Laboratory with Ann and JoAnn

Laboratory with Ann and JoAnn – August 2026

Annual Retreat — August 13-16 2026

UPDATES:

Dear Participants and Potential Participants,

In this time of so much change we are trusting the process.

What has been unfolding is asking the format of our laboratory to expand. We are being asked by a number of people who are not practitioners for a space to be in group process; A space open to ALL that wants to be held at this time.

In the past three years our focus has been only on professional teaching in these Seattle weekends. Here is our new format. The first three days, we will hold a Radical Aliveness process group making space for all the deep feeling of everyone to land and be held.

The fourth day will be just for professional practitioners wanting to learn. We will be teaching/supervising/mentoring with space for any questions and knowing around the group weekend as well as your practice. The group weekend may inspire or clarify questions you are working on around your professional role.

Location: Woodinville, Washington

Dates: Thursday, Aug 13 (3pm) – Sunday, Aug 16 (6pm)
Pricing: The three day process group is $800, the full four days with teaching is $1000
We can help coordinate shared housing arrangements
Capacity: 22 people

Once everyone has registered, we will connect people who wish to get a house together.

To register, contact Aggie at: agnieszka.clavel@gmail.com

To hold your space a non-refundable deposit of $500 is due June 4th.

You can send your deposit two ways:

To send money digitally, you can send to Ann Bradney,

Venmo: @Ann-Bradney

or, Zelle: ann@radicalaliveness.org

If you prefer checks, you can mail one to:

Joann Lovascio
175 Jessie Lane
Petaluma Ca 94952

What is Radical Aliveness?

Radical Aliveness is a transformative process for personal growth and collective healing. We train people to see beyond their perceptual filters and embrace the raw intensity of emotional truth. Our leaders become trailblazers who thrive at the edge of uncertainty, who can stand in the fire of difference without burning, and who want to transform conflict into creative possibility
This work builds communities where different truths can coexist, where all of human experience has a place, and where, even in our differences, we shape a future together through our shared connection.

As a 55 year-old male committed to my own personal growth and transformation I have had a number of years of counseling and have participated in quite a variety of personal growth programs and retreats. I can say without hesitation that the Core Energetics work that I have done with JoAnn has led to more insights, growth and change in the short six months I have worked with her than any other person or modality of healing work that I have done. JoAnn’s ability to sense into groups and individuals, then guide them through specific practices tailored to their needs is nothing short of masterful. Her presence is clear, compassionate and insightful yet lovingly firm in getting participants to stay with uncomfortable, even frightening, feelings and sensations that arise when doing this work, then move the energy associated with these feelings and sensations through a variety of movements and actions that release the old holdings in our bodies. Her bag of tricks, so to speak, is extensive and she has an uncanny ability to chose just the right process for each participant in the group. In a recent phone session with her she was able to help me see how my current emotional response to my ex-partner was very much linked to and recreating an old childhood wounding. Through her gentle yet firm work with me I was able to re-experience that wounding and visualize an entirely different way of responding to it as both a child and, more importantly, as an adult. It was truly a gift that provided me a new, more confident and adult way of responding to any situation in which I feel attacked or judged. My work with her, I’m sure, will be of great benefit to me and to all those I come in contact with in the future.
Dave