Welcome to Nurturing the Heart
with the Brain in Mind
We are delighted to announce that we are expanding our teaching group this year. Bonnie, Jo, Karen, Heidi, Vanessa, and Pearl are being joined by Carly, and Kathleen. All of them have deeply immersed themselves in Interpersonal Neurobiology and Relational Neuroscience for decades, embodying it, living it in their personal as well as professional lives. Our community is so fortunate to have these wise and wonderful people sharing their hearts and their wisdom.
Registration is now open!
August 2025 - April 2026, January - October 2026
Nurturing Attunement and Presence
May 14-16 and August 13-15, 2026
July 23-25 and October 22-24, 2026
Navigating Change: A Wise Woman Retreat
January 17-18, 2016
Therapy as Spiritual Practice
March 19-21, 2026, July 9-11, 2026
Karen Welch, LMFT and Heidi Struble, MFA, with decades of deep study and practice between them, are facilitating the Year-Long IPNB Immersion and Heart of Trauma. You can read their biographies by clicking on their names.
Carly Henderson, LPC and Kathleen Thompson, LPC, have been students and practitioners of IPNB and relational neuroscience for decades. They facilitate a course for those who have completed the year-long training, Nurturing Our Capacity for Attunement and Presence. Click on their names to read more about them.
Vanessa Timmons, healer, life coach, writer, social justice activist, and advocate brings 35 years of service and support to the healing class she is offering, Navigating Change: A Wise Woman Retreat.
She and Pearl Waldorf, MEd, LPC, CGP co-facilitate Embodied Liberation: A Racial Justice Workshop. It is on hiatus right now. Pearl is also a somatic therapist, long-time student of IPNB, and certified group psychotherapist. She is currently offering monthly support gatherings for leaders of all kinds of groups. Check her website for dates and times. Click on their names for their biographies.
Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT (Retired), and Jo Hadlock-King, LICSW will be teaching Therapy as Spiritual Practice. Many who have come to the year-long training have expressed an interest in the connection between spirituality and the work we do, and this 3-day retreat will spend time in that tender territory. Read more about them by clicking on their names.
