Celebrating Change

Friday, February 24, 2023 4:00 PM 16:00
Sunday, February 26, 2023 1:00 PM 13:00

Serra Retreat Center 3401 Serra Road Malibu, CA, 90265 United States (map)

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**Celebrating Change**

**MOSAIC ALCHEMY presents: “Celebrating Change”**
Embrace CHANGE as a friend, a foil, a process and a toy.
Play with art materials. Journal.
Make new friends.
Return with tools, art materials and new skills.
**Two Special Guest Presenters:**
*Martin Wiech* - Agape Practitioner sharing YOGA LAUGHTER!
*Tanya Hekimian* -Financial Advisor - Alternative Investments Director The Los Angeles Group | Morgan Stanley
**Retreat Limit 19.**
All welcome*
**RSVP Now - $950**

Goals:

Take a weekend for yourself, yes, just YOU. No cooking, No Social Media, No work.
Experience the simple, empowering, healing and fun work of Dr Lucia Cappachione’s CREATIVE JOURNAL EXPRESSIVE ARTS. Check out Lucia's Amazon Author Page to explore her many publications.
Explore an introduction to mosaic making. Betty has been a professional mosaic artist for 20+years.
Enjoy the beauty of Malibu, California’s SERRA RETREAT CENTER without breaking the bank :).
Leave with tools and materials to continue your creative practice.
Enjoy our two special presenters that will make you laugh and guide you toward empowering financial resources to support your changes.
Make new friends and/or get reacquainted with your BFF inside of you.

Learn and play with these tools and more. :)

Schedule

Glass, plates, ceramic tile, smalti, etc. Play with these materials and more.

All activities in the Rindge Room

Arrive anytime after 1pm
Upon arrival and check in at Serra Retreat
5pm - all evening “BYOB” (Build Your own Bouquet)
6 - 7:00pm - Dinner
7 - 8:30pm - Intro to CJEA and Laughing Yoga with Martin !
8 - 9:00am - Breakfast-
9:30-11am - Movement & Spiritual Scavenger Hunt (Weather Permitting)

12 - 1:00pm - Lunch
1:30-2:30pm - Financial Empowerment tools with Tanya
3 -5:00pm - Mosaic Activity - Learn tools, fitting, adhesives, design, and a bit of history too ;)

6 - 7:00pm - Dinner

7 - 8:30pm - Film: Non Traditional Artist
8 - 9:00am - Breakfast

9:00am - Checkout: Remove belongings from your room to cars, place bedsheets in hall, and return to Rindge Room
9:30am - 11:30am - Grout and complete your mosaic from yesterday.
11:30pm - 12pm -Reflection
12:00pm - Lunch
Retreat Concludes
You are welcome to enjoy the Serra Retreat’s grounds for the afternoon as long as we are respectful of others at retreat center.

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What’s Provided

Single rooms, with bed and desk and lamps, adjoining bath with shower, Serra provides simple towels, soap, linens.
(5 Meals, cafeteria style).

Friday: Dinner
Saturday: Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner
Sunday: Breakfast

There is a fridge in the Rindge Room where we will gather. Feel free to bring snacks to share or special foods for those with food allergies or other preferences.
BYOB flowers and vase
Journaling and Art Materials
Financial Handouts
By consent, Email list to stay in touch with other participants.

$625 Total Cost for Early Bird and Returning Participants paid in full by November 30th 2022

$800 starting December 1st 2022.

$875 starting January 1st 2023,

$950 starting February 1st 2023

please email when you make your payment.

Payment Plans available.

Full payment due by February 7th 2023 .

All payments Non refundable.

We need to provide Serra Retreat with a list of names in advance. Sorry, non transferable.

One DJS Scholarship available at discounted price ***$450
Email betty.mosaicalchemy@gmail.com by November 30th to apply.
***DJS honors the memory of Deborah Jean Stefl. Kind. Goofy. Talented. So Missed.

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(left) Lucia Capacchione (right) Betty Rosen at Serra in 2022

Mosaic Alchemy

Hosted by Betty Rosen CJEA Practitioner & Mosaic Artist.

Betty Rosen has had successful careers in Film Production, Music Publishing and as a Teaching Artist specializing in mosaics and community built projects and now as a CJEA Practitioner.

She is highly familiar with Change.

Resilience, Music, Art making, Scribliing, Spending Plans, Nature, Intimate conversations and Belly Laughs are the tools we will share and practice together so we can identify and pursue the changes we crave.

Special Guest Speakers for this retreat:

Martin Wiech - will provide the initial belly laughs

Martin Wiech is a master spiritual practitioner with Agape International spiritual center for over 35 years. Facilitating many classes and workshops he is skilled at what he does .

Ten years ago Martin added Laughter Yoga to his practice and hosts a month community laughter yoga session helping himself and others remember cosmic joy in this ever changing thing called life .

Tanya Hekimian - will end our retreat with financial tools and resources to fiscally support our changes.

Tanya grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and received a B.A. from The American University in 1993. She relocated to Los Angeles where she spent over twenty years working in the entertainment industry as a writer, producer and television executive overseeing the creation, sale and production of multi-million dollar film and television projects.

With over 6 years of financial industry experience, Tanya feels her diverse background allows her a deeper understanding of her clients and their needs, helping her to manage their assets as well as their liabilities and guiding them towards strategies that preserve and grow their wealth and their business interests.

Tanya’s passion for philanthropic work has always been a cornerstone in her life. She has served on and Co-chaired the Los Angeles board as well as served on the National board of StepUp where she raised money to empower at risk young women so they could become confident, college bound and career focused. She has also served on the board of She Built It, the Westside Family YMCA and has worked as a volunteer fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders.

She has also served as the Chairwoman of the Armenian and Sunday school at St. James Armenian Apostolic Church. In addition, she served for four years as a Grade Captain for Brentwood School’s Annual Giving Campaign. During her time at Curtis School where she served for ten years as a fundraiser for their Annual Giving Campaign to raise money for her children’s schools to fund scholarships and diversity initiatives. She also chaired and hosted multiple fundraising events and chaired multiple committees during her time at both Brentwood and Curtis School.

In her spare time, Tanya also enjoys cooking, sailing and collecting the art of young and emerging artists.

About the Space - Serra Retreat Center

Serene, rustic, and a home for the Friars. It’s important to us to show respect for their practices and this sacred space. This is not an opulent Malibu retreat; this is a simple, beautiful place for reflection and residence for the Friars. It’s stunning. Quiet. And a rare opportunity to stay in Malibu at an affordable rate.

Please visit their website if you have any further questions. You will be more comfortable if you leave your inner foodie at home, and there are many Malibu eateries to take advantage of on either side of the retreat. There is a refrigerator to store snacks and specialty items.

Overseeing Malibu Beach from Serra Retreat Center

Level of walking moderate to extreme. There are stairs everywhere. *
https//www.serraretreat.com/

I have been there for personal retreats many times since COVID; they take safety precautions very seriously.

Please don’t come if you are experiencing any symptoms or have traveled less than two weeks prior. Proof of vaccination required by Serra Retreat Center. Social distancing and masking will be in place when inside.

We are limiting this retreat to 20 maximum.