A 4-Day CEU Retreat for Mental Health Providers · Good Commons, Plymouth, Vermont
Winter Reset
for Practitioners
Return to the Body That Holds Everyone Else
16.25 NASW NH CEUs pending approval · Category A, incl. Ethics
You Already Know This
You know exactly what a regulated nervous system feels like.
You've explained it to clients a hundred times. You've charted it, taught it, walked someone else through it in session an hour ago. But you can't remember the last time you actually felt it yourself.
You've spent your career attuning to everyone else's activation — and the attunement never fully resets. Not because you're bad at your job. Because you're excellent at it.
You track what the room needs before it's said. You hold what no one else in the room can hold. And somewhere in the process, your own nervous system became the one thing you stopped tending to.
It's not burnout the way people talk about burnout.
It's quieter than that.
- The vigilance that never fully powers down.
- The body that keeps score of every session, even after you clock out.
- The tiredness sleep doesn't touch.
What's missing isn't more clinical knowledge.
It's the felt experience of being back in your own body — regulated, resourced, and yours.
Why January Exists
I've worked in mental health for 28 years.
In that time, I've watched a lot of us burn out. Leave the field. Go numb. Stop showing up as the therapist we set out to be — not because we stopped caring, but because we never learned how to take care of ourselves.
Here's what nobody tells you before you become a therapist: most of us didn't get into this work by accident. We come from something — trauma, addiction, chaos, a childhood where we learned to read a room before we learned to read a book.
We became empathetically attuned as children. First it was survival. Then it was how we earned our place. Eventually, it became a career.
And the stress we absorbed on everyone else's behalf never actually left our bodies. It just settled. Into the tissue. Into the nervous system.
That's what happened to me — even if it took years to get the words for it. What I do know is this:
At 44, with no warning, my heart rate dropped to 23. Doctors found a full heart block and gave me a pacemaker — but no diagnosis. No explanation for why my heart had stopped doing its job.
Eighteen months later, the lead fractured. Back into surgery, replacing the cord between the pacemaker and my heart.
Almost four years after that first surgery, I finally got the diagnosis that explained it all — cardiac sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory disease. And with it, an upgrade — a pacemaker-defibrillator, because now that we knew what we were treating, there was a real chance my heart rate could climb past the point of no return and send me into cardiac arrest. Healing this illness could, quite literally, kill me.
I believe cardiac sarcoidosis is what a lifetime of holding space — without ever learning how to release what I was holding — eventually does to a body. My heart hadn't just stopped listening to what I was asking of it. It had stopped doing its job — boycotting the one function that keeps a person alive. It still does, to this day. I have no underlying heart rate of my own. The pacemaker beats my heart. The defibrillator keeps it from going too far.
I was a therapist. I knew the nervous system inside and out. I taught regulation for a living. And I could not feel my own body until it forced the issue.
This is why I started offering retreats to mental health professionals. Because we need them more than our clients do.
January is for the therapist who's tired of teaching regulation she's never fully felt.
Four days to stop being the exception to your own care.
Who This Is For
Masters- and doctoral-level mental health providers — therapists, social workers, counselors, and psychologists ready to feel what they teach.
- You explain nervous system regulation to clients — but couldn't tell someone the last time you felt fully regulated yourself
- You're tired of running on empathy fumes and want to feel like yourself — and like the compassionate, present therapist you set out to be — again
- You know the research. You've read the books. What you don't have is the felt experience — and you're done collecting more information without it
- You give your regulation to every session, every client, every crisis call — and rarely receive any back
- You want CEUs that actually change something in you, not just check a licensing box
You don't need to be a yoga person or a "somatic person" already. You need to be a provider ready to stop only teaching the body-based work — and start living inside it.
What You'll Experience
Four days of coming back into the body that holds everyone else
Nervous System Science
Grounded in the Body, Not Just the Head
Current understanding of how chronic empathetic attunement becomes burnout — and what actually interrupts that pattern. Woven throughout, not delivered as a separate lecture.
Somatic Practice
Practices You Feel Before You Teach
Somatic yoga, breathwork — including conscious connected breath — body scans, and movement-based regulation, practiced on yourself before you're asked to guide anyone else through it.
Being Witnessed
Seen, Not Just Seeing
Structured dyad and small-group work. The chance to practice — and to be seen — in a room of people who understand exactly what you carry.
Becoming the Therapist You Meant to Be
A Fuller Cup to Give From
Direct work on the empathy fatigue that dulls presence, patience, and compassion over time — so what you offer clients comes from a fuller cup, not an empty one.
Sound Bath & Ritual
An Evening to Simply Receive
An evening sound bath and closing ritual elements, offered as part of the retreat container and held with the same intention as everything else on the weekend.
Nourishment & Full House Access
Your Body Taken Care Of
All meals from Thursday dinner through Sunday brunch, farm-to-table and locally sourced. Full access to the steam shower, hot tub, indoor fireplace, and outdoor fire pit.
The Daily Rhythm
Real sessions. Real structure.
CE sessions run on a fixed schedule, required for CEU tracking — but the pace inside each session is unhurried, body-led, and never rushed.
Meal times are a rhythm, not a rule — eating here is fluid, and snacks are available all day.
Thursday
Arrival, settling in
Dinner
Opening session — cultivating safety in the body, naming what brought you here
Friday
Breakfast
Nervous system science, somatic practice
Lunch, free time to explore, rest, hot tub, massage, or connect
Practice continues; ethics woven throughout
Dinner
TBD Bonus
Saturday
Breakfast
Clearing — somatic yoga, breathwork
Lunch, free time to explore, rest, hot tub, massage, or connect
Science and practice come together
Dinner
Sound bath (bonus, not a CE session)
Sunday
Breakfast
Closing session — integration, home-based practice, sustaining the work
Brunch, departure by 12:30 PM
A Note on Timing
You're already thinking January is a hard time to get away.
