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.

Mother to Mother
May
15

Mother to Mother

Mothering often comes with constant responsiveness and care for others. This virtual gathering is dedicated time and space for us Mothers to connect with and honor ourselves. Join us in sacred space to be held in ritual, invited into reflection, and present with others on the journey. We welcome you whether your role as mother has past, is present, or in the future.

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Maiden to Mother
May
18

Maiden to Mother

Join us for a restorative and contemplative mini retreat honoring matrescence and the transformative power of stepping into motherhood. The afternoon will be spent in ritual and community and will include meditation, gentle movement, journaling and creative expression, sharing time, and restorative yoga.

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BJ Magic
Jun
5

BJ Magic

Join Olaiya, a certified pleasure and empowerment coach, for an in-person workshop where you’ll learn you how to become a BJ royal and give your partners new levels of full-body pleasure and spine-tingling bliss.

You’ll learn to how to tap into your own turn-on, so you enjoy BJs just as much as your partner—and feel safe, joyful and empowered while giving them!

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Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
Jun
14
to Jun 15

Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training

Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immerse experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.

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Good Grief
Apr
30

Good Grief

This group is a six-week 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 group offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.

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Autism | ADHD: Grief and Relief Group
Apr
12

Autism | ADHD: Grief and Relief Group

This six-week process group is intended for adults who have discovered they are Autistic and/or ADHD in adulthood and are working through the complex identity and relational changes that occur as a result. The group will offer participants to discuss some of the beautiful and more difficult parts of their discovery with others who share similar life experiences.

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Spring Equinox Rituals
Mar
23

Spring Equinox Rituals

The wheel is turning and spring is coming! Join us in The Apothecary for a magical Ostara altar, make-your-own flower essences for emotional well-being, & a refreshing spring tonic! In collaboration with our neighbors at Casa di LaValle we are also delighted to host a Cake for Breakfast Pop Up and a Living Centerpiece Planter Workshop with Cassandra LaValle.

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Greenhouse: Futuring
Mar
22

Greenhouse: Futuring

Hybrid

Greenhouse is a business development offering for healing practitioners designed to foster connection, collaboration, and skill-building. These experiential workshops offer an opportunity to locate your entrepreneurial identity, development business acumen, and actualize an aligned and thriving practice.

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Divorce Support Group
Mar
21

Divorce Support Group

This therapeutic support group is a healing space to share and process your experience of divorce. You are welcome no matter where you are in your transition — discerning, in process, or a few years out.

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Good Grief
Mar
19

Good Grief

This group is a six-week 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 group offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.

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Divorce Support Group
Mar
7

Divorce Support Group

This therapeutic support group is a healing space to share and process your experience of divorce. You are welcome no matter where you are in your transition — discerning, in process, or a few years out.

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Pioneer Square Art Walk: SWATHE by Ellen Cline
Mar
7

Pioneer Square Art Walk: SWATHE by Ellen Cline

We are proud to be holding space for a body of work created by Ellen Cline, a local multidisciplinary artist and psychotherapist.

SWATHE
”I’m curious about how bodily, tactile ways of working with material can shape and change our internal landscapes. In times of ambiguous loss, how do we retrieve, honor, work with what remains? Wrapping, sewing, knitting, and weaving are care-giving gestures that ravel forward a map in the dark.”

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Human Design Slumber Party
Feb
23

Human Design Slumber Party

Virtual

Intuitive guide and Human Design reader Harumi LaDuke will show you how to get oriented to your Human Design chart, learn about your type, and practice embodying how to actually use your design in real life.

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Embodied Wisdom: On Nuance
Feb
16

Embodied Wisdom: On Nuance

Embodied Wisdom is our seasonal rhythm of communal, holistic learning. Our February gathering will focus on Nuance — how do we hold complexity? how is nuance a part of imagination and rebirth?

