Professional Development
You Can Experience
Some forms of professional education primarily engage the mind.
This work invites the whole person.
Drawing from depth psychology, somatic awareness, creative expression, movement, phenomenological inquiry, and relational practice, experiential professional development nurtures the inner life of the clinician and provides opportunities to discover new ways of being.
Explore Working TogetherThe Clinician as a Whole Person
Clinical work asks much of us. We listen deeply, contain, attune, and respond to what arises moment-to-moment. We accompany others through times of uncertainty, emotional distress, complex trauma, and meaningful transitions, bearing witness to some of life's most difficult and transformative moments.
When we sit with another person we listen deeply to what is spoken, but also to what is emerging in the space we share and what moves beneath the words.
The clinician is part of the work.
Our bodies enter the room. Our histories enter the room. Our assumptions, instincts, emotions, imagination, and capacity for presence enter the room. So does our fatigue, curiosity, and our aliveness.
The quality of our professional lives is therefore inseparable from the quality of our relationship with ourselves.
Cultivating the Capacities That Sustain the Work
Rather than approaching professional wellbeing solely through the lens of burnout prevention, this work asks what helps clinicians remain vital within their profession.
Together, we explore capacities such as:
Creativity & Spontaneity
Through nurturing your imaginative and creative capacities you will access greater spontaneity and enhance your ability to approach familiar situations in new ways.
Presence & Relationships
Embodied presence supports a greater awareness of how we connect and attune to others while also remaining grounded and centered in your own being.
Meaning & Vitality
Engaging an inner process cultivates a renewed sense of aliveness in the work, deepens meaningful exchanges in the therapeutic setting and nourishes your personal life.
Caring for the inner life of the clinician is not an indulgence separate from clinical practice. It is essential to the work and supports the therapeutic alliance.
Specialized Experiential Inquiries
6 Sessions: Private One-to-One Professional Development
We often think of professional development as acquiring more knowledge, learning another technique, or adding another credential. These things matter. But clinical practice asks something of us that cannot be learned solely through intellectual knowledge. It asks us to be present, embodied, curious, and willing to engage our own inner experience.
Depth Oriented Inquiry, Embodied Experience and Creative Expression
From Experience Into Clinical Practice
Selected Areas of Professional Interest and Personal Discovery
Experiential Professional Development
Becomes an opportunity to pause, listen inwardly, become curious about what is emerging, and rediscover parts of ourselves that may have become quiet beneath the demands of professional life.
A Different Kind of Professional Development
We live in a world overflowing with information but often lacking spaces for reflection. These offerings are an invitation to slow down and explore the deeper currents beneath clinical work and everyday experience.
You may find yourself here if:
- You love your work but sometimes feel depleted by it.
- You want professional development that engages more than your intellect.
- You are curious about the relationship between your inner life and your professional practice.
- You want to reconnect with your own creativity, or bring more spontaneity and playfulness into your work.
- You are interested in embodiment and the wisdom of the body.
- You recognize that your own development is inseparable from your clinical work.
- You are seeking a more sustainable relationship with your profession.
- You want to remain human while becoming more professionally capable — not professionally capable at the expense of being human.
