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Community
Integration, Support,
Healing, and Collective Health

The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice (TLYC | CoP) is where caregivers gather to engage in a community practice of the core aspects of The Light You Cast™ curriculum. Community gatherings dedicated to creating safe spaces of care for our caregivers is essential to healing. It is impossible to heal from and prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury alone.

 

Regulating the nervous system, making meaning of pain and suffering, and connecting with others are the pillars for healing. The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice (TLYC | CoP) embodies all three pillars each 90 minute session. 

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Site-based (TLYC | CoP) embody a salutogenic approach to caregiver well-being. We foster and sustain individual well-being by focusing on collective strengths, hope and possibility, and innate resilience while we critically examine the way systemic and care-based stressors impact us on an individual and a collective level. 

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Burning Clean

What We Know About
Healing-Centered
Community Support

Revitalization

 

"Community is how we respond to injustice. It is how we maintain balance. Our journeys are varied, our experiences unique, but the home we seek is the same place: a place of trust, a place of welcome, a place of respect." (Charleston, 2021)

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Healing and wellbeing are deeply connected to the contexts in which we live and work. When we sit together and engage in a community practice of soul restoration work, we are able to focus not only on "What happened to you?" but also, "What is right with you?" 

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Healing centered engagement offers an important departure from solely viewing people through the lens of harm and focuses on asset driven strategies that highlight possibilities for well-being. An asset driven strategy acknowledges that people are much more than the worst thing that happened to them, and builds upon their experiences, knowledge, skills and curiosity as positive traits to be enhanced. (Ginwright, S.,2018)

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Site-Based
TLYC | Communities of Practice

Revitalization

The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice (TLYC | CoP) are 90 minute, in-person, community spaces of practice at your site.

They are often offered one of two ways:

To sustain, deepen, and provide a high-touch support option  to complement any in-person, large group professional development or the ONLINE, ON-DEMAND self-paced offerings of the The Light You CastTM curriculum at the site.

To engage a soft-touch option of support to introduce and immerse caregivers in The Light You CastTM curriculum through a slow-dose, opt-in, self-selected opportunity of ongoing, community of self-restoration practice and healing.

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We intentionally engage people-centered care practices to create, hold, and protect spaces within our systems of care for caregivers to gather, connect, process stressful experiences, renew their energy, and restore their balance.

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Every 90 minute TLYC | CoP creates and holds a protected space where caregivers engage the 3 R's of mindbodysoul restoration and renewal from 

The Light You CastTM  curriculum.

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TLYC | CoP Format

Rest

REST

Healing Pillar: Regulate Nervous System & Connect to Soul Nerve

 

Gather, check-in, and engage in grounding mindfulness-based breath & body movement practice

Restoration

RESTORATION 

Healing Pillar: Process & Make Meaning

 

Use the Burn CleanTM Cycle to collectively process a stressor through conversation, connection, and compassion to generate insight, wisdom, and meaning

REVITALIZATION

Healing Pillar: Connection with Others

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Close circle with guided mental health practice and community share out

Revitalization

Bring The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice 
to your site!

Schedule a complimentary 1-on-1 with Dr. Jen to learn more about to bring ongoing, sustained, community-healing practice circles to you organization or school building.

The Light You Cast™ 
Communities of Practice
(TLYC | CoP) 

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Guides

The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice Guides are site-based caregivers who are trained in the core principles, practices, and body-movement experiences of the The Light You Cast™ curriculum and are certified to hold TLYC | CoP at their site or support individual clients.

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Soul Circles Fire Keeper

This GUIDE training series is ideal for site-based school or staff counselors, mentors, or mental health professionals who want to strategically support the adults they work with and alongside.

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The Light You Cast™ 
Communities of Practice
(TLYC | CoP) 

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Train-the-Trainer Program

The Light You Cast™ CoP Guides training is designed to provide strategic professional development and coaching support to site-based caregivers who want to guide their peers through

 The Light You Cast™ REST - RESTORATION - REVITALIZATION practices within a small group

(or one-on-one) setting.

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This training is perfect for those who want to deepen their personal mindbodysoul health practices and who want to create spaces for their peers to feel the power of community health and healing.

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The Light You Cast™ CoP Guides are coached and continually supported in how to create and hold structured, 75-90 minute, small group community circles (or one-on-one mentoring support) that allow for individuals to connect with their body, metabolize a collective stressor though community processing, and engage mental health practices.

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Rest

CORE CURRICULUM FOUNDATIONS TRAINING

10 weeks 

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PHASE 1: REST Practices

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  • Week 1 WELCOME ~ ORIENTATION 

(1.5 hours, zoom or in-person) & ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE- Module 1

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 2 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 2 

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 3 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 3

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 4 INTEGRATION & TRAINING - Module 1, 2, 3

(3.5 hours) Synchronous in-person 

  • Participants share their experience with the modules, the practices, and how they integrated and applied their learning in their current role.

  • Strategic Fire Protector training 

    • Part I: Coming Into & Creating the Space - Breath & Body Focus

      • TLYC | CoPTM Guide's Guidebook will be provided.

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Individual Coaching Sessions with Jen

*Participants will receive one-on-one, 45 minute coaching sessions with Jen throughout each of the three phases. These will be held on zoom and are intended for you to receive individual support.

Rest
Restoration

PHASE 2: RESTORATION Practices

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  • Week 5 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 4 

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 4 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 5

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 6 INTEGRATION & TRAINING - Module 4, 5

(3.5 hours) Synchronous in-person 

  • Participants share their experience with the modules the practices, and how they integrated and applied their learning in their current role.

  • Strategic Fire Protector training 

    • Part II: Creating Boundaries & Engaging the 3 R's Throughout the Circle -- Metabolizing Stress​

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Revitalization

PHASE 3: REVITALIZATION Practices

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  • Week 7 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 6 

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 8 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 7 

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 9 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 8

(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online​ engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training

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  • Week 10 INTEGRATION & TRAINING - Module 6, 7, 8

(3.5 hours) Synchronous in-person 

  • Participants share their experience with the modules the practices, and how they integrated and applied their learning in their current role.

  • Strategic Fire Protector training 

    • Part III: Engaging the 3 R's Throughout the Circle & Closing the Circle -- Guided Mental Health Practices

Total hours of train the trainer program = 17.5 hours

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  • 5.5 hours of asynchronous, online engagement of the The Light You Cast™ self-paced curriculum

  • 12 hours of synchronous, in-person/zoom training

Investment Cost

$550 per participant for 10 week training series & unlimited access to the The Light You Cast™ ON-DEMAND, Self-Paced Curriculum for 1 year.

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*Gather a group of interested individuals at a school site or your organization and receive a site-based cohort discount. Contact Jen directly.

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Support Group

The Light You Cast

Communities of Practice (CoP)

GUIDE Training

Join the Spring 2025 Cohort

Join the Spring 25'
TLYC | CoP GUIDE
Cohort

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Are you an individual mental health practitioner or caregiver in an institutional setting who would like to become trained in supporting your clients or staff in the The Light You Cast™principles, practices, and processes? 

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We are running a TLYC | CoP GUIDE cohort in the spring of 2025!

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​Please fill out the form indicating your interest. Jen will be in contact with you with more information, dates, and details. 

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​Do you work in a school district or organization that would like to host a

TLYC | CoP GUIDETM  train the trainer program for a cohort of interested individuals? ​

 

Connect with Jen to learn more about next steps!

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