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SUMMARY:Quit Sugar Summit
DESCRIPTION:I’m a guest on the 11th annual Quit Sugar Summit where I talk about the importance of nervous system regulation\, compassion\, and mindfulness in healing patterns of self soothing with sugar. \nThis free summit includes dozens of speakers in nutrition\, medicine\, psychology\, addiction\, and lifestyle change to support you in eating less sugar. The summit begins on January 8th and runs through January 15th. \nYou can learn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/quit-sugar-summit/
CATEGORIES:Free webinar
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SUMMARY:Align: Heal the Battle with Your Inner Rebel
DESCRIPTION:If you reactively push against help or get stuck in feelings of resistance – “No\, you can’t make me!” – when you try to make positive changes with food\, it can be so frustrating. \nIn Align: Heal the Battle with Your Inner Rebel\, you’ll learn how to soften the inner conflict between the part of you that wants to change and the part of you that pushes back. Defusing this conflict will help you follow through on the changes you want to make with food\, set limits\, and express a greater sense of power and agency in your life. \nYou can learn more and sign up for the class here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/align-2024/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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SUMMARY:Facing What Doesn't Work: How To Let Go of Food
DESCRIPTION:Here at Growing Humankindness we talk a lot about why we can become bonded to food\, sugar and other food habits that cause us harm. This understanding is super helpful! For most people\, the next question is how: how do I let go? \nIn this free webinar we’ll be talking about the unwinding process from food. In particular\, we’ll talk about facing what doesn’t work – the necessary step that softens the heart\, softens our addictive habits\, and helps us let go. This hour webinar will offer learning\, time for questions\, as well as a brief introduction to the upcoming Emerge: Create a New Habit class\, so you can see if it’s the right fit for you. The Emerge group class begins on Monday\, April 15th. \nYou can sign up for the webinar here. \nHow to access the recording: \nFriends\, this webinar has now passed. The recording can be found in the free welcome room of our Mighty Network. You can join the welcome room here (it’s free but you’ll need to create a username and password.) Once you’re logged in the recording of the webinar can be found here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/facing-what-doesnt-work/
CATEGORIES:Free webinar
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SUMMARY:Emerge: Create a New Habit
DESCRIPTION:This class is for you if you overuse sugar for stress relief\, to care for your emotions\, or to self regulate and want help to transition into a no or low sugar diet. You’ll receive daily emotional support and learn how to apply self compassion to the process of habit change\, so you can create more nourishing self talk and build resilience\, that internal sense of\, “I trust myself to move through this.” Weekly webinars and a forum give you a chance to ask questions and daily audios help you feel held each day. \nEmerge is our most popular class and has been taken by thousands of students around the world. Early registration is now open. You can learn more and register here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/emerge-2024/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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SUMMARY:Expert Diabetes Reversal Summit
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, June 4th I’ll be one of the eight speakers featured on the Diabetes Reversal Summit. If you want support to manage your blood sugar\, reverse diabetes\, or to lower your sugar intake\, this summit may be for you. The summit is hosted by Lucia Tiffany\, a nurse\, health coach and educator who’s helped people reverse metabolic syndrome\, pre-diabetes\, and diabetes for the past 50 years. \nFor my part of the summit\, I’ll be talking about  how to emotionally let go of painful food habits – how the brain prunes out what doesn’t work. This process is what helps us stop overeating\, binge eating\, or overdoing sugar. \nYou can learn more and sign up for the summit here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/diabetes-reversal-summit/
CATEGORIES:Live event
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SUMMARY:When Food is Your Mother: Healing the Shame of Food Distress
