From Roots to Relationship

An experiential "family of origin” workshop

A 5-day group intensive for men in recovery facilitated by Cat Etherington and Cindy Bajema

Date: Wednesday July 15th – Sunday July 19th, 2026

Location: Port Orchard, Washington State, USA

Untangling the Roots of Connection Begins Within

This 5-day group experiential workshop isn’t only about understanding the roots of your past. It’s about making sense of why the behavioral pathways created in that past may be holding you back from having healthy relationships - with others, as well as with yourself. This workshop, adapted from our signature Family of Origin intensive, provides a safe, expertly guided space specifically for those in stable recovery from sex addiction or compulsive sexual behaviors.

Each day will incorporate both individual and group work, using a collaborative and exploratory approach that will support you in better uncovering how your early experiences have shaped unconscious strategies that once protected you—but may now keep you stuck. With care and integrity, we'll help you reconnect with the parts of your story that need caring attention, healing repair, and grace.

Offering much more than psycho-education, you will be invited to work with your story in experiential ways, including somatic and other integrative interventions designed to guide you in cultivating a deeper connection to your authentic self. This work, completed in a group setting has the potential to be transformative in a deep, and practical way.

In summary, you’ll gain clarity on:

How your early life experiences shaped your emotional world
The coping strategies you developed to feel safe and secure—and how they may be limiting you now
The relational impact of your story, in the context of marriage, partnership, and recovery from addiction

The primary model for this intensive is Post Induction Therapy, founded by Pia Mellody and used by some of the most famous treatment centres in the world such as The Meadows and The Priory. Our team was trained in this and related models by Dr Jake Porter and Delphi Medina of Daring Ventures, as well as Jan Bergstrom, LMHC of HOCII.

Each day will begin at approximately 9:00am and will end no later than 6:00pm, with appropriate breaks throughout the day.

Note: Start and End times will be determined by the practitioners, during the intensive, as suitable for the group’s needs.

Day 1

On the first day together, we will lay the foundation for our work together as you begin to learn about relational and developmental trauma. We will also invite you to explore your childhood experiences, while applying the concepts to your own story through experiential and narrative processing work.

Day 2 & 3

On the second and third days we will invite you to go deeper into your processing and story work, with opportunities to explore your childhood experiences through the perspective of your “inner child”.

This work provides an opportunity to understand how your experiences impacted you at the time, instead of reflecting on them from the perspective of your adult self today. This supports growth in self-compassion and self-honesty, both being foundational needs in creating lasting change and healing in recovery. These exercises are important groundwork for the last two days of our workshop.

Day 4 & 5

On our final two days, you will be invited to use experiential and somatic processes to practice completing emotional cycles, enabling you to let go of shame and other carried emotions that get in the way of your deeper connection to yourself and others. These allow you to develop skills to live more freely and authentically as adults.

This part of the process allows participants to begin to create new responses, based in adult reality, instead of recreating old patterns based on childhood.

After the intensive: Each individual participant will be invited to a follow up Zoom call to follow-up and explore what might be needed to continue applying this model to deepen the healing impact of the workshop experience

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Places are limited to 6 and will be allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis.

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