COURAGE TO MATTER
Experience the power of collective practice to transform your life.
An 8-week in-person practice of embodied awareness, reflection, conversation, and group coaching.
Begins November 5, 2026
You may know this feeling
Anxiety with no clear cause. Fatigue that rest does not touch. The sense that life is moving, yet something essential within you remains still.
So we try harder. We work, adapt, overgive, take another training, wait until we feel ready, stay reasonable, stay grateful, stay small enough to fit the life we’ve built.
And still, something in us will not settle.
Because the problem is not you.
The problem is trying to manage a life that is trying to break free.
There is another way
Old ways of living are no longer holding. Scarcity, performance, overwork, and self-abandonment are taking their toll.
You know something needs to shift. But you can't quite name it yet.
What you're feeling isn't weakness. It's an invitation.
It begins with becoming willing to be with your experience—to listen rather than immediately optimize, strategize, minimize, or cope.
And it begins with practice.
The medicine is already in you
Your life has been shaping it all along—your grief, your love, your failures, your longing, your sensitivity, your frustration with what no longer works.
None of it is random. It is the ground of your work.
The work is not to become someone else. It is to remember, reclaim, and reveal what is already alive in you.
But few of us are given the space to integrate what we've experienced. So we keep moving, adapting, overgiving, trying to figure everything out on our own.
What if the conditions you've been waiting for aren't somewhere out there—but here, in the ground of your own life, and in a courageous circle of people willing to walk with you?
Because this work was never meant to happen alone
Human beings change when we have the space to be truly seen, heard, and witnessed. This is the power of the circle.
One person is coached while the whole group listens, reflects, challenges, witnesses, and discovers themselves in the process.
We risk being seen. We see ourselves differently through one another. What becomes possible for one person becomes possible for the group.
The magic is not in me. It is in us.
Not networking. Not performance. Not self-improvement. A living practice of remembering, reclaiming and revealing more of who we are—together.
Collective Practice
This is not something you learn and then try to remember to do.
We practice it together.
Over eight weeks, we'll explore gentle embodiment, breath, writing and creative practices, dialogue, contemplative practice, Energy Codes facilitation and group coaching.
The body is the gateway. Breath, reflection, and conversation help us integrate what we discover. The group provides the accountability and containment to make it safe enough to tell the truth—and begin to act on it.
Real tools. Real skill development. Through practice.
HOW THE JOURNEY UNFOLDS
The work unfolds through a rhythm of shared practice, reflection, conversation and focused group coaching.
We practice.
We come into our bodies, explore a practice, notice what emerges, and learn to stay with our experience.
We bring it to the circle.
We listen, reflect, witness, and coach. What becomes visible for one person often opens something for everyone.
Practice opens the door. Coaching helps us see what we've found. Witnessing helps us see what we couldn't see on our own.
Who Is This For?
For those who feel ready for something, but don't yet know what.
For those who sense more is possible.
For those who are tired of trying to figure everything out alone.
For teachers, healers, artists, facilitators, changemakers—and anyone ready to listen more deeply to what is asking to emerge.
You don't need to know exactly what you're changing.
You only need a willingness to practice.
Investment
COURAGE TO MATTER
An East Van Wisdom School offering
8-week collective practice + group coaching
Thursdays · 6:30–8:30 PM
November 5 – December 17, 2026
Green Room Yoga · East Vancouver
$495 + GST
Limited to 8–10 participants
Our final gathering will be a longer closing immersion and ritual to mark the transition into the new year. Date to be determined with the group.
OPTIONAL 1:1 COACHING
For those who want additional individual support, three private 60-minute coaching sessions are available during the program.
3 sessions · $270 + GST
Let's talk
"Because the people who gather in this circle matter."
Before you join, we'll have a short conversation to make sure the experience feels like a good fit—for you, for me, and for the group.
You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for. Come tell me what's alive for you, and we'll see what opens up.