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CUSTOMIZED RETREATS

7362 E State Route 106, Union, WA 98592 • 360.898.2363 • www.HarmonyHill.org rev. 2.13.13

Harmony Hill’s Mission:

Harmony Hill’s mission is to transform the lives of those affected by cancer and to inspire healthy living for all.

Contact us: For more information about a Customized Retreat please contact us.

Mail: 7362 E State Route 106 Union, WA 98592

Email: Guestservices@ HarmonyHill.org

Phone:

360.898.2363 Toll Free Number:

877.920.1070 FAX:

360.898.2364

Contact our Guest Services Coordinator, at [email protected] or call 360.898.2363 to schedule your overnight or day retreat at our center. We will assist you in finding the perfect date and space that will create the foundation for your personal retreat or group rental. Once you have a date on the Harmony Hill calendar, you will work with our Program Department to explore your retreat enhancement options so that you find the best fit for your interests and needs, as well as your budget. We have faculty available for an entire range of offerings. If something isn’t listed, just ask and we’ll let you know if we can offer it. Most topics can be customized to fit your needs and preferences.

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HOW IT WORKS

When individuals and groups come to Harmony Hill, there are a wide array of retreat enhancements to add to your existing agenda or to create an entire group or personal retreat around! Since 1986, Harmony Hill has facilitated recreational, wellness and professional development experiences that refresh, rejuvenate and empower attendees. These fee-based offerings help pay for the ongoing operations of Harmony Hill and help fund the Cancer Program at Harmony Hill, which is offered at no cost to those who attend. Learn more about our cancer program at www.harmonyhill.org Experiences range from massage, Yoga and nutrition to high level strategic planning for businesses. There is something for everyone!

Personal renewal and health

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7362 E State Route 106, Union, WA 98592 • 360.898.2363 • www.HarmonyHill.org

YOGA—GROUP OR PRIVATE SESSION: Enjoy basic or customized Yoga sessions, including breathing, stretches and yoga postures. Standard sessions will teach basic yoga to increase flexibility, strength and ability to relax, and are suitable for all skill levels. Sessions can be customized for more advanced skill levels.

Group Session: $20 per person; 10 person billing minimum; up to 2 hour session. Private Session: $85 per hour for one person and $25 for each additional person.

LABYRINTH ORIENTATION: One of the oldest spiritual and transformational tools known to humankind, the labyrinth can open your mind and heart. Harmony Hill has two beautiful outdoor labyrinths and one indoor canvas labyrinth, as well as many wooden finger labyrinths. Learn to walk the labyrinth and open yourself up to inspiration, guidance, imagination, and intuition.

$100 flat fee; 30-45 minute session.

WEEKLY DROP IN YOGA CLASSES: Join our weekly drop in Yoga classes offered Mondays 6-7:30 PM,

Wednesdays 9:30-11 AM, and Thursdays 9:30-11 AM. (Special discounted rate of $8 per person for Harmony Hill overnight guests.)

ONSITE CHAIR OR TABLE MASSAGE: The ancient art of massage is gaining popularity as it proves to have a variety of therapeutic and healthful benefits, including stress and pain relief. A great way to relax and rejuvenate during your retreat. A variety of massage practitioners from various modalities offer their services to guests onsite at Harmony Hill.

Table Massage: ½ Hour: $55, 1 Hour: $75, 1½ Hour: $110. ½ Hour Chair Massage: $45. Multiple masseuses available.

CUSTOMIZED GRIEF AND LOSS RETREAT: If you or your small group/family are seeking support in dealing with grief and loss, whether due to the passing of a loved one or the anticipatory grief that comes with the knowledge that you will lose a loved one, Harmony Hill’s experienced therapists are available for customized

sessions onsite at Harmony Hill. Please contact [email protected] for rates and more info.

QI GONG: A customized Qi Gong session can include a variety of breathing, stretching, bending, balance, gentle strengthening and visualization exercises based on the needs of those attending.

$20 per person; 10 person billing minimum; up to 2 hour session.

EFT (or “Emotional Freedom Technique/ tapping”) with Valerie Burke, MSN: EFT is a powerful tool for both physical and emotional healing that combines “needleless acupuncture” with psychological principles. Tapping provides a number of health benefits, including stress and pain relief, decreased anxiety, elimination of fears and phobias, and release of trauma in a powerful but painless way. EFT can offer benefits for just about anything, and it’s easy to learn. Don't face your fears—erase them! As an EFT Coach, Val can show you how this simple but effective tool can be used to transform your life.

$85 per one-hour session, plus $30 per additional 30-minute increment. Ninety-minute first session is recommended. Group sessions also available.

