Included In Workshop:
Included Aftercare Program: FREE
We recognize financial barriers and are committed to expanding access through future scholarship programs. In the interim, we offer early-bird pricing to make participation more accessible.
8:00am – 8:40am Breakfast
8:45am – 9:15am Small Group Meeting
9:15am – 9:55am Morning Break
10:00am – 1:00pm Curriculum (time varies)
1:00am-3:00pm Tentative Lunch Break (time varies)
3:00am-7:00pm Curriculum (time varies)
7:00pm-8:30pm Dinner Break (time varies)
8:30pm-10:00pm Night Experience
It is highly recommended and ideal to have no responsibilities to the outside world while in the workshop. Having work commitments can take you out of the Inner Child Workshop content. We cannot guarantee the times of meal breaks until that day. It is also likely you will be more sensitive to the outside world and can be more impacted by what is going on outside of the workshop.
It is recommended that you have participated in foundational therapy or other workshop experiences prior to Liberation. This workshop is not recommended for those who 1) are active in addiction, 2) have a personality disorder diagnosis, 3) have had active suicidal thoughts or attempts of suicide in the past year, 4) have been hospitalized for a mental health issue in the past year, and 5) have a significant mental health diagnosis and are not currently in treatment with a therapist.
Many people who come to this work have already done deep personal development programs, including the Hoffman Process.
While there can be overlap in themes, like understanding early patterns and increasing self-awareness, this work is not redundant.
The biggest difference is that this is highly experiential and relational.
Rather than primarily reflecting on your patterns, you’ll see them emerge in real time, in your body, in relationship, and in the moment. From there, we don’t just talk about change, we practice it.
You’ll be supported to stay connected to yourself while activated, work with your nervous system as things are actually happening, and try new ways of relating in real time with others.
For many people, this becomes the place where insight turns into embodied change, not just something you understand, but something you can actually live.
Each workshop also focuses on a specific developmental stage, which allows for a more precise and in-depth exploration of the patterns formed during that time.
We are very confident, based on the feedback forms since 2017, this workshop will be worth your time and money. At the bottom of the Liberation workshop landing page there are text and video testimonials.
I have yet to have someone tell me they have experienced anything like this workshop. Many have expressed they were pleasantly surprised how novel this workshop was for them. This workshop takes the inner child work and brings it into an advanced experience within a group container. It is meant to anchor and advance the inner child work you have already completed.
An experiential workshop is a non-traditional teaching method that emphasizes the participant’s experience and the principle of “learning by doing”. It can provide opportunities for participants to: reflect, explore, experiment, develop new skills, and apply learning to practice. This style of this workshop emphasizes the four pillars of embodiment: awareness, breath, movement and sound.
Liberation Workshops are not sexuality, tantra, or erotic exploration workshops. Our work is developmental, relational, and trauma-informed in nature, with a focus on emotional presence, nervous system awareness, embodiment, and lived relational experience.
Different workshops may explore different aspects of human development, including themes such as attachment, identity, intimacy, attraction, longing, relational dynamics, and emotional expression. Some workshops may include structured experiential exercises involving appropriate relational or embodied interaction within clearly defined agreements and facilitated boundaries.
All workshops maintain intentional boundaries around physical contact, consent, emotional safety, and participant care. Specific agreements and expectations for each workshop are reviewed in detail during the registration and consent process.
These boundaries exist intentionally in order to support psychologically safer, developmentally focused, and ethically held group environments that are accessible to a wide range of participants and histories, including those with trauma backgrounds.
Tools: There are five tools taught in this workshop and practiced daily. These tools are to support optimal integration, nervous system regulation, and nervous system deprograming.
Lessons: This workshop has daily one hour interactive lessons that are comprehensive and highly applicable to life challenges.
Exercises: A structured group activity to promote connection to the qualities of our inner child. Hands-on activities, role-playing, scenarios games designed to engage individuals in actively exploring past experiences through creative expression.
Immersive Experiences: These are practices with deeper intention and time allocation. These experiences are body centered, introspective, challenged personal narratives, prompt self reflection, utilize creative expression, explore subconscious patterns, confront deeply held beliefs, and facilitate emotional engagement.
This video explains more of the format:
There are many couples who have successfully completed Liberation together and it has benefitted their relationship. To set couples up for success, it is highly recommended to make an agreement before the training, that you will avoid going into relational process during the training. It is important to stay out of process even if you are having break throughs that will positively impact your relationship. This allows for both parties to have their own unique experience which is focused on your inner child. If you are a couple who has a hard time staying out of each other’s process, then it is advised to lodge separately or do the workshop at different times. You will be automatically put in separate small groups, and it is recommended to not do rituals next to each other, so you are not distracted by the other person. Overall, Liberation has been highly beneficial to couples who have both attended whether together or separately.
It is not advised for family of origin to do this workshop together. In more cases than not, family member participants found it would have been best to do it on their own. Often, feelings arise about family members which you might not expect, and it is helpful to have the freedom to express these feelings without the family member present. It is also common to regress back into old ways of relating to one another, which may or may not support you doing this work.
Liberation Workshops incorporate trauma-informed facilitation principles. The environment prioritizes participant safety, transparency about expectations, and voluntary participation. Facilitators are trained to recognize nervous system responses and support participants’ choice, pacing, and consent throughout activities. Participants are provided options for engagement intensity, and breaks and alternative activities are available at any time. Facilitators avoid forcing participation and offer grounding tools and pacing that respect individual comfort and autonomy. This approach is designed to support educational exploration without implying therapeutic treatment.
Dr. Ellis is neurodivergent herself and is great at tracking those who are. She has designed this workshop to consider many of the sensory and clarity needs of those on the neurodivergent spectrum. The nervous system tools, self-care corner, pacing of the training, noise considerations, and lighting are all meant to support most nervous systems. The feedback forms have been glowing from those who are neurodivergent as they felt safe and well considered.
Up to two weeks prior to the workshop you may request a consult with Dr. Ellis to review the curriculum. You will be given a binder the first day of training with the content to guide your experience in the training. The binder is not given out prior to the workshop or in digital form due to copyright concerns.
Dr. Ellis works with a professional organizer to create this workshop. She has one team member who is faculty or training as faculty working directly with her to deliver the workshop content. She typically has five to seven other team members who are participating in and supporting the training at a discounted rate. These are people Dr. Ellis has screened to have the capacity and ability to support the training.
The workshop explores themes related to early life experience as part of its educational curriculum. Facilitators support participants in understanding patterns and nervous system responses. This is not a therapeutic treatment for trauma, but participants may encounter material that resonates with their personal histories. Participants are encouraged to prioritize their well-being and take care of themselves throughout the experience.
The workshop is not designed to provide healing or resolve trauma. It is an educational and experiential learning experience. While participants may gain insights and tools that support understanding and self-reflection, long-term healing often involves personalized, ongoing work outside this program, such as therapy or other professional support. Participants should approach the workshop with realistic expectations and prioritize their safety and self-care.