Groups, Classes & Workshops
Practitioners at People House offer a wide variety of groups and classes. The descriptions provided below can help you decide which best fits your needs.
Why Groups, Classes & Workshops?
In the wired world of the twenty-first century the Internet allows us to connect with people and knowledge from around the globe. Digital encyclopedias, chat rooms, multimedia, even a virtual office at home, are all there at the click of a mouse. But is clicking really connecting? And what must "click" before we connect to ourselves?
At People House, our experience tells us that access to global information is no substitute for a deep connection to our own inner spirit. As human beings, that's really what we're looking for. Even in the most sophisticated lifestyles, the man or woman at peace is the one with self-knowledge.
In a group setting we find that we're not alone in our search. As we hear others tell their stories, we see how they deal with struggles not unlike our own. In telling our personal stories, we see the gift of our uniqueness reflected back to us in the loving faces of the group members. We feel compassion for others and for ourselves. We learn new behaviors and gain the courage to try them out in a supportive environment. We feel safe to shine a light on dark places in our life experiences. In the process, we connect to others and to ourselves.
For more information contact the group leader or therapist of your choice directly or visit our informal Friday night drop-in group 7:30 pm-9pm where no ongoing commitment is necessary.
Facilitator Training at People House
Veterans Reintegration Workshop • Caregivers Workshop •
Retrain Your Brain for Health & Happiness: The Solution Method
The Solution training teaches you the skills to achieve and maintain emotional balance, which is the key to turning off the drive to go to excess. This method has not only been shown to create lasting change with unhealthy behaviors (over/ under: eating, working, spending, smoking, drinking, thinking or people pleasing, rescuing, distancing),but also to decrease depression, improve health and happiness and create healthy, fulfilling relationships. The Solution Method will change your life !
Facilitators: Terri Kirwan, MA, LPC
Date/Times: Group #1 -Wired For Joy Group, June 3—24;This course is an introduction to The Solution skills. You will learn our 5-Point System to reduce stress and ramp up natural joy and pleasure in your life! Group #2: 12 Week Ongoing Group begins July 7
Cost: Group# 1 -$225 includes an individual coaching session. Group #2 - $425
Registration: Terri, 720-732-4050; terri@comprehensivecounseling.net; MC, Visa & Insurance billing.
Muscle Testing 101
Derived from Applied Kinesiology, Muscle Testing is a unique and accurate way to help determine what is going on in your unconscious mind. Learn how to correctly muscle test yourself and others, plus discover your “Level of Consciousness” based on Dr. David Hawkin’s Power Vs Force. Experience fun and exciting ways to use Muscle Testing to enhance your life! Nancy Harris has over 20 years experience using Muscle Testing with herself and her clients.
Facilitators: Nancy R. Harris, MSS
Date/Times: Wed. June 4; 7—9:30pm
Cost: $45/person
Registration: Nancy 303-692-9092 x 2; www.nancyharris.com
Vision Board Parties
Come and experience your own creative power at a vision board party. Give your dreams the expression they deserve, and watch the results unfold in your life. Bring any old magazines (to share and cut up) and any pictures you want to include, and bring your ideas for your own personal vision. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Let’s have some fun!
Facilitators: Sue Bickel MA
Date/Times: Sat. June7 and/or Sat. June 28, 10am—1pm
Cost: $15 includes materials cost & donation to PH
Registration: Sue 720-935-1289; susan_healing@yahoo.com
Meditation and Self Exploration
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. When a group of thoughtful people (the parts) come together to meditate, share, learn, and explore emotional and spiritual growth the outcome (or sum) can be awesome empowerment for all involved. Together we will create a safe, non judgmental, compassion filled space to process our feelings, fears, frustrations and successes. We will experience the quiet centeredness that simple meditation can bring, the beauty of active listening, and the comfort of a supportive group. We'll practice being completely present in the moment while giving and receiving honest, constructive feedback. We will learn valuable things from each other that we cannot learn on our own.
