Dr. Jen Clifden
Relationship Researcher | Educator | Burnout Preventionist
The Light You Cast™
Soul Circles
Community
Integration, Support,
& Healing
The Light You Cast™ Soul Circles is where caregivers gather to engage in a community practice of the core aspects of The Light You Cast™ curriculum. Community gatherings dedicated to creating safe spaces of care for our caregivers is essential to healing. It is impossible to heal from and prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury alone.
Regulating the nervous system, making meaning of pain and suffering, and connecting with others are the pillars for healing. The Light You Cast™ Soul Circles embodies all three pillars each 90 minute session.
Site-based TLYC Soul CirclesTM embody a salutogenic approach to caregiver well-being. We foster and sustain individual well-being by focusing on collective strengths, hope and possibility, and innate resilience while we critically examine the way systemic and care-based stressors impact us on an individual and a collective level.
What We Know About
Healing-Centered
Community Support
"Community is how we respond to injustice. It is how we maintain balance. Our journeys are varied, our experiences unique, but the home we seek is the same place: a place of trust, a place of welcome, a place of respect." (Charleston, 2021)
Healing and wellbeing are deeply connected to the contexts in which we live and work. When we sit together and engage in a community practice of soul restoration work, we are able to focus not only on "What happened to you?" but also, "What is right with you?"
Healing centered engagement offers an important departure from solely viewing people through the lens of harm and focuses on asset driven strategies that highlight possibilities for well-being. An asset driven strategy acknowledges that people are much more than the worst thing that happened to them, and builds upon their experiences, knowledge, skills and curiosity as positive traits to be enhanced. (Ginwright, S.,2018)
Site-Based TLYC Soul CirclesTM
The Light You CastTM Soul Circles are 90 minute, in-person, community spaces of practice at your site. They are often offered one of two ways:
To sustain, deepen, and provide a high-touch support option to complement any in-person, large group professional development or the ONLINE, ON-DEMAND self-paced offerings of the The Light You CastTM curriculum at the site.
To engage a soft-touch option of support to introduce and immerse caregivers in The Light You CastTM curriculum through a slow-dose, opt-in, self-selected opportunity of ongoing, community of self-restoration practice and healing.
We intentionally engage people-centered care practices to create, hold, and protect spaces within our systems of care for caregivers to gather, connect, process stressful experiences, renew their energy, and restore their balance.
Every 90 minute TLYC Soul CirclesTM creates and holds a protected space where caregivers engage the 3 R's of mindbodysoul restoration and renewal from
The Light You CastTM curriculum.
TLYC Soul CirclesTM Format
REST
Healing Pillar: Regulate Nervous System & Connect to Soul Nerve
Gather, check-in, and engage in grounding mindfulness-based breath & body movement practice
RESTORATION
Healing Pillar: Process & Make Meaning
Use the Burn CleanTM Cycle to collectively process a stressor through conversation, connection, and compassion to generate insight, wisdom, and meaning
REVITALIZATION
Healing Pillar: Connection with Others
Close circle with guided mental health practice and community share out
Soul CirclesTM
Fire Protector
The Light You Cast™ Soul Circles Fire Protectors are site-based caregivers who are trained in the core principles, practices, and body-movement experiences of the The Light You Cast™ curriculum and are certified to hold
Soul Circles at their site or support individual clients.
This training series is ideal for site-based school or staff counselors, mentors, or mental health professionals who want to strategically support the adults they work alongside.
Soul CirclesTM
Fire Protector
Train-the-Trainer
The Light You Cast™ Soul Circles Fire Protector training is designed to provide strategic professional development and coaching support to site-based caregivers who want to guide their peers through
The Light You Cast™ REST - RESTORATION - REVITALIZATION practices within a small group
(or one-on-one) setting.
This training is perfect for those who want to deepen their personal mindbodysoul health practices and who want to create spaces for their peers to feel the power of community health and healing.
The Light You Cast™ Soul Circles Fire Protectors are coached in how to create and hold structured, 90 minute, small group community circles (or one-on-one mentoring support) that allow for individuals to connect with their body, metabolize a collective stressor though community processing, and engage mental health practices.
*Participants will receive a copy of
The Light You Cast™ Soul Circles Fire Protector Guidebook.
CORE CURRICULUM FOUNDATIONS TRAINING
10 weeks
PHASE 1: REST Practices
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Week 1 WELCOME ~ ORIENTATION
(1.5 hours, zoom or in-person) & ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE- Module 1
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 2 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 2
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 3 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 3
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 4 INTEGRATION & TRAINING - Module 1, 2, 3
(3.5 hours) Synchronous in-person
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Participants share their experience with the modules, the practices, and how they integrated and applied their learning in their current role.
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Strategic Fire Protector training
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Part I: Coming Into & Creating the Space - Breath & Body Focus
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Soul CirclesTM Fire Protector Guidebook will be provided.
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Individual Coaching Sessions with Jen
*Participants will receive one-on-one, 45 minute coaching sessions with Jen throughout each of the three phases. These will be held on zoom and are intended for you to receive individual support.
PHASE 2: RESTORATION Practices
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Week 5 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 4
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 4 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 5
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 6 INTEGRATION & TRAINING - Module 4, 5
(3.5 hours) Synchronous in-person
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Participants share their experience with the modules the practices, and how they integrated and applied their learning in their current role.
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Strategic Fire Protector training
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Part II: Creating Boundaries & Engaging the 3 R's Throughout the Circle -- Metabolizing Stress
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PHASE 3: REVITALIZATION Practices
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Week 7 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 6
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 8 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 7
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 9 ENGAGEMENT & PERSONAL PRACTICE - Module 8
(40 minutes) Asynchronous, online engagement of the self-paced The Light You Cast™training
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Week 10 INTEGRATION & TRAINING - Module 6, 7, 8
(3.5 hours) Synchronous in-person
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Participants share their experience with the modules the practices, and how they integrated and applied their learning in their current role.
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Strategic Fire Protector training
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Part III: Engaging the 3 R's Throughout the Circle & Closing the Circle -- Guided Mental Health Practices
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Total hours of train the trainer program = 17.5 hours
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5.5 hours of asynchronous, online engagement of the The Light You Cast™ self-paced curriculum
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12 hours of synchronous, in-person/zoom training
Investment Cost
$550 per participant for 10 week training series & unlimited access to the The Light You Cast™ ON-DEMAND, Self-Paced Curriculum for 1 year.
*Gather a group of interested individuals at a school site or your organization and receive a site-based cohort discount. Contact Jen directly.
Join the Spring 25'
Soul Circles - Fire Protector
Cohort
Are you an individual mental health practitioner or caregiver in an institutional setting who would like to become trained in supporting your clients or staff in the The Light You Cast™principles, practices, and processes?
We are running a Soul Circle - Fire Protector Training cohort in the spring of 2025!
Please fill out the form indicating your interest. Jen will be in contact with you with more information, dates, and details.
Do you work in a school district or organization that would like to host a
Soul Circles - Fire Protector TrainingTM for a cohort of interested individuals?
Connect with Jen to learn more about next steps!