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Wild Hawthorn Homestead & Therapy

A 5-acre sanctuary in Gabriola Island, offering psychotherapy, live workshops & continuing education

02/24/2025

Hi friends, I’m in the process of extracting myself from here altogether, but would like to stay connected to many of you. I’m deciding to be more intentional about my newsletter, and have prepared a little audio gift to share in the next one around how I am navigating these strange times.

If you’d like to be included, or stay up-to-date on community, gatherings or learning opportunities, feel free to send me your email in a DM and I will add it to the list. I email about once a season.

09/16/2024

Self In Relationship: Expressive Arts & Somatic Therapy Workshop

On Saturday October 19, Danielle Dickson (.true.studio) and I will be offering a full day immersion into the theme of Self In Relationship.

Our inner working models of relationship are often formed implicitly and unconsciously in our developmental years and emerge in how we relate in adulthood.

What was once adaptive may now be thwarting the type of connection we desire. Our strong protective systems, or lack thereof, can make it more difficult to feel safe, seen and known in relationship.

These models are unconscious and automatic. Expressive arts and somatic therapies offer an opportunity to work with the felt sense, symbolic and imaginal, inviting new insights and experiences that may be more difficult to access cognitively.

This workshop does not require you to be coupled as it looks at relationships more generally. You also do not require any art or art therapy experience, as it is very process oriented. All materials will be provided.

We will be hosting this on Gabriola Island, a beautiful island of artists and wild spaces, and a short 20 minute ferry ride from downtown Nanaimo.

For more information or to register, please message here or email info@wildhawthornhomestead.com

09/10/2024

There is something about the season of Autumn that makes me feel most like myself. The pull back towards creativity, learning, introversion, and introspection feels like a welcome return from the expansive and sensual quality of summer.

I was born in late September, so perhaps we carry an instinctual imprint about the season we were born in, the season that reflects our nature.

This autumn, I have tried to thoughtfully curate a few offerings that feel meaningful, and are an honest reflection of my own learning this past year.

On September 18 & 25th, I’ll be offering my Clinical Intuition & Therapeutic Presence workshop for practitioners for the second time.

On October 19, I will be partnering with Danielle Dickson .true.studio to offer a full day experiential workshop in the theme of Self in Relationship. This is an exploration of our inner working models of self, others, and relationships via expressive arts and somatic therapy practises.

And on November 17, I will be offering a workshop called Seeing in the Dark, meant to explore themes of our psychic shadow, grief and endings, and the symbolic and archetypal wisdom of the dark winter season.

The first offering is online, and the latter two workshops will be live at locations on Gabriola Island.

I’ll be sharing more information in the coming weeks, but feel free to reach out to me if you would like to join any of these experiences.

09/03/2024

“Wonder, interest, and curiosity allows a portal to open between you and the other, and between the lives experience and the meaning it contains”

- Sharon Stanley, Somatic Transformation

Although there are several different somatic psychotherapy traditions and modalities, a commonality among most of them is to listen to the implicit often nonverbal story the nervous system tells.

Cognitive therapies such as CBT and solution focused tend to prioritize the explicit - story, belief, interpretation, and practitioners are often trained to listen to these first.

Learning to listen to the implicit stories and organizing material in a person requires a different type of awareness.

On September 18 and 25th, I will be offering practitioner workshop on Clinical Intuition & Therapeutic Presence.

This theoretical and experiential workshop will be an introduction, among other things to some of these concepts.

For more information or to register, please contact me here or at info@Wildhawthornehomestead.com.

RSW’s may also use five hours towards upcoming CPD credits.

08/18/2024

I’m delighted to be offering my practitioner’s workshop: Clinical Intuition & Therapeutic Presence, for the 2nd time.

I created this workshop last autumn, and have made some adjustments to the content to balance theory, practice, and embodied relating. And to integrate my own learning over the past year.

This workshop is designed for any counselling or related practitioners who want to deepen their skills in somatic empathy, intuition, and working more relationally rather than cognitively.

It blends neuroscience and attachment research with somatic awareness, nonverbal communication, and right brain ways of knowing to support practitioners “being with” people in a more attuned way.

The workshop will be divided over two 2.5 hour evening sessions to support with integration.

Please feel free to message me here, or email info@wildhawthornhomestead.com for more information or to register.

08/04/2024

Studio Update:

The exterior is getting close to being finished, and it has power! 💥

Autumn and winter will turn our attention towards the interior.

My task today was staining cedar soffits, pillars and fascia boards.

07/16/2024

I’d like to introduce you to Jacqueline MacIsaac, B. Sc. N, MC (cand.), who will be offering low cost counselling through my practice as she completes the final stages of her Master of Counselling program with City University.

Jackie comes to counselling after a 20 year career as a registered nurse, with diverse experience in mental health, Indigenous community healthcare and acute care. As a counsellor she is particularly interested in supporting healthcare workers, parents, women who have experienced trauma, people living with the stress of chronic health conditions, folks experiencing anxiety, depression and stressful life transitions.

Jackie is practices from a person-centred, strengths based approach and it informed by intersectional feminist values. She will be completing EMDR certification later this summer, and is interested in deepening her skills in somatic attachment and relational psychotherapy.

Jackie is a mom of 2, Maritimer, and passionate animal lover. She is available to see clients in person in Nanaimo and online throughout BC.

Registered clinical counsellors complete masters level coursework, then a 300 hour supervised practicum with a clinician/team before completing their certification.

Jackie’s rate is $45 per 60 minute session with a sliding scale available. If you are interested in connecting with her, please email me at lesliewilkincounselling@gmail.com or contact me through www.wildhawthornhomestead.com

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Gabriola, BC
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