JULIE MACADAM

Somatic Experiencing® & Dreamwork

Somatic Arts SQUAD

a creative exploration of the nervous system

About:This is a group cohort, capped at 8 people. The expectation and hope is that you will attend all sessions. Bring a friend and come for $140!

Dates & Times: 5 Thursday mornings, 9:00-11:00am EST. May 14th, 21st, 28th, June 4th, June 11th. 

Location: This class is held on Zoom.

Who it is for: Those who are looking to learn more about their nervous system through the expressive arts (movement, drawing and writing) group work and real-life examples. 

Contribution: $180-320, sliding scale. Please send payment at the time of signing up to reserve your space. 

*Reach out to me if you’d like to join and finances inhibit you to do so.

What to Bring:A journal to take notes, drawing materials and drawing paper, space to move. 

ABOUT

The nervous system is influential and impressionable; it can change and so can you. It may seem enigmatic, but its cues can be understood as doorways into our state of mind and body, and we can learn ways to shift our states in fairly simple ways. If you feel over or underwhelmed, stressed, or perplexed, come join us!

This 5-week cohort explores the nervous system through movement, drawing, writing, and real-life examples. It is designed to help you become aware of how your nervous system conveys information, track fight/flight and freeze feels in your body, and provide you space to discover how to come back into connection and have flexible responses.

The first class will involve introductions, creating the group container, and psychoeducation through the lens of polyvagal theory that helps us all speak a similar language.

The following classes will explore fight, flight, freeze and social engagement through reflection prompts, drawing, movement and small and large group sharing.

In the final class we will close together, reflecting on practice and ways to bring the learnings into everyday life.

You will go home with a resource list of simple, practical practices to help you become aware of and collaborate with your nervous system. These practices can increase your capacity to stay present with your internal experience and external world and be integrated into your life.

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“Working with Julie has been such a valuable experience. I had no idea that dreamwork could be such a window into my day to day patterns and conditioning. Julie so expertly and compassionately guides me to the gold. I understand now how much dreams have to offer us, and how much medicine is available in them. Julie is such a skilled practitioner and it is so clear that she loves this work, making her sessions all the more potent. I so highly recommend working with her!”

- Emilia, Massage Therapist
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"Time and time again, Julie ventured into the depths of my wounds with me compassionately, at the right time, knowing how deep to go, how to relate to what came up through the body, helping me find a deeper embodied senses of resolution and peace than I had experienced in a very long time. I’m not exaggerating when I say that every session led me through an arc, and by the end of each session, I felt reassured in my body and a greater sense of empowerment in handling the inevitable stressors of life. I approached my life with more grit and ease, took more risks, knew more clearly when to set my personal boundaries, and identified which relationships were supporting my health and happiness."

- Emily, Somatic Practitioner
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"SE with Julie was game changing, and the missing ingredient in my healing process. It took feeling what a settled nervous system is like to start noticing more clearly when I was activated or shut down. I started to be able to tell when something activated a survival response in me, even subtly, I had tools to move through it into groundedness and clarity, and the felt sense to know when I had actually succeeded. When I felt anxious or unmotivated, I could approach myself with more compassion, seeing these feelings for the “nervous system injuries” that they were instead of character flaws. Julie taught me nervous system literacy, and equipped with that literacy, so much of my life changed. Her understanding of nervous systems and her patient compassion earned my trust almost immediately. She truly has a gift."

- Anonymous
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