Learning in Practice by Onlinevents: Supporting the Helping Professions

ADHD, Glitter Jars, And A Christmas Survived

What if the cost of appearing almost okay is the very energy you need to heal? We unpack a powerful set of new resources designed for helping professionals facing year-end pressures: a deep dive into ADHD masking and shame, neuroaffirming mindfulness that actually fits non-typical nervous systems, a thought-provoking bridge between rationality and mystical experience, and single-session strategies to navigate Christmas with clarity and calm. We start by naming the invisible workload. Masking shows up socially, cognitively, and sensorially, draining attention and resilience until burnout follows. You’ll hear practical ways to externalise the problem and build congruence—using an adapted Rogers diagram to align who you are at work, at home, and inside—plus sentence stems that surface costs without judgement. We map shame with Ray Little’s loop and the compass of shame, then add a holistic lens that includes stabilising energy through nutrition. From there we re-engineer mindfulness for neurodivergent brains. Dr Emma Bede’s approach replaces one-size-fits-all scripts with anchors that leverage intensity and hyperfocus: tactile objects, gentle movement, sound loops, photography as mobile meditation, gaming with intention, and mind jars as visual settling. We address safety and trauma considerations, and share the Unstuck Button’s cognitive shuffling for sleep and rumination. We also widen the frame with professor Kyriakos Marquitas, who challenges strict materialism by restoring intuition as a mode of knowing. Whether taken literally or symbolically, the stories push us to meet clients’ spiritual experiences with respectful curiosity. Finally, we come back to earth with Wendy Dryden’s single-session toolkit for the holidays: precise scaling questions, exception finding, and a modest miracle question that turns overwhelm into one actionable step. If you’re a counsellor, psychotherapist, coach, or healer, this is a compact guide to reclaiming energy and authenticity when it counts. Stream the sessions, try one tool this week, and tell us: what’s your 5% reduction in masking you’ll commit to today? Subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review to help others find the show.

From Inner Critics To Collective Wisdom: Weekly Highlights For Helping Professionals

Ready for a smarter shortcut to meaningful CPD? We unpack this week’s most powerful additions to the library—tools and ideas you can apply tomorrow—with a throughline that connects nervous systems, identities, purpose, and the more‑than‑human world. We start with creative ways to quiet the inner judge, including a non‑dominant‑hand exercise that loosens perfection’s grip and a simple read‑twice method that moves clients from performance anxiety to felt reflection. From there, we redefine prosperity as relational presence and introduce a subtle cognitive shift—from “what’s the point?” to “show me the point”—that recruits attention for meaning-making. Our deep dive into trauma is hands-on and hopeful. We explore vagal regulation as the gateway to safety, the limits of talk before the body is ready, and how Eriksonian “glitches” stall developmental virtues like hope. Healing expands into generativity, where survivors transform hard-won lessons into service. We connect these ideas to cultural realities: the Caribbean practice of child shifting as a resilient adaptation to historic rupture, and Dr Yvonne Guest’s insights on colorism and mixed identity, with practical guidance on reflexivity, language, and validation that honours complexity instead of flattening it. Therapeutic impact hinges on perception. Sheila Ha argues that what the client perceives outweighs what we intend. We show how widening attention from words to figure‑ground cues—tone, posture, breath, culture—prevents the empathy trap and strengthens congruence. We also hold space for spiritual emergence, learning to “winter” with clients so transformation can root. Finally, ecotherapy and the rune Ansus open a wider horizon: wisdom as communication that flows through people, rivers, trees, and time. Think riddles that test truth, deltas that disperse knowledge, and practices that restore awe and systems thinking to the room. Subscribe to the library for ongoing access to these sessions and thousands more, share this episode with a colleague who loves practical depth, and leave a review to tell us: what hard‑won insight are you ready to contribute to our collective wisdom?

Kaleidoscope: Mixed and Multi-Racial Heritage in Therapy 2025 Conference Recordings

