Upcoming WORKSHOPS & events
Workshops and events are listed below in chronological order.
For registration information, please scroll down.
Making Meaning From Mess is a 12-part experiential workshop series offered through the Portland Processwork Clinic for people who want to relate differently to the challenges that arise in relationships, work, and everyday life—not as problems to fix, but as signals carrying information, direction, and potential.
Across the series, we slow things down enough to notice what is usually missed: subtle body signals, emotional shifts, power dynamics, and moments where choice quietly disappears.
Each two-hour workshop focuses on one thing—and goes deep into it. You'll leave with something real: a new way of seeing a pattern that's been running you, a concrete practice you can use the next day, or a felt experience you didn't have before you walked in.
Each workshop stands alone. You can take one or as many as draw you in. No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
The Making Meaning from Mess workshops run once a month, 3 times a day! With two live online options and one in-person, you have plenty to choose from!
Staying Human When Things Escalate (August 2026: Making Meaning from Mess Series)
The workshop that helps you stay present when emotions rise, tensions build, and conversations begin to unravel.
Presented in partnership with the Process Work Institute.
Time Options
The Making Meaning from Mess workshops run once a month, 3 times a day! With two live online options and one in-person, you have plenty to choose from!
Live Online option 1: August 19th, 8am-10am Pacific (11am-1pm Eastern · 5pm-7pm CET)
Live Online option 2: August 18th, 4pm-6pm Pacific (7pm-9pm Eastern · 9am-11am +1 Sydney)
In-Person, Portland: August 20th, 5:30pm-7:00pm Pacific
No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23914106/about
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: DINING WITH DISTURBANCES & UNDISCUSSABLES
Step into the rooms we usually tiptoe past — where the air is thick with unspoken tensions that quietly shape culture, influence teams, and steer relationships and decisions.
Pull up a chair to the conversations we tend to dodge — the ones marked by awkward pauses and truths left unsaid. Here, we’ll bring those disturbances to the table, name them with skill and humanity, and work with the systemic patterns that keep them alive.
Through live practice and collective inquiry, we’ll learn to stay in the heat — and keep the dialogue moving — when the stakes are high, shifting culture one conversation at a time.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: THE CONFLICT Sommelier: Developing a Palate for the Heat of Human Tension
Conflict, like a fine wine, has layers. At first sip, it may feel sharp or overwhelming—but with practice, you can begin to discern its notes: fear, unspoken truths, competing needs, buried power. In this circle, we deepen our capacity to stay present with conflict—to taste it fully, track what stirs in ourselves and others, and learn how to move through tension with nuance, courage, and discernment.
No numbing, no running for the hills—just learning to listen, linger, and lead. You’ll learn to slow down and stay with the flavor of tension—tracing its roots, its signals, and your reactions.
We’ll explore how to meet conflict with curiosity and courage, turning difficult dynamics into leadership development gold.
Tracing Our Triggers: Finding the Wisdom Inside That Activates Us (September 2026-Making Meaning from Mess Series)
What if the things that trigger you have something important to teach you?
Together we'll explore how triggers show up in the body, how they shape our perceptions and reactions, and how awareness can help us move from automatic reaction toward greater choice, understanding, and perspective.
Presented in partnership with the Process Work Institute.
Time Options
The Making Meaning from Messworkshops run once a month, 3 times a day! With two live online options and one in-person, you have plenty to choose from!
Live Online option 1: September 23rd, 8am-10am Pacific (11am-1pm Eastern · 5pm-7pm CET)
Live Online option 2: September 24th, 4pm-6pm Pacific (7pm-9pm Eastern · 9am-11am +1 Sydney)
In-Person, Portland: September 22nd,5:30pm-7:30pm Pacific
No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23914107/about
Cultivating the Inner Witness: Authentic Movement and the Body's Hidden Wisdom (october 2026-Making Meaning from Mess Series)
What if some of the most important information in your life is happening quietly beneath your awareness?
Together we'll explore how triggers show up in the body, how they shape our perceptions and reactions, and how awareness can help us move from automatic reaction toward greater choice, understanding, and perspective.
Presented in partnership with the Process Work Institute.
Time Options
The Making Meaning from Mess workshops run once a month, 3 times a day! With two live online options and one in-person, you have plenty to choose from!
Live Online option 1: October 13th, 8am-10am Pacific (11am-1pm Eastern · 5pm-7pm CET)
Live Online option 2: October 12th, 4pm-6pm Pacific (7pm-9pm Eastern · 9am-11am +1 Sydney)
In-Person, Portland: October 15th, 5:30pm-7:30pm Pacific
No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23914108/about
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: When Power Gets Unruly: Anxiety, Authority & the Inner Game of Leadership
Leadership isn’t just about strategy and results — it’s about what happens inside you when the pressure rises, authority is tested, and power gets messy. This circle creates a space for executives to confront those moments head-on, exploring how anxiety, doubt, and authority collide in the real work of leading. Together, we’ll uncover how to use power without over- or under-playing it, and how to steady your inner game when the stakes are highest. If you want to lead with greater clarity, authority, and humanity, this circle is for you.
When Helping Has a Shadow: How to Stop Fixing and Start Listening for What Matters (november 2026-Making Meaning from Mess Series)
What if your greatest contribution is not having the answer?
Many of us have been taught that being useful means solving problems. But some of the most meaningful conversations in our lives are not asking for answers. They are asking for attention.
This workshop explores the subtle but powerful difference between helping and fixing.
Presented in partnership with the Process Work Institute.
