Welcome to Nurturing the Heart
with the Brain in Mind
We are delighted to announce that we are expanding our teaching group this year. Bonnie, Jo, Karen, Heidi, Vanessa, and Pearl are being joined by Carly, and Kathleen. All of them have deeply immersed themselves in Interpersonal Neurobiology and Relational Neuroscience for decades, embodying it, living it in their personal as well as professional lives. Our community is so fortunate to have these wise and wonderful people sharing their hearts and their wisdom.
Registration is now open!
Embodied Liberation
October 16-18 2025
Year-Long IPNB Immersion
August 2025 - April 2026, January - October 2026
Nourishing Attunement and Presence
September-December, 2025
Therapy as Spiritual Practice
March 19-21, 2026, July 9-11, 2026
Karen Welch, LMFT and Heidi Struble, MFA, with decades of deep study and practice between them, are facilitating the Year-Long IPNB Immersion and Heart of Trauma. You can read their biographies by clicking on their names.
Carly Henderson, LPC and Kathleen Thompson, LPC, have been students and practitioners of IPNB and relational neuroscience for decades. They facilitate a course for those who have completed the year-long training, Nourishing Our Capacity for Attunement and Presence. Click on their names to read more about them.
Vanessa Timmons, healer, life coach, writer, social justice activist, and advocate brings 35 years of service and support to the healing class she is offering: Journaling as a Conversation with Our Inner World.
She and Pearl Waldorf, MEd, LPC, CGP co-facilitate Embodied Liberation: A Racial Justice Workshop. Pearl is also a somatic therapist, long-time student of IPNB, and certified group psychotherapist. She is currently offering monthly support gatherings for leaders of all kinds of groups. More dates soon! Click on their names for their biographies.
Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT (Retired), and Jo Hadlock-King, LICSW will be teaching Therapy as Spiritual Practice. Many who have come to the year-long training have expressed an interest in the connection between spirituality and the work we do, and this 3-day retreat will spend time in that tender territory. Read more about them by clicking on their names.
