Sacred Attention
Therapy
Awaken to Your True Self
“The mind is always defeated until it is brought into the service of the heart”
Sacred Attention Therapy (SAT) is a pioneering psycho-spiritual approach developed by Richard Harvey that integrates deep psychological healing with spiritual awakening. It is grounded in the understanding that true transformation arises when we turn inward—when we meet ourselves fully, with compassion, presence, and truth.
Rather than avoiding pain or seeking quick fixes, SAT invites us to listen deeply to our inner experience. It teaches that awareness is not just a path to change—it is the change. Through sacred attention to our thoughts, emotions, wounds, and patterns, we begin to reconnect with our essential nature and open to a new way of being.
At the heart of this work is the recognition that healing is a sacred act—a return to wholeness that touches every part of our lives. As we release old attachments and rediscover our inner truth, we don’t just heal—we awaken. And in doing so, we contribute to a more conscious, compassionate world.
About SAT
The Three Stages
of Healing
SAT unfolds in three interconnected stages that reflect the natural movement of awakening.
Self-Discovery
Uncover the conditioning, personal history, and emotional patterns that shape your experience. This stage invites deep honesty and compassionate inquiry—a meeting with yourself just as you are.
Transformation
Move through emotional defenses and inner blocks to release pain, trauma, and limiting beliefs. Here, healing becomes a process of integration, renewal, and radical inner shift.
Awakening
Beyond identity and story, you begin to rest in spacious awareness—the essence of who you are. This is not an escape, but an embodiment of presence, where life is lived from your authentic being.
“The retreat has given me a much clearer understanding of my own mechanisms and automated responses that have guided my choices and actions throughout my life, a clear path forward for the inner work ahead of me, a strong sense of purpose in my life and a meeting with a clear, sincere and in all aspects extraordinary human being and therapist to guide me through my inner work”
Why
Sacred Attention?
In a world that constantly pulls us outward, Sacred Attention Therapy brings us back to the center—to the present moment, to the truth within, to what matters most.
To pay sacred attention is to turn toward ourselves with reverence. This simple, profound act is healing in itself. It allows us to live with more authenticity, integrity, and grace. It reconnects us to our wholeness and opens the path to both personal transformation and collective awakening.
The Way of
Sacred Attention
For the first time the full spectrum of SAT experience is embodied in a series of events you can attend in order to experience the tranformational scope of the Way of Sacred Attention led by Richard Harvey, psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, and Agnès Bussière, Sacred Attention Therapist.
“The Sacred Attention Therapy program is unique in including the wholehearted experience of professionals, as well as the spiritual aspect into this process, which is necessary in our time. We arrive with this project in the energy of expansion, which is prepared since many years. But we should not lose any more time. So this is a great chance to expand at a wonderful level with the loving energy of Richard Harvey, bringing in all his wisdom and clarity. I am happy and proud to be of any help in this project. If we learn only the traditional therapy-techniques, we stop at a certain level of development, because we cannot explain certain experiences. If we only meditate or participate in any other spiritual practices, we can overlook certain emotional patterns, which may block us or our clients. So it is an overall positive approach to participate in a program, which combines these at such a high level.”
2025 RETREATS
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Living into the 3 Stages of Awakening
23 - 25 July 2025
A three-days online intensive group retreat -
Deepening through the 3 Stages of Awakening
15 - 21 Septembre 2025
A week-long residential intensive group retreat in Andalucia -
Consolidating in the 3 Stages of Awakening
12-14 November 2025
A three-days online intensive group retreat
2026 RETREATS
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Transformation Intensive Group Retreat
13 - 19 April 2026
A week-long residential intensive group retreat in Andalucia -
Heart Awakening Intensive Group Retreat
8-14 June 2026
A week-long residential intensive group retreat in Andalucia -
Spiritual Awakening Intensive Group Retreat
16 - 22 August 2026
A week-long residential intensive group retreat in Andalucia -
A Transformative Intensive Journey for Couples
On demand
A week-long residential intensive retreat in Andalucia for couples
About us
Richard Harvey
Richard began his professional career as a singer, composer, and musician before training and qualifying as a psychotherapist.
