Sometimes our hustle for worthiness creates space in the place where it matters most, with our partner.  We become accustomed to protecting instead of connecting. The courage to be vulnerable becomes increasingly more difficult if we've disengaged or let past hurts and betrayals build up. 

This weekend intensive for couples offers you real tools to achieve greater peace, authenticity and connection in your relationship.  We will explore the concepts of trust, vulnerability, empathy, and rumbling with our stories in the context of your relationship and you'll have an opportunity to put these tools into practice with your partner.  

Content for this group is based on the research of Dr. Brene Brown. 

Weekend Schedule:
Friday 3-6
Saturday 9-4
Sunday 9-2

Investment: $800/couple (space is limited to five couples)
Registration: info@sarahp4therapy.com or 303.995.3763

What would it be like to create a brave new ending to the story of struggle you keep bumping up against? Rather than spending time and energy in the same stuck path you've been in, Rising Strong™ is here to help you create a new path.

This weekend intensive offers you an opportunity to dive into your story and look at it in a way you've never looked at it before. I am confident you'll walk away having created a brave new ending to your struggle.

Workshop Schedule: January 13-15 (Friday 1-6, Saturday 9-4, Sunday 9-2)

Location: 930 Logan St. #101 Denver, CO 80203 - this is an in-person workshop

Investment: $600 Early Bird until December 31, 2022, $650 in the new year.

A 50% deposit is required to reserve your spot, space is limited to ten participants. Six participants are required for this workshop.

What would it be like to create a brave new ending to the story of struggle you keep bumping up against? Rather than spending time and energy in the same stuck path you've been in, Rising Strong™ is here to help you create a new path.

This weekend intensive offers you an opportunity to dive into your story and look at it in a way you've never looked at it before. I am confident you'll walk away having created a brave new ending to your struggle.

Workshop Schedule: April 8-10, 2022 (Friday 1-6, Saturday 9-4, Sunday 9-2)

Location: 930 Logan St. #101 Denver, CO 80203 - this is an in-person workshop

Investment: $450

A 50% deposit is required to reserve your spot, space is limited to eight participants. Six participants are required for this workshop.

Email info@sarahp4therapy.com for registration details. 

BOOKS | BONDING | BRAVERY

I’m bringing book club back, but with a twist! Join me this spring for an 8-week group where we’ll connect over reviewing two therapeutic books, and two movies. This group will meet Wednesdays from 5:30-7pm in-person, but we will adjust to a virtual platform if necessary due to COVID concerns.

Investment: $225 for 8-week group

Space is limited - email info@sarahp4therapy.com or call 303.995.3763 if you have questions about the book club, or if you’d like to register.

8-Week Agenda
April 6 - “Atlas of the Heart” - Introduction through Chapter 5
April 13 - “Atlas of the Heart” - Chapter 6 through Chapter 9
April 20 - “Atlas of the Heart” - Chapter 10 through the end
April 27 - CinemaTherapy, movie TBD
May 4 - “No Bad Parts” - Forward, Introduction, and Part One
May 11 - “No Bad Parts” - Part Two
May 18 - “No Bad Parts” - Part Three through the end
May 25 - CinemaTherapy, movie TBD

The Books

Atlas Of The Heart - Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
By: Dr. Brené Brown

“If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.”

No Bad Parts - Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

“Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind - and healing the many parts that make you who you are.
Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz’s research now challenges this “mono-mind” theory. “All of us are born with many sub-minds - or parts,” says Dr. Schwartz. “These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within us - and the key to health and happiness is to honor, understand, and love every part.”

What Is Rising Strong™?

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong™ is a book and curriculum about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and the clearest path to a wholehearted life.

Throughout the past year+ I’ve witnessed and listened to a lot of falls. The collective grief and trauma that the pandemic created has put many in a state of overwhelm and depression, and the prevalence of numbing and relationship disappointment are up. Our resources to manage our challenges are so fatigued. How do we show up in new ways when we feel so depleted and spent?

When I thought about getting back to offering weekend intensives, I knew without a doubt, Rising Strong™ was the journey I wanted to guide people on. For the “brave and brokenhearted,” let’s come together to create a collective of healing, hope, and compassion.

This weekend intensive offers you an opportunity to dive into your story and look at it in a way you've never looked at it before. I am confident you'll walk away having created a brave new ending to your struggle.

Weekend Logistics and Details

Workshop Schedule: Friday 1-6, Saturday 9-4, Sunday 9-2
Location: Ward, CO (camping and cabin space available)
Investment: $600/person (includes workshop materials, water, and snacks) a 50% deposit is required to reserve your spot, space is limited to eight participants. A signed liability waiver is required for all participants, as well as COVID vaccination.

Camping Details: You are invited to stay on-site during the weekend intensive. The cabin is quite rustic (no electricity or running water, but there is an outhouse!), and sits in a beautiful, secluded area. If you stay on-site, there are spaces to pitch a tent, or park a camper/van if that’s how you roll. If you’re open to sharing space with other participants, there’s also seven separate beds in the cabin.