DESCRIPTION:In this signature workshop\, you’ll learn why and how food can become a substitute attachment – a place of soothing\, regulation\, connection\, and attunement – and not just a ‘bad habit’ of overeating. From this perspective\, food addictions are emotional bonds that serve core needs and regulate the nervous system. \nAnd with this insight\, we can approach overeating with more empathy\, understanding and clarity\, leading to less shame\, less stigma\, and a greater possibility for change. \nThis event is being hosted by PCPSI\, Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy Seminars Ireland. \nThis workshop is suitable for all levels and is especially pertinent for helping professionals – therapists\, counselors\, social workers\, and coaches – as well as medical professionals who want to better understand the emotional dynamics that lie underneath a distressed relationship with food. \nYou can learn more and sign up for this event here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/when-food-is-your-mother-pcpsi/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241231T170000
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SUMMARY:Growing Humankindness community - July through December 2024
DESCRIPTION:The community is an online support group for Growing Humankindness alumni who want to deepen presence\, mindfulness and self compassion in their relationship with food and with themselves. \nEach month we have a Healing Focus that explores a particular area to nurture healing in our relationship with food. \n\nJuly – Bringing rest and play to the healing journey\nAugust – Inner listening\nSeptember – Connecting with the body’s grace\nOctober – Softening pursuit\nNovember – Self forgiveness\nDecember – Birthing your healing story\n\nThen we meet twice a month for zoom webinars where you can ask questions\, share your experience\, and connect with others. One of the monthly webinars is a ‘Soul Circle’ where we explore the month’s theme in an explorative way – through collage\, journaling\, inner exploration\, or writing. \nWe meet from 3 to 4:30 pm central time on one Thursday and one Saturday a month:​​​​​​ \n\nThursday\, July 11th and Saturday\, July 27th\nThursday\, August 15th and Saturday\, August 31st\nThursday\, September 12th and Saturday\, September 28th\nThursday\, October 10th and Saturday\, October 26th\nThursday\, November 7th and Saturday\, November 23rd\nThursday\, December 5th and Saturday\, December 14th\n\nThe community also includes an online forum\, the option to have a listening partner\, and unlimited online access to our library of courses. \nThe community is a 6 month commitment and is a closed small group with a limited number of spots – you sign up for six months at a time. Tuition is $125 USD per month for six months. \nLearn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/growing-humankindness-community-july-through-december-2024/
CATEGORIES:Community is open for new members
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SUMMARY:Home study support call
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, this is a chance for you to get support as you work your way through our home study offerings. Where are you getting stuck? Where do you need help? Is there a victory or challenge you want to share? Bring your questions\, challenges\, and insights to these group calls. We’re here to help! The webinar will be recorded if you can’t make it\, and you’ll have a chance to ask questions beforehand if you can’t attend live. \nThis webinar is for any student who’s bought one of our home study offerings. You can learn more or sign up for a home study course here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/home-study-support-call/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T143000
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SUMMARY:Book of Love - 2024 class
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, this is my favorite class to facilitate\, and one that’s perfect for you if you’re needing rest from the ‘work’ of healing. \nThe Book of Love is a playful\, art based class to reconnect to your wholeness:  to birth the deeper story that lives underneath our experiences of loss\, disconnection\, rupture and trauma. \nIn this class you’ll be crafting a journal – using a blank book that you fill with images\, stories\, symbols and more – to create a book of connection\, a chronicle and witness to your soul’s story. Through this creation and through sharing a space with others\, you’ll reconnect with your deepest self\, soften shame\, and embolden courage. \nClass begins on Thursday\, August 15th. Webinars are on Thursdays from 1 to 2:30 pm. You can learn more and sign up here. \n 
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/book-of-love-2024/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T100000
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SUMMARY:Writing the Body: A poetry Thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Karly Randolph Pitman
