Events
ARE YOU HIGHLY SENSITIVE
UPCOMING EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS WITH ALANE FREUND
Mental Health Professionals are always welcome at our events.
Our Current Schedule
- Spirituality and Sensitivity: A Minicourse from Are You Highly Sensitive (online and ongoing)
- Month of August – Squat Challenge for Sensitives
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August 23 – Barn Open House 9:30am | Petaluma, California
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August 26 – Alane’s Office Hours: Full Moon Energy
- September – Wisdom & Wonder: A Monthly Community Conversation for Wisdom Seekers and Wonderers
Month of August
Squat Challenge for Sensitives
Join Alane’s August Squat Challenge and commit to just 10 squats a day throughout August! You’ll receive twice-weekly videos from Alane for inspiration, plus opportunities to join her live on Zoom or Instagram to squat together, check in, and build strength and resilience in community.
August 4, 2026
Livestream: August is Differential Susceptibility Month
Buy one, get two webinars to watch at your convenience. In these two webinars, Alane reviews the data on differential susceptibility for both HSPs and parenting sensitive youth. The recordings include over 20 fabulous questions that will make you feel so seen and not alone! You also get to come to office hours on the 11th to ask your own questions.
August 11, 2026
Alane’s Office Hours: Conversation, Coaching, and Q&A on Differential Susceptibility
Parenting and Thriving with Sensitivity. Included with the August 4th offer. Zoom 7:00 pm Eastern, facilitated by coach and therapist, Alane Freund, LMFT.
August 23, 2026
Barn Open House
Notes and exercises from the Self-Compassion Series: What we have done. What we have learned. A taste of HSPs and Horses.
August 26, 2026
Alane’s Office Hours: Full Moon Energy
Whether it’s the full moon or not, sometimes the world goes a little wild and so do we. The kids are bouncing off the walls, school is starting, and we’re supposed to create a good environment? Aarrgghh. You got this, and Alane will support you. Bring your questions and scenarios – we’ll share strategies and support.
September 2026
Wisdom & Wonder: A Monthly Community Conversation for Wisdom Seekers and Wonderers
Join a thoughtful circle of wisdom seekers and wonderers as we explore aging, meaning, spirituality, relationships, and the questions that matter most. An intimate community conversation on wisdom, purpose, and the gifts that emerge through a life fully lived.
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.
Wisdom & Wonder
Join in a monthly sensitivity coaching circle offering the community with support and solutions guided by coach and therapist, Alane Freund, LMFT. A thoughtful circle of wisdom seekers and wonderers as we explore aging, meaning, spirituality, relationships, and the questions that matter most. An intimate community conversation on wisdom, purpose, and the gifts that emerge through a life fully lived.
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.