Kristin Masters will take us diving into the Resonant Language of metaphors for joy and play. She’ll invite us to light up our relational brain through discovery of body sensations, a mini constellation, and evocative imagery. Come knowing you’ll have plenty of choice in how you participate. We’ll catch our lived experiences and expand upon them, strengthening our access to joy and play when they are out of reach. You may just walk away with a few metaphors tucked up your sleeve, the kind that help you find contact with qualities of emergence and delight, openness and surprise. Curious?

“Don’t you dare speak to me this way!”, “it’s inappropriate!”, “it’s disrespectful!”, “it’s just not how a young person/employee/person should speak (to me)!” … What have we heard growing up that shut down the natural expression of our rage? How was our rage accompanied – or repressed and exiled? How was rage expression modeled? How was its impact and purpose made explicit or not? What unconscious contracts did we create to keep ourselves – or others – safe from expressing our rage? Come spend some time in community exploring how supporting our rage circuit and intensity of expression can be keys to greater connection and safer relational environments for more emergence.

Welcome to a heartwarming journey into the art of gratitude. This 85 min workshop uses NVC needs-consciousness, body sensation and metaphor, to help us savor the pleasant aspects of our lives and focus on our happy experiences. Utilizing a somatic-based self-empathy exercise that simplifies the process of centering joy, and regularly practicing gratitude, not only rewires the brain’s pathways towards happiness, reducing anxiety and depressive thoughts, but also boosts the release of oxytocin in our bodies, enhancing our overall well-being and nurturing our capacity to connect deeply with ourselves and others. Let’s embark on this journey together, shedding old patterns to reveal the radiant beauty of the present moment.

In this workshop Elena will speak about what happiness means in everyday language, and how field therapy can support happiness. Very frequently, we connect happiness through our accomplishments: rewarding work and salary, a nice house, good relationships, health, the respect and love of our closest people. But many of us know that even if we have these things we can be very unhappy. So what do we actually need? Field therapy looks at happiness in the context of the movement of energy between people and within a person. The more well-ordered our relationships with our family, society and colleagues are, the happier we are. Elena will offer exercises for all participants, and if there is time, she will do a constellation in support of happiness.

What is the state of our World? How can we explain increasing economic instability, political radicalization, and a sense of insecurity? Is it that simple? In this experiential session, you will be invited to explore your complex truths about the state of the World in a safe space, being accompanied with Resonance. You may discover what needs grieving first in order to unblock energy, increase or regain your power to act and create a multi-color world that is fun and playful.

This workshop will provide an opportunity to appreciate the systemic rivers of play that run through our family system. Through a remembrance of our ancestral connection to the land, dance, music, games and play we will utilize systems constellation to explore the knowing that exists in our lineage and DNA in regard to lightness and enlivened interchange with ourselves and those that we love and encounter in life. Looking to the natural world we will examine how innate and essential play is for all living beings. Monkey business is serious business and helps us to feel whole.

Resonance supports us to be more ourselves: more expressive of our truths, more feeling of our feelings, more us. It takes us on a journey from pain, fear and heartbreak and sometimes scathing self-hatred toward delighting in who we are and feeling safe(r) in the world and our connections.
Experiencing and integrating resonance makes all emotional experiences more reachable and feelable; we begin to comprehend the depth and breadth of our grief, anger and shock in new ways, and begin to stretch into new access to awe, spontaneity and joy.
Join Jaya to explore how resonance for joy, delight and celebration can support integration and wholeness and enjoy newfound understanding of what really matters to you. Come experience how being with ourselves in all of our experiences from failures to triumphs is a part of the journey toward healing and nurturing our full selves.
Play and joy are our natural ways of being and are our birthright. Come (re)claim yours.

What if we began to view conflict as an opportunity to strengthen connections with coworkers?

In this 85-minute webinar, you’ll learn tools to work with resonance, address conflict and build a bridge toward connection.

