Free Self-Empathy and Empowerment Session Saturday
Next week, Jupiter will leave the empathetic waters of Cancer after spending the last year there. And just beforehand, the moon will be in Sagittarius. This is the last time the moon will be ruled by an exalted Jupiter until May of 2037, which somehow doesn't even seem like a real date!
I wanted to mark and celebrate Jupiter's final moments in its most spectacular sign by hosting a free, live Self-Empathy and Empowerment session this Saturday at 11am Mountain Time (10am Pacific, 12pm Central, 1pm Eastern). This is my gift to you as Jupiter crosses my own Midheaven degree (IYKYK).
I often teach concepts in my public work, but this isn't a lecture. This is a practice. You'll bring one current challenge, something that, if it shifted, would genuinely make your life more wonderful. We'll work it together: vent it, feel what's underneath it, name the need that isn't being met, mourn that intentionally, and make space for your own intuition to offer you a way forward.
Forty-five minutes of real practice, and a few minutes after for me to share about ways you can continue to do this kind of work with me. 50-55 minutes total. To learn more, check out my FAQs below.
Saturday, 11am Mountain. Hope to see you there!
FAQ (A Guide for the Skeptical, the Curious, and Those Who Already Know They Need This)
Q: Isn't self-empathy a little gratuitous?
A: Only if you think your needs are gratuitous, which, respectfully, is the kind of belief I'm called to question. We might on one hand consider empathy for others a virtue, while simultaneously thinking empathy for ourselves is indulgent. That double standard is doing a lot of quiet damage and personally, I'd like to challenge it a bit on Saturday.
Q: Why would I voluntarily mourn something? That sounds like a terrible Saturday.
A: Because the alternative isn't actually not-mourning, it's mourning anyway, slowly, sideways, for years, in the form of resentment, fatigue, and a low hum of dissatisfaction you can barely put your finger on. A real, brief, intentional grieving lends to a much better Saturday than a week or a year or a lifetime of the alternative, IMHO.
Q: Do I have to share my most private stuff with a bunch of strangers?
A: No. No one needs to know the details of what you're actually going through. The process happens internally, on your own page, in your own words. I do ask that cameras stay on for the process, because it meets the need for connection and community in the room. When we get to the part where you're invited to mourn, however, and sit with the pain of an unmet need, you're welcome to turn your camera off if you need to. That said, being witnessed in your mourning is a holy gift to the people around you, if you're want to stay visible for it. Either way is totally fine with me. At the end of the process, I will invite people to share about their experience, which will be totally voluntarily.
Q: What's actually empowering about any of this?
A: Knowing what you need and trusting yourself enough to take actual steps to meet that need is a strong working definition of inner authority. Most of us were never really taught this skill. We were taught to perform “fine.” This session is 45 minutes of doing the opposite of performing “fine,” intentionally, and with support.
Q: What's really possible in this process?
A: Frankly more than 45 minutes should reasonably allow. People will likely leave having really experienced something they may have been avoiding for months, named a need they didn't have words for the hour before, and journeyed off with a strategy their own intuition handed them. That's my hope for the whole shebang. I just gently lead you through the process. You do the rest, and it tends to go way further and deeper than people expect.
Q: Is this therapy?
A: No, I'm not a therapist and this isn't a clinical session. I am a Level 2 Empowerment Practitioner, someone formally trained in Pastoral Care, and a counseling professional with over a decade of experience. Saturday is something different: a structured, healing practice you can learn to use on your own, long after the session has passed. More than one client has told me they got more out of a single Self-Empathy and Empowerment process than years of traditional therapy. This practice, rooted in NVC, has been an incredible supplement to my own therapy, and in fact has fast-tracked me through a lot of difficulties I'd been carrying for years.
Q: Do I need to know anything about Nonviolent Communication or astrology to come?
A: Not at all. Just bring the challenge and a willingness to feel it for forty-five minutes.
Q: What if nothing new happens for me?
A: Then we'll have had forty-five quiet minutes together and that's valuable, too. Nothing is required to happen for this to count.
What you'll need:
Paper and pen, or a word document, whatever you prefer to write on
A current situation that is causing you challenge, discomfort, or even pain
Optional but suggested: 30-60 minutes built into your schedule after the session to be gentle with yourself. Give yourself some space before jumping in to the next thing on your Saturday.
A couple of logistics: Registration closes 2 hours before the session — so by 9am Mountain Time on Saturday. Everyone registered by then will get the Zoom link by email shortly after.
This session won't be recorded. This is profound work, and I've noticed that people rightfully censor their process if it's being digitally memorialized. If you can't make it live, I hope to do more of these.
Saturday, June 27, 11am Mountain. Hope to see you there!