Midlife Initiations – Tending the Waters of Psyche and Soul

A Jungian & Interpersonal Process Therapy Group for Meaning, Connection, and Personal Growth

A place for transformational community in depth for people feeling depressed, anxious, stuck, stagnant, lost, isolated, alone, or misunderstood.

Join us in community for deep healing utilizing the map and mirrors of depth somatic experiential psychology and interpersonal process through the ever-present lens of mindfulness. Mindfulness of what is happening inside of you, outside of you, and in between you and others. This group bridges the world of our ordinary waking life roles and structures with that of our inner world. This is not a group about fixing you, teaching you skills, or requiring you to be “better” – rather, it is a group where all of you, in your brilliance and in your struggle with shadow, are welcome. It is a group led by psyche, soul, and spirit, informed by your life and experience, and facilitated by a trained and experienced guide (not a teacher with only one modality or worldview to share).

This group is for discovering who you really are, beyond the roles and patterns that the world assigned to you.
It’s for those people who are tired of living a life that someone else has defined for them.
For people who are ready to listen deeply to what their soul is communicating. Through dreams, patterns, relationships, in waking life, and while asleep.
And for people who are ready to let go of who they thought they were, to become who they really are.

You May Benefit From This Group If You:

✓ Feel lonely even when surrounded by people

✓ Are successful on the outside but disconnected inside

✓ Feel stuck in recurring relationship patterns

✓ Want deeper connection than most social environments offer

✓ Are interested in dreams, meaning, spirituality, or Jungian psychology

✓ Are navigating a major life transition

✓ Have done therapy before but want something deeper

✓ Long for authentic community and real conversation

In this group, you bring the topics – based on what is alive in you. What is challenging you? What is inspiring you? What is showing up in your world that feels impactful or meaningful? Whether that aliveness is a dream you had, a poem or song that moved you, a meditation practice that taught you, a social media post that triggered you or brightened your day, grief that brought you to your knees, a stuck-ness so tight it paralyzes you, or a movement that opened or freed you. This group is a space for community exploration, meditation, and reflection to bring more life and soul into your world. A healthy, intimate relationship with your Self is the goal. Made possible through healthy intimate relationships with others.

Who is this group for?

In short, it’s a group for people who have some experience working with their own psyche, who know the value of doing deep transpersonal work with the reflections of others. This group starts with the philosophy that we are all human, and we are all in this together. And through working with our individual gifts and shadows together, we help each other. And perhaps even see that they are not problems, but invitations to grow. This group is for people willing to engage in their own healing by giving and receiving support, and opening to the wisdom and support of a variety of modalities that connect you with your heart, mind, body, and soul.

We aim toward self-leadership and self-actualization. How do we do that?

We are all struggling to know and become the fullest version of our “real,” true, unique selves. We create a space to learn more about ourselves and experience new aspects of ourselves through content, process, and interpersonal relationships with other group members.

We recognize that we tend to deny our own needs and feelings. Pretending to be someone we aren’t or avoiding facing our true self inhibits growth. In this group, we take responsibility for owning our needs and feelings and expressing unexpressed thoughts, so the facilitator and other group members co-create the space to meet those new places in yourself and possibly have your needs and feelings met in an embodied way.

We believe each individual is endowed with the urge to expand, develop, mature, and reach self-actualization. We believe that true growth and healing come from within, and this group is designed to help facilitate that process.

Even in the best of times, it is easy to fall into despair – by not living the life that is yours to live or by feeling disconnected from the greater story of life and your place in the order of things. In these times of chaos and uncertainty, this group will help you reconnect to the life that is yours to live and reconnect you with the bigger picture and meaning to provide fuel and inspiration for the challenges we face.