You’ll learn:

• The power of tactical empathy
• How to move from an evaluative state to an unmet need
• A series to questions to unlock the root of the conflict.

Engage your curiosity as we play with movement, sound, scribing/scribbling, poetry, and an emergent constellation. We’ll gather together to welcome ourselves and each other, to tenderly tune in to inner sensations, to offer ourselves spaciousness for authentic expression. Experiment! We’ll pay attention to our responses, self-reflecting on our next Yes step: Do I want to laugh, hum, dance, draw, sing, swear, or maybe, simply sit still? We’ll close with a mini-constellation designed to shine light on creating our own unique take-home, self-care practice/potion.

Please bring journal and pencil/crayons, 4 small objects (stone, bean, penny, leaf, almond, etc.), and a rattle of any sort (vitamin/supplement containers work well).

This experiential session invites tending to immobilization and its aftermath with embodiment, expression, and empathy. Immobilization is a natural response to overwhelming or hopeless situations. The path out of immobilization frequently includes big feelings – alarmed aloneness, rage, shame, or otherwise. It can be a lot to navigate.

Resonant movement, rooted in warm curiosity, relational neuroscience principles, and sensory and body-based practices, offers a path to navigate immobilization and its aftermath. Through embodied expression and gentle accompaniment, participants can find self-connection, integration, and healing.

Movement is optional; stillness is welcome, as is being off camera.

Babies are better communicators than most adults. They do not lie about their likes or dislikes, and they are adamant and direct about their needs. This workshop will use the play of baby-like babbling paired with family constellation work to bring you into a more honest and authentic connection with your underlying desires, intentions, and needs. You can expect to leave this workshop feeling more joyfully connected to yourself, and thus more open-heartedly equipped to connect with resonance and care with others.

Join Tamara Laporte as she demonstrates how to create Empathy Affirmation Cards in expressive mixed media. This session is a playful exploration of how colors, textures, and personal affirmations can weave together to create powerful reminders of empathy and understanding. Guided by the belief that art is a bridge to connecting with our deepest selves and others, this workshop invites you to create a series of empathy affirmation cards that resonate with your heart’s language.

In “A Wrinkle in Time,” the central characters pass through folds in the fabric of space-time into realms unreachable by ordinary means. In a parallel way, constellations allow us to work in between time and space, through representation and body-resonance. This enables us to engage the past, present, and future, as well as both the living and the dead, to help strengthen the flow of love and life.

This offering consists of short presentations and two mini-constellations in break-out groups: one to help support the flow of life from the past and the other from the future. We will include research findings that support the power of this approach.

In “A Wrinkle in Time,” the central characters pass through folds in the fabric of space-time into realms unreachable by ordinary means. In a parallel way, constellations allow us to work in between time and space, through representation and body-resonance. This enables us to engage the past, present, and future, as well as both the living and the dead, to help strengthen the flow of love and life.

This offering consists of short presentations and two mini-constellations in break-out groups: one to help support the flow of life from the past and the other from the future. We will include research findings that support the power of this approach.

This session promises to illuminate our tendency to resort to self-blame instead of embracing play and joy. While self-blame may serve as a protective mechanism, it often hinders our ability to foster self-compassion and genuine connections with ourselves and others. Through the innovative approach of constellation work, participants will delve into subconscious patterns and contracts, unraveling obstacles to their self-compassion journey and inhibitions to accessing play. Featuring a blend of lectures, journaling, and a large group constellation, this session offers a transformative exploration into cultivating kindness and understanding within ourselves and our relationships. Participants have full choice to participate as a representative or as a witness.

This workshop is about exploring the impact of the energy and intentions we embody when listening to another person. How our non-verbal resonance can stem from the intentions we hold and the quality of presence we consciously choose to be in. The goal of this workshop is support people in exploring ways to embody resonance in way that that feels more natural and sincere.

You are warmly invited to join a sacred gathering where we delve into the profound connection between storytelling, neuroscience, and spiritual awakening.