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SESSIONS WITH DENISE CARRICO, BFA

We are privileged to have Denise Carrico, BFA, certified Integral Yoga teacher, artist, calligrapher and experienced hiker in residence at Harmony Hill. In addition to the Weekly and Group Yoga Classes offered (see page 2), Denise can partner with individuals or groups to help create a customized experience and space that is congruent with your own retreat goals, whether just for a session or for your entire retreat.

YOGA COACHING: Schedule a private session, which will include movement and dialogue, with our onsite Yoga Teacher in Residence Denise Carrico. Denise’s compassionate, light hearted and gentle presence can help create a transformational experience within your personal retreat.

MEDITATION: Learn to meditate or enjoy a guided Meditation session. No prior experience is necessary. Our Meditation technique is based on mindfulness, breathing and deep body relaxation. It can be done sitting in a chair, laying down on a mat, or in the classic Meditation posture.

EXPRESSIVE ARTS: Whether you are looking for a fun, interactive art process, or a more reflective expressive arts experience, Denise can facilitate an art process for individuals or groups using various art mediums. No previous art experience necessary.

CALIGRAPHY: Writing can be fun and you don’t have to be an artist to learn calligraphy—with guidance from Denise you can learn the basic tools and techniques that will help you with this beautiful expression of the written word.

GROUP RETREAT OPENING AND/OR CLOSING CIRCLE: Denise can help your group set the intention

and direction of your retreat with a customized opening circle and/or customize a closing circle to assist your group in grounding itself in the retreat and leave the retreat with a sense of completion.

Individual: $85 for up to one hour; $30 per additional 30-minute increment. Group: : $20 per person; 10 person billing minimum.

GUIDED NATURE HIKE: Join Denise or one of our other experienced Harmony Hill outdoor guides as you Hike the beautiful trails surrounding Harmony Hill. Enjoy panoramic views and learn about the local flora and fauna. Time/locale/exertion level can be customized to your specific needs and interests. RATES: $15 per person; $45 billing minimum; up to 90 minute hike.

RATES for above sessions with Denise

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RATES: Nutrition and Gardening Classes

SESSIONS WITH GRETCHEN SCHODDE, MN, ARNP, FNP-BC


After 25 years of dedicated service, Gretchen Schodde, Founder & Executive Director Emerita , decided it was time to step aside and focus her energies on supporting the leadership transition, growth of our cancer programs and other onsite activities, promoting “healthy living for all.” She co-created with Denise Carrico ( HH Yoga facilitator) the 2012 “Camp Harmony” which was a big hit and will be offered again in Summer 2013. Gretchen is well-known in the NW as a creative nurse practitioner and has received a number of awards for her innovations in health care. She is available to partner with individuals or groups to create a customized experience to enhance your retreat goals.

WELLNESS/WELL-BEING COACHING: Spend one on one time with Gretchen, including an integral assessment of such areas as Life/Work Balance, Finding Meaning & Purpose, Eating & Exercise, Spirituality and Creating a Healthy Lifestyle ..

TIPS ON STARTING A RETREAT CENTER: Learn the history of Harmony Hill’s development, reflections on other centers, and explore ideas you may have for starting your own retreat center.

TIPS ON FORMING A 501( C ) 3: Learn how best to navigate what can sometimes be a challenging process of creating your own charitable organization, using simple online resources and team building tools.

BREAD MAKING WITH GRETCHEN: Choose from an array of possibilities—Traditional Yeast, Artisan (No-Knead) or Gluten- Free Baking. Learn how to use whole grains and healthy ingredients with nourishing, delightful results!

HEALTHY AND DELICIOUS SOUP MAKING: Gretchen will share her fun and easy techniques for making delicious soups, often just using what you already have in the fridge. Guaranteed Yum!

LABYRINTH GUIDE—Gretchen can facilitate a walking meditation, talk about the fascinating history of labyrinths, including the history of the labyrinths onsite at Harmony Hill, and/or guide you in creating your own 3, 7 or 11 circuit labyrinth.

LAVENDER WANDS (SUMMERTIME FUN) : Use the abundant lavender growing in our gardens to create these beautiful and fragrant little treasures.

MUSIC AS A STRESS REDUCTION TOOL —Gretchen will share some techniques, as well as CD’s, which will help you relax, and sleep better.

