Events
ARE YOU HIGHLY SENSITIVE
UPCOMING EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS WITH ALANE FREUND
Mental Health Professionals are always welcome at our events.
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Click here to hear more about what’s happening. Early bird registration is now open.
Our Current Schedule
- Spirituality and Sensitivity: A Minicourse from Are You Highly Sensitive (online and ongoing)
- July 19 – Speaking Horse 9:30-11am Pacific | Petaluma, IN PERSON
- July 22 – Let’s Take the New HSP Test 9 AM Pacific | 12 PM Eastern | Online
- July 24 – HSP Tools & Topics – AYHS Office Hours 7:30 am US Pacific | 10:30 am Eastern | Online
- July 27 – HSPs and Horses: Couples Workshop 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Pacific | Heart and Mind Equine, Woodacre, California. IN PERSON
- July 27 – Co-Parent Like Pros – Teamwork and Communication Skills with Horses 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Pacific | Heart and Mind Equine, Woodacre, California. IN PERSON
- August 2 – Wise Women & Wonder (55+) 10 am US Pacific | 1 pm Eastern | Online
July 2, 13, 24, 2025
HSP TOOLS & TOPICS – AYHS Office Hours (coaching/Q&A session)
The full Are You Highly Sensitive Library is OPEN to members. Weekly Open Coaching Office Hours, recordings, and community. Hosted by Alane Freund. Learn more and join here.
AYHS Office Hours with licensed therapist and International Consultant on High Sensitivity, Alane Freund. (US Eastern times: 7/2 at 1pm, 7/13 at 4pm, 7/24 at 10:30am) All topics and questions are welcome!
July 19, 2025
Speaking Horse Class
Why Groom Horses? Mindfulness Class
Each month the class is centered on a holistic horse keeping theme, understanding herd dynamics, horse care, or horse training and how it relates to our human journey.
Register here for the next class on July 19, 2025
July 22, 2025
Let’s Take the New HSP Test
A Webinar with Alane Freund, and Are You Highly Sensitive. We have the new HSP self-test up on the website. How is it different? The same? How do you really know if you have the HSP trait? Health and educational professionals are welcome.
Register here for the webinar on July 22, 2025
July 27, 2025
Reconnect, Recharge, and Have Fun
Couples Workshop (with Horses!)
Come join us for a fun and interactive workshop where you and your partner can deepen your intimacy, understanding, and connection together.
Register here for the next class on July 27, 2025
July 27, 2025
Co-Parent Like Pros – Teamwork and Communication Skills with Horses
Fun and interactive workshop where you and your coparent will deepen skills, understanding, and connection-change your journey and results.
Register here for the next class on July 27, 2025
August 2, 2025
Wise Women & Wonder/WWW
Highly Sensitive Women (HSW) 55+ are invited to join in a monthly sensitivity coaching circle offering the community with support and solutions guided by coach and therapist, Alane Freund, LMFT.
We are addressing topics including: What is your Wisdom Mission? How do you clear any obstacles remaining from your earlier life. What is the “golden thread” of your life? What are the developmental tasks of becoming wise women? And, of course topics our members bring. Most women attend every month, but we always welcome new members who want to check it out. Please register early because we keep out circle small and intimate. Email for waiting list if you can’t get in.
Are You Highly Sensitive Coaching Circles with Alane Freund are using a sustainable or “green” economy price structure. The idea is that those who can, will pay at the higher level, thereby creating a level of sustainability that supports others in the community who need to pay at a lower level.
Coming Soon
Vacation Drain and Re-entry Pain: Busy HSPs Need Something Different
Reimagining the all-inclusive experience for highly sensitive people. In this new webinar about designing retreats that nourish (not exhaust), you will re-discover the components of a truly restorative experience. We will talk about the new retreat in Costa Rica and how it came to be. Bring your questions about Cleanse, Clarify, Create and about designing your own perfect retreat.
Register here for the webinar on TBA
Sensitive and Strong (HSP Support Group)
An open discussion group with support, coaching, and empowerment. It isn’t quite a therapy group, but rather a drop-in support group run by a therapist. And we would love to have you join us.
Highly Sensitive People (HSP) are invited to join in a monthly Sensitivity Circle offering community support and solutions, guided by International Consultant on High Sensitivity and therapist, Alane Freund, LMFT.
