Embracing Our Inner Critics: A Pathway to Inner Strength and Peace

We seem more inclined to hear the voices of our inner critics than we do to listen to our inner mentors – our inner champions. This workshop helps us to move from resisting our critical voices to learning how to transform them and incorporate them into a powerful strong sense of inner knowing and deep sense of our own worth. It will explore using such tools as guided mediation, journaling, collage, sketching, and discussions. Activities will also increase awareness of how to tap into wisdom from the body and how it is different when it is located in different places – the gut, the heart, the head, the feet, the hands.

Leader(s)

Dana Mitra is an empowerment coach who focuses on helping others find their purpose, seek balance and harmony, and increase their productivity. She holds a Stanford University Ph.D. focused on leadership and organizations, is a professor of Education Theory and policy at Penn State University, a member of the International Coaching Federation, and received her coaching training from the Coaches Training Institute – the gold standard in coaching.

Dana builds her coaching on a research career focused on how people can find their voice and become change agents. She is an international expert on student voice and civic engagement, having published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and four books. A member of State College Friends Meeting, she finds her greatest truths on a long hike in the woods.

Financial aid may be available. If you are seeking funds to participate in this program, click to review and complete our Financial Assistance Application and a Pendle Hill staff member will follow-up with you shortly (please do NOT register online). Thank you for your interest.

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