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WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS

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"WIRING THE BRAIN FOR CONNECTION"
Part ONE of the Creating Conscious Connection Workshop Series

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Understand how your brain is wired for self-protection, and how shifting your perception can bring you into deeper connection with others

April 12th
1pm - 3pm

$30 per person

Synergy Yoga and Wellness
32 BAY SPRING AVE, BARRINGTON, RI 02806

Evolution did a great job of helping us to survive through the ages, but it also wired us for self-protection above all else—even at the cost of connection with others. 

 

So often in our relationships, we find ourselves feeling stuck in disconnecting patterns of relating, believing that if others would only change, we’d find real connection. As we keep hitting those familiar pain points over and over again, our beliefs about others harden and we begin to accept a lack of meaningful connection and our loneliness only grows. What if it didn't have to be that way? What if something as simple (and as hard) as shifting your perception could ignite sparks of connection around you?   

This workshop will explain:

  • How our perception of threat can keep our relationships stuck in survival mode

  • How our unconscious negativity bias can lead us to ignore the humanity of our partners and ourselves

  • How bad we really are at mind reading 

Most importantly, you will learn how to:

  • Lower your perceived feelings of threat

  • Communicate in a way that is connecting

  • Activate your curiosity to gain meaningful insights into your relationship

All of which will help move you out of “relationship survival mode” and into a place of exploration and deep connection.

 

Check back for more info on the rest of the Creating Conscious Connection Workshop Series:
Part TWO "Mastering the Hard Skills of Connection" on May 17th, and Part THREE "Discovering the Connected Path" on June 14th!

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WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS

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PAST EVENTS

"THE ART OF CONNECTED CONVERSATIONS" workshop

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Give yourself and others the gift of being seen this holiday season by joining this workshop on the practice of Active Listening

January 24th
3pm - 4:30pm

$25 per person

Synergy Yoga and Wellness
32 BAY SPRING AVE, BARRINGTON, RI 02806

CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION NOW
but check back for when another
workshop becomes available!

Feel frustrated and not heard by others in your life? Or do conversations with loved ones quickly escalate, even over small things? You are not alone.

This workshop will teach you the simple but powerful communication techniques that can help everyone experience the healing feeling of truly being seen and heard. In addition to learning about the process itself, there will be opportunities to practice it with others and for group questions and discussion. Couples, individuals, families, and anyone who’d like to feel more connected to the people around them are encouraged to attend!

"DISCOVERING THE HERO WITHIN" - a transformative retreat

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Join us for this unique and transformational retreat that offers a powerful tool in discovering the meaning of your life’s journey: your super power!

 

Mark O’Neill—Interfaith Minister, Transformational Coach, and Counselor—will guide participants through both fun and enlightening experiential exercises designed to reveal these unique and powerful parts of ourselves, which if claimed, can be used to transform your past
and clear your way forward. 

July 26, 12pm - 6pm

Synergy Yoga and Wellness
32 BAY SPRING AVE, BARRINGTON, RI 02806

CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION NOW
but check back for when another
retreat becomes available!

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GET TO KNOW MARK

Mark is a licensed Clinical Social Worker, Therapist, Interfaith Minister, and Transformational Coach with 16 years of experience guiding adults, couples, and groups on their journeys of healing and growth.

  • Ordained as a minister through the Interfaith Seminary in Santa Cruz, CA in 2001

  • Received a Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Rhode Island College in 2009

  • Spent 7 years working as a Grief Counselor and group facilitator at Hope Hospice

  • Started private practice in 2016, as a part of the Sage Healing Collaborative

Minister
MARK O'NEILL
, LICSW

Mark O'Neill, Licensed Therapist and Coach

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