As for food. I will provide water and snacks during the workshop times. Outside of that, you’re asked to bring your own meals. A camping stove will be available, as well as a grill. If there are no fire bans, you’ll also have the option to cook in the open fire.

Outside of workshop time, I invite you to use the space to relax, hike, sit around the fire, and indulge in self-care!

Books | Bonding | Bravery

My summer book club is continuing into the fall. Please join me for the books that most appeal to you, or make book club your regular Wednesday evening thing! Each month we’ll focus on one book (self-help or spirituality genre) for three weeks. This process will invite you to take a deeper look at your heart, your mind, and your relationships. The best part is that you’ll be doing this while in connection with others!

Pricing, dates, and books are below. The book club meets on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7pm, and for now we meet via Zoom.

Pricing:
$75 for 1 Month
$135 for 2 Months
$180 for 3 Months
$220 for 4 Months

September 9, 16, 23 (5:30-7pm) - Register
”Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships” By: Stan Tatkin
Based upon key insights from neurobiology, attachment theory, and emotion regulation research, Your Brain on Love will show you how to change the way you relate with others and open the way to greater love and connection. "Is it you or is it me?" Understanding how the attachment styles of others interact with your own.

October 7, 14, 21 (5:30-7pm)
Know My Name: A Memoir By: Chanel Miller
Content Warning - This book discusses sexual assault, PTSD, and rape culture.
In this memoir of trauma and transcendence, Chanel Miller illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.

November 4, 11, 18 (5:30-7pm) Register
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know By: Malcolm Gladwell
Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

December 2, 9, 16 (5:30-7pm) Register
The Book of Forgiving By: Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. “The Book of Forgiving” is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.

Space is limited - email info@sarahp4therapy.com or call 303.995.3763 if you have questions about the book club, or if you’d like to register.

Are you looking for a Plan B this summer?

Many of us have had to cancel plans, rearrange our schedules, and let go of our predictable summer experiences. This time of the Coronavirus brings uncertainty into many aspects of our lives. What I’m hearing from others, and feeling myself is that this increased sense of vulnerability also ignites more fear and anxiety, sadness and loneliness, and at times, great hopelessness.

I offer you a Plan B! I’m running three book club “clusters” this summer. Each cluster will focus on one book for three weeks. and the genre is spirituality/self-help. This process will invite you to take a deeper look at your heart, your mind, and your relationships. The best part is that you’ll be doing this while in connection with others!

Pricing, dates, and books are below. The book club meets on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7pm, and for now they’ll be run via Zoom. You can join the book club for as many clusters as you’d like!

Pricing:
1 Cluster - $75
2 Clusters - $135
3 Clusters - $180

Cluster 1 - June 10, 17, 24 (5:30-7pm)
”The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships” By: Harriet Lerner
First published in 1985, this book is an oldie but goodie! It’s often sited as one of the best self-help books of all times for women.

Cluster 2 - July 8, 15, 22 (5:30-7pm)
Untamed By: Glennon Doyle
Let’s have a courageous conversation about where we are playing small and what it might look/feel like to unleash our truth.

Cluster 3 - August 5, 12, 19 (5:30-7pm)
More Myself: A Journey By: Alicia Keys
I’ve heard the audio version of this book is a must, as it includes guest appearances and music!

Space is limited - email info@sarahp4therapy.com or call 303.995.3763 if you have questions about the summer book club, or if you’d like to register.

Embark on a Daring Greatly Journey

Are you ready to fully embrace and accept yourself? The Daring Greatly™ Weekend Intensive is a workshop designed by Dr. Brené Brown, based on her research on courage, worthiness, vulnerability, and shame.  This curriculum will help you translate her principles into the way you live your life.

Join Certified Daring Way Facilitator and Consultant, Sarah Phillips, LCSW, for this weekend intensive where you will:

• experience connection, you are not alone

• stand in your worth and truly live the ideas you've been reading about

• practice wholehearted living with others that value improving their self-compassion and relationships with others.

Workshop Schedule: Friday 1-6, Saturday 9-4, Sunday 9-2

Investment: Early Bird Pricing Through December 24, 2019 $550

Regular Pricing December 25, 2019 - January 24, 2020 $625

Cost includes snacks, workshop materials, and the 3-day workshop. (A 50% deposit required to reserve your spot, space is limited to eight participants)

To register or for more information, contact Sarah Phillips at 303-995-3763 or info@sarahp4therapy.com.

What would it be like to create a brave new ending to the story of struggle you keep bumping up against? Rather than spending time and energy in the same stuck path you've been in, Rising Strong™ is here to help you create a new path.

This weekend intensive offers you an opportunity to dive into your story and look at it in a way you've never looked at it before. I am confident you'll walk away having created a brave new ending to your struggle.

