There are many other options available for your personal development, learning, training and self-actualization. You can read books, listen to audio programs, view DVD’s and videos, attend lectures, discussion groups and attend short seminars or longer retreats.

You could base your choices on time and money and find the results shallow and fading. Why disappoint yourself?

 My commitment is to provide you with empowering programs that fully engage you to make the deepest and most enduring life long change. I have found retreats and retreat-style intensives to be by far the most effective.

Away from the distractions of your job and home life that continually pull you away from yourself, you can fully focus on the life-changing techniques you will learn, taking your time to allow your transformation to grow deeper and deeper.

In the presence of other like-minded individuals working together towards the same end you will bring a greater aliveness, inspiration and inner strength back to your daily life.

Why Choose True Source Retreats?

When you participate in a True Source Retreat you will have the advantage of an integrated program, extensive training and experience, advanced experiential processes, a personal orientation, accessible pricing and my personal “True to our Word” guarantee of satisfaction.

Integrated Program:

Instead of providing one workshop with a limited focus True Source offers an integrated program of retreats designed to: awaken you to your true nature and purpose, release your life energy and teach you how to create the life you were born to live. In addition, there are options available for one-to-one counselling and regular support groups to continue your personal growth as a member of our Circle of True Friends.

 Training and Experience:

You will benefit from my 25 years of study, training and experience, including the presentation of over 200 personal development workshops across Canada.

11 years of owning and operating a successful retreat centre provided me with the opportunity to observe many methods and traditions that produce genuine personal evolution and many that don’t. In addition, True Source also has highly trained senior assistants, to further support you at retreats.

Interactive Experiential processes:

Instead of simply memorizing ideas, beliefs and traditions, you will learn experiential techniques and be guided through solid dynamic processes that bring you to your own “direct experience” of truth.

Concepts are presented as “assumptions” that you will verify based on your own experiences. The paired Dyad technique and small group interactive exercises access insight, clear personal blocks and release new vitality much quicker than traditional solitary meditation and inquiry techniques.

Personal Orientation

Instead of viewing you as person to be molded or indoctrinated into a system, you are respected as an individual with free choice who, with loving and respectful guidance; through your own efforts and unique path can “awaken” to your true nature and purpose. The focus is on you as an individual, opening to your own wisdom and compassion, embracing “who you are” and becoming your own “teacher”.

Guarantee

I am so confident that these retreats will more than exceed your expectations that I offer a money back “True to our Word” guarantee. 

Accessible Pricing

True Source Retreat and Seminar fees are accessible to most levels of income. Our fees, along with what’s included and what’s not, are clearly displayed on this website. In addition, when you become a member of the “Circle of True Friends” you become eligible for retreat discounts and free-tuition workshops.

Retreat Courtesies, Policies, Safety and Logistics

By definition a “retreat” is a withdrawal from every day life. To ensure a rewarding experience for all involved this requires certain protocols, guidelines and processes.

I have prepared an information sheet that covers most of the questions you’ll probably have – everything from what to bring with you, what happens while you’re at the retreat - through to processes and preparing for your retreat.

The information sheet is called What to expect when you attend a True Source Retreat. Take a look and if you have any other questions please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it me.

Retreat Location

Almost all the seminars and retreats presented by True Source are conducted at the Ecology Retreat Centre, in the Hockley Valley near Orangeville Ontario. The Retreat is nestled among the Niagara Escarpment Hills of Mono, adjacent to the beautiful Bruce Trail and the Nottawasaga River.

Less than an hour north of the Toronto Airport, the Centre is surrounded by 200 acres of natural forest, with hills and valleys, open meadows and spring fed streams, a pond and an endless network of trails where many bird species abound within a rich and abundant flora and fauna.

This is truly an unspoiled area of natural beauty in which to re-connect with yourself and your true relationship with the Earth.

The Ecology Retreat Centre is one of the best known non-denominational retreat centres in Southern Ontario, with over 20 years experience of hosting self-actualization, social justice and ecology groups. The food is well balanced, fresh and delicious. A good percentage of the meals are organic based.

