How to Validate Ourselves and Others
Wednesday, Feb 18th 7:30-9 pm
One of the most powerful tools we can use to improve our own emotion regulation and the emotions of others is Validation. Validation helps people feel secure, safe, heard, soothed, and more interconnected. Conversely, feeling invalidated leads to anger, resentment, abandonment feelings, disconnection, and emotionally shutting down. In this workshop, we will be learning 6 well-researched validation strategies that can be used to soothe our own emotions as well as the emotions of others.
Register for this class here. You will receive the link before class.
Emotion Regulation Skills
Wednesday, Feb 25th 7:30-9 pm
In this workshop you will learn how to identify your emotions, check to see if your emotions fit the facts of the situation, and you will learn how to make changes to your emotions. When you complete this 1.5 hour workshop, you will understand and know what to do with your emotions better than most of the general public. These well-researched emotion regulation strategies come from Dialectical Behavior Therapy — a popular psychotherapy approach that helps people improve their emotion regulation skills.
Register for this class here. You will receive the link before class.
The 6 Levels of Validation: A Family Workshop
March 4th @ 7:30-9 pm
One of the most powerful tools we can use to improve the collective emotions in our families is validation. Validation helps us feel secure, safe, heard, soothed, and more interconnected. Conversely, feeling invalidated leads to anger, resentment, abandonment feelings, disconnection, and family members shutting down. In this family-friendly workshop, we will be learning 6 well-researched validation strategies that all family members can learn to use. “But I don’t agree with my family-member, so I surely can’t validate them.” In this workshop, you will learn how to both validate AND disagree with a family member’s behaviors or perspective — both can effectively happen at the same time. Let’s learn how to become a family of healthy validators! This workshop is appropriate for any family member who’d be willing to pay attention to a 1.5 hour Zoom call, including children, partners, parents, roommates, etc.
Register for this class here. You will receive the link before class.
Emotions 101: A Family Workshop
March 11th @ 7:30-pm
Unfortunately, most of us were never formally taught about how our emotions work. Fortunately, in this family workshop we are going to learn everything you should have been taught in middle school about how emotions work. You will learn how to identify your emotions. You will learn how to check to see if your emotions fit the facts of the situation. You will learn skills to make changes to your emotions. When you complete this 1.5 hour workshop, you will understand emotions better than most of the general public. There is good evidence that developing this understanding helps both children, adults, and the collective family better regulate their emotions day to day. This workshop is appropriate for any family member who’d be willing to pay attention to a 1.5 hour Zoom call, including children, partners, parents, roommates, etc.
Register for this class here. You will receive the link before class.
Healing Together: Restorative Yoga & Reflection Circle (replay below)
This 90-minute donation-based community class brings together Dr. Ren Stinson, a board-certified psychologist with over 14 years of experience in trauma-informed, multicultural, and evidence-based care, and Kimberly Jaeger-Arjes, a yoga teacher, death doula, and grief caregiver rooted in restorative healing and ritual.
Together, they will guide participants through a gentle, trauma-informed yoga practice with restorative poses, integrating the six levels of validation as a framework for self-understanding, compassion, and connection. Drawing from both the science of psychotherapy and embodied wisdom, the class supports nervous system regulation, identity exploration, and meaningful reflection around life transitions, trauma, grief, and belonging. The experience concludes with optional group reflection questions and journaling, offering space to integrate insights and deepen relational care within a supportive community.
This class is open to all bodies and identities and centers accessibility, safety, and reverence for the full spectrum of human experience.
Join online or email us at info@heartlandyoga.com to reserve space.
