Image by Abby Gillardi
Image by Abby Gillardi
Image by Abby Gillardi
Are you wanting to bring training to your workplace or local community? Develop your own professional skills in contemplative teaching?
I work with individuals and organizations to create and teach workshops, courses and retreats in:
- self-compassion;
- mindfulness, and
- meditation facilitation.
Topics
Somatic Self-Compassion topics:
- Polyvagal Theory (understanding our threat response and how to tend to it);
- Sensory Modulation (tending to our stress through the senses);
- Interoception (safely connecting with our body signals);
- Neurochemicals of happiness and stress.
The intersection of Buddhism and self-compassion:
- Mindfulness;
- Lovingkindness;
- Equanimity;
- Self-compassion.
Personal development:
- Exploring forgiveness
- Exploring self-forgiveness
- Pain management
- Setting healthy boundaries
- Shame resilience
- Calming perfectionism
- Soothing anxiety
- Easing the inner critic
Contemplative teaching:
- Self-inquiry
- Inquiry
- Council circle
- Intuition/felt sense
- Socratic dialogue
- Trauma-informed teaching
- Teaching online
Practice paths:
- Creating and sustaining a contemplative practice – motivation, setting up, support, technique, attitude, barriers, heartwork;
- Stillness practices – mindfulness, centering, silence, quieting the mind, attention restoration;
- Generative practices – body scan, visualization, beholding, lovingkindness, forgiveness, gratitude, study, savoring;
- Creative practices – contemplative arts, improvisation, music, singing, journaling;
- Activist practices – pilgrimage, work, vigils, bearing witness;
- Relational practices – tending, closing, deep listening, dialogue, story telling, council circle;
- Movement practices – walking meditation, labyrinth, yoga, dance;
- Ritual – establishing sacred space, self-inquiry, retreat, ceremony.
Archetypes:
- Drawing on the Maleficent Within: Healing from injustice through inviting our strong woman parts;
- Making Change in Our Community Begins with Compassion for Ourselves: Kuan Yin;
- Our Lady of Guadalupe: A mother goddess of hope and inclusion;
- The 21 aspects of Tara: The spectrum of self-compassion practices.
Experience
I have:
- 10 years experience in running and teaching retreats and skills training workshops,
- 5 years experience in teaching Mindful Self-Compassion,
- 5 years experience in developing and teaching online contemplative programs,
- 4 years experiencing mentoring Mindful Self-Compassion teachers.
If you are interested in working with me online or in-person, please email me at kristy@heartworks.training to start a conversation. I look forward to hearing from you!
