Events
“Alane Freund is a compelling, engaging, and inspiring speaker who strives to create dialogue, provide tools, and shift community awareness about the trait of high sensitivity and about honoring difference.”
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)
- September 23 – Ask Alane Anything: Free Open Forum for Members of AYHS only (never too late to join, click here.)
- October 1 – Sensitivity Circle: Wise Women and Wonder (55+) 10am Pacific
- October 3 – Alane on Resilient Youth at the Sensitive Success Summit
- October 6 – Growing Up in Families with Struggles
- October 20 – Parenting Sensitive Youth: BOO! Fear and Pressure in the Life of the Sensitive Child
- October 21 – Sensitivity Circle: Sensitive Sisters Circle 10am Pacific
October 1, 2023
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.
For 2023, we are working through the topic of discovering and acting on our Wisdom Mission as sensitive elder women. 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 we the 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.
October 6, 2023
Growing Up in Families with Struggles
Family pressures create unique environments for highly sensitive children who are both more helpful to and more impacted by their families.
Immigrant families bring gifts and challenges to their new lives and to the children they raise. Likewise, families living with mental illness, substance abuse, loss and grief, poverty, racism, diversity (in so many forms), military service, multilingual members, medical issues, adoption, alternative family structures, or other pressures create unique environments for highly sensitive children who are both more helpful to and more impacted by them.
October 20, 2023
Parenting Sensitive Youth: BOO! Fear and Pressure in the Life of the Sensitive Child
Do you remember a time in your childhood when you had a little antsy feeling of impending fear? I’m not talking about the big fears… we all had those as well, of course, and they count, but…
I’m talking about those times when the pressure started building and you felt it in your mind or body. Maybe you had a little worry, or a tummy ache, or you heated up a bit in your face, or you just knew you wanted to turn around and go somewhere safer.
Those first signals of trouble were your brain activating its subtle noticing and strong emotional reaction to keep you safe. In terms of your evolutionary task, you were supposed to alert those around you to potential trouble, and they were supposed to pay attention and guide the clan to take a different course of action. IMAGINE!
October 21, 2023
Sensitive Sisters Circle
Our new cross-generational HS women’s circle is an open discussion group. 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 this month.
Highly Sensitive Women (HSW) 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.
Women in our circles have wondered about friendship, connection, creativity, life changes, 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. There is no other conversation I would rather have than one with a circle of highly sensitive women.
November 9, 2023
Sensitive and Queer: Coaching Circle for LGBTQ+ HSPs
Are you Sensitive and Queer? Join our Sensitivity Circle for LGBTQ+ Highly Sensitive People. Therapist-led coaching and support for HSQs.
Led by licensed psychotherapists and HSP professionals, this small group online coaching circle is not a substitute for therapy, but rather a wonderful addition. We provide a safe and guided community that honors each member’s sensitive heart and thoughtful mind–when is the last time you felt so seen and held and understood? You are welcome here.
Where is our community? How do we find each other as highly sensitive LGBTQ+ or HSQ as we call us? If you Identify as both a highly sensitive person and a person in the LGBTQ+ world, you are most welcome. We will be open and curious about what it means to walk simultaneously in both of these identities through our HSQ Sensitivity Circles.
AYHS Sensitivity Circles are small group gatherings facilitated by licensed psychotherapists. We create community and facilitate mutual support. Participants will have opportunities to share challenges and triumphs, ask questions, or ask for help.
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 Sundays, 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.
Sensitive Sisters Circle
Our new cross-generational HS women’s circle is an open discussion group. 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 this month.
Highly Sensitive Women (HSW) 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.
Women in our circles have wondered about friendship, connection, creativity, life changes, 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. There is no other conversation I would rather have than one with a circle of highly sensitive women. 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. Find out more and register here.
Sensitive and Queer Coaching Circle for LGBTQ+ HSPs
Are you Sensitive and Queer? Join our Sensitivity Circle for LGBTQ+ Highly Sensitive People. Therapist-led coaching and support for HSQs. Where is our community? How do we find each other as highly sensitive LGBTQ+ or HSQ as we call us? If you Identify as both a highly sensitive person and a person in the LGBTQ+ world, you are most welcome. We will be open and curious about what it means to walk simultaneously in both of these identities through our HSQ Sensitivity Circles. Mental health professionals are welcome.
Sensitivity Circles are small group gatherings facilitated by licensed psychotherapists. We create community and facilitate mutual support. Participants will have opportunities to share challenges and triumphs, ask questions, or ask for help. Find out more and register here.
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.