Well-being & Lifestyle Coaching $100 per hour per person

Consultations for starting a retreat center or a 501 c3, building a labyrinth: $85 for up to one hour, $30 per additional 30 minute increments

RATES: Cooking/Baking, Labyrinth tours, Music, Lavender Wands --$50/hr for up to 4 , $10 per hour for each additional person (up to 10 total for anything in the kitchen)

RATES FOR SESSIONS WITH GRETCHEN SCHODDE

NORTHWEST CENTER FOR NURSE RENEWAL


CUSTOMIZED NURSE RENEWAL PROGRAMS WITH HARMONY HILL’S NORTHWEST CENTER FOR NURSE RENEWAL

Nurses share such demanding roles and we are expected to sustain patience and kindness often with little support. It is hard to develop the skills needed in the midst of care giving and crisis. To face great Harmony Hill's stellar nurse leaders/faculty can create a workshop or series of workshops customized for your organizations specific needs and goals. Workshops can be offered at Harmony

Hill's unique natural retreat center or can be offered off-site at a hospital, medical facility or at a location closer to where the nurses are located for a particular medical organization. Designed to help nurses reconnect with their work and alleviate the isolation that can occur in this often high stress job, participants are provided with an introduction to self-care tools and information on how to continue this self-reflective work on their own after the workshop. You can schedule an existing program, such as the

Embracing the Wisdom of Nursing featured below, or we can co-create something that is customized specifically for your organization’s unique needs and goals, from a 2 hour workshop up to a 3 day retreat. Contact us at [email protected] or 360.898.2363 for more information or pricing information . EMBRACING THE WISDOM OF NURSING Program schedule: 4:00 pm Day 1 through 2:00 pm Day 3 With the increasing demands of an ever more complex health system, it can be easy to forget why we became nurses. It is no wonder that nurse retention is a chief concern for almost every medical facility. The demand for skilled nurses is high and will only continue to rise with our aging population. Yet the appreciation and honoring of our sacred art is so far removed from a nurse’s daily work experience. This is why many of us no longer remember why we chose to become nurses to begin with. Through the power of story and sharing, remembering again the purpose that set us on this path, we will explore the “Wisdom of Nursing” concepts of loving kindness, grace, compassion, quiet dignity and generosity of spirit. Embracing wisdom within a holistic framework is a path to healing our profession and ourselves. You are invited to join a supportive circle of nurses in the deeply nurturing environment of Harmony Hill. It’s time to remember… and embrace the wisdom of nursing. Program Tuition: $395 per person, includes meals, lodging, and 7.3 CNE credits* * This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's COA. Approved through March 18, 2013


CUSTOMIZED CANCER WORKSHOPS

CUSTOMIZED offsite RETREATS FOR CANCER RELATED GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

The heart of our mission at Harmony Hill is our Cancer Program. The Cancer Program consists of one-day workshops and three-day extended retreats. Our Cancer Program components serve as supportive adjuncts to medical treatment meant to enhance and support, not replace, conventional medicine. We believe that those living with a diagnosis, both during and past treatment, should have access to many tools on their journeys through cancer.

Our program components address the psychological, physical, and spiritual needs of cancer patients. Harmony Hill has been offering cancer programs and retreats since 1994, and since 2004 we have been offering them free to our participants. We are now expanding out into the community to bring these programs offsite to hospitals, clinics and various community organizations and groups interested in creating renewal opportunities for their members or patients. We have presented these workshops at various organizations, including St. Anthony’s Hospital, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Tacoma General Hospital/MultiCare, The Palisades and Olympic Cancer Center in Sequim. We also offer sponsorship opportunities for our onsite retreats — your organization can sponsor one of our offsite programs, or sponsor a small group of patients that attend a specific support group within the framework of the extended retreat. This format creates an increased opportunity for your patients to create community and also demonstrates excellent patient care. If your organization is interested in exploring the possibility of scheduling a speaker or workshop, or sponsoring a program or workshop, please contact [email protected] or call our Program Manager, Cindy Shank, at 360-898-2363.

RATES: Nutrition and Gardening Classes

NUTRITION with Deanna Minich, PhD


Making Sense of Nutrition: How did food and eating become so complicated and confusing? This series offers several topics to help educate you on the latest in nutritional research and you will gain tools and tips to make eating easier.

Eating for Cancer Prevention: Concepts such as antioxidants, phytochemicals, organic produce, food additives, pH, sugar, and food toxins will be discussed in relationship to cancer.

Conquer Cravings and End Emotional Eating: In this workshop, learn effective strategies for conquering cravings and ending emotional eating using a three-step process.

Foods for Detox: Modern science tells us that toxic burden is associated with chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes, obesity and even cardiovascular

disease. This workshop will give you the nutritional tools to keep your body clean to help you build health and ward off disease through healing foods that taste good!

