Workshops

Boundaries

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How to start saying "No" and respecting yourself.

2 separate workshops (women/girls 10+)

In this 90 minute zoom workshop you will learn what healthy and unhealthy boundaries are, how they affect your life, and implementation practice with a buddy setting your predetermined personal boundaries.

Benefits of setting boundaries are:

  • More self compassion.

  • Greater assertiveness. Boundaries are a way of asserting your needs. ...

  • Your needs are met. ...

  • Less anger and resentment. ...

  • Feeling of peace and safety. ...

  • Time and energy to do things that fulfill and bring joy to your body, mind, and spirit.

Mindfulness, Meditation and Breathwork: 

Teaching clients how to meditate and use breathwork for stress relief, etc.

In this one hour zoom workshop you will learn different types of meditation and breathwork, the benefits of meditation and breathwork, and we will implement what was learned in a group meditation.

Benefits of Breathwork

  • aid positive self-development.

  • boost immunity.

  • process emotions, heal emotional pain and trauma.

  • develop life skills.

  • develop or increase self-awareness.

  • enrich creativity.

  • improve personal and professional relationships.

  • increase confidence, self-image, and self-esteem.

Benefits of meditation

  • Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations.

  • Building skills to manage your stress.

  • Increasing self-awareness.

  • Focusing on the present.

  • Reducing negative emotions.

  • Increasing imagination and creativity.

  • Increasing patience and tolerance.

Abuse Awareness:

Hidden in Plain Sight

This workshop is a teaching event to raise awareness of the psychologicalabuse cycle of cluster B abuse. There are many forms of abuse besides physical. Abusers use privilege, isolation, emotional abuses, coercion and threats, psychological abuses, gaslighting, minimizing, projection, denying and blaming, sexual abuse, using children, manipulation, financial and legal abuse, and intimidation. Psychological abuse can be incredibly subtle, and isn’t always coercive. Extreme jealousy and possessiveness, for example, can be dressed up to look like care and concern.

Many women say violence wasn’t the worst part.

“Why the violence model doesn’t work: fewer than 5% of domestic violence assaults involve injury; only 1-2% involve serious injury; and an even smaller proportion lead to homicide. So, if you wait for homicide or serious injury or even injury before you intervene you miss 95% of domestic violence.” Evan Stark. PhD. MSW, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University

Coercive Control- What is it?

This workshop is an interactive teaching event about how to recognize coercive control in its many forms, the myths about coercive control, and a question and answer session with resources.

Coercive Control Abusers engage in many controlling and psychological coercive methods to instill fear and total obedience in their victims. You are not ALONE, you are not the CRAZY one, their behavior is not your SECRET, it’s THEIRS.

Statistics and scientific evidence shows that the most dangerous abusers are covert. Intimate partner covert coercive controllers have the highest lethality rate as the first physical altercation is usually murder.

Learn how to recognize these behaviors and get out and protect yourself, NOW.

Healthy Parenting

with a Coercive Controller

You will learn how to:

  • Start Healing yourself and be their guiding light and port in the storm;

  • Teach them how to recognize and process emotions;

  • Teach them about healthy boundaries, how to set them, and how to enforce them;

  • Teach them to recognize red flag and green flag behavior;

  • Educate yourself on abuse and trauma awareness and responses;

  • Be a trauma informed parent

  • Resources;

  • Personal Q & A at the end.

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 Support Groups

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Girls 10+ Support Group

Guided discussions with adolescent and teen girls regarding boundaries, bullying, trauma, self-worth, self-care, self-love, and resilience. Different topics each session.

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Women – Trauma Support Group

Guided discussions for current clients on coercive control and other abuses, how to get out and how to recover. As well as the financial and legal complications and how to protect themselves and their children.