The mentoring circle
For Psychotherapists. Welcome to a vibrant source of support to liberate and clarify the flow of your creative, inventive, embodied wisdom. We gather around the crackle and warmth of the fire of shared creative dreaming into being.
Mentoring Circles
Art Therapy, Movement, & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Mentoring Circle
For folks exploring and deepening the weaving these two modalities together in their psychotherapy work,
Open to Registered or Licensed Clinicians, or folks on the path to registration, post graduation, who have completed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1, and who have prior, Graduate Level, Art Therapy Training.
For Level 3 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Clinicans, a circle for nuance and creativity
hearth & spark
Soul, Poetry, EcoSomatic Relations, Daily Practices and Pathways
Keeping close kinship with longing, life force, and well-spring sources of living wisdom, as support for the wellbeing of psychotherapists and our practices in these immense times. Nuance and Creative Sustenance.
Open to Registered or Licensed Clinicians, or folks on the path to registration, post graduation.
Open to Registered or Licensed Clinicians in L3 training or alumni of L3 training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
the application is now open
For folks looking for mentoring rooted in deep listening, wise methods, and nuanced encouragement.
This mentoring circle is not a therapy group.
This is a cauldron for evoking dynamic, embodied, generative presence and a clear, supple flow of aliveness and applied creativity.
This is a cauldron to deepen your own sense of belonging, embodiment, and at-home-ness in yourself. This is a ripening workshop, to tend your creative wellspring and conjure creative applications of aliveness in your day to day life.
The mentoring circle is an experience in a collective of folks meeting regularly. We will be together through creative and somatic methods, practicing an ethos of playful curiosity and serious inclusion. We will surface and explore growing edges and welcome wilder, wiser, more subtle and responsive textures of clarity, creativity, humility, and courage.
The curriculum will be exploratory, informed by the needs and desires of those who gather together to unfold what wants to be and emerge. This cauldron will encourage and challenge you to unfold the way you long to unfold… how is that? fuller? deeper? braver? softer? sturdier? warmer? with more steadfastness to your own heart? with a clearer voice? This is a cauldron to cook the edges in you that want to ripen.
You do not need to know why you are drawn to this flow, though you might already have a sense of what calls you here. Together we will clarify and deepen and find the thresholds that want to be opened and crossed.
Methods:
moving and being still, in sounds and silence, dynamics and gestures, gross motor movement and nuanced micromovements
resonating with themes and with one another and exploring through mixed media art making
spaciousness and focus in togetherness and solitudes
creative writing, weaving words and speaking truths into the circle
games, play, repetition and echoing, expanding our range
attuning, listening, and responding with subtlety
breathing, sensing, shaping, folding, curling, pausing, lengthening, stretching out.
leaping, falling, resting, savoring, unfolding, earthing, grounding, centering.
aligning, releasing, expanding, deepening, weaving, applying, and beginning again.
dreaming and taking action.
The Details
The 2023-2024 cohort of this cauldron will meet monthly for 6 months, with committed home practice in the between-times.
Our first gathering date will be in late October of 2023 (Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar - through the dark months into the spring)
Each gathering time will be focused with particular scores and inquires, with lots of spaciousness for improvisational emergence and discovery.
The home practices for the times in between will be shaped by participants, in collaboration with their lived meaningful experiences in group each gathering. Each participant will be supported to develop home practices of personal value.
Tuition rate is $100 per 2 hour session ($600 total for 12 hours).
Preregistration is required with tuition payment in full.
Space is limited to 12 participants to create an intimate shared adventure of depth.
Please note that there will be no refunds for cancellations.
Participation is through application. Application deadline is October 14th, 2023.
“WE – ALL OF US ON TERRA – LIVE IN DISTURBING TIMES, MIXED-UP TIMES, TROUBLING AND TURBID TIMES. THE TASK IS TO BECOME CAPABLE, WITH EACH OTHER, OF RESPONSE.
The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection…to stir up potent response to devastating events…
In urgent times, many of us are tempted to address trouble in terms of making an imagined future safe, of stopping something from happening that looms in the future…
Staying with the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future. In fact, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present…as moral critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings…
Staying with the trouble requires making oddkin; that is, we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations…
We become – with each other or not at all”
— Donna J. Haraway