Where Clinical Skill Meets Contemplative Depth
You share profound stories every day.
Stories of grief and loss, near-death experiences, and after-death communications, traumatic experiences, intergenerational pain, and experiences that echo across time.
Multidimensional Integrative Healing invites us to consider that healing may unfold across many dimensions of experience, including psychological, somatic, relational, ancestral, and spiritual.
During this retreat at Menla, Dr. Laurel Parnell will explore how Multidimensional Integrative Healing opens the door to dimensions of experience that extend beyond personal history and into broader fields of healing and transformation.
Releasing What Isn’t Yours: A Multidimensional Approach to Healing
This retreat explores the practices and perspectives of Multidimensional Integrative Healing and how they can deepen and expand EMDR-based work.
Open to clinicians trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR, this retreat offers dedicated time to explore and integrate the principles of Multidimensional Integrative Healing within both personal and clinical practice.
The approach explored in this retreat is also the focus of Dr. Laurel Parnell’s forthcoming book, Releasing What Isn’t Yours: Living From Your True Self Through Multidimensional Integrative Healing (June, 2026).
In the book, Dr. Parnell explores how individuals often carry emotional, relational, and even ancestral burdens that are not truly their own. Multidimensional Integrative Healing offers practices for recognizing these influences and gently releasing what does not belong to us.
This retreat offers an opportunity to explore these ideas experientially while learning directly with Dr. Parnell in a contemplative retreat setting.Preorder Releasing What Isn’t Yours
Praise for Releasing What Isn’t Yours
“Wise and visionary. Laurel is a pioneer in healing and includes the essential dimension of the sacred that has been missing for so many.”
— Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart
“Releasing What Isn’t Yours invites us to explore the many layers of experience that often go unrecognized in everyday life—and psychotherapy—yet influence us in profound ways.”
— Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author
“For anyone who has experienced trauma, for clinicians seeking to expand their therapeutic repertoire, or for spiritual practitioners longing for a bridge between profound inner experience and psychological integration, this book is a gift.”
— Diane Poole Heller, PhD, author of The Power of Attachment
“A cutting-edge book that helps us discover where awakening and therapeutic healing converge.”
— Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSWDr. Parnell’s book Releasing What Isn’t Yours will be published in June 2026 by St. Martin’s Essentials / Sounds True.
Exploring the Practices of Multidimensional Integrative Healing
Drawing from the teachings in Releasing What Isn’t Yours, Dr. Parnell will introduce key elements of Multidimensional Integrative Healing and how they can deepen clinical and personal healing work.
During the retreat, participants will explore practices such as:
- developing energetic sovereignty and maintaining energetic clarity
- working with energetic cords and relational patterns
- accessing nature and spiritual resources
- exploring ancestral resources and lineage healing
- dreamwork and intuitive insight
- after-death communication and spiritual experiences
- recognizing, assessing, and releasing spirit attachments
Through experiential exercises, meditation, case sharing, and group discussion, participants will explore how these practices can support healing that extends beyond personal history into broader dimensions of experience.
Your Immersive Experience
Over the course of four days at Menla, you will:
- engage in guided experiential exercises and meditation
- participate in guided experiential work
- explore case consultation in a supportive small-group setting
- reflect, integrate, and deepen your clinical presence
- learn within a retreat format that allows spacious integration and community building
Your Retreat Setting: Menla
Nestled in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Menla Retreat Center offers a contemplative environment designed for reflection and integration. Surrounded by forest and mountain air, the setting supports nervous system regulation and focused learning.
This retreat format allows time to metabolize the work. You are not returning to a full clinical caseload at the end of each day. You are given space to integrate what you are learning before bringing it back into your practice.
Who Is This Retreat For?
This retreat is designed for those who:
- have completed Attachment-Focused EMDR training or received special permission
- feel called to bring spiritual or multidimensional perspectives into healing work
- maintain a contemplative or reflective practice
- are comfortable exploring non-ordinary experiences within a grounded clinical context
- desire connection with other clinicians exploring transpersonal work
An Invitation to Deeper Work
This retreat is an invitation to broaden your understanding of healing, not only for your clients but also for yourself.
Enrollment is intentionally limited to preserve depth, safety, and meaningful connection among participants.
We encourage early registration to secure your place.