Combine adventure and self-improvement in one unforgettable getaway on Grand Bahama Island, that goes beyond just exploring the depths of the sea. We have created a unique six-night, five-day land-based trip by joining forces with Dr. Brian Goff, a clinical psychologist, to dive deep into our psyche with his expert-led psychological workshops.We are offering the opportunity to explore personal growth, self-discovery, and mindfulness while enjoying beautiful scuba dives. We will dive together every morning, followed by workshops on psychological flexibility with thoughts and feelings. These include Finding Our Flow: Mindful Diving and Present-Moment Awareness for enhancing our dives and safety, Navigation by Our Values: Who We Are and Why We Dive – identity, values, and committed actions.This retreat is the perfect blend of adventure, relaxation, and self-discovery, offering a rare opportunity to combine the experience of scuba diving under the direct supervision of Cristina with the benefits of psychological exploration. It is a chance to deepen the connection to ourselves and the world around us.We will dive off the south shore of Grand Bahama, in a mix of reef, wrecks, and shark encounter dives—no night dives.
In scuba, we prepare many things before a dive. We think about dive planning, gas planning, gear configuration and the like. We are also trained in dive-specific skills to respond to situations that might arise whilst diving. What we spend less time thinking about and preparing are our own thoughts and emotions that come with us on our dives and that show up whist diving.
There are psychological processes that impact our readiness to dive. They can impact our safety, the accessibility of our training and dive-specific skills, our response to unexpected situations mid-dive, and our enjoyment of and fulfillment from diving. These processes moderate how flexibly we relate to challenging thoughts and emotions that show up, and how mindful we can be to the moment-by-moment things that are happening within and around us. They determine how we think about ourselves as divers in helpful and potentially unhelpful ways. They impact even our ideas about why we dive and the degree of vitality and joy we derive from diving. Of course, these psychological processes show up in our lives out of water as well.
In this retreat, we will examine the processes associated with psychological flexibility, discover our own personal tendencies toward rigidity, and learn scientifically-validated methods to increase our own flexibility. We will also discuss values, how they differ from goals, and explore our own freely chosen values through accessible, experiential, and personal exercises.
All of this will be done in a parallel process. Our focus will be on the experience and appreciation of diving and how to be a more mindful, engaged, and psychologically flexible diver. We will also discuss how these are relevant and applicable to our “surface intervals” a.k.a., the rest of life.
This model of psychological functioning and the technology of intervention that comes from it is from the world of clinical psychology, but has been widely applied and validated in sports performance, thriving and wellness, business and organizational contexts, and more. This model applies to all humans, even to those of us who love scuba diving!
Max 8 divers. If interested please connect at info@cristinazenato.com REF: Get out of your head and into the water. As we work on a first-come, first-serve basis, we require a 50% deposit to lock in the reservation; full payment is due two months before departure. Closer to the trip we send a Know Before You Go for more details on the trip, how to pack, with questions about gear needed.
CANCELLATION POLICY 120 Days or more – 25% payable 60-120 days – 50% payable 30-60 days – 75% payable 30 days or less – 100% payable
