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Self-Forgiveness

A Spring Program at 130 Peyton St. in Downtown Winchester
Saturday April, 10th, 24th, May 8th, and 22nd from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (with an hour lunch break)

Tuition: $400

The Self-Forgiveness Program offers a step-by-step process in strengthening and supporting a healthy connection with yourself. The journey begins by learning how trauma and conflict impacts your autonomic nervous system and leads to patterns of disconnection from your physical felt experience and disconnection in your external relationships. The program offers techniques and self-supportive strategies for reconnecting to your body and learning how to release and heal the tensions from your past in a gradual and supportive way. Once we establish a capacity of self-support, we then seek to understand how trauma has historically impacted your relationship with yourself and led to negative beliefs and patterns. Through self-inquiry, we learn the role negative beliefs and patterns played in managing the impacts of trauma and conflict in your past. Throughout the program you will learn to release these old dynamics and embody a more loving and self-forgiving approach to your life.

The Self-Forgiveness Program will be your guide to healing the past so you can embody a more positive and hopeful present and future.

A Healing Circle

In all of our stories around conflict and trauma, there is always a missing piece. Trauma and conflict persists and reverberates through your life not just because of what happened, but because of what did not happen during moments of challenge and overwhelm. A Healing Circle is a means to provide what you needed and still need in your healing process. Most of the time this shows up as a person or group that listens to your story, validates your experience, reflects similar life experiences to your own, and a stable environment that holds you accountable to the positive changes you need and deserve. In each Self-Forgiveness Class, you will walk into a circle of participants who will be journeying with you through the process of self-forgiveness. In this group you will learn and practice new approaches to self-care in the form of meditation, somatic techniques, journaling, witnessing other people’s stories and life experiences, sharing your own history and stories, engaging in group dialogue and exercises, learning to be a healthy support system for others, and learning to accept and allow yourself to be seen and supported. The circle will challenge you to grow through being vulnerable, through being seen and supported, through being a more present support system, and through learning more positive and healthier approaches to your own self-care. Through this healing community you will have a group that is committed to providing what is and was so desperately needed through all of our stories. A space that is safe, supportive, committed, non-judgemental, and present, allowing you to move forward with confidence as you leave the burdens of the past behind you.

If you have been searching for a space to grow and strengthen your relationship with yourself, if you have always wanted to feel more positive and confident about yourself, and if you have a deep longing for connection and acceptance from others, then this healing circle will help provide the conditions necessary for your growth and healing.

Releasing The Past

We all have been through life events that impacted us greatly, betrayals in relationships, situations that caused emotional pain, moments that were too much for us to process, and harm that was imposed upon us. The Self-Forgiveness Program has addressed life challenges for participants such as divorce, loss, abandonment, abuse, neglect, betrayal, and trauma; this group helps participants understand how their autonomic nervous system managed the impacts of these life circumstances. Self-forgiveness will help you reestablish a relationship with yourself in which you no longer hold onto the pain, resentment, powerlessness, overwhelm, and loss of control that were created during these events, while establishing a new-found capacity to let go, release, and move forward. The core of this process is understanding how our autonomic nervous system responds during stressful occurrences. Through learning about the autonomic nervous system, we develop strategies for processing and releasing through our somatic experience, discovering how our body naturally releases stress, and developing more competency to flow through our feelings and emotions. Through the program, you will also learn how we manage overwhelming events and seek to regain control through taking on the weight, responsibility, and self-blame for what occurred in the past. You will develop new capacities of managing stress, new and more positive perceptions, learning how safety in your body leads to a more positive self-esteem, releasing beliefs that hold you responsible for past events, and developing new meaning and purpose for your life that will allow you to take action based on being more open and vulnerable. The program looks at new perspectives, new approaches to self-care, and positive changes in your life as a step into self-forgiveness and a release of the past.

A New You Through Self-Forgiveness

A new you emerges through the program as confidence and security as you learn new approaches to support your autonomic nervous system. These new approaches lead to a greater sense of capacity, regulation, and resiliency and an expanding sense of safety and resolution within your physical felt experience and emotional energy. These approaches and the resolution that occurs through the program will help you to maintain the changes that have occurred through the four weeks spent together. A new you also emerges through cultivating a more positive relationship with yourself. Where in the past you may have felt burdened, resentful, responsible, not enough, or wrong based on what has occurred, through the course you will learn how this keeps you stuck in the past and erodes a positive approach to self-care. You will develop new perspectives about yourself that come from the regulation and emotional security that are developed through continuously navigating back to your body as a means to soothe the physical responses of the autonomic nervous system. Regulation and resolution lead to new beliefs of being okay, secure, able to stand on your own two feet, permission to be your full and authentic self, and a greater sense of resiliency and confidence in your life. As you feel more positive in yourself, the content, lessons, group classes, and teachings on self-forgiveness will help you identify the positive aspects and changes in your internal and external life that will continue to support you in a more positive trajectory. The self-forgiveness program will support you in stepping out of the limitations of your past and teach you how to sustain a new more positive and hopeful relationship with yourself in the future.

What You Will Learn Through This Program

• Simple and practical tools for self-love and validation

• How to be a participant and support system in a healing circle and support group

• Techniques for active listening in a group setting

• Somatic techniques

• How conflict and trauma impacts your autonomic nervous system affects physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy

• The role that connection to your physical felt experience and emotions play in developing safer and more secure patterns of the autonomic nervous system

• The different aspects of your autonomic nervous system and how your body manages and deals with the reverberations of past trauma

• The effects that trauma has in shaping your core beliefs, behavior, and self-confidence

• Writing exercises, journaling, and self-inquiry

• Developing new daily affirmations for self-support

• Understanding the power of personal belief systems

• How to forgive others through a more positive, gentle, and engaged approach to life

Course Features

• Four dynamic group classes

• One private meeting with Jake

• One Zoom meeting after the program

• Handouts, teachings, and writings on the forgiveness process

• A private Facebook group

• Daily articles, videos, and quotes on self-forgiveness

• Rituals and ceremonies for healing and resolution

Please fill out the form below to request a meeting with Jake for a free self-forgiveness information session or to complete registration.