Foods for Healthy Weight Loss: Learn how certain foods affect metabolism and weight loss. In this interactive workshop , you will learn steps to help you shift your whole being into balance. Understand the body’s hunger signals, identify and express emotions rather than feeding them inside, make choices along a continuum of foods and manage your energy level to keep you empowered. Experience hands on food preparation and leave equipped with tools and tips so you can begin to see the change.

RATES: $25 per person; 10 person billing minimum.

Propagating Plans Through Seeds and Cuttings: Learn how you can learn how to create or expand your own garden spaces by propagating plants through seeds and cuttings. Our own talented facilities and garden coordinator Michele Raven will guide you through a hands-on experience which can be easily replicated at home. Cost of session includes a take home pot with your own plant cutting.

Building Garden Structures with Natural Materials: Harmony Hill is graced by many beautiful garden structures, most of which have been built by Michele Raven, who coordinates our facilities & gardens. Michele and the Harmony Hill gardens and structures, including unique gates, fences and arbors, were featured on HGTV’s Gardening by the Yard with Paul James in 2008, and now you have the opportunity to learn some of Michele’s techniques and have a hands-on experience creating a garden structure that you can replicate at home using natural materials.

The Basics of Organic Gardening: This hands-on workshop will take you through the basics of soil preparation, composting, weed prevention and plant selection so that you can get started on growing your own organic vegetable garden.

GARDENING with Michele Raven


WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE

We offer several topics which can enhance your meeting with a change of pace and give your group an opportunity to learn about helpful tools that can reduce stress, inspire well-being, and take advantage of our facilities, faculty and expertise.

WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE SESSIONS

Stress Reduction at your Desk: In this session, learn simple movements, stress reduction techniques, and simple nutritional tips to re-energize.

Better Break Times — Recharge your Effectiveness: Learn how healthy, easy, and tasty snack choices can boost your effectiveness and concentration. Discover how to incorporate simple “spa moments” into your break time. Practice simple stretches that can lower stress and induce effective relaxation, foundational for effectiveness.

Promoting Resilience & Avoiding Burnout at the Office: Resilience - or strength in the midst of change and stress — is now recognized as a major asset in the workplace — and one of the primary ways to avoid burnout. This class uses tools based on biofeedback from HeartMath™ to teach stress resilience.

Sacred Art of Listening & Meaningful Dialogue: Move from discussion of pre-defined solutions to a higher level of collective collaboration and wisdom within a group or one-to-one. Create space and depth for new ways of thinking and new ways of being. Look to engage deep listening and more understanding for making a

stand for something rather than against something.

Challenge Course Initiatives to Increase Team Effectiveness: Move away from discussing concepts and strategies to enhance your team’s performance to experiencing core elements required to build a team. These experiential learning activities are designed to challenge individual and team responses to meet specific team development goals. Action is fun and stimulating followed by reflection and facilitated debriefs that transfer learning back to the work environment.

Communication That Works — Powerful Tools To Enrich Relationships in All Areas of Your Life: In this workshop you will dive into the consciousness and practice of Non-Violent Communication™, used around the world to enrich relationships in families, businesses, schools, and government agencies, and to build and sustain effective organizations. This workshop will increase understanding of yourself and others; help you to express yourself clearly, to make clear requests of others, to inspire cooperation & work well in teams, and to resolve conflicts to everyone’s satisfaction.

RATES: $100 per person; 10 person billing minimum; two hour session. Please inquire about customized sessions for your group.

“It’s a beautiful and relaxing setting that sets a great tone for a

productive, meaningful retreat.” ~ Harmony Hill Guest

IN DEPTH SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS SESSIONS


Enhancing Organizational Capacities in Balanced Sustainable Development

In the context of rapid change and global challenges, it is more important than ever for organizations to make the investment needed to bring their leaders and teams the most cutting edge information and tools, which in turn will bring about healthy growth and measurable results.

Our business session facilitators support you to step up and “be the change you want to see.” They skillfully combine flexibility;

keen listening skills; and excellent individual, team, and organizational systems knowledge with highly interactive workshop and retreat design plans, which are grounded in a philosophy of self-discovery and an integral approach. We create opportunities for leaders, teams, and individuals who are committed to moving forward and offering their greatest expressions both personally and professionally. You get dynamic results.

Individual workshops are designed as half-day sessions, but can be customized for full-day and multi-day workshops. Our facilitators’ customized program assessments, performed prior to workshops, help align content and format with your organizational objectives.

We invite you to begin a discussion with us around the foundational offers listed below or to talk directly with our facilitators to co-design a program around your performance needs. Whatever your organizational/business goals may be, we can create a session or series of sessions that will best fit your needs and bring about the improvements and growth you are seeking.

