The Wellbeing and Coping Strategies Program was developed over thousands of sessions in working with survivors of child abuse and others managing emotional stress. You do not have to remain overwhelmed by stress and flashbacks from childhood trauma!

You can be in charge of your life!

Practical tools for enhancing your approaches to self-support will be introduced and practiced. We will explore issues of personal boundaries, day-to-day wellbeing, reducing stress and managing crisis. The focus will be on reviewing personal coping strategies and creating four types of coping lists that you can take with you and use on a regular basis for well being and quality of life. The materials covered are intended to be an adjunct to ongoing therapy and to assist with your own self-help.

 

Six-Evening Workshop
6:30pm to 9pm
$240.00 (HST included)
e-mail contact: Cheryl Irving
phone: 416-469-4764

Two-Day Workshop
10am to 6pm
Saturday & Sunday
$250.00 (HST included)
e-mail contact: Cheryl Irving
phone: 416-469-4764

 

Drop by the "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument for a few minutes or an hour to create a HandPrint message of hope, healing, survival and victory. Dr. Irving will be on the second Sunday of each month to provide you with paper and drawing /writing material for you to make your own personal message. Your HandPrint will be placed inside one of the "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument bronze figures as a validation, healing and releasing of your trauma. You will experience the empowerment in knowing the Monument will hold your story so you can let it go, while at the same time being assured that the wisdom in survival and recovery will be passed on to another era in the future.

You will also have the opportunity to explain your StoryProject HandPrint for a short YouTube Video.

Individuals can come with a friend, their therapist, a group of friends. Writing/Drawing room limited to 10 people maximum. Please make notify by e-mail or phone if you wish to attend an open house.

Other weekends or weekdays can be arranged by appointment.

 

StoryProject

Drop-in
Second Sunday of Each Month
10am to 5pm

Where: 274 Rhodes Ave.
Toronto, ON
(Map and Directions)
phone: 416-469-4764

 

In this workshop you will look at what you may want to celebrate in your healing and victory or something you may want to let go of.

Personally selected writings and drawings created over the two-day workshop will be placed inside one of the bronze "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument figures. A focus will be on validation, healing and releasing trauma that you may have carried for decades. You will experience empowerment in knowing the Monument will hold your story so you can let it go while at the same time being assured that the wisdom in survival and recovery will be passed on to another era in the future.

 

One-Day Workshop
10am to 6pm
$150.00 (HST included)
e-mail contact: Cheryl Irving
phone: 416-469-4764

 

You will use drawings and writing as tools for identifying, releasing and repatterning painful feelings and memories.

The workshops will employ a drawing/writing process that Dr. Irving has pioneered over a 25-year period. You will be working with both your conscious and other than conscious mind to resolve, heal and transform negative thoughts and feelings into a positive and powerful force of hope, victory and inspiration in your life. The processes that are explored can be valuable as an adjunct to ongoing therapy and to assist with your own self-help. Writing and drawing from this workshop can be permanently placed inside the "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument.

 

 

You will experience mindfulness as a process of bringing your attention to the ongoing experiences in the present moment.

Discover how mindfulness can move you away from the suffering that comes from regretting the past and dreading the future. Mindfulness practice can assist you in reducing avoidance and numbing, depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms. This workshop is based on the mindfulness stress management approaches that have been known throughout the ages and have been popularized by the work of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre in Boston.

 

 

Creative Visualization and Relaxation (CVR) uses advanced light and sound technology to create a powerful relaxed mental/emotional state that assists you in making deep and long lasting changes.

You will transform negative attitudes and beliefs into positive and life affirming feelings and positive responses inside yourself and with the people and events around you. CVR provides the right mental rehearsal and mind-set to create a new reality in your life, faster and with less effort. In this state, you will hear Dr. Irving's carefully crafted and insightful messages with clarity on both conscious and other-than-conscious levels.

Six-Evening Workshops
6:30pm to 9pm
$240.00 (HST included)
e-mail contact: Cheryl Irving
phone: 416-469-4764

One-Day Workshop
10am to 6pm
$150 (HST included)
e-mail contact: Cheryl Irving
phone: 416-469-4764

Set in motion the practical tools for self-support, nurturing and grounding over the holiday season. We will explore issues of personal boundaries, day-to-day wellbeing, reducing and managing stress. The focus will be on coping strategies to deal with your internal emotions and the social and family events that this unique time of year presents to each survivor. You will create sticky notes and coping lists to take with you to make this your best-managed holiday season ever. The materials covered are intended to be well-being and quality of life adjuncts to ongoing therapy and to assist with your own self-help.