Mindfulness Support Circle for Activists and Person Centered Cultivation for Healers and Helpers
Mindfulness Support Circle for Activists
Starting on October 27th, Ashnie Butler and I will offer three free Zoom meetings from 12:00-1:00 p.m. PST. Please share this offering. If you call, protest, or hold the line, please attend. “Activists take intentional action to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change.”
Is this you? Please click here to register.
You are welcome to one or all three of these sessions!
Activism asks much of us, our time, our hearts, our energy. In the midst of this work, it’s easy to lose connection with the deeper well of purpose that brought us here. We invite you to a mindfulness support group designed specifically for activists—a space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself and your intentions. This is a place to be present, to consider where your activism is rooted, and to nurture the clarity and compassion that fuels your commitment to change. Together, we will engage in guided mindfulness practices that support grounding, resilience, and renewal. This is not a space for debate or critique. There will be no expectations placed on one another—only the invitation to rest, reflect, and restore. We’re creating a safe enough space where activists can tend to their inner landscape, be witnessed with care, and replenish the energy needed to sustain their work in the world. Come as you are. All levels of experience with mindfulness are welcome. Let’s root our actions in presence, and our presence in purpose.
Times: 12-1 PST:
October 27th
November 24th
December 22nd.
Who is offering this work? Ashnie Butler,
and me, Bridget Bertrand, www.bridgetbertrand.com
“I am so impressed with how you ran that group, with your professionalism, I have not seen you for years and you have been practicing expressive arts for eight years and watching you run that meeting and seeing your depth of knowledge that you are sharing with other therapists about using creativity inspired me as a new therapist”
Offering Two:
Person Centered Cultivation for Healers and Helpers
Register here: bit.ly/personcenteredcultivation
12- 1 PST
The Person Centered Expressive Arts: it is for YOU! It can be magic, we will invite breath, compassion, and aim to be easy with ourselves. Being mindful is the root of most of our healing. The expressive arts, therapy, and life in general offer us one million opportunities to be aware, to wake up.
I weave meditation into the art invitation. Natalie Rogers is the founder of this particular technique; if you want to learn more about her, you can find some great articles about her and her father, Carl Rogers on the world wide web.
Who can attend this group? Spiritual leaders, physical therapists, occupational therapists, community health workers, peer support specialists, social and community advocates, tattoo artists, fine artists, sculptors, crafters, teachers, coaches, and more. If you're not sure if this is the right space for you, please hit reply or email me at bridget@bridgetbertrand.com
Here is one offering for now, so you can feel it in your bones. Stop reading this blog/invitation and gather any creative supplies you have nearby. Write an inspirational sentence to yourself on paper. Try to stop once daily for 5 minutes, look at that message, and then, little by little, we can add a cultivation/creative habit in as well.
Cultivating time for creativity has so many benefits. If we want to support our families in an art habit (or any habit), we need to do the same. I am here to tell you that I don’t really love the word habit, and yet, a commitment is pretty vital in these times.
Practice journaling, line-making, scribbling, etc. If you need to burn the paper afterward, it's okay. Crumple it up, shred it, or hang it up; it is a person-centered practice 😉 I think you get the idea. This space will be a practice space and a space to connect with others offering healing and helping in this world!
Oct 28, 2025 12:00 PM
Nov 4, 2025 12:00 PM
Nov 11, 2025 12:00 PM
Nov 18, 2025 12:00 PM
Nov 25, 2025 12:00 PM
Dec 2, 2025 12:00 PM
Dec 9, 2025 12:00 PM
Sliding scale $15-45
Zelle or Venmo before the group, registration is required.
bit.ly/personcenteredcultivation
With love and solidarity!
Bridget
neither of these offerings are therapy
Author
I am Bridget Bertrand (any pronouns), a queer parent with training in expressive arts practice, mindfulness, and embodied social justice. I grew up in the U.S. South, attended undergrad there, and got a degree in Theater Arts with a minor in Education. After graduation, I moved to New York City, where I taught theater in four of the five boroughs and did a little acting along the way.
After years of parent meetings that felt a lot like therapy, I turned to a career in psychology while raising a child. I am thrilled to offer expressive arts and mindfulness sessions WORLDWIDE. It is an honor to walk along with clients, and I hope to inspire folks to find their own unique path toward healing.
I have completed 150 hours of coursework centered on social justice at The Embody Lab and on mindfulness with the folks at MNDFL. All these courses are rooted in somatic healing. I am committed to creating mutual aid relationships with members of my community.
Paying land tax to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust as I live on their stolen lands.
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