Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology, Lisane Basquiat is a Master Practitioner of Mental and Emotional Release® (MER) Therapy, a Master Reiki Practitioner, an Accredited Energy Leadership Coach and founder of the personal growth company Shaping Freedom®. Lisane trains individuals on how to gain empowerment through internal congruence and spiritual alignment, resulting in healthier familial dynamics and legacy. She helps people who are seeking ways to feel freer, be more empowered and aligned, and to have better results in their professional endeavors and personal relationships. It is Lisane’s philosophy that it is your birthright to have a life that sets your soul on fire. “I founded Shaping Freedom because I’ve learned the importance of creating space to allow yourself the courage, time, and tools to ‘get right’ within,” she said. “This is how we positively impact our outer world and legacy to a world filled with wonder and pleasure; a true reflection of how you want to show up and experience your life." Learn more at ShapingFreedom.com.
You’ve likely had this conversation before. Maybe with a partner, a parent, or a friend. Or perhaps with a colleague, child, spouse, or even a neighbor.
The details or intensity may change but the emotional outcome often feels strikingly familiar; with you leaving the interaction feeling misunderstood, dismissed, underappreciated, and emotionally exhausted.
It seems like the same conversation on replay - someone shuts down and the other pushes harder. One person becomes defensive and another over-explains. The almost predictable cycle with nothing getting fully resolved.
Then, over time, the relationship begins to carry the burden of repeated and compiled misunderstandings, tension, and communication misfires. It’s exhausting.
However, the issue is not always just about the current argument itself. Very often, unresolved patterns, emotional baggage, protective strategies, and other learned ways of relating may already be at the undercurrent - influencing the ways you show up to each other.
Relationships are meant to bring people together. At times, that connection is accompanied by the joining of the respective party’s:
Old wounds
Emotional baggage
Communication habits
Protective responses
Unspoken expectations
Survival strategies
Relational patterns formed long before this specific relationship began
To say it plainly, some of the strongest forces shaping present-day relationships may have been there before either person fully understood what they were bringing to the table.
So when conflict happens, people are not always reacting only to what is happening in the moment. Sometimes, they are also responding through their lens of unresolved emotional history, inherited meanings, familiar fears, and protective behaviors shaped years earlier.
In practice, your baggage meets their baggage and the pattern may begin driving the relationship.
This is why so many people find themselves repeating the same arguments, misunderstandings, frustration, and pain. At times with different people in different settings, but with remarkably similar outcomes.
Your Past Is Your Present: Relationships Edition is a transformational two-hour live workshop designed to help participants recognize the hidden relational patterns influencing their closest relationships before those patterns continue shaping communication, conflict, and important life decisions.
This is not therapy, blame, judgement or about taking sides. This is structured relational pattern awareness in a safe and welcoming environment. The goal is to introduce greater awareness of what is happening. Because when you can finally see the undercurrent, you can better understand what may truly be shaping the relationship.
In This Session, You Will Explore:
Why the same conversations keep repeating
How unresolved patterns may be influencing present-day relationships
How emotional baggage and protective strategies can collide
Why certain moments feel disproportionately charged
The difference between present reality and past-based interpretation
One recurring relational pattern that may be shaping your outcomes
Greater clarity before making emotionally reactive or permanent decisions
What You Will Leave With:
A structured relationship pattern mapping framework
Greater awareness of recurring relational cycles
Insight into emotional triggers and protective behaviors
A clearer understanding of what may be yours, theirs, or inherited
Increased ability to recognize familiar dynamics earlier
Stronger clarity around how to move forward
This Session Is For Those Who:
Feel stuck in repeated relational cycles
Keep having the same unresolved conversations
Feel emotionally exhausted, misunderstood, or reactive
Want clarity before making major relationship decisions
Are navigating challenges in romantic, family, friendship, or professional relationships
Are ready to understand the pattern before trying to change the outcome
Event Details:
Date: Sunday, October 11th, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM PT | 6:00 PM ET
Format: Live Virtual via Zoom
Investment: $109