Keeping it Real – Tools For A Successful Life
Louise Johnson, Senior Psychologist and Director of 4Thought Psychology, has passionately worked to distil her 20+ years of professional experience and key therapeutic principles into a small group workshop experience delving into strategies everybody can call on to help successfully tackle today’s challenges.
...In today’s post-pandemic times, so many of us find we are struggling to navigate our “new normal” and find ways to thrive day to day rather than merely survive. The pressures of work, relationships, parenting, and social interaction overwhelm us.
The ‘Keeping It Real – Tools for a Successful Life’ workshop series will offer participants:
- Skills, tools, and strategies to build the confidence and knowledge in facilitating your own ability to change, grow and adapt to the challenges life throws us.
- Small group experiences where you will be expertly led through techniques to extend growth and facilitate change at home (you will not be asked to share your personal story).
- Access to cost effective therapeutic tools, supporting an acceleration of personal growth without reliance on one-to-one therapy.
Each 1-hour session will provide participants with opportunities to learn how to identify core patterns of thinking and emotions that influence behaviours and foster confidence in how to operate in the world. These include:
- Control
- Lovability, deservedness & worthiness
- Speaking your truth
- Risk taking
- Understanding the wisdom of emotions and how they act as our navigation system
- Using emotions to support rather than sabotage us in our relationships with ourselves, the world, and others
To assist working through the anxiety, fears and depressive symptoms that hold us back from living our best selves, you will learn independent methods of using:
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing)
- EFT (Tapping/Emotional Freedom Therapy)
- IFS (Internal Family Systems/Parts Therapy)
- Yoga, Mindfulness, & Meditation
- Trauma release exercises
- Reducing anxiety by tapping into the sympathetic nervous system and vagus nerve (responsible for “Fight or Flight”)
Keeping it Real is run as an initial core series of 3 x workshops (attended as a package).
Where: Centre 4 Life Studio
Investment: $300 ($100 per session)
When: Please call 9530 8773 to register your interest for our next workshop.
A partial Medicare rebate of $22.90 is claimable against each session with a referral obtained from your GP for participation in Group Focused Psychological Strategy sessions under a Mental Health Care Plan. Please ask us, or your GP, if you would further information.
ADDRESSING ANXIETY – Tools to Tame the Beast
The team at 4Thought Psychology understand that things are tough right now, and many of the issues we face are rooted in common concerns, like anxiety and depression. That’s why we’ve come together to collaborate, pool our experience, and share some of our proven techniques and trade secrets to tackle anxiety head on.
Anxiety is our body’s natural response to a threat or danger. It alerts us to the fact that something is not quite right. At times it can become too overwhelming and can lead to poor mental health. However, if we learn to understand our anxiety and what it is trying to tell us, we can train it, make it our friend and use it to help make ourselves stronger, more adaptable and resilient.
Whilst everyone is different, and needs to find their own individual path forward, there is comfort is knowing you’re not alone – and that there are some easy tools and techniques you can learn to help you start feeling better and be more in control of your anxiety now.
...We would like to invite you to join our hosts, Sarah O’Connell and Manuela Heise, for a 1-hour workshop exploring anxiety, and how to manage it better.
Topics covered will include:
- Psychoeducation
- Nutrition
- Mindfulness
- Meditation
- Tapping therapy
- Vagus nerve activation
- Deep breathing
For more details, or to find out about and book upcoming events, please visit https://studio.nicoleleeqigong.com.au/upcomingqigong
There will be sessions targeted and adapted to cater for a range of age groups across the lifespan – from primary school aged children and parents, to teens, through to adults. Please contact us to discover more about how this session can support you.
Where: Centre 4 Life Studio
Investment: $80
When: Please call 9530 8773 to register your interest for our next workshop.
Sri Yoga
Yoga is an incredible spiritual practice that has a long list of proven benefits for your body, mind and soul.
