Meet Our Presenters
Derek Hart
"Life's too short to have a bad marriage. Let's fix it."
Guest Speaker (California, USA)
I began attending CODA, codependents anonymous in 1990, as relationships were my big interest at the time. I began sponsoring people in that program, and was placed on the nationwide speaker circuit later that year. After speaking engagements up and down California, and then across the United States, I had become known for counseling in the 12-step world. I lectured in front of over 250,000 people from 1990 to 1996.
I began, for a brief time, attending Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles in the hopes to complete a masters degree. I then took on an internship at the Family Counseling Center. I was placed in a supervision group with others gaining their 2500-3000 hours in the marriage and family therapy program.
I quickly learned in the masters program, and at the Family Counseling Center that it was all far too slow for me. I had read all the books in the masters program before I got there, and wound up teaching 30 minutes during a class in the first week because the professor had never heard of attachment theory.
I then knew a had some problems. One of them was that I was highly immersed in group therapy for myself, and I had just about rewritten a simpler version of the most known group psychotherapy book at the time, Irvin Yalom's Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. I had also summarized and taught some lectures on Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. The teachings of the time were far too slow for me.
I negotiated with my supervision program to take the clients with me. I left the masters degree program. In the masters program there was one half of a book that was required reading on attachment theory. I somehow knew that was the only path that truly helps relationship issues.
I went on to become a co-teacher at a Buddhism awareness school in Los Angeles. And from that group came some other groups I ran utilizing John James book, The Grief Recovery Handbook. That training ran deep for me. I began to piece together trauma and attachment theory and realized the world barely has this training.
It wasn't until 2014 that I discovered Sue Johnson's work. I knew I wanted to build courses, and I wanted to focus on couples after attending the Interchange Counseling Institute for the year in 2013. Sue Johnson pieced together Attachment Theory and Couples, and most of what was in her training manuals, I had been doing already, but it was her scientific studies that sealed in my choices as counselor.
2015 was the first year I trained a psychiatrist on how to work with couples. I built the TherapistTrack program which teaches psychologists, therapists and coaches how to work with couples.
Therapists from around the world send me their clients, the most difficult clients, usually couples. 75% of my couples practice is with trauma-based couples.
Since 1990 I have formally done 36,000 of counseling. Since 2014 90% has been couples only. There is not a masters program to train practitioners how to work with couples. Over the next 5 years, I will be building the start of such a school.
I also worked with the board of behavioral sciences in 2015, when I researched masters degree programs again. First of all, there aren't any yet that have come up to speed with attachment theory. And even more importantly, the board of behavioral sciences would not back me on using my couples sessions as the training ground to teach the world, even with signed contracts. I hired an attorney to verify this with them. I won't be formally pursuing a license with the board of behavioral sciences.
Attachment theory bolted onto emotionally focused counseling is the only thing that helps distressed couples, at an 85% success rate. It's what my life will be dedicated to.
Relationship Challenges as a Gateway to Deeper Intimacy:
The Power of Co-Regulation
Derek believes all relationships must be reinvented from time to time, and that now is your time to focus back on the person you committed your life to. Marriage trainingp is not taught anywhere. Until now. When we aren't shown how to properly listen to each other we don't understand why we become so frustrated and go in circles with the same arguments. In this 2 hour class, Derek will share some of his findings from his research as an attachment expert and facilitate a group process beginning with a group inquiry into real-life issues you’ve been experiencing. Bring your journals and your partner/s.
Important: To get the most from this class, please show up as couples or throuples (Singles welcome too!)
BONUS OFFERING: The Only Proven Way to Restore a Marriage
Take the steps to communicate, hear, and be heard in your relationships and heal the bonds in your life.
Damien Bohler
Guest Presenter (Australia)
Damien is a deep-diver and synthesist. His gifts lie in weaving complex concepts together into digestible frameworks and practices. His wealth of wisdom spans from attachment theory and trauma to authentic relating, polarity, integral theory and developmental psychology and all the way into the world of permaculture and community development. His greatest passion is in exploring the ways in which these systems of understanding interrelate to support humanities evolution.
Archetypes of Dysregulation (self-resourcing)
One of the hallmarks of insecure attachment is difficulty in regulating emotional state, often thought of as triggers or dysregulation. When our attachment needs are threatened, or when we are confronted with feeling the deep inner shame or anxiety that often lies at the core of attachment wounding, we will tend towards reacting in distinct and habitual ways.
This workshop is an embodied exploration of these dysregulation patterns. Playfully entitled ‘archetypes’ we will explore 8 different reactive patterns through our body.
The archetypes we will cover are: the exploder, the stonewall, the mentalist, the freezer, the fawner, the dissociator, the poker and the shut-down.
Most of us will have more than one predominant pattern that we resort to in different contexts and circumstances.
Part of the journey of becoming more secure is one of increasing awareness. By cultivating awareness of our own patterning, being able to see it in our mind and also feel it in our bodies, we then manage to create the space for more choice in our behaviour, our responses and our relationships.’
Rupture & Repair (self-resourcing)
How we fight, and how we make up, in relationship is huge.
Ruptures are an inevitable part of the journey to secure. Most couples fight, and most fights originate from protecting our deep wounds and the fears of abandonment that insecure attachment carries. This holds true for both avoidant and anxious types. Whilst the way we fight may differ, the end results are the same.
