A radical practice for emotional resilience
A radical peer counseling system that involves magick, brain science, grass roots psychology, and embodiment practices to heal and promote community.
Holistic Peer Counseling is an emotional resilience practice, giving you the ability to know when your internal state needs loving attention and training you in communication skills that help you "be with" emotions and dis-spell trance traumas from the past.
Engaging in this practice gives access to:
a sense of belonging that is secure and stable,
a network of regular, reliable, and loving support for your feelings,
distinguishing internal distress patterns, and
developing new habits and expressions.
We focus on consent, deconstructing oppression, developing resonance through oxytocin generating exercises, practicing open and honest communication, and developing skillful loving techniques for conflict resolution that we bring into our existing communities.
Holistic Peer Counseling
A system of holistic healing that allows you to know when you need to receive attention for your inner experience in order to be restored to being well.
It teaches you to do self care and ask for help consensually.
It enables you to know how to witness others when they need help and to give them the space and resource of time and attention so they can be restored to their bodies' own inherent healing processes.
Core Skills and Foundational Principles
Exquisite Listening: how to listen to & connect with yourself & others
Holding Outer Spaciousness: develop the skill of neutral witnessing
Foundational energetic boundary work: experience where you end & begin & be able to set intentional boundaries
Creating inner spaciousness: become a resource for self-reflection & understanding
Understand what emotions are: learn how they function and how to feel them fully
Learn how to "be with" feeling states without either self-repression or the repression of others
Identify patterns of stuck energy & old emotional trauma. Learn to free yourself from their trance
The foundational principles of Dan Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology teachings, enable you to:
Apply cutting edge science from recent research in neurobiology to your own self care
Create a meta plan for your recovery from the dominant culture and its programming
Become able to distinguish personal trauma from social oppression & deal with both
Commit to ending horizontal hostility by becoming a resource of love for your communities
Co-create a community of peers committed to living in Cascadia and evolving with the planet toward a more loving way of being.
Next offering TBD
Previous Offering
Cascadia Holistic Peer Counselling
Spring 2022
~ with Helena De Felice, Sarabell Eisenfeld, and Mischa Gilraen
This course is delivered on Zoom Monday evenings 6-8:30PM Pacific.
Jan 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 28, Mar 7, 14 2022
Register for the program here
Our online sessions include practices, demo, and some theory.
Participants are encouraged to develop a 10-20 min daily grounding practice and spend 30 min to 1 hour a week in Cascadia Holistic Peer Counselling healing exchanges.
Participants are invited to access our rich library of video/audio/text course materials.
What Does This Course Cost?
Limited Very Early Bird spots: $295 USD (available until Nov 8, 2021)
Limited Early Bird spots: $325 USD (available until Dec 13, 2021
Regular Ticket: $375 USD
Ticket Options: Returning Students
These discounted tickets are for students who currently participate in the Living Love Revolution Aphrodite Priestess Training and past students of the two most recent offerings of Cascadia Holistic Peer Counselling taught by Helena, Sarabell, and Mischa or Teri, Jim, Helena, and Sarabell.
Ticket Options: Pay What You Can
Limited ‘Pay What You Can’ spots are available. We recognize the real barriers that systemic oppression creates. We have reserved a limited number of ‘Pay What You Can’ spots with priority for people of identities who experience and are impacted by systemic oppression. We do not ask for evidence and we request you honour our intention of reducing barriers and increasing access.
Accessibility
This class is taught in English via zoom. Live captions are available for the zoom sessions. If you need ASL or other language interpretation or have other accessibility needs, please email us helena@helenadefelice.com.
All session are recorded in speaker view and recordings are available to participants only. You are welcome to participate in this program even if you are not able to attend the sessions live.