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“The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness – even our wholeheartedness – actually depends on the integration of all of our experiences, including the falls.”
— Brené Brown, Ph.D.
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More About Daring Greatly™
In this group, you will gain the knowledge and insight into becoming aware of shame, gaining the courage to become vulnerable, and developing a deeper understanding and appreciation for what it means to really live wholeheartedly. We’ll also explore together how and why authentic relationships cultivate connection and lead to wholehearted living.
Come lean in, dig deep, laugh, sing, and dance and otherwise live and learn wholeheartedly.
Show Up. Be Seen. Live Brave.™
Groups are held with Lisa Pisha, MS, LMFT, CDWF at
Grow 121 N. Washington Street, Ste 2S
Naperville, IL 60540
About Daring Greatly™
Based off Brené Brown’s book, Daring Greatly™ is a highly experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. The method was designed for work with individuals, couples, families, work teams, and organizational leaders. It can be facilitated in clinical, educational, and professional settings.
During the process we explore topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. We examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding us back and we identify the new choices and practices that will move us toward more authentic and wholehearted living. The primary focus is on developing shame resilience skills and developing daily practices that transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead.
More About Rising Strong™
In this group, we will reckon, rumble and rise with and through our own stories, navigating courage, compassion, truth, grief and forgiveness along the way. We will learn how to get curious, reckon, with our emotions, rumble with our own stories and learn how to make our new stories so intrinsic in our lives, they will feel like a revolution.
Group held at Grow with Lisa Pisha, MS, LMFT, CDWF
121 N. Washington Street, Ste 2S
Naperville, IL 60540
About Rising Strong™
Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall.
It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, “What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common?”
The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort.
Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are. (from Amazon.com)
More About Create a Conscious Marriage™
Create a Conscious Marriage™ is a self-paced, online course created by Lisa Pisha, MS, LMFT. Having spent over 15 years as a couples therapist, Lisa’s taken everything she knows to be true and change-making about working with couples, and put it into an online, 8-module course. Self-paced, self-study, you have access to all the tools, resources, prompts and exercises that’ll help you and your partner do the work you need to do to really show up in your marriage, on your own time and in the comfort of your own home.
About the CACM™ + Daring Greatly™ Hybrid Group at Grow
This fall Lisa will be facilitating a four-week hybrid version of Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly™ group along with Lisa’s own course for couples, Create a Conscious Marriage™.
In this in-person group, you’ll have an opportunity to learn more about your sense of self, where it comes from and how it shows up in your relationship with your partner. Vulnerability is all the talk, and it’s an absolute game-changer in a relationship - whether that’s with yourself or anyone honestly, but it’s tough to know what it looks like and how to actually do it.
We’ll address vulnerability, shame and truth in partnership and learn what that really means, how to identify it and how to build it, and ways to support your partner and recognize when he or she is being vulnerable.
The happiest, most emotionally intimate couples, are also the ones that aren’t afraid to dig in and learn more about themselves and their partner in deep and meaningful ways. Knowing this, and doing this - together - can be very different and difficult things.
Come learn how ways to get in touch with yourself, relate to your partner, communicate better, and feeling more deeply and intimately connected with one another.
This is a four-week group and morning and evening options are available. Must be able to attend all sessions at your registered time with your partner. Insurance cannot be used for this group.
Meet group facilitator Lisa Pisha
Lisa Pisha, MS, LMFT, CDWF
My journey to becoming a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator started after a quest to help the individuals, couples and families I work with in therapy, develop more courage in their relationships within themselves and their families, spouses, partners, etc. I knew that in order for people to feel the connection they so longed for, they'd have to be willing to be brave and vulnerable.
After researching vulnerability, I came across the work of Dr. Brené Brown who's TED Talk on vulnerability quickly became popular in 2014 along with her books, The Gifts of Imperfection, I Thought it was me, But it Isn't, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and her newest book, Daring Leaders.
Between reading and feeling really connected and in agreement with her work on vulnerability and shame-resiliency and watching her TEDTalks, I knew this was the work and the language for which I'd been looking. It wasn't until I was in the training myself, going through the Daring Greatly™ group experience and learning the facilitation process at the same time, that I experienced the work I knew needed to happen with my clients as well. The courage, the vulnerability, the realization of trust, values, shields and bravery all the while learning shame-resiliency - this is what my clients were missing, in a group format. I went to the training only intending to bring it back as a therapeutic skill. I left knowing I couldn't not run groups. The group is where the magic happens, with one another.
Meet group facilitator Erin Lapointe
Erin LaPointe, Integrative Health and Wellness Coach
I maintain a vibrant practice offering private consultations as well as educational workshops. I am the mother of three, raising my children naturally, while educating them to embrace the gifts of whole nutrition, natural remedies, and to listen to the wisdom of their bodies.
My unique approach involves working with clients to look at the WHOLE PICTURE, and then helping them choose from a myriad of customized solutions. I assist my clients in setting up healthy habits not restrictions. Many of my clients say that “this process is actually easier and more enjoyable than I ever thought it could be!”
My services can include but are not limited to:
o Discovering your goals and uncovering barriers
o SMART Goal setting
o Circle of Life tool and discussion
o Finding your word for the year
o Unraveling your year
o Weight loss tools and support
o Understanding Macros
o Align with fitness that you love
o Mobility exercises
o Metabolic Typing determination so that you know how to fuel your body.
o Reducing aches and pains for freedom of movement
o Understand digestive issues and learn how to apply tools in case of upset
o Mood type questionnaire with supplement ideas and nutritional support
o Ayurvedic typing
o Core Value determination
o Safe Supplementation for Immune, Digestion, Mood, Energy and more