New body/soul-nourishing course for tired healers

Karin von Daler·Aug 31, 2023· 3 minutes

Create, Play, and Rest Yourself WHOLE

A creative, nurturing, and playful stress- and trauma-sensitive personal growth and supervision program for tired caregivers

Are you a therapist, teacher, healer, educator, social or health professional who often feels stressed, empty, or burnt out? Would you like to feel safer, more alive, and energized – more whole and at home in yourself?

Do you struggle with:

Setting boundaries?
Remembering to give yourself the care and attention you give others?
Avoiding conflict, instead smiling, raging, or withdrawing?
Helping others easily but finding it hard to receive good help yourself?
Feeling overwhelmed by endless tasks that are neither satisfying nor meaningful?
Knowing what you truly want from your work life?
Prioritizing what is best for your body and soul, or always putting it last?
Recovering your rhythm and path after stress or burnout?

If this resonates, it may be a sign that your relationship with yourself needs healing. Perhaps you have lost – or never fully developed – true self-loving confidence in yourself, your body, your gifts, your calling, and your connection to others.

About the course

In this brand-new course, designed especially for our times, you will have the opportunity to:

Create and play
Learn to have a better relationship with yourself
Begin to heal and help others in a healthier way

Through play, creativity, and safe contact with yourself and others, you will activate the most developed and “healthiest” function of your nervous system – the social engagement system. From here, you can better care for yourself when interacting with others and enjoy it fully.

You will learn to:

Love yourself more and give yourself care and compassion.
Move out of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses.
Use self-loving inner dialogues and role-play to feel more confidently connected to yourself and others.
Stimulate your nervous system and organism to regenerate and rest through breathing, singing, and humming.
Build deep and safe connections with others through movement and meditative “dance.”
Rest your way to a better life through guided musical meditations, drawing, and mini-paintings.
Create small, effective self-care rituals that fit into your everyday life.

Three learning methods

Personal development and creative work on your relationship with yourself.
Short, concise teaching presentations on trauma- and stress-informed theories and methods learned through years of work as a trauma therapist and educator, combined with art therapy methods I developed:
- Expressive Arts Therapeutic Integral Trauma Healing
- Creative Mindfulness
- Embodied Imaging
- The Art of Self-Healing Cards (included in the course)
Supervision of your work with clients, students, or citizens, with a focus on your role and countertransference: How your own stress and insecurities affect the themes you encounter most, and how working with these aspects can make you a healthier helper. (No case studies will be used.)

Practical details

The course starts with a pilot group in Copenhagen, with online options later.
Meetings are approximately once a month for four hours, starting January 2024, in my office in Copenhagen or online.
The program consists of 6 sessions over about six months.
Session times will be chosen based on participants’ availability:
- Thursdays 3–7 PM
- Saturdays 10 AM–2 PM
- Fridays 1–5 PM
Price: 1399 DKK per session (monthly payment) or 7900 DKK for the full course.
The program is a coherent whole – participants commit to all sessions. Cancellation due to illness is, of course, allowed.