Workshops

All of our workshops are offered online and recorded, so you don’t have to skip out on any adventure.

Holiday Workshop Series

The holidays are a special time. Many of us take the time to intentionally gather with our friends and family, and we focus on gratitude, giving, and new beginnings.

However, this time of year can also feel really hard. It can reignite family dynamics, and remind us of who is not gathered with us around dinner tables due to separation or loss. It can feel like a vulnerable time for many who have worked hard to rewrite and change their relationship with food and their bodies. The holidays tend to revolve around food, and they are often accompanied by side dishes of shame, anxiety, dread, and exhaustion.

Why you might wonder? Isn’t this supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year?”

It is likely that during this time of the year you fall into playing roles within your family dynamics that you’ve outgrown. And this my friends, feels very uncomfortable.

It can feel exhausting catering to unspoken family rules or expectations, AND it can feel exhausting and vulnerable to try to change them.

But If we prepare ourselves emotionally and set our own expectations for the holidays we can actually show up in a way that helps us feel safe in our bodies, present, grounded, and engaged.

It just takes a little intention.

This fall Wilder is offering two different workshops to help you feel emotionally prepared for the holiday season and help you confidently show up as who you are now.

 

Workshop: Setting Food and Body Boundaries this Holiday Season

$50.00 Sunday, November 20th, 10 am - 11:30 am Pacific Standard Time

  • Identify the role that you have taken on or inherited in your family system.

  • Understand what type of boundaries will serve you best based on the role you commonly play during the holidays.

  • Name for yourself the food and body-based fears you have about seeing your family, or gathering for the holiday season.

  • Walk away with a plan, strategies to stay grounded, and tools that you can use during the upcoming holiday season.



Workshop details

What role do you take on within your family? Are you a caretaker, the peacemaker, the rebellious jokester? Is this a role that you enjoy? Perhaps this is a role that has to do with your birth order, or how you performed in childhood. Or it could be a role that you have been assigned by your family. What would it feel like to show up as an adult and who you are now?

Understanding what role you assume in your family will help you know what boundaries you need to set and what might be the best way to do that. When we struggle to set boundaries or change family dynamics, the anticipation and anxiety about the holidays often lead us to put up walls, lash out, dissociate, or numb out with alcohol or food. Sound familiar?

Often the most anxiety-provoking senarious we face when going into the holidays is around food and our bodies. One common dynamic that shows up in holiday situations is actually connecting over diets, or comparing and commenting on bodies. In this workshop, you will name for yourself the food and body-based fears that come up when you think about gathering for the holiday season.

This could look like feeling nervous about being judged if you have experienced body changes, and feeling like your family might have opinions about your relationship with food or movement. Or you may just find your family generally triggering.

You will walk away with a plan, strategies to stay grounded, and tools that you can use during the upcoming holiday season.

Workshop: How to NOT Feel Totally Crazy around Food this Holiday Season.

$50.00 Monday, December 5th, 5 pm - 6:30 pm Pacific Standard Time

  • Name the habits and routines that have worked for you this year, and set goals and intentions for how you want to show up for the rest of 2022.

  • Learn about the binge/restrict cycle.

  • Identify how you engage in similar cycles throughout the year and during the holidays.

  • Incorporate tools you need to interrupt this cycle and help you not feel totally crazy around food this holiday season.

Workshop details

You don’t need to wait until January to set intentions. Actually the “new year, new you” mentality may actually be the thing that is causing you to feel a little crazy around food during the holiday season.

In this workshop, you will Identify the habits and routines that have worked for you this year, and set intentions for how you want to show up for the rest of 2022. This could look like engaging in certain self-care practices, finding ways to get outside, or finding time for your passions amidst the holiday hoop-la.

In the group, you will learn about the binge/restrict cycle, and have time to identify how you engage in similar cycles throughout the year and during the holidays.

You will be given the tools you need to interrupt this cycle and help you not feel totally crazy around food this holiday season. Leaving you space to feel present with your friends and family and not filled with regret and shame come January 1st.