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MaleSurvivor 2010 Advanced Weekend of Recovery
"Opening Your Heart:
An experiential weekend to enhance intimacy and relationships"
Alta Lodge, Alta, Utah (outside of Salt Lake City, Utah)
August 13-15, 2010

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Is this advanced weekend for me? How Can I Prepare?
Survivors with perpetration history
Registration Options and Costs
Advanced Weekend of Recovery Registration Package Options Advanced Weekend of Recovery Registration Costs Scholarships
Dining
Other information about Alta Lodge
Coping with the Altitude
When to Arrive and Depart - Making Plane Reservations
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Arrival and Departure Policy
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Male Survivor is excited to announce our fifth Advanced Weekend of Recovery for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse, and our Second Relationship Enhancement Weekend ! All alumni who want a safe place to focus on relationship building and deepening the level of intimacy in your relationships are welcome to participate in this advanced weekend, whether you are single or partnered.

If you have a partner, they are welcome and encouraged – but not required - to join you. It is not a requirement for your partner to have attended a Level One Weekend; to be eligible, only you need to have attended a Level One Weekend.

If you are single and want to explore your relationship building skills, this weekend is designed to help you as well.

In response to alumni requests, we have expanded this weekend to begin on Friday morning at 9:30 am and to end at 2 pm on Sunday. We encourage you to arrive on Thursday, and registration will be open on Thursday evening for all participants. Special package rates will be available to all who arrive on Thursday, and will include your meals prior to the actual beginning of the weekend on Friday morning. We anticipate our earlier ending on Sunday will allow for easier travel arrangements possible on Sunday for east coast participants.

This is our 6th visit to Alta Lodge which tells you how much we love the facility, its extremely supportive and nurturing staff, and the gorgeous surroundings. Alta Lodge is located at 8,600 feet (2,700 meters) at the base of the Alta Ski Area in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. Alta Lodge, nestled in a quaint alpine setting at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon, offers spectacular mountain views. During the summer months, the mountain meadows abound in gorgeous wild flowers, adding to the beauty of this setting. Alta Lodge is part of a rare tradition of country inns where the attentiveness and warmth of family hoteliers is combined with the pleasures of excellent dining and comfortable surroundings. The atmosphere of the Alta Lodge is relaxed, intimate and informal.

Goals of the Advanced Weekend on Relationship Building and Deepening the Level of Intimacy in Your Relationships:

Our goals for the weekend, based on our own discussions, and your previous feedback, are:

1. To enhance your ability to connect with other male survivors, with an intimate partner, with the significant people in your life, and with your own inner experience
2. To leave the weekend with practical skills for developing and enhancing the intimacy in your life and working together with a partner to further your healing from the abuse and living effectively
3. To empower yourself to identify psychological, emotional and spiritual blocks to your healing process and to take significant steps in removing at least one of those blocks
4. To increase the awareness and understanding of the impact of abuse on building and enhancing intimacy
5. To provide partners of male survivors with additional support and skills to enhance their own self care and deepen the intimacy in their lives

MaleSurvivor Advanced Weekend of Recovery Proposed Schedule

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Check in to Alta Lodge available
6:00 - 7:00 PM	Dinner for participants who arrive Thursday evening-Alta Lodge Dining Room
6:00 - 8:00 PM	Facilitator Dinner and Meeting –Deck Room
8:00 - 10:00 PM	Registration opens - Deck Room

Friday, August 13, 2010

8:00 - 9:00 AM	Breakfast –Alta Lodge Dining Room
8:00 - 9:00 AM	Registration continues-Deck Room
9:00 - 9:30 AM	Break
9:30 - 10:15 AM	Intro to Alta and the weekend-Our Lady of the Snows (OLS)-location for all large group sessions
10:15 - 10:30 AM	Break
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM	Introduction of Participants--OLS
12:45 - 1:00 PM	Break
1:00 - 2:00 PM	Lunch-Alta Lodge Dining Room
2:00 - 2:30 PM	Break
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Getting to Know the Stages of Intimacy In this session, we will acquaint you with healthy intimacy/sexual/relationship development; normalize why you may have difficulties, and allow you to engage in interactive discussions regarding each stage. Understanding the Walls Around Our Hearts: Honoring Them and How They Helped This section’s purpose is to normalize, understand, and increase self-empathy (and empathy for your partner) for the ways we learned how to cope initially to protect our vulnerability, which now is impairing our ability to be fully intimate.
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Break
5:00 - 6:15 PM	Small Group: Developing intentions for the weekend
6:15 - 6:30 PM	Break
6:30 - 7:30	Dinner-Alta Lodge Dining Room
7:30 - 8:00 PM	Break
8:00 - 9:30 PM	Strengthening Relationships Thru Body Quieting –We’ll start with the fundamental skill of turning toward yourself and using this self-knowledge to guide your actions. Mindfulness is a way to strengthen your relationship with yourself so that you can be more available to others.
9:30 - 9:50 PM	Bedtime story
10:00 - 10:30 PM	Snack in the Alta Lodge Lobby

