A Transformational Relationship Seminar

At The Bonding Weekend, you will learn to develop the kinds of relationships you have always dreamed of. Through an intense process of self-exploration and sharing, you will experience safety, freedom, and love in the deepest senses of the words.

In this unique environment, you will confront your fears, release your judgments of yourself and others, and experience healing and self-forgiveness. You will have the opportunity to express yourself fully and freely and gain confidence in your ability to bring all of who you are to the world.

JOIN US and gain the tools you seek to have what you want in your life and in your relationships!!!

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Join Us in a Powerful, Spiritual, Magical Seminar

Our focus is on healing our relationships and feeling empowered in our lives. You can come to the workshop with a partner, a close friend, or by yourself; we will be focusing on the issues of “intimacy” and “relationship” in all sense of the words!

Thanks to TBW, I am very clear about who I am. I am more accepting and my world has gotten bigger. I now have the courage to pursue things that I only dreamed about before. I have always known I am meant to live a big life, and I now feel fearless in the face of it." Paige Anne Biagi ~ Legislative Assistant to a Member of the FL House of Representatives

In the first part of the workshop, we will be doing processes designed to support you in embracing your dark side, i.e., parts of yourself that you may have difficulty experiencing...this is different for everyone. For some, it is anger and rage, for others, it is fear and weakness, and for still others, it is receiving love. The work is designed to support emotional release and opening up to our vulnerability. You will also have the opportunity to experience your life in relation to your own death!

Our intention is to support you in feeling safer with all of who you are. You will leave the workshop feeling empowered and more able to get your needs met in a healthy way in the world and in your relationships.

During the second part of the workshop, we will be looking at our identities as men and women. In a fun and humorous way, you will explore some of the reasons why we fail to understand each other and what the results tend to be. We will be working towards full, honest, and congruent communication with partners, friends, and colleagues.

Enrollment is limited to 26 people and 20-30 assistants. The small group size allows for full participation by everyone. This is an advanced seminar, we assume that you have done work on yourself, that you are ready to be called forth, and ready to plunge to the depths in order to heal!

Dates of Upcoming Workshops 2010 TBW LEVEL I: Joshua Tree Retreat Center Jun 10 - 13 TBW LEVEL 2: Joshua Tree Retreat Center Dec 2 - 5

Trainers

Masen and Barbara have been married for over 16 years. They created the Bonding Weekend because they observed numerous friends and colleagues who had done plenty of personal growth work, therapy, healing of their past issues, found some purpose in their lives, and yet still seemed unable to create healthy partnerships and bring these qualities into their relationships.

The main questions they have asked themselves are these:

"What goes wrong in intimate relationships?"
"How is it that people who are so clearly in love seem unable to maintain that and build from it?"

They do not pretend that they have any easy answers or that they don't have problems of their own. However, they provide effective tools for you to begin to ask the right questions and get a clear sense of what you need to do in order to create the types of relationships that you want.

Barbara and Masen have devoted their lives to personal exploration and brought that commitment into their relationship. Through their own journey together as a couple, they have continued to explore what it means to be a "partnership", what it really takes to set boundaries, yet compromise, and what it is that keeps love alive. They believe that it really is possible to maintain a high level of passion and excitement in relationships and with compassion, humor, love, and ruthless honesty provide a safe and clear environment for people to create the types of relationships they truly want by telling the truth, taking risks, and honoring each other.

Barbara Reiner Yaffee has been involved in the field of personal growth for over 30 years. She has been active in varied large group personal growth seminars as a participant numerous times as well as acting as an assistant, team leader, facilitator, supervisor and producer.

As a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she maintained a private practice working with individual clients and groups and specialized in working with women healing their relationship with food and their body, training other clinicians in supporting clients in healing from disorder eating, and providing in-depth psychotherapy for a variety of issues. She has extensive experience with inner child healing, rebirthing, emotional release work, communication skills training, addiction recovery, and in supporting healthy relationships. In addition, she has developed and taught a counseling skills training program and has directed and been involved with many non-profit agencies.

Although The Bonding Weekend is NOT therapy, Barbara brings her extensive training and skills to this work. She is committed to supporting people in living their lives fully with integrity and passion.

Masen Yaffee has been involved with spiritual and personal growth work and trainings since he was 4 years old when he received a meditation teaching from an eastern guru, Maharaji. His life has been devoted to pursuing his own spiritual path as well as supporting others in finding their own way and being true to themselves.

He has participated, assisted, and facilitated at numerous seminars, including such varied topics as empowered speaking, goal achievement, communication skills training, and emotional release work.

Masen is a Licensed Avatar Master and Wizard; The Avatar Course is delivered internationally and is designed to teach people to seek out and discover beliefs that do not serve them, and to then create the beliefs that do. It also provides participants with the experience of themself as "Source" of their Universe. Masen was licensed as a Master in 1992 and has been delivering courses ever since.

The Bonding Weekend is NOT Avatar, however Masen brings his extensive experience as a teacher, mentor, and trainer to this work. He is committed to supporting people in working through their own blocks, in communicating through their blocks with others, and to supporting people in getting what they want in life.

Barbara & Masen live in Santa Barbara with their 3 kitties, Harley, Xena, & Spike. Masen owns a web development company as well as being involved with starting several other businesses. Barbara produces the Bonding Weekend and a Psychological Astrology Training Program in addition to teaching yoga and creating lifetime digital videos.