Watering the Heart Root Workshops!

Date: Sat. April 26, 2025 1-3pm (Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave. S., Mpls, MN 55409)

Cost per workshop: $36 Suggested. Sliding Fee options of $10-, $24-, $36-, $49, and $59.

In each workshop:

An engaging, uplifting workshop of tools, strategies, and original songs & chants to help navigate life’s challenges and grow empowerment, self-compassion, inner peace, gratitude, creativity, and groundedness.

Learn a unique suite of practical tools, strategies, and original songs & chants to help navigate life’s challenges and feel more self-loving and grounded.

• Be immersed in an atmosphere of emotional respect and care, with support to be both serious and playful.

• Explore and discuss wellness and healing info, including some relevant research findings on the neurobiology of emotion, attachment, trauma, and self-compassion.

• Absorb info on some highly useful concepts and tools to understand and work with our emotions.

• Get free downloads of the Watering the Heart Root music.

• Receive insights on best ways to use positive psychology and avoid toxic positivity.

• Soak up teaching stories that inspire healing and growth, culled from Mindy’s 35 years as a psychotherapist and from her personal healing path.

• Receive handouts on topics covered.

• Be invited to sing along, listen to, or meditate on the songs as you prefer. All voices are welcome and valued at the workshops——whether or not you sing on key or have a “good” voice.

• Receive the care of covid-safer protocols and guidelines.

Location April 3: 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., (Studio TimeOut) Minneapolis, MN 55419. [Accessibility: ADA accessible parking & meeting room. Bathroom not fully wheelchair accessible.]

Location April 26: 3748 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409 (Center for Performing Arts).

Free parking in lot and on street. On bus route. [ADA accessible building; handicap parking space can be prearranged.]

Please Note: Current or former psychotherapy clients of mine need to talk with me before registering to discuss whether attending is a good fit with your therapy goals and for other professional boundaries.

Date: Thurs. May 1, 2025 7 - 9 pm

Cost per workshop: $36 Suggested. Sliding Fee options of $24-, $36-, $49, and $59.

Location: 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., (Studio TimeOut) Minneapolis, MN 55419

Free parking in lot and on street. On bus route.

Accessibility: ADA accessible parking & meeting room. Bathroom not fully wheelchair accessible.

Please Note: Current or former psychotherapy clients of mine need to talk with me before registering to discuss whether attending is a good fit with your therapy goals and for other professional boundaries.

A) Mindy shares Brene Brown’s view, that “Spirituality (is) a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness.  (It is) the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves—a force grounded in love and compassion.  For some of us that’s God, for others it’s nature, art, or even human soulfulness.” (p. 151 Brown, C. B. (2012). Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. New York, N.Y.: Gotham.)

B) Mindy views spirituality as broader than any particular religion and not dependent on having a religion. Everyone has an innate capacity to experience universal energies of love, wisdom, and guidance--called by many different names and beyond our full comprehension--that are available within, around, and to each of us. She offers the workshops and songs from her belief that deepening our authentic spiritual connection leads humanity away from alienation, isolation, and exploitation, toward a universal ethic of compassion, cooperation, care, and justice for every person.

C) Mindy’s music and workshops focus inter-spirituality—the commonalities among major world wisdom traditions and the essence underlying and beyond religions (e.g. The Eight Points of Agreement” from the Snowmass Conference facilitated by Father Thomas Keating; and Ken Wilbur’s Integral Spirituality). She resonates with Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s description of spirituality:  “…the two-fold truth of the interdependence and dignity of all life within the greater nondual aliveness of God, Nature, Universe, Tao, Mother, Allah, Brahman, YHVH, and so on, and the universal validity of the Golden Rule: what is hateful to you, do not do to another.” (From Substack, Ask Rabbi Rami, “A Mark of Sanity” 2/14/25.  (rabbirami@substack.com) https://secure.hushmail.com/mail/#message/My%20Response%20Is%20Needed/5022641?show_images=1)

Mindy supports everyone in exploring and defining what spirituality means for themselves, and to use whatever terms feel right to them. In the workshops, she uses a variety of terms and also asks what participants feel comfortable with. The spiritual songs and chants have verses with varied wording, to make them meaningful to more people. You can choose other wording as well. The workshops are not a place to argue or debate about religious or spiritual beliefs. Everyone is encouraged to share their own experiences if they feel comfortable doing so, but not to try to change anyone else’s beliefs or give advice. Mutual respect is vital. Mindy upholds the value that no human is more worthy than any others. Evangelizing about particular religions will not be allowed in the workshops. Her goal is to create safe spaces to validate and deepen people’s personal experiences of spiritual connection and communication, rather than debate about theology. 

For those with negative feelings about the word “God”:

Four of the 10 Spiritual Well-Being album’s songs contain the word “God”—usually in one verse, with different wording in the other verses. Mindy recorded an entire song (Held and Loved by…) as two distinct tracks with varied terms to be accessible to folks who feel intensely uncomfortable with the word “God”.

Mindy personally uses the word “God” as a convenient shorthand to mean all of the following:

• An energy of love, wisdom, and creativity that is in all things and all people.

• Something we can experience and be supported by in many different ways.

• The unexplainable intelligence-power and wisdom-brilliance that created billions of expanding galaxies with the utmost precision.

• The energy that is the basis or essence of our being.

• Something that connects everyone and everything.

• An energy that is far beyond the limitations of our human understanding.

• A source of wisdom and guidance that is available for all of us.

(Feel free to share this description but credit her name, please.)

Mindy treasures her Jewish upbringing and communities for vital nurturing and teaching she’s received through her life.  She is also grateful for what she’s learned from a wide variety of other religious and spiritual practices and writings over many years. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and its Division 36: Society for The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. She’s been a member of the Institute of Noetic Science (the scientific study of consciousness) for over 30 years. She’s done various types of meditation and read about spirituality from many perspectives. She has 40+ years of experience in an addiction recovery program which encourages developing a personal connection with a Higher Power. She is not an expert on religion. She strives to provide safe spaces, stories, and processes to help people explore, validate, and deepen their personal experiences of spiritual connection and communication.

Date: Thurs. May 8, 2025, 7 - 9 pm

Cost per workshop: $36 Suggested. Sliding Fee options of $24, $36, $49, and $59.

Location: 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., (Studio TimeOut) Minneapolis, MN 55419

Accessibility: ADA accessible parking & meeting room. Bathroom not fully wheelchair accessible. Free parking in lot and on street. On bus route.

Please Note: Current or former psychotherapy clients of mine need to talk with me before registering to discuss whether attending is a good fit with your therapy goals and for other professional boundaries.