Our vision

The vision of the Alive Workshop and the accompanying Awaken Seminars is to provide healing, love, and acceptance for the Rainbow community through emotional intelligence training in a fun and transformative environment. Our trainings pull from the latest peer approved technologies that are coming out of psychology, neurolinguistics, neuroscience, sociology, and organizational development in order to encourage our students to move forward in their personal, professional, and relationship goals.

Our exercises focus on areas that include identifying and being your real self, self-love, empowerment, connecting to source (spirituality), and confidence. Our methods will include dynamic large group sessions, strategic small group sharing, and more intimate one-on-one sharing. In addition, we will be using journaling, games, and guided visualization.

We recognize that many of our students may have mental health issues. We do not, in any way, attempt to represent ourselves as mental health professionals. Instead, we seek to work with and supplement that which our students are doing with their medical and psychological providers. We will be focusing more on how issues affect an individual in their day-to-day life and leave the processing of past traumas to their time with their counselor.

Our trainer, Ed Shanley, is a Certified Life Coach and has been doing training and development for over 20 years. As a survivor of PTSD, Ed has learned the significance of finding practical tools that work and has been supporting others with mental health issues for the last several years. After coming out in 2013 and having to rebuild his entire life, Ed seeks to support others who are in the Rainbow community to live the life of their dreams and grow into their highest potential!