For those yearning for more. For those ready to make a change. For those in transition. For those longing to live into a fuller vision for their life, vocation, or community. For those ready for the next.
Womanist Vision of Integrative Transformation
to live fully into our lives, with all its complexity, beauty, struggle, and longing, requires courage for the journey. You need not travel alone.
Set a Spell Womanist Space for Integrative Transformation is time you set aside for you. It is time where you can begin to see your hopes, dreams, and visions take shape. It is integrative time. It is reflection time. It is planning time. It is your time.
Brief Discovery Process.
The Brief Discovery Process is a space to begin to discover: What do you most deeply long for your life? What lives just beneath the surface ready to awaken you for a meaningful and creative life? In the Discovery Process, you will begin to answer the question, "how would I be in the world if I began with my dreams and not the impediments?" How might the world around you be changed if you said yes to the nudge to be your truest, gifted, self?
Vision-making Process.
The Vision-Making Process is a space to map your dreams, visions, and deep callings onto the path of becoming real and concrete. The guiding question is, "what movements internally and externally must I take to make my dreams and vision real?" You will move from the space of imagining what might be to writing down what is becoming, what resources you need, and your goals based on a time line that is inspiring. Each step of the way, you will ask yourself, am I remaining true to the vision, am I approaching this process with integrity and am I being true to my deepest self?
Curating your Life Process.
The Curating Your Life Process is for individuals, couples, and/or families who are ready to engage in a process to deepen the relational ties that may have become frayed over time or just beginning because of coupling, expanding family, or changing because of separation or loss. This process calls participants to take a deep look at the way their life has been lived and to embrace your hopes for the future. Curating your life means facing the past, but choosing not be bound to the past. Curating your life encourages the blossoming of hope, and the full use of your agency and capacity to live into the future you long for the next phase of life.
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Collective Process
6-week 75 minute Restorative Practices Group
The Restorative Practices Group is a group process for those who who recognize that there are areas in their life that are impeding their professional, relational, and creativity.
During the 6 weeklong process, participants will uncover their resistance to growth, creativity, freedom, and relational connections and, with others also in their cohort, begin the restorative practices of reflection, contemplation, naming, letting go, saying yes and saying no, and mapping a path forward.
Limited to 12 participants.
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Organizational Transformation
Organizations are living intertwined groups of people that sometimes lose sight of their vision, mission, and aims. When this occurs, habits of stability become impediments to deep listening, strategic planning, and communication interpersonally and with the wider public. Subtle and often conflictual group dynamics begin to prevail.
The organizational transformation process, informed by womanist relational and social change values and grounded in principals of nonviolence, group formation cycles, and contemplative leadership, helps organizations discover the roots of their current functioning, the unconscious processes undermining organizational commitments, and the strategic path back to their stated intentions.
Whether you have a sense of where you want to be in your life, but feeling stuck, anxious or unsure about fully embracing your dreams or if you are just beginning to imagine “the next” dimension to your life, Set-a-Spell is a womanist inspired and psychoanalytically informed approach that
- Values your story and your dreams
- Partners with you in a visioning and creative process
- Is attuned to your inner life, social context, and the dynamics that stifle you from moving forward
- Recognizes the potential resting at the edge of your awareness
- Leads to clear, achievable, and transformative strategies
- Helps you to become your most creative and engaged self.
If you are ready for a womanist inspired process toward integration and transformation, contact us at 312-588-6795 or https://www.phillisisabellasheppard.com/contact
Certificate in Womanist Integrative Care
A yearlong immersive experiential and didactic certificate program for 8-10 participants who are prepared to bring the practice of Womanist Integrative Care to their communities and are strategically situated to make an impact for deep change. Applications by invitation only.
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Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Ph.D.
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Dr. Sheppard is a psychoanalyst and earned the Certificate in Adult Psychoanalysis from Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (2005) She also completed a training fellowship in Self Psychology and Religion at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago (1993). She holds a deep appreciation for the multiple spaces where one may experience the sacred, transformation, and wholeness.
She is a sought-after process facilitator, social change consultant, and lecturer. As the founder of Set a Spell: Womanist Space for Transformative Care she merges her commitment to personal and social transformation. She draws on rich cultural wisdom, psychological dimensions of experience, and womanist perspectives to create spaces to process change.
Her vision for Set-a-Spell is to help create a world filled with people who have done the deep introspective and socially engaged work necessary to live meaningful lives and to contribute to the thriving of communities.
Set-a-Spell artist credit: Erica J. Johnson
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Created with images by • vm2002 - Tulsi Tea served in a cup with fresh leaves on the side, selective focus • Joeri - A portrait of a tibetan singing bowl or himalayan bowl, with a mallet lying on top of it to make a relaxing sound. The object is used for therapy to relieve stress and relaxation, meditation.