Press Differently Workshops

Whether it’s a partner, former partner, parent, colleague or someone you can’t simply walk away from, this workshop helps you recognize unhealthy dynamics, understand your automatic responses and develop more intentional ways of navigating difficult interactions.

We’ll explore manipulation, gaslighting, emotional triggers, boundaries, people-pleasing and the exhausting cycle of explaining, defending and second-guessing yourself.

What you’ll take away:

• Your personal trigger map: Identify the interactions that pull you into conflict, self-doubt or emotional exhaustion.
• A practical boundary plan: Decide what you will and won’t engage with, and how to communicate those limits.
• Ready-to-use response scripts: Words for difficult conversations, provocative messages and repeated boundary violations.
• Your Protect Your Peace toolkit: Button Method strategies for interrupting reactive patterns and choosing your next response.
• A personal action plan: Small, realistic changes that put your time, energy and decisions back in your hands.

You may not be able to change their behavior. But you can change how much of yourself you lose responding to it.

Whether you’ve lost weight, gained weight, experienced menopause, illness, aging or another major physical transformation, the emotional adjustment can be surprisingly complicated.

Your reflection may change before your self-image does. Relationships may shift. Attention from others may feel unfamiliar. Desire, confidence, identity and expectations may all need renegotiating.

This workshop explores the psychological and relational experience of body change, helping you understand the person you’re becoming without feeling obligated to love every aspect of the transformation.

What you’ll take away:

• Your body-change reflection: Identify what’s changed physically, emotionally, socially and relationally.
• An identity reconnection exercise: Explore which parts of yourself feel familiar, unfamiliar or ready to evolve.
• Tools for navigating comments and attention: Practical responses to unwanted observations, expectations and questions.
• A body-confidence practice: Small steps toward a more compassionate and connected relationship with yourself.
• Your personal adjustment plan: Strategies for approaching intimacy, confidence and relationships as your body and identity evolve.

Your body may be changing. You still get to decide who you are.

And while everyone wants to know whether you’re moving on, sometimes you’re still trying to understand what happened.

This workshop focuses on the space between the life you had and the one you’re building.

We’ll explore grief, anger, loneliness, parenting transitions, self-trust, rediscovering pleasure and the complicated experience of learning to make decisions for yourself again.

You don’t have to rush into reinvention. You can begin by finding your footing.

What you’ll take away:

• Your personal rebuilding map: Identify which parts of life need your attention now and which can wait.
• An emotional trigger plan: Practical strategies for managing overwhelming moments, difficult interactions and unexpected setbacks.
• A confidence inventory: Reconnect with strengths, abilities and parts of yourself that may have been overshadowed by the marriage.
• A new-life vision exercise: Explore what you want more of, less of and no longer wish to carry forward.
• Your first 30-day rebuilding plan: Small, achievable actions to begin creating a life that feels like yours.

You don’t have to become a whole new person. You get to rediscover yourself, and decide what comes next.

Stress, resentment, routine, parenting, body image, hormones, relationship dynamics, emotional disconnection and life transitions can all influence how we experience intimacy and pleasure.

And sometimes the more we worry about desire, the further away it feels.

This workshop brings sex science, relationship psychology and practical tools together to explore what desire actually needs, what may be getting in its way and how to reconnect without pressure, performance or unrealistic expectations.

For individuals and people in relationships, regardless of gender, sexuality or relationship structure.

What you’ll take away:

• Your desire map: Identify what supports, suppresses or complicates your experience of desire.
• An intimacy needs inventory: Clarify what makes you feel safe, connected, interested and receptive.
• Conversation starters: Practical language for discussing desire, boundaries, pleasure and intimacy without blame.
• A pressure-free reconnection exercise: Explore ways to invite curiosity, pleasure and closeness into everyday life.
• Your personal intimacy plan: Small, intentional practices tailored to your needs and circumstances.

Desire isn’t something you owe anyone. It’s something you deserve the freedom to understand and explore.

One minute you’re having a perfectly reasonable conversation. The next, someone is shouting, withdrawing, slamming a door or wondering how things escalated so quickly.

Parenting teens requires a constant renegotiation of connection, boundaries, independence, trust and communication. And it’s happening while your teenager is navigating enormous developmental, social and emotional changes of their own.

This workshop explores what happens beneath the conflict, why familiar parenting strategies sometimes stop working and how to build a relationship that makes room for both independence and connection.