Saturday, August 14, 2010

6:30 AM	Gather for carpool drive to Devil's Castle Look-out at top of stairs of Alta Lodge
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Optional Sitting Meditation at Devil’s Castle
8:00 - 8:45 AM	Breakfast
8:45-9:00 AM	Break
9:00 - 9:15 AM	Check in and Morning Meditation-OLS
9:15-11:15 AM	Building Connection & Empathy Thru Communication Using mindfulness in relationships, Akido practices, and couples communications techniques, we’ll focus on learning skills that reinforce the value of curiosity, listening/reflecting, empathizing, and pacing in relationships.
11:15-11:30 AM	Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Group Discussions During this hour, we will split into groups based on whether you are single, a partner of a survivor, or a survivor with a partner and discuss how the skills discussed so far may apply and what else is needed.
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Break
1:00 - 2:00 PM	Picnic Lunch & Social Time, With Optional Nature Hike
2:00-3:15 PM	Break
3:15 - 5:00 PM	Sculpting: Understanding & Working Thru Blocks to Intimacy/Sexuality In this experiential session, we’ll explore taking steps to visualize your blocks to intimacy and sexuality and help you explore how to become unblocked, using the support of the community.
5:00 - 5:15 PM	Break
5:15-6:15 PM	Small Group: Discussing sexuality concerns and options
6:15-6:30 PM	Break
6:30-7:30 PM	Dinner-Dining Room
7:30-8:00 PM
8:00 - 10:00 PM	Opening the Heart Through Trust, Tenderness, and Lightheartedness In this experiential session, we’ll help you experience stages of connection and intimacy as you build your ability to trust others and express your tenderness and lightheartedness.
10:00 - 10:15 PM	Break
10:15 - 10:30 PM	Optional Hike - an alternative route from Our Lady of the Snows to the Pipe Ceremony and Campfire for anyone who wants some late evening exercise, guided by the moon and under the canopy of the mountain stars
10:30-11:15 PM	Optional Pipe Ceremony and Campfire

Sunday, September 15, 2010

7:00 - 8:00 AM	Optional Morning Meditation Walk-Meet in lobby of Alta Lodge
8:15 - 8:30 AM	Check in
8:30 - 10:15 AM	In this experiential session, using artwork, we’ll invite you to remember, summarize, express, and celebrate what you have learned about what you need for intimacy and relationships and what you can and want to contribute to them.
10:15 - 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 - 11:30 AM	Famous Alta Brunch-Deck Room
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM	Small Group
12:45 - 1:00 PM	Break
1:00 - 2:00 PM	Closing –Howard and staff- OLS

Facilitator Team:
Weekends of Recovery are facilitated by trained psychotherapists, utilizing the same clinical boundaries and code of ethics as adopted by the American Psychological Association. The weekends are adjuncts to participants’ ongoing recovery work with individual and/or group psychotherapy, twelve step programs, and individual spiritual work, and are not meant to substitute for the participants’ local support systems that are consistent with their own recovery. Dr. Howard Fradkin, a Psychologist with over 28 years of experience working with male survivors, chairs the facilitator team. The team of facilitators includes other Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors and our own Mind-Body Awareness Specialist, Paul Linden. Biographies of all staff members for this weekend can be found on the MaleSurvivor website at www.malesurvivor.org. We are planning on at least 10 of the WOR facilitator team members to lead this advanced weekend.

Is this advanced weekend for me? How Can I Prepare for the Weekend?
Obviously this will need to be an individual decision for each one of you. If you are in an intimate relationship,we invite you to discuss this opportunity with your partner. You’ll want to consider the opportunity here for each of you to grow and change as well as for your relationship to be changed through the process too. With every opportunity for growth, there will also be challenges you will each face as you come more into awareness of your own feelings and thoughts and those of your partner. You’ll also have to decide whether both of you will attend, which we encourage if you both feel ready. If you decide the two of you are not ready to attend together, it is also absolutely okay for the male survivor who has attended a Level I weekend to still attend this weekend and bring back a greater readiness for deeper intimacy.

