We all need intimacy. We are busy with it, yearning for it, looking to get closer, and longing to be in touch, but in the end, when we meet many times, what touches us is precisely our wounds. Our wound is there because of our life circumstances: relationships with parents, traumatic life events, previous relationships with members of the opposite sex, but this is only the top layer of the story.

Beneath this layer often sits a more historical, familial or cultural event, in which our automatic response is rooted. Our very belonging to a certain gender that has collective memories, can influence us to adopt certain beliefs, fears and behaviors. The understanding that we are captives within identities that are related to being women or men, and that there is a struggle between the sexes allows us to begin to find out in depth the reasons for what we experience and feel. 

When you touch the place where the wound was created, at its root, you can see what happened, understand and recognize the parts that were not given a place, and only then many times, you can find a new place to stand in front of it. Until we do that, we will continue to walk around the world and bring our wounds together instead of actually meeting. 

At the retreat we will all explore what stands between us and love, and each and every one of us will be able to come into contact with his/her personal wound with the aim of creating healing in relations between the sexes on a personal and collective level