Workshop Schedule:  Friday 1-6pm, Saturday and Sunday 9-4

Location: Denver, CO

Investment: Early Bird Pricing Through August 20th $500

Regular Pricing After August 20th $575

Cost includes snacks, workshop materials and 3-day workshop. (A 50% deposit required to reserve your spot, space is limited)

Email info@sarahp4therapy.com for registration details. 

Sometimes our hustle for worthiness creates space in the place where it matters most, with our partner.  We become accustomed to protecting instead of connecting. The courage to be vulnerable becomes increasingly more difficult if we've disengaged or let past hurts and betrayals build up. 

This weekend workshop for couples offers you real tools to achieve greater peace, authenticity and connection in your relationship.  We will explore the concepts of trust, vulnerability, empathy, and rumbling with our stories in the context of partnership. During the workshop, you'll have an opportunity to put these tools into practice with your partner and discover you’re not alone in your struggles to put your armor away and show up authentically in your relationship.  

All content for this group is based on the research of Dr. Brene Brown. 

Workshop Schedule:  Friday 6-9 and Saturday 9-5

Location: Denver, CO

Investment: $500/couple

Cost includes snacks, lunch on Saturday, all materials and 2-day workshop. (A 50% deposit required to reserve your spot, space is limited)

Email info@sarahp4therapy.com for registration details. 

Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Are you engaging in the world from a place of worthiness? This group is about learning to be wholehearted and exploring why we focus so much on what other people think. It’s about stepping into the belief, I AM PERFECT and I AM ENOUGH!

Think of this group as a book club + art journaling + a safe space for sharing and exploring our imperfections. Over the 6-weeks we will:

• Read The Gifts of Imperfection By: Brené Brown

• Explore the guideposts for wholehearted living via creative workbook activities

• DIG Deep (Get Deliberate; Get Inspired; Get Going) and make commitments on how we’re going to incorporate what we’re learning into your everyday life.

• Create a safe space where we can share and practice what we’re learning. We will SHOW UP | BE SEEN | LIVE BRAVE.

Dates: Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7:30pm starting March 13-April 24, 2019.
No group on March 27th.

Investment: $375/person

Participant Materials:

• A copy of The Gifts of Imperfection

• Gifts of Imperfection Workbook (provided)

• Art supplies (some of this is provided, you’re welcome to supplement as you’d like)

• Photographs or cut-outs from magazines (these will be specific to each lesson).

I look forward to talking with you more about this 6-week group. Please call or email me if you’d like to register or if you have questions. 303.995.3763 or info@sarahp4therapy.com

Embark on a Daring Greatly Journey

Are you ready to fully embrace and accept yourself? The Daring Way™ Weekend Intensive is a workshop designed by Dr. Brené Brown, based on her research on courage, worthiness, vulnerability, and shame.  This curriculum will help you translate her principles into the way you live your life.

Join Certified Daring Way Facilitator and Consultant, Sarah Phillips, LCSW, for this weekend intensive where you will:

• experience connection, you are not alone

• stand in your worth and truly live the ideas you've been reading about

• practice wholehearted living with others that value improving their self-compassion and relationships with others.

Workshop Schedule: Friday 1-6, Saturday 9-4, Sunday 9-2

Investment: Early Bird Pricing Through December 25, 2018 $500

Regular Pricing December 26, 2018 - January 25, 2019 $575

Cost includes snacks, lunch on Saturday and Sunday, all materials and 3-day workshop. (A 50% deposit required to reserve your spot, space is limited to eight participants)

To register or for more information, contact Sarah Phillips at 303-995-3763 or info@sarahp4therapy.com.

What would it be like to create a brave new ending to the story of struggle you keep bumping up against? Rather than spending time and energy in the same stuck path you've been in, Rising Strong™ is here to help you create a new path.

This weekend intensive offers you an opportunity to dive into your story and look at it in a way you've never looked at it before. I am confident you'll walk away having created a brave new ending to your struggle.

Workshop Schedule:  Friday 1-6, Saturday 9-4 and Sunday 9-4

Location: Denver, CO

Investment: Early Bird Pricing Through August 20, 2018 $500

Regular Pricing After August 20, 2018 $575

Cost includes snacks, lunch on Saturday and Sunday, all materials and 3-day workshop. (A 50% deposit required to reserve your spot, space is limited)

Email info@sarahp4therapy.com for registration details. 

Sometimes our hustle for worthiness creates space in the place where it matters most, with our partner.  We become accustomed to protecting instead of connecting. The courage to be vulnerable becomes increasingly more difficult if we've disengaged or let past hurts and betrayals build up. 

This 5-week group for couples offers you real tools to achieve greater peace, authenticity and connection in your relationship.  We will explore the concepts of trust, vulnerability, empathy, and rumbling with our stories in the context of your relationship and you'll have an opportunity to put these tools into practice with your partner.  

All content for this group is based on the research of Dr. Brene Brown. 

Group Meetings are from 5:30-7:30 on the following dates:
September 12, 19, 26, October 3, and 10

Investment: $500/couple
Registration: contact info@sarahp4therapy.com