Current Offerings for New Followers
Fall/Winter Workshops and more:
I’ve noticed a large influx of new followers here and wanted to take a moment to welcome you all and let you know more about what I do, and why and the services I offer!
I use this Substack space - a couple of times a month - mostly for news and updates about the by donation discussion groups that I facilitate:
NEWSLETTER
I now share my writing and my primary newsletter directly from my own site Whatashrinkthinks.com and if you would like to receive the free essays that I post directly to your email box I’d love for you to sign up!
ESSAYS
There are two new free essays exploring our challenges and relationship - both individiually and collectively - to chronicity:
Waiting For the Miracle: On Chronicity and Psychotherapy
Always Be With You: On Chronicity and Shared Predicaments
I also offer two paid subscriptions series:
Seminar & Lectio Subscription
Two essays a month in response to whatever texts I am immersed in for a monthly or annual fee
The Good Thief Dilemma: A memoir, a meditation, an investigation into the mysteries of spiritual abuse
One chapter and an a “reverie” - reflections on sharing this content - each month for a one time fee to access the full project.
NOVEMBER WORKSHOPS AND DISCUSSIONS
THREE SPOTS OPEN:
THE GROUP-GROUP: Six sessions, Monday evenings
This group is designed to support lay people and community members and clinicians in building healthy, boundaried, well-designed non-clinicial community groups.
We are more isolated than ever - and need to curate and build out circles of support on our own. Therapists can’t do this for us, and neither can our instituions. Only we can begin to design our communities to be responsive to shared needs and respectful of our differences.
SIX SPOTS OPEN:
RIDING THE ROLLER COASTER: EMOTION AND CONTEMPLATION WORKSHOP: Five sessions, Wednesday evenings
This discussion group will draw from various contemplative, meditative, and psycho-spiritual models for establishing “right relationship” - neither over- or under-valuing our unruly emotional lives.
In order to be of use to each other and to care for ourselves, we need to develop new models of respect for our emotional lives rather than treating our emotions as irrational events that need to be merely “mananged”
TWO SPOTS OPEN:
CIRCLING THE DRAIN - LIVING INTENTIONALLY WITH MORTALITY: Sixteen sessions, Tuesday evenings, starts Nov 12th
An online workshop and discussion group designed for anyone who wants to expand their ability to withstand and accept existential realities, to develop healthier, more related responses to encounters with death and dying among their family, friends, in the wider community and culture,
RESERVE YOUR SEATS NOW:
Imagining Beyond the Unimaginable - 6 pm Nov 20th
A circle group focused on anchoring ourselves, and our sanity in the on-going work of justice, healing and liberation - as a method of coping with the intensity of this election and aftermath.
Catherine May and I are hosting a circle group in Brooklyn on Nov 20th and if you are in the New York Area you are very welcome:
This is an in-person facilitated community discussion,gathered to process the outcomes of a freshly decided election, locate ourselves and our priorities in the face of incomplete and damaging political mythologies
Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested! And I hope you will pop over to my website and explore or sign up for my other offerings!