Upcoming Classes, Workshops & Events
January 19
I’m offering a FREE monthly workshop series on the third Sunday of the month called Embodying Stories. This month is about HOPE, and it will take place January 19 from 3-4:30 PM Pacific time on Zoom.
As we begin a new year, the holiday celebrations wind down, and the gray winter sets in, hope can be something that is harder to find. In this workshop, we’ll be exploring mindset shifts with intention. I’ll guide you in creating your own inner compass to carry you forward. We’ll also be re-looking at our values and beliefs to begin embodying more wholeness, fullness and hopefulness for the coming year.
Stories are interwoven into our experience of life: they are how we come to know ourselves and to know others, and they are also how others come to know us in turn. Joan Didion said: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We also tell ourselves stories in order to express what needs to be shared. Rather than suppressing, bypassing or turning away from what is real and present, our emotions, thoughts and values are a part of what it means to be human. Only in allowing ourselves to hold all of these and connect them in our bodies can we become free to express all of ourselves with new stories that move us into a future we want to belong to.
February 8
I’ll be offering 10 discounted individual coaching sessions for $50, leading some small group discussions and facilitating a workshop on The Multifaceted Self in Conversation as part of the Adoption Healing Quest: Navigating Hope and Healing Together all-day event at the Pacific Coast Center for Spiritual Living in Seal Beach, CA.
As an adoptee and a lesbian, identity has been at the forefront of my own self development and is central in the expressive arts coaching and trauma healing work I do.
In this workshop, I’ll lead attendees in engaging with different notions of the self and how they interact in the body physically, emotionally and mentally. We will also explore how our identities show up in relationships with others. Some questions we’ll be answering are: What do the words self, whole self, fragmented self, soul and identity mean to you? How do you use them to describe yourself? How do they show up in your body? Through a combination of writing, dialogue, and connection with one another, self-portrait drawings, individual and group movement, we will broaden the conversations about who we are and what we stand for individually and collectively.
February 16
I’m offering a FREE monthly workshop series on the third Sunday of the month called Embodying Stories. This month is about SELF-LOVE, and it will take place February 16 from 3-4:30 PM Pacific time on Zoom.
February is a time for love, celebration, intimacy and the way we relate to other people. It can bring up a lot of feelings for people in relationships and without. My take on it is to embrace love in all of its forms, especially SELF-LOVE. It provides an opportunity to explore our values and beliefs about love, self-worth and romance in order to create and deepen our interconnectedness with all things: the self, others, nature and our social world.
Stories are interwoven into our experience of life: they are how we come to know ourselves and to know others, and they are also how others come to know us in turn. Joan Didion said: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We also tell ourselves stories in order to express what needs to be shared. Rather than suppressing, bypassing or turning away from what is real and present, our emotions, thoughts and values are a part of what it means to be human. Only in allowing ourselves to hold all of these and connect them in our bodies can we become free to express all of ourselves with new stories that move us into a future we want to belong to.
March 16
I’ll be offering a FREE monthly workshop series on the third Sunday of the month called Embodying Stories. This month is about POWER, and it will take place March 16 from 3-4:30 PM Pacific time on Zoom.
Like anger, POWER is a concept that has a lot of charge and edge around it. It can mean many different things, and the way we respond to it can take many different shapes. In this workshop, we’ll explore the connection between power and recognition. What expressions do various dialogues between these bring up for you? What does leadership mean to you and how can you bring it into more embodiment? If you know you can step into more power within your own leadership style, you won’t want to miss this!
Stories are interwoven into our experience of life: they are how we come to know ourselves and to know others, and they are also how others come to know us in turn. Joan Didion said: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We also tell ourselves stories in order to express what needs to be shared. Rather than suppressing, bypassing or turning away from what is real and present, our emotions, thoughts and values are a part of what it means to be human. Only in allowing ourselves to hold all of these and connect them in our bodies can we become free to express all of ourselves with new stories that move us into a future we want to belong to.
April 20
I’ll be offering a FREE monthly workshop series on the third Sunday of the month called Embodying Stories. This month is about HOPE, and it will take place January 19 from 3-4:30 PM Pacific time on Zoom.
If you don’t observe Easter Sunday, or want a creative way to celebrate it, join me for my Easter Sunday exploration of inner and outer PEACE. In this workshop, I’ll guide you inwards to allow your inner sanctuary to reveal its shapes, size and colors to you. We’ll bring this inner sanctuary into expression through visualization, drawing and writing and give time to just be with what arises silently and in circle together. This will be time to slow down and connect with your inner self.
Stories are interwoven into our experience of life: they are how we come to know ourselves and to know others, and they are also how others come to know us in turn. Joan Didion said: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We also tell ourselves stories in order to express what needs to be shared. Rather than suppressing, bypassing or turning away from what is real and present, our emotions, thoughts and values are a part of what it means to be human. Only in allowing ourselves to hold all of these and connect them in our bodies can we become free to express all of ourselves with new stories that move us into a future we want to belong to.
