Helpers Anonymous

What will we learn?

The programme will be shaped as we go (as we listen to what the group needs) but will cover themes including:

Identifying & expressing our needs

Our boundaries

(Self) compassion fatigue

Listening to our bodies (think headaches, gut feelings, anxiety)

Our parts (e.g. ‘the part of me that wants to stay at work until 10pm’, ‘the part of me that just wants to crawl into bed’)

Our relationships with clients, friends, partners and families

Our childhoods (what happened that shouldn’t have, what didn’t happen that should have)

Recognising our coping strategies and adaptations

Trusting our own process – how our own unique way of doing things can actually work for us if we let it!

Through sharing our experiences and listening attentively to each other, we will each take from each session what is most useful to us on an individual level as we integrate the learning in our lives outside the circle.

When & where is it?

The programme runs on Zoom on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30pm UK time on the following dates:

February 5, 12, 19, 26

March 12*, 19*, 26*

April 9, 16, 23

The programme is open to anyone, anywhere in the world!

London: 7-8:30pm

Toronto/New York: 2-3:30pm
(*3-4:30pm in March)

Vancouver: 11am-12:30pm
(*12-1:30pm in March)

Commitment & money stuff

Once your place is confirmed, your commitment is to stay through the programme until the end (as we’re only a small group it makes a difference if you don’t come! Please make sure you can attend at least seven of the dates including the opening and closing sessions.)

I trust in course participants (and my coaching clients) to provide my income in exchange for what I offer🌱

To participate, you agree to make three monthly payments to me through on the following dates via bank transfer:

Feb 1^st, Mar 1^st, Apr 1^st (+ Optional ‘tip’ – April 23^rd)

You choose the monthly amount to transfer based on your context and your desire to support my work – if you’re feeling affluent give £75 or more a month, if your budget is restricted give less.

If you feel you haven’t given ‘enough’ by the end of the programme you can give me a tip on April 23^rd!

Please note that this isn’t a “low cost” course!

Also note that I am unable to refund your payments to me if you need to leave the programme early (for any reason) so please give knowing this.

You can make payments in £, €, USD or CAD.

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It felt, like, cozy and safe…

I was expecting it to be much more group therapy vibes but it was not that – so for me, that was great! In reality, it really just felt in many ways like friends coming together to hang out, to chat and hear how we’re all doing.

It felt, like, cozy and safe and it created a sense of rhythm to my weeks – like it was nice to know I was gonna come and connect with all the people that were in the session every week on Wednesday.

HA! participant

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About Joe

Joe is a coach who works therapeutically with his clients around the world using the Compassionate Inquiry (CI) approach developed by Gabor Maté. In addition to the year long CI Professional Training & 6 month Mentorship Program, Joe has also trained in Solutions Focused coaching with SolutionsAcademy and Relational Mindfulness with Maura Sills at the Karuna Institute on Dartmoor.

Before coaching, Joe worked as a teaching assistant and teacher in primary schools in Guatemala and the UK and in the homelessness sector as a frontline worker and link worker in Brighton (which is to say that he has a lot of experience being a ‘helper’!)

Joe has a lot of experience in numbing himself with bread, Pret a Manger, alcohol, pornography, compulsive spending (and generally not listening to his body!). He’s since learned how to be with himself a bit better and is passionate about supporting people to connect with themselves.

Joe’s influences include Bayo Akomolafe, Thich Nhat Hanh, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hayao Miyazaki, Kae Tempest – among others!