Previous Workshops
Develop the "Work With" Step in the Emotion Activation Process -
Harnessing the power of engaging with our emotions through their unique questions is a critical skillset to have when building up your strength to flow with your emotions.
We will go over how emotions are activated and when engaged with accurately, will naturally recede on their own. The focus so often is on getting the emotion to stop and rarely focuses on how to communicate with the emotions themselves in order to receive the information being brought forward.
We eliminate that struggle here and build up a reliable and reusable set of emotion engagement skills to help you whenever they happen to come up.
A Reframe for Shame: discover your inner integrity and self-esteem keeper
Shame is one of those emotions that can send us running, and it will continue to do so until we upgrade and update our understanding of this vital emotion.
This is an introductory level workshop; we will cover the functional role of shame within our emotional eco-system along with its gifts, engagement questions, signs of obstruction and the unfortunately common experience where others' influence reaches deeper than it should.
Coming closer to looking at shame requires us to peel back a few layers of societal conditioning, personal experiences and visceral responses of the body. We will tread softly and slowly with a combination of instruction, reflection and rejuvenation practices to help support us in moving through the workshop.
Curate Your Emotions Map: Discover the Anger and Sadness
Learning the Emotion Activation Sequence: taking your skillset to a new level
Emotions are everywhere and while there are universal, they are also personal. Emotion work is way to deepen your personal connection and relationship with not just emotions at large, but with your emotions. Deepening our ability to identify and feel our emotions in the activation sequence increases our channeling capacity and helps to reduce the amount of stagnant emotional energy that can get stuck in our bodys' systems.
Workshop Takeaways: In this workshop we're going to be spending time with each emotion from the Anger and Sadness families for a universal introduction, then dive into a personal understanding of what your anger, shame, sadness etc presents like. What happens to your body, your energy, your thinking, your actions in the presence of each emotion. Knowing the indicators of how an emotion rises for you can completely empower how we engage with our emotional experiences.
Learning the Emotion Activation Sequence: taking your skillset to a new level
Learning the Emotion Activation Sequence: taking your skillset to a new level
Learning the Emotion Activation Sequence: taking your skillset to a new level
Myth: Emotions are the problem or something I need to get rid of.
Truth: Emotions are second. They rise as a response to an event or situation happening and they bring forward information to help.
Myth: Emotions don't go away on their own.
Truth: once activated there is a built-in sequence that if followed, will have emotions receding on their own.
Harnessing the power of engaging with our emotions through their unique questions is a critical skill set to have when building up your strength to flow with your emotions.
We will go over how emotions are activated and when engaged with accurately, will naturally recede on their own. The focus so often is on getting the emotion to stop and rarely focuses on how to communicate with the emotions themselves in order to receive the information being brought forward.
We eliminate that struggle here and build up a reliable and reusable set of emotional engagement skills to help you whenever they happen to come up.
Workshop Takeaways:
- learn the Emotion Activation Sequence and how to recognize when you're skipping steps
- discover the importance of naming emotions accurately in order to continue in the sequence
- experience the beauty of emotions subsiding on their own - nothing here you have to do.
It's a radical shift to orient to emotions working in a process; come and learn something new!
Curate Your Emotions Map: Discover the Fear and Happiness Families
Learning the Emotion Activation Sequence: taking your skillset to a new level
The Beauty In Boundaries: Meeting Self-Distinction Through Flowing Anger
Emotions are everywhere and while there are universal, they are also personal. Emotion work is way to deepen your personal connection and relationship with not just emotions at large, but with your emotions. Deepening our ability to identify and feel our emotions in the activation sequence increases our channeling capacity and helps to reduce the amount of stagnant emotional energy that can get stuck in our bodys' systems.
Workshop Takeaways: In this workshop we're going to be spending time with each emotion from the Fear and Happiness families for a universal introduction, then dive into a personal understanding of what your fear, anxiety, contentment etc presents like. What happens to your body, your energy, your thinking, your actions in the presence of each emotion. Knowing the indicators of how an emotion rises for you can completely empower how we engage with our emotional experiences.
The Beauty In Boundaries: Meeting Self-Distinction Through Flowing Anger
Learning the Emotion Activation Sequence: taking your skillset to a new level
The Beauty In Boundaries: Meeting Self-Distinction Through Flowing Anger
That yellow umbrella is in a sea of green ones. The photo is so striking in showing the lines of distinction from one to many others. People are kind of like that too.
For each of us, we are self; everyone else is an other. And to everyone else, you stand in the place of other with them in the position of self.
What if that skill of self-defining is not functioning optimally? Perhaps there is a sense of going along with the crowd, not being certain of your own space or values. Maybe you have not stood up for your own inclusion or have learned to silence your own voice to always make things easier for others.
There are many ways and variations to having poor boundaries. In some relationships, we may have healthy mutually-respectful boundaries, but all of our skills may disappear with other people or situations.
Anger is the emotion that can help restore relationships because it is the emotion that lights up and makes you aware of where 'you' begin and end by creating and restoring the defining boundary of self.
For the longest time, I viewed boundaries as a separation - a wall between one thing, person, experience and another. A divide. Boundaries aren't that. They show the distinction between two things and this distinction brings the opportunity for a relationship to develop between them. Let's spend some time together diving into that.
Workshop Takeaways:
- understanding the gifts of anger
- learning the functional role of anger
- taking stock of how you currently distinguish between yourself and others
- noticing how you may better support boundaries in your life
Resilience Gathering: Discover your Support Resources By Elemental Quadrant
Resilience Gathering: Discover your Support Resources By Elemental Quadrant
Resilience Gathering: Discover your Support Resources By Elemental Quadrant
- What is it to be resilient? Not in the toxic 'always gotta be bouncing back' kind of way, but truly connected to your capacity to process, adapt, try, fail, reassess and repeat.
There are some surprising elements to resilience that if unknown, often become the hurdle that trips us up and keeps us in a cycle of repeating patterns.
Let's get conscious of our personal roadblocks to what is standing in the way of our relationship with our resources (both internal and external).
In this workshop we will:
- identify the gap between our expectations and the process of navigating challenging situations with resilience
- learn our current coping strategies (and when we use them)
- discover the unexpected partner of the unknown, which is necessary within periods of change
- look deep into what are supportive resources for ourselves through the 4 elemental quadrants of mind, body, emotions, and spirit to create a reference sheet for when we feel a need for support
- experience the state of soft-flowing fear where we tap into our intuition to recognize what is supportive for us as individuals
- mine the hive-mind to share the support processes that work for us to inspire and support others
There's no room for this type of reflection once you're immersed in a situation or event that challenges you. You pack the first-aid kit before someone needs it; building a relationship with your support resources and resilience is no different. Join in, for this interactive and life-changing workshop on how you relate to self-support.