52 Weeks of Holding Space
AN ONLINE SELF-STUDY PROGRAM
What might change for you if you committed to a weekly practice in intentionally holding space for yourself?
What might be healed and how might you grow if you spent at least 30 minutes each week, for a full year, focused on your own needs, emotions, biases, strengths, social conditioning, etc.? How might you be transformed at the end of that year?
In this self-study program, we want to offer you that opportunity and encouragement. With gentle guidance you’ll deepen your relationship with yourself, learn self-compassion, practice being more clear about what you need and what makes you feel safe, and explore the areas in which you’re ready to grow. You’ll also understand trauma better, learn to erect healthier boundaries, and develop practices that help you soothe yourself when your nervous system is flooded.
While the focus in this program is on YOU, the added bonus will be that you’ll deepen your relationships with others in your life, strengthen your social contracts, and develop greater capacity for holding space.
Each week for a year (which you can start at any time in the year), you can explore a prompt that introduces one of the core concepts of holding space, developed by Heather Plett in the book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership. The prompts are all hosted in Mighty Networks and include a short reflection on the concept, journal prompts to help you reflect on the concept, creative prompts that invite you to engage with the concept in a more embodied and playful way (most can be done in an art journal), and action prompts that invite you to practice the concept in real life. (Note: While the reflections are related to the book, each one is new content written by Heather and does not appear in the book.)
This program is based on the Holding Space Card Deck (out of stock), which emerged out of the book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership. Each weekly reflection is connected to one of the 52 cards in the card deck. The best way to work through the program is to have both the book and card deck on hand (A photo of the appropriate card will appear with each lesson, so you’ll see the cards digitally since the physical decks are out of stock), but there’s enough valuable content in the program that you could get something out of it even without the book or card deck. We do, however, encourage you to read the book because we believe you’ll want to go deeper into the concepts.
For less than the price of a cup of coffee each week, you’ll be investing in your growth, healing, and self-discovery.
The image to the right is a sample of what each prompt looks like!
Note: If you’ve been contemplating signing up for the Holding Space Foundation Program, this would be a valuable precursor to that program (new cohorts begin every October). It also works great as a stand-alone program for your own personal development.
Options:
Access to the full course in Mighty Networks: $150
You may purchase a copy of the book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership by following the link or visiting your local book store!
“It’s time for this powerful tool to get into the hands of more people so they can experience what this gifted teacher has to share.” – Barbara Winter
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The Centre for Holding Space exists to grow the work of Holding Space in the world. We are dedicated to expanding our own learning around this important work and to teaching others how to hold space — both for themselves and for others. We are committed to developing a living body of resources for this work, along with an inclusive, diverse, brave community of support.