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Growth Is a Work in Progress Just as personal growth is an ongoing journey, we're refreshing our website to create a better experience for you. Thank you for your patience. We look forward to offering an updated online experience.
Co-Facilitated by Shari Dworkin-Smith and Elias Patras
You may already be receiving intuitive hits, sensing what feels right or wrong, or knowing something before you can explain why. The challenge often comes afterward, when fear, self-doubt, overthinking, people pleasing, fixing, control, or perfectionism make you question what you just felt.
Stop the Pattern is a weekend retreat designed to help you understand what gets in the way of trusting your inner voice, recognize the patterns that interfere with your intuition, and begin building a stronger relationship with what you already know.
Most intuitive development focuses on teaching you how to receive more. This retreat goes deeper by looking at why you may not trust what you are already receiving.
Throughout the weekend, Shari and Elias will guide you through grounded teaching, personal reflection, experiential exercises, intuitive development, and opportunities to recognize what happens between the moment you receive an intuitive impression and the moment fear or an old pattern steps in.
You’ll explore the difference between fear and inner knowing, learn to notice how your patterns affect self-trust, strengthen your connection to your intuition, and begin opening to what becomes possible when you stop automatically questioning yourself.
This is not about forcing intuition or trying to become someone different. It is about clearing some of the noise that gets in the way so you can hear yourself more clearly, trust yourself more deeply, and allow your intuitive abilities to develop naturally.
Retreat Registration: $557
Element by Marriott Orlando Universal Blvd.
8278 Universal Blvd
Orlando, FL 32819
Friday, November 13: Retreat begins at 4:00 PM
Sunday, November 15: Retreat concludes at 1:00 PM
A special discounted hotel rate of $169 per room, per night, plus applicable taxes is available through October 16, 2026.
Breakfast is included with your hotel stay.
Your retreat experience will begin before you arrive and continue after you leave.
Participants will be invited to a pre-retreat Zoom Meet & Greet with Shari and Elias, giving everyone an opportunity to connect before the weekend and begin preparing for the experience together.
After the retreat, we will come back together for a post-retreat Zoom reunion to reconnect, talk about what has shifted, and support you as you continue integrating what you experienced into everyday life.
At the heart of my work is the belief that healing, transformation, and personal growth should be accessible to everyone — regardless of financial circumstances. The Dr. Stephen O’Connor Scholarship Fund was created to support individuals who feel called to attend my retreats but may not have the financial means to do so. This scholarship is designed to help those who are deeply committed to their personal growth but need a little extra support to make it happen.
Retreat registrations are non-refundable. Because lodging, meals, venue reservations, and retreat planning begin approximately two months before each retreat, we are unable to offer refunds after registration.
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