Part 2:
What the Elements Remember:
A Framework for Conceptualising Intergenerational Trauma & Healing
19 - 25 March 2025
Four themed workshop days across a six-night immersive stay
Nyosi Wildlife Reserve | South Africa
Enter the elemental field and deepen your capacity for legacy work.
Part 2 builds on the immersive foundation of Part 1 and may be attended independently or as the continuation of the full two-part immersion.
Using the symbolic and therapeutic framework of the four classical elements — Earth, Water, Air, and Fire — this training offers a structured, clinically grounded approach to intergenerational trauma and resilience.
Program Overview
Integration, Embodiment, and Intergenerational Understanding
Set within the contained environment of Nyosi Wildlife Reserve, this immersive training moves from observation into structured clinical application.
Participants explore how ancestral legacies are carried through land, body, story, and transformation. Integrating trauma-informed practice, Contextual Therapy, attachment theory, epigenetics, and parts-based approaches, the elemental framework provides a coherent structure for conceptualising inherited burdens and resilience.
Expressive and experiential modalities are central to this process. Participants engage sandtray work, poetry, alternative photography, and embodied practices to access and integrate ancestral narratives at cognitive, somatic, and relational levels.
Across four elemental movements, we examine:
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Earth — lineage, belonging, and cyclical time in transgenerational patterns
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Water — somatic memory, emotional inheritance, and parts-informed integration
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Air — narrative, attachment, loyalty dynamics, and inherited relational atmospheres
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Fire — transformation, release, renewal, and the conscious reworking of legacy
Nature continues as a relational partner in the learning process; however, Part 2 offers a more explicitly structured framework for integrating intergenerational insight into clinical practice.
Ideal for therapists seeking an embodied, depth-oriented framework for legacy work beyond traditional classroom learning.
Core Areas of Exploration
• Elemental symbolism in therapeutic work (Earth, Water, Air, Fire)
• Intergenerational trauma, attachment rupture, and relational inheritance
• The body as a carrier of memory and resilience
• Lineage, narrative, and systemic influence
• Translating symbolic and somatic experience into clinical integration
Learning Integration
By the end of Part 2, participants will:
• Integrate elemental frameworks into therapeutic conceptualisation
• Identify and work with intergenerational trauma and attachment rupture
• Recognise the body as a carrier of inherited memory and resilience
• Apply relational and systemic perspectives to lineage-based work
• Translate symbolic and somatic experience into grounded therapeutic practice
• Formulate cases that incorporate ancestry, resilience, and systemic influence
Who This Training Is For
Designed for therapists and mental health professionals who:
• Seek deeper integration beyond observational work
• Wish to explore intergenerational and elemental frameworks in practice
• Are ready to translate experiential insight into embodied clinical presence
• Value immersive learning within a thoughtfully held professional environment
What You Will Leave With
• A grounded integration of experiential insight into therapeutic work
• Greater confidence in engaging intergenerational material
• Expanded relational and systemic awareness
• Practical tools for embodied clinical presence
• A strengthened and clarified internal clinical compass
Retreat Structure
The week includes:
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Arrival for Part 2 participants: 19 March 2027
One integration/rest day
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Optional experiences are available and may be selected during booking. Participants may choose to join curated local activities or honour the day as spacious time for rest, reflection, and integration.
Four structured training days
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Departure: 25 March 2027
Participants attending the full retreat transition directly from Part I into Part II.
Your registration fee includes:
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Workshop tuition and training materials
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Continuing Education credits (pending approval)
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Accommodation at Nyosi Wildlife Reserve
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Meals on structured training days (coffee, tea, juice, and water included)
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Two guided game drives
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Full-day bush immersion
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Poetry and meditation evenings
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Welcome and farewell dinners
Lodging
Participants attending both Part 1 and Part 2 will remain onsite at Nyosi Wildlife Reserve for the full duration of the retreat.
Participants attending only one part may be accommodated at a neighbouring lodge, depending on room availability.
Accommodation includes:
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Shared luxury cabins or villas
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Room assignments finalised after registration closes
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Transportation provided between lodging and the training venue if accommodation is offsite
The reserve is privately reserved for our group during workshop days, creating a contained and immersive retreat environment.
Travel & Personal Expenses
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Flights and additional transfers
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Travel insurance (strongly recommended)
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Alcoholic beverages and specialty coffees
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Personal expenses
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Meals on non-training days
Enhance your experience
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Optional activities which are selected during booking
Addo Elephant National Park excursion
Frequently asked Questions:
Booking Flights
International participants typically travel to South Africa via Johannesburg (OR Tambo International Airport) or Cape Town International Airport. From there, a short domestic flight connects to Port Elizabeth (Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport), which is the closest airport to Nyosi Wildlife Reserve.
On the arrival day (19 March 2027), group shuttles will be arranged from the Port Elizabeth airport to the reserve at approximately 12:30 and 14:30.
Participants arriving outside of these shuttle windows can easily reach the reserve via Uber or private transfer.
More detailed travel guidance will be shared with registered participants closer to the retreat.
Travelling with Family
For international participants, the retreat is sometimes part of a wider trip to South Africa.
While accommodation within Nyosi Wildlife Reserve is reserved for retreat participants, partners or family members are welcome to stay nearby.
The seaside suburb of Seaview, located approximately 15 minutes from the reserve, offers a range of comfortable bed-and-breakfasts and guesthouses where family members can stay while participants attend the training.
Some participants choose to extend their visit and explore the surrounding coastline and nature reserves with their families before or after the retreat.
If you are considering travelling with family, please feel free to reach out and we will gladly share nearby accommodation options.
Investment
Participants may secure their place by paying in full (best value) or through a structured 6-month payment plan.
Payment plans must be completed by 31 January 2027. Instalment availability depends on booking date.
All programme fees are set and payable in USD.
Booking and Payment Options
Payment Plan
≈ $3,318 USD*
R54,300
6 monthly instalments of
R9,050 each **
≈ $553 USD*
Secure payment via Yoco. Confirmation and receipt issued immediately.
*Estimate based on current exchange rate. All payments are processed in South African Rand (ZAR). USD amounts are approximate for international participants.
**Price includes payment and processing fees
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be submitted in writing.
A full refund of the course fee, minus a $150 USD administrative fee, will be provided if Global Therapy Connect is notified in writing within 30 calendar days of registration.
After 30 calendar days from registration, or within four weeks of the retreat start date (whichever occurs first), payments become non-refundable due to contractual lodging and activity commitments.
If an emergency prevents participation, please contact Global Therapy Connect directly. Requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis at the sole discretion of Global Therapy Connect.