Groups, Workshops, & Intensives
Couples Intensive
Facilitator: Tara McGee (and Peter Madore if more than 5 people)
Dates: April 24-28, 2023
Time: 8:30am-5:30pm
Cost: $2000 (if register before Dec. 30, 2022), $2250 if register after Dec 30, 2022.
Where: Creemore (In person)
What: This intensive is for couples who are looking to do some deep work in a short period of time. Work will include yoga practices (movement/poses (asana), breath work (pranayama), meditation and visualization practices, and intensive psychotherapy sessions.
Psychotherapy sessions will be held in a group space where the energy of the group supports the individual’s work and the individual’s work supports the group.
The purpose of the intensive is to assist you to develop your levels of consciousness and to work to help you move closer to deeply and thoroughly healing your trauma imprints from this lifetime and throughout the lineages so that you can have more peace in your relationship.
This work can be confronting, enlivening, painful, joyful, frightening, triggering, clarifying, confusing, lightening, loving, angering, compassionate and so much more; please be prepared for anything to emerge and come to the intensive with the intention to be open to new ways of experiencing yourself and the world and to be open to grow.
Insurance: This therapeutic experience is facilitated by a Registered Social Worker – can be claimed on insurance if your insurance covers Social workers.
Food: Please bring your own lunch Monday-Thursday. Lunch will be provided on Friday. Snacks will be provided throughout.
Daily schedule: Will be determined based on what is happening in the process so it will change as needed – please book off the entire time and keep evening responsibilities light for integrating the day and to allow for a longer afternoon session if we need to go over time.
Cell phones: are to be used ONLY for music during sessions. Please make a conscious effort not to busy yourself with cell phone use during breaks or lunches. The purpose is to be present with yourself and the group and often we dissociate by engaging the phone instead of our lives.
To register or for more information, please email tara@cpyc.ca . Once you have been accepted into the intensive, please send $1000 non-refundable e-transfer to info@cpyc.ca to secure your spot.
Parenting Intensive
Facilitator: Tara McGee (and Peter Madore if more than 5 people)
Dates: May 29-June 2, 2023
Time: 8:30am-5:30pm
Cost: $2000 (if register before Dec. 30, 2022), $2250 if register after Dec 30, 2022.
Where: Creemore (In person)
What: This intensive is for parents with trauma symptoms who are looking to do some deep work in a short period of time. Work will include yoga practices (movement/poses (asana), breath work (pranayama), meditation and visualization practices, and intensive psychotherapy sessions.
Psychotherapy sessions will be held in a group space where the energy of the group supports the individual’s work and the individual’s work supports the group.
The purpose of the intensive is to assist you to develop your levels of consciousness and to work to help you move closer to deeply and thoroughly healing your trauma imprints from this lifetime and throughout the lineages so that you can parent from a more grounded and connected place.
This work can be confronting, enlivening, painful, joyful, frightening, triggering, clarifying, confusing, lightening, loving, angering, compassionate and so much more; please be prepared for anything to emerge and come to the intensive with the intention to be open to new ways of experiencing yourself and the world and to be open to grow.
Insurance: This therapeutic experience is facilitated by a Registered Social Worker – can be claimed on insurance if your insurance covers Social workers.
Food: Please bring your own lunch Monday-Thursday. Lunch will be provided on Friday. Snacks will be provided throughout.
Daily schedule: Will be determined based on what is happening in the process so it will change as needed – please book off the entire time and keep evening responsibilities light for integrating the day and to allow for a longer afternoon session if we need to go over time. Please be on the mat in the morning promptly at 8:30am.
Cell phones: are to be used ONLY for music during sessions. Please make a conscious effort not to busy yourself with cell phone use during breaks or lunches. The purpose is to be present with yourself and the group and often we dissociate by engaging the phone instead of our lives.
To register or for more information, please email tara@cpyc.ca . Once you have been accepted into the intensive, please send $1000 non-refundable e-transfer to info@cpyc.ca to secure your spot.
Summer Intensives
Facilitator: Tara McGee (and Peter Madore if more than 5 people)
Dates: July 10-14 AND July 17-21, 2023
Time: 8:30am-5:30pm
Cost: $2000 (if register before Dec. 30, 2022), $2250 if register after Dec 30, 2022.
Where: Creemore (In person)
What: This intensive is for serious seekers with trauma symptoms who are looking to do some deep work in a short period of time. Work will include yoga practices (movement/poses (asana), breath work (pranayama), meditation and visualization practices, and intensive psychotherapy sessions.
