SMALL GROUP INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
Healing Wounds and Being Your Authentic Self
A Family of Origin Intensive
This intensive small group experience follows a groundbreaking model developed by Pia Mellody to explore and heal the impact of childhood trauma. The early relationships of one’s life have a big impact on how we relate to others and ourselves as adults. Many experience depression, anxiety, addictions, and eating disorders. The focus of the workshop is not on blaming caregivers, but rather on identifying the early experience and healing their impact. This allows us to change current patterns and live from our functional adult. The safe, small group environment gives witness to the experience and deepens the effect of the work.
The Informational Phase
Participants are educated about relational trauma and how it impacts the relationship with oneself and others in adulthood. Participants will learn about the core issues of codependency and how to work and heal them. Appropriate boundaries and self love, essential to all healthy and intimate relationships, are a major focus.
Debrief
This is a process designed to assist participants to identify and understand the multigenerational impact of their childhood experiences with adult caregivers and siblings. We look at the 4 kinds of abuse as well as neglect/ abandonment during the first 17 years of life. Childhood trauma, whether obvious, subtle, and/or unintentional is explored. Releasing the child perspective and adopting an adult reality regarding one’s childhood is part of the healing that takes place during this phase.
Experiential Phase
During this phase, each participant will be guided by the therapist through specific processes developed by Pia Mellody that heal childhood trauma by developing a nurturing relationship with oneself and the wounded parts inside and releasing painful emotions. This phase is designed to help participants empower their functional adult to live in action rather than reaction.
Ongoing Recovery and Empowerment Strategies
Participants will receive strategies, information, and tools on how to use this information to make permanent changes in their lives. The growth accomplished during the three-day intensive group workshop is equivalent to one to three years of weekly therapy sessions. Join us for this heart opening, powerful experience.
Workshop Schedule
Contact Ginger Edwards, LPC for future dates (919) 949-3302