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Week 8: Your Time to Shine
8 Lessons
Taking Your Time to Shine:
Self-Study
Mindfulness & Character Strengths Practices to Be Your Best Self
An 9 week mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) course to help therapists (and others who feel the weight of the world on their shoulders) move from overwhelmed and exhausted to empowered, energized, confident, and more in control of how they feel.
This is a hybrid format of synchronous and recorded asynchronous content. Meaning there will be both pre-recorded portions to complete weekly on your schedule and a weekly live meeting via Zoom.
20.5 CEs
This program has been designed with therapists, healers, and empaths in mind. Empaths have a natural ability to sense and feel what others are experiencing. This is a great gift when you know how to do so in a way that's helpful to others and energetically safe and boundaried for yourself. But many empaths have not been taught how to do this. So instead of using their natural abilities in a way that is invigorating and feels meaningful to them, they feel overwhelmed and drained.
Join Kanjana and Brandon, healers, empaths, mindfulness practitioners, and people who've been on this journey themselves to:
- Harness mindfulness, self-compassion, and positive psychology techniques that take you from surviving to thriving.
- Create healthy energetic and relational boundaries to improve relationships and feel energetically protected.
- Discover your natural character strengths and learn how to turn them up or down as needed.
- Understand your personal values and how to live in alignment with them for a more fulfilled and contented life.
- Realize your full potential by recognizing and befriending your Self and your empathic gifts- allowing the best, most authentic version of Y-O-U to shine through.
Title: Taking Your Time to Shine: Mindfulness & Character Strengths Practices to Be Your Best Self
Date:
Start date is 9/1/2026. Registration deadline is also 9/1/2026.
There are 2.25 hours of content for you to watch before the first live. That will be released on 9/1/26.
There are 9 live sessions. The first is Thursday, 9/10/26 noon-1pm ET. We will meet weekly on Thursdays 12-1pm ET. The final session is 90 minutes from 12-1:30pm.
There are 2.25 hours of content for you to watch before the first live. That will be released on 9/1/26.
There are 9 live sessions. The first is Thursday, 9/10/26 noon-1pm ET. We will meet weekly on Thursdays 12-1pm ET. The final session is 90 minutes from 12-1:30pm.
Delivery Method:
This course is a hybrid format of synchronous and recorded asynchronous.
Description:
This 8 week mindfulness-based training has been designed to help empaths, healers, and others who feel the weight of the world on their shoulders to move from overwhelmed and exhausted to empowered, energized, and more in control of how they feel.
This program has been designed with therapists, empaths and healers in mind. Empaths have a natural ability to sense and feel what others are experiencing. This is a great gift when you know how to do so in a way that's helpful to others, allows for energetically safe protection for yourself, and creates healthy boundaries. But many empaths have not been taught how to do this. So instead of using their natural abilities in a way that is invigorating and feels meaningful to them, they feel overwhelmed and drained.
Helpers are often needing to find balance within their personal and professional boundaries. Mindfulness practices and character strength interventions are utilized to help promote more present-moment contact, awareness of thoughts and feelings, manage stress, and combat exhaustion and compassion fatigue. These practices provide a tool kit for helpers to highlight meaning in their relationships that helps improve preparedness, confidence, and maintenance of challenges that show up in being a helper. Throughout each live meeting and for the entirety of the final live session we will focus on clinical application of the learning. Many clinical social workers and therapists have been taught mindfulness-based practices, and yet I often hear a lack of confidence or feeling of imposter syndrome in offering these practices to clients. This is often due to the clinician's own lack of experience with a practice. So this program is designed to help bridge that gap and give helpers the confidence to bring these practices into session. There will be a variety of case examples to illustrate how this can look into session.
Learning Objectives:
By attending and participating in the entire training participants will be able to:
- Identify tools from a Mindfulness-Based Strength Practice, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Positive Psychology, and Self-Compassion that can be used as therapeutic interventions to assist with quality and effectiveness of client relationships
- Describe what it is like to participate in yoga asana, meditation, mindfulness, breathing, journaling, and therapeutic art practices for their own emotional regulation, stress management, and burnout preventative care
- Explain the importance of self-care as an ethical obligation to clients
- Describe at least 3 energetic tools used to improve relational boundaries
- Explain how to help clients discover and apply their natural character strengths
- Describe exercises to help clients understand their personal values and how to live in alignment with them for a more fulfilled and contented life and explore the application of these practices.
