Group Coaching
Healers’ Healing Groups
Limit four (4) in this group designed expressly for healing weary healers. Four (4) weekly sessions held in a spacious, half-glass porch, comfortably heated and cooled through each season, situated in a residential rear garden close to Child’s Park.
Participants will come to each session knowing that there will be no work required of them – just a softening and deepening of the body-mind-spirit more and more fully each session. We will explore different methods of deepening relaxation through guided progressive relaxation, restorative yoga poses with soft music as background, self-hypnosis, and intentional periods of silence to delve deeply within one’s heart where profound healing occurs.
Adult Life Stages Groups
Small groups will be formed for specific adult life stages; that is, the groups will be organized based on age and stage of adult development so that the members have a great deal in common, which aids in creative life planning. We will use pertinent written materials, art, and music to enhance the group experiences and aid in creative thinking/feeling/processing. The group will meet weekly for four (4) weeks for 1.5 hours each session. The group will be limited to four (4) and the members will commit to the entire number of sessions for most effective group continuity.
The groups will be formed along the lines of Erikson’s adult stages of development, but renamed by me as:
- Youngish Adults – focusing on the struggle for intimacy and meaningful work and play; balancing one’s life to achieve the maximum satisfaction and joy.
- Mid-Stream Adults – also focusing on the pursuit and refinement of intimacy and meaningful work/play, but adding in issues of transition, loss, and empty nest adjustment.
- Aging with Grace and Sass – for those individuals who are interested in designing their Third Act (Jane Fonda’s term – Fonda discusses a new way to approach the last three decades of life, what she calls ‘the third act.’ She has created podcasts on the subject and two books My Life So Far and Prime Time: Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit; Making the Most of All of Your Life). Fonda characterizes this final stage with the following metaphor for aging – a staircase with the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness, and authenticity. We will use her books and others in the exploration of group members’ exploration and design of their Third Act. We will also use the group members’ writings, art, performances to expand learning in a collaborative manner.