Pavla will guide us through an enlightening exploration of how stories have the remarkable ability to heal our minds and open us to a deeper sense of unity consciousness.

In this transformative session, Pavla will first illuminate the neuroscience behind the healing power of storytelling, offering insights into why stories are essential for our brain’s well-being.

Then, we will embark on a soul-nourishing journey through the ancient tale of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Through this timeless narrative, we will uncover metaphors for the awakening of our consciousness and the journey towards inner union and self-discovery.

It’s important to note that while terms like divine feminine, divine masculine, and references to gods and goddesses may be used, our exploration transcends gender, focusing instead on the universal energies present in the cosmos.

Please bring a notebook and pen as we engage in journaling meditations, gentle yoga stretches, and sound-supported practices to deepen our experience and connect with the wisdom of the stories shared.

Join us in this sacred space to rest, receive, and awaken to the unity consciousness within.

This interactive session will explore types of Resonant Language using breakout sessions to practice, practice, practice.

This workshop will take participants on a journey of self discovery through the lens of playfulness and sacred clowning. This session will review a unique process, The Curious Sunshine Method, to experience how curiosity, mindfulness and imagination can help us tap into a playful state of mind. Play is sacred because it brings us to a lighter, more high vibrational, mindset. Being playful is also a liberated state of being because we are authentically joyful. This workshop will also tap into the sacred clown, an ancient practice of finding playfulness, even in our shadows. “Exploring the Sacredness of Play” workshop will be a blend of meditations, discussions and presentation.

You feel burned out from having too many counselling clients, fed up with the bureaucracy you’re part of, or discouraged about actually making a living through your own business. You might feel intimidated thinking of the monumental leap it would take to truly be happy in your work life. Whether or not you want or need to make big changes, resonance offers immediate opportunities to find more flow right now. Join me for fun, playful resonant practices (mainly using nonverbal resonance) to bring more joy and effectiveness to your work life, however imperfect it seems today.

Humor is healing and brings people together like a social glue. In this workshop we will explore humor as one of the life affirming qualities of play. There will be a short presentation on the benefits of recentering play for adult well being with respect to stress, and some of the neuroscience behind humor’s importance in bonding and belonging. There will be some breakouts including a constellation to explore your relationship to your sense of humor. We will finish with a love letter to your sense of humor.

Sometimes our past trauma makes doing some big things — like taking care of ourselves, asking for help, and having FUN — really, really hard.

As a mama with trauma — 9/10 adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) — a solutions journalist, and a decades-long advocate for and student of parenting, re-parenting, brain science, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, preconception, maternal and infant, and early relational health, I’ve learned and lived a lot. There are touches and dollops of 12-Step, A Course in Miracles, spirituality, neuroplasticity, the science of Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs), and our national need for “Neuro-Nurturing (R)” and “Flourish Envy” in this talk. Also included? My nerdy-best takeaways from years of reporting on PACEs science and helping to build scores of cross-sector communities using PACEs science to prevent and heal trauma, and build resilience. Further? You can ask me almost anything about these topics — personally or academically — and I’ll do my best to answer your questions or find the answer.

When we have very uncomfortable feelings, the door to imagination gets closed, we feel stuck inside the feeling without any access to our flow and creativity. Essentially, we lose access to the play circuit. Yet, our imagination is what we need to bring us back to our wholeness. In this workshop we will share story-based exercises that stimulate the muscle of imagination. You will experience the delight of the Inside Story process, a practice that invites creativity and play back into the smallest, darkest rooms.

When we have very uncomfortable feelings, the door to imagination gets closed, we feel stuck inside the feeling without any access to our flow and creativity. Essentially, we lose access to the play circuit. Yet, our imagination is what we need to bring us back to our wholeness. In this workshop we will share story-based exercises that stimulate the muscle of imagination. You will experience the delight of the Inside Story process, a practice that invites creativity and play back into the smallest, darkest rooms.