Target Audience:
Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Content Level:
Master's level clinician, beginner
Instructor Bios:
-Kanjana Hartshorne, LCSW, C-IAYT, Reiki Master, CCFP is a licensed psychotherapist, Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional, & Yoga Therapist. She received her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. Her journey to holistic healthcare began with yoga & meditation training 14 years ago while living at a Rinzai Zen temple. Kanjana owns Healing Hearts Wellness, where she incorporates an evidence-based blend of traditional Western psychotherapy, Eastern Comprehensive Yoga Therapy, and the arts into client sessions, healing retreats, and CEU & self-care trainings for healthcare professionals. Kanjana has worked with 1000s of individuals, teaching them simple, accessible skills to empower them to take care of themselves and grow into their true potential. Learn more about Kanjana’s in person and virtual private practice: www.healingheartswellness.com.
-Brandon LaBarge, M.S., M.Ed., LPC, NCC is a Licensed Professional Counselor. He received his MS in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern State University in Louisiana and MEd in Counselor Education from Georgia Southern University. During his training, Brandon has had the opportunity to learn more about the role mindfulness plays in our relationships. Whether working with clients in a PTSD clinic, adolescents and adults in a community mental health clinic, or providing counseling to college students, Brandon used his training with mindfulness to bring more focus to the quality of these relationships. He then worked with Georgia Southern University’s graduate program to create Mindfulness in Counseling meditations to help counselors-in-training face the developmental challenges of sitting with others. Brandon currently works as the Assistant Coordinator of the Resiliency Resource Center, within Tuttleman Counseling Services at Temple University.
-Brandon LaBarge, M.S., M.Ed., LPC, NCC is a Licensed Professional Counselor. He received his MS in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern State University in Louisiana and MEd in Counselor Education from Georgia Southern University. During his training, Brandon has had the opportunity to learn more about the role mindfulness plays in our relationships. Whether working with clients in a PTSD clinic, adolescents and adults in a community mental health clinic, or providing counseling to college students, Brandon used his training with mindfulness to bring more focus to the quality of these relationships. He then worked with Georgia Southern University’s graduate program to create Mindfulness in Counseling meditations to help counselors-in-training face the developmental challenges of sitting with others. Brandon currently works as the Assistant Coordinator of the Resiliency Resource Center, within Tuttleman Counseling Services at Temple University.
Outline:
Please see Course Curriculum and the FAQ below for more details.
CEs: Amount Offered, Credit Type
20.5 CEs
“Wanderhome Retreats, 2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [6/26/26-6/26/27]. Social workers completing this course receive 20.5 total credits including 9 interactive synchronous clinical and 11.5 asynchronous clinical continuing education credits."
“Wanderhome Retreats, 2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [6/26/26-6/26/27]. Social workers completing this course receive 20.5 total credits including 9 interactive synchronous clinical and 11.5 asynchronous clinical continuing education credits."
Fees, Registration Deadline, Refund, Cancellation Policy
$800 is the general cost for this course.
$700 for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clinicians for whom finances are a barrier.
$600 for students (no CEs).
Because this course can be partially downloaded and seats are limited we cannot offer refunds at this time. If you need additional time to complete the course please reach out to Kanjana@healingheartswellness.com to discuss accommodations.
$700 for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clinicians for whom finances are a barrier.
$600 for students (no CEs).
Because this course can be partially downloaded and seats are limited we cannot offer refunds at this time. If you need additional time to complete the course please reach out to Kanjana@healingheartswellness.com to discuss accommodations.
Instructions for Requesting Accessibility Accommodations
Please email Kanjana@healingheartswellness.com with any requests.
Course Completion Requirements, Assignments, Post-Test, and Evaluation
Course must be completed in full. This means watching each of the videos in the online course, attending the 8 live sessions, completing the home assignments, and completing a post-test at the end. The assignments given each week include reflection writing practices, worksheets, and listening to mindfulness and character strengths based meditations from MBSP and other evidence-based methods. The post-test is an essay and a grading rubric will be provided. Finally, a course evaluation must be completed.
When/How CE Certificate is Issued
When the above requirements are met, certificates will be sent through the Zenler portal. Students can also email Kanjana@healingheartswellness.com should they have any questions.