Psychotherapy sessions will be held in a group space where the energy of the group supports the individual’s work and the individual’s work supports the group.
The purpose of the intensive is to assist you to develop your levels of consciousness and to work to help you move closer to deeply and thoroughly healing your trauma imprints from this lifetime and throughout the lineages.
This work can be confronting, enlivening, painful, joyful, frightening, triggering, clarifying, confusing, lightening, loving, angering, compassionate and so much more; please be prepared for anything to emerge and come to the intensive with the intention to be open to new ways of experiencing yourself and the world and to be open to grow.
Insurance: This therapeutic experience is facilitated by a Registered Social Worker – can be claimed on insurance if your insurance covers Social workers.
Food: Please bring your own lunch Monday-Thursday. Lunch will be provided on Friday. Snacks will be provided throughout.
Daily schedule: Will be determined based on what is happening in the process so it will change as needed – please book off the entire time and keep evening responsibilities light for integrating the day and to allow for a longer afternoon session if we need to go over time. Yoga practice will always start the day and will end the day as needed. Please be on the mat in the morning promptly at 8:30am.
Cell phones: are to be used ONLY for music during sessions. Please make a conscious effort not to busy yourself with cell phone use during breaks or lunches. The purpose is to be present with yourself and the group and often we dissociate by engaging the phone instead of our lives.
To register or for more information, please email tara@cpyc.ca . Once you have been accepted into the intensive, please send $1000 non-refundable e-transfer to info@cpyc.ca to secure your spot.
Fall Intensive
Facilitator: Tara McGee (and Peter Madore if more than 5 people)
Dates: October 23-27, 2023
Time: 8:30am-5:30pm
Cost: $2000 (if register before Dec. 30, 2022), $2250 if register after Dec 30, 2022.
Where: Creemore (In person)
What: This intensive is for serious seekers with trauma symptoms who are looking to do some deep work in a short period of time. Work will include yoga practices (movement/poses (asana), breath work (pranayama), meditation and visualization practices, and intensive psychotherapy sessions.
Psychotherapy sessions will be held in a group space where the energy of the group supports the individual’s work and the individual’s work supports the group.
The purpose of the intensive is to assist you to develop your levels of consciousness and to work to help you move closer to deeply and thoroughly healing your trauma imprints from this lifetime and throughout the lineages.
This work can be confronting, enlivening, painful, joyful, frightening, triggering, clarifying, confusing, lightening, loving, angering, compassionate and so much more; please be prepared for anything to emerge and come to the intensive with the intention to be open to new ways of experiencing yourself and the world and to be open to grow.
Insurance: This therapeutic experience is facilitated by a Registered Social Worker – can be claimed on insurance if your insurance covers Social workers.
Food: Please bring your own lunch Monday-Thursday. Lunch will be provided on Friday. Snacks will be provided throughout.
Daily schedule: Will be determined based on what is happening in the process so it will change as needed – please book off the entire time and keep evening responsibilities light for integrating the day and to allow for a longer afternoon session if we need to go over time. Yoga practice will always start the day and will end the day as needed. Please be on the mat in the morning promptly at 8:30am.
Cell phones: are to be used ONLY for music during sessions. Please make a conscious effort not to busy yourself with cell phone use during breaks or lunches. The purpose is to be present with yourself and the group and often we dissociate by engaging the phone instead of our lives.
To register or for more information, please email tara@cpyc.ca . Once you have been accepted into the intensive, please send $1000 non-refundable e-transfer to info@cpyc.ca to secure your spot.
Beyond Psychotherapy: Healing and Yoga Psychology
Facilitator: Tara McGee
Dates: 6 Mondays beginning March 20, 2023 (excludes April 10)
Time: 9:30am-11:00am
Cost: $300 ($50/session)
Where: ONLINE
What: Join Tara for an online, 6 class lecture series considering Yoga Psychology theory and practices that are similar to and that go beyond psychotherapy theories and practices to help you and your clients go deeper. This seminar will incorporate a lecture and a short practice to integrate the material. Questions can be sent via email after the lecture and will be answered in written format.
This course is suitable for mental health practitioners, people in other healing professions and yoga teachers.
