Codependency Recovery / Inner Child Healing Workshop
8-16-18 - I noticed that this page showed up in a search today so decided I had better put a notice on this page that this occurred 4 years ago. The only workshops I have scheduled at this time are in Gilroy California - which is near the Bay Area. Here is page with up to date info on my Life Changing Workshop. I recently started a new website Joy2MeU2.com that is mobile friendly for anyone who is on a phone. We are hopefully going to be offering my workshop online within the next month or so - on another of my sites RobertBurneyLive.com.
Codependency Recovery / Inner Child Healing Workshop
in Akron, Ohio on May 9th, 2009
The appearance in Ohio went great. We had 67 people for the workshop. Here are a few comments I received by e-mail in the days after I got home. ~ RB 5/15/09
“It was wonderful to met you and hear you speak on codependency recovery. I found the inner child healing information especially helpful to me . I just loved seeing your face light up when you spoke of your grandson. What a wonderful gift you have been given in him. "
“I have heard great feedback from event attendees. Thanks again for all you have given us by sharing your own personal recovery story.”
“We loved your workshop and your wisdom. It has come in handy for me several times since Saturday.”
“Hello my name is ______ and I was at your seminar in Akron, OH this weekend. I am originally from Akron but currently reside in Harrisburg, PA. I kept being drawn to your site as I was doing research on obsessive thinking and codependency. I knew it had to be a God wink when I saw that you were coming to Akron, not even 5 minutes from where I grew up and where my mother still resides. So, my sister and I attended the seminar as both of us have been doing Inner Child/One Brain work for a little while now.
I thought the information was great, insightful and honest which made it real and applicable to my life. You really made me see that first and foremost I need to stop running from doing the inner healing because it is the key to everything else. So, thank you for that.
My sister and I did take great pleasure in hearing you describe your parents as that seems to be the role that both of our parents adopted in life. And my sister took great pleasure in poking me in the ribs when you were talking about picking unavailable women for relationships. Umm, that would be me too. All makes sense since my 5 year old Princess _____ has been doing most of the picking! LOL Which I just realized that this weekend.
Again, thank you sooo very much for your work and sharing it with others. I’m sending you much energy, love and light for your to continue your work. Thanks a bunch.”
Robert would be pleased and happy to be invited to speak at any twelve step meeting or convention. For any location that is more than a reasonable drive (about 2 hours) Robert will need to get expenses and lodging to help him afford to take time out of his regular schedule. For any CoDA or other 12 step group that is a distance away - especially any location that will require travel by air - Robert will need to be able to make some income on the trip in addition to expenses as part of having a healthy boundary that honors the value of his time and his need to pay the rent every month. The best way this can be handled on any trips of a distance, is to have Robert speak in the 12 step setting where he can share his story as a recovering Codependent - and schedule a separate workshop independent of the 12 step group - as is being done in this Ohio appearance. That way there is no violation of the traditions by charging for admission and selling the book and CDs of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls at the workshop.
“I loved your talk at the CoDa Conference yesterday - it was the most eye-opening, heart-opening couple of hours of the day for me. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and your wisdom with us. The idea of the Critical Parent being deeply embedded in us really hit home for me…..and answered a question people who know me have asked: with all that you have going for you, _____, why can’t you just relax and be happy? Anyway, I wish you all the love and happiness in the world for doing such good work.” Feedback from a 2 hour workshop at a Bay Area CoDA mini-conference in October 2004.
Robert would be pleased and happy to be invited to speak at any twelve step meeting or convention. For any location that is more than a reasonable drive (about 2 hours) Robert will need to get expenses and lodging to help him afford to take time out of his regular schedule. For any CoDA or other 12 step group that is a distance away - especially any location that will require travel by air - Robert will need to be able to make some income on the trip in addition to expenses as part of having a healthy boundary that honors the value of his time and his need to pay the rent every month. The best way this can be handled on any trips of a distance, is to have Robert speak in the 12 step setting where he can share his story as a recovering Codependent - and schedule a separate workshop independent of the 12 step group - as is being done in this Ohio appearance. That way there is no violation of the traditions by charging for admission and selling the book and audio tapes of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls at the workshop.
Although my book and articles make reference to Alcoholics Anonymous, the principles and Twelve Step program of A.A., this does not mean that A.A. has reviewed or approved the contents of this writing, nor that A.A. agrees with the views expressed herein. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only - use of this material in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but address other problems, or in any other non-A.A. context, does not imply otherwise.
January 8, 2005 - a message from Robert. I included the above disclaimer in my book - and on any of the pages of my site where I am writing directly about AA or the twelve steps - out of respect for Alcoholics Anonymous. However, it is the black and white thinking of codependency that causes many in AA to be rigid and closed minded - to insist for instance, that drugs not be discussed in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings (alcohol is of course a drug.) Since many of the people who started CoDependents Anonymous came from AA, there is a certain level of black and white thinking that sometimes comes up in CoDA business meetings and affairs. Because of this type of right and wrong / black and white thinking, I included this note at the bottom of the page in one of the articles in my series on The Miracle of The Twelve Step Recovery Process.
“I am inserting a note here for anyone who feels offended by what they see as a violation of the Eleventh Tradition of AA’s Twelve Traditions. The 11th Tradition of AA is: Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films. I routinely break my own anonymity in regard to the fact that I am a recovering alcoholic / addict and codependent because I do not believe I would be alive today if Betty Ford had not broken her anonymity in the late 1970s and brought the subject of alcoholism out of the closet into public view. She is one of the people I dedicated my book to because I believe that I personally owe her a debt of gratitude for her courage and honesty. Breaking my own anonymity is one way that I carry the message of hope that saved my life. Anyone whose black and white thinking is causing them to rigidly interpret the Twelve Steps and Traditions enough to be offended, desperately needs to get into codependency recovery in my opinion.” - Robert Burney 2/10/04 The Miracle of The Twelve Step Recovery Process Steps 10 thru 12 - The Maintenance Steps Part 1
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Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2009 by Robert Burney PO Box 1028 Cambria, CA 93428.
“Codependency is about having a dysfunctional relationship with self! With our own bodies, minds, emotions, and spirits. With our own gender and sexuality. With being human. Because we have dysfunctional relationships internally, we have dysfunctional relationships externally. * *
Codependency is an emotional and behavioral defense system which our egos adapted in early childhood to help us survive. We were raised in shame based, emotionally dishonest, Spiritually hostile environments by parents who were wounded in their childhoods by patriarchal, shame based civilization that treated children and women as property.” - Robert Burney
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Workshop_Ohio.htm