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The Learning Institute

Summer Retreat in Seattle

Five days, forty hours, twenty-four seats. A working week with practitioners who hold the same seat you do, in a room small enough that everyone is asked something.

August 9 to 13, 2027 Twenty-four seats $6,800

The week

Forty hours across five days. Worked, not presented.

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  1. Where your program actually stands

    An honest audit of the file you brought, against the standard a reviewer would apply. Most people arrive certain about one thing and leave less certain about it.

  2. Intake and supportive measures

    The first twenty-four hours, worked through on real material. Notice, options, documentation, and the decisions that quietly set the ceiling on everything after.

  3. Evidence and interviewing

    Trauma-informed technique under pressure, with your own drafts marked up by a practitioner who will tell you what is wrong with them.

  4. Findings and the record

    Writing a determination someone else can follow. Standard of proof, reasoning made visible, and the parts of a report that fail on appeal.

  5. What you take back

    Your program, rebuilt on paper, with the sequence and the instruments to put it in place. You leave with a plan, not a folder.

Details

Where
Seattle, Washington
When
Room
Twenty-four seats. Capped deliberately: the format stops working the moment people can hide in it.
Fee
$6,800 per seat. Travel and accommodation are not included.
Access
By referral from a past attendee or by institutional sponsorship.
Credit
Forty hours of hour-by-hour attendance documentation, provided for self-submission.
Faculty
Every session is taught by a practitioner who carries this work. The faculty for the retreat is announced to registered attendees ahead of the program.

Referral or sponsor required

Seats are not sold openly. A place comes through a referral from a practitioner who has been, or through an institutional sponsor. That is what keeps the room small enough for the format to work, and candid enough for people to bring the matter they are actually stuck on.

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Trust, operationalized

Work with us

Engagements begin with a scoping conversation. We look at the portfolio you are carrying, the exposure you are managing, and the seat you need covered, then we tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.

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