Life A Plenty Charitable Trust

Life A Plenty Charitable Trust We provide recuperative, therapeutic retreats for women seeking help from stress, anxiety or trauma.

Life A Plenty Charitable Trust comprises a Therapeutic Retreat Team which includes experienced therapists, professionals and educators, with extensive knowledge and expertise across a range of areas including depression, anxiety, stress, relationships, grief and trauma. Additional expertise includes business relationships, collaboration and communications. In looking to extend traditional therapeu

tic approaches, this team of therapists/educators gathered to discuss an approach to therapy which is transformational, affordable and enables clients to achieve their goals quickly and successfully. The overall aim of the team was to develop a therapeutic context which provided a safe and secure environment for participants to develop hope and meaning and the skills to live positive and vibrant lives. Out of this vision, the idea of a service that provided short-term residential retreats (five days) and professional development seminars and workshops was born. As friends and associates for more than a decade, the team shares a vision and a commitment to finding and implementing approaches that work. To this end, the practices which underpin our therapeutic approaches are based on evidence and research. Each member is committed to ongoing professional development to ensure their services remain up to date and relevant. Find out more about us on our website: https://www.lifeaplenty.nz/about-us/

If you work with children and families, you’ll know that strategies alone are rarely enough.This webinar is designed for...
03/06/2026

If you work with children and families, you’ll know that strategies alone are rarely enough.

This webinar is designed for: Counsellors | Social Workers | Therapists | Educators | Child-focused professionals

If relationship is central to your work, this session will deepen and support your practice.

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Meaningful and lasting change for children does not begin with strategies or techniques—it begins with relationship.

This session is led by two highly experienced practitioners:Melanie Gilbert-De Rios and Judi Jacobsen bring over 70 year...
27/05/2026

This session is led by two highly experienced practitioners:
Melanie Gilbert-De Rios and Judi Jacobsen bring over 70 years’ combined experience in working therapeutically with children, supervising professionals, and delivering training across Aotearoa.
Their work is grounded, practical, and deeply relational.

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Meaningful and lasting change for children does not begin with strategies or techniques—it begins with relationship.

This is a practical session, grounded in real-world work with children.You’ll leave with ways to: • Support co-regulatio...
19/05/2026

This is a practical session, grounded in real-world work with children.
You’ll leave with ways to:
• Support co-regulation before reasoning
• Strengthen attunement and presence
• Apply child-led (non-directive) approaches
• Use play as a pathway to connection
Small shifts in how we show up can create significant change.

Book today at https://events.humanitix.com/lapjune26

Play isn’t just something children do - it’s how they process, express, and regulate.Drawing on neuroscience, including ...
10/05/2026

Play isn’t just something children do - it’s how they process, express, and regulate.

Drawing on neuroscience, including emotional systems research, this webinar explores why play is essential for:
• Emotional development
• Regulation
• Connection

And how we can work with - not around - this.

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Meaningful and lasting change for children does not begin with strategies or techniques—it begins with relationship.

06/05/2026

Eight women ready for rest, recharge and renewal are staring our second retreat of the year today. Thank you family and friends for supporting their release. Four more retreats on offer this year.

What if behaviour isn’t something to manage—but something to understand?In this session, we explore behaviour through a ...
04/05/2026

What if behaviour isn’t something to manage—but something to understand?

In this session, we explore behaviour through a relational lens:
• What is the child communicating?
• What’s happening underneath the behaviour?
• How does our response either support or disrupt regulation?

When we shift our lens, our practice shifts with it.

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Meaningful and lasting change for children does not begin with strategies or techniques—it begins with relationship.

It’s easy to focus on tools and techniques. But what if the most powerful “intervention” we offer is the relationship it...
29/04/2026

It’s easy to focus on tools and techniques. But what if the most powerful “intervention” we offer is the relationship itself?

This webinar shifts the focus back to:
• Relational presence
• Attunement
• Co-regulation
• The therapeutic use of self

Because how we are with children shapes what becomes possible for them.

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Meaningful and lasting change for children does not begin with strategies or techniques—it begins with relationship.

25/03/2026

Our first Life A Plenty retreat starts today. Go well wahine toa!

Families flourish when the right foundations are in place.Explore Right Relationships, Soft Hearts, Rest, and Play with ...
10/02/2026

Families flourish when the right foundations are in place.
Explore Right Relationships, Soft Hearts, Rest, and Play with Dr Ruth McConnell in Tauranga at Merivale Community Centre.
🗓 9 March 2026 - 9am to 12pm
👉 Register:

This workshop explores four essential ingredients that support family wellbeing, particularly in seasons of stress.

Address

17th Avenue
Tauranga
3110

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