Gatherings
groups, workshops, and consulting
“Relationships are built at the speed of trust, and social change happens at the speed of relationships.”
–Rev. Jennifer Bailey, Founder of Faith Matters Network
Groups and workshops are designed for everyone interested in restoring resilience, regulation, and liberation. Anne has worked with psychotherapists and all kinds of healers, people working in corporations, nonprofits, attorneys, grassroots organizations, and more. ​
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Please contact Anne if you're interested in hosting and participating in any of the gatherings below.
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Nature and Nurture Quarterly Group for Healers - CEU's offered
Saturdays 10-1 pm @ Georgetown Healing Arts
Fee is: Sliding fee $125-$175/session.
Schedule: February 8, 2025 10-1 pm, April 19, 2025 10- 1 pm
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”Every organism exists in the complexity of biodiversity.” - Sandor Ellix
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Nature reminds us every day that all is connected - that a complex, ecosystem thrives - and that nature provides the most natural properties for healing. Concepts like change being constant and how tiny shifts in one human ripple out and into evolutionary change. Trees talk. Mycelium heals. And humans continue to forget their cellular connection.
Nature - and our bodies - whisper, communicate, yell to us to listen through feelings of pain, loneliness, fear and overwhelm. Peter Levine of Somatic Experiencing suggests that – with the proper conditions – our bodes know how to find balance. These naturalistic forces of healing are available to all of us.
How do we nurture this knowing?
In this moment in the large arch of evolution we are faced with enormous historical forces like climate change, white supremacy, gender violence, and a growing Fascism throughout the world. Leticia Nieto calls these forces Rank and us robots in that Rank system. She says power comes in many forms, though, and we can harness it to become aware and more free. Somatic Experiencing and other body-based modalities tell us we can tap into that bottom up, organic knowledge inside - even as we are pressed into cages. Lost in privilege. Terrorized by inequity.
This quarterly group is for healers navigating the grips of oppression with the curiosity about how to tap into these natural resources. Namely, we will work with Polyvagal Theory and body wisdom, nature and ecosystem knowledge, and Leticia Nieto’s framework about oppression and how we can be conscious and become free.
Perdita Finn says “We’ve lived inside of our heads for an awfully long time at the expense of our bodies and at the expense of the body of the world.” As we explore big themes of relational psychology, human supremacy, and social inequities and supremacies, we will experientially explore the wisdom of the body, mindfulness and nervous system regulation, the archaic field of energy (metaphor, archetype, and magic) that surrounds us, lives in nature, and can be found in our connections with each other.
Modalities we will draw on include:
- Attachment theory and relational psychotherapy
- Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory
- Leticia Nieto’s Beyond Inclusion Beyond Empowerment curriculum
- Somatic Experiencing
- Biomimicry
- Enneagram
- adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy and Emergent Strategy Series
You can attend one or all of this series and we strongly encourage that you attend all. They will build on each other. CE’s provided.
Join us! Saturdays 10-1 pm @ Georgetown Healing Arts – 215 South Orcas Street Seattle, WA 98108. Fee is: Sliding fee $125-$175/session.
Here is the schedule:
February 24, 2024 10-1 pm, May 4, 2024 10- 1 pm, September 7, 2024 10-1 pm
To RSVP for any or all of these groups, please contact Anne Phillips at AnneLPhillips@gmail.com or Liz Goodwin at lizkgoodwin@gmail.com.
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WORKSHOPS
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The Election Happened. Now What Do I Do?
A workshop to support healers in a polarized country - CEU's offered
Thich Nhat Hanh said, “The next Buddha will be a sangha.” The next teacher will be community.
This moment stretches back to 1619, when Africans were forcibly taken from their land and when the genocide of Indigenous peoples began in the 15th century. Since then, there have been multiple waves of violence and resistance. The election in 2016, followed by the pandemic, marked an especially difficult wave for healers—and for all of us.
In this exploration, we will examine power dynamics through several key frameworks: Dr. Leticia Nieto’s Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory, and Bayo Akomolafe’s message that “working against the system is still in the system.”
Let us use our imagination, creativity, and hearts to chart a new path forward through these times, by working together as a community to take right action.
This workshop will provide 9.5 CEU’s — 4 of the CEU’s will meet the cultural competency training requirements. NBCC CEU’s for psychotherapists, naturopaths, acupuncturists, and body workers.
Portland dates: January 10, Friday 5-8:00PM & January 11, Saturday 10:00am-6:00 PM
Seattle dates: March 14, Friday 5-8:00PM & March 15, Saturday 10:00am-6:00 PM
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Sliding Scale Fee: $250-$350
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Once Upon A......... Portals of Imaginal Practice
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Based on the "Once Upon A……….Portals of Imaginal Practice", we invite you to create with us. https://imagination-practice.online
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Wake up with us on Wednesday mornings. We’ll move our bodies, sing, imagine, and then share with each other. Each week, we’ll provide creative prompts to guide your practice. At the end of the series, we’ll gather from your work and compile a selection into a collaborative zine.
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As it states in the Once Upon A….., “This series is an invitation to remember resistance lives in our bodies and collective memories. It is an invocation to remember the magic of collective resistance. This series is an invitation to practice conjuring past and present refusals and imagine future possibilities beyond colonialism and white body supremacy…….Stories and myths drop bodies into present-oriented experiences of past and future. This kind of presence, of being in and with while staying here and now, opens up wild spaces for transformation and healing. This is why story and myth are the heartbeat in many healing practices.”
Portals of Imaginal Practice
When: January 15- February 19, 2025 (10 sessions)
Wednesdays 7:15AM- 8:30AM
Who: Cristien Storm and Anne Phillips facilitate
Where: Online
Questions: AnneLPhillips@ gmail.com
Fee: $25-40 each week.
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Psychobiology of Systemic Oppression
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We explore the shape of systematic oppressive behavior and beliefs through a psychobiology lens primarily using Dr. Leticia Nieto’s developmental model Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone and Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal theory. The workshop is taught through lecture, improv exercises, experiential guided movement exercises, small group and dyad interaction, imagery, and skill building. We use play to deepen awareness of empowerment, accountability, and liberation for all peoples.
This workshop has been offered nationally to organizations and businesses and is applicable for anyone.
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