EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Upcoming Events & Workshops
WRITING INTO THE TRUTH: Use Writing to Discover Your Truth and Find Deeper Wisdom
With Bestselling Author, Winner of the prestigious French Prix Award, and New York Times Hero of the Year, Rene Denfeld
Date and Time: Saturday, August 15, 2026 | 10a - 1p U.S. Pacific
Format: Facilitated Live and Online
Cost: $269* (Venmo or PayPal) (*Price includes three hours of facilitated guidance, a pre-order of Rene’s next novel, The Talking Bone, and a workbook. Workshop participants can also purchase time with Rene for 1:1 consultation. Email Sun for details.)
Overview: For centuries, we’ve known writers to be among the most profound thinkers, but it’s not because they’re innately wise! Writers use the tool of writing to access unexplored parts of their minds, making connections between the outside world and humanity, charting a course for a better future. Through writing, we make contact with previously unknown parts of ourselves, accessing a wiser, higher-level of thinking. The right tools can unlock courage and creative potential, shifting writing from an ordinary journaling practice to a portal for greater understanding.
This interactive, innovative workshop will take you on a deep dive into the use of writing as a tool to unearth unique personal wisdom and insight. This phenomenal teacher and bestselling author will offer time-tested but seldom-shared techniques of writing as a way to better understand yourself and others, find peace and purpose, and write yourself into a better life.
RECENT PAST EVENTS
The Art & Science of Imagination: Amplifying the Force that Powers Gamestorming
With Founders, Acclaimed Authors, Visual Facilitators, and Keynote Speakers Patti Dobrowolski & Sunni (Sun) Brown
Friday, February 27, 2026 | 9am-1pm PST | Facilitated Live, Online
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This four-hour advanced online workshop is for facilitators and practitioners who already leverage innovation and imagination—and want to use gamestorming techniques to work more consciously with those capacities within a group process. Participants will learn to understand imagination as a dynamic system rather than a personality trait, and engage it as a force that can be tuned, stabilized, and directed in service of collective problem-solving.
Participants will learn gamestorming moves that use imagination to surface non-obvious futures. The focus will be on amplifying collaborative intelligence—supporting emergence while maintaining facilitator presence and inspiring better outcomes.
Imagination Unbound: Gamestorming Your Future
With Founders, Acclaimed Authors, Visual Facilitators, and Keynote Speakers Patti Dobrowolski & Sunni (Sun) Brown
Friday, February 13, 2026 | 9am-1pm PST | Facilitated Live, Online
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In this four-hour collaborative online workshop, we’ll combine the power of Sun’s multi-sensory facilitation method (showcased in a bestselling book!)—Gamestorming 2.0—with Patti’s expertise on simulating the future to help you to discover, design, and activate a personal aspirational state using two of your most powerful innate capacities: visualization and imagination.
This experience will help you build confidence in strengthening your imaginal capacity and mind’s eye to rehearse outcomes, test possibilities, emotionally experience a desired future state, and enhance the potential of that future coming to fruition. Imagination is more than a whimsical experiment; it is a cognitive muscle, a future-generator that can be intentionally exercised and directed to call in and co-create a more hopeful vision for yourself, others, and the world.
Drawing In: Creative and Contemplative Mark-Making to See the Light in Dark Times
With Sharon Zeugin, Master Calligrapher, International Teacher, and Award-Winning Artist
Saturday, January 31, 2026 | 9am-1pm PST | Facilitated Live, Online
With Sharon Zeugin, Master Calligrapher, International Teacher, and Award-Winning Artist
This workshop—with one of the world’s few female master calligraphers—is about returning to the present moment by awakening our senses. Through sketching, drawing, and intentional mark-making, we will learn to see, feel, and experience ourselves in relationship with—in communion with—the wonder in the natural world around us. Using accessible, contemplative exercises and ordinary tools and materials, we expand our visual vocabulary while calming our nervous systems and drawing from within, linking our inner experience with the outer world, creating a path to come home to ourselves.
Mind-Reading for Facilitators (& Other Humans): Improvisation and Attunement to Read Your Group and the Room
With Shannon Stott, Award-Winning Performer, Founder and Director, Improv | On and Off the Stage, and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, November 7, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST | Facilitated Live, Online
The ways we connect with each other in real time move well beyond the verbal and intellectual, living in the space between words—in body language, micro-expressions, tone, rhythm, shifts in breath, and pacing. In this workshop, we’ll practice interpersonal attunement and improvisation, learning to pay attention to the nuanced communication signals constantly influencing relationship, authenticity, and possibility.
Whole and Well Ancestor Practice: Undoing Cultural and Legacy Burdens
With Kay Gardner, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Senior Lead Trainer, Esteemed Therapist, and Wisdom Carrier
Saturday, September 13, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST | Facilitated Live, Online
Legacy burdens are burdens we receive from our ancestors, through our family line. Cultural burdens are burdens absorbed from the broader culture(s) in which we live. In this workshop, participants explore ancestral connections, blessing, and burdens and learn to identify and energetically resolve those that no longer serve.
Porosity of Mind: Why Ignoring It Limits Your Life and Poisons Our Civilization
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST | Facilitated Live, Online
The final workshop in the series, Porosity of Mind, will explore Bob's groundbreaking research and latest innovations on the true nature of the mind, revealing how to access a deeper source of inspiration and creative flow…arrow_circle_right
The Birth of Purpose: Finding Meaning by Connecting to a Deeper Self
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 9 am - 1 pm PST| Live, Online
This second workshop in the trilogy weaves skillful teaching with guided meditations and breakout experiences to help you connect directly to the source of insight and inspiration that gives birth to meaning. We'll summon a power intrinsic to your mind which, in turns, helps you navigate the ongoing road toward a more meaningful and purposeful life… arrow_circle_right
Why it Matters to Know Who You Are: The Reality of Multiple Minds Changes Everything About Your Life
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 9 am - 1 pm PST | Live, Online
In this first workshop of a trilogy, Bob demystifies a natural state of all human minds—multiplicity—and gives us a practical sense of how this understanding directly impacts energy, authenticity, clarity, and productivity, helping us develop the skill of transforming inner conflicts into creative flow… arrow_circle_right
The Four Noble Truths of Love: An Open Heart Practice and Intimate Conversation
With New York Times Bestselling Author, Meditation Teacher, and Founder of the Open Heart Project, Susan Piver
Saturday, April 18, 2020 | 4 pm - 7 pm PST | Live, Online
In the Center for Deep Self Design’s opening workshop, bestselling author and meditation teacher Susan Piver explored how to meet the inherent discomfort and instability of life using a resource native to us all: the expansive energy of the heart. This three-hour workshop invited participants to practice the four noble truths of love in relationship with all beings and in discovery with ourselves.