Virtual Workshops
Participating in a workshop is an excellent alternative.
You might not want to dive right into therapy. Maybe your life is going generally well, but you have room for learning and improving.
Knowing yourself better and how to feel and gain skills can only improve your life and relationships. Doing it in a fun way is better!
I guarantee I won’t give you a boring PowerPoint presentation to look at while you hear me going “blah-blah-blah-blah.” Your mind is on what you will have for lunch and working on your forever-ending to-do list.
We will offer the following workshops on a rotating schedule. All workshops are online unless you are within an hour’s trip from Chicago. You can ask me to come over if you are within this range.
If you would like any of these offerings for your company, organization, or group of friends, shoot me a message. I would be happy to accommodate you all. Here are the offerings.
Meaning of Attachment Style for Your Relationships
How you bonded with your parents when you were little may impact your personal and work relationships. I am not kidding!
Continuously fearful your relationship will end makes them more likely to end. Are you mad at me? Have they told you they are clingy? Do you end in unhealthy relationships? Do you continuously push people away, are unable to open up, or cannot trust people?
Do you distance yourself before someone rejects you? Do you constantly quit jobs to stay in control?
Maybe you are secure and can be independent and let people be part of your life, but someone you love is not quite like you.
In these four-week, 1.5-hour workshop sessions, you will discover your attachment style and how that shows up for you in your relationships. This workshop provides precious information for the next time you are anxious, feel you want to run away, or need to support someone important to you.
Self-esteem is overrated. Self-compassion is better.
You spent years trying to strengthen that self-esteem. Ahh! Well, it was not the essential factor of a joyful life.
You can be great at some things, but someone is always better, prettier, and more intelligent. And you can’t be great at everything. No, no matter how much self-esteem you have, you will eventually mess up and won’t be able to live up to a perfect standard. What do you do then?
Instead of feeling like a terrible failure, you can learn to gain self-compassion. People who can access self-compassion are less likely to experience depression and anxiety. Self-compassion allows you to weather the storm.
Learn about how to gain self-compassion. Our workshop can help you learn how to apply self-compassion in these three-week, 1.5-hour sessions. We will scratch the surface, but it’s a great start.
Learn to support loved ones enduring trauma.
I know you care, but you do not know what to do. Everything you say seems to make it worse. This two-hour workshop will help you help your loved one.
When your loved one won’t stop crying or can’t get over what happened, it is frustrating.
It is confusing when you hurt your loved one, when someone you love hurts someone you love, or when someone who was hurt keeps hurting you.
Learn how you can support and respond to your adult loved one.
Learn how to understand the language of emotions.
What is the role of emotions, their source, and how do they show up? Can I avoid them? Why not?
People express their emotions differently. You might not understand what to do with shame and insecurity showing up in your work and relationships.
Why am I blocked? What do sadness and fear have to do with that project?
Our bodies constantly talk to us whether we want to listen. Emotions are the way they talk to us. Learn how to listen and channel them fruitfully in this two-session, 1.5-hour workshops.
Single Event Facilitation
Life gives us unpleasant surprises without notice. There are unexpected incidents that shake our world.
Maybe a coworker passed, and HR did not do a great job communicating the news. All the department might have learned something ugly like someone getting fired, finances being at risk, and there being turmoil among the staff.
The whole friend group might have had an issue. A family member is moving far away.
These events need processing, not necessarily fixed. People have emotions, and people react and feel differently. But letting people deal with it alone can be detrimental to relationships and performance.
It is overburdening to involve one in facilitating these challenging conversations. Opening space to let people express their emotions and offer support is best if a mental health professional guides them.
Are you ready for something positive?
Participating in a workshop is a great way to learn how to meet challenges in your life.
If you are interested in any of these workshops, please call me.
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