He is the founder of Sacred Attention Therapy—a three‑stage model that seamlessly integrates psychology and spirituality into a transformative path. His work bridges deep emotional healing and spiritual awakening. In 2003 he opened a retreat center in Andalucia, southern Spain where he lives and runs retreats. In 2009, he founded the Center for Human Awakening, a virtual center for his psycho-spiritual teachings in the form of training courses, books, articles, and lectures.
Over the past almost fifty years, he has led workshops, retreats, and training programs across Europe. He is the author of Your Essential Self as well as many other books. Today, he dedicates himself to guiding immersive Sacred Attention Therapy retreats, bringing his healing vision to life.
He offers individual, couple sessions and supervison, in person and online, as well as retreats for deeper immersion and connection.
For inquiries or to book a session, you can reach him
richard@therapyandspirituality.com
Personal and Spiritual Growth: Connecting Therapy and Spirituality
“Richard Harvey’s work touches me deeply, profoundly, and lastingly. It inspires my own conscious evolving and guides my counseling practice in a sacred, focused, and respectful way to bring clients to balance, integrated well-being, and heart-opened awareness. I have benefited from his books, his online seminars and articles. Richard is eloquent, inspirational, and brilliant; he offers a healing presence unlike anyone I’ve ever worked with before. Thank you, Richard, for the wealth of growth opportunities you offer to your students, your clients, and your fans. I am honored to be among them.”
Agnès Bussière
Agnès is a certified Sacred Attention Therapist with over ten years of experience supporting individuals and couples on their journey toward healing, authenticity, and inner transformation.
Before answering her calling as a therapist, Agnès worked as a qualified lawyer in the corporate world for a decade. Her own path of self-discovery and awakening led her to a more meaningful and heart-centered life, which she now brings into her work with clients.
Agnès is also a wife, a mother, and a stepmother.
Her approach is compassionate, intuitive, and presence-based, creating a space of deep trust where clients feel seen, heard, and gently guided. Rooted in the principles of Sacred Attention Therapy, her work invites profound self-enquiry, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening.
She offers individual and couple sessions, both in person and online, as well as retreats for deeper immersion and connection.
For inquiries or to book a session, you can reach her at:
agnes@sacredattentiontherapy.com
“Agnès is a gifted and insightful therapist who works with skill and compassion. She is able to develop the therapeutic relationship and focus her client’s intention in such a way that therapy with her is both effective and often transformative.”
Richard and Agnès co‑lead immersive Sacred Attention Therapy retreats. By working together, they ensure that Richard’s life’s work will continue long after he’s gone, and—through the complementary strengths of two seasoned therapists—participants receive richer guidance, deeper support, and broader insight into their unfolding journey.
Are you longing for a deeper connection with yourself and with life?
These retreats offer a powerful and supportive space for psycho-spiritual development. You’ll be introduced to a new approach that invites you to explore and understand yourself more deeply.
With guidance and practical tools, you’ll begin to recognize the habitual patterns that shape your relationships, creativity, work, and family life. You’ll uncover where these patterns come from, why they’ve taken root, and how they may be limiting your joy, purpose, and self-expression.
As you shed these layers, you’ll discover a more authentic self—your true nature. From this place, new possibilities emerge: greater freedom, emotional clarity, a deeper sense of fulfillment, and a more vibrant way of relating to the world around you.
Whether it’s with people, animals, nature, or spirit, you’ll learn to engage with life more spontaneously and wholeheartedly.
If you feel called to awaken to who you truly are, to live with more presence, love, and meaning—then yes, these retreats are for you.
“Richard Harvey is an independent and original thinker and in my mind ahead of his time. He’s been offering knowledge of the universality of consciousness for years and “researchers” are only now beginning to corroborate his insights. That is to say that consciousness is all around us and can influence us, at the same time as each of us, via our individual contributions, can influence collective consciousness. It’s powerful stuff and very real. I wish I had met Richard earlier and been ready to meet him. To those of you who are ready, I say don’t hesitate. Avail yourself of Richard’s genuine support for your spiritual life while you can.”