Facilitators: Jana McSwain, MS
Date/Times: Thurs. June 11—August 28; 6:30—8:00pm
Cost: $360, paid at first class
Registration: limited to 12; Jana at 720-205-4821; janamcswain@gmail.com
Discover Your Spiritual Life Purpose
Always dreamed of knowing the answer to “WHY AM I HERE?” Feeling unfulfilled and/or not sure of your purpose? This class is for you!! We all have a unique purpose for being. When you know what you are here to be, it is easier to find satisfaction and inner peace with what you are doing. Nancy will guide you through a very simple yet profound process that reveals your Spiritual Life Purpose and how to fulfill it! Experience this exciting journey of going within and discovering what you are here to “BE”. For 14 years Nancy has been successfully using this process with hundreds of clients and workshop participants.
Facilitators: Nancy R. Harris, MSS
Date/Times: Fri. June 20; 7—9:45pm
Cost: $45/person
Registration: Limited to 10 participants; Nancy 303-692-9092 x 2; www.nancyharris.com
Secrets
If you grew up in a family where there were secrets, it poisoned your ability to trust yourself and others. It now taints the view you have of yourself, others and the world. As a result, you may often feel self-doubt, distrust, betrayed, suspicious and confused. It is said that we are only as sick as we are secret. Learn how confronting the secret and dispelling its hold can release your fear and bring you to peace. Telling your truth is giving the gift of self-disclosure, a gift of love.
Facilitators: Rosa Mazone, 303-233-5365
Date/Times: : June 23, Mon., 6:30—9:30pm
Cost: $35 or $60 for 2. Materials: $1
Registration: Sheila, 303-487-7575; sheilalajohnson@comcast.net
Beginning in July 
Conscious Communication
Does your communication often fail to get you what you want? Do you repeatedly choose communication patterns that don’t work? We fear that to communicate out of what we think and feel will alienate us. This class teaches how to overcome this belief and the obstacles it creates. Come to learn that being totally honest and speaking from your most authentic place is living in integrity. To withhold what is true for you inevitably results in withholding yourself. “Though the message was never received doesn't mean it wasn't worth sending.” Chinese Proverb
Facilitators: Rosa Mazone, 303-233-5365
Date/Times: : : July 9, Wed., 6:30—9:30pm
Cost: Per Week:$35 or $60 for 2. Three Weeks: $90 or $165 for 2. Paid at first class. Materials: $1.
Registration: Sheila, 303-487-7575; sheilalajohnson@comcast.net
Emotional Wellness: Love, Happiness and Dreams Fulfilled
Do you want more love and happiness? Want your mind to be able to focus on positive thoughts? Long to manifest your dreams and live the life you know you were meant to live? Using Nancy R. Harris' brand-new “Quick and Easy Emotional Release™” technique you will learn how to quickly transform your stress, anxieties, and fears into a sense of well being. Because you are a physical being we can use the wisdom of your body to release emotional blocks at the sub-conscious and cellular level. QEER™ is designed to provide safe, dependable and rapid personal growth and healing. Bring to class a fear or an anxiety that you are ready to release - Public Speaking, Money, Snakes, Heights, Success, Fear of Trusting Your Intuition, even Relationships. Make sure you are ready to release this fear. You won’t be taking it home! In class you will release one old tape, fear or anxiety as you learn how to use this life-changing technique on all your issues. Once your stress or fear is released Nancy will guide you in a process of learning how to listen to and trust your intuition. Learn how to tap into your inner wisdom and manifest true emotional wellness, which is fulfilled dreams, happiness and love!
