Offerings & Events
Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.
In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit
We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.
Collective Wisdom | Working with Immigrants: Community Care & Safety Planning
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
This workshop is designed to support clinicians and helping professionals in building practical, grounded capacity to support immigrant clients during an increasingly volatile political moment. Facilitated by Smruti Desai and Natasha Moonka, participants will gain concrete tools for safety planning, harm reduction, and building community care, with an emphasis on staying regulated, informed, and relational in the face of heightened risk to immigrant communities.
From Survival Mode to Steady: Practical Tools to Regulate Your Nervous System
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Feeling stuck in survival mode? This 1-hour workshop explores how your nervous system responds to stress and how that affects sleep, digestion, gut health, and hormones. Learn practical, sustainable tools to regulate stress and feel more grounded.
Making Space
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly open studio offering a relaxed, drop-in space to gather, create, and connect over art, snacks, and drinks. Optional art-therapy–inspired prompts available. Supplies provided.
Resource Share: Netweaving & Caseloads
FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL
Netweaving & Caseloads offers a relational, embodied approach to building your practice. Together we’ll reframe networking as netweaving — cultivating referral relationships rooted in reciprocity, trust, and sustainability. This Resource Share Workshop is especially supportive for practitioners in a season of beginning, transition, or re-orienting.
The Grove: A Community Reading Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
The Grove is curated by collective member, Jill Arndt. Jill is a mental health therapist in Fremont, Seattle. She specializes in working with relationships. She is excited to offer this circle to the community as a fellow journeyer in life! Books offer a space for us to connect and to process (or simply be) with others in the daunting questions we often face as humans who are constantly in relationship with ourselves and others.
Supervision Circle with Andrew Fontana
IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS
Supervision is not only a requirement for licensure, it’s a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others. Our Supervision Circles are intentional, intimate, and accessible spaces for associate-level therapists seeking high-quality supervision within a communal learning environment. This circle, supervised by Andrew Fontana, is designed to support clinical development, ethical discernment, and professional identity formation through collaborative, intergenerational mentorship.
Return to the Table
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Return to the Table is a 10-week experiential and communal journey with grief, where weekly sessions help participants build a practice that transforms their relationship with grief using emotional processing and food-centered rituals.
Peer Play Therapy Consult Group with Chessie Snider
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
This monthly Washington State Play Therapy Peer Consult Group is facilitated by Chessie Snider. If you're a Child-Centered Play Therapist, Synergetic Play Therapist, TF-CBT Therapist, EMDR therapist, or Child-Parent Relationship Therapist or other modality, this is for you.
Sleep Support
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A 4-week sleep support group for adults experiencing stress-related sleep challenges. Includes psychoeducation, grounding practices, creative/art-based reflection, group support, and practical tools to help calm the mind and body for deeper rest.
Consult Circle with Shelley Green
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.
Art Walk | The Weight of Soft Things | Reed McCoy
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Please join us in The Apothecary for the The Weight of Soft Things, a solo exhibition by Reed McCoy.
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
The Clinic: Offering Experiments in Expressive Arts in Therapy
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Explore ways to integrate Expressive arts therapy into your practice with Pamela Krueger. You will have the opportunity to experience several creative process examples, along with the related clinical foundations and principles to support them, to gain initial competence in thinking about this therapeutic approach.
Skillshare: Shame as Attachment Figure
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
How might we understand and work with shame in a more explicit and life-giving way by viewing chronic shame as a primary attachment figure. This month’s lunch-and-learn workshop, facilitated by Andrew Fontana, will look at shame through the lens of Attachment theory.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Creative Healers Hub
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Good Grief
A healing space to share and process your grief. All types of loss are welcome. Drawing from the creative arts, drama therapy, ritual, and somatic practices, this 6-week, in person group container offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.
Consult Circle with Shelley Green
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.
Collective Wisdom: Artificial Intimacy — AI, Technology, and the Future of Relating
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
As AI and technology increasingly shape how we relate, this spring’s Collective Wisdom dialogue invites healing practitioners into a grounded, interdisciplinary conversation about Artificial Intimacy: AI, Technology, & the Future of Relating/. Together, we’ll explore how these tools influence our nervous systems, relational patterns, and capacity for genuine human intimacy—without fear or idealization.
Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immersive experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our 15 credit hour training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.
Resource Share: Soul Work Meets Scale
FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL
A practical, heart-centered workshop for therapists and healers who want to deepen their intuitive abilities while building sustainable, ethical practices. Learn how to align spiritual gifts with clear offerings, consistent outreach, and financially healthy structures, without sacrificing integrity or care.
Consult Circle with Shelley Green
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.