What you’ll take away:

• Your parent-teen conflict map: Identify recurring arguments, emotional triggers and escalation patterns.
• A communication reset: Practical scripts for difficult conversations, boundaries and repair after conflict.
• Emotion regulation tools: Strategies for responding rather than reacting when tensions rise.
• A connection plan: Simple, realistic opportunities to rebuild trust and communication without forcing closeness.
• Your family Button Method plan: Personalized strategies for managing common challenges and creating healthier interactions.

You don’t need a perfect teenager. And they don’t need a perfect parent. You need ways to find each other through the difficult moments.

Loss can change everything from your daily routines to your identity, relationships, sense of safety and understanding of the future.

Some days you feel capable. Other days the smallest reminder brings everything rushing back. You may experience sadness, anger, relief, guilt, numbness, gratitude or contradictory feelings all at once.

This workshop offers a compassionate space to explore grief without imposing stages, deadlines or expectations about how you should be coping.

What you’ll take away:

• Your personal grief map: Explore how loss is affecting different parts of your life.
• A difficult-moments toolkit: Practical strategies for anniversaries, reminders, emotional overwhelm and unexpected grief.
• A connection and remembrance exercise: Explore meaningful ways to honor what or whom you’ve lost.
• A support needs plan: Identify the kinds of help, connection, space and understanding you need.
• Your next-steps reflection: Gentle, manageable ways to make room for living alongside grief.

Moving forward doesn’t mean leaving love or memory behind. You can carry what matters while making room for life to continue.

After a relationship ends, it’s easy to become preoccupied with what you’ve lost, what went wrong or whether you’ll ever find love again.

But this transition is also an opportunity to explore who you are outside a relationship, what you want from your life and what you’d like to do differently next time.

This workshop isn’t about rushing back into dating. It’s about reconnecting with yourself, whether or not another relationship is part of your future.

What you’ll take away:

• Your single-self discovery exercise: Revisit your interests, values, needs and identity outside a partnership.
• A relationship patterns reflection: Identify experiences and habits you want to understand or change.
• A loneliness and connection toolkit: Practical ways to manage difficult moments and strengthen your support network.
• Your personal standards and boundaries: Clarify what matters to you in future relationships, if you want them.
• A new chapter plan: Choose meaningful activities, experiences and goals that belong entirely to you.

Being single isn’t a waiting room between relationships. It’s a life worth living in its own right.

Maybe you’re drinking more than you intended. Maybe you’re tired of the next-day anxiety. Perhaps alcohol has become your reward, your social confidence, your stress relief or simply a habit you haven’t examined in years.

This workshop creates a nonjudgmental space to explore what alcohol does for you, what it might be costing you and what could change if you responded differently.

Using The Button Method™, we’ll examine habits, social expectations, emotional triggers, identity and the opportunities that come with making more intentional choices.

What you’ll take away:

• Your alcohol habits map: Identify when, why and how drinking fits into your life.
• A trigger and reward inventory: Understand the emotional and social needs alcohol may be meeting.
• Practical alternatives: Develop responses to stress, celebrations, social pressure and habitual drinking occasions.
• Your sober-curious scripts: Ways to decline alcohol or explain your choices without uncomfortable justifications.
• A personal experiment: Design a realistic period of mindful drinking, reduced drinking or alcohol-free living, with reflection prompts to track your experience.

You don’t have to decide forever. You can start by getting curious about what might be different.

Note: This educational workshop is not addiction treatment or a medical withdrawal program. People who may be physically dependent on alcohol should seek medical advice before reducing or stopping drinking.

It can affect your sleep, relationships, parenting, confidence, intimacy, decision-making and sense of control. And when everything feels urgent, it can become almost impossible to know where to begin.

This workshop addresses the emotional and behavioral side of financial uncertainty: the fear, shame, avoidance, exhaustion and overwhelm that can keep people feeling stuck.

Using The Button Method™, we’ll explore how to interrupt unhelpful patterns, approach difficult decisions and create manageable moments of agency, even when circumstances remain challenging.

What you’ll take away:

• Your financial stress map: Identify the situations, thoughts and interactions triggering overwhelm.
• A panic interruption toolkit: Practical techniques for managing emotional escalation around money.
• An avoidance-breaking exercise: Identify one difficult task or conversation and break it into manageable steps.
• Communication scripts: Ways to discuss financial stress, needs and boundaries with people in your life.
• A seven-day survival-to-action plan: Small, realistic steps that prioritize what matters most right now.

