About

How do you move towards healing and liberation while creating the business of your dreams? I wanted to explore this question with someone who centers these values in their work. Asher Pandjiris is a white, queer, non-binary psychotherapist, parent to a human and two rescue pups, group facilitator and host of the Living in this Queer Body podcast. They live and work on stolen Nipmuc and Pocomtuc land. Here's some of what we talked about: Always Coming Home, Asher's 8-week Group Program Embodied Testimony, Asher's 3-month Intensive How they create safety within their group programs Using different pacing in their podcast, workshops and more intimate group programs How Asher likes to work in different ways to use many parts of themselves How the podcast allows in Asher's artist self How Asher's participants find them Approaching well-known guests like adrienne maree brown and Jenna Wortham Finding rest and allowing themselves to do less Here are some takeaways that particularly stand out to me. Takeaway #1: Asher creates safety in their groups by providing more guidance and more of themselves in the beginning to help the group get safe and coalesce. They also use breakout rooms into even smaller groups to build safety. Takeaway #2: Asher's podcast and email newsletter and instagram feed, the whole Living In This Queer Body ecosystem, is a creative act of service. And, along with word of mouth, it's how people find their programs. Takeaway #3: Asher has been in a process of doing less and finding more rest, and in that process has been grappling with their own internalized programming. I've been paying attention to this a lot in myself since Asher mentioned it. Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/147