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A transformative 6-week group workshop where we will explore the way we experience and manage the anger and anxiety through a variety of hands-on interventions. Over six sessions, we’ll examine the impact of strong emotions on our physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being, helping you discover your personal path to reducing suffering and finding greater balance.
Together, we'll dive into understanding these strong emotions and uncover practical tools to navigate them with more ease and confidence. Whether anger, anxiety or other reoccurring repetitive emotions are overwhelming you, holding you back, or just a constant presence, this workshop will help you transform your relationship with them for a more peaceful, balanced life.
In this class, we’ll explore different models to deepen our awareness of emotions and their impact on the body. Together, we’ll examine how perception and expectations shape our emotional experiences. Through a variety of hands-on interventions, we’ll experiment with new ways to shift our emotional patterns. Half of our time will be dedicated to practicing mindfulness techniques, helping you cultivate a greater sense of presence and balance in your daily life.
Biography
Ondo Joy Ziemke received a BBA from Western Michigan University in 1982. She worked in corporate offices for manufacturers for 28 years as Financial Analyst, IT Project Manager and Marketing Communications Manager. In 2008, she left the business world to seek more supportive to those in need. She entered a dual degree program with an emphasis on social work and pastoral services. In 2014 she graduated with MSW from Loyola University Chicago and MDIV from Catholic Theological Union. In Chicago, she worked as a chaplain in a homeless shelter for the ill and injured and in a small hospital in a very challenged neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.
Currently she maintains a private practice as a clinical social worker, specializing in addiction, .... She is a monk and ordained priest within the Buddhist Zen tradition and practices as a resident of the SokukoJi Buddhist Community.
She is inspired by spirituality, psychology and social justice. She enjoys facilitating groups of people of all ages into the area area of mental wellbeing and behavioral psychology.