Relating to the Impossible
Somatic mentorship & skill building for practitioners, facilitators & space holders
We begin Aug 1. Book a 20 minute call with me to get started:
What do we do when things feel impossible? Unanswerable?
When there is no immediate solution… and yet so much need remains?
We widen our capacity
to be with that which cannot be
fixed, solved or explained away.
to be with that which cannot be
fixed, solved or explained away.
We have all been there — a beloved client enters our space & brings something so heavy, so hard, so impossible that we just don't have the embodied capacity to meet it with skill.
Try as we may, our threat responses enter the room & take over…
We rush in, offer advice and try to fix the issue (soothing ourselves in the process)
We speed up, give more information–share counter arguments, potential solutions & positive perspectives
We collapse into old shapes–taking on the difficulty in our bodies, merge where there was once healthy differentiation & embody the somatic energies they bring
We fight against reality, pathologize and give overly simplistic labels for deeply human experiences
We fawn, aiming to "relate" and soothe the other without truly understanding the subjective experience of the unique individual sitting in front of us
We dissociate and move into a professional functional freeze
We know how to say all the right things in faux regulation
We feel shame, overwhelm, embarrassment–like an impostor
Isn't it our job to solve this pain? (It's not.)
All of which keeps us from real relating.
All of which is us soothing our own discomfort. All of which the client can feel.
My beloved friend, it's sooo human to experience the edges of our capacity when it comes to holding space for life's most challenging topics. Especially if we have not met our own impossible.
Meeting our edges with life's impossible topics is inevitable — the question is whether we are ready to bolster our skill and widen our capacity.
Imagine now that the impossible is held inside a wide base of support.
You alone, the practitioner, don't have to solve, fix or alleviate any pain. Instead, your job is to stay in resonance — to open wider to the pain, as well as the support all around.
The client feels your presence and is soothed.
Their pain is welcomed without fear of being "too much."
They feel recognized in their unique experience.
The solution for the impossible arises — not because you said the "right thing" but because your embodied presence has made a miracle:
The correct conditions have now arisen for the client to digest their experience in a small, doable piece.
Through your somatic skill & capacity, you open them to more.
In Relating to the Impossible, you will develop the inner tone to sit with chaos, fragmentation, distortion, terror, grief, rage… without getting lost in the momentum of the other.
You will bolster your energetic boundaries & protect yourself from taking on what clients bring–without guarding against, bracing or dissociating. You will learn to remain open, resonant and available to whatever the other brings.
You will explore an ecosystem of More Than Human support for resourcing, stabilizing & soothing your own somatic body, so you can offer presence to the other, while staying with yourself.
And through this new way of relating to difficulty, you will deepen your understanding of circular leadership–keeping your humanity in the room & maintaining a strong Self while honoring role clarity.
Relating To The Impossible Includes:
Each Practice Lab will include 5 minutes of welcome, 25 minutes of teaching, and an hour of active somatic practice. You will go beyond knowing what people need, and become the embodied presence that can actually Relate to the Impossible.
3-month container
$900 in full or $300/month
6 x 90-minute Practice Labs on Zoom
Tuesdays 5pm CST
12 people max
We begin July 21
Develop the skill, capacity and somatic sovereignty to be with the impossible.
It’s so clear that our culture lacks the skill, rituals, capacity & tools to be with the hard parts of life. I’m sure you’re witnessing it, too:
Relational tensions & fallouts. Avoidance & scapegoating the vulnerable. Political unrest & tech giants that care nothing for our earth or our humanity. Increasing collective grief & despair.
All of these & more leave many helping professionals at a loss… years of "inner work" and still, so much remains undone & fragmented.
Centuries of colonialism, capitalism & patriarchy have stripped us of our rituals, our grief, our rage, our ability to be with one another in life's most impossible circumstances. Even healing professionals are burnt out from living inside of the conditions which harm their own clients.
Learning to Relate to the Impossible is the emergent skill we need to hold opposing truths, double binds & what feels hopeless.
Join & develop your capacity to stay here & now.
Get your questions answered—
Is this a certification?
Nope. This is a practice lab for embodying somatic safety & resilience — not a certification. This is a container for active skill development & somatic capacity building. This does not qualify you to coach or teach somatics or trauma-informed skills.
Is this a space to process personal grief?
We are not doing personal therapy/coaching in this space— we are developing skills, tools and active practice to sit with the topic itself and what it brings up inside of us as Adult Professionals. That being said, personal content comes with us everywhere and is likely to arise when we sit with difficulty. Be mindful of adequate support needed outside of the training to digest personal grief that is arising. I will have space for 1-1 sessions for support if desired.
Impossible topics we may sit with include the personal, familial, systemic and existential.
You will get to choose the level of "impossible" you have capacity to sit with. Included but not limited to:
Chronic pain, illness or diagnosis
Poverty, job loss, toxic capitalism
Single parenting, divorce, betrayal, loss of relationship
Death of adult, child or infant CSA, active abuse
Climate grief, AI, techno-authoritarianism
Identity wounds: un-belonging, orphan archetype, marginalization, neurocomplexity, racism, homophobia, ableism & more.
Who is this for?
Facilitators, space holders & practitioners of all kinds, including but not limited to:
Coaches
Somatic practitioners
Therapists Doctors, nurses, medical professionals
Social workers
Caregivers
Doulas & midwives
Hands-on bodyworkers, massage therapists, reiki practitioners, acupuncturists
Teachers & educators of all kinds
Facilitators of group work
Activists
Fitness professionals
Physical therapists
Hairdressers & aesthetic technicians
Managers & business owners with small teams
Highly sensitive space-holders
What does the education include?
It’s likely you already know so much. Which is why this training is educational and experiential. Each call will include a 25 minute educational lesson, with an hour of active somatic practice with guidance and supervision, group process & integration.
You will be learning and applying the skills and tools in real time, which are rooted in somatic, mystic and shamanic (Earth-based) wisdom.
Each call will include a topical theme, with choice as to how deep you go with that difficult topic.
You will leave this training with the principles & foundations of creating the right conditions to stay present with the impossible, and the embodied skill to actually do it in real time.
You will leave this 3-month experience with live practice of every tool offered. You will receive handouts, a short reading list, as well as a handful of podcasts.
How to get started:
Register below, or find a time to connect with me for a 20 minute consult on Zoom right here:
Join us Summer 2026
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Relating to the Impossible will help you:
🔮 Stay resourced when another person's (or your own) impossible shows up in the room
🔮 Learn healthy differentiation & boundaries without moving into avoidance, intellectualization or dissociation
🔮 Relate without fawning, merging or taking on that which isn't yours
🔮 Move out of functional freeze & faux regulation so many helping professionals live inside of (and suffer the consequences of)
🔮 Truly BE WITH the person sitting in front of you, offering coregulation, stability and support
🔮 Move out of double-bind territory and into the realm of miracles, without bypassing, denying or guarding against suffering & more!
🔮 Widen your own base of support & resources so you show up as your most Adult Self in and out of session time
🔮 Stay resourced when another person's (or your own) impossible shows up in the room
🔮 Move outside of top-down, hierarchical paradigms of healing, leadership & space-holding