EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Upcoming Workshops
Joyful Leadership Offsite co-facilitated by Shannon Stott and CDSD Founder, Sunni (Sun) Brown
MIND-READING FOR FACILITATORS
(& Other Humans):
Improvisation & Attunement
to Read Your Group and the Room
With Shannon Stott, Award-Winning Performer, Founder and Director, Improv | On and Off the Stage, and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin
Date and Time: Friday, November 7 | 9a - 1p U.S. Pacific
Format: Live and Online
Cost: $108 (Venmo and PayPal)
Description: What if you could sense the emotional current of a room before a word is spoken? The ways we connect with each other in real time move well beyond the verbal and intellectual, living in the space between words—in body language, micro-expressions, tone, rhythm, shifts in breath, and pacing. These are subtle but perceivable energies that arise and dissolve wherever people gather. Most of us sense fragments of these signals without conscious realization. When left unnoticed and unattended, these cues can create misunderstandings or prevent us from fully stepping into the flow of a moment.
In this workshop, we’ll practice interpersonal attunement and improvisation, learning to pay attention to the nuanced communication signals constantly influencing relationship, authenticity, and possibility. By becoming more fluent in these subtle languages, we develop greater emotional precision—an embodied awareness of self and other that transforms how we lead, facilitate, connect, and collaborate. We’ll learn to sense when a moment wants to shift, when a person or a group needs a pause, when an audience or team is leaning in or pulling away. We’ll hone an ability to listen more deeply, expand empathically, respond intuitively, and co-create enlivening and fruitful experiences in facilitation, leadership, presentation, teaming, and everyday life.
This is powerful, lasting work—a life practice that extends well beyond our professional lives—aligning us with the potent and living currents of human connection..
Wu Wei “effortless, natural” way of drawing. Art by Sharon Zeugin.
Lettering and callligraphy by Sharon Zeugin.
DRAWING IN: Creative and Contemplative Mark-Making to See the Light in Dark Times
With Sharon Zeugin, Master Calligrapher, International Teacher, and Award-Winning Artist
Date and Time: Saturday, December 6 | 9a - 1p U.S. Pacific
Format: Live and Online
Cost: $108 (Venmo or PayPal)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted. —Frederick Franck
This workshop—with one of the world’s few female master calligraphers—is about returning to the present moment by awakening our senses. Through sketching, drawing, and intentional mark-making, we will learn to see, feel, and experience ourselves in relationship with—in communion with—the natural world around us.
Pencils in hand, we'll practice noticing the extraordinary in the ordinary: the sensuous, rhythmic patterns of a shell, a turnip bulb flushed and peachy red, leaves undulating on a table, or the knobby, swirling wrinkles on our hands. Through accessible, contemplative exercises using ordinary tools and materials, we will expand our visual vocabulary while calming our nervous systems and learning to come home to ourselves despite the noisy news cycles and the quaking all around. We are not here with aspirations to "make art," but to draw from within, linking our inner experience with the outer world, creating a path and portal for deeper engagement. With full permission to play and experiment, we will expand our perception, ignite our creativity, and leverage the power of imagination to see—and shine—our light in a darkening world.
**Artistic training or creative inclinations are not needed for this experience. Wherever you are is the entry point.—Kabir
Workshop: Gamestorming 2.0
With Acclaimed Author and Seasoned Facilitator Sunni (Sun) Brown and Two Surprise Guest Facilitators
2026 Dates to be Announced | 90-minute Sessions | Live, Online
In today’s environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn’t happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated—in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for this kind of work doesn’t have to be hard. There’s a technique available to everyone, with no special certification required: gamestorming.
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The Inner Confidence Workshop
This recorded workshop is an applied learning experience leveraging many of the core tenets of the Deep Self Design method to help you identify, explore, and directly impact a life goal, longing, aspiration, or project in order to enhance your degree of confidence in relationship to it… arrow_circle_right
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Why it Matters to Know Who You Are
The Reality of Multiple Minds Changes Everything About Your Life
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
This experiential workshop focuses on one of the core tenets of Deep Self Design—multiplicity—the most credible and useful understanding of how your human mind works. You’ll learn how to leverage that understanding to transform inner conflicts into clarity, productivity, and creativity… arrow_circle_right
Recent Past Events
Whole and Well Ancestor Practice
Undoing Cultural and Legacy Burdens
With Kay Gardner, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Senior Lead Trainer, Esteemed Therapist, and Wisdom Carrier
Saturday, September 13, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST | Live, Online
Legacy burdens are burdens we receive from our ancestors, through our family line. Cultural burdens are burdens absorbed from the broader culture(s) in which we live. In this workshop, participants explore ancestral connections, blessing, and burdens and learn to identify and energetically resolve those that no longer serve.
Unburdened. Art by Rebecca Youssef.
Porosity of Mind
Why Ignoring It Limits Your Life and Poisons Our Civilization
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST | Live, Online
The final workshop in the series, Porosity of Mind, will explore Bob's groundbreaking research and latest innovations on the true nature of the mind, revealing how to access a deeper source of inspiration and creative flow… arrow_circle_right
The Birth of Purpose
Finding Meaning by Connecting to a Deeper Self
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 9 am - 1 pm PST | Live, Online
This second workshop in the trilogy weaves skillful teaching with guided meditations and breakout experiences to help you connect directly to the source of insight and inspiration that gives birth to meaning. We'll summon a power intrinsic to your mind which, in turns, helps you navigate the ongoing road toward a more meaningful and purposeful life… arrow_circle_right
Why it Matters to Know Who You Are
The Reality of Multiple Minds Changes Everything About Your Life
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 9 am - 1 pm PST | Live, Online
In this first workshop of the trilogy, Bob demystifies a natural state of all human minds—multiplicity—and gives us a practical sense of how this understanding directly impacts energy, authenticity, clarity, and productivity, helping us develop the skill of transforming inner conflicts into creative flow… arrow_circle_right