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Our lives are not predestined, the world is not done, and we are not puppets in it. We are made genetically to be able to be happy in an imperfect world that is endlessly unfolding.

Albert Pesso

a 4-day transformational retreat in Cornwall

 

monday 23  to friday 27 MARCH 2026

 

We are starting where all good stories begin ….

Rosemerryn House, a former artist’s home,  is set in beautiful woodland near Lamorna Cove, in the ancient heart of Cornwall.

“Rosemerryn woods is very healing and just the right space for a healing workshop”.

This is a rare opportunity to work in a small group over four days in the beautiful and tranquil setting of Rosemerryn Woods, in the ancient heart of Cornwall.

The most important journey in our lives is to reconnect and integrate all the different aspects of ourselves. To welcome home, enjoy a greater sense of self, and pleasure, joy and satisfaction in our lives.

Over the four days, we will work with a powerful mind-body therapy (Pesso-Boyden Psychomotor System), which will help us go deeper into ourselves and heal and resolve the obstacles and wounds from our past to focus on the present. The intention of this retreat is to provide a POSSIBILITY SPHERE of mutual trust and support where people can – in the words of Al Pesso – “become who they truly are”.

After you leave, you can choose to have a follow up telephone or online  session to help you integrate what you have learnt into your life.

Are you willing to dive deep?

This programme is an investment in yourself, in your life. I know it will demand a commitment from you, but if this feels right for you, do not hesitate. Reserve your place with a deposit or contact me and I will arrange a telephone session to talk to you, answer your questions and help you decide whether to sign up for this programme.

 

Testimonials

From participants who have been on a retreat or have experienced being part of a Pesso Boyden group.

 

“I did decades of personal development & psychology training, but this approach gave me more agency, more leverage in a shorter time. It allowed a clearer visualisation of a positive counter shape to a missing stage of development in my childhood & a resolution through a collaborative process”.

“From the very first session I could tell that I was in the presence of someone who is truly authentic: an expert in her field. Deborah has worked with and alongside me from the depths and breadth (as well as the heights!) of her wisdom, intuition, and experience”.

“I found my time on retreat with Deborah at Rosemerryn House to be very healing. Deborah is a highly skilled PBSP therapist and the setting and programme were very supportive of the work we did as a group”.

Wisdom is constant cleaning of the heart!!

“Deborah, with her Pesso Boyden structure, wasn’t normal cleaning of the heart but a “jet-wash” on a deep level to our heart and mind. I couldn’t thank Debs enough for holding a safe space sooo skillfully and yet tenderly allowing so much inner cleansing work done within those few days… !!

Deborah mended the lost puzzles in our “perceptions” that got fixated in our memories!! The beauty of Pesso Boyden structure is that it recollects and re-connects a complete thought-process … so that people, situations and issues in the context of the past could be “re-installed” in a more positive, much expanded and healthier scope of perspectives!!

After 5 days of retreat… including all the hearty yummy food and serene rest in nature … I felt I could reclaim my personal power with much more healthy self-understanding and self-leadership to do the things that I struggled with before!!

My heartfelt thanks Deborah… for your daring curiosity to explore our many different themes that emerged. Your tender care to walk alongside our therapeutic path while using your creativity to orchestrate different strands that came up… had given us freedom and safety to allow deep hidden issues/blindness to emerge. Your sensitivity helped to pull everything together with much healing possibilities that matched with what’s needed for each one of the participants… you really managed to do magic to each one of us… Deborah!! Thank you!!”

 

“Rosemerryn Woods and Lamorna Cove are beautiful and peaceful places, and the meals we were offered each day were delicious and nourishing. The schedule was spacious enough that I could take time to myself, and yet there was plenty of time for each person in the group to have a structure and further processing time”. 

“I found the retreat I attended in May this year immensely helpful; something was healed for me at a very deep level. The Pesso Boyden method is wonderful, and Deborah works in a very attentive, respectful and precise manner with each person, while keeping the whole retreat relaxed and enjoyable at the same time. I thought this was remarkable”.

The facilitator

Deborah Clarke

Deborah is a life coach and psychotherapist with over 18 years of experience. She is also an accredited  Pesso Boyden practitioner and supervisor.

The Cost of the Course:

£600 plus accommodation costs.

The cost of the accommodation for four nights is from £360 to £480.  This charge covers the cost of your accommodation, food and all hot drinks. Meals are vegan or vegetarian.

  • Share a Twin Room/double room with a shared bathroom is £360
  • Double room with a shared bathroom is £430
  • Double room with ensuite is £470

Dates and Timings:

Arrival 5pm on Sunday 16 March to 11 am on Thursday 20 March 2025.

Booking and payment:

For more information and bookings, please contact Deborah on deborah.clarke.lifetherapy@gmail.com

The deposit for this course is £80 and is non-refundable. Once you have paid the deposit, I can send you a form to complete and an invoice for the balance, which can be paid in instalments.

 

Cancellation: 

Cancellations with more than sixty days are refundable, except for the deposit. Cancellations within sixty days of the retreat are non-refundable. However, if possible, we will see if we can find another person to take your place.

 

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