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Welcome to Nurturing the Heart

with the Brain in Mind

Good News!

Many of you have requested that we offer an IPNB study group again.  So we decided to offer two!  Beginning in June, Carly Henderson and Kathleen Thompson will offer both in-person and online monthly study groups.  You can find the information here.  We are so happy to make this available once more!

Carly is also providing another delicious opportunity.  From time to time over the years, we have offered 3-day intensives for one, two, three, or four people. We do these at Bonnie and Jo's Vancouver home, so there is sand tray, collage, art, a simple lunch and a welcoming garden.  If you would like to explore this opportunity to deepen in a way that will keep integrating for years, reach out to Carly.

Registration is now open!


Year-Long IPNB Immersion

New Cohort: January - October 2027 - 7 spaces remaining

Heart of Trauma

July 23-25 and October 22-24, 2026 - 1 space remaining
Navigating Change

February 6-7, 2027

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, Nurturing Our Capacity for Attunement and Presence. Click on their names to read more about them.

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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,   Navigating Change: A Wise Woman Retreat.

You can click on Vanessa's name for her biography.

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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.

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(c) Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind (2015). 

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