Fights create a rupture, the rupture hurts, the heart closes, disconnection grows and if we do not take the time to repair, continues to grow.
Repair, however, when approached consciously can make all the difference. The way we repair from a fight is actually more important than the fight itself. Rupture repair is an opportunity to both grow into new capacities and understandings and also heal our attachment system.
Being able to communicate and collaboratively sense-make post-fight allows for this blossoming of awareness, increase in trust and a relationship that is able to grow the roots deep enough to truly thrive.
This workshop will teach authentic relating skills specifically focused at both fighting and repairing in a more elegant form.
BONUS OFFERING: Centred: Simple tools to untrigger your life
In this mini-course we seek to understand the nature of a trigger, the impacts it has on our experience and how to meet it in the moment. Triggers when left unchecked have the potential to cause untold harm and damage to our relationships and our life. Being able to find our own Centre amidst the chaos and storm of a triggered state is an essential adult skill… and one that is absolutely necessary for anyone on the Journey to Secure.
Eartha Harris
(Massachusetts, USA)
Best known for her music project Living Light, Eartha Harris is a certified functional nutritional therapist, health coach, and 500 hour certified yoga instructor who has helped hundreds of men and women suffering from low energy, depression, digestive issues, and endocrine/hormonal imbalances take back their lives through customized diet, supplement, and fitness plans.
Nutrition for Strength and Confidence (self-care)
Our brain is an organ, and just like all of our organs, it's functioning is affected by the foods we eat. In this class, I will be breaking down how the consumption of proper nutrients, and a properly functioning digestive system aids in mental clarity, emotional balance, and physical strength. Through the process of creating neurotransmitters, and a regulated endocrine/hormonal system, you will learn nutritional tips that will aid in sleep, personal motivation, and physical stamina that boost your personal level of self confidence. When we feel strong, positive, and healthy, we have more energy to show up to life and those around us, which leads to more self confidence and a reduction in anxiety. I hope you can join me!
Francesca Gentille
Guest Presenter (California, USA)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francesca.gentille
Website: http://www.francescagentille.com/
Website: https://tsshtraining.com/
Francesca Gentille, Certified Clinical Sexologist and initiated shaman, inspires transformation through combining the science and soul of sexuality. For over 20 years, she´s compassionately empowered 1000s of clients, and students around the world to reclaim the spark, bridge sexual differences, heal from trauma, and deepen self love!
An expert in the field of integrating sexuality, consciousness, healing, Tantra, Conscious Non-Monogamy, and the use of BDSM as therapeutic modality. She is professor at the International Institute of Clinical Sexology, where she is studying to receive her PHD. She has conducted workshops, and presented at conferences in the United States, Netherlands, Italy, Malta, Israel, England, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and England.
From Trauma to Triumph: Communicating For Quantum Connection (self-regulation)
Our limbic systems have mirror neurons. While these are the source of empathy, they are also the source of escalation. With practices of Conscious Communication and Quantum Connection, we can create and sustain healthy relationships.
We will explore and practice:
- Engaging the ventral vagal nervous system of rest and repair
- How to disengage verbally while staying emotionally connected
- How to advocate for boundaries while staying present to love
- How to work with our trauma triggers in real time
We all carry certain levels of personal, cultural, or epigenetic trauma. We will unpack what has become normalized trauma and how to rewire it through new practices in relating.
Who is Sleeping In Your Head? Exploring Inner Aspects of Empowerment (self-resourcing)
Each trigger is not only in the moment it carries the echoes of our past. It´s so intriguing. Whether triggered toward desire or demands, connection or contraction, there is an age, and a life stage that is responding.
What I am most fascinated by is how these Inner Aspects, once recognized and consciously collaborated with can create more intimacy, pleasure, and play. When they are unknown, suppressed rejected or avoided, they act out underground in destructive and often familiar patterns.
We will discover and explore:
- Uncovering our Inner Aspects
- Unveiling how they respond to others
- Communicating within to bring comfort, clarity or direction
- Expand our intimacy template
BONUS OFFERING: Sexual Healing Magic Combo
GET the healing & magical power of SEX: Get two great teleseminars as your gift!
Learn to utilize the erotic power of arousal to manifest AND/OR to heal others with the energy of your, & their, Eros energy. Listen anytime. As often as you like. Alone or with someone you love.
1. Seven Sacred Sessions of Sex Magic: The Passionate Power of Manifestation
2. Healing with Sacred Eros
Maya Diamond, MA
Presenter (California, USA)
Maya Diamond is an Attachment Expert and Intimacy Coach who is known for helping people shift their destructive patterns in love, and finally find their beloved after years of trying, so that they can have happy, satisfying, and fulfilling relationships.
Maya believes you can heal your insecure attachment, becoming secure, and finding healthy juicy lasting love, and has created a process for doing that at record speed.
Maya is a coach, trained psychotherapist, and holds a Master’s Degree in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Maya was named one of the best life coaches in San Francisco by Expertise.com. Her Tedx talk, "The Surprising Key to Building a Healthy Relationship that Lasts," has over 200,000 views. Maya's dating advice has been featured on mindbodygreen.com, wikihow, and elephant journal.com.
