Description
In the second week of our in-person training, we’ll deepen the intimacy of our work. You’ll learn to work with a client’s history, enhance their connection to who they are and what they truly want, and constantly encourage the unexpected mystery of living a life as a physical, free, connected human.
One of the most powerful ways we can touch people’s lives is with our attention.
Attention to another’s struggles, hurts, fears, secrets, and dreams. And while our attention shouldn’t be in short supply, it is. Life has pulled, stretched and divided it, both attention to ourselves and others, and we’re often left with an overwhelming feeling of a missed opportunity. A lack. An unsettled heart.
You have an opportunity when working with, and paying attention to, others to create an intimate connection. To let another human being feel seen, respected, safe, and accepted. Without compromise.
Touching People’s Lives gives you the immeasurable gift of being alongside another person as they open up to who they are and to their potential. They return to the mystery, magic, confidence, freedom and trust that makes them unique.
Together, we’ll open up a variety of new subjects, including new ways to touch, talk and listen, with continued emphasis on personal growth; on who you are when you work with others.
Paying attention from your body, from your whole self
- Beyond what you see
- Without any interpretation or reduction of an experience
- Trusting what you perceive, as sensations flow through you and between you and your client
- Learning to put what you sense into impactful questions and guidance
- Continuously opening up a clean, clear space for growth
Embodying empathetic boundaries
- Staying connected with your client in the uncomfortable and the unknown
- Learning to keep your body open during strong waves of pain, fear and shame, without taking a client’s experience into your own body
- Learning to not get “sucked in” to their story, rather maintaining an expansive container, so they truly learn to trust themselves and feel their own strength
Working with history
- Learning to ask questions that open up relevant history
- Sensing what the body is holding onto, not just the mind
- Describing with the client how history reveals itself today
- Using either a situation from today that touches history, or a strong memory they clearly embody, as a door to transformation
- Working with a repetitive response on multiple levels: mind, emotion, action, and behaviors
- Working attentively with your client so they open up what they can handle and hold during a session, and as they go back to their lives
- Keeping an uncompromising level of physicality for both your client and yourself
Exploring new forms of touch
- Learning how the elements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air relate to aspects and qualities that exist in the body
- Deepening your awareness of how imbalances could show up in the body and a person’s life
- Practicing different possibilities of touch to quiet the over-efforting and encourage the qualities a client yearns for
- Staying curious about what wakes up in the body, through the different forms of touch, and following the body’s experience
- Weaving different combinations of touch into a session
Returning to self, to your deep potential
- Guiding a client’s attention to what opens up in them, as they become free from their past
- Using touch, talk and presence to guide a client deeper into the new qualities that emerge (spontaneity, lightness, depth, confidence, calm, creativity, openness, and more)
- Reminding the client to trust their experience – what they gain back is theirs, not a fleeting experience, but rather a return to self and their potential.
Other subjects that we’ll weave into the week include:
- How to build a process that develops and deepens – working with a client over time, following a through line
- What to offer a client between sessions in the form of what to pay attention to and somatic practices
- Establishing a process to create impactful workshops and classes
- Describing what you do, what your work and practice are
- Your value – how you hold time, money and energy as you work with clients
Schedule
Starts: Monday, 14th October at 8:30am
Ends: Friday, 18th October at 6pm
What’s included
- 5 days of advanced training, including topic discussion, demonstrations and hands-on practice, as well as daily embodiment training. We’ll leave time for feedback, reflections, and how to work with the personal challenges you meet as a practitioner.
- 5 Follow-up Zoom calls (2 hours) to deepen the learning of all topics covered, allow for questions, doubts, and support of your own personal practice.
- Daily, freshly-prepared lunches and snacks.
What’s not included
- Flights and transportation to the venue
- Lodging
- Breakfast and dinner
Daily Schedule:
Monday – Friday: 8:30-6pm
(includes a 1 1/2-hour lunch break and 2 scheduled breaks + more as needed.)
NOTE: Further payment plans are available by request. Please email me for more information.
Faq
How many people will participate in this program?
The maximum participants in this immersion is 10. I would like to keep the group smaller, to allow for a more powerful, in-depth experience.
Is this program open to both men and women?
Yes.
What is the learning format?
The general schedule M-F will be from 9:30am – 6pm. A few of those days we will meet earlier for an embodiment and movement pracitce.
On Saturday, we meet from 9:30am -1pm
What should I bring to the program?
Be sure to bring plenty of comfortable clothes in which you can train and move.
Water bottle.
Journal.
Hiking/walking shoes (if you’d like to go for a cool walk in the mountains near the venue)
What is the cancellation policy?
The $500 deposit is non-refundable.
Cancellations less then 2 months and up to 1 month prior to the program will receive a 50% refund less the deposit and any credit card or processing fees.
Cancellations less than 1 month prior to the workshop date are non-refundable.
Will there be future trainings?
Yes. My intention is to offer a total of 4 weeks of training. The subjects for the subsequent weeks will include:
- Working with reactions (in session and life), including long-held beliefs, emotional reactions, and movement patterns.
- The power of personal history and emotional flow. Deepening the connection to potential.
- Workshops – learning to build workshops and ongoing series through body awareness, practices, and movement training.
Will I get any certification?
As I offered in my personal note, my intention is to give you a framework that holds power and potential. There are so many trainings out there, and chances are, you’ve already done one or more of them. I want to give you a structure that will allow you to go even deeper with your clients, incorporating what you already know.
If you’re doing this for the first time and feel you need and want some type of certification, I can offer suggestions of where to learn to support what you will gain in the Touching People’s Lives program.
On what level can I work with people after this week?
You’ll be able to work with anyone who wants change in their lives. While in this first week we won’t go deeplpy into beliefs, emotional patterns, or history, whenever you touch a pattern of effort in the body, you touch the whole.
You will learn to create a strong container, so the client trusts themselves and the differences they experience when they walk out of a session with you. You’ll be empowering clients to hold their lives in their hands.