Reconnect, Heal, and Transform:
An Attachment Healing Retreat
Join Dr. Diane Poole Heller and our experienced Support Team for a Transformative Experience
Attachment plays a powerful role in how we connect, communicate, and navigate relationships throughout our lives. This retreat, in the UK countryside, offers an opportunity to explore and heal your attachment wounds, develop secure relationship skills, and cultivate deeper connection, compassion, and resilience.
Whether you’re looking to better understand your own relational patterns, heal from past wounds, or build healthier relationships, this retreat provides a safe and nurturing space for transformation.
2025 Dates: The retreat opens on July 5th prior to dinner and closes on July 12th after lunch
Retreat Location: Broughton Sanctuary in the UK Countryside, an experienced provider with a serene, private retreat center surrounded by nature.
All-inclusive Pricing Includes:
+ Lessons and practices with Dr Diane Poole Heller + team
+ In-depth group work
+ Access to the Broughton grounds & spa—a private campus
+ 7 nights of on-site lodging
+ Gourmet plant-based meals with protein designed to nourish your body and support your healing journey
+ Healing movement, yoga, resource integration, and meditation
+ Opportunities to reconnect with nature and yourself through mindful exploration
+ Group shuttle transport to and from the retreat via Manchester, UK on July 5th & 12th
+ Those flying in a day early to Manchester receive one night of lodging in Manchester on July 4th
+ Detailed travel guidance
+ Online pre-retreat gatherings
+ In-depth online Attachment Course and e-book
+ Introduction to Somatic Experiencing® video
+ Online post-retreat integration support
Space is limited to 32 participants to ensure a deeply personal and transformative experience.
What is Attachment and Why Does it Matter?
Attachment refers to the deep emotional bonds formed between a child and their caregivers, which influence how we relate to others throughout life. From an early age, humans are biologically wired to form these bonds for survival, and the quality of these attachments shapes our emotional experiences, behaviors, and relationships.
The Roots of Attachment
Attachment theory, developed by therapist John Bowlby, explains that babies are born with a natural drive to connect to caregivers to ensure their survival. When caregivers respond consistently and compassionately to their needs, children feel safe and secure, creating a foundation for exploration and growth.
However, when this bond is disrupted—whether due to neglect, trauma, or inconsistent caregiving—the child may develop unhealthy attachment patterns that can carry into adulthood. These early relational experiences form a "blueprint" for how we connect with others, often influencing our relationships unconsciously.
Attachment and Adult Relationships
In adulthood, these attachment patterns affect how we handle intimacy, trust, and communication in relationships. From avoiding intimacy altogether to anxiously seeking reassurance, our attachment styles can create challenges and misunderstandings. Fortunately, attachment is not fixed. With awareness and healing, it’s possible to rewrite this blueprint and create healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
What You Will Learn and Experience at the Retreat
This retreat is designed to help you explore your attachment style, heal relational wounds, and build stronger, more secure connections with yourself and others. Through a combination of group work and guided practices, we will work to release the impact of early trauma, build resilience, and help you feel more grounded in your relationships.
During the Retreat, You Will:
Understand Your Attachment Style: Gain insights into your own attachment patterns and how they affect your relationships.
Heal Childhood Wounds: Through corrective experiences and somatic practices, you will address childhood wounds and restore safety and trust.
Transform Relationship Patterns: Learn new ways of relating to yourself and others, breaking free from unhealthy cycles.
Strengthen Emotional Resilience: Develop greater capacity for emotional regulation, joy, and fulfillment in your relationships.
Build Connection: Learn how to communicate more effectively and empathically, leading to deeper, more authentic connections.
Heal Family Patterns: Recognize how trauma and resilience can be passed down through generations and learn to shift those patterns.
The Four Attachment Styles: How They Show Up in Adulthood
Understanding your attachment style is crucial to healing and growth. Here's a quick overview of the four main attachment styles and how they may appear in adulthood:
Secure Attachment
Trusting, compassionate, and open to intimacy.
Seeks and provides emotional support and healthy connection.
Avoidant Attachment
May avoid closeness, struggle with emotional intimacy, or fear vulnerability.
Tends to keep a distance in relationships, often feeling uncomfortable with dependence.
Ambivalent (Preoccupied) Attachment
Longing for intimacy but often anxious that others won't meet their needs.
May exhibit clingy or needy behavior and fear rejection or abandonment.
Disorganized (Unresolved Trauma) Attachment
Often rooted in past trauma, this style may create confusion and distrust in relationships.
May have a deep fear of getting hurt and struggle to feel worthy of love and care.
This retreat will help you understand these patterns and learn tools to heal and transform them.
“Diane’s empathy and understanding made me feel truly seen and supported, regardless of my attachment style.”
Healing, Growth, and Connection
The Hope of Healing
The good news is that we are all capable of healing our attachment wounds. Neuroscience shows that the brain is naturally plastic, meaning it can change and adapt throughout life. Through the right support, guidance, and practices, you can move towards a more secure attachment style and experience greater intimacy, trust, and joy in your relationships.
Why Now?
Trauma, relational wounds, and early attachment injuries may have shaped your life, but they do not have to define your future. This retreat provides an opportunity to start a journey toward healing—one that empowers you to build stronger, more authentic relationships with yourself and those you care about.