When/How to Register:
Scroll down and pick your appropriate course fee. There are tiered rates to help support therapists in our community who are interested in learning mindfulness based strengths practices.
Contact Information for Questions & Grievances:
Please email Kanjana@healingheartswellness.com
Details on Course Delivery Method:
This course is a hybrid format of synchronous and recorded asynchronous.
This means there are pre-recorded portions you must watch in full each week before we meet.
Then after meeting live, there are some home practices for you to complete to help integrate the learning. These include recordings you can download and use on your own or with clients, worksheets, writing prompts, and more.
Each week you will be required to submit a reflection on your self-study for the week so we can verify what you completed and how it relates to what you are learning in the course.
At the end of the course you will write a reflection essay. You will be given writing prompts and a grading rubric to guide you.
This means there are pre-recorded portions you must watch in full each week before we meet.
Then after meeting live, there are some home practices for you to complete to help integrate the learning. These include recordings you can download and use on your own or with clients, worksheets, writing prompts, and more.
Each week you will be required to submit a reflection on your self-study for the week so we can verify what you completed and how it relates to what you are learning in the course.
At the end of the course you will write a reflection essay. You will be given writing prompts and a grading rubric to guide you.
Course Interactivity:
This is an interactive course. It does contain non-interactive components that are later tested through essays.
Date Asynchronous Portions were Recorded & Created:
9/8/2022 was the last round of recordings. This program will be updated every 5 years and will included a reference update for at least 5 references from the last 5 years.
System Requirements:
This course can be completed on a computer or mobile phone. While digital copies of handouts are available, you may want a printer to have a hard copy to write on. You can also use a journal for taking notes.
20.5 Continuing Education Credits:
ASWB Statement:
“Wanderhome Retreats, 2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [6/26/26-6/26/27]. Social workers completing this course receive 20.5 total credits including 9 interactive synchronous clinical and 11.5 asynchronous clinical continuing education credits."
Course Curriculum
Kanjana Hartshorne
Hi! I am Kanjana, LCSW, C IAYT yoga therapist, Reiki Master, and creator of Wanderhome. I create embodied, ND affirming spaces where therapists and healers can learn, rest, play, be themselves, and find their people through somatic and creative practices, yoga therapy, energy work, spiritual and ancestral practices, social events, unique CEs, retreats, and a therapist community that feels like home. I'm so glad you're here and hope you join us!
Frequently Asked Questions
When does the course start?
For the hybrid synchronous and recorded synchronous course, we will begin September 1, 2026. For the self-study, the course begins whenever you want!
How long do I have access to the course?
The course is about 9 weeks in total, and you have access any time on any device. And because we recognize life can sometimes get busy, you will have access to the lectures for 16 weeks (about 4 months). All meditations and worksheets are yours forever, so please download them to your preferred device if you would like to keep them.
What do I get with this program?
This program includes: 9 weeks of pre-recorded character strengths and mindfulness talks here on Zenler and accountability and access to Kanjana & Brandon throughout the week. Questions and Weekly reflection responses from Kanjana and Brandon at Kanjana@healingheartswellness.com.
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone who feels overwhelmed, exhausted, or energetically drained. It's also great for those looking to build self-esteem and confidence, learn concrete tools to manage overwhelm and fatigue, feel more present in their daily lives, practice a variety of short, accessible meditations to find an appropriate meditation style for themselves, and to see themselves from a strengths-based perspective.
What will I get out of this course?
People who've taken this course in the past report the following: -improved self-image -improved and deeper relationships with others -decreased anxiety, stress, and depression -increased confidence in self and ability to handle whatever life throws their way -feeling less in their heads and more in their lives -living a life based on their values versus having decision paralysis or regret -feeling less reactive and more responsive -concrete practices for applying a variety of strengths at home, in personal lives, and at work
Is this course approved for CEs through ASWB?
“Wanderhome Retreats, 2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [6/26/26-6/26/27]. Social workers completing this course receive 20.5 total credits including 9 interactive synchronous clinical and 11.5 asynchronous clinical continuing education credits."
Are refunds available?
Given the nature of this course, refunds are not available at this time. Should you have extenuating circumstances where you need additional time to complete the course, please contact us to see if we can make some accommodations. Please know this is more difficult for participants seeking CEs as there are time requirements from the board in order to offer those.
What if the course is canceled?
In the unlikely event this hybrid course is canceled, you will be given the option for a full refund or a reschedule for a new date.
