ABOUT KAY
Kay Gardner is best known for her work as a founding member and Senior Lead Trainer of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a model she has studied and contributed to since 1991.
With over 40 years of clinical experience and 30 years in private practice, Kay brings a wealth of expertise and a compassionate presence to her work. Her background as a therapist and teacher of Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapy enriches her approach, combining body-centered awareness with spiritual depth. Known for her heartfelt and skillful teaching, Kay creates an inviting space for transformative learning and healing.
Kay is currently and most intimately working with Legacy Burdens - offering workshops and retreats around the globe and currently writing her first book on the subject.
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FEATURING
IFS Retreat: Legacy Burdens in Bali
April 6th to 12th, 2025
Legacy Burdens are beliefs, feelings and emotions that are handed down through the family line either directly or indirectly. These beliefs turn into burdens if tied to shame. Sometimes legacy burdens only go back a generation or two, but others can go far back, even hundreds of years.
Participants will learn what legacy burdens are through personal exploration of their own legacy burdens. Additionally, participants will gain deeper insight as they are invited to explore their ancestors’ burdens and their relationship with them.
This retreat offers participants a framework and greater clarity on working with client’s legacy and cultural burdens. With a small group, intimate setting, this in-person retreat will be highly experiential as well as didactic, allowing for a deep dive into the exploration of legacy burdens.
UPCOMING OFFERINGS
Legacy Burdens Retreat in Ontario
February 15-19, 2025
You've inherited a unique set of legacy blessings and burdens from your familial and cultural ancestors. We’ll take time together to claim, embody and cherish these gifts and burdens and the ways in which they orient us to our innate capacity for connection, courage, creativity, and compassion (and all the other qualities of self).
Join Kay for 5 Days of understanding and releasing legacy burdens on an IFS Retreat at the Historic Elmhurst Inn and Spa.
Legacy Burdens Retreat in Bali
April 6th to 12th, 2025
Join Kay for an immersive 7-day retreat in Eastern Bali. This retreat is designed to guide you in working with legacy burdens through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach.
In this intimate, experiential setting, you'll also learn a framework for helping clients address their own inherited and cultural burdens. With a blend of experiential and didactic learning, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to engage deeply with legacy burdens, both personally and professionally.
Join Kay at La Foret Conference and Retreat Center in the Blackforest area of Colorado Springs.
