Relational Care Group

Join us for a storytelling group

Next group starts January 2025!

WHAT IS A RELATIONAL CARE GROUP

A Relational Care Group is a safe space where you can share your story with others in order to experience healing and transformation. It is modeled after Curt Thompson's Confessional Community and will incorporate practices from Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), narrative therapy and spiritual formation. As you share and respond to stories, you start to experience feeling known and knowing others. Vulnerability begins to get easier. Shame starts to diminish. You experience healing, empowerment and community.

You will have an opportunity to practice:

Vulnerability: Transparently revealing your story acknowledges that we are in need of others' help and protection and that they are in need of ours.
Embodiment: Paying attention to how our body responds and being curious about why our body is attempting to bring our attention to.
Rupture and Repair: As we experience vulnerability we may also experience some hurt, this gives us an opportunity to practice resiliency and repair work in relationships.
Imagination: As we embrace the truth of our stories, we can also imagine doing something different for a different outcome.
Creativity: Trauma and shame often prevents us from creative work. Through healing trauma and removing shame we can explore the possibility of creating new endeavors.

THE DETAILS

There is a 3-6 month minimum commitment, depending on the group and facilitator.
Each group will have 4-8 participants.
The cost is $60/90-min session. In order to secure your spot, there is a $60 deposit which will be applied towards the first session

2025 Dates

Groups will begin the week of January 13, 2025

*Participants will be notified by Dec 31, 2024 if a particular group does not meet the minimum number of participants.

Led by Dawn Delaney, MA, LPC; Open to all

Mondays, 10-11:30am, meeting in North Austin
Mondays, 6:30-8PM, meeting in North Austin
Tuesdays, 6:30-8PM, meeting in North Austin

Led by Hannah Kalk, MS, LMFT; For Women, incorporating IFS and Sandtray

Mondays, Noon-1:30pm, meeting in Round Rock
Wednesdays, Noon-1:30pm, meeting in Round Rock

Led by Noel Cho, MA, LPC, LMFT; For Black Men

Tuesdays 5:30-7PM, meeting in North Austin

After completing the registration form, we will contact you to schedule a 15-20 min intake call with the facilitator to see if the group is a good fit for you at this time.

Group Facilitators

Noel Cho, MA, LPC, LMFT

Dawn Delaney, MA, LPC

Hannah Kalk, MS, LMFT

WHAT TO EXPECT

Each Relational Care Group will run for 90 min/session.

We will begin and end on time.
Each session starts with a grounding exercise.
Usually there is a component of “business”: old, new, unfinished, tabled topics from prior meetings, etc.
There will be some teaching components during the first month of meeting.
The group will have 3 rounds of storytelling for each person, utilizing the framework of Curt Thompson's Storytelling Liturgies. Sharing and responding to stories is the primary work.
Spiritual formation practices may be incorporated so participants should be willing to explore those practices.

Each session ends with a reflection exercise.