Therapy and spirituality overlap in presence, along with art, flow states, relationships…

A central theme to personal growth/healing work and transpersonal spiritual paths is Being Present.

 

How present are we with life?

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Modern Western culture is marked by distraction, dissociation, and disconnection—we spend a significant amount of energy resisting and avoiding much of our lives and the life around us.
 

In this group, we will come together to re-associate, reconnect, and access the healing and growth potential of being present to our immediate, embodied human experiences.
 

Part healing-therapy-process group, part deepening-spiritual-support group, we will gather to meet and hold each of our unique journeys, challenges, and gifts in the generative force of compassionate awareness. With an emphasis on coming into our bodies, we will utilize therapeutic techniques and contemplative practices to help address specific issues relevant to the group, which may include:

• recognizing how trauma and conditioning constricts our present experiences, and begin opening to new ways of being,

• playing with autonomy and connection in real-time relationships,

• feeling safely into intense emotions,

• exploring negative beliefs and inner critics to loosen their influence,

• awakening greater mental, emotional, and somatic awareness and richness,

• developing tools and practices for slowing down, centering, listening, and expressing,

• connecting with the more-than-human realms for support and a stronger sense of belonging,

• cultivating deeper capacity and comfort being authentically you in community.
   

Meetings will include guided meditations that work on different aspects of ourselves, experiential exercises to explore different qualities and capacities of being an individual and being in community, time for sharing and discussing what's alive for every group member, and working directly with what's most personally relevant as a group.

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Not strictly tied to one single spiritual tradition, the group container will respect the varied ways we connect to the transpersonal, spiritual, and animistic dimensions of reality, humbly honoring our place as humans in a vastly more-than-human world.

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The primary purpose of this group Being Present is to support each individual to meet the beauty and pain of your life's evolution as it’s happening right now, allowing a naturally healing, clarifying, and empowering process of living presence to unfold in you, in this group, and beyond.​​​