You're probably right. The holidays just ended. Caseloads are full. There's rarely a clean four days on a clinician's calendar — and there won't be a cleaner one in February.
So this isn't about waiting for the right time.
It's about choosing one — and using it to fill both requirements you actually need: your CEUs, and yourself.
Four days, already set aside.
A room full of people who understand exactly what you carry.
Accommodation & Investment
Choose your container
All options include every meal (coffee, tea, breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, and desserts — farm-to-table and locally sourced), all sessions and practices, sound bath, full house amenities, and your NASW CEU certificate upon completion.
Shared Loft
$1,147
Something ancient about sleeping under the same roof as the people doing this work alongside you. Not the budget option — the communal one.
- Shared loft, 9 beds
- Shared bathrooms (5.5 total, house-wide)
- All meals & practices included
- Payment plans available
Shared Double
$1,347
Something happens when you share the room with another provider doing this same work. Bring a colleague, or let the retreat bring you one.
- Two beds, shared bedroom (3 rooms)
- Shared bathrooms
- All meals & practices included
- Payment plans available
Private Room
$1,547
For the provider who needs stillness to fully land. Your own space to process and integrate without managing anyone else's energy.
- Single occupancy (3 rooms available)
- Shared bathrooms
- All meals & practices included
- Payment plans available
18 spots total. Massage available as an add-on, booked separately. A non-refundable $200 deposit holds your spot, with the balance split across 6 bi-weekly payments.
CEU Information
This program has been submitted for approval for 16.25 Category A Continuing Education Credits by the National Association of Social Workers, NH Chapter. 3-6 of these hours are in Ethics. Certificate issued to participants who complete a minimum of 80% of scheduled hours.
This training is applying for approval through NASW NH. If you are licensed outside of New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont we recommend verifying with your state licensing board that they accept CEUs approved through NASW prior to registering.
From Providers Who've Trained With Pam
What happens when you finally let yourself receive
"This training was so engaging, I didn't focus on the clock. Time flew by and I did not feel bored or disengaged. It helped me be present today and in the future."
Nicole — Therapist
"Pam is a wonderful educator. Her training is incredibly informative. From this experience I have gathered both personal and professional tools that I will use daily to continue to support my clients and myself. I highly recommend anyone, especially those in the mental health field, to take this training."
Kenna — Therapist
"If you've ever wanted more for your soul and spirit — this retreat is it."
Sara J. — Therapist
The Location
Good Commons, Plymouth, Vermont
Quiet. Grounded. Held by the Green Mountains — in the deep stillness of January. The same land, known firsthand, now holding this work for you.
- Fully renovated retreat home in the Green Mountains
- Dedicated yoga and movement studio
- Commercial kitchen — farm-to-table meals all weekend
- Steam shower, hot tub, indoor gas fireplace, outdoor fire pit (snow-dependent)
- Arrival after 4pm Thursday · Departure by 12:30pm Sunday
Your Guide
Pam Godbois, LICSW
Somatic Practitioner · Yoga Teacher
Pam works at the intersection of nervous system science, body-based practice, and spiritual integration — with over 25 years of experience in mental health and healing. She works primarily with helping professionals who are tired of giving from a well they've never been taught to fill.
For more than 13 years she has led retreats and experiential trainings that create space for something the clinical world rarely makes room for: the helper coming home to themselves.
In 2021, at 44, a sudden heart block led to her first pacemaker — the beginning of a medical journey that would eventually bring a diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis. Her body had been speaking for a long time. Learning to actually listen changed everything.
She doesn't teach this work from a distance. She teaches it from inside it — from the same place she's asking you to go.
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)
- 25+ years in mental health and healing
- Somatic practitioner and yoga teacher
- 13+ years leading retreats and experiential trainings
- Specializes in nervous system regulation and burnout recovery
- NASW NH approved CEU provider
Questions
What you're probably wondering
How many CEUs will I earn?
16.25 NASW NH Category A CEUs, pending final approval — including hours in ethics.
Which license types qualify for CEUs?
Designed for mental health providers at the Masters and doctoral level — LICSW, LCSW, LMSW, LCMHC, LPC, LMFT, LADC, and NH-licensed psychologists (PsyD/PhD — NH's psychology board accepts NASW-approved CE directly). If you hold a different credential or are licensed outside NH, check with your board on reciprocity. Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of license type — CEUs simply may not apply to every credential.
Do I need to attend every session to get full CEUs?
Per NASW NH requirements, you must attend a minimum of 80% of scheduled hours to receive your CEU certificate.
When do I get my certificate?
Before you leave. We wrap this up together Sunday morning, so you walk out with your CEU certificate in hand.
Do I need prior embodiment or yoga experience?
No. All practices are adaptable. If you can breathe and move a little, you belong here.
Is this retreat emotionally intense?
This retreat is stabilizing, not cathartic or confrontational. Emotional awareness may arise naturally, but the focus is containment, safety, and nervous system support — not forced release.
What's included?
All sessions, CEUs, meals (Thursday dinner through Sunday brunch), lodging, sound bath, and full use of the property.
What's not included?
Travel to and from Good Commons. Massage (optional add-on).
Are payment plans available?
Yes. A non-refundable $200 deposit holds your spot, with the remaining balance split across 6 bi-weekly payments.
What if I'm not sure it's the right fit?
Book a free discovery call — a short conversation can tell you more than a webpage can.
You've Read This Far
Winter Reset is where you finally get to be the one who is held.
That pull isn't impulsiveness. It's the part of you that's been holding everyone else's regulation, recognizing something it's been waiting for.
January 7–10, 2027 · Good Commons, Plymouth, Vermont