Small Group Online Class/ Support Circles
NEW in Fall 2018 I am making the transition this year from facilitating in-person classes to facilitating small online classes using Skype.
**See How to Register on the Upcoming Classes page!
What to Expect-Description and Benefits:
Enables participants easier access without travel plus a reduction in cost.
Groups continue to be small (4-5 people) and will meet once monthly.
The monthly two-hour format combines experiential self-care tools AND an ongoing support circle.
Each meeting includes facilitated sharing time plus activities to assist you in developing a personal healing vision and your own plan of doable action steps for living better and well again.
Our time together is committed to maintaining a healing focus and sidestepping the oftentimes easy slide into illness focus. This is not to deny the very real challenges of living with this disease! However the emphasis is on helping you identify what truly matters most to YOU and exploring new possibilities to live well again...within an ongoing circle of support.
We will practice self-care tools together including steps to PAUSE, CALM, and REFOCUS.
This helps create a foundation of support for your body's challenged nervous system and allows time and space for you to notice and respond to the fluctuating needs of your mind and your heart/spirit.
We will repeatedly give attention to the healing realization that the wholeness of you is truly much greater than this very challenging life experience.
The focus of our time together is to gently support you in taking steps forward to create a "life beyond fibromyalgia."
Support Services for Fibromyalgia Support Groups
(Support for group leaders and/ or Workshops for your group)
My ebook, Life Beyond Fibromyalgia: A Personal Guide for Moving Forward and Leaving Struggle Behind, includes discussion topics and exercises that can be very useful tools in support groups. The book's appendix offers suggestions for ways to use these tools in group settings to help create healing-focused interactions. Feel free to contact me at eemerryfield@gmail.com if I can provide further assistance at any time. Depending upon your location, I am also available to facilitate small group workshops.
You can find my ebook, Life Beyond Fibromyalgia at Amazon.com
Elaine Merryfield, BS., mind/body wellness educator
specializing in both fibromyalgia and stress relief
Portland, Oregon
To Contact: eemerryfield@gmail.com
specializing in both fibromyalgia and stress relief
Portland, Oregon
To Contact: eemerryfield@gmail.com
