Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

When: Starting Thursday, February 13, 2025

Time: 6:30 pm – 8pm

Where: GoogleMeet

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

Have you ever felt like part of would really like to break free and do things completely on your own, but can’t because another part of you is too worried it would cost you your closest relationships? Or maybe you veer the other way and have a strong autonomous part who refuses to get tied down, too afraid of losing your freedom, and all the while another part longs for a chance to dive into deep intimacy with another…

If you have felt a tension inside between one part of you who values connection and closeness with others and another part who longs for greater self-definition or freedom of expression, this is the group for you! In what will likely be an ongoing series on The Dance of Intimacy, we will spend the first 12 weeks working through Harriet Lerner’s brilliant book The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships.

This group is for women, and female-identified persons – individuals only please, no couples.

We will use Lerner’s book to begin to wonder about how one goes about being fully who they are within relationships, and we will also use Voice Dialogue (a form of parts work) to explore the parts of ourselves that get activated as we go along.

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 and 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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