Retreats
November 13 - 15, 2026:
Image of God (God as an Attachment Figure)
Every November ICI hosts a three day/two night beach retreat led by Dr. David Manock and the ICI executive team in Lincoln City, Oregon. We'd love to have you join us!
This year's retreat takes place Friday, November 13-through Sunday, November 15. Our 2026 retreat theme is Image of God: God as an attachment figure.
The retreat is open to clinicians, interns, pastoral counselors, pastors, and those in the community interested in learning more about the topic being shared. Continuing education credits are available. If you are enrolled in our ICI certification track the retreat is required to reach Level 1 and 2 certification.
Please go to the link below for full details and to register for the retreat.
November 2026 Theme Description
Dr. Manock's doctoral thesis, titled "Image of God", presented seminal research into how humans attach to God, an attachment impacted by our childhood attachment styles and developing in us either "God Concepts" or "God Images". At ICI's 2026 retreat Dr. Manock will weave together Image of God Theory, Attachment Theory, and Intersubjectivity Psychoanalysis in an effort to deeply examine the ways we attach to God and to each other.
Human beings are wired for relationships--relationships make us, break us, heal us. How did our first 5 years, key attachment relationships, fear and joy, impact the way we engage in relationships today with God and others? What are the four attachment movements, and what are the 4 transferences we experience as we engage in realtionships? How do we incarnationally walk through these things with our clients?
The retreat will be a mix of teaching and live team (small groups), so expect to delve deep and have some vulnerable moments. Each retreat is life-changing in big or small ways, and we can't wait to experience this year's retreat with you!
Previous Retreats
The Neurobiology of Trauma
Using the neuroscience of relationship, Attachment Theory (AT), and Intersubjectivity Psychoanalysis (IS), we will explore the complexity of trauma, which sadly destroys the primary sense and experience of relationality.
Psychology can be organized around processing behavior (or processing cognition which impacts behavior), or around motivation which is relationally organized in early childhood and operative throughout life. IS sees the Motivational center as an unconscious process which neuroscience has confirmed. This November beach retreat will explore the correlative relationship and interaction of co-regulation and the three unconscious domains of IS: Pre-reflective Unconscious (PU), Invalidated Unconscious (IU) and Dynamic Unconscious (DU). These three will be structurally identified with the five brain levels and their functions.
The therapeutic movements to hold trauma, break the power of trauma, and reorganize & consolidate new organizing principles will be explored in Live Team exercises focusing on Joy and Fear which make up the foundational dynamic of the human in relationship.