Women’s Circle meets in Blacksburg, Virginia on Sundays from 3:00 – 4:15 PM.
A description of Women’s Circle is here.
Topics, resources and handouts are listed in most recent order. Please note: Due to storage limitations, handouts without links are available only during sessions in which they are used.
“Whereas the egocentric hero sets out to conquer the world, the existential hero seeks to face reality and conquer fear through attitudes such as resoluteness and authenticity.”
– Frances Vaughan
7/10/22
Inner wisdom, deep sense of knowing: values
Resources
- Personal Values Card Sort
- The One Thing Core Values card deck
- 3 Meaning and Valued Living Excercises
- Values and Priorities List (from DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheet)
Optional
Please print out this priorities worksheet and follow the directions for doing the priorities exercise on this page.
7/3/22
Review of basics; use of The Dialogue to explore individual concerns
Handouts
- The Basics
- The Dialogue
6/26/22
Exploration of aspects of self-kindness
Secure attachment
- A sense of felt safety
- A sense of being seen and known (attunement)
- The experience of felt comfort (soothing)
- A sense of being valued (expressed delight)
- A sense of support for being and becoming one’s unique best self.
– from The Five Pillars of Attachment
Attunement
A sense of emotional synchrony with self and others.
Meeting of emotional needs
- Safe attachment, safety, security, acceptance, care
- Autonomy, competence, sense of identity
- Free expression of needs and emotions, acknowledgement, validation, appreciation
- Self-control, realistic limits
Secure attachment and attunement in relationships
- “I am the cake. You are the icing.”
- Self-attachment
- Self-attunement
- Self-directed meeting of emotional needs
- Mirroring and appreciation
- Enough, enough of the time vs. all, all the time.
Handouts
6/19/22
- Review of existential awareness skills
- Introduction to existentially-aware dialogues with self and others
Handouts
- The Basics
- The Dialogue
6/12/22
- Introduction to existential awareness skills
- Introduction to schema therapy
Handouts
- The Basics
- The Basics – blank page for drawing
- Schema therapy cards
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