Experience Ira Progoff’s  Intensive Journal® during  an 11 day (10 nights) retreat vacation in a medieval villa in Italy’s Umbrian countryside.  This unique opportunity is open to only 8 English speaking participants and includes the Journal’s Life Context and Depth Contact sections with plenty of time and atmosphere to develop journal techniques under the guidance of an experienced Dialogue House journal consultant.  

After a day’s orientation to the Italian landscape, participants will dive into the first 12 hour (over two days) Life Context journal workshop.  Then, after a day’s rest and local touring, the second 12 hour Depth Contact workshop segment will be taught.  The rest of the time will be devoted to offering participants the time they need to practice their journal reflection tools while resting at the La Pietra villa at Alta Bella and/or touring the Umbrian hillsides, local communities (Assisi, Cortona, Umbertide on market day and Anghiari, home of elegant Italian linens) area cuisines and art.   www.altabella.com

Paul Ilecki, a Progoff  Intensive Journal consultant, is a former priest and monk and holds a doctorate in adult learning and development.  He was assistant dean of the Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Besides teaching journal workshops, he conducts meditation retreats and contemplative awareness seminars.  He is a musician, writer, weaver and cook.

Jan Lemma Kalberer host and registrar for the Alta Bella retreat vacation with the  Intensive Journal®, is a second generation Italian/American living in Portland, Oregon and considers Italy her second home. Food was and continues to be paramount in her life. She was raised in her family’s Italian Restaurant, the Lido in Portland, and in 1998, started her own cooking business in Italy with a Sardinian Shepard named Melchiorre. That business, Amore Sapore, under new ownership is still going strong today. Jan’s professional career has been rich in artistic vision and meaning. She has been a therapist, a fine fabrics and linens importer, a cook, a professional clown, an amateur actor, and currently works as a mental health consultant. She brings candor, humor, and energy to all of her work and celebrates her heritage and her life with her family (including two children and two grandchildren) and all of her family and friends.

For more information about the Progoff Intensive Journal® method at Altabella, contact Paul Ilecki (719) 395-9172 or Ilecki@amigo.net   www.coloradonotes.com

To learn about the Progoff Intensive Journal® workshops offered across the USA and around the world, go to the Dialogue House website at www.intensivejournal.org.