Cultivating Boundaries: Uncover the Deeper Layers of Your NO (self-resourcing)
Boundaries are the way we keep ourselves safe and show people what we need to be respected and supported. If there was abuse, neglect, or a lack of safety in childhood it can be incredibly hard to speak your NO in relationship. In this workshop, you will discover the subtle and not so subtle ways you have been overriding your own boundaries, clear any thing blocking you from doing so, and learn to speak what's true in your life and your relationships.
Erotic Blueprints - Pleasure is Medicine: Using Pleasure to Regulate Your Precious Nervous System (self-care)
In this workshop, we will help you understand your erotic blueprint map, and how you can feed yourself to bring deep pleasure and satiation in your nervous system. You will walk away understanding your erotic blueprint stack and how many ways you can nourish your precious body in your particular blueprints.
Erotic Blueprints - Pleasure is Medicine: Using Pleasure to Regulate Your Precious Nervous System (self-care)
In this workshop, we will help you understand your erotic blueprint map, and how you can feed yourself to bring deep pleasure and satiation in your nervous system. You will walk away understanding your erotic blueprint stack and how many ways you can nourish your precious body in your particular blueprints.
Penelope Goldmuntz, PsyD
Presenter (Massachusetts, USA)
Penny is a psychologist (PsyD) and a Sacred Depths Coach with over 40 years experience. She is on the faculty of ISTA where she co-facilitates “The Spiritual, Sexual & Shamanic Experience” training around the world.
Penny is the creator of “Inner Peace on Demand”, a program of brief daily practices that bring us into connection with abundance, rewire our nervous system as they alleviate stress and anxiety, and connect us to the deep inner wisdom of our body.
Penny and her husband, Michael, also work with plant medicine and have nurtured the building of a community of people who are growing together in a context of safety, love, and the work of integrating the lessons learned into our everyday life.
As a lifelong student of healing, Penny’s passion is to facilitate a path to transforming our challenges into gifts, to deeply connect to the beauty of who we are, and to be the full expression of our unique beingness.
It is never too late to be inspired by your dreams and to bring them to life. At over 70, Penny continues to inspire and be inspired by the endless opportunities for manifesting and living our dreams.
Embodied Gratitude: Mini Practices for Inner Peace (self-care)
This program will teach you simple techniques that just take a few minutes and can be done anytime, anywhere. Whenever you are feeling off, whether in a big way or a small way, you can use these mini-practices. And beyond the rapid dissolving of stress in your life - these practices build an embodied connection to the abundance of life. To possessing a deep knowing that you are connected - to yourself, to others, and to Spirit. Why Gratitude? Because being connected to and vibrating the energy of gratitude shifts our nervous system from being in a state of fight, flight, freeze or fawn into a state of being relaxed, present, and responsive. In this workshop you will learn mini practices that you can do throughout the day - every day - no set time or frequency - simply bring awareness and intention to practice them whenever you think of it. Especially if you notice that you are anxious, confused, worrying too much, doubting yourself, easily irritable, overly critical, or overwhelmed. These are small practices you can easily do many times a day. You will immediately feel a lessening of your stressed out state. And within a few months you will see the major impact they have on your well being - on being able to shift out of negative states and be calm, focused, and feeling positive.
Jess Mather
Presenter (Florida, USA)
Website: rehabited.com
Website: rebuildingbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jess.mather.75
IG: @liverehabited
Jess Mather, Cpt, Lpta, Sfg, FRCms, Fms, is an internationally-recognized strength and rehab professional who helps others be in their bodies with less limitation, pain, fear or insecurity. With 12 years of experience supporting thousands of individuals from 9 to over 99, she has repeatedly witnessed the body's incredible ability to adapt, strengthen and heal regardless of circumstance. Jess has spent the last 7 years in the digital space helping clients across over a dozen countries through private coaching, courses and group programs.
In addition, Jess is a board-accredited educational provider in multiple states to teach her work to other physical and occupational therapists on treating patients with complex chronic pain and those stuck with trauma, stress, and anxiety.
Exploring Your Unique Nervous System Through Polyvagal Mapping (self-regulation)
Our autonomic nervous system is as unique as our own fingerprint. The way that we regulate and feel safe isn't universal. Through an explorative practice called "polyvagal mapping", we'll create a visual "map" of our own nervous system. We'll be diving into the science behind your "3-part nervous system" to create a knowledgeable foundation for navigating your own fawn, fight, flight, and freeze responses so we can come back into safety and connection more easily.
Mike Thomas
“Human Greatness Through Regulation”
Presenter (Pennsylvania, USA)
Mike Thomas, the “Everyday Consciousness Coach,” has over 20 years of experience working with groups and individuals to optimize their wellness and quality of relationships through mindful movement and habit optimization. His trauma-informed approach maximizes results through working smarter, not harder. Utilizing breathing, alignment principles, and nervous system regulation techniques to deepen awareness reduce stress, and improve overall quality of life, Mike is the professional you seek out when you are ready to establish daily practices and that bring out the greatest version of you possible.
Tension/Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®️) (self-regulation)
TRE®️is a somatic therapeutic modality that utilizes the “neurogenic tremor mechanism” to shake off excess stored stress/tension/trauma energy from bodily tissues. Several gentle movements warm up the body, ground the feet, and establish a state of nervous system relaxation and safety. The release of oxytocin in the body during TRE approximates the experience of mother-infant bonding. It is soothing, energizing, and expands somatic awareness and capacity to feel. Unconscious, autonomic nervous system patterns are integrated and optimized through allowing the body to release what is no longer needed at an individual pace. This can be considered a “bottom-up” regulation experience, supporting the capacity to learn, grow, heal, and allow your body more choice and intentionality through releasing unconscious blocks to your greatest expression of self. TRE®️goes hand-in-hand with deep inner-child work to support integrating unresolved inner conflicts that get in the way of aligning conscious will and unconscious survival mechanisms of the primal level of self.