If you are single, and have been struggling with developing and building intimacy, this weekend may be a great next right step for you. We’ll help you look at what blocks you may be placing in your way, as well as give you opportunities to practice the skills necessary to begin new intimate relationships. We’ll also look at what types of behaviors you can utilize to build on the intimacy in your life.

As in the past, our primary focus will be on safety. However, we are also structuring this Advanced Weekend to be a place where you can challenge some of your previous safe boundaries which may have kept you more distant from others. For instance, there will be a much greater emphasis on activities that involve being in touch with your body and how to feel safe and powerful inside. To do this, we will invite you to engage in more challenges to your previous ideas of what you needed to feel safe. In this weekend, we are scheduling activities that will involve the opportunity to be in safe emotional and non-erotic physical contact with other participants and with your intimate partner if available. We will help you to increase your awareness of and respect your own physical contact needs and boundaries, while giving yourself permission to expand on these to the extent you are able. It is also likely you will face challenges to removing some more of the old blocks that keep getting in your way. It will be your choice to what degree you want to participate, and we hope each of you will find ways to challenge yourself to go a little further in your healing process.

We encourage you to talk with your support system (spouses, significant others, therapists, allied healers, 12 step sponsors and friends, group members) as well as to explore inside to help you determine before the weekend what your own challenges and growth edges will be for the weekend. If you are attending as a couple, we invite you to talk with each other about what challenges you want to address together during the weekend. If you are single, or not able to bring your partner with you, we invite you to consider what goals you have to improve the intimacy in your life. As in previous weekends, we will also ask any of you in therapy to provide a letter of recommendation from your therapist (you can download this letter at www.malesurvivor.org or by clicking on this link: http://www.malesurvivor.org/forms/Advanced-Weekend-Therapist-Letter.pdf

Survivors with perpetration history:
As with Level One, we will again abide by our same policy regarding survivors with perpetration history. Any person who has been adjudicated (found guilty) of sexual perpetration would not be eligible for participation in the weekends. Because many survivors have sexually acted out in childhood, adolescence or even young adulthood, we do not wish to automatically exclude them from a Weekend of Recovery. However, to assess each participant on a case-by-case basis, we want to be able to discuss perpetration history with them and their therapist. This means that in order to assure other participants that we have their safety in mind, we want to be able to screen anyone with such a history to determine if attending a weekend is in their best interest and the best interest of all participants. We encourage all potential participants to be honest when we call you about any such incidents in your past. In such cases, an interview with the Weekends of Recovery Chairperson will be required before you will be accepted. Even if you have already been interviewed by Howard for a previous weekend, we are requiring you to talk with Howard before participating in this Advanced Weekend. This interview and screening process will help us to make the weekend safe for everyone who attends.

Registration Options and Costs
Registration will be limited to the first 38 registrants.

Registration includes the costs of the facilitated Weekend of Recovery program, with our 10 skilled facilitators from the MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery Facilitator Team, plus lodging, 6 meals, and snacks.

Bottled water, juices, tea and coffee will be available throughout the weekend. We have a variety of accommodations in the lodge. If you are not a MaleSurvivor member, we encourage you to join the organization prior to registration both to secure a significant discount and to help support the work of MaleSurvivor. If you are bringing your partner, s/he is of course welcome to support our organization by joining as a paying member. However, Spouses and Significant others will be charged at the Member rate IF the male survivor alumnus is a PAID member of MaleSurvivor.

Because the official weekend program will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, it is advisable that you plan to arrive in Salt Lake City on Thursday. Alta Lodge has arranged to make rooms and food available for Thursday evening. In addition, rooms and meals will be available on Sunday for anyone who wishes to stay over until Monday morning. Therefore, we have expanded our registration to provide package options for anyone wishing to arrive at Alta Lodge on Thursday evening and/or stay over Sunday night. All package deals described on the grid below include the costs of the program itself.

Review the chart below to determine which option works best for you. There are also many hotels near the Salt Lake City International Airport and in the downtown area if you prefer budget lodging for either Thursday or Sunday. It is approximately 40 minutes from either the airport or downtown to Alta Lodge.

Advanced Weekend of Recovery Registration Package Options (“X” indicates what is included for each option).

NOTE: Option A is the basic package for attending the Advanced Weekend of Recovery. Options B, C, D, & E allow for add-on packages of room and food at Alta Lodge for participants who arrive on Thursday and/or stay over thru Sunday.