What if the world’s obsession with fractions has been pulling clients away from who they really are? We take you inside the Kaleidoscope conference and translate its most powerful ideas into practical steps for therapy rooms, classrooms, and family systems—so mixed and multiracial clients can move from performance to wholeness. We start with identity formation and the tension Stephen Russell names between the self-concept and the organismic self, offering cues for spotting performance and inviting authentic voice. From there, we build a person-centred frame with Lisa Brony that is racially literate without slipping into colour-blindness, and we spend time with Kimberly Fuller’s vital lens on children who become “bridges” for adults, mapping shame-driven behaviours and showing how to create spaces where young people can honour all parts of themselves. The middle third turns to language, art, and narrative. Namily Bull’s “alchemy” reframes mixedness as a creative integration, while Tracy Roberry’s poetry and the tapestry metaphor model a sequence therapists can use: witness the pain of enforced separation, then celebrate integration. Libita Subungu expands the toolkit with art that transcends reductive binaries, treating cracks and fissures as openings where new identity can emerge—a powerful reframe for crisis work and creative interventions. We close by widening the systemic lens. Yvonne Ayo offers historical depth, racial literacy, and the Social GGRRAACCEEESSS to prevent blind spots in casework, including religion and spirituality often missed in mixed-heritage families. Emily Mitchell adds clear guidance on racial socialisation for caregivers and services: pair pride with preparation, and rewrite reports with anti-racist, identity-affirming language that does not erase difference. Across every segment, the throughline is simple and demanding: hold both pain and possibility, and choose words, rituals, and structures that treat multiplicity as a strength. Stream the full Kaleidoscope collection in our learning library, subscribe for weekly updates, and leave a review to tell us which idea changes your practice first.

From Trauma’s Architecture To Community Healing

What if chronic back pain isn’t just muscular but a message from a nervous system stuck on high alert? We take you from the hard edges of trauma science to the warm heart of creative recovery, mapping how the body learns safety and how purpose turns healing into momentum. We start with a clear distinction every clinician needs: acute stress that ends versus chronic psychosocial stress that never lets up. Using polyvagal theory, we chart the three autonomic states—ventral engagement, sympathetic mobilisation, and dorsal shutdown—and show how they shape attention, memory, and agency. You’ll hear how neurosception and interoception become scrambled under constant threat, why talk alone rarely resolves traumatic stress, and how a simple vagal technique behind the earlobe can cue rest-and-digest physiology. We unpack the link between sympathetic overdrive and somalgia, reframing stubborn back pain as a nervous system problem that requires safety signals, not just stronger stretches. Then we shift from map to meaning with Tony Gee’s remarkable path. Early loss set the stage, radical education stoked his drive, and sustained hostility forced a pivot that changed everything. Guided by the James Hillman idea of the inner daimón, Tony found in puppetry not a destination but a vehicle: a way to connect, to mobilise communities, and to turn private wounds into public art. Twice setting Guinness World Records for community spectacle, he shows how creation restores agency and why the workshop itself can be the cure. Along the way we link Erikson’s generativity to modern practice, arguing that the arc of healing reaches its peak when recovered energy is given to others through mentorship, craft, and care. If you work with trauma, you’ll leave with a practical framework to read autonomic states, a concrete vagal regulation tool you can use today, and a renewed sense of why meaning matters as much as technique. If you’re healing, you’ll hear a path that honours your body’s alarms and your gifts in equal measure. Subscribe, share this with a colleague who needs fresh clinical insight, and leave a review telling us: what creative practice helps your nervous system feel safe?

From Pretrial Therapy To ADHD Tools And Mythic Healing

Start with a map, end with a compass. We take you across a week of standout sessions that connect legal clarity, neurodiversity-informed practice, social class, power in the therapy room, and the deep mythic layers that help clients move from rupture to integration. We begin where stakes are highest: pretrial therapy. Learn why your notes must be written for clinical care rather than criminal proceedings, how to differentiate reasonable from speculative legal requests, and how consent and pacing protect both clients and your professional role. You’ll hear grounded, real-world guidance on pushing back against fishing expeditions and holding firm to ethical due process. Next, we pivot to ADHD with tools that actually work. Discover why stillness meditation often backfires and how active, repetitive tasks like walking or folding can become effective contemplative practice. Explore cognitive tiredness, a crucial but overlooked form of overload, and redesign organisation systems—internal plans and external setups—to reduce sensory demands rather than increase them. The lens widens to class, naming poverty as both cause and consequence of mental distress, and exposing barriers hidden in plain sight: rigid schedules, transport costs, and alienating language that assumes spare time and money. We argue for integrating class into core training alongside race, disability, privilege, and intersectionality, so support becomes feasible, respectful, and real. Power then steps into focus. Framed as a neutral, relational force, it shifts moment by moment in therapy. Clients’ online research can feel intrusive, yet it’s also an attempt to balance asymmetry—material we can use to deepen trust. With a little sociology, we read the currents of status and structure shaping the room and respond with clarity, humility, and skill. Finally, we head into story and shadow. The Inuit myth of Sedna illuminates how loss can birth sovereignty and how ritual “combing” releases what is stuck. A singer’s journey through lost voice shows shadow as a path wanting recognition, not erasure. Woven together, these sessions offer a practice that is precise, class-aware, power-literate, neurodiversity-informed, and anchored in meaning. If this sparked new questions or gave you a tool you can use tomorrow, follow, share with a colleague, and leave a review. Your feedback helps us grow a library that serves real clinicians doing brave, careful work.