A personal note…

The “Coming Home” workshop is heading into it’s 4th year already and is coming up again on December 28th. I am so grateful to be able to share this work with others. I think it’s beautiful work. It’s the work of the heart, of connection, of our shared humanity and the human condition.

My personal motivation for creating this workshop is to share with you the tips, techniques, tools, and theories that once helped me to recover from depression and anxiety, and helped me to find my voice, my joy, my boundaries, assertiveness, and my creative expression. They also helped me to become more securely attached. 

The 2 things that made the biggest difference were Embodiment and reconnecting with my Authentic Self. Participating in conscious dance and breathwork taught me that there is literally a wealth of somatic information that is generally dismissed, rejected, denied, ridiculed, minimized, etc. by the mind. I’m referring to sensory, emotional, intuitive information that gives you vital information about your limits, priorities, boundaries, and values. Learning to reconnect with that information remains transformative. 

This somatic information comes from the Authentic Self.  And the more you reconnect with your authentic self, the more you learn that YOU are not the collection of fear-based thoughts that may flood your mind. This is one of the core tenets of Transperson Psychology, which we chat about quite a bit in the workshop. 

I think it also helps to learn that authenticity is not about identity, or specialness, but actually about real connection. When we start to have experiences of real connection – to ourselves or others, we start to lose our patience for masks, persona’s and roles and we realize how much they actually (have) hurt.

Our authentic self is an inner compass that we are blessed to be born with. When we listen, it will guide us to our sweet spot in life, where alignment and personal rule the day, and where your outer world matches our inner world. It leads us home. 

This is why it is called “Coming Home”. 

I hope it gives you a chance to connect with your authentic self. A chance to quiet your mind and listen to your somatic information. I hope it gives your an experience of real connection, and of how good it feels to speak the truth, of how beautiful true vulnerability is, of how restorative assertiveness is for your self esteem. I hope it gives you a chance to encounter yourself; to step out of the theoretical and intellectual because it takes more that insight and theory to change behaviour, it takes an experience of something new.  

If any of this speaks to you, please reach out. I’d love to talk to you…

COMING HOME ~ A RETURN TO SELF
An experiential, personal growth workshop that integrates Transpersonal Psychology with various somatic practices

December 28, 2026  to January 1st, 2027 | 10 am to 5 pm
$895 p/p | The Cambrian Hall, Vancouver. 

This is an experiential, educational and therapeutic workshop. You will be invited to participate in exercises designed to increase your level of awareness and understanding and help you to reach new perspectives.  Expect to ‘stretch’ mentally and emotionally.

The workshop consists of:​ theory/teaching segments, facilitated movement, group processes, somatic techniques for release, integration, regulation, and embodiment, written exercises, a breathwork session, group sharing and group or partnered exercises.

You will learn about Transpersonal Psychology and Family Systems theory, use somatic techniques rooted in Gestalt, breathwork and conscious dance. Through this wholistic lens you will be asked to look at:

• how you developed a persona as a way to get along with, or simply survive, your family system
• how that persona created roles and patterned ways of being and relating that you may still be defaulting intohow that shows up in your body, mind and your relationships
• how/why this persona tends to over-ride body based information, like senses, feelings, intuitions, limits, priorities, boundaries and values
• how to connect with body-based information and how to communicate more authentically

This workshop will help you to:

• manage anxiety

• manage your boundaries

• deepen your connection to self and others

• communicate better and more authentically

• get out of your head and be more present

• reconnect with your body-based awareness

• access your inner resources, like your: truth, senses, feelings, intuition, priorities, values, and limits

• reclaim cut-off parts of self

• deepen your movement practice *

• expand emotionally, psychologically and physically into a fuller, truer, way of being

* If you are new to conscious dance, this workshop will give you many tools to work with on the dance floor!