	Option A Advanced Wknd on (Basic Package)	Option B (1): Advanced Wknd + Thurs. Lodging & Dinner* + Fri Bkfst.	Option B (2): Advanced Wknd + Sun. Lodging & Dinner + Mon. Bkfst	Option C: Advanced Wknd + Thurs. Lodging & Dinner* + Fri. Bkfst + Sun. Lodging & Dinner + Mon. Bkfst
Fri. & Sat. Lodging	X	X	X	X
Wknd Meals: Fri Lunch - Sun. Brunch	X	X	X	X
Thurs. Lodging		X		X
Sun. Lodging			X	X
Thurs. Dinner		X		X
Fri. Bkfst		X		X
Sun. Dinner			X	X
Mon. Bkfst			X	X

	Option D: Advanced Wknd + Thurs. Lodging & Fri. Bkfst	Option E: Advanced Wknd + Thurs. Lodging + Fri. Bkfst + Sun Lodging & Dinner + Mon Bkfst	Option F: Advanced Wknd + Fri. Bkfst
Fri. & Sat. Lodging	X	X	X
Wknd Meals: Fri Lunch - Sun. Brunch	X	X
Thurs. Lodging	X	X
Sun. Lodging		X
Thurs. Dinner
Fri. Bkfst	X	X	X
Sun. Dinner		X
Mon. Bkfst		X

*Thursday Dinner Open from 6:30-8:00 pm; if you plan on arriving to Alta Lodge later than 8 pm, please choose an option that does not include Thursday dinner.

Advanced Weekend of Recovery Registration Costs

Below is a breakdown of the different room types and package options available (please refer to above chart that describes each of the 5 package options). There is a limited availability of each type of room selection – each type of accommodation will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.

ROOM SELECTION DESCRIPTIONS: All rooms have private baths except for the dorm rooms (room selection #7), which has shared bath facilities. All rooms have a mountain view.

Room Selection #1	Corner Single Deluxe Bedroom, Private Balcony, Fireplace – East Wing
Room Selection #2:	Corner Single Deluxe Bedroom with sitting area - Middle Wing
Room Selection #3:	Single Bedroom, Standard King Bed - East or Middle Wing
Room Selection #4:	Double Corner Deluxe Bedroom, Balcony, Fireplace – East or Middle Wing
Room Selection #5:	Corner Double Deluxe Bedroom with sitting area – Middle Wing
Room Selection #6:	Double Bedroom, Standard King Bed – East or Middle Wing
Room Selection #7:	Triple/Quad Dorm Room, Shared Bath

The rates quoted below reflect early registration costs (with all payments due by June 25, 2010) and a MaleSurvivor member discount of $75. Registration after July 30th will cost an additional $50.

REMINDER: Spouses and Significant others will be charged at the Member rate IF the male survivor alumnus is a PAID member of MaleSurvivor.

	Option A		Option B		Option C
	Member	Non- Member	Member	Non- Member	Member	Non- Member
Room Selection #1	$850	$925	$1,028	$1,103	$1,206	$1,281
Room Selection #2	$800	$875	$954	$1,029	$1,108	$1,183
Room Selection #3	$750	$825	$882	$957	$1,014	$1,089
Room Selection #4	$750	$825	$858	$933	$966	$1,041
Room Selection #5	$700	$775	$796	$871	$892	$967
Room Selection #6	$650	$725	$735	$810	$820	$895
Room Selection #7	$550	$625	$626	$701	$702	$777

	Option D		Option E		Option F
	Member	Non- Member	Member	Non- Member	Member	Non- Member
Room Selection #1	$1,000	$1,075	$1,178	$1,253	$860	$935
Room Selection #2	$950	$1,001	$1,080	$1,155	$810	$885
Room Selection #3	$854	$929	$986	$1,061	$760	$835
Room Selection #4	$830	$905	$938	$1,013	$760	$835
Room Selection #5	$768	$843	$864	$939	$710	$785
Room Selection #6	$707	$782	$792	$867	$660	$735
Room Selection #7	$598	$673	$674	$749	$560	$635

PLEASE NOTE: All meals are pre-paid with your registration and there are no refunds for meals you do not eat; likewise all extra nights lodging are pre-paid and there are no refunds for late arrivals or early departures.

If you are registering AFTER July 30th: Add $50 to all costs above.

