Instincts, Intuition & Trusting Yourself (Group)

Description

Instincts, Intuition & Learning to Trust Yourself | Small Group

Workshop Duration: 6 sessions
Weekly sessions – 60 minutes
Class size – 3-6 participants
Required supplies: New Journal

Workshop Dates:
Tuesdays @ 6 PM Pacific (First session starts 1/23/2024)
Thursdays @ 6 PM Pacific (First session starts 1/25/2024).

Each session will include a lecture and discussion, writing exercises, meditation, and weekly assignments to hone your ability to trust yourself, your intuition, and your instincts.

Trigger Warning – During Session 1, we will be listening to a story that breaks down the pivotal moments that led up to a trauma and the instincts that ultimately protected them.

Session 1 – Intuition, Instincts, and What’s at Stake If We Don’t Listen?
Why is it important to listen to and act on our instincts and our intuition and what’s at stake if we don’t listen? Using the book, The Gift of Fear as a reference, we learn how breaking down a moment can elicit valuable information about our current beliefs, intuition, and instincts and how acting on our instincts can save our lives. We discuss the various things that cloud our ability to hear and act on our instincts.

Session 2 – Survival Signals / Dangerous Behavior
Using the book, Protecting the Gift as a reference, we discuss the seven survival signals we need to become aware of if we are to effectively predict and avoid violence.

Session 3 – Awareness: Recognizing How Fear Manifests in Your Body
What does REAL FEAR feel like in your body and how do you respond? Building on sessions one and two, we move away from becoming aware of other people’s behavior and we learn how we experience fear. Fear reveals itself in many forms. Writing exercises to distinguish fear, worry, and anxiety from real fear, instinct, and intuition.

Session 4 – Cloud Layer: Unspoken Agreements / Expectations
What is an Unspoken Agreement and how do they lead to expectations and resentments? In this session, we will see how we rationalize, justify, and minimize behavior because it doesn’t match what we think and believe. This session’s writing exercises are designed to find your unspoken agreements and how they cloud your ability to trust yourself.

Session 5 – Cloud Layer: The Blame Train
Building on what we learned about Unspoken Agreements and Expectations, we look at how blame and anger keep us from living in reality and how that impacts our ability to recognize instincts, and intuition and act on them. When we blame, we hand over our power and we become stuck. Using the book Loving What Is, by Byron Katie, we discuss the power of reframing blame, resentment, and judgments into information to empower action.

Session 6 – Cloud Layer: Desires & Our Driving Question
One of the greatest ways we cloud our intuition and instincts is through desire. We all have a driving question that we seek to answer through friendships, relationships & work. Driving questions always get at the essence of who we are, such as: Am I enough? Am I loveable? What is my worth? Where do I belong? In this last session, we explore how driving questions inform our decisions and affect our ability to listen to and act on our intuition and instincts.

The last class will provide resources and suggest the next steps for your journey back to trusting yourself.

Workshop Outcomes:

* To start the process of finding and listening to your instincts and intuition.
* To become aware of the seven survival signs that can potentially indicate a dangerous person or situation.
* To learn to discern instinct from anxiety and intuition from fear
* To become aware of your personal fear response so that you can recognize it in the moment. To become aware of the multiple ways we are blocked from our own intuition and instincts.

Workshop Format:

60-minute Zoom sessions open 15 minutes early and stay open 15 minutes at the end
To be respectful to all participants, the Zoom room will close during the opening meditation. Each session will include a lecture and discussion, writing exercises, meditation, and weekly assignments to hone your ability to trust yourself, your intuition, and your instincts.

Terms:
If you miss one session, you can reschedule a 45-minute 1:1 make-up session for no additional cost. If you miss two sessions, you have the option to finish the course in 1:1 sessions for an additional cost. 1:1 sessions are 45 minutes.

This experience is also offered as a self-paced series of six (6) 1:1 sessions with a specific focus on shifting your narrative and reviewing the sticking points that cloud your awareness.