What are the post-test requirements?
To receive continuing education credit, participants must complete the following essay posttest after finishing all required course content.
Responses should demonstrate understanding of course concepts and the ability to apply mindfulness-based strengths practice in realistic personal, professional, or clinical contexts.
Each question is scored using a 4-point objective rubric. Participants must earn a total score of 20 out of 24 points or higher to pass.
Participants who do not pass may be allowed to revise and resubmit responses that do not meet minimum criteria.
Questions:
1. In your own words, explain what Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice means. Your response should define both mindfulness and character strengths, then describe how the two practices work together. Include at least one example of how mindful awareness can change the way a person notices, names, or uses a character strength.
2. Describe two of your signature strengths or two strengths you observed as central to your learning in this course. For each strength, explain how it shows up when it is helpful, how it may support well-being or resilience, and how you could intentionally apply it in a specific situation.
3. Choose one common obstacle to mindfulness practice, such as lack of time, distraction, sleepiness, difficult emotions, painful sensations, avoidance, self-criticism, or forgetting to practice. Describe how the obstacle affects practice and explain how at least two mindfulness or strengths-based strategies from the course could help someone respond to that obstacle skillfully.
4. Select one character strength and analyze how it might appear when it is underused, overused, and used optimally. Then explain how mindfulness can help a person notice the difference between these three expressions and choose a more balanced response.
5. Explain how strengths-spotting and strengths appreciation can affect relationships. Include an example of how a person might use mindful awareness to notice another person’s strengths and communicate appreciation in a way that is specific, authentic, and relationally supportive.
6. Create a realistic plan for continuing mindfulness-based strengths practice after the course. Your plan should include at least one mindfulness practice, one strengths practice, a strategy for monitoring or reflecting on your practice, and a plan for responding compassionately if your practice becomes inconsistent.
Can I get a more detailed outline?
Absolutely!
Schedule:
20.5 Credit Hours Total:
Breakdown of Hybrid Hours:
9.5 Synchronous Hours Live on Zoom
11 Asynchronous Hours
Please note there are about 9.5 additional hours of recommended practice to get the full impact of the course, this works out to about an additional hour of practice a week. This time cannot be counted for CEs.
Weekly Commitment:
● 1 hour/week live (counts for synchronous CE hours)
● 1-1.5 hour/week pre-recorded (counts for asynchronous CE hours)
● 1-1.5 hour/week home practice and reflections (only listening to the recordings counts for credit at this time, we still recommend you complete the practices in full for the most learning and benefit from this course)
Before we begin: September 1, 2026- September 10, 2026 (2.25 hours pre-recorded)
● First week of self-study lectures on Zenler is released to group:
○ Why are you here? Set an intention for your practice. What do you hope to get out of this?
○ Complete Mindfulness assessment ○ Review 8 week outline and how to practice guide
● Taking Your Time vs Giving Your Time
● What is mindfulness? What does it mean to you?
● Engage in a guided mindfulness meditation each day
○ Mindful Eating meditation ○ Brief body scan meditation (5, 10, 20) ○ Find/use another one you enjoy
● All 2.25 hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 1 Live
Week 1- Taking Your Time: September 10, 2026 (1 live hour, 1 hour self study, 1.5 pre-recorded week 2 lectures)
Live (1 hour)- Thursday, 9/10/26 noon-1pm ET
● Streams of Activity
● Icebreaker- share your name and the intention you created after watching the recording
● What is mindfulness/autopilot? What patterns show up as an empath? As a therapist?
● 5 senses into Body awareness into body scan/mindful movement
● What would it look like to take your time at least 1x a day for the next week?