Facilitators: Nancy R. Harris, MSS
Date/Times: Sat. July 26; 9am —4:30pm (ending time may vary due to number of participants )
Cost: $95/person includes: workbook, handouts, continental breakfast and snacks
Registration: Limited to 10 participants; Nancy 303-692-9092 x 2; www.nancyharris.com
Because I Wouldn't, You Shouldn't
Resentment builds when you insist, demand, expect or require of others and/or yourself. Believing you are right and they are wrong or they are right and you are wrong creates serious misunderstandings. Knowing there is “one right way” excludes alternatives and causes conflict. Study the ways you set yourself up for frustration, anger, disappointment, and resentment by trying to change and/or control persons and situations. Learn to practice acceptance, allowance and tolerance. Explore how detachment and release create a newfound space for love and peace in your life.
Facilitators: Rosa Mazone, 303-233-5365
Date/Times: Aug. 6, Wed., 6:30—9:30pm
Cost: Per Week:$35 or $60 for 2. Three Weeks: $90 or $165 for 2. Paid at first class. Materials: $1.
Registration: Sheila, 303-487-7575; sheilalajohnson@comcast.net
Silent Retreats
Are you ready to relax, rejuvenate and regain a place of centeredness? Then please join us for this weekend of silence! We meet from 6:30pm Friday evening, share briefly, and then move into silence until Sunday before lunch. There will be a schedule of group meditations, and much self-directed time, to read, sleep, pray, meditate, or use your own style of reflection or contemplation.
Location: Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden, Co
Date/Times: Sept. 19—21; Fri. 6:30pm—Sun. noon
Cost: (Room & Board, no other cost) $140 includes lodging, 5 meals, Sat. breakfast thru Sun. lunch, & group meditation room. A $25 non-refundable deposit required to hold your spot, remaining $115 due May 2 for the May retreat.
Registration: Dot Kaufman at 303-980-5423 or Marlene Zweig at 303-758-3866. Deposits to Dot, 10692 C W. Florida Ave., Lakewood, CO 80232
Sensory Awareness - Level I
We believe that to be fully alive, we must re-awaken what we once had naturally -- a fluid body and an in-born capacity to receive sensations. Our goal is to recapture a depth of experiencing and a zest for living that we may not have known since childhood.
Facilitators: Marlene and Paul Zweig, 303-758-3866
Date/Times: Sept. 24 —October 29; Six Wed. evenings 6:30—9:30pm
Cost: $75
Registration: call 303-758-3866; zweigs@gmail.com. Enrollment will be limited to 10 participants
Understanding the Veteran Population
ONE Freedom is offering the fourth Care Provider Training at People House for counselors and other providers who seek to serve the veteran population. This workshop teaches a new framework of "the trauma spectrum" and how deployment and combat affect service members and families on an individual and collective level. It features a state-of-the-art presentation by neurologist Dr. Robert Scaer, author of The Body Bears the Burden, and finishes with the Strength in Service model presented by combat veterans and civilian experts from ONE Freedom. Participants will gain an increased understanding of the brain and body mechanisms behind stress and trauma, and learn how to rebalance the central nervous system, regulate emotions and thought, and release stress from the body with simple exercises. This material is applicable to all trauma sufferers.All therapists and other caregivers in the metro area are encouraged to attend and acquire this powerful knowledge base for dealing with challenges associated with veteran reintegration. The last training was standing room only so make your reservation now!
Facilitators: Dr. Robert Scaer, Neurologist, Dan Taslitz, former Marine & lead trainer, Elizabeth Hawkins, Ex.Dir. of ONE Freedom and Stephen Robinson, stress expert.
Date/Times: Tues., June 17, 9am—1pm
Cost: $40
Registration: Kit Colorado, 303-444-1221; register@onefreedom.org
Diagnosing, Treating and Referring for Substance Abuse Disorder
People who use drugs and alcohol are presenting themselves in outpatient therapy more frequently, but the person with problematic use does not always disclose this information, and if they do will minimize their use. Thus, it is crucial that the treating therapist have the skills to help diagnose a substance abuse condition through the use of comprehensive interviewing. Workshop focus will be first on acquiring a variety of ways to ask about a person’s use of drugs and alcohol in order to diagnose the condition, and second on the treatment of the person with a substance abuse disorder. The obstacles that make treating these conditions so challenging on an individual outpatient basis will be discussed. The last part will cover learning how to identify when a person needs a higher level of care and how to make a referral. This lecture will involve case examples, provide resources and place emphasis on discussion.
