The "roots" of Seeds of Connection

​"The great project of your life is to become a safe space for yourself and all living things. To be imperfect and flawed, to regress and forget, to wander and be lost, to grow weary or unwell, to be abandoned or betrayed, to flush with despair or be paralyzed with terror, and yet wake again each day and resume this project. For each day you are given is a newborn miracle that sings: You still have time to become a living sanctuary. And wouldn't that be your greatest creation of all."

- Jaiya John

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​Seeds of Connection is about becoming a safe space for yourself.  It's about deepening your connection to your intuition, your creativity, and your ability to move toward growth and healing by connecting to a variety of tools, techniques, resources, and topics that can support your unique journey.

We hear a lot about developing more self-compassion, we are told to get better at self-care.  Many of us crave creative outlets, deeper connection to ourselves,  or authentic community and yet aren't sure how to access these things.  Reading books or using logic, thinking, and words can only take us so far in our explorations of healing, growth, nervous system repair, shifting trauma, tapping into creativity, learning to listen to our intuition, or cultivating deeper community.  At some point we need spaces to practice these things in real time, with real humans.  This is the intention behind Seeds of Connection.

​I conceived of Seeds of Connection group spaces as a place where we can co-create authentic community, where we can intentionally choose to step more deeply into things we are learning, reading, or talking about.  The container we create in these group spaces is designed to offer support, encouragement, and consent-based invitation to bravely choose to practice these things together.  In my personal work with art journaling and some of the other tools that we use in group, I began to see that as I cultivated a more intentional practice of noticing connections and patterns, I began to be able to make changes and shifts in things that weren't serving me.  In these groups, we learn about and practice noticing connections so that we can use the information we gather to support our own healing journey.

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​​Some links for basic info:

• You can find the basic overview and current calendar and registration for Seeds of Connection here.
• You can find an FAQ with more info about the commonly asked questions here.
• ​You can see a video of me talking about what you can expect in a typical Seeds of Connection group here.
• Find me on Instagram for more participant art and peeks into what we do in group: @laidbacksparkle
• If you are finding this blog post when there are no current groups open for registration, you can add your name to the waitlist here.

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​This is part of a longer blog post that I broke into smaller segments for readability.

• Full length post is here.
• You Are Here > The "roots" of Seeds of Connection
• An overview of group - How & What
• When our body & emotions are talking to us
• What actually happens in a group session?
• Who are these groups for?
•  A little more about me

calendar & registration for upcoming groups