An individualized, 10-month, Somatic Mentorship Group for practitioners ready to embody a deeper mastery of your craft
For Therapists, Coaches, Spiritual Teachers, Energy Workers, Yoga Teachers, Wellness Providers
(live via zoom)
You hold the curriculum inside you.
By which I mean…
Hone Your Craft is not a modality. It’s a deep, body-centered journey for your practitioner self. The one who guides others from deep within.
Beyond your intellectual understanding of the modalities you work with, your body is the container for the transmission of your offerings to your clients. Whether your offerings are currently somatically based or not, your body is your primary tool. Your own relationship with embodiment, energetic congruence, empathy, attachment, nervous-system regulation, grounding, emotional containment vs expression, energy, sensation, balance, clarity, and right alignment between your mind and heart will be felt by your clients. And it’s informing your work in ways both positive and negative.
In this way, we all must become somatic practitioners if only just within ourselves. You are the tuning fork.
Hone Your Craft is rooted in somatic skills, and this group will meet you as deeply as you want to go.
This is not only about what you know intellectually, but what you hold in your body. Hone Your Craft is experiential learning, offering levels of nuance it usually takes years of practicing to master.
One of my favorite truths is “Knowledge is just a rumor until it lives in the body.” (adapted from a New Guinean proverb). In order to effectively use what we’ve learned in our trainings, it must reside in our bodies.
Hone Your Craft gives you the chance to evolve the relational and embodiment skills that aren’t usually taught in professional trainings that are the beating heart of your work: intelligent empathy, attunement, intuition, boundaries, flexibility, creativity, nuance, and discernment.
This program provides deep support for you focused around the work you’re doing with clients and whatever next-level brilliance is ready to emerge through you as a practitioner. Your deepest guidance with your clients comes from what you’ve navigated within yourself that you’d be unable to see or understand without having lived it. Hone Your Craft is about expanding the ground of skill inside your body for the benefit of your clients and your sense of pride and confidence in your work.
I created Hone Your Craft to be of benefit for your own personal journey, your professional success, and your clients.
How we begin:
You’ll each share with me what’s working or what isn’t in your work, what you struggle with, where results are falling short, your goals for yourself as a practitioner, and how you want to shine. And I’ll help those needs get met in the group via a mix of highly creative and personalized somatic therapy for you, direct teaching, group exercises, and homework.
Here are some of the things you can bring to Hone Your Craft:
Maybe you want…
sessions to sparkle with magic and insight, avoiding uninspired flatness.
to be trauma informed to minimize the risk of retraumatization with your clients.
to learn how to bring somatic skills into your work.
to get out of the trap of overprocessing and learn how and when to use humor or challenge to help a client heal rather than it feeling like a slog.
to learn more about how to create a healing and transformational relationship with a client where the relationship itself is one of the primary healing tools.
to learn how to support clients to co-regulate and then self-regulate.
to feel a greater flexibility and nuance around how you respond to your client’s needs rather than getting bogged down by trying to live up to the modality you were taught.
help to not bring work home or to not feel so burdened.
someone to help you identify, understand, and fix the parts of your work that just aren’t landing with your clients, providing lasting results, or aren’t attracting the people you want to work with.
help seeing what you can’t see about who you are in your work to make you shine even brighter and to feel less alone with it. (Solo practice can be lonely!)
social justice values to come through in the way you work with clients.
to understand when to use which intervention or modality even better than you do now.
to work through what comes up for you with certain clients or topics they bring to you so you can stay open and loving and boundaried and grounded in sessions.
to feel more of a sense of integrity in your work and understand the parts you’re best at.
to get out of the tendency to work too hard in a session and let the client do their part.
a place to work out any of the complicated feelings you have about this field.
to embody that wellness-culture harm is very real and ensure you don’t perpetuate it.
to learn better how to show up as your best even when you’re going through your own hard times.
help moving from individual sessions to group facilitation or vice versa and want to sharpen the skills for that.
someone to hold your hand through some sessions and debrief with you.
support around your process regarding the business side of things.
to get a boatload of support around how you shine and what it looks like for your particular mastery to be unleashed.
All of that is welcome. And more. Whatever you’d want to learn from a seasoned somatic practitioner with a wide range of specialties. Just like walking into a therapy session, walking into Hone Your Craft you’ll already know some of what you need—and then in addition you’ll learn all kinds of stuff along the way you didn’t know you needed. (First you’ll apply and we’ll have a consult to make sure it’s a good fit and that we both feel confident in my ability to help you).
In Hone Your Craft, sometimes I’ll be working directly with you, sometimes riffing and teaching to the whole group, sometimes facilitating a discussion around a nuance or distinction important for your craft, and sometimes providing direct consultation on your work. And we’ll ground it all in the body.
If you sense that your capacity and confidence can bloom with skill sharpening, collaboration, personal excavation, and the ability to learn from trusted colleagues, please consider joining us and apply now. You probably also know that this will likely have an impact on your bottom line. (I want that for you!)