RATES: For a four-hour workshop, there is a flat fee of $1800 for up to 12 people. For groups with more than 12 people, fee structure is $125 per person. Discounts may apply for groups over 20 people. Rates are pro-rated for longer workshops. Please inquire for customized rates.

AVAILABLE TOPICS: Operating Efficiently — Getting Past “Putting Out Fires” Do you feel like Smokey the Bear, spending your days “putting out fires?” Are you and your team heading for “burnout” as a result? This workshop will teach you how to look objectively at how you do your work AND how to redesign it to work smoothly and efficiently. It is a very hands-on, active class. Each participant will take a piece of their workday, map it out and transform it by the end of the session. The workshop will give your team three solid techniques they can implement immediately and use in the future. The process builds teamwork, enhances communication, and empowers people to own their work and generate change and innovation. Results are measureable financially,, as well as being highly satisfying to all who take part.

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IN DEPTH SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS SESSIONS — CONTINUED

Igniting Inspiration and Innovation through your Organization — Harnessing new Opportunities Embracing Einstein’s thinking that, “"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them" allows us to move from habitual ways of operating into new territory of innovation, creativity and exploration. Using successful models for identifying core gaps and generating new ways of thinking, this workshop creates an environment that not only stimulates new thinking, but also harnesses the energy of critical thinking to move towards accountable actions and direction. By working with a group’s real-time issues, we collectively generate and refine new directions that enhance, strengthen and bring new value to your business. Key components are the willingness to be curious and playful as we look to using our whole brain in solving issues.

Productive Dialogues — Conversations that Build Relationships and Lead to Results Communication is foundational to success. This workshop will develop leadership qualities that impact conversational ability to effectively produce solutions, overcome interpersonal barriers and enhance relationships. It will build your capacity to find alignment, have prioritization conversations, and identify real issues. Organizations can hire people with the best strategic and tactical thinking skills, but the skills to build relationships and have conversations that get results effectively requires personal ongoing investment. Participants’ self-generated accountability and recognition of their choice in each moment increases more effective action.

Team Development through Experiential Initiatives Move away from discussing concepts and strategies for enhancing your team’s performance to experiencing core elements required to build a team and their contributing results. These experiential learning activities are designed to challenge individual and team responses to specifically meet an organization’s development goals. The action is engaging and stimulating, followed by facilitated discussions that transfer learning back to the work team environment.

Understanding Motivation Engaging people in change and innovation is a challenge for everyone in management today. Change is essential. but how do you get people on board? This workshop covers the three essential elements of motivation and how to apply them to your change projects. It is based on the very well researched and validated Self-Determination Theory out of the University of Rochester in New York. When you understand these concepts, you will know just what to do to support people to pick up the ball and run with it.

OFFSITE ACTIVITIES ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA

Harmony Hill is a sacred, blessed sanctuary of healing and love. Everything about it –

the food, the space, the gardens, the labyrinth, the programs create a perfect

opportunity for transformation.

~ Harmony Hill Guest

Harmony Hill’s 11.5-acre facility is located in Union, Washington and is the home of beautiful gardens, a greenhouse, walking and hiking paths, labyrinths, and breathtaking views of the Hood Canal and Olympic Mountains. We also host beautiful rustic lodges, a spacious hall, stone fireplaces, and dreamy bedrooms with stunning views of our grounds and the Hood Canal. Take the time to retreat in this uniquely beautiful little corner of the world. See our website for more information and photos of our site at www.harmonyhill.org

Let our Harmony Hill Guest Services Staff make the arrangements for you to experience a variety of activities and interactions with nature while visiting the Olympic Peninsula, using Harmony Hill as your home base!

GOLF at Alderbrook Yacht and Golf Club: Rates Vary. Just a five minute drive from Harmony Hill, Alderbrook is known by many to be one of the most scenic courses in the area, with 18 holes winding through a forest of cedar and fir trees featuring views of the majestic Olympic Mountains. We can arrange the perfect golf package for you, individually or for your entire group!

HAVE FUN IN THE WATER AND GREAT OUTDOORS at Hood Canal Adventures: Rates Vary. Explore the area by boat! Hood Canal is a glacier-carved fjord that is one of only two fjords in the continental United States. It stretches more than 50 miles and is surrounded by some of Washington’s most beautiful mountains and forestlands. Rich in history and culture, Hood Canal has an amazing combination of nature’s most extraordinary selections of flora and fauna and is one of the best places in the world for outdoor recreation. Some offerings include:

Single and Tandem Kayak Rentals Guided Kayak Tours Paddleboat & Motor Boat Rentals Evening Sunset Electric Boat Tours

Other offsite offerings include a Gym Pass and a session with a Personal Trainer. Inquire for more information.

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