Sri’s founder, Louise Godfrey, can help you explore how to enhance your physical and spiritual health and wellbeing through improved posture, increased flexibility, greater strength, more robust metabolism, self-esteem and so much more.
A qualified yoga teacher and yoga therapist in the T. Krishnamacharya tradition, Louise has trained and taught in India, and trains other yoga teachers across Australia in yoga therapy.
A passionate advocate for making yoga accessible for everyone – regardless of body type, age or ability, Louise welcomes anyone who would like to explore yoga for the first time or those who already embrace its many benefits and and want to advance their practice.
...Sri offers a range of classes, including:
- Yoga Meditation & Deep Relaxation
- Restorative Yoga
- Strength & Flexibility
- Yoga Flow
- Yoga for Teens
- Early Morning Men’s Yoga
- Yoga Retreats & Workshops
Go to https://www.sriyoganmeditation.com.au/ to view the full class timetable and book your mat.
Alternatively, please call Louise Godfrey on 0419 463 558 for further details.
Nicole Lee Qigong
Find presence and come home to yourself through the subtle yet powerful practice of Qigong.
Qigong is many things — embodiment, movement therapy, self-care, energy skill, gentle exercise. It’s a soothing body, mind, and spirit therapy. Qigong brings together acupressure, slow stretches, gentle flowing movement, and stillness. This magic potion releases tension and calms your heart and mind.
I’m Nicole Lee, a Qigong teacher, mentor, and devotee. I’m trained in both classical and contemporary Qigong styles; I focus on sharing this ancient healing art to help you release stress and find ease and flow. I’m passionate about modern Qigong practices — sharing this ancient healing art in a way that’s accessible for our often-busy modern lifestyles. I love working with people who want to live a wholehearted, embodied, and actualised life.
I believe that preventative self-care and lifestyle-based medicine provide the ultimate pathway to healing and creating a purposeful, connected and joy-filled life. During my many years as a Qigong teacher, I’ve repeatedly seen this gentle practice transform lives — physically, mentally, and emotionally.
...Where: Centre 4 Life Studio
Regular Qigong workshops are on offer in the Centre4Life studio, I invite you to join me and experience the magic of Qigong for yourself.
Investment: Workshop exchange starts at $72.00
For more details, or to find out about and book upcoming events, please visit
Movement Widsdom – Feldenkrais Method Workshops
Movement Wisdom was established by Physiotherapist and Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner Tali Plotnik.
Tali brings with her more than 20 years of experience as a physiotherapist working in areas of Neurology, Chronic Pain Management and Musculoskeletal Disorders.
...In 2021, Tali completed a Masters of Science in Medicine (Pain Management) and now combines her extensive background in physiotherapy with the holistic approach of the Feldenkrais Method to assist her clients in finding greater comfort in their lives.
The Feldenkrais Method teaches you to pay attention to how you perform an action and helps you discover alternative ways to move that are more comfortable, more pleasurable, and easier to do. It improves how your brain and nervous system coordinate action and helps create greater flexibility of both mind and body.
Classes are gentle, relaxing and explore simple sequences of movement. They are suitable for all ages, levels of performance and fitness. Wearing warm, comfortable clothing is advised.
Where: Centre 4 Life Studio
Investment: $60 per session
When: The first Sunday of each month 8:30-10:30am
For more details, or to book an upcoming workshop, please visit http://www.movementwisdom.com.au/what-is-feldenkrais/
PARTNER WITH US
Are you a passionate provider or group working in the wellness or community space?
Would you like to make our beautiful space your home?
We would love to explore working with you.
Call us on 9530 8778 to talk to us about regular hire opportunities or submit your enquiry below.
Monday: 9.15am, 7pm
Tuesday: 9am
Wednesday: 5pm (Teen Yoga), 7pm
Thursday 6.30am, 9.15am
Friday, 9.15am
Contact Louise directly: 0419 463 558
www.sriyoganmeditation.com.au