Facilitators: Doug Jowdy, PhD
Date/Times: Fri., June 13; 1—3pm
Cost: $30
Registration: Doug -303-449-2728; info@drdougjowdy.com
Facilitator Training at People House
Facilitator Training
Do you want to facilitate groups or individuals? Do you want to improve your relationships and methods of communication? Do you need to make better choices for yourself, learn to listen to your inner voice, find ways to move forward in your life? Do you want to learn effective ways to resolve conflict and live with intention? All of this and much more is the Facilitator Training course at People House. The course material has been distilled into essentials and the class shortened; yet plenty of time is available for experiential learning. This is a co-ed course for adults. We provide opportunity for personal growth and group process. We teach all the fundamentals of facilitating which are useful at work, home, school and everywhere. We encourage alumni to repeat the class!! It’s new and different!! You will always learn something valuable each time!!
Facilitator: Carole Adams 303-274-0458; Jeanne Robertson 303-433-1890; and John Pechacek 303-921-6956
Date/Times: 70+ hours total, spread out over 7 months
October 2008—April 2009;
Fri. nights 6:30—9pm; Sat. 9am—6pm
Cost: $800 (scholarships are available)
Registration: www.facilitator-training.com or call one of the facilitators
Process/Support Group at PH
Facilitator Training continues in a process/support group format. Alumni of Facilitator Training (or equivalent) are invited to participate in a monthly process/support group. This is not a class, but a continuation of the FT experience in action. Your participation is welcome and encouraged … come to be facilitated in open floor work; come to witness others doing their work; come to facilitate and learn more about facilitation by doing it. A few valid reasons to participate are: personal growth, conflict resolution in a relationship, communication concerns at home or work, team building, and so much more. We will work with real-life situations and people, not theory. Facilitation is alive and well!! Don’t miss out on this opportunity!!
Facilitators: Carole Adams
Date/Times: May 17, June 14, July 12, Aug. 9, Sept. 6, Oct. 11, Nov. 1; Sat. afternoons 1—5pm
Cost: $150 for the full series ($35 separately)
Pre-registration required: Carole, 303-274-0458;carole_adams@msn.com
Veterans Reintegration Workshop—Caregivers Workshop
ONE Freedom is offering the fourth Care Provider Training at People House for counselors and other providers who seek to serve the veteran population. This workshop teaches a new framework of "the trauma spectrum" and how deployment and combat affect service members and families on an individual and collective level. It features a state-of-the-art presentation by neurologist Dr. Robert Scaer, author of The Body Bears the Burden, and finishes with the Strength in Service model presented by combat veterans and civilian experts from ONE Freedom. Participants will gain an increased understanding of the brain and body mechanisms behind stress and trauma, and learn how to rebalance the central nervous system, regulate emotions and thought, and release stress from the body with simple exercises. This material is applicable to all trauma sufferers.All therapists and other caregivers in the metro area are encouraged to attend and acquire this powerful knowledge base for dealing with challenges associated with veteran reintegration. The last training was standing room only so make your reservation now!
Facilitators: Dr. Robert Scaer, Neurologist, Dan Taslitz, former Marine & lead trainer, Elizabeth Hawkins, Ex.Dir. of ONE Freedom and Stephen Robinson, stress expert.
Date/Times: Tues., June 17, 9am—1pm
Cost: $40
Registration: Kit Colorado, 303-444-1221; register@onefreedom.org
The last training was standing room only so make your reservation now.
Additional Veterans Reintegration Workshop: Veterans Reintegration Workshop— Strength after Service
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