Workshops

A Four Week Family Workshop

  • 14 Peaks Willow Park

  • This workshop is based on the work of Stephen Porges, Dan Siegel, Peter Levine, and Dr. Aline LaPierre to learn about yours and your family's story. Learn what you need and what your family needs to feel safe. Did you know if your parents yelled at each other, or were divorced you might have a defensive response when you hear loud voices, or when someone threatens to leave?

    What about blended families and adoption. Generational trauma can make it hard to feel safe with one another and defensive accommodations such as fight flight or freeze hijack the body. Being able to track ourselves, learning why have these reactions and why our family members have these reactions, can be life-changing.

    Through somatic contemplations, experiential work, and family conversations, you will unravel the story of your life. Unraveling your family's story, combined with elements from neuroscience, can help you learn how to move through unresolved issues and traumas. It can help us feel safe with our family and have a connected, safe, exciting life!

    This series focuses on skills for the holidays as well, as well as understanding how trauma impacts our behavior.

    Classes are 75 minutes and meets every other week for a total of 4 weeks.

  • Please allow 24 hours for cancellations or appointment changes. Out of respect for our therapist, and those on our waiting list, appointments canceled less than 24 hours before the appointment time will be charged the full session fee. Workshops must be canceled three weeks in advance to receive a partial refund. Retreats must be canceled 60 days in advance for a full refund. Retreats canceled 30 days or less are non-refundable.

GENERATION CHANGERS

Group of friends embracing and enjoying a sunset outdoors on a hilltop, with camping gear nearby.

Do you feel like you want to run when you get angry? Do loud voices make you want to fight or run away? Does it make you sad when you have to set a boundary with your son or daughter? Do you shut down when there is a conflict or get defensive when asked to take out the trash?

Your body is the diary of your life and the generations before you. Within a family, stories can run into each other and trigger emotions that are bigger than the matter at hand.

Date: TBA

Scheduling a Family Workshop

Our programs are customized to meet your needs. We offer destination workshops where we meet your family at a destination.

It is powerful to include multi-generations in this educational journey.  Often our patterns repeat and bringing in multiple generations can be very powerful in changing the next generation.

Family workshops are held several times a year.  Healing in a group with other families can be very powerful.