● Tips: Problem-solving mode of mind vs sunset mode; PAWS/PAUSE; Mindful moments, example of routine activities, weaving your own parachute (Kabat-Zinn)
● Home practices reminder- See below
Self Study Homework (1 hour)
● Set an intention
● Define mindfulness for yourself
● Revisit mindful eating and/or brief body scan on your own- 1x/day
● Practice mindfulness with 1 routine activity
● TIME (Times I’ve Mindfully Engaged)- using mindfulness to bring awareness to our selves (mind, body, values, strengths) as we reflect upon a moment
● Complete VIA Character Strength survey before next live session
● Send in a reflection of all of the above to show what you completed throughout the week and how it relates to what we are learning in the course (detailed directions will be added to Zenler directly after the live- Thursday at 1pm)
Pre-recorded content for Week 2 is released on September 11, 2026 (1.5 hours):
● VIA History, Positive Psychology education, VIA identification and exploration, 24 Dial system, strength-spotting, strength-blindness
● Our VIA history and strength profile
● Character Strength Breathing Space
● Longer body scan
● PMR- variation 1
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 2 Live
Week 2: How Bright Are You? September 17, 2026 (1 live hour, 1 hour self study, 1.5 pre-recorded week 2 lectures)
Live (1 hour) Thursday, 9/16/21 noon-1pm ET
● PMR- variation 2
● Signature strengths (3 E’s)
● What are your signature strengths? What dims your light (overuse/underuse)? What do you want to illuminate? What helps you to shine more brightly?
● Character Strength Breathing Space- revisit and discuss
● Aware-explore-apply
Self Study/Homework (1 hour)
● TIME review
● Suggested Exercises: Body scan 1x/day, Character Strength Breathing Space 1x/day, mindfulness with a routine activity 1x/day, use a signature strength intentionally, identify a SHINE (Shining Honestly in New Experiences) moment.
Pre-recorded (1.5 hours)
● What obstacles are starting to show up for you when you try to take your TIME to SHINE?
● Autopilot, strength-blindness, obstacle identification
● Positive Outcomes to strength-use, provide strength spotlights, CSBS
● Yoga/restorative meditation, Aware/explore/apply in mindful movement
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 3 Live
Week 3: Spotlighting Obstacles
Live (1 hour) Thursday, September 24, 2026, noon-1pm ET
● CSBS (different variation)
● SHINE review- what surprised you/challenges did you face
● Statue Meditation
● Identifying obstacles and strengths used to overcome them
● Obstacles will show up, it’s how you deal with them (responding vs reacting); learning to shine through by knowing what you’re facing
● Our exact past has brought us here; so why are you? What matters most to you? Can you reach these things without using your strengths? (Shows we need our strengths to hit our values)
● Tips: Using signature strengths to face obstacles, spotlighting obstacles (identifying them, better understanding, learning how to shine through them)
Self Study (1 hour)
● Suggested Exercises: Speak up!, Strength-activity mapping, encourage someone to take the VIA, CSBS 1x/day, Meditation of your choice 1x/day, reflect on your SHINE-TIME
Pre-recorded (1.5 hour)
● Character Strength Intervention: Strengths across domains, holistic use, self-interview: turning strengths inward, defining moments
● Energetic protection practice (bubble): Strengths that show up in this practice (transcendence strengths, hope, love kindness, safety, protection, boundaried, self-regulation, forgiveness/temperance/prudence, spirituality)
● Bringing strengths to moments throughout the day; strong mindfulness (24 dial; right combo, degree, strengths, situation)
● SHINE-TIME review (discussion of mindfulness and strength use working together; engaging with SHINE enables us to activate our strongest self now that we have awareness of it, a way of strength-spotting, and ways to boost our signature strengths; taking TIME enables us to respect ourselves within our relationships and allow our physical and mental bodies to relax in a moment by bringing mindful attention a moment in time).
● Home practices for week 3 are released along with week 4 lectures
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 4 Live
Week 4: Strong Mindfulness in Everyday Life/ Shine in a Moment
Live (1 hour) Thursday, October 1, 2026 noon-1pm ET
● CSBS
● Signature-strengths-in-a-flash
● Walking meditation
● Mindful Living in everyday life; what does mindful living mean to you? What about since COVID? Why is it important to answer this question? What happens when we are present to our thoughts, feelings, experiences? Is this an obstacle? Mindful or Mind full? Positive and negative consequences of being present and of not being present
● Tips: Tips for strength-interview, do what works for you, halfway point, take inventory, revisit your intentions and practice; define practice and mindfulness; use of forgiveness
Self Study (1 hour)
● Suggested Exercises: Walking meditation 1x/day, strength-interview, meditation of choice 1x/day, reflect on a SHINE-TIME, mindfulness with a routine activity 1x/day, Gatha/mindful moments/utilize bells
● Meditations: Walking meditation (5 mins, 10 mins, 15 mins with strength-spotting), CSBS (3mins, 6 mins); yoga/restorative/body scan Pre-recorded (1.5 hour)
● Yoga/restorative meditation/body scan
● 100th birthday party writing prompt
● Value-based research from ACT
● Zentangle- creativity, judgment, forgiveness. Highlight a signature strength.
