Story-Based Community Group - 8 Week Foundations

Heard. Held. Healed.

This is what happens when a story is truly witnessed in community. Becoming whole was never meant to happen alone.

What's Included:

· 8 live online sessions, grounded in faith and spiritual formation, based on the work of Dr. Curt Thompson (These will not be recorded, live participation is expected for confidentiality)

· A guided framework for building safe, story-based community

· Weekly skill practice: journal prompts, self-reflection, and instructional resources to use in the session and beyond

· A working knowledge of the four core needs (seen, safe, soothed, secure) and how they shape your relationships

· A practiced skill set for empathetic witnessing you can use in every relationship, for life

· A small community that witnesses your story and is witnessed by you in return

· All materials provided. No book purchase required.

You see everywhere that you need to be in community to help you heal and become whole. But how in the world do you find a community that is safe? One that will accept who you are and where you have been, and will hold your stories well?

Story-Based Community: Foundations is an 8-week online group built to help you learn more and practice being heard, held and healed in community.

Together, we will explore what it means to be a community of empathetic witnesses. You will learn to recognize your need to be seen, safe, soothed, and secure, name what you truly long for, and identify the strategies you have unconsciously built to protect yourself when those needs went unmet.

This is not a lecture series. We will start slow and grow in understanding and trust about what it truly means to be in community. Each week, participants will be guided through the process of how to share real stories and practice the actual skills of showing up with authenticity and receiving others with care.

Skills you will develop and practice:

· Catching yourself in the moment of reaction, before jumping to explain, fix, or defend

· Naming your core needs and longings in growing vulnerability instead of managing them away

· Growing in attunement to your own body and what it is communicating

· Getting curious about your protective strategies instead of rejecting or condemning them

· Practicing self-compassion as the foundation for compassion toward others

· Responding to someone else's story as an empathetic witness, without fixing, advising, or minimizing

This process of becoming happens in three movements: Catching, Curiosity, and Compassionate Care. Each builds skills you will keep practicing long after the 8 weeks end, so you have tools for everyday life as you find, build, and become the community you long for.

Story Witnessed. Life Transformed.

Spots are limited to keep this group small and safe. Add your name to the wait list to be notified when the next Story-Based Community: Foundations group opens for registration.