SELF-CONNECTION GROUP
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Self-Connection: Melting the iceberg
Self-connection is the process of being in touch with your core Self, without identifying or confusing Self with the experience or the pattern of coping that is occurring. Oftentimes we confuse our Self with our feelings, roles, perceptions, expectations, and relationships.
We will explore the unique Self that lives within each individual.
Vitality, power, and authenticity can be known when we are rooted in the Self and acceptance of the experience that is occurring. By engaging with what is present (others and context), while simultaneously rooting in the Self, the Self emerges more fully. Being connected with our Self, we can engage in the learning process through whatever challenging experience is occurring or has occurred.
This group might be helpful to those who are feeling disconnected from themselves and would like to learn how to cope and transform those stuck patterns and deepen their connection to Self. This workshop will introduce ideas and practices that will help support greater mental health and intimacy within relationships.
“The strength I see in Tim is his deep connection to his true authentic self and his persistence to lovingly show others how they too can connect to their centre. His willingness to take risks and try new things is what I want to carry with me. To know who you are and help other find that in themselves and see the humans is in others is a gift that I am grateful he shares with the world.”
Format for learning and growing:
The meeting will take place on Zoom and will include meditation, exercises, sculpts, demonstration, presentations, group discussion, breakout room discussions, and other formats to help fulfill the aforementioned purposes of the meeting.
The Self-Connection workshop is a good fit for people looking for personal and professional growth and:
Would like to get unstuck from their survival coping patterns and live with more freedom and vitality
Want to connect with themselves and learn to be true and authentic in the world and with others
Would like to experience the present moment free of the burdens of the past and anxieties of the future.
Would like to explore and learn more about who they truly are
Have feelings of not being good enough and wish to genuinely value themselves
Experiencing burnout in various roles in their life and wish to connect to greater energy and vitality in life
Want to receive and give support in a caring accepting context
Want to learn to live with love, dignity and integrity and healthy boundaries with other people
Would like to overcome and transform difficult emotions and relationship challenges
“I appreciated Tim’s deep sensitivity and responsiveness to the group — it was all challenging but positive. I learned a lot from the teaching, the breath-work was helpful and meaningful and at the right level of difficulty for me, and I learned a lot from the different activities and explorations we did. The main strength I’d want to point out though is his ability to step me or anyone out of the logical “details” of what’s happening in a situation, and transform the conversation instead into the emotional and subconscious components of it.”
Topics to be covered:
Self-Connection (What is it. The lived experience) and the universal resources that put us back in touch with ourselves
How to contain one’s emotions and create healthy boundaries with others.
Grounding techniques: Connecting to Self, knowing your worth and value
Self-Connection practices incorporating breath, movement, music. A fully embodied meditative practice that can help bring you to the present moment after a single session and process emotions.
Breathwork: learn to listen to your body and breathe the breath you need.
Containment: Create a holding space for your experience to face difficulties honestly
Creating Healthy Boundaries: Learn how to create and maintain healthy boundaries with others
Transforming stuck experiences: Evolving negative emotions with your inner resources
How to transform your coping patterns. Heal and move toxic emotions/ experiences that are stuck
Discovering the roots of Self: Knowing your Self through your most important values
Differentiating Self from Role: Manifesting Self through role and not getting lost in the impulses of ego. Reconciling roles/ego and your authentic Self
Benefits of group process
support and wisdom of the group (Communal holding space for growth and healing)
ongoing support through working partner and triadic subgroups (practice and embodied practice)
increase intensity through integration of psychoeducation and experiential process integrating what you know and experiencing in the here and now.
ongoing meditation/Self-Connection practices between sessions (video/audio resources) and written material to supplement session learning
Sculpting experiential process for transformation of patterns with the benefit of a safe and growthful space of like-minded individuals.
Structure and cost of group
Group will meet in 12 week cycles.
Beginning Sunday January 23 2022 until April 10, 2022 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. (Meeting takes place every Sunday)
Cost is $80 per 90 min session x 12 - $960 total (Can be paid either in full before session begins or in two halves (once before session begins and once before week 7 (March 6 session))
Group size would be a maximum of 9 people.
