Workshop Offerings

How did so many of us grow into adults without ever learning how to handle a self-destructive thought, respond to challenging emotions, or deal with a nervous system that can’t tell the difference between a work issue and a bear?  

 

This gap hurts everyone, with consequences ranging from inconvenience to severe damage in self, relationships, health, and achievement.  

 

Building mastery in the inner world can feel like turning on the lights at home. You get to see where the walls are, the stairs, and that hole in the bedroom floor that you kept falling through. You learn how to use the taps and the stove, and how to keep it tidy. You can see which rooms need some love, and which are not yet safe to enter. ​

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This series is the product of 10 years of work with individual, couples, and group therapy clients, alongside an intense desire to understand the frameworks and mechanisms that underly mental wellness. It is eclectic but draws especially from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, parts work, mindfulness-based therapy, and holistic therapy. While AI can play a supportive role in mental health, it has had and will have no part in these offerings. 

 

How to Human Series - Level 1 

Build Foundational Knowledge, Practice, and Community in 2025  

 

This 4-session workshop covers our major internal systems: physical (nervous system), emotional, and mental. It provides a unique set of tools for managing each competently and compassionately, as well as integration and managing the system as a whole​.   

 

1. The Physical System: Managing the Nervous System and Threat Responses

• The structure of the nervous system-- what is really going in moments of high stress, anxiety, anger, and depletion  

• Identify where you are at any given moment 

• Practices that create a stronger, more resilient system

• Moment to moment strategies that help you stay regulated and manage difficult situations in a way that you’re proud of  

 

​2. The Emotional System: Building Emotional Fluency

• Small and easy shifts to foster a better relationship with the emotional self 

• Effectively respond to challenging, disruptive, and intense emotions  

• The role of positive emotions in learning, motivation, and wellbeing, and practices to increase and leverage them  

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 3. The Mental System: Building Mastery in Thoughts and Thinking 

• Understand the human mind, what you can trust it with, and what you can’t

• Identify, evaluate, and work with thoughts 

• Deal with common issues like a harmful inner critic and worst-case scenario thinking

• Put new prompts in place that help you become your best self and achieve your goals 

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 4. Bringing it All Together: Your Inner Panel of Experts  

• How the physical, emotional, and mental systems relate to each other in good times and bad 

• Understand the strengths, roles, and vulnerabilities of each system   

• Put an end to internal battles and foster an environment of respect, co-operation, and collaboration 

• A process for discerning and decision making 

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​How to Human Series - Level 2.1

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1. ​Understanding and Addressing Internal Issues– why traditional problem-solving approaches backfire in the internal world (issues like self-worth, thoughts and emotions, habits, motivation, addictive behaviours, and so much more) and what to do instead 

2. Integrating Values and Goals

3. Boundaries – identify, set, and maintain the boundaries that keep relationships safe and health

4. Bringing it all together​

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​How to Human Series - Beliefs (3 sessions)​

 

1. The anatomy and physiology of beliefs 

2. Identifying and healing unhelpful and untrue core beliefs about self, others, and the world 

3. Leveraging beliefs to manage stress, increase resilience, achieve goals, and improve quality of life 

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How to Human Series - Special topics​

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1. Working with beliefs ​​(3 sessions)

   1. Anatomy and physiology of beliefs ​

   2. leveraging beliefs 

2. Managing perfectionism and the need for control

3. Navigating transitions with courage and grace

4. Maintaining mental health in 2025 amidst political, climate, and technological changes

5. Surviving versus thriving – How to transition to thriving when basic safety needs are met

6. Managing anxiety

7. Managing depression

8. Self-talk clinic: Inner critic to inner coach

9. Self-talk clinic: Language and word choices that shape, influence, damage, and repair