At the core, we aim to illuminate the similarities and differences, exploring the realms and relationships between self and other, with the intention of understanding more about and tending to our soul and what it is wanting of us and for us. By “other” we include other humans, parts of ourselves we don’t yet know, our natural world, our society, and the other-than-human. When our soul wants or needs to experience something, it projects it outside of us so that we can see it and relate to it. Our goal in this group is to engage in illuminating relationships to help ourselves and others in the group, which in turn we offer up to help the greater world and community.

The creation of a core community is a powerful answer
to our collective crisis of isolation and alienation.
Because we live in the belly of a soul-eating culture,
we face enormous pressures every day to adjust,
accommodate and abandon our essential self.
Coming into the shelter of our own village
or core community is one way
to protect our intrinsic value
and restore our indigenous soul.

Francis Weller

Members often report:

feeling less alone
greater confidence in relationships
deeper self-understanding
increased emotional resilience
renewed sense of purpose and meaning
stronger connection to themselves and others

What do we actually do?

We meet for 90 minutes weekly. We begin and end with mindfulness practice. The bulk of the group is co-created and facilitated towards deeper depth, authenticity, relationship, and understanding with self and others. There are two groups running. One in-person with a Zoom hybrid option, and one only on Zoom with bi-annual in-person intensives. This is an ongoing group that will live as long as its life has purpose. It will die when its ending is called for. You are asked to commit three months to connect and engage to the best of your ability for that period. You are welcome to continue coming as long as you find purpose and value in the group. You are free to end your relationship with the group whenever that feels best for you after the initial commitment. It is requested that you give the group as much notice as possible before leaving, to allow for a satisfactory ending for you and the group. We practice intentional beginnings and intentional endings, and in the meantime, explore conscious and unconscious life through:

Interpersonal process work
Dream exploration
Group dialogue
Relational feedback
Experiential exercises
Somatic awareness
Symbolic awareness
Mindfulness practice

One of the benefits of this group is the members’ commitment to show up authentically and honestly for each other each week. If you need to prioritize something else, don’t feel like coming, or are questioning your participation in the group, we ask that you disclose your thoughts and feelings about the needs, the group, the people in it, and what is or is not happening that is impacting you. It is all part of the process that will benefit you and the others.

You will get the most out of this group each week if you bring something alive and/or meaningful to you and/or listen to what is alive for you in the moment. Anything and everything you bring is valuable. A thought. A wondering. A recent experience. A part of yourself you are curious about. A quote. A poem. A song. A dream. A question. A pattern you’ve noticed in your life. Our aim as a group will be not to interpret, give advice, fix, or change, but to wonder together, resonating with our own similar stories or with our curiosity and compassion for those we don’t understand. We’ll aim to engage our full heart, mind, body, and soul in deepening our intrapersonal and interpersonal connections, working as much as possible in the “here and now” of what is being brought up and stirred in our group container.

Logistical Details:

Two Groups to Choose From. Both are ongoing, weekly. $70.

Wednesdays: Zoom Only with Bi-Annual in-person meetings – 12-1:30EST/10-11:30MST/9-10:30PST

Thursdays: In-person Midtown Fort Collins with a hybrid Zoom option. 11:30-1:00MST.

Open to all genders age 28+.

12-week minimum commitment to allow for relationships and group cohesion to form. Stay as long as the group is beneficial to you. When it’s not, have an intentional ending and find what is right for you.

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About the facilitator: Chuck Hancock, M.Ed, LPC, LMHC is passionate about group work being an important part of our growth and healing journey. With over a decade of experience guiding individual and group processes in council, dreamwork, interpersonal process groups, psychodrama, meditation, Hakomi somatic psychotherapy, ego state (parts) work, Jungian psychology, movement, music, and nature-based practices. He weaves all these practices together to help clients locate themselves in the world and co-create new experiences of authenticity, depth, meaning, insight, and inspiration. With the diversity of members, modalities, and lineages, the community formed through group experience offers more possibilities and amplifies the growth process.

To register for more information to decide if this group is right for you, email [email protected] or call 970.829.0478.