Returning to Our Roots—Walk Intuit’s Staff & Therapist Retreat

At Walk Intuit, we believe that tending to ourselves is not separate from supporting our clients—it’s foundational. This month, our team of clinicians, therapists, and staff came together for a deeply nourishing retreat designed to restore, reconnect, and recommit to the work we do in community. More than just a professional development event, this retreat was an invitation to drop into our own healing. Through guided reflection, co-regulation, shared meals, and restorative practice, we modeled what it means to hold trauma-informed space—not only for others, but for ourselves and one another.

Personal Work as Professional Practice

In a field where burnout and secondary trauma are real, we are committed to walking our talk. During the retreat, we explored how our own stories intersect with the work we do—acknowledging that self-awareness, embodiment, and integration are vital to ethical and attuned care. We held each other in vulnerability, challenged our comfort zones, and found joy and spaciousness in simply being together.

Co-Regulation with Four-Legged Companions

True to Walk Intuit’s roots, our animal companions were an integral part of the weekend. Several of our clinicians’ dogs joined us—not only as beloved team members but also as co-regulators, mirrors, and unexpected teachers. They offered comfort in moments of intensity, and gently (or not-so-gently!) pushed us beyond habitual edges, reminding us of the somatic wisdom and presence they naturally carry.

A Mandala to Close the Circle

We concluded our time together with a collective mandala practice—a ritual of closure and integration, allowing participants to internalize and make meaning of their experience. Found in mindfulness, ecotherapy, spiritual, and artistic traditions worldwide and central to Carl Jung’s own depth psychological work, the mandala is a symbol of wholeness and impermanence. Each team member contributed to a shared, nature-based mandala, embodying the parts of ourselves we are reclaiming and the healing we are facilitating together.

We left the retreat renewed, not only as individuals but also as a team devoted to cultivating spaces where healing can truly take root.