Workshops and Talks

I offer Infant and Child Massage Classes both in groups and privately. Infant massage has many amazing benefits for both the child and the parent, including stress relief, better bonding, better appetite, increased immunity, better sleep, development of nervous system, body awareness, sense of autonomy, and better digestion!  Please refer to my Massage Therapy page for more information. 

I also offer Parenting  (and Grandparenting!) Coaching around Empowering your child and setting Great Boundaries. 

Children thrive when they feel safe, heard, and respected.  My workshop on Respectful Connection guides children, and the adults who love them, to be empowered to create healthy,  safe connection with others and self.  Children learn what healthy boundaries look like, how to use their voice to grow their autonomy, and how to connect with people in ways that promote bonding and friendliness over alienation and exclusion. Drawing on exercises from Authentic Relating and Britain's Peer Massage program, the key is not to "keep our hands to ourselves," but to learn to use them respectfully.  

Ask me about Love Princess Birthday Parties, too!  Anyone can be a princess. But you have to have some Emotional Intelligence to be a LOVE PRINCESS! (Also available in a more "gender-free" format, these Coronations celebrate the magic of Empathy and Compassion.)

We are doing our teens a disservice when we allow them to enter adulthood without some solid core skills around creating, evaluating, maintaining, and nurturing all kinds of relationships.  Whatever path someone's life may take, the ability to live in peace with co-workers, family, friends, neighbors, and the world at large will figure highly into their happiness. 

My Respectful Connection workshop geared towards Teens and Pre-Teens gives them opportunities to be heard on the challenges that are real to them, and gives them a rich vocabulary for understanding and creating human connection in healthy and productive ways. Teens become conscious of  both healthy and unhealthy relating patterns, and can then consciously choose their best response to challenging life situations. Nothing can prepare you for adult life like being able to consciously control your responses in dealing with self and others.

Loneliness and disconnection are at epidemic proportions both here in the U.S. and worldwide.  The fear of vulnerability that keeps us from reaching out is killing us with depression, anxiety, and heart disease.  We already have, literally in our own hands, the key to reclaiming our humanity and happiness.  

You are invited to try something new, something bold, that might just change your life. 

Do you dare? 

In person. Face to face. With Open Hearts. 

With Empathy. 

With Presence.  

With Awareness and Intention. 

With respect for Logic and Intuition.

The only way out is THROUGH.  Through the fear. Through the vulnerability. Through the muck.

Existing in our echo-chambers is not helping us to grow.  

We have to bring ourselves back to civility and humanity. No one is going to do it for us.

We have so much to talk about. But more, we have SO much to listen to and understand. 

When we commit to listening, we take the first step in the right direction.