Deep Dive into Somatic Healing & Parts Work
Are you wanting to cultivate abiding self-compassion?
Are you seeking tools for working with challenging emotions?
Do you want to grow in the context of a supportive group container?
Are you seeking tools for working with challenging emotions?
Do you want to grow in the context of a supportive group container?
Free Intro on Sunday, January 26th. More info: HERE.
Come join me for an 8-week journey to learn simple, but potent practices for healing, including body-based practices such as breath, movement and sensing, tools from IFS (parts work) and expressive arts. This small group of 3 to 6 people is a sweet space to nurture authentic connections with others as well.
Each person has an opportunity to receive focused attention for 20 to 30 minutes with the compassionate witnessing of the group, at least once during the series. I provide guidance in rooting into your center, moving through emotions, and listening within. It is powerful to do this process with the support of the group and a rich experience to witness.
During this series, you have an opportunity to:
- Feel seen and heard.
- Cultivate embodied safety and support.
- Slow down and listen to the voices within.
- Learn tools for navigating challenging emotions.
- Explore breath, sensing and movement.
- Learn the core concepts of parts work.
- Grow in self-compassion.
- Get unstuck.
Each session begins with slowing down to connect with our bodies and taking time to notice what feelings, thoughts and sensations are here. We attend to our inner world from a place of curiosity beckoning us towards greater wholeness. We learn how to welcome all parts of us…the jealousy, the anger, the fear…the parts that we usually push down, because we discover that every emotion has an important message for us if we listen.
The practices include movement, witnessing, writing, drawing, guided meditations and sharing. Some practices are done alone, others in small groups or and some as a whole group. I weave in somatic tools to assist us in digesting old trauma and stuck emotions. We connect with each other to validate, comfort and support.
Participants often report feeling nourished and grateful to feel more at home in themselves. Many develop greater resilience. I hope that you will join me for this fruitful journey of self-discovery.
Winter Session:
FREE INTRO on January, 26th. More info: HERE.
Sunday Group:
4:15 pm to 6:30 pm EST (Eastern Standard Time: New York)
8-Sessions: Feb: 2, 9, 16 & 23. March: 2, 9, 16 & 23.
Location: Zoom. (Link provided with registration).
Number of Participants: 3 to 6.
Cost: $360 to $440 Sliding Scale. If you are drawn to one of these groups and you can't afford the bottom of the sliding scale, please be in touch.
These sessions will not be recorded.
If you are interested to sign up, please read the information below.
Important information to know before signing up:
-This group is considered an Intermediate Level group. This means that you have been doing personal healing work (of any kind) for at least one year. You have a strong sense of self-awareness and some tools for regulation under your belt. You want to go deeper in your healing process.
-While this work is therapeutic, it is not a substitute for mental health counseling. If you are dealing with mental health issues, please have support from a therapist.
-I require that you have access to some sort source of outside support either ongoing or someone on call, a therapist, bodyworker, etc. during our time together. Sessions may catalyze the movement of emotions that you don’t have time to process during a session.
-This work draws from Parts Work (Internal Family Systems), but doesn’t necessarily use all of the tools or in the order in traditional IFS. This approach is more fluid. I use the concept of a “part” more broadly. At times it will refer to a sub-personality that has a specific age and other details, but at times it will refer to a segment of your experience such as an emotion, thought or image.
My goal is to establish a compassionate relationship to whatever is emerging, allow for unblending/rooting in Self, and release (unburdening), and restoring a sense of wellness and safety. My background in Internal Family Systems is a 3 year study group with Wendy Weiss.
-Somatic approaches draw inspiration from 2 years of training in Somatic Experiencing, and over 20 years of mindfulness practices, and improvisational dance forms. My main goals with these practices are to discharge stored nervous system energy and foster an internal sense of safety and resilience.
-I welcome all genders to my groups.
-Groups are done online. Sessions will NOT be recorded, because they are highly experiential.
- Want to learn more about parts work? Check out my resources page.
Participant Requirements:
You are able to:
-Listen to others without interrupting.
-Speak with respect and kindness.
-Refrain from giving advice, unless asked.
-Communicate your needs and make requests.
-Tend to your own triggers and come prepared with a few tools for self-care.
