Holistic Peer Counseling

• Knowing when you have become triggered and what to do about it
  
• Riding the emotional waves without drowning or repressing, or acting on them
  
• Learn Witnessing and Empathic Listening- Being lovingly present and neutral for others
  

• Finding the Roots of our distress patterns  

• Enjoying the Healing Power of Good Attention focusing both inward and outward

• Developing Energetic and Emotional Boundaries

Very important if you are easily influenced by others

• Practice Active Counseling - giving effective prompts for faster healing  

• Identify Patterns- Freeing ourselves of old mental/ emotional habits created by trauma  

• Transformative Repatterning of neural networks and habits 

 - loving all levels of our beings

 including body, mind, spirit!

Using meditation, visualization, breathwork, emotional release, energy healing, bodywork and counseling techniques

These skills can improve health, relationships, inner peace and can be used to help your friends, children and family throughout life

Learn not only to give effective sessions to others, but how to explore your own consciousness and make intentional changes as a client.  

This empowers each person and breaks out of traditional professional roles of counselor and client.

A wonderful training for anyone involved in health or healing professions, such as counseling, massage and bodywork. 

Taking this series will enable you to take other more advanced classes.  People already trained in RC and other forms of peer counseling are welcome.

*Relationships and Sexuality -

How to create healthy relationships, how sex roles affect relationship, societal patterns around sexuality

*Oppression in Society - How the attitudes of society affect our emotional health, and how that is specifically for women, men, young people, GLBTQ, and different economic classes.

*Breathwork- how to use breathing for emotional healing and release

*Healing Circles- small support groups for intensive personal growth

* Polyamory Support groups-working with open relationships and thinking out of the box in loving connections

*Communication skills- giving and receiving feedback, assertiveness

*Parent's Support Groups -Oppression of parents by society, cutting through isolation, how to counsel your children, how to work with feelings about your children.

*Women's groups

*Addictions- Working on additions of all kinds, including food, drugs, sex, work, etc.

Content of the Beginning Series:

• How to stay grounded in emotional situations
• Effective change with the least suffering
• What to do and not to do as a counselor
• What gets in the way of healing
• Clearing your energy
• How to end a session and get attention back to normal, 
• Outline of the counseling process
• Centering and reclaiming lost energy
• What to do if the counselor becomes upset
• How to ask for what you want from a counselor
• Owning your own space
• Scanning the past to work on a specific moment or issue
• Presencing- becoming self aware
• How to keep attention balanced between awareness of the present, positive reality and the past hurts in sessions
• How to begin being more active as a counselor 

• What is counteracting the pain?
• Basic steps in being more active as a counselor
• Some basic ways of counteracting the distress
• Practicing the steps of active counseling in demonstrations
• Breathing meditations
• Introduction to using movement and vocal flag cues
• Using exaggeration of movement flags to access feelings
• Introduction to working with inner parts of ourselves and letting them speak
• Match energy with someone or not as you choose 
• How to separate out your energy when needed 
• And much more!

Effective Counseling Skills

Coached Counseling Intermediate Class

        What gets in the way of teaching or leading elegantly, and being fully empowered and creative in our lives? 

 Let's find out!

We will work with the coached counseling technique, which is a wonderful way to improve counseling skills and learn to give counseling to someone in a group setting.

Working in 3 way sessions, one person is the client, one the counselor and one the coach.  The session is focused on helping the counselor be clear and think well about the client.  it is really exciting work!

This class requires a good grounding in co-counseling techniques and is not for beginners. 

LEARN THE BASICS OF PLAY THERAPY FOR CHILDREN for peer counselors

We will be learning the basics of the art and mystery of giving effective support to young people in this introductory class, for people who have already had the beginning co-counseling one month training.

        Children are easy to counsel, in one sense, because they are so uninhibited with expressing their feelings.  Yet they often express them quite insistently in moments which do not seem like the best times, to the adults who are attempting to manage life.

        How can be take care of our own needs and also those of our young people?  What can we do to help them grow without keeping a big backlog of acquired emotional baggage?  What gets in our way when we attempt to be present for them?  How are young people and parents oppressed by our culture?

Psychic Survival Skills 

for Sensitive People

Are you sometimes told by others that you are "too sensitive"?

Do you sometimes have trouble separating your feelings from this around you?

Are you strongly influenced by the people and environment around you?

Some people are born with a natural psychic sensitivity that makes it challenging to live in our western culture.  

Most of us who have these talents are told we are crazy and that they are not real, so we don't usually get any training in how to manage them.

Come learn some basic practices you can do to manage your own psychic hygiene, and gain more mastery with your energy and mind.

• Grounding, Being in the body
• Centering, Reclaiming lost energy, 
• Being in your own space, owning your space.  
• Defining Healthy Boundaries
• Psychic Self Protection; 
• Separating/boundaries
• Matching energy, transmuting energy