To register for the weekend, we ask that you complete an online registration at and/or mail in a registration form. To hold your spot for the weekend, you will be charged $150 deposit when you register online. You will have the choice on the registration form to either prepay your registration in full at the time of registration or opt for a payment plan. Prior to June 25th if you opt for the payment plan, your total registration must be paid by June 25th (PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for early registration has been pushed back to July 30) and you will receive the $50 discount for early registration. In the case of you opting for the payment plan, you will provide your credit card to our confidential system, and your deposit will be charged the day you register. The system will provide a table of when the balance of your registration will be charged to your credit card. The system is set up to make equal monthly payments between now and July 10th, when your balance must be paid in full. If you desire to pay by check, please contact our Administrative Assistant, Trisha Massa, to arrange this, at ytamassa@aol.com.

REGISTRATION AFTER July 30th: You are subject to a $50 fee for later registration. Your credit card will be charged $150 the day you register, unless you opt to pay in full. If you choose a payment plan, then the remainder of your balance will be charged to your credit card on July 15th. Your registration will be contingent upon receipt of all registration fees by July 15th.

CANCELLATION FEES: A $50 processing fee will be charged for any cancellations up until July 15th. Any cancellation after July 15th will result in the forfeiting of any and all payments made to MaleSurvivor, unless we are able to replace you with another participant. Refunds after July 15th will only be made if and when we have received payment in full for another participant, minus the $50 processing fee.

Scholarships
Our scholarship program is designed only for male survivors who are first time participants of the Weekends of Recovery, due to the limited amount of funds available. As such, there will be no scholarship funds available for this advanced weekend.

If you are in a position to assist with our scholarship fund, you can contribute through the MaleSurvivor website by donating to the Memorial Fund or on the registration form. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Dining:
Chef Paul Raddon has been preparing meals of exceptional quality for Alta Lodge guests for over thirty years. The outstanding cuisine will certainly be one highlight of your Weekend of Recovery. A special treat is in store on Sunday, when we’ll get to visit the Alta Lodge Sunday Buffet, a grand buffet featuring gourmet breakfast and lunch and dessert items! All of your food and snacks are included in your registration fees. The Chef is prepared to provide vegetarian cuisine if you request it ahead of time. Other special dietary restrictions or needs must be indicated on your registration form. Bottled water, juices, coffee and tea, half and half and soy milk will be supplied all weekend long for you.

Other information about Alta Lodge:
No alcohol or un-prescribed drugs may be brought to the weekend. There is also a no smoking policy anywhere in the Lodge-including guest rooms, out of consideration for other guests. Cigar and pipe smoking are also prohibited. Guests may smoke outside the Lodge on the sundeck.

Please bring a jacket, hat, & some warm clothes if you are sensitive to the cold. Temperatures may be as low as the upper 40’s at night and should be in the 60’s & 70’s during the daytime. Average high temperature is 72, and average low is 50. Remember mountain air can feel chilly once the sun sets. Sunscreen is strongly advised - remember that sunrays are considerably more intense at mountain elevations. A hat with a brim is also very helpful to protect you from the sun.

Alta Lodge is handicap accessible, however if you have any special physical needs, please let us know at the time of registration so that we can make plans to accommodate your physical abilities.

There are some spectacular hiking trails around Alta. If you plan to participate in any hiking activities, please pack hiking boots (or shoes comfortable for easy & moderate hiking trails), a hiking stick (if you use one), & a day pack.

All bedding, towels, hair dryers, shampoo and shower gel are provided.

Coping with the Altitude:
Alta Lodge is at 8500 feet altitude. It is not uncommon for people to experience minor physical symptoms above 8000 feet. (Symptoms can include headache, loss of appetite, & fatigue.) There are no specific factors such as age, sex, or physical condition that correlate with susceptibility to the effects of altitude.

Some people get it and some people don't, and some people are simply more susceptible than others. Here’s some tips for how to deal with any effects of altitude that you may experience during the retreat:

• Stay properly hydrated. Acclimatization is often accompanied by fluid loss, so you need to drink lots of fluids to remain properly hydrated.
• Take it easy; don't over-exert yourself when you first get up to altitude. Be prepared that tasks such as climbing stairs may require more physical exertion than you’re used to for the same task at a lower elevation. Light activity during the day is better than sleeping because respiration decreases during sleep, exacerbating the symptoms.
• Avoid tobacco and alcohol and other depressant drugs including, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and sleeping pills. These depressants further decrease the respiratory drive during sleep resulting in a worsening of the symptoms. The acclimatization process is inhibited by dehydration, over-exertion, and alcohol and other depressant drugs.
• If you have any concerns about your susceptibility to the effects of altitude, please consult with your physician. Diamox (Acetazolamide) is a prescription medication that can moderate the side effects of altitude for most people. However, since it takes a while for Diamox to have an effect, it is advisable to start taking it 24 hours before you go to altitude.