● Home practices for week 4 are released along with week 5 lectures
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 5 Live
Week 5: Your Inner Light
Live (1 hour) Thursday, October 8, 2026, noon-1pm ET
● Visualization around light meditation
● SHINE-TIME review
● Halfway point check-in: Values vs goals, hopes, sacred totem as it relates to the zentangle- what are you weaving into your practice?; share zentangles with group; progress review, process/outcome; motivate or bring zest to the 2nd half
● Values-based discussion: share 100th birthday party journaling and values that emerged
Self Study (1.5 hour)
● Valued-living meditation, Growing Your Inner Light Meditation
● Value-sort cards/app/website...complete an identification exercise
● Value-activity mapping- relationships Pre-recorded (1 hour)
● Loving-kindness history and meditation (3:1)- 3:1 for people identified in the loving-kindness
● Valuing your relationships; positivity ratio, positive psychology education
● Research on supporting one another vs competition (VIA institute)
● Home practices for week 5 are released along with week 6 lectures
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 6 Live
Week 6: Shining Bright Together
Live (1 hour) Thursday, October 15, 2026, noon-1pm ET
● CSBS with Curiosity, Kindness, Creativity (light visualization)
● SHINE-TIME review
● Character Strength 360 Introduction
● Lantern metaphor- headlamp going into a cave, you can only see what’s in your beam of light. And in order to truly see everything around you, you need the light of others.
● Revisit energy bubble and discuss cord cutting- the fine line between coming together as part of a whole and celebrating your unique individuality
● Heart chakra and relationships- with self, others, world at large, our own values
Self Study (1.5 hour)
● Loving-kindness meditation 1x/day, CSBS 1x/day
● Character Strength 360
● Bubble or cord cutting meditation
● Confidence, Readiness, Stages of Change (CSI Boost Your Motivation): motivated to use your light- journaling exercise
Pre-recorded (1 hour)
● Chakras lecture- talking about blocks to letting your light shine
● Chakra assessment
● Strength-zone (over/under use, continuum)
● Home practices for week 6 are released along with week 7 lectures
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 7 Live
Week 7: Dialing in to Your Optimum Shine
Live (1 hour) Thursday, October 22, 2026, noon-1pm ET
● Chakra meditation about opening blockages
● Discussion on chakra assessment
● SHINE-TIME review
● Fresh look meditation- working bench
● Strength-branding
Self Study (1.25 hour)
● Meditations: Observer-self (light/strengths), Fresh-look meditation
● Managing strength-over/underuse CSI: examining consequences of; change with a SS
● SSBS: signature strength breathing space Pre-recorded (1.25hour)
● Review of the program with highlighting of golden nuggets
● Bring a sacred object to the next live
● Discussion on branding, purposefulness, etc. Prepping for the sacred totem meditation- culmination of 8 weeks work into one object
● Archetypes, Symbolism, & Totems
● How to stay connected with the content, community, pre-recorded, FB, etc.
● Home practices for week 7 are released along with week 8 lectures
● All hours of content and included exercises must be completed by Week 8 Live
Week 8: Your Time to Shine
Live (1 hour) Thursday, October 29, 2026, noon-1pm ET
● SHINE-TIME review (over all weeks)
● Review the program summary; what were your golden nuggets?
● Show & Tell Totems
● Sacred Totem Meditation
● Looking forward
Self-study (1 hour)
● Meditations: Pick what is most helpful and practice for at least 25 minutes
● Character Strengths: Pick what is most helpful and practice for at least 25 minutes
● Write a 10 minute reflection on these practices
Week 9: Application & Case Studies (1.5 hour)
Live (1.5 hour) Thursday, November 5, 2026, noon-1:30pm ET
● SHINE-TIME review- applying the interventions with clients
● Discussion on application of intervention from program with clients
● Exploring which practices are most appropriate for clients based on nervous system state and mental health concerns
● Learn and describe how increasing characters strengths helps with therapist well-being, which helps us to remain grounded and neutral when in the therapy space
● Students can bring case studies to share and explore as a group, if none are available, the instructor will provide some
Final Notes
● Post Test Essay and Evaluations MUST be completed in order to receive CEs
