what actually happens in a group session?

"The act of making art is both scary and healing. Art brings light to places that have remained dark. Art brings perspective. Making art, at any level, is an act of courage and an expression of faith."
- Julia Cameron

​Each week we do things like:

• Use a unique art journaling process that will offer play, exploration, curiosity, surprises, and insights.
• Have time for community sharing to connect, offer each other support, and have juicy discussions about lots of different topics.
• Participate in art and journaling exercises to nurture intuition and develop tools to track and learn to shift our inner experience.
• Learn about things like: neuroplasticity & our beautiful adaptive brains, nervous system stress responses & strategies to calm, reset and address what's causing the stress response.
• Benefit from co-regulation with a facilitator experienced in creating virtual spaces and with other participants through somatic (mind + body) based practices that can deepen our capacity for self-healing and regulation.
• Practice mindfulness, grounding & centering, and body based stress and trauma tools to grow our self-regulating abilities.
• Gather resources to add to our personal "toolbox" for self-growth, self-awareness, and personal healing.
• Gain understanding about how to listen to our own intuition, step out of perfectionism, and live in deeper alignment to the values that are important to each of us.
• Unpack the ways that systemic gender oppression, capitalism, colonization, white supremacy, patriarchy and other marginalizing and oppressive systems have impacted the ways that we navigate our world.
• Cultivate tools that can help us step more deeply into anti-racism, anti-oppression, social justice, and human liberation work.
• Learn to work with tools from Hakomi, Internal Family Systems ("parts" work), and re-parenting approaches to move toward shifts in our core beliefs that might be negatively impacting our relationship to self and others.​
• Gain understanding about how to support ourselves when we are dysregulated, "triggered" or activated.  Learn how to move through these feelings and rebalance.
• Nurture ourselves with the gift of intentional time for self-care and creativity.
• Learn new things about ourselves. LAUGH. Begin to understand what it means to actually "trust the process". Create terrible art.  Create amazing art.  Connect with authentic people. Grow. Heal. Fall in love with ourselves.

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

calendar & registration for upcoming groups