Therapeutic work is typically confined to the privacy of the office. Thanks to the generosity and bravery of its volunteers, Demo Days are a way for me to open the door to my office in order to offer a lived learning experience to therapists and coaches wanting to learn from live session work.

As an observer, you will have the chance to experience the STAIR Method framework in action, and watch as I create a therapeutic space which guides volunteers toward more easily accessing their innate capacities for healing and growth- shifting their perception of “ok-ness” from less okay to more okay. Within the STAIR Method framework, this means watching a clinician move into a power-with presence and utilizing neurobiologically informed interventions & timing throughout the therapeutic work.

Each Demo Day consists of an overview of my STAIR Method followed by live, real work with two different people, and Q&A/Reflection sessions following each section of work.

You’ll watch as I:

- Get in touch with volunteers’ levels of “ok-ness” and brain integration responses

- Contract for experiential treatment plans in real time with volunteers

- Flexibly flow between the STAIR principles, attuning to the needs of the volunteer

- Help volunteers discover experiences of coherence and self-compassion

- Guide volunteers toward shifts in perception of stressors vs. perception of resources

- Assist volunteers in unlearning old emotional meanings and moving toward incorporating new knowledge

- Lovingly meet the volunteers in the context of their world, which includes facing and processing grief

You’ll see embodied practices of the STAIR Method’s supporting principles including:

- Witnessing Mind Skills

- Undoing Aloneness

- Unlocking and Unlearning

- Reality and Self-Trust

Attending one of my Demo Days allows observers to have their own real-time experiences while watching me guide the work of the volunteers. This type of learning environment for therapists is aligned with the STAIR Method framework itself, and lends itself to deeply-felt sense experiences in a way that learning from a book or a lecture can’t. My hope is that after attending a Demo Day, you’ll feel inspired, confident, and connected- eager to translate this framework and its principles into your own work with clients.