Our retreats offer the opportunity for deep personal work as well as having time and space for reflection and a potential to experience ourselves, each other and the natural world in new ways.

There will also be the opportunity in the afternoons to just relax and chill by the pool or walk down through the forest to the beautiful lagoon for a swim.

We have called this retreat "The Order of Love" after Bert Hellinger's original title for a way of working with family systems, which is now called family constellations.

Bert Hellinger discovered, through his work with the Zulu people in South Africa, that within every family lives a deeper story - one that is carried not only through memory, but through the heart and the soul. Family Constellation Work is a deep invitation to gently uncover these unseen dynamics, bringing into awareness what has long been hidden, forgotten, or silently carried across generations.

This work is guided by the understanding that the soul naturally moves toward wholeness and that the heart recognizes truth before the mind can explain it. As we create space for truth to reveal itself, we meet what is with compassion, reverence, and love. There is no need to force healing; it arises naturally when what belongs is acknowledged, and what has been excluded is given its rightful place. This force of love powerfully manifests itself in the work and is deeply healing as it flows towards new life.

Through this process, we begin to release inherited burdens, restore connection within the family system, and open to a deeper sense of peace, belonging, and inner freedom. Family Constellation Work is not about changing the past - it is about allowing truth, love, and the wisdom of the soul to guide us into a more authentic relationship with ourselves, our ancestors, and life itself.

When we set up the family in this way, we create a ritual space where there is no hierarchy and no judgement. The process becomes the search for truth through the heart. The meanings that have been made in the ordinary psychological realm give way to much deeper understandings that can completely change the way the individuals experience themselves and others.

Entering this ritual space each morning over a week rather that on a shorter course, with space to process your experiences each afternoon, will help you to become familiar with this non dual state of awareness, and can profoundly reshape your way of seeing the world.

We will use nature teachings, rituals, art, movement, Chi Gong, and dance, to support a nourishing, nurturing, and gentle heart space where deep healing and connection to others and nature emerges through the daily practice.

The venue in Dalyan, Turkey offers us a wonderful opportunity to work in nature in the beautiful surroundings of the river, lake, ocean and mountains. In our course fee we include one boat trip - to the ocean down the beautiful river, and up into the lake where we go to hot spring mud baths followed by a bbq on board on the lake under the stars.

The Lagoon Retreat, Villa Gökbel

Villa Gökbel is a dedicated specialist group venue in a beautiful rural setting- a healing place, created for like-minded people who want a nurturing and enriching group experience. The whole resort will be reserved just for our group, ensuring a private safe space for the week.

The pool.

Dining room.

Snugs

Group space - Yoga Sala

Dalyan

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The river.

The rock tombs.

During the week there will be the opportunity of a boat trip down the reed fringed river delta to the beautiful, long, sandy turtle beach , with time to wander, explore, see the turtles, swim, relax and have a picnic lunch under the shade of the pine trees, or on board the boat.

The beach.

After the beach the boat will take you on a magical evening trip to the stunningly beautiful lake with a barbeque dinner under the stars on the boat and a visit to the lakeside thermal waters and mud baths.

The lake and mudbaths.

Costs and timing of payments.

Course fees are £700.00 per person. (This includes the one boat trip.)

Single occupancy rooms are £625.00 per person, twin room shared £575 per person. The rooms are varied in size and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

What's included... 7 nights B&B and lunch, 6 veggie evening meals. Boat trip to the beach and to the lake and mud baths. BBQ on the boat under the stars.

All teas, instant coffee and water is included. Breakfast is substantial, all their guests rave about it!

You can buy a range of soft and alcoholic drinks from the honesty bar.

To reserve your place on the retreat please pay a deposit of £250.00 to our time2relate Ltd account. Please phone or email us for the account details.

Places and rooms will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Payments for the accommodation will be made directly to The Lagoon Retreat. We wil provide bank details to do that.

The balance of the full payment for the course fee should be paid by the 1st of May 2027.

Cancellation Policy

The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.

If you need to cancel your trip after paying the full amount we will only offer a refund if we can fill your space.

How to get there.

If you want to fly, you will need to book Saturday to Saturday flights (The nearest airport 45 minutes away) is Dalaman.

Some guests have chosen to come a few days before and or after the retreat to experience more of Turkey. If you choose to do that will have to arrange you own acommodation for those days.

The Lagoon Retreat will arrange a transfer from the airport for those who have booked the transfer. The cost is currently £60.00 both ways. this may change for 2027.

If this is something you'd like to do, do let us know as soon as possible, as we are proceeding on a first come first served basis and places are limited. If you haven't worked with us before please phone Tatiana on 0771 464 8877 so we can discuss whether this retreat would meet your needs.

Please feel free to phone or email us if you want more information at time2relate@hotmail.com. and to find out more about our way of thinking about relationships - please visit the other pages of our website.