Video explanation of TRE: https://youtu.be/1PT1crBhhUE
Relational Regulation Skills (self-regulation)
Using the principles of “attachment as a regulation theory,” and the trauma-informed science of polyvagal theory, this class offers practical tools for self-regulation and co-regulation to improve individual and relational experiences. From learning how to read our own body language and shift our own state as needed for optimum receptivity and love, to reading the body language of and supporting our partners through feeling into their experience and support shifting their state, this class teaches the aikido of relationship. Through deepening awareness of our relational field, this class runs the gambit of tools for enriching the quality of your relationships with others as well as yourself. Using the tools of NVC (“Nonviolent Communication”), breathing, matching/mirroring body language, and integrating your nervous systems together, expect to leave this class with a deepened capacity to love, communicate, enrich your bond, connect with and understand one another.
Stress Management: From Dysregulation to Optimum Living (self-regulation / self-care)
Did you know that stress is not only a conscious phenomenon? Your autonomic nervous system scans your environment automatically and chooses a mode to function based on what it perceives. This makes everyday experiences appear to come from an unknown cause. Anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, loss of focus, low motivation or energy, poor digestion, tight and/or painful muscles, emotional ups and downs, defensive/aggressive behavior in relationships, and even autoimmune conditions…what do all these have in common? A dysregulated nervous system leaves the mind and body in a survival state that makes all these experiences more likely, and perhaps inevitable eventually. Why? Because our body remembers developmental associations from infancy that set our unconscious mind to perceive threat when there isn’t actually a threat. The result is a chronically stressed nervous system that becomes predisposes to a suboptimal life. You can learn to navigate and “map out” your nervous system experience, and you can change it for the better! Learn all the ways in which you can optimize your life through nervous system regulation with Mike Thomas, The “Everyday Consciousness Coach.”
Philippe Lewis
"Building trust, consent, and intimacy in relationships."
Presenter (California, USA)
Website: www.exquisitedark.love
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/exquisitedarklove/
News, Events, Classes: www.facebook.com/groups/exquisitedarklove/
Facebook Wall: www.facebook.com/fuzzyp
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/philippesimonlewis/
IG: @exquisite.dark.love
Philippe is a relationship educator and founder of Exquisite Dark Love, a platform for supporting men and women in making informed choices about relationships through the practice of connection, trust, consent, intimacy, and love. He is also co-founder of ReMENber Brotherhood Journey and a coordinator with the International School of Temple Arts. In addition, Philippe is a modern voice on critical thinking about morality and the integration of the Masculine, Feminine, Dark, Light, and Shadow. He has also founded the Open Relationship Community, Attachment Community, and Consent Community to support new conversations on these important topics. As a loving father to an 11-year-old son, Philippe is constantly inspired to deepen his understanding and practice of surrendering to love and living life to the fullest.
Beginner Regulation - Experiential Workshop (self-regulation)
A very gentle introduction to self-regulation and co-regulation. This class will teach you the basics of finding your own center and finding balance with what is available around you, whether it is the ground, nature, breath, or someone else.
Attachment Theory: A new way of looking a Relationships & Intimacy - Lecture (self-resourcing)
Ever been in relationship and noticed how you or your partner seemed to be following a sort of unspoken emotional “script” or “dance” leading you two down a path where triggers, difficulties, arguments, challenges, insecurities, and limitations seemed to get the best of you? If you’ve been on this planet for long enough, you may have noticed that these patterns are more or less repeated for you and your partner. You’ve seen yourself enter these relationships again and again and again, always knowing that something is up but never quite knowing WHY.
Enters Attachment Theory, the remarkable view of relationships that seems to pretty much explain EVERYTHING about how people can be secure or insecure in relationship and how regardless of your attachment style you will likely be in relationship with people who are either. Knowing about attachment theory and recognizing and knowing how to work with people with various attachment styles is one of the single most useful skills you can have in life.
Beginning the Journey to Secure Attachment - Lecture + Q&A (self-resourcing)
It was perhaps just a few weeks or months since you discovered attachment theory. You learned about the two main types of insecure strategies --avoidance and anxiety-- and the patterns of behavior that express these insecurities through a relationship to needs that perhaps seem to come from a deep and young part of yourself.
This class is about beginning the journey to a more mature relationship to needs. A journey to self-care and to interdependence. A journey to a secure attachment style.
In this original class, you will learn...
★ To locate yourself more clearly on the map of attachment styles.
★ To recognize your insecure patterns more readily, and to share them without shame with the people you engage with.
★ How to plan your journey to a secure attachment style.
★ Somatic, emotional, physical, social, spiritual, and primal practices to develop in order to grow your emotional balance.
★ To answer the question "What do a secure person do?" with clarity when in a difficult situation.