-Pause & take time to notice body sensations and emotions.
-Trust the process of being with discomfort as difficult feelings are processed.
More about triggers and self-care: A trigger happens when your nervous system perceives a threat from the present or one is evoked from the past. You might feel antsy, tense, irritated, nervous, shut-down or have other symptoms. These are often uncomfortable and you start to feel a sense of disconnection from the group.
It is very likely that you will feel this nervous system response during at least one of the meetings. At these moments, I may not be able to attend to you (but I may, depending on the flow of the group). In either case, I highly support you in doing self-care. This can look like taking a break, doing some deep breathing or journaling. If some self-care doesn’t help bring you to center and the trigger feels quite big, you may exit the Zoom meeting. These choices ARE part of honoring our parts and I will encourage it along the way.
-This group is considered an Intermediate Level group. This means that you have been doing personal healing work (of any kind) for at least one year. You have a strong sense of self-awareness and some tools for regulation under your belt. You want to go deeper in your healing process.
-While this work is therapeutic, it is not a substitute for mental health counseling. If you are dealing with mental health issues, please have support from a therapist.
-I require that you have access to some sort source of outside support either ongoing or someone on call, a therapist, bodyworker, etc. during our time together. Sessions may catalyze the movement of emotions that you don’t have time to process during a session.
-This work draws from Parts Work (Internal Family Systems), but doesn’t necessarily use all of the tools or in the order in traditional IFS. This approach is more fluid. I use the concept of a “part” more broadly. At times it will refer to a sub-personality that has a specific age and other details, but at times it will refer to a segment of your experience such as an emotion, thought or image.
My goal is to establish a compassionate relationship to whatever is emerging, allow for unblending/rooting in Self, and release (unburdening), and restoring a sense of wellness and safety. My background in Internal Family Systems is a 3 year study group with Wendy Weiss.
-Somatic approaches draw inspiration from 2 years of training in Somatic Experiencing, and over 20 years of mindfulness practices, and improvisational dance forms. My main goals with these practices are to discharge stored nervous system energy and foster an internal sense of safety and resilience.
-I welcome all genders to my groups.
-Groups are done online. Sessions will NOT be recorded, because they are highly experiential.
- Want to learn more about parts work? Check out my resources page.
Participant Requirements:
You are able to:
-Listen to others without interrupting.
-Speak with respect and kindness.
-Refrain from giving advice, unless asked.
-Communicate your needs and make requests.
-Tend to your own triggers and come prepared with a few tools for self-care.
-Pause & take time to notice body sensations and emotions.
-Trust the process of being with discomfort as difficult feelings are processed.
More about triggers and self-care: A trigger happens when your nervous system perceives a threat from the present or one is evoked from the past. You might feel antsy, tense, irritated, nervous, shut-down or have other symptoms. These are often uncomfortable and you start to feel a sense of disconnection from the group.
It is very likely that you will feel this nervous system response during at least one of the meetings. At these moments, I may not be able to attend to you (but I may, depending on the flow of the group). In either case, I highly support you in doing self-care. This can look like taking a break, doing some deep breathing or journaling. If some self-care doesn’t help bring you to center and the trigger feels quite big, you may exit the Zoom meeting. These choices ARE part of honoring our parts and I will encourage it along the way.
Registration Processs
If you have already participated in one of my groups, just send me a short email saying you'd like to join a winter session. If you are new, please e-mail me with the answers to these questions. I will be in touch with payment information. My email is below.
1. What's your first and last name? Do you have preferred pronouns?
2. What draws you to this group?
3. Have you read and agree to the participant requirements above?
4. Do you have any questions or concerns about the group before signing up? Would you like to meet with me beforehand? If so, let me know some good days and times.
Thanks so much! I will be in touch within two days.
If you have already participated in one of my groups, just send me a short email saying you'd like to join a winter session. If you are new, please e-mail me with the answers to these questions. I will be in touch with payment information. My email is below.
1. What's your first and last name? Do you have preferred pronouns?
2. What draws you to this group?
3. Have you read and agree to the participant requirements above?
4. Do you have any questions or concerns about the group before signing up? Would you like to meet with me beforehand? If so, let me know some good days and times.
Thanks so much! I will be in touch within two days.