Drawing from Dreams
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Step into the mysterious realm of dreams through an art-based exploration of your inner world. Guided by art therapist Angela Amos, this workshop invites you to explore an art-based dream interpretation process through guided meditation, surprise images, and written self-reflection. BYOD (Bring Your Own Dreams)
Death Cafe
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.
Creative Healers Hub
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Collage Party
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join us in community, conversation & creativity. Create a collage (or collages) that are inspired, but not limited to, the topic of community love. What does community love mean to you? What does a loving community look like? What type of community do you wish to see and create?
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Skillshare: Tending to Clients with Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
Deepen your understanding of how to best join and support your clients experiencing chronic illness and pain while learning strategies to work with suffering and nurture client’s potential for self-advocacy.
The Clinic: Supervision Edition
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
The Clinic: Supervision Edition is a live, supervision-centered clinic featuring a panel of experienced supervisors offering real-time case consultation. Rooted in a developmental frame, this clinic centers moments of uncertainty, transition, and complexity in clinical work. Participants are invited to observe, engage, and expand the supervisory field through dialogue and shared curiosity.
Art Walk | The Weight of Soft Things | Reed McCoy
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Please join us in The Apothecary for the opening of The Weight of Soft Things, a solo exhibition by Reed McCoy.
Consult Circle with Shelley Green
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.
Virtual Cacao Circle
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN for a Virtual Cacao Circle. This is an invitation to slow down and reconnect with your heart from home. The gathering invites an intentional pause and includes gentle embodiment practices to support presence and connection.
Peer Play Therapy Consult Group with Chessie Snider
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
This monthly Washington State Play Therapy Peer Consult Group is facilitated by Chessie Snider. If you're a Child-Centered Play Therapist, Synergetic Play Therapist, TF-CBT Therapist, EMDR therapist, or Child-Parent Relationship Therapist or other modality, this is for you.
Return to the Table Preview Session
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
This is a free preview session for Return to the Table, a 10-week experiential and communal journey with grief, where weekly sessions help participants build a practice that transforms their relationship with grief using emotional processing and food-centered rituals.
Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 2
FOR PRACTITIONERS
Working with people means navigating power, race, and trauma. This workshop helps you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US - this workshop will engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies- regardless of religious or non-religious status. Learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.
Improv for Stress
In person
This event is for anyone looking to learn about themselves and get out of their head. Build more confidence, form new connections, and cultivate collaboration in the context of playful, spontaneous interactions. It’s great for practicing flexibility and sitting with ambiguity in a safe setting.
Grief Club
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Grief Club is a community-focused book club and writing circle centered around grief and loss. It is a gentle approach to grief exploration, tending, and support, geared at helping people feel less alone in their grief.
New Year, New Notes
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Join us for our very first Resource Share, a new Shelterwood Collective series offering practical tools and expert guidance to help sustain our businesses.
Making Space
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly open studio offering a relaxed, drop-in space to gather, create, and connect over art, snacks, and drinks. Optional art-therapy–inspired prompts available. Supplies provided.
Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 1
FOR PRACTITIONERS
Working with people means navigating power, race, and trauma. This workshop helps you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US - this workshop will engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies- regardless of religious or non-religious status. Learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.
Cacao + Breathwork
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN for an offering that combines ceremonial cacao with a guided conscious connected breathwork journey. Experience emotional release, listen inward and reconnect with your inner wisdom.
Ask Me Anything - Live Q+A with Functional Nutritionist Hilary Beckwith
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Join Hilary Beckwith, NTP, BCHN, RHP, for a free 1-hour webinar for health-curious individuals. Learn tips from a functional nutrition expert to help you meet your 2026 health goals by focusing on root-cause approaches.
Creative Healers Hub
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Greenhouse: Bookkeeping & Taxes
HYBRID | FOR MEMBERS
Greenhouse is an experiential business development workshop for healing practitioners. Our January workshop will offer best practices for bookkeeping to set you off to a good start in 2026 and orient you to the terrain of tax filing for small businesses.
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
Skillshare Workshop: CNM & Polyamory Affirming Therapy
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
Increase your CNM- and polyamory-affirming skills with a focus on marginalized experiences and common concerns presented in couples and individual therapy.
Art Walk | Small Reverences | Calley E. Morrison
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Please join us in The Apothecary for Art Walk featuring weavings from Calley E. Morrison.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Good Grief
A healing space to share and process your grief. All types of loss are welcome. Drawing from the creative arts, drama therapy, ritual, and somatic practices, this 6-week, in person group container offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.
Shelterwood Winter Solstice Celebration
IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS
As the light wanes and we near the longest night, Shelterwood Collective members are invited to gather to celebrate the turning of the year together.
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.