“This program provided tangible tools for healing that I can continue using in my relationships long after the experience.”
A Healing Approach: DARe and Somatic Practices
Throughout the retreat, you will be guided by experts in Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience (DARe) and Somatic Experiencing (SE), two powerful, evidence-based approaches that promote healing from attachment injuries. Dr. Diane Poole Heller, a leading expert in attachment healing, and her team of practitioners will support your transformation through:
Somatic Experiencing® (SE™): A body-focused approach that helps release trauma stored in the nervous system.
DARe (Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience): A method for healing attachment wounds through safe, corrective relational experiences.
Small Group Sessions: Personalized support to help you integrate and heal your attachment patterns.
Additional Retreat Offerings:
Daily integration sessions and Q&A on secure attachment skills.
On-site small group work with experienced SE & DARe practitioners.
Healing movement, yoga, resource integration, and meditation.
Opportunities to reconnect with nature and yourself through mindful exploration.
Who Should Attend?
This retreat is for individuals who want to:
Understand and heal their attachment wounds or developmental trauma.
Break free from unhealthy relational patterns and create healthier relationships.
Build emotional resilience, trust, and intimacy in their lives.
Ideal Participants Include:
People experiencing emotional or relational challenges who want to better understand their patterns and origins.
Those who have identified attachment wounds or developmental trauma.
Couples, partners, family members, and friends who want to grow together.
Note: This retreat is not intended to treat active addiction, medical illness, psychosis, or severe mental illness. Please consult with your doctor or therapist before attending.
“I feel that the program gave me new tools and a different lens that I didn’t have before. Diane’s workshops are life-changing!”
Pre-Retreat Bonuses
To help you get started on your healing journey, we’re offering these valuable resources to retreat participants:
Introduction to Attachment Course: A 2-hour self-paced video series by Dr. Diane Poole Heller that covers the basics of attachment theory and healing.
Attachment for Everyone eBook: A comprehensive guide to understanding and healing attachment wounds.
Partner Attachment Inventory: A tool to help assess attachment dynamics in your relationship.
Introduction to Somatic Experiencing® video and handouts
A Pre-Retreat Gathering Online
Location
"All Things Connect"
The Retreat gatherings and hosted meals are at Broughton Sanctuary in the UK, a 3,000-acre innovative Nature Recovery Project
Established in 1097, The Broughton Hall Estate has been home to the Tempest family for over 900 years and enjoys a rich history stretching back over the millennium
Our host, Roger Tempest, the current custodian of Broughton Sanctuary, is the 32nd Tempest in a recorded line dating from the 11th century (and a wonderful human)
Broughton offers an abundance of opportunities to invigorate your mind, body, and spirit - connect to yourself, to nature, and to each other with meaningful activities and experiences
They recognize that to obtain peace within our ‘outer nature,’ we must also obtain it within our ‘inner nature’ - the change we need to see will not only come through rewilding the land but also through rewilding the spirit
They believe that by living in compassionate reciprocity with nature, we can heal both ourselves and our world
Meals
Meals - Gourmet plant-based meals with protein are designed to nourish your body and support your healing journey
Meal Allergies and Preferences - during registration, there is an opportunity to indicate meal allergies and preferences
Travel
Detailed transportation guidance and a packing list will be provided to registered participants.
We recommend traveling via Manchester or Skipton
Travel Included in Cost:
+ Group shuttle transport to and from the retreat via Manchester, UK on July 5th & 12th
+ Those flying in a day early to Manchester receive one night of lodging in Manchester on July 4th
“The retreat was life-changing. The skill and professionalism of the team were an inspiration and far exceeded my expectations. I entered with the goal of taking my personal development further and beginning a new path. I left with the clarity I was seeking, a clear plan, renewed enthusiasm, more tools to help me succeed, and precious new friends.”
Lodging & Registration
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE REGISTERING BELOW
Pricing is inclusive of all offerings listed above.
Each participant must select their lodging, fill out their intake, and pay separately, even if attending together.
Lodging is either in Broughton Hall or in a historic renovated home on the Sanctuary property.
All rooms are singles unless you are coming with a partner.
Rooms are organized by solo or shared bathrooms and bed size and are available as female, male, or gender-neutral.
The Middle Lodge is allocated for a couple seeking a private home onsite.
All prices are per person.
The refund policy and registration agreements are posted during registration.
Please check your spam if you do not receive your automated registration receipt (this is common).
Your order will remain pending within our system until your attendance at the retreat is complete.
A welcome email will arrive within two weeks.
*The age requirement is 18 and up.
*Non-participating guests are not allowed on the grounds.
*There is a limited number of $1,000 in financial need/BIPOC scholarships available. To apply, contact information is below. Healing Informed Somatic Education supplies all scholarships —donations are welcome but not common
If you desire guidance in selecting lodging, please contact us.
Please make your selection below:
Contact
Retreat Director
Melissa Stager
Text/WhatsApp 760-815-7588
Calls and Zoom by appointment
Email Retreat Support
“I have attended three in-person programs hosted by this team, and each time, they felt seamless in execution and plentiful in support. They are more than facilitators; they truly understand and embody their offerings.”