STAR Retreats Winter 2025 Arizona
With Brian Bailey-Facilitator, Patsy Lewellyn-Program Director, Candace Rosen , LCSW, Facilitator, Ian Warburg, MFT, MSOD, Certified Life Coach, Deb Ulerick - Facilitator and Sasha Sommerville Facilitator
January 23 - February 9, 2026
The first half of a STAR personal growth retreat is dedicated to an ‘excavation process’ and gaining awareness of where you are today and what got you there. By exploring sources of emotional wounding, self-defeating behaviors, destructive patterns, and emotional triggers, you can dig deep, bring to light, and process long-held emotions related to what you find.
The second half of STAR’s heart-centered process is dedicated to RECONNECTING to your heart, essence, and source of inner knowing and truth. By developing and nurturing empathy and compassion for yourself, you will begin to identify what is important to you, what you might want to let go of, and how you can increase joy, meaning, and a sense of purpose in your life today.
Retreats include:
Small intimate group size (max of 20)
Unparalleled personalized attention
Over 100 hours of group, process, & individual work
Daily one-on-one meetings with your facilitator
Our team approach allows for working with all staff
We share meals -Participants and staff dine together
Incredible sense of community & belonging
Daily optional 12-step meeting and grief group
Nightly time for relaxing by the pool and hot tub
About the Leaders
Brian Bailey-Facilitator
I have been involved in personal empowerment both individually and in groups including men’s counsels, 12 step recovery groups, vision questing, mentoring and shamanic journeying. I love sharing the deep in healing characteristic of the STAR intensives. I came to STAR in 1994 during a long-life experience as a military officer, successful business executive and […]
Learn more about Brian Bailey-FacilitatorPatsy Lewellyn-Program Director
I have been actively involved with the STAR program for 20+ years since my attendance at a STAR retreat, serving as a facilitator on staff several times a year, as a member of the Board of Directors for 3 terms, and currently as a Program Director. This transformational work has been the most significant and […]
Learn more about Patsy Lewellyn-Program DirectorCandace Rosen , LCSW, Facilitator
I am a practicing Psychotherapist trained in Gestalt Therapy, Grief, Somatic Experiencing, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and many other modalities. I worked in a Premier Psychiatric Hospital for six years and in an agency doing DBT with Borderline Personality Disorder and Seriously Mentally ill. I have been on Star staff for over 25 years and was […]
Learn more about Candace Rosen , LCSW, FacilitatorIan Warburg, MFT, MSOD, Certified Life Coach
Inspired by my first experience of the power of STAR retreats in 1986, I have been actively involved with STAR for nearly 4 decades. Fascinated by people, and passionate about making the right kind of difference in their lives, I delight in the power of intensive experiences, and in providing therapeutically informed relational coaching. My […]
Learn more about Ian Warburg, MFT, MSOD, Certified Life CoachDeb Ulerick – Facilitator
I first reached out to STAR in 2022 in search of my purpose after multiple life-shattering losses in my life. It was during a period in my life when I was feeling so lost and confused. I was simply existing without knowing how to live life anymore. I knew I was in crisis and needed […]
Learn more about Deb Ulerick – FacilitatorSasha Sommerville Facilitator
I first attended Star in the Spring of 2024 after I reached an emotional all-stop in my life. I had tried many forms of therapy for over a decade and could never seem to reach a breakthrough. Star was the first place I ever felt complete safety, love, and unconditional acceptance of who I was. […]
Learn more about Sasha Sommerville Facilitator