
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.

Tending the Heart Garden: A meditation and group processing circle
In Person
Weekly Neighborhood Meditation Circle
Begin your day with calm, intention, and community.
You are welcome to join us in carving out space each week for a grounding meditation circle facilitated by therapist and meditation instructor, Austin Winchester.

Grief Support Group for Women | Weekly on Wednesdays
Virtual
A weekly, drop-in grief support group for women who have experienced the death of a loved one. Share your experience and be supported by other women in a compassionate environment.

Mélodie Knight : Life Is More Colorful With You and You and You and You and You
We are honored to hold space in our Apothecary for Mélodie Knight’s inaugural Seattle exhibition, Life Is More Colorful With You and You and You and You and You. An opening Artist’s reception will be held in tandem with Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Artwalk on April 3 from 4-8pm. Life Is More Colorful With You and You and You and You and You will be on view through May, Thursday-Saturday, 11-5.

The Clinic: Nervous System Repair with Smruti Desai, LMHC
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Smruti Desai we will delve into the complexities of the nervous system and its role in regulation, trauma recovery, and burn out. This clinic will explore advanced techniques for working with the nervous system, helping you to better support your clients in achieving awareness of their somatic processes and increasing their resilience.

Good Grief
6-week virtual group container beginning April 8 through May 13
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.

Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
HYBRID | 15 CEUs
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.

Crafting Circle
Our Crafting Circle offers a warm and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds to gather and work on their projects. Whether you’re into fiber arts, painting, sculpting, sketching, or another portable craft, this group is for anyone looking to expand their creative process in the company of others.

Writing While Tender | A Drop-In Virtual Writing Class
A drop-in virtual writing class facilitated by Sofiya Ko, licensed counselor and expressive arts therapist, Writing While Tender is a trauma-aware container where personal experience will be gently guided into expressive writing.

The Clinic: Psychoanalytic Pragmatism with D. Michael Louderback, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.

The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore the profound impact of limbic resonance on therapeutic relationships and outcomes. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.

Wildheart | Rewilding Retreat
Embark on a journey back to your primal self amidst the untouched beauty of nature. This retreat is an invitation to reconnect with the earth and your own spirit through sound baths, forest meditations, cacao ceremonies, holistic healing through saunas, breath work, and more.

Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness Support Group
8-week virtual group container beginning March 20 through May 1.
This support group offers an 8-week container for gathering in community with others impacted by chronic pain and/or chronic illness to share experiences, learn coping and self-advocacy skills, and connect to resources.

Grief and Relief: Autistic Support Group
6-week virtual group container beginning March 20 through April 24.
A process group for adults who have discovered they are Autistic in adulthood and are working through the complex identity and relational changes that occur as a result.

Spring Equinox Celebration
Join us in Pioneer Square, Seattle to celebrate the arrival of Spring. Enjoy a weekend full of offerings and activities to promote balance, renewal, emergence, and collective intention.

Improv Demo Night
Improv Demo Night welcomes Adults (18+) who have a professional or personal curiosity about our four-week improv series. Come experience the fun before you decide if you’d like to join the full series (or refer folks our way)!

Full Moon Circle ~ Gaining Clarity in the Eclipse
Virtual
This gathering offers us time for sacred pause and connection – to the cycles of the moon, the rhythms of the earth, to our ancestors, community and soul/self. Alexa will guide us into the energy of Virgo. Together, we will focus on how we can connect with the organized and intuitive spirit of Virgo and its corresponding tarot card, the Hermit.

The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore the profound impact of limbic resonance on therapeutic relationships and outcomes. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.

Collage Party
This event is for anyone looking to share in community, conversation & creativity. Participants are invited to 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?

Medical Trauma & Advocacy: Process & Skillshare Group
Virtual
A bi-weekly space facilitated by psychotherapist and activist Carissa Singh to process pains and grow toward self-advocacy.

Crafting Circle
Our Crafting Circle offers a warm and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds to gather and work on their projects. Whether you’re into fiber arts, painting, sculpting, sketching, or another portable craft, this group is for anyone looking to expand their creative process in the company of others.

The Clinic: Psychoanalytic Pragmatism with D. Michael Louderback
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.

Improv for All Seasons | Tuesdays in February
In person
This event is for anyone looking to 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.
Gain more confidence to create and present on the spot in a low-stakes, supportive group setting. Tell stories with creativity. Build on other group members’ ideas and offer your own ideas to the group, as well – and come up with scenes, songs, or jokes together. Take these skills back to your home or work by engaging in family discussions, friendships, and work relationships with more spontaneous strategies, or simply share a few moments with others around you via a giggle or two… or twenty!

