting patterns of anger, withdrawal, compliance, and resistance.

• Heal fears of rejection, engulfment, aloneness, and failure.

• Heal addictions to drugs, food, nicotine, alcohol, relationships, work, sex, shopping, “screens”, and other addictions.

The workshop maximum of 12 people provides a safe, intimate, caring environment for individuals and couples to work in exploring deeper issues. You learn how to create a safe space within which to resolve conflicts in ways that lead to increased closeness in all your relationships.

In this once-in-a-lifetime Intensive, our two senior facilitators will be joined by two outstanding Facilitators-in-Training, maximizing your opportunity to engage in one-to-one work during our five days together.

Each day begins with a 30-minute guided meditation and check-in in order to center as a group and individually. On the first morning, you will learn the 6-Step Inner Bonding process. After that and for the rest of the Intensive, we will be doing 1-to-1 Inner Bonding facilitation with individuals and couples during the day.

We work with Inner Bonding eight to nine hours daily, giving participants plenty of time for healing work. We also watch fun movies and dance on three of the evenings!

Although our Intensive will formally begin on Wednesday, July 25 at 9 am, we request that you arrive on Tuesday, July 24 between 4:30-9pm. Please have dinner with us at 6:30 pm and take the rest of the evening to get acquainted and settled in. Nancy will share a reading from her book after dinner.

We will meet for three sessions each day—morning, afternoon, and evening through Saturday, July 28. On Sunday, July 29, we end the retreat at 3:30 pm.

• Individuals and couples wanting to learn Inner Bonding and experience a deep level of healing.

• Individuals and couples wanting to heal relationship dysfunction, learn to resolve conflict and create a deeper level of closeness, safety, and connection with a partner, friends, parents, and children.

• Therapists and professionals who have been working with Inner Bonding.

• People familiar with the Inner Bonding process who want to deepen their experience.

• Individuals who want to start the Inner Bonding Facilitator Training Program.

• Individuals and couples who have already taken an Inner Bonding workshop or intensive and want a deeper experience.

About Nancy

Nancy Swisher, MA, MFA has been a certified Inner Bonding Facilitator since 2002. She has led the 5-day Intensive in the States and comes to England each year since 2011 to lead the Inner Bonding Weekend workshop in London. In her work as a Spiritual Teacher and Transformational Coach, Nancy’s gift is to explain complex issues in the field of consciousness and healing in simple down to earth ways that can be understood. She is also known for her ability to create a safe and fun environment for learning. Her literary memoir, The Life That Woke Me Up Was My Own shares her personal journey of healing and wisdom and is available on Amazon. You can read more about Nancy and her work at https://nancyswisher.com

About Stel

Stel Fine, MA, is a Certified Inner Bonding® Facilitator with a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology. Her varied background in Psychotherapy, Education, Non-profits, and Entertainment reveals a common theme of helping people honor their life paths and choices and empowering them to become the hero in their own lives. She creates a safe and supportive space for people, while inspiring them to open to their truth and feelings with compassion, patience, and creativity.  Her life purpose is to help people learn how to stop causing themselves needless suffering and restriction; freeing them up to become loving, whole and fulfilled. Stel is also the Director of Expansion and Co-Director of Training at Inner Bonding Educational Technology, Inc. You can find out more about Stel at stelfine.net 

The Abbey Sutton Courtenay

The Abbey is a unique medieval building, set in extensive grounds, tucked away in the small village of Sutton Courtenay, just 10 miles south of Oxford.

The Abbey is surrounded by 4 acres of beautiful grounds that include mature trees, a woodland path, a labyrinth and tranquil sitting areas, which all guests are welcome to explore and enjoy. There are also fine walks through the old village and along the nearby Thames.

All meals are vegetarian and prepared from fresh ingredients, including produce from the Abbey’s kitchen garden. Fresh fruit is usually available and you are welcome to help yourself to tea and coffee throughout your stay.

Upon registration, you will receive details of directions and what to bring.