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Maiden to Mother
Feb
10

Maiden to Mother

Join us for a restorative and contemplative mini retreat honoring matrescence and the transformative power of stepping into motherhood. The afternoon will be spent in ritual and community and will include meditation, gentle movement, journaling and creative expression, sharing time, and restorative yoga.

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Good Grief
Jan
16

Good Grief

This group is a six-week 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 group offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.

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Soulstice: Embrace Shadow, Ignite Light
Dec
30

Soulstice: Embrace Shadow, Ignite Light

Embrace Shadow, Ignite Light

Soulstice is a retreat inspired by the wisdom and beauty of the longest, darkest night. We invite you to gather with us for sacred ritual and ceremony; restorative movement; soul illumination through writing, collage, and dance; and a feast by candlelight.

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Navigating Closeness: An Experiential Workshop for Healing Professionals
Dec
15

Navigating Closeness: An Experiential Workshop for Healing Professionals

Getting Closer to Clients, Getting Clients Closer to Themselves: Navigating Interpersonal Proximity & Intrapersonal Depth & in Session

In this workshop, facilitated by Shelley Green and Corrina Skildum, will explore not only the interventions for flexible movement, but also use experiential methods to notice our own internal experience. What comes up for us as we move towards the client, or the client moves towards themselves? In what ways might we “surface” the client, or bring them into the “there and then” to alleviate our own discomfort?

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Embodied Wisdom: Bias & Compassion
Dec
8

Embodied Wisdom: Bias & Compassion

Hybrid

Embodied Wisdom is our seasonal rhythm of communal, holistic learning. Our December gathering will focus on Bias & Compassion — how do we see? what do we not want to see? how do we become more aware of what we miss (our unconscious bias)? what is the role of compassion in seeing well and acting thoughtfully? An interdisciplinary panel will open our gathering with a collaborative, profoundly-human dialogue; followed by conversation circles and collective reflection/action.

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The Grove: A Reading Circle - Poetry As Spellcasting
Oct
23

The Grove: A Reading Circle - Poetry As Spellcasting

The Grove is a reading circle for creatives and community seekers. We gather monthly to carve out a cozy space for quiet reading, intentional conversation, and connection. Our featured book for October is “Poetry As Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power” by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill, and Lisbeth White.

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Soulfull Sessions: October Edition
Oct
22

Soulfull Sessions: October Edition

This month's theme: Embracing the Changing Season with Ritual

As the days grow shorter and nature's rhythms shift, we invite you to journey inward and find a new rhythm for yourself that embraces the changing season. We will connect with inner stillness through meditation and gentle movement. Our guest co-host Jacqueline Cuayo of Luna Soul Care & Rituals will guide us in exploring how to bring rituals into our daily life for more presence and intentionality.

This is part of a monthly series. To join the email list for future gatherings, email hello(at)lyndajlopez.com

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Embodied Wisdom: On Trust
Oct
20

Embodied Wisdom: On Trust

Embodied Wisdom is our seasonal rhythm of communal, holistic learning. Our October gathering will focus on Trust — how do we connect with our deep knowing, how do we steward space to support folx in creating/deepening this kind of connection to self and other? Harumi LaDuke (intuitive coach, medium, and educator), Joy Hilliker (psychotherapist), and Julie Davidson (therapist and somatic experiencing facilitator) will open our gathering with a collaboratively- interdisciplinary-and-profoundly-human dialogue; followed by conversation circles and collective reflection/action.

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Soulfull Sessions: Reconciliation
Sep
24

Soulfull Sessions: Reconciliation

September's Theme: Reconciliation

We have come through a time of change, transformation, and grief. This has caused personal and collective growth, both needed and uncomfortable. How do we reconcile who we were with who we are becoming? How do we have grace for ourselves when we feel stuck or in process? Join Lynda Lopez, coach for purpose-led leaders, and guest co-host Steph Parrish of Radiant Iris Arts and Friendly Oracle for a guided meditation and profound conversation.

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