Pineapple Workshops

This workshop will explore the use of present moment awareness in our day-to-day lives to reduce stress, regulate emotions, increase feelings of wellbeing, and facilitate a more intimate and spacious relationship with ourselves and our lives. The workshop will include a 30-minute guided meditation.

Presented by Charlie Nicely

During this workshop we will be using Dungeons and Dragons to explore gender identity. Expression is one of the key components of any good TTRPG session. The expression of your character and who they are. Their personality, their traits, their individual identity. This expression also allows for the opportunity of expression for gender and gender-identity in the roleplay environment that is free from judgment as it is the character you control. Many TTRPGs allow for exploration, both directly and indirectly. In D&D 5e* Elves can readily and willingly change their gender. Or perhaps a spell has been created that allows for this transitional effect. Exploration of how it affects the party, or other factors of their lives can be explored through a safe and natural progression of the role-play environment.

Regardless of where you are in your personal journey; the utilization of TTRPGs provide a safe and welcoming environment in which to explore the expression or understanding of gender-identity. These environments can help teach effective coping skills, and strategies for expression, discussion, and ultimately coming out in a safe and effective manner tailored to the needs of the individual.

Therapist Nicki Line and Sara Mercier Kennedy will be your guides to this experience. The workshop will be held online through zoom and we will be utilizing Shard tabletop, DnD Beyond, and Hero Forge for the experience.

website links:

https://www.shardtabletop.com/

https://www.dndbeyond.com/

https://www.heroforge.com/

Presented by Nicki Line

This vinyasa flow yoga class will focus on the chest and heart opening. Anxiety can and often does manifest in the chest. This class aims to release tightness in the chest and leave you feeling grounded. This vinyasa flow yoga class will focus on the chest and heart opening. Anxiety can and often does manifest in the chest. This class aims to release tightness in the chest and leave you feeling grounded.

Presented by Sarah Kelleher

If you’re feeling stuck, have intense feelings of dread, and feel like you can’t take on one more thing- you might be burnt out!
In this workshop, we’ll explore the causes of burnout and find out how it’s showing up for you. We’ll practice ways to cope together in the workshop and you will leave class with a list of tools you can use to heal from burnout.

Presented by Eleanor Hamilton

Suicide is a widespread epidemic influenced by systems we live within. Here we will discuss warning signs of suicide, the reality behind suicidal thoughts, and seek to normalize and uplift those who live with these experiences in order to promote a value-driven life and the opportunity of a future.

Presented by Rachael Wells

Exploring sexuality is a necessity in understanding our desire, pleasure, and sexual templates. This helps us increase our confidence, satisfaction, and understanding of our own bodies in a sexual context. Therapist Nicki will teach you how to explore yourself in these areas using the latest sexual health research and debunking myths that have plagued society for decades.

The main goals of this class is to learn how to explore and have fun doing so, because sexuality and sex is one way to play and connect with ourselves and others.

Presented by Nicki Line

Breathwork is a simple, effective way of calming and teaching the nervous system a new way to do things. It is a language we use to speak to our body and mind and promote peace and restoration. This workshop will allow you to experience many times of breathwork to find the one that empowers you to experience a well-deserved pause.

Presented by Rachael Wells

Maybe you’re the type of person who is afraid of a raised voice, or believe that you have to keep everyone happy to feel safe, or that having your own needs and desires means that you are being a burden on someone else, or that you need to constantly set yourself on fire to keep other people warm. This workshop is for you.

Join Steven Mollura, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, for a workshop on how to stop people pleasing by understanding and meeting your needs for safety, connection, validation, and peace. This interactive learning experience will leave you better able to know what boundaries and expectations you have in relationships, how you want to give and receive affection, how to say no in an assertively and civily, and how lovingly detach from someone who is harmful to you.

Presented by Steven Mollura