Find Your Foundation: Get Grounded in Your Psychotherapy Practice
Facilitator: Tara McGee
Dates: 5 Fridays, Feb 24, Mar 24, Apr 21, May 26, June 16, 2023
Time: 2pm-5pm (except on May 26 – 3-6pm)
Cost: $500 ($100/session)
Where: 126 Hurontario St. Suite 201
What: I meet with many psychotherapists who have either been in the field for awhile and have lost their footing or new therapists who have many theories in their minds, but don’t feel grounded in any of them. For effective therapy, we need to embody the theories and practices that we are working with. When we get lost and wonder, “What am I doing here?” or we feel that we can’t connect our practice to a theory, or that we are too theoretical/protocolled and not embodied enough, we lose connection to our clients and they don’t benefit from the work.
This course is designed to help you feel connected to yourself as a therapist and to help you be fully embodied when you are working with your clients. This course will help you to discover not a protocol, but rather the foundation of the work that we can continue to come back to over and over regardless of the theories we decide to consciously employ – that foundation is you. All of the material that you need to help someone reduce their suffering is right there in front of you. Being embodied, grounded and confident in your grasp of psychotherapy as an art is what will help you see what is needed more quickly and intuitively and help you to co-create the reduction suffering in your clients.
In these series of workshops, we will challenge you to step out of the “expert” modality and into your vulnerabilities and your authenticity to work towards understanding the Self beneath the programmed role of “psychotherapist”. We will consider what healing is possible with the tools we have available to us and really hone the tool that is you.
It is the hope that you will leave feeling reinvigorated about your work, ready to step into your practice with more presence, feeling confident that your work is grounded in your connection to your Self.
Parenting the Extreme Teen
Please inquire about upcoming dates
A four-part series of workshops to help parents with common teen anxieties, and more extreme teen issues such as substance use, self-harm, truancy, and mental health issues.
You will learn:
- How to respond rather than react
- How to influence rather than control
- To set limits from boundaries and values
- To improve your relationship with your teen
- To increase the respect has for you and otherS
Workshops for Organizations
We develop workshops and seminars tailored to the organization’s needs. Our aim is to train professionals interested in developing their awareness of and facility in interpersonal skills; boundaries; creating healthy working groups; understanding trauma, neurobiology and attachment; therapeutic skills; mental health issues; personal wellness; yoga; and parenting.
Some workshops presented have included:
- Anxiety and the Nervous System: Understanding, Normalizing and Soothing Anxiety in Individuals and the Family – Almaguin Highlands Community Living
- Trauma, Yoga and the Brain: Strategies for Understanding, Normalizing and Soothing Patient Fears – Royal Victoria Hospital
- Navigating boundaries in the workplace – Right to Play
- Working with children who have experienced Trauma – Right to Play
- Boundaries and the Art of Relationship at Camp – Camp Oochigeas
- Managing behaviours in a camp context – Taylor Statten Camps
- Contacting the Self: From Dysregulation to Mindful Connection in the Therapeutic Relationship – Mistissini Mindfulness Conference – Cree Justice Department AND Gwekwaadziwin Miikan, Youth Mental Health and Addiction Program
- Boundaries, Limits and Attunement in the Parent-Teenager relationship – Pine River Institute
- Contacting the Self: From Dysregulation to Mindful Connection in the Parent-Teenager Relationship – Pine River Institute
- Trauma awareness in the parenting relationship – Pine River Institute
Please contact us if you would like us to prepare a training for your organization or group.
Workshops for Clients
We believe that people are the drivers of their own healing and that they have everything they need inside of them to move towards health and vitality; it is just that they need to be directed how to access this wealth of information residing inside. Education can help people understand at an intellectual level the work we are doing in psychotherapy or yoga therapy. This understanding often translates to trusting their experience of the modalities we are using and they can then verify if that technique is working as it should or if there is modification needed. We “understand” at many levels, but in our society we value most the level of the intellect.
Neurobiology does not change with simply understanding concepts; it changes with the experience and practice of the concepts. Workshops we offer can help people start to move towards being open to these experiences and practices as they understand their rationale. Once they understand in the intellect, they may be more willing to allow the other ways of knowing – through the body and intuition – to lead them to health and happiness.
Our Mission
To provide clients with an accepting, friendly space to discover their healing path and to develop therapeutic relationships that sustain, inspire and guide them.
To provide clients with highly skilled, self responsible and self aware psychotherapists and yoga therapists who are always striving to learn about advancements in their fields and to continually develop themselves.
To create psychoeducational opportunities for clients to empower them to learn about their symptoms and how they can move towards healing and growth.
To provide innovative training programs that develop highly competent, self aware, self responsible, and inspiring psychotherapists and yoga therapists.