(8 week online workshop)

Who is it for: This workshop is designed for anyone who is interested in unraveling the ideas and experiences of masculinity in their own life. So many of us live under pervasive and unspoken rules of ‘manhood.’ Compulsory masculinity lies at the heart of disconnection and contributes to the cycles of violence that impact everything and everyone on our planet. This workshop is for folks who want to learn how to share power, cultivate trust, practice accountability, and stay with the discomfort of vulnerability all while in connection with others who are committed to doing this work too.

What to expect:

This workshop is based on works from JJ Bola, Allan G. Johnson, adrienne maree brown, Brene Brown, ALOK, and various others. It is a mix of lecture, support, and experiential process. This is not a therapy group, however, you will work with others in a structured way and through facilitated discussions each week on a different topic designed to unbox your own patriarchal conditioning. You will receive homework assignments to explore more of these concepts outside of the group. These reflections and practices will inform the discussions and process the following week.

Commitment: Be able to attend all 8 weekly 90 minute sessions. Please factor in an additional 1-2 hours a week to engage with the materials between sessions.

A maximum of 10 registrants per group

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(10 week Program)

Who is it for: This 10 step program is for anyone who is having trouble coping during painful and unprecedented times. This program has been proven to help folks re-discover their personal agency and re-invest their energies in meaningful ways.

What to expect: This is a 10 step peer-to-peer support group inspired by 12-Step family groups, specifically Adult Children of Alcoholics. This program is where people come together for 10 weeks to build community, process our heavy and painful feelings about the state of the world, and identify meaningful actions each of us can take. Each week we will meet for 2 hour sessions and focus on one of the steps. This is not a therapy group. Using embodiment exercises, journaling, and group sharing, we will create a brave and emergent space that serves as practice grounds for new (and ancient) ways of being with ourselves and each other during chaotic times.

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Who is it for: Mental health clinicians, peer support specialists, and other healing practitioners that want an experiential group practice from a Relational Cultural Theory (RCT) framework. This intensive is ideal for people who want to better understand how their own strategies of connection and disconnection impact others and practice new ways of relating.

What to expect in a GPGE: General Process Group Experiences (GPGE) are immersive and process oriented groups that provide participants an environment in which to obtain and expand their skills in facilitating therapeutic groups. This intensive is focused on small group teaching primarily in the experiential mode. This is not a therapy group, although members will be encouraged to explore core tenants of RCT, with a focus on developing relational resilience. In this process, we will continually activate, illuminate, and process the here-and-now dynamics of relationship formation between group members and the facilitator. This may require practicing presence and engagement in the midst of relational tension and discomfort. The content of the group is driven by group members' wants/needs/desires as it relates to their experiences as a clinician and also as a human being navigating a complex world. This workshop is based on the institute model used by the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).

A maximum of 8 registrants per group.‎

Thursday/Friday 9am- 4:45pm 1 hour lunch

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(6 hours of Continuing Education, 1 ethic)

Training Description

This training is an introduction designed to provide counseling professionals with concepts and experiences that will increase their relational and interpersonal competency of group counseling with adults. A successful group not only depends on the clinical intuition of the leader but on the ability to build therapeutic and relational connections between members. This workshop will address the core tenets of Relational Cultural Theory and differentiate from other group processes. Topics will include group dynamics, stages of group process, connections & disconnections, and strategies for shame resilience. This didactic and experiential training will explore techniques that can help create an engaging group and maximize a group’s potential as an agent of therapeutic change.

Learning Objectives

Identify characteristics and functions of effective group leadership

Learn the stages of relational movement in groups

Discuss the core tenants of RCT and its application to group process

Summarize and compare individualist group goals with relational group goals

Gain an understanding of relational ethics when facilitating groups

Date: Coming! 9am-4pm 1 hour lunch!

Location: Online via Zoom, link to be provided

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(6 hours of Continuing Education)

Training Description

While sex and sexuality have long been identified as important areas in psychotherapy, the cultural narrative around sex and sexuality is often accompanied with issues of power and shame that prevent us from owning our sexual histories, preferences, and needs. Thus, many of us struggle to process issues related to sex and sexuality.

In this workshop, we will explore how shame affects whether and how we talk about sexuality with our clients, and reflect on our own biases related to issues around sex and sexuality. We will discuss the importance of trust building and other crucial components that get missed when counselors & therapists avoid broaching these topics in sessions.

This workshop is a starting point for clinicians who want to practice becoming more attuned to the sexual issues clients may have, and ways to model how talking about sex can be as natural as talking about any subject.

Learning Objectives

Identify biases, comforts and discomforts in relation to the diversity of human sexuality and expression.

Develop a sensitivity and understanding of how shame keeps the topic of sex & sexuality out of the therapy room

Explore relational interventions designed to reduce judgment, social stigmatization, and internalized shame as it relates to sexual health

Discuss the ways in which social location and positionality impact conversations about sexuality in our clinical practices

Date: Coming! 9am-4pm 1 hour lunch!

Location: Online via Zoom, link to be provided

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(6 Ethics Continuing Education)

Training Description

Personal and professional resilience is crucial for success in therapy, yet most of us were not deliberately taught how to do our work in the midst of climate instability, systems collapse and rearrangement, and the various forms of violence that we are exposed to every day. This has left many professionals in the counseling field unprepared to do this work sustainably and meaningfully.

Burnout and despair come easy to anyone who closely looks at the severity of our ecological and collective predicament. Developing personal and professional resilience in community with others, naturally gives us the tools to metabolize the often unacknowledged and unconscious build- up of climate grief.

Each of us must become aware of, and begin mending, the disconnection from ourselves, others, and the more-than-human world. The urgency for systemic change puts professionals into endless ethical dilemmas.

Care ethics encourages us to treat our society — and all beings— as interconnected and interdependent: viewing the climate crisis as a challenge that we are all facing together, with the need for solidarity and cooperation. Developing a relationship with uncertainty and grief creates more capacity to approach our difficulties, and our clients, with greater patience, curiosity, and compassion. This in turn further grows our ability to sit with others while orienting to hard truths.

Learning Objectives:

Learning Objectives:

Define the concept of personal resilience and its importance in the context of counseling work in the midst of climate change and instability.

Explore the role of community connection in promoting personal resilience and supporting ethical practice for counselors

Name the potential impacts of climate change on clients and counselors, and the need for counselors to develop effective coping strategies and care practices

Review the ACA Code of Ethics mandate that counselors take steps to maintain their own well-being, recognize their limits, and seek consultation.

Discuss the ethical responsibilities of counselors in the face of climate chaos and uncertainty, and the importance of prioritizing personal resilience to ensure effective and ethical practice.

"Ethics of care and collectivity is how we have survived through colonialism, capitalism, development, disasters, and disruptions. Caring for each other, despite differences, is what carries us forward through the devastations of cyclones, sea surges, riverbank erosion, loss of livelihoods, and degradation of homelands.” –Farhana Sultana

Date: Coming! 9am-4pm 1 hour lunch!

Location: Online via Zoom, link to be provided

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