People in our circles have wondered about friendship, connection, work life, overwhelm, creativity, life changes, work life, relationships, parenting, family, dating, divorcing, loss, finding purpose, spirituality, meditation, mindful living, well, you get the picture. The discussion is always rich because our sensitive brains are going deep and thinking hard. Our strong empathy brings up emotions and compassion.
SENSITIVITY CIRCLES with Alane Freund, ICHS
Alane Freund offers several Sensitivity Circles each month, a smaller community with very personalized help addressing your concerns or challenges. Alane focusses on solutions—the ones that work for you—and we all might share our experience, strength, and hope with each other. Circles include: Parenting Sensitivity, HSPs in Relationships, HSQ, HSPs at Work, and Wise Women & Wonder (women over 50). Please visit us on Eventbrite for more information and to register for our Sensitivity Circles. If we are between sessions for the circle you are searching, please email us for more information: [email protected]. Some circles require an intake interview before receiving a registration link. Parenting and relationship circles are open.
AYHS Sensitivity Circles with Alane Freund are using a sustainable or “green” economy price structure. The idea is that those who can, will pay at the higher level, thereby creating a level of sustainability that supports others in the community who need to pay at a lower level.
Wise Women & Wonder/WWW: 1st Saturdays, 10am PDT / Noon EDT
Highly Sensitive Women (HSW) 50+ are invited to join in a monthly sensitivity coaching circle offering the community with support and solutions guided by coach and therapist, Alane Freund, LMFT. Wise Women in our past circles have Wondered about friendship, connection, loneliness, life changes, relationships, adult children, dating, divorcing, loss, creativity, finding purpose, changing bodies, spirituality, meditation, mindful living, well, you get the picture. Register here.
Parenting Highly Sensitive Children and Youth
Facilitated by parent, family therapist, and International Consultant on High Sensitivity, Alane Freund, MS, MA, this Sensitivity Coaching circle is for parents of all ages of HSCs and HSYouth. We discuss any and all parenting questions, concerns, or dilemmas for parenting any age child. You might also want to talk about your life as a parent. Each parent will have time to talk, ask questions, and get support in finding solutions to their unique story. Let’s face it, raising sensitivity is a BIG challenge. We need a team of experts and lots of emotional support. Alane promises to offer her experience, strength, and hope based on three decades of experience supporting families and two decades parenting her own sensitive kid.
HSProfessionals at Work
Highly Sensitive People can experience the highest level of success professionally, but it takes a toll on us. How do we survive the stressors and learn to thrive in our professional lives?
One of the most important tools for thriving as HSProfessionals is community, so I hope you will join our community in this coaching circle.
Research shows HSPs experience more stress and less job satisfaction, yet receive better performance reviews than those without the trait. This can really create a Catch-22 for us unless we adapt our work life and create environments and relationships that support us and our success.
Please join us for developing community, sharing strategies, and receiving coaching from International Consultant on High Sensitivity and HSProfessional, Alane Freund, MS, MA, LMFT (Lic.#36077). (Email for waitlist.)
Workshops Taught by Alane Freund
- School-based Competencies for Supporting Highly Sensitive Children and Teens.
- Parent Education on the Trait of High Sensitivity
- Highly Sensitive Therapists Retreat, Menla Retreat Center
- Weekend for Highly Sensitive People: Appreciate Your Hidden Advantage
- HSP Self-Care Immersion: A Deeper Exploration of Your Sensitive Advantage
- Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child and Teen
- Queer ≠ Strange: A Diversity and Competency Workshop on the LGBT Communities for Health, Education, and Business Professionals
- Equine-Assisted Growth and Learning Association Annual Conference: Understanding Eagala-Model work with Highly Sensitive People
Equine-assisted Workshops in Collaboration with Heart and Mind Equine
- HSPs & Horses: Intro Weekend Retreat
- HSPs & Horses: Deepening into Ourselves (advanced retreat)
- HSPs & Horses Weeklong Retreat (Intro and Deepening in one week)
- Clinicians’ CE Credit and Training is offered at all HSPs & Horses
- Countertransference and Therapeutic Alignment: An Equine-assisted Experiential Workshop for Mental Health Professionals
- Graceful Boundaries: Ranking and Linking in Work and Personal Relationships
- Referral Marketing & Networking: Attracting, Developing, & Prospering: Half-day and full-day workshops.
- Youth Leadership Program: Weekly Ecotherapy and Leadership groups and daylong retreats for tweens and teens (middle school and high school)
- HSP Empowerment Program
For additional information about Alane Freund’s programs and availability, please fill out the Lecture Request Form so that we can be in touch.