Transformational
Psychotherapeutics Trainings
Ready to deepen your therapeutic practice?
These trainings are designed for practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding and skill in working with trauma and transformation through somatic, relational, and imaginal practices. Both process and systems-oriented in nature, our in-person trainings offer a space for unexpected growth, curious learning, and genuine encounter. Embark on this educational adventure and discover how to optimally be with your clients (and with yourself, others, and life, in general) while facilitating healing and illuminating portals into what is possible with a friendly, creative and experimental approach.
“We are Shapeshifters and Storytellers: The brave return to learning and re-imagining life.”
It could be said that everyone is fundamentally a shapeshifter
We are quite literally built to learn from and adapt to our experiences and gradually evolve an ever more elegant and sophisticated capacity to interact with and navigate our environment and relationships. Repetitive disruptions within our human development and acute experiences of trauma impair and interrupt these natural, fluid learning processes. They convince us, even at the level of our cellular body, that we need to be a particular way – to take on particular shapes – to be safe enough, to be cared for, to be loved, or to belong. We reactively hold to these particular ways of being and lose track of our innate capacity for change. Why would we want to learn something new when our past learning experiences were painful?
For many people, the threshold marking the return to learning and changing appears when their resistance to change becomes more distressing or uncomfortable within a changing environment than the return to learning and changing. Learning is a vibrant living process that eventually grows around and through the fragile rigidity of old, decaying, untenable forms. Learning is life challenging, breaking through and growing beyond domestication and colonization. Learning is a return to untamed potential. Learning, truly curious, vulnerable, brave learning is the return of the wild.
Entrance into these modules requires the following prerequisites:
You are currently practicing and/or actively training in therapeutic modalities that involve supporting clients in navigating and resolving mental-emotional health stresses. Ideally, you have already cultivated some capacity to navigate this territory with others in conscious, compassionate, curious conversation and are open to others supporting you in similar ways.
Module 1
In our first module, we lay the methodological foundation for the entire training series, inspired by the body-centered psychotherapeutic method of Hakomi and its elegantly principled approach to the therapeutic process — one that moves with the natural wisdom of the body and the client rather than against it. We will explore what it means to adopt a genuinely curious, experimental mindset with your clientele: to re-engage the creative and transformative learning that trauma and conditioning have stilled. Students will develop skill in tracking, contact, pacing, and the sensitive use of imaginal, somatic, and relational experiments to constructively explore thought and belief, affect, behaviour, gesture, posture, sensation, relational interaction, and boundaries — learning to work with each as a potential doorway into resolution and what is possible. We will also explore numerous methods for supporting the effective integration of the transformation that occurs within our client sessions.
Module 1 Details
40 Class Hours
Dates: November 20-23, 2026, in-person in Calgary, AB
Preparation Zoom Calls: November 3 &10, 6:30-9PM MST
Investment: $1395 – $1695 sliding scale
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Module 2
In the second module, we take a deeper look at one of the main impairments to learning: trauma. Trauma is a huge catchword in recent years, and its rippling and pervasive personal, familial, and broader systemic effects are being increasingly recognized and studied. Everyone has been impacted by some degree and type of trauma. For some, it can be utterly devastating. We will turn toward a mindful style of facilitation, inspired by the practice of Somatic Experiencing, that strategically utilizes both a somatic and imaginal, relational therapeutic approach to safely renegotiate our clients’ painful past learning experiences and bravely imagine and embody new possibilities. We will continue cultivating the capacity to support our clients in reimagining the stories of their lives as they learn and heal.
*Module 1 required as a prerequisite, or equivalent (please contact us to assess equivalency).
Module 2 Details
40 Class Hours
Dates: October 22-25, 2027, in-person in Calgary, AB
Preparation Zoom Calls: October 7 & 14, 6:30-9PM MST
Investment: $1395 – $1695 sliding scale
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Module 3
In this third module, we enter the terrain of inner multiplicity — not as a diagnostic framework but as a living relational ecology available for genuine encounter and transformation. Drawing from the wisdom and efficacy of Internal Family Systems (IFS) while expanding meaningfully beyond it, we introduce three interwoven approaches: the construction and use of therapeutic altars, where images and objects serve as physical placeholders for parts and the people who passed burdens forward; movement and partnered expression practices that allow different part-types to be embodied rather than only narrated; and a unique alternative to the IFS approach for systematically and creatively returning burdens. You will learn, from inside out, what it is to courageously, patiently, and lovingly re-pair connections with your many parts, provide them with long needed attention and nourishment, and compassionately hand back the burdens handed down through the family line and the larger systems our families have been embedded within.
*Module 1 required as a prerequisite, or equivalent (please contact us to assess equivalency).
Module 3 Details
40 Class Hours
Dates: April 23-26, 2027
40 hours, in-person in Calgary
Preparation Zoom Calls: April 8 & 15, 6:30-9PM MST
Investment: $1395 – $1695 sliding scale
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