DESCRIPTION:We can have so many complex feelings about our bodies – love\, joy\, fear\, appreciation\, disgust\, grief\, resignation. Our relationships with our bodies are rich and multi-faceted! There are the things we treasure – what our bodies experience\, hold\, and do. There are the ways our bodies just are – this temporary house for the soul. And there are our bodies themselves – their frailty\, strength\, and the ways they hold and shape our lives. \nJoin us for a one day\, online writing retreat where we’ll use meditation\, mindfulness\, and poetry to learn\, share and write our way into a more generous\, deeper connection with our bodies. What might our bodies have to share with us? How might they want to meet us? How might we want to meet them? Together\, we’ll explore this rich mystery. \nWe’ll be meeting on zoom on Tuesday\, September 24th from 8 am-3 pm PST/9 am-4 pm MST/10 am-5 pm CST/11 am-6 pm EST time. We offer three payment options: $125\, $150 or $175 USD. The retreat is limited to 20 participants. If the retreat is full\, kindly contact us to join the waiting list. \nLearn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/writing-the-body/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T153000
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SUMMARY:Soften a Sugar Habit with Presence\, Compassion and Grief
DESCRIPTION:If you use sugar to self soothe\, to care for painful emotions\, or to comfort yourself when you’re stressed\, the holidays may be an especially difficult time for you. In this four part class\, you’ll learn how to use presence\, self compassion and grief to unhook from painful patterns with sugar. \nPresence and compassion create the safety for change\, healing and growth to occur\, with sugar and beyond. And yet you may wonder – how do I cultivate these things? And how can they help me eat less sugar? In this course you’ll learn the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ so you can start to build the inner refuge that replaces the ‘holding’ of sugar. \nWebinars will be on Tuesdays from 2 to 3:30 pm CDT and will be recorded if you can’t attend live. The last webinar is a bonus class on yang self compassion and how to set protective\, loving limits with sugar without activating the stress system. \nThis was a brand new class for 2023 and received rave reviews. It’s suitable for all levels and is especially designed for people who are new to Growing Humankindness and for those who struggle with sugar cravings during the holidays. \nLearn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/soften-2024/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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SUMMARY:The Nutrition Awakening
DESCRIPTION:The ‘what to eat’ question is one that plagues so many of us! With so much dietary advice it can be hard to know what or how to eat. And yet the food we eat has a powerful impact on our physical\, emotional\, mental and even spiritual health. \nThis summit may be for you if you want to: \n\nlearn how you can eat for greater health\nlower your sugar intake\neat a lower inflammation diet\nreverse or prevent chronic illness\nor understand the food-mood connection\n\nExperts who’ll be speaking on the summit include Vera Tarman\, Bitten Jonsson\, Craig Emmerich and Robert Lufkin. My presentation is on how compassion\, presence\, and relational neuroscience can help you soften painful or harmful emotional bonds with food. \nIf this speaks to you\, I’d love to have you join me. And please share this with those who might be interested. \nThe summit begins on December 11th and is free. You can learn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/nutrition-awakening/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250623T170000
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SUMMARY:Book of Love - 2025 Soul Diver's circle
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, this is my favorite group to facilitate\, and one that’s perfect for you if you’re needing rest from the ‘work’ of healing. \nThe Book of Love is a playful\, art based group to reconnect to your wholeness:  to birth the deeper story that lives underneath our experiences of loss\, disconnection\, rupture and trauma. \nIn this ongoing group you’ll be crafting a journal – using a blank book that you fill with images\, stories\, symbols and more – to create a book of connection\, a chronicle and witness to your soul’s story. Through this creation and through sharing a space with others\, you’ll reconnect with your deepest self\, soften shame\, and embolden courage. \nThe next Book of Love group begins January 2025 and is open for registration through January 13th. We’ll meet once a month from January to June from 1 to 4 pm CST on Sundays or from 10 am to 1 pm CST on Mondays. You choose your group – Sundays or Mondays. \nTuition is 6 monthly payments of $125 and there are limited spots. You can learn more about The Book of Love here. \nIf you’re reading about this event after January and are interested in a future Book of Love group\, please contact us to join the waiting list.  