★ To identify who are the secure people in your life and who are your anchors
★ Practices for the individual and for couples to anchor/stabilize each other, and the downsides/reduction of control/freedom of being in intimate relationships
Skills, Qualities, and Superpowers of Secure Attachment - Lecture + Q&A (self-resourcing)
As you explore your journey to Secure, what skills, qualities, and superpowers are you discovering in yourselve and others that you feel express best your inner security? In what ways do you now have more space, resilience, clarity, and insight in your life as you engage with others? What are the superpowers that you are developing as you move from your own particular attachment style into an earned secure attachment? (hint: many of these superpowers were born from your time as an insecure attacher) In this class, we will discover and explore one set of secure attachment qualities, and share with each other the unique ones we have developed on our own journey.
BONUS OFFERING: Exquisite Connections: Practices to Develop Powerful Connection Skills for a Life of Abundance & Love
Learn practices to bring you into presence and connection with new Emotional, Somatic, Primal skills, and much more!
Steven Seva Roland
"Creating emotionally intelligent humans"
Presenter (Canada)
Steven Seva is a trauma-informed relationship, communication, and emotional intelligence expert. He has been supporting people to experience wellness in romance, sexuality, and spirituality for 15 years. Known for his passionate stage presence and highly compassionate demeanour, he brings a signature charm to the stage.
His style is eloquent, loving, graceful, compassionate, yet provocative. With expertise, Steven brings light to blocks, fears, habits, and self-sabatoging beliefs for us to look at, heal, and transcend.
Steven is the founder and CEO of Relationflix. An online video subscription service platform specializing in educational content on relationships, sexuality, communication skills, emotional intelligence, attachment theory, and conflict resolution.
His training includes courses with ISTA, working with mentors Triambika Ma Vive, Scott Catamas, and Emily Orum. He has taken 5 trainings with The Love Coach Academy on the subjects of compassionate communication, emotional intelligence, and shadow work. He has also taken trauma healing courses with NICABM.
Applying Emotional Intelligence To Attachment Theory (self-regulation)
Spinning out of control into attachment wounding or trauma responses is painful and difficult. Our mind panics, we start grasping at straws, and even tend to blame others for our pain. Emotional intelligence invites us to slow down and get to the bottom of what's true and real, free from distortion and projection. When we spiralling into a pain response, it's hard to make sense of reality. Our nervous system and brain is activated in "fix things now" mode, and will often go to unsupportive mechanisms like protest behaviour or deactivating strategies in order to do it. EQ provides us with a frame work to help us regulate our nervous system, create inner clarity and stability, as well as transcend our unhealthy attachment behaviour.
Trevor Getsla
Presenter (California, USA)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tgbodywork.com
Website: trevorgetsla.com
Website: midlinebodywork.com
Trevor Getsla has been developing the Somatic Experience of Attachment since 2017, and has a 20 year practice as a structural body worker and somatic counselor. Trevor’s background includes extensive training in martial arts, Rolfing,Tantra, Hakomi Somatic Therapy, and plant medicine.
Trevor’s practice specializes in sophisticated therapeutic bodywork for effective functional changes. He covers a wide spectrum of client goals: from rehabilitative care for any complex orthopedic condition or injury to optimizing exceptional performance for athletes and dynamic movement embodiment. A body-based approach to emotional well being unites everything together. The work is a grounded and systematic process of integration unifying mind, body and spirit for long lasting profound results.
His work is profoundly influenced by a life time of Aikido, Brazilian Juijitsu and other martial arts, Medical Qi Gong, strength training, dance/fire spinning, and other internal embodiment/energetic practices. Unique hands on and movement embodiment derived from these practices are incorporate to facilitate greater functional change and internal cognitive connection with the body.
Practicing since 2003, experience includes 2 years of bodywork school at De Anza College, 2 years of Medical Qi Gong training, 7 years of mentoring in Structural Integration and beyond, private practice, an internship at Stanford with their sports teams, 4 years of professional instructing, and 4 years of contracting with a sports physical therapy clinic.
Somatic Experience of Attachment: Attachment Styles (self-resourcing)
Attachment Styles "Anxious.... Avoidant... Secure" We all know the terms. The lists of traits. We know we "do it".. even when we aren't aware. For many there is a gap: between understanding attachment theory, and what happens in our lives in real time. Much like we have the impulse to speak, we have the innate impulse for connection. Much like the language we speak was based upon our environment growing up, so too is our non-verbal language of connection, One of the keys to helping forward our journey with attachment is understanding how it feels. as an embodied experience. The "Somatic Experience of Attachment" is an opportunity to have a lot of fun while deepening and explore these themes. In this workshop we will use somatic exercises to illustrate the key points of attachment theory: - The felt experience of attachment styles as a nervous system activating states - What secure "is", and how we can build resilience in holding it - The magnetic interplay of attachment styles We are born of, and hard wired for connection. It is our birthright. The journey of attachment is cradle to grave, much as our journey with relationship. As Esther Perel says: "The level of happiness we have in our lives is directly related to the quality of our relationships." Come join us for a positive and affirming model of love, attachment, and connection.
