Winter/Spring 2025 Groups and Workshops:
all groups, workshops and consultations offered by donation:
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All groups and services offered by donation
Dream Work as Praxis - Room for 4 more:
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community practice
Dreams offer us a powerful shared symbolic language for connecting to personal and collective intuition in an era of dissociation, disinformation, challenge and transformation.
10 sessions, each one hour long
Wednesday Eves via Zoom
4:30 Pacific,
5:30 Mountain,
6:30 Central,
7:30 Eastern
Feb 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, & 9
A GATHERED MEETING TO SUPPORT HELPERS:
FACILITATION TEAM
This is an invitation for those who are interested in developing out a once or twice monthly online Sunday gathered meeting to support professional and natural helpers, carers, advocates and activists as we negotiate a period of intense political and economic challenge, loss, fear and chaos, while providing palliative support and emotional mutual aid to our wider communities.
Donations are accepted but not required for this training and this is not a proprietary model so facilitators are encouraged to create their own community spaces with it.
You do not need to be a helping professional to facilitate
The Group Group
A discussion group - discussing community group work and community resilience
I’m adding as many additional sessions of this workshop as are feasible because I think this work is so important at this time.
This workshop will gather for 6 weeks, on Monday evenings for one hour and 15 minutes
By donation
5:15 Pacific
6:15 Mountain
7:15 Central
8:15 Eastern
Feb 24, & March 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31
RIDING THE ROLLER COASTER:
Emotion & Contemplation Workshop
considering the function and purpose of unruly moods & emotions
What are the psychological, relational, environmental, embodied, spiritual, biological and embodied functions of our emotions?
How do they serve as guides through dangerous times?
How might we be overtaken, possessed by them?
How do we tend to their call with discernment and respect for their embodied demands?
Saturdays - 11:15am Pacific, 12:15pm Mountain, 1:15 Central, 2:15 Eastern
2/22, 3/1, 8, 15, 22,
Depth and Mysticism Study Group
NEXT BOOK Starts FEBRUARY 13th 2025
Meeting alternate Thursday evenings
New members welcome:
“THE MYSTICS WOULD LIKE A WORD: Six women who met god and found a spirituality for today”
by Shannon K. Evans
This group is a supportive and exploratory space - where we seek to understand our core values, and how we attempt to live them out in a complicated world.
Circling the Drain:
Living Intentionally with Mortality
Accepting member for Spring/Summer 2025
Tuesday evenings
at 4:30 Pacific, 5:30 Mountain, 6:30 Central, 7:30 Eastern
April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 17, 24
June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22
I’m facilitating another session of this mortality workshop -where we gather together to gently examine our defenses, and the ways that a supremacist cultural relationship to death fuels so much collective and political failures and personal suffering
Vocation and Discernment for Helping Professions
Room for 2 more members
Why do we do what we do? What are the hazards to ourselves and others? How do we integrate the “shadow” aspects of the helping professions? How do we promote justice in our practices and our professions? How should global crises – pandemics, the rise of the extreme right, racial oppression and colonialism, and climate breakdown and climate disaster come into our work or transform our professional identities? What contains and holds us? What calls us, and what is our calling in a time of challenge and crisis?
This is not a psychotherapy group or a clinical supervision group. This is a facilitated peer support group and reflective space created to think about how our collective needs and callings are - or are not served - by our current professional practice models
Brief or Intermittent Consultation
If we work together, I hope that our collaboration might unseat a few certainties and leave you instead with a handful of generative questions.