Time Options
The Making Meaning from Mess workshops run once a month, 3 times a day! With two live online options and one in-person, you have plenty to choose from!
Live Online option 1: November 18th, 8am-10am Pacific (11am-1pm Eastern · 5pm-7pm CET)
Live Online option 2: November 17th, 4pm-6pm Pacific (7pm-9pm Eastern · 9am-11am +1 Sydney)
In-Person, Portland: November 19th, 5:30pm-7:30pm Pacific
No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23914208/about
Feedback Without the Fog (december 2026-Making Meaning from Mess Series)
This workshop explores how to stay clearer, braver, and more humane in that charged moment — especially when we feel hot, right, hurt, or ready to accuse. Before feedback can become useful, we often need to notice our own escalation and come down enough to respond rather than react.
In this workshop, we will work with real situations from participants’ lives where something important needs to be said. Together, we will practise finding a clearer, less reactive way to say what happened, why it mattered, and what might be possible next. We will also notice what changes in us as receivers when feedback arrives with less fog, less blame, and more room for reflection and dialogue.
Presented in partnership with the Process Work Institute.
Time Options
The Making Meaning from Mess workshops run once a month, 3 times a day! With two live online options and one in-person, you have plenty to choose from!
Live Online option 1: December 2nd, 8am-10am Pacific (11am-1pm Eastern · 5pm-7pm CET)
Live Online option 2: December 1st, 4pm-6pm Pacific (7pm-9pm Eastern · 9am-11am +1 Sydney)
In-Person, Portland: December 3rd, 5:30pm-7:30pm Pacific
No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23914209/about
Befriending the Inner Critic (Making Meaning from Mess Series)
July 22 or July 23, 2026:
Befriending the Inner Critic:
Turn Self-Attack Into Fierce Inner Leadership
What if the voice tearing you down is actually trying, desperately, to help?
About the Making Meaning from Mess Workshop Series:
Making Meaning From Mess is a 12-part experiential workshop series offered through the Portland Processwork Clinic for people who want to relate differently to the challenges that arise in relationships, work, and everyday life - not as problems to fix, but as signals carrying information, direction, and potential.
Each workshop is a stand-alone. You can take one or as many as draw you in.
Across the series, we slow things down enough to notice what is usually missed: subtle body signals, emotional shifts, emerging roles, power dynamics, and moments where choice quietly disappears.
Through guided inner work, interactive exercises, real-life examples, and shared reflection, participants learn to track what's happening within themselves and between people, especially when situations feel messy, charged, or unclear.
Each workshop invites you to bring your own lived experience, experiment with new responses, and build practical awareness skills that support honest dialogue, wiser use of power, and more humane ways of being with one another, particularly in moments that matter most.
No prior experience with Process Work is needed.
https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23913883/about
THE LEADERSHIP BODY: DECODING WHAT THE BODY ALREADY KNOWS
Registrations are closed. Contact us for updates on future cohorts.
A three-month immersion for anyone ready to work at the level where inner wisdom actually lives: in the signals your body sends before your mind interprets them.
Leaders are trained to think fast and communicate with precision. But the body doesn’t follow those rules. It signals before strategy. It warns before conflict erupts. It registers pressure, power, and possibility long before the mind can catch up.
Ignore those signals and you lead with the awareness the moment demands. Learn to read them and you lead with more clarity, steadiness, and humanity — especially when the heat rises or power is in play.
AMPLIFY Power² Leaderlab
Power² Leaderlab is a bold cohort‑based leadership program designed by Julie Diamond and Lesli Mones to accelerate leadership presence, power, and purpose. As a facilitator and coach with Power² Leaderlab, Cathy brings her depth in power intelligence, conflict transformation, and systemic thinking to enrich their transformative, experiential learning experiences. P² Leaderlab guides transformative learning experiences for leaders at all levels.
FREE WEBINAR: THE LEADERSHIP BODY-DECODING WHAT THE BODY ALREADY KNOWS
Leaders are trained to think clearly and act decisively.
Yet many critical decisions are made without noticing the subtle physical cues already present—signals that shape timing, judgment, and impact.
This free webinar explores how leaders can recognize and use the information their bodies are already registering, before decisions harden or conversations derail. Practical, grounded, and designed for real leadership contexts.
👉 Register here.
FREE WEBINAR: THE LEADERSHIP BODY-DECODING WHAT THE BODY ALREADY KNOWS
Leaders are trained to think clearly and act decisively.
Yet many critical decisions are made without noticing the subtle physical cues already present—signals that shape timing, judgment, and impact.
This free webinar explores how leaders can recognize and use the information their bodies are already registering, before decisions harden or conversations derail. Practical, grounded, and designed for real leadership contexts.
👉 Register here.
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Authentic Movement awakens the wisdom held in the body; Inner Work reveals the unseen dynamics that shape our choices, relationships, and systems. Together they open us to presence, clarity, and a more humane way of leading & living.. Curious to learn more and have a mini-experience? Come join our info session!
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK WORKSHOP
Authentic Movement awakens the wisdom held in the body; Inner Work reveals the unseen dynamics that shape our choices, relationships, and systems. Together they open leaders to presence, clarity, and a more humane way of leading.. Curious to learn more and have a mini-experience? Come join our info session!
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Authentic Movement awakens the wisdom held in the body; Inner Work reveals the unseen dynamics that shape our choices, relationships, and systems. Together they open leaders to presence, clarity, and a more humane way of leading.. Curious to learn more and have a mini-experience? Come join our info session!
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & INNER WORK INFO SESSION
Curious about Authentic Movement & Inner Work? Check out the details of our upcoming Info Session…