This TBO Level One in-person Weekend will be held April 18-20, 2025 at the incredible Hope Springs Institute in Peebles, Ohio. In our many years of retreat and conference experiences, Hope Springs has been the best space we have found to meet the needs of survivors’ restoration and recovery. Hope Springs creates the environment and safety for survivors to do deep, life-changing work. 

Each weekend will accommodate a maximum of 25 participants and 6 facilitators from across the US. This ratio of specialty facilitators to participants in small groups is a powerful adjunct to recovery. Each member of the TBO team brings decades of experience and skill with survivors of trauma, utilizing the same clinical boundaries and code of ethics as adopted by the American Psychological Association. The Weekend provides an adjunct to participants' ongoing recovery.

Each participant will learn and implement tools for inner and outer safety, tell their story and be heard—with the power of community—and create a new template for recovery that will continue long after the weekend.

TBO creates this extraordinary community, with hope, joy, honesty—and more life. And over the years, that community continues to keep their connections with one another and to the power they have touched within themselves.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

www.Taking BackOurselves.org.

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Taking Back Ourselves' mission is to serve sexual abuse and assault survivors of sexual violence, incest, rape, domestic violence, racially motivated sexual abuse, assault in the workplace, military sexual assault, survivors of religious and clergy abuse, academic and sports related abuse, those assaulted in the performing arts, disabled survivors of sexual assault whose assault is gravely under-reported, survivors of war crimes including rape and trafficking, and trans survivors who often struggle to find a safe space to heal.