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.
Our March workshop will focus on the theme of futuring. We will engage what it looks and feels like to prepare for unexpected accidents/illness and end of life as healing practitioners and small business owners. And we will also consider categories and practices to support us in honoring our clients, colleagues, loved ones, and ourselves.
We will learn in community from an interdisciplinary team of practitioners: Breona Mendoza, Sex Therapist & Clinical Supervisor and Nicole Greenwald, Psychotherapist & Founder will co-facilitate this training in collaboration with Molly Taylor, a Palliative Care Nurse at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center).
Together we will:
Prepare for death/dying by creating systems to support ourselves, our clients, and our loved ones
Hear from fellow practitioners and their real-life experiences with their own unexpected illness/accidents, loss of loved ones, and stepping in to offer backup support for a colleague’s practice
Learn about palliative care, hospice and how to access it
Create a plan for your practice and your clients
Workshop scenarios to flesh out ethical and professional considerations
Cultivate connection and support around these difficult topics that we tend to avoid — culturally and particularly as healthcare providers
Walk away with a checklist, templates, and other resources to support you in making your own preparations
Our hope for this workshop is to offer new awareness, easefulness, and collaboration.
We will gather at Shelterwood Collective in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. This will be a hybrid offering with facilitation provided for members joining from a distance.
Please RSVP by March 20 to support us in preparing for this gathering.
Timing
Our gathering will loosely follow this flow:
9:30 — Doors open. Arrive, get settled, enjoy tea and connection
10:00 — Welcome & Orientation
10:15 — Palliative Care
11:00 — Break
11:10 — Preparing Your Practice
11:55 — Break
12:05 — End of Life Planning
1:00 — Closing
Registration
General admission — $30
With 3 CEUs — $50
Greenhouse is FREE (included in membership) for Shelterwood Collective with a code — visit the latest newsletter or the member area home page! :)
This is will be an intentional gathering and space is limited, so we encourage you to register soon!
Registration will close on Thursday, March 21 at 8pm. Both participation types will receive access details the evening prior to our gathering.
Breona Mendoza
Sex Therapist
Breona Mendoza (she/her) is a queer sex therapist, clinical supervisor, and sex educator. Her approach to therapy is founded on the belief that all people are inherently deserving of connection, liberation, and pleasure. In the last couple years, Breona has encountered important losses that woke her up to the importance of learning about and talking more openly about death, dying, and change. Her hope in holding this training is to help others find more openness and curiosity surrounding life’s inevitable balance rather than being stuck in fear.
Learn more about Breona
Molly Taylor
Palliative Care Nurse
Molly (she/her)is a nurse at the outpatient palliative care clinic at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center where she supports patients and families navigating a cancer diagnosis. Within this role, she often finds herself in the unique position of working with individuals who may be preparing for and making decisions in anticipation of their death. She believes things are best faced with eyes wide open and when we are examining them in a gentle and honest manner. Her approach is informed by her own experience with different kinds of grief and loss, her time living in Oaxaca, Mexico and observing non-US based death traditions, and a desire for more transparency around death and dying. In her time away from work, Molly enjoys hanging with her dog Simba, reading a good book, and planting seeds & watching them grow.
Nicole Greenwald
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, & Consultant
Nicole (she/her) is a creative with a curious spirit, passion for learning, and heart for gathering and developing people.
At the Shelterwood Collective, she offers counseling and psychotherapy for individuals ranging from adolescence to adulthood. She also provides consulting services for businesses, non-profits, and leaders; and clinical supervision and mentoring for therapists and healers.
Learn more about Nicole