Dolphin Kasper
"Profound, Lasting Relationship Breakthroughs"
Presenter (Canada)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dolphin.kasper/
Email: dolphinkasper@gmail.com
Other links: https://linktr.ee/dolphinkasper
IG: @dolphinkasper
Dolphin Kasper is an author, communicator and human potentialist. He has been speaking and facilitating workshops relating to empowerment, high performance and human potential for over 20 years. From motivational talks, to professional coaching, to healing and inspiring the very heart of the human condition, he has learned the simplest and most profound ways we can fundamentally put our past to rest, come to a place of peace with the present and unleash the fullness of our future potential. His passion for creating spaces where people can play, discover and grow has become his life’s work. He loves the opportunities he has been given to expand his own understanding and awareness of the real possibilities of human life and is grateful that his work is now to give others the same chances he has been fortunate enough to have.
Relationship Breakthrough: Finally getting to the other side of stuck (self-resourcing)
What if you could create a profound change in absolutely any relationship in your life? Imagine if you could deeply and fully understand yourself and the people closest to you? Feeling struck, limited or even fed up with the relationships in our lives is an incredibly common occurrence in modern life. It does not, however, need to be this way.
In this workshop, you will be guided through a journey in which you will meaningfully discuss, practice and realize solutions to even the most challenging relationship challenges. Through engaging dialogue, highly experiential processes and your own innate wisdom, you will have the chance to reframe your relationships and integrate what has felt stuck and broken about relationships into the essence of secure relating.
Expect to leave with:
- A much clearer understanding of why things have been the way they are.
- More compassion for yourself and the people in your life for what has been less than loving and connected.
- New insights and tools to help you better navigate your inner and outer life. And...
- The confidence and clarity to step into your most challenging relationships with grace and love.
Decoding the Human Condition: Understanding the who what where and why of being you (self-resourcing)
What if you could create a profound change in absolutely any relationship in your life? Imagine if you could deeply and fully understand yourself and the people closest to you? In this talk and experiential learning opportunity we will reframe the human condition in a powerful and integrated way. creating a holistic understanding of the underlying dynamics and choices that influence our relationships and our lives. Too often we are taught to think of ourselves and others through the lens of identity. A someone who has thoughts and feelings and beliefs and a life. It distills the human condition down to a configuration of memories and ideas that will always fall short of the full meaning of what we are.
Imagine if you could reconnect with your own innocence and grounded sense of being and know who and what you are? What if you didn't have to get stuck or confused by even the most complicated circumstances?
This session will explore 4 primary domains of being human (a framing I don’t hear being talked about anywhere else) and discuss the 3 primary experiential bodies. Through this unique lens, experiences, memories and identity will take on a whole new meaning and what has been unclear or opaque will easily come into focus...
BONUS OFFERING: Relationship Breakthrough Assessment Survey
This is a unique survey Dolphin has been refining over the last few years. It includes the most potent questions he can come up with and it the kind of process that he uses with new clients to help them get the most out of their healing journey. In the survey, you’ll be guided through a series of precise and powerful questions that help you see your past and your current relationships with more clarity and perspective. Make important distinctions, create new commitments, and get the chance to walk through your results directly with Dolphin Kasper to help you build a plan of how you will get to the relationships you want.
BONUS OFFERING: Relationship Breakthrough Workbook
n this workbook you’ll be asked to walk through your history and your current relationships in a new way. It has been designed to help you let go of the questions that don’t really make a difference and to focus in the ones that do. Take the time to really think about your answers and you’ll eb rewarded with new levels of clarity and a new sense of empowerment about what it is going to take to create the relationships of your dreams.
Jaya Berged
"Playful self-exploration"
Presenter (Australia)
Links: www.linktr.ee/jayaberged
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaya.s.berged/
Email: playgroundbeyou@gmail.com
IG: @playgroundbeyou
Jaya Berged is a theatremaker and life coach based in Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about creativity and connection, and pursues all spaces where the two intersect. Attachment theory has been a game changer in her life, and she loves to use her creative practice and mentoring to help facilitate other people's journey towards secure attachment.
Attachment Monologues (self-resourcing)
A class on acting fundamentals and attachment theory basics, explored through a short story and two monologues. This class creates space for deep reflection and asking/answering questions within the safety net of fiction. Participants can choose their level of personal vulnerability and allow the stories of the characters to guide them into a journey of deeper empathy and well-rounded perspective of various attachment styles.
The Growth Cycle (self-resourcing)
An exploration of the cyclical/non linear process of growth through the stages of presence, play, practice, and progress. This structure applies to all kinds of growth, but we will use attachment theory as an example to demonstrate how the growth cycle might look in the process of developing relationship health. Participants will come away with deepened self-awareness, and practical ideas for what the next steps in their own growth journeys might look like.
Naiya
"Liberation through embodied expression"
Presenter (Colorado, USA)
Website: thegroundedfeminine.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarah.dantoni.5
Email: thegroundedfeminine@gmail.com
Naiya comes from a background rooted in curiosity. Through her travels and residency around the world, she began to ask the question, “What does in mean to be human?” As a cultural psychologist, she is fascinated by the power held in circles and the role emotions, such as shame, play in repressing life force energy. Over the years, through guiding others in cacao and plant medicine ceremonies, ecstatic dance, women’s circles, breathwork, yin yoga, and Hakomi, she aims to create space to empower others to express their inner voices through breath, sound, and movement, witnessed and supported in a judgment-free space. She believes intention, space, and loving presence are the keys to a meaningful connection with ourselves and others.
