Exploring & Enhancing Our Quality of Sleep

Do you experience delayed or interrupted sleep? Recently there has been a plethora of sleep research and studies and we will be looking at this latest information. We will discuss four main methods to improve sleep. Importantly, we will discuss how chronic pain, environment, and trauma can affect our sleep. Bring your insights, concerns and questions. We invite you to share your successes at improving your sleep quality. We will refer three books to you. Finally, we will do a guided imagery to create a safe space and state to enhance sleep. This month’s Women’s Circle is being formed with the intention to explore our sleep qualities and find ways to enhance our sleep. For Clarity: this is a Women’s only group.

Agenda

1. Welcome Opening & Personal Introductions
2. Setting the Intention for safety and group sharing
3. An introduction to recent sleep research and what can effect our quality of sleep, such as pain, trauma, and environment.
4. A discussion of four main methods to improve sleep
5. Guided Imagery will be utilized to create a safe space and a blueprint to enhance your sleep quality (this process can be recalled for future sleep enhancement).
6. Share experiences, as desired.
7. Closing and takeaways

What to Bring:

1. An open mind and heart, your presence and openness to explore.
2. A consideration of your own successes and issues with your quality of sleep and questions.
3. A piece of paper and pen to jot down notes, if desired.

Our Group Guidelines:
As experienced former Attitudinal Healing group facilitators, Janne and Karen are using many of the Attitudinal Healing Group Guidelines to provide a safe, caring, nonjudgmental space for personal sharing, exploration, learning, and personal transformation. In the group, we recognize that love is listening, and we agree to listen with an open heart, to give mutual support and to practice non-judgmental listening and sharing. We are here to heal ourselves. We are not here to give advice or to change anyone’s beliefs or behaviors. Being accepted as we are makes it easier for us to accept others. We share from our own experience. By risking and exposing our own emotional state, we find common experience that allows for joining. We respect ourselves and each other as unique; we recognize that each person’s process is important, not our judgment of it. We support each other's inner guidance and assist one another in finding our own best answers. We practice being present with others, seeing each person as whole; and not defining them by their appearance, mood, behavior or circumstance. We recognize the confidentiality of what we share in group, recognizing this is important for maintaining the group as a place of safety and trust. We are requesting that participants respect and abide by these guidelines.