Personal growth is always something that you can experience. By taking time out to of your busy life to do STAR, you give yourself the opportunity to speed up the process of your change. In the words of a STAR graduate, “STAR is like Miracle Grow for your life.”
Personal growth might look like a diamond with its many facets for change. You can grow when doing things such as reading, gardening, cooking, or being in nature. You can also grow from your relationships, whether they be family or friends, your work, or through your associations and involvements in your community. Your life always offers the opportunity for personal growth, although sometimes we find ourselves stuck and unable move ourselves forward. Taxing circumstances, events, and unremitting emotions such as anxiety and depression often interfere with the quality of our lives and get in the way of our capacity for individual growth.
During a personal growth retreat at STAR, you are expertly encouraged to move through the mire of your past and move towards resolving your inner turmoil. By using the skills you learn at STAR you are freed to live in your present. For each person, true personal growth comes from understanding that which makes us “tick.” Once those variables are identified and understood, you are free to choose to build on the things that serve you and throw away that which keeps you from being your true self. With increasing inner awareness, your life becomes richer, more meaningful, and spontaneous. You are more fully able to manifest your dreams and create a life that reflects who you truly are.
STAR helped me jump forward on my path to realize the promise/destiny of my life.
I am completely unwilling to look back with regrets when I can look forward now
with awareness and living in my essence. STAR helped realize this.
Graduate—April, 2008
Also see:
The STAR Process
What Graduates Say about STAR Retreats
The Value of a Personal Growth Retreat
Frequently Asked Questions