25th year of the 21st century

and more about Profound Steps, a program from Transformation Collective

Dec 29, 2024

When your facilitator quotes Octavia Butler, you know you are in the right coaching program. I loved their “Create Your Program” program, so tell them I sent you!

https://rebeltherapist.me/create

I am shifting the name of the expressive arts work to Transformation Collective. You’ve likely noticed since I’ve been writing more, or if you’ve seen any of my social media posts announcing this change, then you know. YAY, spread the word because, as it invites, it is a collective.

In January, I’m planning two free Zoom events: one for potential clients and one for potential collective coaches/therapists/healer members. I don’t have a grand plan for the latter, but I’ve been nurturing a list. If you want to be on this list, let me know, and let’s discuss the rootings of the folks found here. I want some agreement on the analysis of the current world. It’s not a melding of the minds but an agreed-upon understanding of what "collective" means and what we are fighting against.

Here is the group of folks I’ve been gathering:

More support for you (link)

As I think upon, market, and dream about “Profound Steps Through BIG Transitions,” my only coaching program, I feel a mix of excitement and fear. I’m still focused on my therapy practice, fueling and sustaining my working life (aka where I make most of my money). However, I want to integrate more and more meditation instruction, art, and movement into every part of my life. When folks come to me to do the work of therapy, they often want talk therapy. They see I do expressive arts, but in some ways, I sense that the power, the leap of the arts, can feel somewhat overwhelming.

They worry:

What will I do with this creation I’ve just made in session?
I’m not artistic.
I want a solution.
I want to bill my insurance company for this.
I want to heal from trauma.

These are all perfectly good reasons, thoughts, and fears. I truly get this, and yet, if you know someone who is not in that kind of space right now, can you send this newsletter to them? Or do you know a super rad coach, artist, or nutritionist who wants to grow in a collective? Maybe we’re creating and hoping for the same thing. Send them my way at bridget@bridgetbertrand.com or click this link to schedule one-on-one time with me:

calendly link

I’ve always sought a type of collective care. I doubt any of us grew up in a space that supported every fiber of our being—that would be otherworldly (?!) and way too much to ask of our caregivers. However, most of us grew up in spaces that overtly denied our experience. Church shamed us for being who we were. Our communities shamed us into being deeply complicit with the hetero-patriarchal, white supremacist thinking that permeates this world, and here we are. Maybe you are decades into your therapy journey or just beginning, but either way, there is so much hope from moment to moment. There is also so much to fear, to grieve, and yet still so much to learn.

To bring it full circle today:
“All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.”
—Octavia E. Butler

The photo below is the beginning of my piece on cultivating time. In my last blog, I wrote about calling this practice a cultivation practice (in stead of an art practice). In this image there is something that looks like a watch, and I added many arrows around these shapes. Lastly, I added rainbow colors, as I am often drawn to do.