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/book-of-love-2025-soul-divers-circle/
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SUMMARY:Reclaim Your Power Summit
DESCRIPTION:Hello friends\, I want to invite you to join me at the free Reclaim Your Power Summit where I’ll be one of 15 guests speaking about health and recovery. \nMy interview will focus on caring for the roots of emotional eating\, how to support yourself in sticky situations\, and how to help shift the narrative we can carry inside of “I’m broken.” \nYou can learn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/reclaim-your-power-summit/
CATEGORIES:Free webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T150000
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SUMMARY:Gathering Ourselves: April creativity circle
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, please join us for an upcoming\, free\, open to all experience of Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. \nIn this online gathering\, we’ll be using prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our inner world. \nWe’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe\, sacred space where we can share\, listen to ourselves\, and listen to each other. \nThis gathering is a chance for you to experience a taste of our upcoming 6 month group\, Gathering Ourselves\, to see if it’s the right fit for you. Bring yourself\, and bring a friend! \nLearn more and register here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/gathering-ourselves-april/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T170000
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SUMMARY:Gathering Ourselves: A Creativity Circle to Nurture Connection and Compassion
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, please join me and my co-facilitator\, Tamara Strijack\, for Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. \nIn these online gatherings\, we’ll use centering exercises\, prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our inner world. \nWe’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe\, sacred space where we can share\, listen to ourselves\, and listen to each other with ‘the ears of our hearts.’ \nWe’ll be meeting once a month from June to November from 12 to 3 pm CDT on Fridays. Tuition is 6 monthly payments of $125 USD and there are limited spots. If the group is full\, please contact us to join the waiting list.  \nLearn more and register here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/gathering-ourselves/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T200000
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SUMMARY:Writing Through Illness: A Poetry Workshop with One Art
DESCRIPTION:“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you. Your feelings need you. Go home and be there for all of these things.”  – Thich Nhat Hanh \nIllness – of all shapes and forms – is a complex threshold. As we journey through her doors\, we meet change\, loss\, fear\, pain\, grief\, fatigue\, gratitude\, wonder\, awe – the full mystery of what it means to be human and to live in a human body. \nIn this online playshop with One Art\, a poetry journal\, we’ll explore\, write and share our way into a more generous\, deeper connection with the complexity that arises when we host an illness in our body’s ‘guest house.’ We’ll use writing practices\, presence\, and poetry to meet these guests and nurture a more regenerative\, curious\, and compassionate relationship with our bodies\, hearts\, and minds. \nWhat might illness have to share with us? How might it meet us? How might we meet it? \nThis workshop is open to anyone who’s been touched by illness – their own\, a loved one’s\, a friend’s – and all kinds of illness – physical illness\, mental illness\, chronic illness\, sudden illness. All levels of writing experience are welcome. \nIf you can’t join us live\, we’ll record our time together so you can explore it later at your own pace.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/writing-through-illness/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T160000
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SUMMARY:Listen: Gentle ways to support your healing with food
DESCRIPTION:There are core areas that nearly everyone faces when healing their relationship with food – places of challenge\, difficulty or tension that arise in our bodies\, minds and nervous systems. While these places of stuckness can feel frustrating or alarming\, they’re doorways – places where we can bring curiosity\, warmth and listening to help soften the wounds that lead to painful behaviors with food.\n\n\nIn this interactive class\, we’ll explore seven of these core areas with listening\, respect and creative\, playful exercises:\n\nembracing neediness\nbefriending cravings\, the cry for help\ncaring for collapse and powerlessness\nbecoming more comfortable with the ebb and flow of emptiness and satiation\nleaning into limits and protective love\nreceiving care rather than caretaking\nand softening perfectionism and walking the maze.\n\nThis class is designed to deepen self compassion so we can become allies for our healing. For 2025\, I’ve tweaked this class to be more focused on the zoom gatherings themselves. We’ll use poems\, prompts\, creative play and group sharing to bring healing\, care and ease to these places of tenderness that are a part of the human experience.\n\nWe’ll meet on zoom on Wednesdays from 2-4 pm CT. You can learn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/listen-2025/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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SUMMARY:Deepening into Winter: A Creativity Circle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special winter session of Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with what’s within ourselves and with each other. We’ll be gathering in December to ground and connect with ourselves before the flurry of the end of year holidays. \nWendell Berry writes “that the dark\, too\, blooms and sings.” So let’s sing into the dark\, and gather in the dark\, and see what may be blooming in this time of quiet and time of festivities.  \nIn our online gathering\, we’ll use prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our yearnings and desires for the holiday season. \nYou can learn more and sign up here.
