Dené Logan will be teaching during W&W Week 11 | Multi-Faculty Trauma II about the following topic:
Sovereign Relating: Connection Beyond Codependency
What would it feel like to experience love that felt like safety and freedom — deep authentic connection without losing yourself? This workshop invites you into a deeper understanding of how you show up in relationship: with partners, family, friends, and yourself. Together, we’ll explore the difference between connection rooted in fear and obligation — and connection rooted in genuine choice, presence, and wholeness.
Many of us learned early that love required enmeshment, self-abandonment and a lack of a differentiated Self. Shrinking, shapeshifting, and vigilance are often common aspects of what we understand tending to a relationship dynamic requires.
This workshop is an invitation to follow that thread home to your Sovereign self, and learning to stay with yourself as you relate to others.
We will explore:
- The roots of codependency — how the psyche learns to dissolve itself in service of love, safety, or belonging
- The shadow dimensions of caretaking, rescuing, and self-erasure — and what they are protecting
- Projection and the mirror: how we meet ourselves in the people we love most
- The anima, the animus, and the work of integrating the masculine and feminine energetics that all of us carry within
- What individuation asks of us in our closest bonds — the sacred tension between union and selfhood
This workshop will support you in:
- Reclaiming the lost or exiled parts of yourself that often disappear into relationship
- Learning to be genuinely with another without the slow erosion of your own center
- Holding the tension of deep intimacy and sovereign selfhood — not as opposites, but as a living paradox
- Moving from compulsive relating toward chosen connection — love as an act of freedom rather than fear
- Trusting the voice within you that knows what is yours to carry and what is not
- Discovering that the more fully you become yourself, the more truly you can meet another