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Care without Carrying - Part 2: Learning to Receive, Discern and Relate with Men as they are
You do not need to have attended the first Care Without Carrying to participate in this workshop. While it builds naturally on many of the same themes, we'll begin with a shared foundation so that both returning and new participants can fully engage.
What happens after we recognize we've been carrying more than our share in relationships with men?
Insight is powerful, but lasting change comes from learning to embody new ways of relating. Many women can identify the patterns of over-functioning, emotional labor, and investing in men's potential. The more difficult—and ultimately more transformative—work is learning to stay connected without slipping back into those familiar roles.
In this experiential workshop, we'll explore what it means to care deeply while remaining rooted in yourself. Together we'll practice meeting men as they actually are rather than who they could become, discerning between capacity and potential, expressing our needs with greater honesty, receiving care without guilt, and allowing others to carry the responsibility that belongs to them. We'll also explore how to navigate disappointment, incompatibility, and uncertainty without abandoning ourselves or taking over.
Through guided exercises, embodied practices, and meaningful dialogue, you'll strengthen your ability to trust your perceptions, respond rather than rescue, and create relationships grounded in mutual responsibility, authenticity, and respect.
Whether this is your first introduction to these ideas or you're ready to deepen the work, you'll leave with practical tools and embodied experiences that support a freer, more reciprocal way of relating with the men in your life.
How pain holds Wisdom
How Pain Holds Wisdom
Pain is often treated as something to fix, silence, or push through.
But what if pain is also trying to tell us something?
This workshop explores how pain—physical, emotional, relational, and energetic—can act as an important messenger rather than simply a problem to solve.
Together, we will slow down and listen for what pain may be communicating about your needs, boundaries, patterns, relationships, and the places asking for deeper care.
By shifting your relationship with pain from something to fight against to something to learn from, you create space for greater understanding, compassion, and meaningful change.
Through embodied awareness, reflection, and practical tools, this workshop invites you to approach pain not only as discomfort—but as wisdom waiting to be heard.
What your body already knows - event closed
What Your Body Already Knows
Discovering Your Inner Wisdom Through Embodied Listening
About
Your body is not a mystery or problem to be solved—it is a guide that’s been speaking to you all along, even if you may not always understand its language. In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the deep wisdom our bodies hold, even when we don’t immediately understand it.
Through embodied listening, curiosity, and presence, we’ll learn how to tune in to our body’s messages about needs/wants, boundaries, values, relationships, and how to navigate the world within and around us.
What Your Body Already Knows is not about fixing anything.
It’s about shifting your relationship to your internal experience — from managing and critiquing, toward curiosity and kind attention.
What we’ll be doing together:
Practicing how to slow down enough to notice what’s happening internally
Exploring where you tend to push past signals vs. listen to them
Relating to discomfort, tension, or emotion as information rather than problems
Experimenting with embodied boundaries (where is your yes / no / not sure yet)
Moving between individual reflection, small group work, and large group integration
There will also be a long midday break for rest and integration, which is intentionally part of the experience.
You’ll leave with simple yet powerful practices to access your body’s inner knowing, trust your own signals, and increase your ability to lead with clarity, care, and courage.
This workshop may resonate if you:
Tend to live in your head more than your body
Notice yourself pushing through or overriding your needs
Feel curious about relating to yourself in a different way
Want a space to explore without needing to “get it right”
Location
Awakenings Studio
1016 SE 12th Ave
Portland, Oregon
Tickets
Sliding scale tickets honoring your financial capacity and your ability, if you have it, to support those with less.
If you cannot afford the minimum, please contact us to see about payment plan or scholarship options.
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Holding without carrying - EVENT CLOSED
Holding Without Carrying
Reclaiming Our Energy, Redefining Support, and Repatterning Emotional Labor in our relationships with men
About
What does it mean to care deeply for men—partners, sons, fathers, brothers, friends and colleagues—without abandoning or overextending yourself? Many women have been socially conditioned to carry the emotional weight in relationships—to be the seer, the feeler, the strategist, the guide or therapist. We often attune so finely to men’s inner lives and potential that we begin to shape-shift ourselves in response, investing energy into who they could become rather than meeting them where they are.
This workshop is a space to gently examine how we’ve come to over-function in service of men’s growth, often at the cost of our own clarity, capacity, and well-being as well as at a cost to their own growth and responsibility. Together, we’ll name the patterns we didn’t consciously choose, explore new ways of relating that preserve connection without the self-sacrifice that eventually leads to resentment, and practice support rooted in self-trust, clarity, honesty, directness and mutual responsibility. You’ll leave with tools to stop carrying what isn’t yours—and to relate in ways that are honoring, discerning, and free.
Timing
We will be gathering from 9am to 5pm. There will be a 2 hour break from 12pm-2pm in order to grab lunch, and a couple of smaller breaks in between.
Location
Bridge Space
133 SE Madison St
Portland, OR 97214
Tickets
Sliding scale tickets honoring your financial capacity and your ability, if you have it, to support those with less.
If you cannot afford the minimum, please contact us to see about payment plan or scholarship options.
Ticket sales are closed.