“Tim, I so admire your commitment to this group and your confidence in taking this risk to try something new and unique via zoom. Your ability to be honest and never getting defensive is an asset that makes for a wonderful partner in building wellness. I appreciate your patience with my need for more information and see a true respect and non-judgmental approach to my and everyone’s feelings and needs. I also appreciate your willingness to share a bit about yourself which is unique in a counselling type situation. Having the insight to bring us all together has helped my growth and made me feel less alone in my own journey. With thanks and gratitude.”
“The breathing/meditations, the slides/teaching, and the sculpts/discussions have all been very helpful in their own ways. Supporting others and hearing their stories of what they’re struggling with, has been valuable to me in thinking about my own situations. I am grateful for the support and insights so far. I like the music during the breathing exercises.”
“Tim, your commitment to the group is truly appreciated. I have learned so much from you with your diverse knowledge and expertise. You created a safe space for us to practice and explore. I have over these past 12 weeks grown and found peace within myself. I still have challenges and pitfalls to face, but I feel more grounded and whole. You are a true inspiration and I applaud your sustained effort to help us both individually and collectively. ”
Questions?
If you are interested and would like to know if this group would be a good fit, Tim is offering a free 30 minute consultation to discuss the group and its content and to ensure a good fit. You can contact him by email to set up this time or ask any question you may have tim@thinkmove.ca
Registration form below.
Group facilitated by: Tim Sitt, MSW, RSW
Tim Sitt’s Bio
Tim is a child and family therapist, registered social worker, couple’s therapist and psychotherapist in private practice. Tim has many years of experience, working in community-based mental health centers helping individuals (children, youth and adults), couples, and families who are experiencing emotional and/or relationship distress and would like to heal and learn positive ways to cope with life’s inevitable challenges.
He helps people face the difficulties within their experience and to heal from negative impacts they have experienced. People and families that Tim works with often struggle with various symptoms like depression, anxiety, conflict, relationship dissatisfaction, trouble at school, and are seeking ways to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life that comes from a motivation to reduce symptoms but in positive transformational growth.
His work emphasizes learning new ways of coping and is inspired by the late family therapist, Virginia Satir’s philosophy: “The problem is not the problem. The coping with the problem is the problem.” He works with individuals, families, and groups to find new ways of coping that honor the various needs of each.
The relationship based models of therapy inform Tim’s approach in working with people concretely and experientially, which helps them get more in touch with themselves and their present experience. When we make deep contact with ourselves we get in touch with our many resources and change is possible. Tim’s aim is that you will find him to be open and real, and available for making genuine human contact. Tim’s approach balances client-centered empathy with an ability to be firm and challenging when appropriate. The balance of acceptance and change is an important dynamic in any effective therapy. Tim is considered by colleagues and clients to be compassionate, intelligent and creative.
Coming from a combined background as a Registered Social Worker (MSW,RSW) and Personal Trainer, Tim is also the CEO/Founder of Corporate Wellness company, ThinkMOVE, that helps organizations address the issue of being sedentary with breaks that address physical and mental health. He is passionate about helping people incorporate health into their daily lives at work and home. You can learn about this work at www.thinkmove.ca He is the author of an upcoming book titled: MOVE or die: How the Sedentary Life is Killing Us and How Movement, Not Exercise, Can Save Us.
Tim’s psychotherapy practice integrates physical and mental health as well as family and relationship health. His approach is experiential and takes into account the moment to moment experience of the body, which includes breath, muscle tension, and sensory experience. His approach is also systemic which means he explores the intrapsychic dynamics of an individual (feelings, perceptions, expectations) in conjunction with interpersonal patterns of relating.
Tim also brings to his practice diverse experiences in adult and children’s mental health, mindfulness meditation, martial arts, and dance. He has a love for reading, learning and connecting with people. He considers it an honor and privilege to the work of healing with all those with whom he comes into contact.
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