You don’t have to solve everything today. You need a way to begin without being swallowed by the overwhelm.

Note: This workshop focuses on emotional wellbeing and behavior change, not financial or debt advice.

You may still question your judgment, anticipate other people’s reactions, struggle with boundaries or find yourself apologizing, explaining and accommodating long after the relationship has ended.

Recovery isn’t simply about understanding what happened. It’s about rebuilding trust in your own perceptions, needs, decisions and right to feel safe.

This trauma-informed workshop explores the emotional and behavioral patterns that can remain after coercion, manipulation and control, with practical approaches to rebuilding confidence and personal agency.

Participation never requires disclosing personal experiences.

What you’ll take away:

• A survival patterns reflection: Understand behaviors you developed to protect yourself, without judging them.
• A boundaries and safety inventory: Identify what helps you feel safer and what you need from relationships and environments.
• Self-trust exercises: Gentle ways to reconnect with your judgment, preferences and decision-making.
• A grounding toolkit: Practical strategies for responding to triggers, self-doubt and emotional overwhelm.
• Your personal reconnection plan: Small, achievable steps toward autonomy, supportive relationships and a stronger sense of self.

The ways you survived deserve understanding. And you deserve the freedom to discover who you can be beyond survival.

Note: This workshop is educational and supportive. It does not replace specialist domestic violence services, safety planning or psychotherapy.

To your lawyer. Your therapist. Your friends and family. Sometimes to people who only hear fragments, ask difficult questions or don’t understand.

And every time you tell it, you may find yourself reliving it.

What if you could write it once, for yourself, and decide how, when and with whom to share it?

In this guided workshop, you’ll begin putting your divorce story into words. Not to justify your decisions, defend yourself, assign blame or convince anyone of anything. But to make sense of what you’ve experienced, reclaim your voice and take ownership of your narrative.

You’ll explore how to tell different versions of your story for different purposes — the facts your lawyer needs, the feelings you want to explore with your therapist, what you choose to share with friends and family, and the story that belongs to you alone.

What you’ll take away:

• Your personal divorce narrative: A written account that helps you make sense of what happened, what it meant to you and how you want to tell your story.
• A clear, factual summary: An organized account of key events and details you can use when meeting with your lawyer or other professionals, without having to start from the beginning every time.
• Your friends and family version: A shorter narrative that communicates what you want people to know, without inviting unwanted questions, judgment or explanations.
• A story just for you: A private reflection you never have to share, helping you recognize what you’ve been through and begin imagining what comes next.
• Permission to set boundaries: Greater confidence in deciding what to share, what to keep private and when to say, “I don’t want to talk about that.”

You don’t have to share everything with everyone. You don’t even have to share it with anyone.

This workshop is both a practical tool for navigating divorce and an opportunity to reclaim your voice.

Because you don’t owe everyone your whole story. And you shouldn’t have to relive it every time someone asks.

Write it. Own it. Decide who gets to hear it.

Sometimes you love someone but you’re unhappy. Sometimes you’ve grown apart. Sometimes you’re carrying resentment, feeling disconnected or wondering whether the relationship you’re in is still the relationship you want.

And sometimes the hardest part isn’t deciding whether to stay or leave. It’s understanding what needs to change, what is possible and what you actually want.

This workshop explores the difficult space between staying and leaving, without pressure to make a particular decision.

Using relationship psychology, practical reflection and The Button Method™, we’ll explore recurring patterns, unmet needs, communication, emotional connection, boundaries and the difference between a relationship that needs work and one that may no longer be right for you.

What you’ll take away:

• Your relationship reality check: A guided assessment of what’s working, what’s hurting and what feels uncertain.
• A needs and values inventory: Identify what you need from a relationship and where your current experience aligns or conflicts with those needs.
• Your relationship patterns map: Recognize recurring conflicts, emotional triggers and behaviors that contribute to disconnection.
• A conversation framework: Practical language to discuss difficult issues, unmet needs and possible changes with your partner.
• Your personal decision-making guide: A structured reflection to help you explore staying, changing the relationship or leaving, without rushing your decision.
• Your next-steps plan: Identify what is within your control, what requires mutual effort and where you may need additional support.

You don’t have to make a life-changing decision today. But you deserve to understand what you’re deciding about.

Note: This workshop is designed for reflection and decision-making in relationships where it is safe to explore these choices. It is not a substitute for specialist support in situations involving abuse, coercion or threats.