Monthly Self Care for Helping Professionals

About the group

The Monthly Self-Care for Helping Professionals group is facilitated by Vanessa Bear and Emma Radway-Bright. We facilitate training, workshops, and retreats in the UK and online. Vanessa is author of the Wild and Wellbeing Card Deck and the 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook. Vanessa is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and psychotherapeutic counsellor working with children and adults, as well as a yoga therapist, mountain leader, and forest schools leader. Emma Radway-Bright is a psychotherapist and counsellor. She originally trained as a scientist and completed a PhD in medical research, embarking on a high-level career in science policy. Both are Certified Somatic Trauma Therapists.

We are passionate about self-care for helping professionals and both have experiential lived experience of the impact of not prioritizing wellbeing, particularly in this field.

The monthly workshops consist of experiential practices, from yoga, mindfulness, body psychotherapy, and Western science; as well as an easily digestible amount of the theoretical underpinning. We also make space for group discussion and sharing of resources and tools.

You can sign up to attend the monthly sessions live or access recordings. You can also purchase past recordings that you’ve missed.