Rhythm meets contact (self-regulation / self-resourcing)
Come explore connection through contact as we ride the waves and stretch to touch the limits of contacting all parts of ourselves. What conditions challenge you to stay in contact with yourself? What dances would you rather do without the gaze of others? When and where do you hide? What happens when you loose contact? We will explore this, and more, in a journey through sight, sound, and movement.
Attachment Theater (self-care)
Have you met your inner avoidant? How about your inner anxious? Your inner disorganized? Your inner secure? In this 90 minute class, you will get to meet each of the attachment styles and get to know how they express through you. In this practice of embodying our inner parts and allowing our shadows space to shamelessly be heard and expressed, we will collectively transmute our attachment shame with compassion, humor, and movement. "
BONUS OFFERING: 11 Practices to Integrate Altered States
Take time to work to bring your insights from altered states (breathwork, inner child healing, psychedelics, etc.) into your everyday life, and release staying stuck in toxic patterns.
Cyrena Giordano
Presenter (California, USA)
Email: consentaslove@gmail.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/consentaslove
Website: https://cymariegiordano.wixsite.com/consentcoaching
FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1931239683783717
FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/consentaslove
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqSCwoU-jR-nvWN623rE5w
IG: @consentaslove
Cyrena Giordano teaches and inspires her students and clients (and just people around her) to embody consent culture and to practice tools and structures to cultivate healthy, nourishing relationships.
Author of Clarity Conversations for Empowered Relationships workbook, alongside teaching numerous workshops, online courses, coaching, enacting interviews, videos and blogs around consent culture and healthy relating, Cyrena continues to ignite hundreds of people into more empowered connections.
After learning the benefits of consent culture on individual relationships and within communities in college, and through her study and major of interactive theater for social change, she created an interactive theater show and was hired to train the 20 co-op housing communities affiliated with her school, UC Berkeley around cultivating consent culture.
Since that time, she’s been highly passionate about the benefits of consent culture and healthy relating, regularly inspiring those around her into deeper choice with themselves and others, which eventually manifested in her solidifying her brand consentaslove at age 26.
Through this brand (among hosting many other workshops throughout the years) she has consolidated all of her content into a regular online course called Empowered Relationships and has expanded into a coaching practice involving healthy relating, mediation, and repair.
Cyrena believes that it's truly through empowered education and awareness of healthy relationships practices that humans can and do obtain and sustain healthy and nourishing connectionAm I Consenting? Trauma-informed relating from a consent perspective (self-resourcing)
The interplay and connection between consent, trauma, and attachment theory & how understanding them helps support our relationships
This is a workshop that informs humans the overlap and inter-relationablity of trauma- informed care and consent culture. I’ll be covering concepts around basic trauma, how it works, how to actually relate being trauma-informed, poly-vagal theory, basic consent culture and consensual relating, my Consent and the 4 C’s, and how and why that enhances all of our relationships. We will also lightly brush how the drama triangle, attachment theory, and the concept of “domain” relate to trauma-informed relating. Come attend to learn more and have this empowered knowledge enhance your connection to and ability to care for self and other immediately!
Healthy Relationship Essentials: 3 Relationship Breakthroughs to Ignite Your Empowered Love Life (self-resourcing)
This is a workshop that covers the three pillars of healthy relationships! I’ll take you through a journey of my personal story and how and why these three breakthroughs enhance all your relationships while also adding a healthy dose of consent culture in the process! Come and attend to find out these relationship essentials so you can have this empowered knowledge for the rest of your life and attract and sustain the relationships that you deserve and that truly nourish you!
MariaSole
Presenter (Ibiza / Italy)
I wondered from an early age what the meaning of life was and what my true vocation was, all united by a massive dose of shyness, a sense of inadequacy and a great desire to learn to express myself in my authenticity and truth.
This led me to a path of self-discovery through different forms of art and healing practices, starting from painting and sculpture at the Art School I then attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts and the National Dance Academy in Rome, then exploring different forms of dance, yoga and meditation until I came into contact with 5Rhythms Dance, of which today I am a certified teacher.
I graduated in Psychology and I dedicated myself to the study of Tantra and to understanding the role of sexual energy in our lives.
Today I love to integrate the practice of 5Rhythms dance with the free expression of the natural flow of life energy (Eros), remembering that this is a sacred tool for the individual to express their deepest and most authentic essence, and to connect more to the qualities of play, pleasure and joie de vivre.
5 Rhythms Dance (self-care)
5Rhythms is a guided, dynamic movement meditation practice. It teaches us that life is energy in motion. It reveals ways to creatively express aggressiveness and vulnerability, emotions and anxieties, edges and ecstasies.In dancing 5Rhythms the body becomes our spiritual path. The 5Rhythms – Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness® – are states of Being. They are markers on the way back to a real, vulnerable, wild, passionate, instinctive self. 5Rhythms are rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it heals itself. With this practice we transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. WATCH THE VIDEO!
Dylan Smeder
"Create meaningful change by healing your inner child"
Dylan Smeder is a relationship coach specializing in attachment theory. With three years of experience, he has developed a unique approach to coaching that combines inner child work with practical tools to help individuals improve their relationships.
His method involves helping people understand and deepen their relationship with their inner child, while also nurturing that relationship to allow the inner child to heal. By empowering them to address their trauma and respond from a place of grounding and knowledge, old patterns can dissolve and a sense of security emerges. With Dylan's guidance, individuals can learn how to create healthier and more fulfilling relationships in their lives, ultimately leading to a sense of wholeness and happiness.