Hone Your Craft is rich with layers:
You’re learning skills from me as I teach concepts and help them live in your body, but also by watching me as I work directly with you and the others in the group.
You’re getting individual support around whatever comes up in relation to your work and with your clients.
You’re learning from each other’s internal processes and their client work. They’ll ask questions and bring resonant content you don’t realize you need but that opens up worlds for you.
You are going to learn a ton. Some of it will be intellectual, but mostly it will be felt in your body so you carry it permanantly.
My intention is that you walk away from Hone Your Craft inspired and feeling both a sense of expansion and grounding in your capacity with clients. They’ll feel an increased quality to your work too.
If you know me, you know the quality I stand for and that Hone Your Craft will deliver. But if you don’t know me yet, I hope you’ll be able to feel that from whoever sent you plus reading this, applying, and having a conversation with me. I’m happy to talk about it with you. Go ahead and invite your fellow practitioner friends to apply too—taking this journey alongside known friends and colleagues will deepen the experience.
Structure
Hone Your Craft will take place over 22 sessions (10 months). The 10 of us will meet every other week for 2 ½ hours on zoom. Probably a Tuesday or Wednesday late morning or early afternoon (in pacific time), depending on what works best for the group. You’re welcome to apply now.
We’ll also have a facebook group for discussions in between sessions. Just like therapy, you may also have light personalized homework. That homework can be discussed both in the facebook group and on our calls. Optionally, you can get paired with a partner or small group for debriefs, check-ins, and further skill building and practice on our off weeks.
Investment:
I’m currently working on developing payment tiers. Please check back soon.
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About Me
The inspiration for Hone Your Craft comes directly from practitioners who’ve worked one on one with me and have asked me to teach them. They’ve told me that they’re asking for this because they’ve really believed in the power and potential of therapy and healing work, but it’s just never felt quite like this before—effective, magical, and potent, giving them more than they walked in asking for. It’s easy to fall in love with this craft and also easy to be disappointed in the way it's so often practiced. It’s extremely common for clients to come to me with wounding from previous therapists or coaches.
I believe what these clients were feeling and asking me to teach them is the embodied skill and nuance that comes with 15 years of practicing. The stuff that isn’t taught in graduate programs or other training but that’s at the core of therapeutic mastery.
I’m a huge therapy nerd and from the start it’s been extremely important to me to be really good at my work as a way of honoring the clients who come to me and trust me with their inner worlds. It’s such a big responsibility! I’ve always wanted to do right by them and I wish I’d had a program like this back then. I did have many teachers that I’m eternally grateful to and lots of colleagues I learned from—plus I practiced and practiced and practiced some more.
As I got more skillful, my experience and commitment produced consistent positive results for my clients, which led to my private practice being full with waitlists from 100% referrals for the vast majority of the last 10 years. And that interest has stayed steady through rate raises, major illnesses, a sabbatical, a pandemic, and many moves. My clients say working with me is different and they send their people. In fact, you’re probably here because someone who knows me sent you. Thank you! One of the most rewarding things about my work is that my clients form the branches of the most beautiful family tree. There are people who’ve sent their people and who’ve then sent their people and I often think about how you’re all connected with each other. I’m glad you’re here.
Hone Your Craft started because clients asked me to make it. The reason I’m saying yes to offering it is because I love what happens in my tiny therapy room with all my heart and I also want to have a bigger ripple effect and serve more people. Especially the practitioners in a position to help vulnerable people heal and live lives they love. I truly love my craft and the people that come to me—you move me every single day and there’s nothing I’d rather do. I hope you’ll join me.
Who is Hone Your Craft NOT for:
This isn’t for you if you’ve never worked with clients before and want to be trained from scratch. However, you’re welcome to apply after you’ve got some training or practice in your field.
This isn’t for you if you’re wanting it to be solely a course on how to build or market your practice. It’s mostly about what happens when you’re with clients and yes, that has an impact on how successful you are and who shows up to work with you, so we’ll be working with it from an embodied perspective.
This isn’t for you if you’re looking for a specialized training in a particular modality. Hone Your Craft isn't a modality, it’s support around how we work our tools with our clients.
This isn’t for you if you’re more of a marketer and content creator than a practitioner. (Yes, you can be both). In other words, I want to know that your heart’s in it and it’s about more than the money to you. The participants in Hone Your Craft need to be fully committed to knowing that what they do with clients is genuinely helpful and working because what gets attention or sales isn’t always what’s best for clients.
Hone Your Craft is not for you if the work you’re doing with clients is rooted in conspiracy theory, anti-science, or in work that is inherently oppressive such as with diet culture, spiritual elitism, or spiritualized gender dynamics.
If you have questions about any of this, I’m happy to talk it through non-judgementally. Just apply and then we’ll schedule a call. For enrollment updates, please join my mailing list below!
