Discover your Courageous Heart
Face and Move Through Fear
With Katherine Young psychotherapist
and Nicolas Gonzalez Thomas meditation leader
May 26-28
Friday May 26th 6:30pm-9:30pm
Sat and Sun May 27th and 28th 9:00am-5:00pm
In a beautiful Kitsilano location overlooking Vancouver Harbour
405-2475 York Ave
$495
Call 604-787-4008
or email: katherine@headandheartcounselling.com
Using psychotherapy and active meditation techniques we will learn to connect with courage, looking at ourselves honestly, with kindness and gentleness. Face, delve into and learn to move through fear.
Without even realizing it, many of us become dominated by fear. We are afraid to live fully or love with abandon.
We may be afraid or embarrassed to look at ourselves and the patterns that hold us back from facing our fears.
And in that sense we become like moths to a flame, choosing the same old pain, identifying with woundedness, instead of learning to face fear, choose our brave heart and open up to life and to love.
Learn to look at yourself honestly and without self-condemnation
Find the courage to love freely without holding back out of fear of being hurt
Bravely share your gifts with the world
Connect with self-confidence
And the strength and self acceptance that comes with allowing vulnerability
You may be dominated by fear if:
Your life has become small, constrained, repetitive, routine or lonely
You aren't living your dreams
You have forgotten what your dreams are
You don't know what you want
Your relationships are boring, conflict ridden or disconnected
You have few or no close, intimate friendships
You have low energy
You are anxious or depressed
You are inhibited
You are afraid to ask for what you want or need
You are putting up with poor treatment from others
Life naturally presents everyone with challenges that can produce fear:
Impermanence
Loss
Conflict
Mistakes and missteps
Rejection or perceived rejection
We all need to develop the capacity to cope with and face fear so that it doesn't take dominate us
We will use active meditations involving dance, movement, music, deep breathing techniques, as well as meditative awareness.
Group process
Experiential exercises
Self reflective writing exercises
Expressive exercises
And dyad work to create and build intimacy
The group will be run by Katherine Young, M.Ed., RCC psychotherapist in private practice in Vancouver for 12 years.
Meditation practices will be run by Nicolas Gonzalez Thomas. Nicolas is a committed meditation and spiritual practitioner with 20 years experience working with two of the most esteemed north and south American teachers. He is also a computer scientist, pianist and composer.
Nicolas and Katherine are in a committed, love relationship. As a couple we are both deeply committed to personal growth as well as our respective spiritual practices. Bringing our experience as a couple working together is a vital part of our offering in this work.