Chapel Hill & North Topsail Beach, North Carolina
About Us
embrace joy!
Empowering individuals, couples, teams, and organizations to move beyond mere survival to embrace thriving, well-being, happiness, and success. Guiding individuals and organizations in implementing strategic initiatives that lead to transformational change. Committed to integrating principles of joy, equity, and inclusivity and passionate about fostering environments where lived and professional experience is valued and leveraged to create positive change and transformation. Collaborating with many great partners across holistic health and wellness, as well as personal and professional development to offer comprehensive support for individuals, couples, groups/teams, and organizations facing a wide range of challenges.
Explore our retreat and event offerings to see what resonates with you and supports your growth and transformation journey. Together, we can put your ideas into action and make them a reality, fostering and sustaining integrative wellness, success, and resilience. For individual or group sessions/retreats, we offer a free introductory call.
FOUNDER: Deena M. Murphy, Ph.D.
Deena is the founder of NC Retreats, a space for connection, integrative wellness, and resilience. With a PhD in Psychology earned in 2007, training in India over more than ten years, and 20 years in U.S. public health, Deena takes an evidence-based approach to integrative wellness using diverse tools. In addition to a psychology and implementation science background, Deena is a certified yoga instructor, laughter yoga practitioner, sound healer, meditation teacher, and experienced in somatic experiencing and trauma release techniques. Since 2008, Deena has passionately led transformational retreats that center joy and empower individuals, couples, teams, and organizations to move from surviving to thriving. Deena has extensive experience curating impactful workshops and retreats with diverse groups from all over the world.
Deena's academic background, meditation training in India, and extensive travel worldwide (living in four different countries, exploring over 80 others) results in a unique approach, seamlessly integrating Eastern and Western philosophies of well-being. Deena's approach is rooted in putting ideas into action and making them a reality for people and organizations. As a complex systems thinker, Deena sees the big picture while understanding that the key to supporting you is in the details, ensuring you create a clear plan together to reach your goals. With a blend of strategic planning and empathetic guidance, Deena ensures her clients feel supported throughout their transformational journey.
Since 2008, Deena has worked with individuals, couples, and groups seeking to overcome personal and professional challenges such as burnout, compassion fatigue, trauma, workplace and/or relationship conflicts, work-life balance, decision-making, and uncertainty about the future. Deena's approach integrates multidisciplinary pragmatic tools to facilitate emotional release, leadership development, and transformation.
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