Connecting to your inner child - Part 1 & 2 (self-resourcing / self-care)
This four-part process that can be used to act out of your center and less out of coping mechanisms. I this class the focus will be anxious, avoidant, or anxious-avoidant patterns.
1. Finding the inner child.
2. Recognize and name coping mechanisms
3. Teach you non-intuitive validation.
4. Help you understand how to use this process to act out of your core and less out of anxious and or avoidant patterns.
On day one we are going to go over the process and practice it live. I’m going to ask for volunteers to share their experiences so that we can look at the practice aloud.
Homework for day one will be to think about the practices and examples that other people shared and journal so that on day two you have an example.
On day two: As part of the practice I will respond to people’s inner child as an example. We will use that example to help you understand the steps and give as many people time to practice as there is time.
Important: This is a workshop series (2 workshops), day 1 is a prerequisite for day 2
Shayna Cass
"Cultivating internal safety, authentic expression, and secure connections"
Presenter (Pennsylvania, USA)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shayna.cass/
Email: shayna@returntolove.shcass.com
Website: returntolove.shcass.com
Shayna Cass is an artist, designer, educator, and somatic healer focusing on the intersection between relational trauma and neurodivergence. She's passionate about helping people to connect deeply to themselves so that they can connect deeply with others. Shayna uses a multidisciplinary approach rooted in Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy and expressive arts to help her clients step outside of the neurotypical box they've been trying to fit into their entire lives, embrace their highly sensitive nervous systems, and start living a life that aligns with their authentic nature.
Authentic Relating Through Playback Theater (self-care)
In this 2-hour workshop you will be introduced to the 5 practices of Authentic Relating:
1. Welcome everything
2. Assume nothing
3. Reveal your experience
4. Own your experience
5. Honor Self and other
Through experiential exercises using playback theater, you'll learn how to apply these practices to your everyday life, transforming your relationships.Deconstructing the Mosaic of You: Using Somatic IFS & Expressive Arts to Befriend and Integrate Your Internal Landscape (self-care)
In this class you will learn the basics of parts work using the IFS model and learn how to map out your parts using diagrams and expressive arts.
BONUS OFFERING: Compromise vs. Codependence Workbook
This mini workbook will help you to determine if you're engaging in compromise or if you're in unhealthy codependenc and abandoning self.
Arjuna Ardagh
Presenter (California, USA)
Arjuna has been working with people since 1981. He is the author of 15 books, including the #1 national bestseller "The Translucent Revolution," and his most recent book, "Radical Brilliance." Together with his ex-wife Chameli, they taught The Deeper Love retreats and trainings in 20 countries for 12 years, an approach to intimate relationship which transforms it into a spiritual practice to evoke a love beyond the personal. Arjuna founded Awakening Coaching in 1995, and trained more than 2000 coaches over 20 years in how to initiate and support living in awake presence.
Ultimate Intimacy* (self-care)
In this workshop we will drop together through all the different layers of a "me" and a "you" to the dimension waiting for us one flight down from business as usual, where there is only love. Time and separation disappears, and the deepest longing of the heart is fulfilled, with nothing left to be desired. Of course, to avoid the trap of "Spiritual Bypassing," we need to attend to all the dimensions of our experience: body, desire, emotion, trauma as well as external practical life. But having access to this space, both alone and with a partner, becomes a resource in which all the changing dramas of life can rest and dance class.
*Please be prepared to arrive on time and stay the entire duration of the workshop.
Identity Yoga* (self-resourcing)
We do hatha yoga asanas to stretch the muscles and joints, to open up rigid or stuck postures that limit our self expression. In this workshop we will use movement, play and theater and a lot of humor to do the same with the rigid postures of who we have taken ourselves to be. We will arrive together at a place where what was solid as identity has become liquid again, and where you can see the other as an unfathomable mystery to be explored
*Please be prepared to arrive on time and stay the entire duration of the workshop.
Identity Yoga* (self-resourcing)
We do hatha yoga asanas to stretch the muscles and joints, to open up rigid or stuck postures that limit our self expression. In this workshop we will use movement, play and theater and a lot of humor to do the same with the rigid postures of who we have taken ourselves to be. We will arrive together at a place where what was solid as identity has become liquid again, and where you can see the other as an unfathomable mystery to be explored
Catherine Wilkerson
"From Chaos to Calm"
Presenter (California, USA)
Catherine is a veritable heroine of life and livelihood, student of art and culture, teacher of love and compassion, champion of words, leader of personhood, conduit of expression, and at her worst -- a woman of great devotion. She embodies the very notion of loyalty, yet she is its second-hand martyr -- misfortuned in the tired wakes of false hopes and fallen idols. Her strength is reproductive, and radiates into those around her. She naturally empowers individuals, has saved lives, has saved her own life, has mothered the misfortuned, cared after the unfortunate, and has become an extraordinarily insightful, and refined young lady who pursues beauty and care in all that she does.
Finding Peace: The Journey of an Insecure Attacher (self-resourcing)
Gather around Catherine for stotytelling, Q&A, and fireside chat about her life as an insecure attacher. Together with all of you she will share the trials and tribulations, the nuances, the unique challenges, and the stages of growth she moved through as she traversed the various attachment styles, and how she eventually found peace and routine in her life on her Journey to Secure.
