Still Codependent After All These Years: A 5-Day Training Seminar with John Lee

Whittier, NC, June 30, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Still Codependent After All These Years: Recovering from Addiction to Behaviors, People, Processes, Patterns, & Performing.

A 5-day training seminar with best-selling author John Lee.

Sunday, November 15th, 7:30 p.m. – Friday, November 20th, 12:00 p.m.

Presented by Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts At the Isis Cove Retreat Center in Whittier, NC

While the media and the general public may think “Codependency” has been understood, done, or “old news,” the truth is it is still very misunderstood, hard to define and very hard on all kinds of relationships. Few treatment facilities provide help, and many smaller towns and even larger ones have few resources for the recovering codependent. Many are still suffering and many want help, insights, support, therapy and emotional sobriety.

During this powerful and highly experiential workshop they will:

· Explore unique definitions of Codependency
· Identify “Process” and “People” addictions, including relationship & love addictions.
· Shift from passive and often resentful Care-Taking to active loving and Caring For.
· Decrease tendencies to over depend on Positions, Processes and People, Places and Things.
· Describe and Clarify The Stages of Co-dependency Recovery.
· Identify signs of recovery from being a False Self.
· Learn Effective Ways To Self-Soothe.

This workshop is co-facilitated by Connie Burns, MA, LPC, Clinical Director of the P.E.E.R. Training Program and has worked with John Lee for 17 years, and by Venus Rising Staff, and will include Shamanic Breathwork™, a powerful healing tool that uses the breath, chakra-attuned music, focused body work, art, and group sharing to integrate ancient shamanic wisdom with modern-day healing practices.

Workshop cost: $1450, includes meals and lodging.

CEUS Available for NAADAC and NASW Professionals.

For more information or to register for this event, contact Venus Rising at venusrising@shamanicbreathwork.org or call their office at 828-631-2305

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About John Lee

John Lee, M.A., has been facilitating Co-dependency and related workshops for twenty years. Associated with some of the leading treatment centers both here and abroad—The Betty Ford Center, The Meadows, Guy Hospital in England, and South Pacific Hospital in Australia, Lee also served as one of the original consulting board members in the founding of CODA—Co-Dependents Anonymous. Lee is the best-selling author of sixteen books, including his latest release, When the Buddha Met Bubba. Lee's highly innovative work in the fields of anger management, emotional regression, recovery, relationships, men's issues, parenting, and creativity have put him in the national spotlight for over twenty years, delivering sensitive, sophisticated material to audiences in a humorous and simple way that has been described as “hilariously entertaining, deeply compassionate, yet filled with ‘tell it like it is!’”