AWAKENING THE SPIRIT

FOR FIRST-TIME VISITORS

Personal Message from the Director

Why Take STAR

Your STAR Experience

The STAR Process

The Essence of STAR

What Graduates Say About STAR

The Value of a Personal Growth Retreat

STAR Staff

FOR THERAPISTS

Message from the Director

What Therapists Say About STAR

Inside the STAR Process

Why Therapists Choose STAR

STAR Staff

SPECIAL TOPICS

Addictions and Recovery

Attachment Disorder and Relationship Problems

Anger Management

Attacking Anxiety and Depression

Grief Recovery

Childhood Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress

Recommended Reading

Awakening the spirit is the heart of STAR’s work, and is the underlying goal of all our programs.

STAR provides a profound opportunity to discover and deepen your own authentic spirituality. In the course of their STAR experience, many participants find themselves becoming stronger in their own religious or spiritual orientation and going deeper into their inner experience. Those for whom the realm of the spirit or soul has seemed vague, remote, or even nonexistent often experience a profound rekindling of the reality of this aspect of their lives.

The awakening of the spirit is an experience; it happens inside the skin, inside the psyche, in the deepest recesses of our private and personal knowing.

While matters of the soul and spirit are central to the work of STAR, we neither advocate nor prescribe specific religious beliefs or spiritual practices. Instead, STAR supports your personal search for authenticity in these issues, while taking great care to honor the reality and validity of everyone’s personal experience.

It is part of a great awakening that the use of the word ‘soul’ is now found in many titles of books, in lectures and conference titles. In the expansion of our consciousness we must return from our present concept of society, back to cellular memories, and finally reclaim our souls. In therapy we need to move through our pain, to before the pain, to the memory of wholeness which lies hidden within us. There are methods – some very simple – which we can learn to empower us on our journey from social adaptation, to cellular memory, to remembering soul. In that remembrance is the rebirth of the active, feeling, thinking reality of soul's presence in our lives. – Barbara Findeisen