2027 Neurodivergent Friendly Peer Support Retreat in South Carolina: Registration Now Open
Registration is open for Bring Freedom’s 2027 Peer Support Retreat, April 18–20 at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
Join a cohort of peer support professionals for in person experiential training, meaningful connection, and time to invest in your professional growth. Your ticket includes food and lodging, with up to 21 continuing education hours anticipated.
This retreat gives you space to practice what you are learning and build relationships with people you can reach out to when you return to work.
Give Your Brain Space to Learn
Attending a conference can come with a long list of decisions. Where will you stay? What will you eat? How will you get to the next session? Will you have enough time to find lunch and get back?
Those logistics take attention and planning. For those of us who put considerable effort into managing executive functioning, they can add to the demands of an already full day.
With food and lodging provided as part of your ticket, fewer decisions compete for your attention. You can arrive knowing where you will sleep and eat, giving yourself more room to focus on the training.
That is part of our approach to a neurodivergent friendly retreat: considering the whole learning experience, including the demands surrounding the sessions.
Practice Skills You Can Bring Back to Work
Knowing a concept and using it in a real conversation are different things.
Experiential training gives you opportunities to practice an approach, reflect on your experience, ask questions, and hear how another peer professional might apply it in their setting.
How do we help peer participants break down larger goals into manageable priorities? How do we support them in choosing a starting point and identifying steps that fit their current resources and capacity? How do we help them recognize progress and adjust their plans while keeping decisions in their hands?
Learning together gives us time to work through practical questions and connect the training to everyday peer support situations.
You bring experience into the room, too. Your questions, perspectives, and approaches contribute to the learning of the cohort.
Build a Network You Can Actually Call
One of the greatest benefits of an in person retreat is having time to get to know the people learning alongside you.
A conversation can begin during a session, continue over dinner, and pick up again the next morning. Across several days, you can learn about each other’s work, discover shared interests, and build connections with professionals providing the same or similar types of peer support.
Then, when you return to work and want to explore how to apply something you learned, you have someone to reach out to.
You can pick up the phone and say, “I’m thinking about using this approach in a peer support situation. Can we talk through how that might work?”
That person has completed the same training. They understand the material and bring their own peer support experience to the conversation. You have a shared starting point for working out the details while protecting participant confidentiality.
Online training makes education accessible, but it can be difficult to build those relationships while watching a screen, especially when work tasks, messages, and other responsibilities compete for your attention.
The retreat gives you dedicated time to learn the material and develop a true professional network.
Learn as a Cohort
Learning alongside the same group across several days creates continuity. You have time to revisit an idea, reflect on an activity, and continue a conversation with someone whose perspective helped you think differently.
Our neurodivergent friendly approach recognizes that engagement can look different for different people. Discussion, observation, practice, and reflection can each contribute to learning. Some people process an idea by talking it through. Others need time to think before responding.
Meaningful participation does not require everyone to learn or connect in the same way. The goal is to create room for different learning styles while developing a shared experience you can build on after the retreat.
Peer Support Professionals From Other States Are Welcome
You do not have to live or work in South Carolina to attend. We welcome peer support professionals from Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and beyond, including those whose credentialing bodies accept NAADAC approved continuing education.
Bring your experience, learn alongside peers from other communities, and expand your professional connections across state lines.
Reserve Your Spot
Time away from work needs to be worthwhile. Continuing education hours matter, and so do the skills, relationships, and support you take home.
Bring Freedom’s 2027 Peer Support Retreat brings these pieces together in a shared experience designed for peer support professionals.
Dates: April 18–20, 2027
Location: Camp St. Christopher, Seabrook Island, South Carolina
Included in your ticket: Retreat training, food, and lodging
Continuing education: Up to 21 hours anticipated
Give yourself space to learn, practice, and build connections you can turn to long after the retreat ends.
Take the next step: register today and reserve your spot. Register Here