Highly Sensitive Person Day-Retreat
Join us for this 1-day Transformative Retreat on September 14th at House of Transformation London, UK
A transformative day for Highly Sensitive People who are searching for community and like-minded others. Feel safe, empowered and confident to express your authentic self so that you can shine your unique light with the world.
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Are you a Highly Sensitive Person?
Research tells us that 20-30% of the population are HSPs. We are born into this world with a unique set of traits that offer us depth of processing, empathy, and sensitivity to subtleties. We have great capacities and gifts to share with the world, but unfortunately, because of the fast-paced and overstimulating world we live in, many HSPs can struggle with overwhelm and anxiety and feel like they don’t quite belong. It can be difficult to articulate how we really feel and what our unique needs are.
There are so many retreats and workshops available for social-emotional well-being and spiritual development, yet they are not built for the temperament of high sensitivity. They can often feel overwhelming with not enough ‘downtime' and can leave you feeling more exhausted than when you started!
This is why we founded and created the HSP Retreat UK and are now expanding our offering to include regular in-person day retreats and workshops for our community.
What others are saying...
The HSP retreat was a life changer for me. I walked into the retreat feeling that I have suffered from social anxiety, and walked out realizing that I don't have a problem after all.
(Betsy, US)
Jules and Genevieve, the way you hold space, the quite, soft strength you both radiate, the unconditional respect and love you offer flowed throughout the entire weekend - and before and after. Your thoughtfulness in the poems, the words spoken, the meditations and music you both shared that were so beautifully in alignment with each element of the sessions, were what I am most grateful for/enjoyed the most. I also loved the dance session held by Josh, which was also hugely awakening for me.
(Lottie, UK - Breathwork Facilitator & Wellness Mentor @naturallylottie)
‘Thank you to everyone for the part you played in making this weekend what it was 🙏🏻 I’m so grateful to each and every one of you for helping to co-create the incredibly nourishing, healing and transformative experience that it was’
‘What a journey. What a rollercoaster. What an experience. Thank you so much everyone, sending so so soooo much love to you all’ 💛💛
‘Thank you to everyone for the part you played in making this weekend what it was 🙏🏻 I’m so grateful to each and every one of you for helping to co-create the incredibly nourishing, healing and transformative experience that it was’
When and Where?
The House of Transformation, Kingsland Road, London
Join us for our transformative day-retreat for Highly Sensitive People on Saturday 14th September, 10am - 6pm. To find out more about the beautiful venue, click below.
As the founders of the HSP retreat’s UK, Dr Genevieve von Lob and Jules De Vitto are two of the leading global experts in high sensitivity and have spent decades researching and studying the trait of high sensitivity.
What you'll receive by attending the HSP Day-Retreat
You'll leave the day-retreat and the House of Transformation feeling:
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Validated about your lived experience of being a Highly Sensitive Person
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Clear on what it means to be a HSP and able to communicate this with your loved ones
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More attuned, relaxed and realigned with your authentic highly sensitive self
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More confident and able to express your authenticity with the world
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Connected to a supportive community of other like minded people
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Resourced with a range of trauma-informed tools for navigating overwhelm and regulating your nervous system
About the Facilitators
Dr Genevieve von Lob
Clinical Psychologist and Parenting Coach
Genevieve is a clinical psychologist, conscious parenting coach and author. After 15 years working in the NHS, private practice in Harley Street and inside big corporations, she wrote two parenting books with Penguin, including ‘Five Deep Breaths: The Power of Mindful Parenting.’
Genevieve is one of the leading experts in the UK on high sensitivity in children, with regular appearances in the media including BBC Woman’s Hour, Channel 4 and The Guardian and has appeared on webinars with Sensitivity Research. Genevieve specialises in working with highly sensitive children and their parents. She is the author of “The Resonant Parenting Project,” and “The HSP Revolution.”
In the 20 years since Genevieve qualified as a psychologist, Genevieve has helped hundreds of people from all walks of life transform trauma and stress into a greater sense of confidence, ease and flow.
But her own healing journey has taught her that a supportive community can be the catalyst for transformation on a whole new level.
Born to a single mother in an alternative community in the east of England, Genevieve’s earliest experiences of feeling safe and protected in a village-like atmosphere laid the foundations for her later professional interest in community healing spaces.
While earning her psychology doctorate, Genevieve wrote a thesis on the psychological benefits of group singing. But it was only in her late 20s, when she was starting to confront unresolved traumas and losses from her own past, that she began to discover the true power of healing in community.
Over a period of several years, Genevieve explored countless healing modalities, investigating everything from nature connection to shamanic drumming, sound bowls and ecstatic dance. When she stumbled upon a sweat lodge ceremony in Oxfordshire in southern England, she finally understood what it meant to feel truly safe and held. The community there was so supportive that for the first time she truly felt comfortable being vulnerable in front of others, and never felt judged. Nobody stepped in to try to fix or rescue – but they did bear witness, and it was in that space that Genevieve did some of the most profound work on herself.
Running retreats for highly sensitive people represents the fulfillment of a vision that Genevieve has held ever since that time – of creating healing spaces where people can find sanctuary, connect and learn from others on the same journey, and rediscover who they really are.
Jules De Vitto
Transpersonal Coach, Trainer and Educator
Jules De Vitto has a BSc in Psychology, MA in Education and MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness and Spirituality and is an accredited transpersonal coach, trainer and experienced educator. She is the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy - a central hub that offers courses, coaching, articles and a podcast for Highly Sensitive People. She is a leading expert in the field of high sensitivity and helps those who identify with the traits of to navigate emotional overwhelm, step into their authentic power and align with their true purpose in life.
She is a published author and wrote one of a series of books on Resilience, Navigating Loss in a time of Crisis. Her research has also been published in the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal and Journal of Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology.
In addition to her academic and coaching pursuits, Jules has spent years engaging in deep transformative healing work. She is a Reiki Master and Teacher and has completed Michael Harner’s Shamanic Practitioner Training through the Foundation of Shamanic Studies and a Grief Ritual Leadership Training with Francis Weller. She offers holistic sound baths with Tibetan Singing Bowls, a ancient healing modality she studied in a monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Jules is passionate about creating community for Highly Sensitive People and embracing the full spectrum of our emotional and sensory capacities rather than trying to ‘fix’ ourselves. Deepening the connection to our sensitivity enables us to open our hearts and form better relationships with ourselves, others and the world.
As an expert in the field of high sensitivity, her writing has been featured in SAND and Highly Sensitive Refuge and she has been invited to speak on the Sensitive SEO Podcast, Quiet and Strong Podcast and the Healthy Sensitive Podcast.
Josh Silver
Conscious Dance Session
Josh will be facilitating a conscious dance session. Josh’s life dream is to bring dance to the collective as a medicine as he truly believes in the healing power of movement and music!
Josh’s dance spaces are often referred to as joyful and playful and nothing brings him greater joy in life than to see you, the dancer, expressing yourself through movement!
Josh has been DJ’ing for two decades and involved with Conscious Dance practices since discovering 5 Rhythms in 2015. Josh has been running “Dancing the Elements” since the summer of 2021 and has developed his own down-to-earth, intuitive and empathetic style. All music is improvised as a collaboration between you, the dancers, and himself. (Photo Credit: @mo_visual)
What others are saying...
'It was such an uplifting experience, conversations and connections flowed so naturally, because we could all relate to and understand each others interests, needs and desires, so instantly. The space was beautifully held, with so many nurturing activities, and amazing food, all really well paced and considered.
(Alex Wilding - Child Arts Counsellor / Entrepreneur, London)