Sometimes there are parts within us that battle.
One part wants to succeed, another part wants to hide.
One part wants to connect with others, another part wants to be alone.
One part wants to be free, another part isn’t sure it’s safe.
One part wants a partner, another part believes intimacy is scary.
These inner conflicts can feel a bit like having one foot on the accelerator and the other the brake at the same time. This can show up as stagnation, tension and frustration. No progress, no change, despite willing it.
These parts are not bad, they’re simply trying to do something for you — to protect you. How to find a way forward? That’s what we’re doing on this mindful-somatic workshop — rather than fight against them, we learn what’s going on and help them into a new configuration with you at as the CEO of your life. This also includes having the permission and tools to safely release the tension these parts might be holding…
This is how we come into inner harmony with all our parts and find *power* within ourselves…
This workshop is based on the Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychotherapeutic and Somatic Trauma Resolution approaches.
WHAT YOU’LL GET:
Through guided somatic practice and supportive psychoeducation:
Release baggage and issues you've been holding onto
Find more energy and clarity (less hesitation!) with decisions and momentum in your life
Discover how to be in collaboration with the voices/needs within, not in a battle
Understand your nervous system and how to come back to ease rather than in perpetual survival mode (fight, flight, freeze, fawn)
Learn tools to support a state of power, self-nurturing and emotional wellness day-to-day
Let go of the war and judgment inside yourself
Learn and practice tools to digest emotion in ways that *supports* the nervous system, not frazzles you
Lead from your Soul, not your hidden subsconscious
There will be individual and partnered practices that could involve simple nourishing touch. You’re supported to do only what you want to do with full consent. It's not necessary to have or bring a partner for any of these workshops. Feel free to contact us if you have questions or hesitations.
WHO'S FACILITATING?
Caitlyn Cook is an international trauma-informed practitioner and facilitator working in the field of mindful-somatic healing. Informed by the Internal Family Systems psychotherapeutic approach, she works with people in 1:1 sessions and groups to heal trauma and knotty issues in their mind, relationships, family, sexuality and purpose. Her influences include somatics, mindfulness, meditation, Bwiti (an African wisdom tradition), Tantra, sexual alchemy, psychodrama, nature, and ritual. She currently lives in Gabon, Africa studying the Bwiti tradition, enjoying thick rainstorms and learning about love. Caitlyn is also a facilitator with ISTA, an international school for sacred sexual shamanism.
When & where?
10am - 5pm Saturday 10 August
The Forest, Paúl, Mafra (13 min drive from Ericeira) — PORTUGAL
How much and tickets?
Full price: €80
Reduced price: €65
ISTA community: €70
Spaces are limited, email me to book now.