The Sacred Slut Circle
In Person
This monthly gathering for women and feminine beings is designed to help you reconnect with your sensuality, embrace pleasure and feel deeply rooted in your sexuality.
Each month, rituals focus on a different theme of erotic embodiment, facilitated by myself and other sex witches, mischief makers and pleasure priestesses.

Crafting Circle
Our Crafting Circle offers a warm and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds to gather and work on their projects. Whether you’re into fiber arts, painting, sculpting, sketching, or another portable craft, this group is for anyone looking to expand their creative process in the company of others.

The Clinic: Nervous System Repair with Smruti Desai
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Smruti Desai we will delve into the complexities of the nervous system and its role in regulation, trauma recovery, and burn out. This clinic will explore advanced techniques for working with the nervous system, helping you to better support your clients in achieving awareness of their somatic processes and increasing their resilience.

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?

Full Moon Circle ~ Following our Curiosities
Virtual
This gathering offers us time for sacred pause and connection - to the cycles of the moon, the rhythms of the earth, to our ancestors, community and soul/self. Please bring a journal and pen, and find a comfortable place to relax for this virtual session. You do not need any past experience working with the lunar cycles or tarot for this event.

Crafting Circle
Our Crafting Circle offers a warm and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds to gather and work on their projects. Whether you’re into fiber arts, painting, sculpting, sketching, or another portable craft, this group is for anyone looking to expand their creative process in the company of others.

The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore the profound impact of limbic resonance on therapeutic relationships and outcomes. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.

Sacred Passage: A Call to the Mothers
Virtual
We are called to hold space for our world and future generations, carrying the simultaneous weight of grief and potency of possibility in harmonious balance.
Join us for a gathering of those who mother as we step into the mystery portal- a realm of both emptiness and boundless potential. This is a time for open hearts, shared wisdom, and a compassionate embrace of all we feel and hope for.

Sunday Reset
Virtual
Sometimes taking a moment to pause, reset, and receive nourishment is just what we need when we’re feeling overwhelmed, confused, or a little off. Join Harumi LaDuke for a deep exhale and somatic practices to soften and reset your nervous system in community with others.

BJ Magic
VIRTUAL
Join Olaiya, a certified pleasure and empowerment coach, for a virtual 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!

Mycelial Networking
HYBRID
Inspired by mycelium — the network of mushrooms that sustain, nourish, and protect entire ecosystems — these seasonal gathering are spaces for practitioners to connect, collaborate, and grow within and beyond our collective.
November's Mycelial Networking event is focused on BODY and we will have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with Sonja Sivesind (acupuncturist), Dr. Susannah Bergin (somatic chiropractor), and and Jacqueline Blackmore (massage therapist).

Good Grief
Beginning date subject to change depending on enrollment! The group will begin when the group is full.
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.

Crafting Circle
Our Crafting Circle offers a warm and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds to gather and work on their projects. Whether you’re into fiber arts, painting, sculpting, sketching, or another portable craft, this group is for anyone looking to expand their creative process in the company of others.

Improv for Therapists
In person
This event is for therapists looking to build more confidence, friendships amongst colleagues, and fun in their delightfully drizzling autumn. Gain more confidence to create and perform on the spot in a group setting without any preparation. Tell stories with creativity. Build on group members ideas and come up with scenes, music, or jokes as a group. Take these skills back to your home or work by engaging in family discussions, friendships, and work relationships with more spontaneous strategies, or come share a few moments with fellow healers in a giggle or two or 20!

Sunday Reset
Virtual
Sometimes taking a moment to pause, reset, and receive nourishment is just what we need when we’re feeling overwhelmed, confused, or a little off. Join us for a deep exhale and somatic practices to soften and reset your nervous system.

Human Design Series, Part III: Boundaries
This is an interactive, transformative workshop where you'll learn how to harness your unique Human Design chart to cultivate healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Discover how to set energetic boundaries that protect your well-being and reset your relationships with others–clients, loved ones, colleagues, or more.

The Clinic: Psychoanalytic Pragmatism with D. Michael Louderback
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.

Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
HYBRID | 16 CEUs
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.

Safety, Dignity, and Belonging for Black, Brown, Indigenous and Other POC
Virtual
This is a highly experiential virtual institute that will consist of process groups facilitated by a seasoned BBIPOC practitioner to explore safety, dignity, and belonging.