The staff has always been respectful, caring and supportive of the individuals participating in True Source events. Find out more about the centre at: www.ecologyretreatcentre.com

True Source Retreats 2009 – An Overview

True Awakening - An Enlightenment Intensive Retreat

Who am I?

True Awakening is an accelerated process of transformation that takes you to the profound pinnacle of self-actualization – your own experience of the direct consciousness of the True Nature of Self and Life!  True Awakening is an enhanced and improved version of a retreat called the Enlightenment Intensive developed by Charles Berner in 1969 in California.

The method is 50 to 100 times faster than traditional meditation techniques at producing what Abraham Maslow calls “Unitive consciousness” or “Self-transcendence”

After the 5day/4 night True Awakening Retreat participants commonly report feeling:
- More authentic
- Peaceful, content, with lightness permeating their body
- Totally embodied as if they have finally come home to themselves
- Greater self-acceptance
- More inner strength and inner resolve

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True Being – A Meditation Retreat

How do I Live?

The human body was never designed to cope with the high-pressure demands of life in the 21st century and as a result our life-fulfillment has become compromised by the constant tension we encounter.

You will learn the essential techniques of meditation distilled from ancient practices and placed in a western context without the dogma or jargon of religious belief.

The 2 day True Being Retreat is designed to provide you with:

• Enhanced confidence and self-control
• Improved self-expression
• Increased concentration and mental alertness
• Inner certainty
• The ability to focus and work efficiently

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True Purpose – A Life Goals Retreat

Why am I here?

Like many people, you may be so focused on your career, your family, paying the bills, or getting out of debt that you wonder is there any purpose to it all.

Knowing your life purpose empowers you to live with passion, focus and integrity and inspires you to overcome your difficulties and express the best part of yourself in life.

The 2 day True Purpose Retreat is facilitated to provide you with:
- More inner resolve and confidence
- A clear sense of purpose
- Greater connection to yourself and life
- A desire to contribute to the lives of others
- Enhanced motivation to achieve your goals

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True Life - A Life Fulfillment Mastery Retreat

How do I create my Life?

During this retreat you will learn proven ancient life-mastery techniques combined with positive modern self-actualization strategies. You will at last let go of the self-defeating belief of “I can’t create my life” to embrace the self-fulfilling “I can do it, with greater ease and joy”
 You will acquire the skills to work with life to create “good luck” discover your true heart’s desire, unleash your natural enthusiasm and turn problems into solutions.
The 2 ½ day True Life Retreat is guided to leave you feeling:

• More in control of your life, with more optimism
• A deeper understanding and connection with yourself and others
• A greater positive energy
• Inspired to live your dreams
• Freer to make the choices that build your life

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True Awakening/True Being - An Enlightenment Intensive/Meditation
Retreat

Who am I? How do I live?

True Awakening is an accelerated process of transformation that takes you to the profound pinnacle of self-actualization – your own experience of the direct consciousness of the True Nature of Self and Life!  True Awakening is an enhanced and improved version of a retreat known as the Enlightenment Intensive, developed by Charles Berner in 1969 in California.

The method is 50 to 100 times faster than traditional meditation techniques at producing what Abraham Maslow calls “Unitive consciousness” or “Self-transcendence”

After this 5 day/4 night True Awakening Retreat participants commonly report feeling:

• More authentic
• More peaceful, content and with lightness permeating their body
• Totally embodied as if they have finally come home to themselves
• A greater self-acceptance
• More inner strength and inner resolve

Then for the next 2 days you will relax into the True Being silent meditation retreat. This will give you an opportunity to gently embody your experience of the previous 5 days and expand into further insights and awareness.

You will learn essential techniques of meditation distilled from ancient practices and placed in a western context without the dogma or jargon of religious belief.

The 2 day True Being Retreat is designed to provide you with:

• Enhanced confidence and self control
• Improved self-expression
• Increased concentration and mental alertness
• Inner certainty
• The ability to focus and work efficiently

See more including complete retreat details, dates and costs