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/deepening-into-winter-a-creativity-circle/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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SUMMARY:Gathering Ourselves - Spring Equinox
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, please join me and my co-facilitator\, Tamara Strijack\, for the next session of Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. \nIn these online gatherings\, we’ll use centering exercises\, prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our inner world. You don’t have to think of yourself as creative or a writer to come – merely a desire to show up and play.  \nWe’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe\, sacred space where we can share\, listen to ourselves\, and listen to each other with ‘the ears of our hearts.’ By listening to ourselves and each other\, we hope to become more vibrant\, compassionate\, tender and courageous. \nWe’ll be meeting on Friday\, March 27th from 10 am to 1 pm Pacific/11 am to 2 p m Mountain/12 to 3 pm Central/1 to 4 pm Eastern/6 to 9 pm London/7 to 10 pm Prague time.\n\nThe gathering will be recorded if you can’t make it.\n\n\nTuition is $60 (CAD or USD.) Or purchase the entire series for the year (4 gatherings) for $200.\n\nRegister for Gathering Ourselves
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/gathering-ourselves-march/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260626T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260626T150000
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CREATED:20260224T155048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T160124Z
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SUMMARY:Gathering Ourselves - Summer Solstice
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, please join me and my co-facilitator\, Tamara Strijack\, for the next session of Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. \nIn these online gatherings\, we’ll use centering exercises\, prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our inner world. You don’t have to think of yourself as creative or a writer to come – merely a desire to show up and play.  \nWe’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe\, sacred space where we can share\, listen to ourselves\, and listen to each other with ‘the ears of our hearts.’ By listening to ourselves and each other\, we hope to become more vibrant\, compassionate\, tender and courageous. \nWe’ll be meeting on Friday\, June from 10 am to 1 pm Pacific/11 am to 2 p m Mountain/12 to 3 pm Central/1 to 4 pm Eastern/6 to 9 pm London/7 to 10 pm Prague time.\n\nThe gathering will be recorded if you can’t make it.\n\n\nTuition is $60 (CAD or USD.) Or purchase the entire series for the year (4 gatherings) for $200.\n\nRegister for Gathering Ourselves
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/gathering-ourselves-june/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T150000
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CREATED:20260224T155237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T160000Z
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SUMMARY:Gathering Ourselves - Autumn Solstice
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, please join me and my co-facilitator\, Tamara Strijack\, for the next session of Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. \nIn these online gatherings\, we’ll use centering exercises\, prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our inner world. You don’t have to think of yourself as creative or a writer to come – merely a desire to show up and play.  \nWe’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe\, sacred space where we can share\, listen to ourselves\, and listen to each other with ‘the ears of our hearts.’ By listening to ourselves and each other\, we hope to become more vibrant\, compassionate\, tender and courageous. \nWe’ll be meeting on Friday\, September 25th from 10 am to 1 pm Pacific/11 am to 2 p m Mountain/12 to 3 pm Central/1 to 4 pm Eastern/6 to 9 pm London/7 to 10 pm Prague time.\n\nThe gathering will be recorded if you can’t make it.\n\n\nTuition is $60 (CAD or USD.) Or purchase the entire series for the year (4 gatherings) for $200.\n\nRegister for Gathering Ourselves
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/gathering-ourselves-september/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261218T150000
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CREATED:20260224T155921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T155921Z
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SUMMARY:Gathering Ourselves - Winter Solstice
DESCRIPTION:Friends\, please join me and my co-facilitator\, Tamara Strijack\, for the next session of Gathering Ourselves\, a creativity circle to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other. \nIn these online gatherings\, we’ll use centering exercises\, prompts\, poems\, and our own creative expression – whether it’s collage\, journaling\, writing\, journal pages\, drawing or more – to nurture a more generous\, deeper\, and restorative relationship with our inner world. You don’t have to think of yourself as creative or a writer to come – merely a desire to show up and play.  \nWe’ll couple our exploration with group sharing – a safe\, sacred space where we can share\, listen to ourselves\, and listen to each other with ‘the ears of our hearts.’ By listening to ourselves and each other\, we hope to become more vibrant\, compassionate\, tender and courageous. \nWe’ll be meeting on Friday\, December 18th from 10 am to 1 pm Pacific/11 am to 2 p m Mountain/12 to 3 pm Central/1 to 4 pm Eastern/6 to 9 pm London/7 to 10 pm Prague time.\n\nThe gathering will be recorded if you can’t make it.\n\n\nTuition is $60 (CAD or USD.) Or purchase the entire series for the year (4 gatherings) for $200.\n\nRegister for Gathering Ourselves
URL:https://growinghumankindness.com/event/gathering-ourselves-winter-solstice/
CATEGORIES:Online class
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