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Matt Talbot Women – W49 – 2025
Friday, Sep 19, 2025 - Sunday, Sep 21, 2025
5:00 pm - 12:00 pm
Malvern Retreat House
St. Joseph Hall
315 S. Warren Avenue
Malvern,
PA
19355
610-644-0400
Retreat Director and Speakers JoAnn Ciurlino, LCADC, CCGC, B.S.
$260.00 Attend In Person
Recovery Retreat for Women
Our Matt Talbot Retreats are held on designated weekends and devote time for spirituality in recovery from alcoholism. Our retreats bring together a group of recovering alcoholics in a setting that promotes fellowship and sharing throughout the weekend.
Most retreats focus on one broad topic for the weekend. Our retreat-masters are usually both recovering alcoholics and members of the clergy, which brings valuable insight into the spiritual realm of alcoholism.
As a group of recovering alcoholics, we recognized the need for a connection with a power greater than ourselves. Our solution is to use the Matt Talbot spiritual retreat weekend to find how to utilize the tools suggested in the Twelve Steps. Our retreats offer conferences, discussion group break-out sessions, discussion & speaker meetings, one-on-ones, and the Celebration of the Eucharist. The Matt Talbot Retreats are non-denominational, ecumenical, and are spiritual, rather than specifically religious. All faiths are welcome.
Note: The Matt Talbot Retreat Movement Inc. and their groups are not affiliated with AA, Al-Anon, NA, SA, or GA. Nor are they cognate with any religious events sanctioned by any organized religion. Our groups are autonomous, deriving from, The National Matt Talbot Retreat Movement Inc. and hold no affiliation with retreat houses and their administrations.
For more information on how to register please review our How to Register for a Retreat video.
For more information go to the Matt Talbot Retreat Movement website.
Retreat Directors and Speakers
Retreat Director
JoAnn Ciurlino, LCADC, CCGC, B.S.
JoAnn is a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor, a certified compulsive gambling counselor, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and has worked in the mental health field for over 40 years.
As her first position in the mental health field, JoAnn, was a Substance Abuse Technician at Parkside Lodge in Moorestown, NJ and subsequently became one of their Program Specialist.
When Hampton Hospital was opened in 1986, JoAnn was offered a position in their psychiatric program as an Addiction Counselor in their Evaluation Unit. She then went on to provide in-house and public training on addictions and cooccurring disorders. She wrote and implemented an adolescent addictions program, which she co-facilitated with Dr. Snyder.
Some of the professional boards she has participated in as a volunteer are NJ Council on Compulsive Gambling, Women’s Task Force on Alcoholism and NAADAC.
In her practice, JoAnn also has trained professional and conducted multiple workshops involving adult victims with history of sexual childhood abuse.
Today, JoAnn maintains a private practice in Woodbury, NJ working with adult sand family members specializing in addictive and mood disorders. She continues to provide public education and prevention/intervention work.
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