Dance of Intimacy: Exploring Connection and Autonomy in Relationships – Part 2

When: Starting Thursday, September 25, 2025 – November 20, 2025

Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm

Where: GoogleMeet

Suggested donation: $10-$20 per session, no one turned away for lack of funds

Join a group of women as we dive into anger: what it tells us, and how we might best listen to it and learn to dance with it. We’ll be reading Harriet Lerner’s book The Dance of Anger through the lens of our broader group investigation into the tension between the parts of us who long for closeness and intimacy and the parts of us who crave autonomy in our personal relationships, whether with friends, lovers,  parents, siblings, children or other family members. When this tension isn’t consciously felt and explored, anger can definitely arise, so Lerner’s book will fit perfectly with our larger theme.

We will meet for nine weeks, ending the week before Thanksgiving.

Bio: Tamara Yates has been dancing the tension of the opposites within since she discovered Voice Dialogue, a therapeutic modality that works with inner selves or parts, in 2011.  Having worked for over a decade as a Voice Dialogue facilitator, she is currently pursuing a master’s in counseling psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a professional counseling trainee at Liberation Institute. She loves to get her hands in the soil as a gardener and enjoys dancing (literally as well as metaphorically). She lives in Corvallis with her husband and their sweet golden retriever, Finn. Tamara is supervised by Shelly Stratton, LCSW 7252.

Want to Sign Up or Ask Questions? Contact Tamara at tamara@liberationinstitute.org

RSVP to tamara@liberationinstitute.org

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