Arrival and Departure Policy:

Because this is an Advanced Weekend, and because we are starting early on Friday, we encourage you to book a room at Alta Lodge prior to the start of the weekend, and you may also plan on staying over after the weekend. Options for the extra cost of room and food are included in the previous registration grid. Please note the facilitators will not be available to help on Thursday or Sunday evening, as we use this pre- and post weekend time to plan for future WOR’s.

SSafety for all participants is our utmost concern. Therefore, it is a requirement that in order to participate in the weekend, participants must arrive at the beginning of the weekend, at our meeting room Our Lady of the Snows, at 9:30 am on Friday. The absolute deadline is 10:30 am on Friday, when the safety exercise begins. In planning your trip, you are expected to take into consideration the unpredictable delays that may accompany your travel. While we understand you may encounter delays for many reasons, we are unable to allow anyone to begin the weekend if you arrive later than 10:30 am on Friday. In other words, you cannot be admitted to the weekend after 10:30 am for any reason. If you are experiencing a delay, we request you to call us to inform us of your arrival status. It is important to understand that in the event of your inability to attend due to late arrival, you will forfeit all monies paid for your registration. One strategy to avoid this situation is to arrive in the city of the weekend the night before, and stay at Alta or some other hotel in the Salt Lake City area. Your consideration of this policy will help strengthen the feeling of safety for all participants and help us to build a community.

Regarding departure, we also request that if you are planning on attending the weekend, you plan to stay until the end at 2 pm. As you know from Level One, the end of the weekend is as important as the beginning, and for some participants, we know saying goodbye may be one of those growth areas you are more uncomfortable with. So if at all possible, please arrange your transportation accordingly so you and all of us can benefit from your participation the entire weekend.

When to Arrive and Depart - MAKING TRAVEL RESERVATIONS
The weekend begins at 9:30 am on Friday, and ends Sunday at 2 pm. Alta Lodge is only 32 miles from the Salt Lake City International Airport, generally a 45 to 60 minute shuttle van ride, and 40 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City. By car, the drive from either the airport or downtown is approximately 40 minutes. The final 8 miles of the drive is up a winding, but scenic canyon road. MaleSurvivor can arrange your transportation from Salt Lake International City Airport to the Alta Lodge through Alta Shuttle. The estimated cost is $32 per person each way (not including gratuity). Price is subject to change. You can make your own reservation at 1-866-274-0225 or www.altashuttle.com. Reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance.

Rental car information is available at www.slcairport.com/transport/rentalcars. Once you register, we will send you a transportation form to fill out, and then we will do our best to provide free transportation to the center for anyone who requests it.

Nine airlines offer service to Salt Lake City International Airport: American, Continental, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, SkyWest, Southwest, United and U.S Airways.

Given travel time, we recommend all participants plan to arrive on Thursday; and plan to depart on Sunday no earlier than a 4:00 pm flight from Salt Lake City. Please be sure to review our arrival policy below before making your travel plans. If you cannot accommodate your schedule to arrive and depart at these times, please be considerate and do not register. We also ask that all participants plan to stay until the end of the weekend on Sunday to allow you sufficient time for closure.

Bus, Train and Car Transportation
Salt Lake City is serviced by train on Amtrak (www.amtrak.com/destinations/index.html). Buses are provided by Greyhound (www.greyhound.com) Salt Lake City is accessed via I-80 (east-west) and I-15 (north-south)

Therapist Recommendation Letter:
When you register online and click on Weekends of Recovery, you will notice a tab that says “therapist letter of support”. Be sure you click on the Advanced Weekend letter of support, and not the Level I letter. We ask that all participants who are currently in therapy bring this letter to your therapist prior to the weekend, and ask them to complete it with you and send it back to us by August 5th. The information in this letter will help us to provide for any additional needs you may have for safety. It is our intention to use this letter to help ensure your safety, and in no way is it intended to disempower you or cast doubt on your own judgment about your readiness to participate in the weekend.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN--CLICK HERE

ANY QUESTIONS:
Questions can be directed to Howard Fradkin at 614-445-8277, ext. 11, 800-285-9397, or emailed to hfradkin@malesurvivor.org ; or to Trisha Massa, MaleSurvivor Administrative Assistant, at 800-738-4181, or emailed to admin@malesurvivor.org

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