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UPCOMING EVENTS

About the Facilitator:

James Mayfield-Smith is a highly trained Somatic Breakthrough Facilitator. This work is the culmination of 30 years of intensive formal study in transformative education and experiential learning with a focus on releasing emotional wounding and evolving consciousness. James has extensive experience tracking, feeling, avoiding, releasing, and healing fear, anxiety, and shame in his own life. He has led or co-led 55 transformation-focused retreats and has guided over a thousand clients to work through their emotional issues to find deep calm and healing in their central nervous system or to jumpstart their emotional & somatic life and ability to feel, trust and be guided by internal forces.

These BreakThrough Circles are helpful for anyone seeking to find peace within their nervous system so they can give their unique gifts to the world in more meaningful and satisfying ways. We hope you can join us.

PAST EVENTS

Past events relate directly to current group and individual programs.

If one of these topics interest you, ask about current or upcoming programs on this topic!

Calm, Connected & Powerful: A FREE BreakThrough Circle to Upevel your Life w/ Somatic Practices

Thur Oct 7 at 8pm & Fri Oct 8 at 1pm ET A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Join us to practice simple tools proven to uplevel your life by bringing calm to your nervous system, connection to your relationships, and confidence to your actions.

You'll leave with a playbook for nurturing the specific BreakThroughs you need to move through triggers, create feelings of connection, and cultivate power in your body...all within a fantastic community of heart-centered professionals.

Hi, I’m James Mayfield-Smith. I’m a Somatic BreakThrough Facilitator. I use body-based wisdom tools to facilitate powerful, emotionally nourishing BreakThrough moments in the lives of my clients.

And yes, I’m talking about those earth-shattering, life-changing, bawling your eyes out, come to Goddess moments that re-define who we are at depth. That’s the sandbox I play in.

I lead people through structured processes that create profound, positive shifts in their lives.

I guide clients through a series of Somatic BreakThrough Journeys that hone in on the most fundamental inner conflicts within you.

I guide you thorough a process to heal the social conditioning of your culture, the emotional wounds of your childhood, and the traumas stored in your central nervous system.

This process fundamentally rearranges the landscape of your inner world.

When you go through these interactive guided journeys, you free up new inner resources to emerge and become available to us.

This is the territory where BreakThrough moments dwell. And it’s been my special focus for the past 13 years working with my BreakThrough clients.

I’ve facilitated and held space for over a thousand BreakThrough moments with individual clients and with my transformational retreat participants, apprenticeship program members, shamanic breathwork events, and online courses. I live deep in this work.

And if there's one thing I've learned from holding spce for so many people, it's this:

The most common bottlenecks
to our evolution
as co-creators of our lives
happens when we have unmet needs
for Safety,
Connection,
or Power.

These are required emotional needs for all human beings and when they go even partially unmet, we create coping mechanisms and defense patterns that become the core problems in our lives.

I know this because I’ve seen the same patterns emerge in five year olds, teenagers, adults, and clients in their nineties.

When we feel unsafe, we become anxious, overwhelmed, or controlling.

When we feel disconnected, we become needy and unfulfilled or isolated and lonely.

When we feel disempowered, we lose confidence and play small or seek external validation instead of serving our mission powerfully in the world.

What the world needs now is YOU, all of you, aligned towards a purpose and sharing your medicine.

Unmet needs for Safety, Connection, and Power get in the way.

I have a reliable method for addressing these blocks.

I’m on a mission to help as many people as possible to feel safe, connected, and powerful.

If you join me, I’ll teach you how to use these BreakThrough tools to find your calm, your connection, and your power.

This will allow you to finally begin to serve your mission in a bigger way in your life.

Join us to learn more about these 3 essential human needs and the 3 shifts you must make before you can step into your true potential.

We’ll have a brief talky section and then quickly drop into an experiential activity…a bedrock process for inner clarity that I call Somatic BreakThrough Dialogue, where we use the power of breathwork, focused attention, body awareness, and a type of somatic questioning to gain clarity from your inner wisdom about an area of your life needing attention.

This is a 60 min session. There will be an option to stay on for an additional 30 min afterward to experience or witness deeper individual work or learn more about how to receive a free one-on-one web-based facilitated "Clarify your Next BreakThrough" session (for those who have not already received a free BreakThrough session).

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Third Thursday BreakThrough Circle

Tues, May 18, 2021

Our community of BreakThrough Tools practitioners is an eclectic mix of holistic healers, entreprenuers, and heart-centered professionals who gather to use structured processes to cultivate BreakThrough Moments. We're hosting this one in the afternoon and on a Thursday to accomodate alternative schedules this week.

The Invitation-only BreakThrough Circle is a monthly small group BreakThrough program for individual Somatic Facilitation clients, members of the $97/month Inner Circle Somatic BreakThrough Facilitation program, and invited guests. Because we are serious practitioners, not newbies checking out a free webinar, we're able to build one-on-one connections in longer breakout rooms. Our personal work is witnessed compassionately by people I train to hold space with you. The safety of the container we create allows you to drop into the kind of vulnerability that is required for deep, transformative work. When done well, Community becomes Medicine.

There is no theme or teaching. We'll circle up, speak into the BreakThroughs we are cultivating, and then we'll co-create a healing circle with structured processes plucked from my extensive bag of tricks. Together, we'll explore the unmet needs present and I'll choose an aligned process or two to get us there.

The first step to joining the Inner Circle is to email [email protected] requesting to visit, at no charge. Your first session is free, then you can choose whether to continue for $97/month (Click Here to Pay). Clients who already have an individualized BreakThrough program are invited to attend at no additional charge.

Tues, April 6, 2021

FREE First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Third Thursday BreakThrough Circle

Tues, March 16, 2021

Sensitive & Happy Holistic Healers: Reclaim our Calm, our Power & our Fun!

Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circles

Tues Feb 23 at 8pm ET

Tues March 2 at Noon CT

Tues March 2 at 8pm ET

Learn More & Register Here

New Year BreakThrough 2021: Uplevel your Life with Somatic Practices that Bring Calm, Connection & Power

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Tues Jan 5, 2021 Noon CT Register Here

2020 has been an anxious, disconnected, and disempowering year for many people. Join us to welcome in the new year with a set of simple practices proven to uplevel your life by bringing calm to your nervous system, connection to your relationships, and confidence to your actions. You'll leave with a playbook for nurturing the specific BreakThroughs you need to move through triggers, create feelings of connection, and cultivate power in your body...all within a fantastic community of heart-centered professionals. What a great way to start a new year!

Register Here

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Third Thursday BreakThrough Circle

Rescheduled to Thurs, Dec 17, 2020

2-3:30pm CT Register Here

About the Facilitator:

James Mayfield-Smith is a highly trained Somatic Breakthrough Facilitator. This work is the culmination of 30 years of intensive formal study in transformative education and experiential learning with a focus on releasing emotional wounding and evolving consciousness. James has extensive experience tracking, feeling, avoiding, releasing, and healing fear, anxiety, and shame in his own life. He has co-led nearly 50 transformation-focused retreats and has guided hundreds of clients to work through their fear to find deep calm and healing in their central nervous system.

This free BreakThrough Circle is a gift for anyone seeking to find peace within their nervous system so they can give their unique gifts to the world in more meaningful and satisfying ways. We hope you can join us.

Fear & Anxiety BreakThrough: Relax into Deep Trust

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Tues Dec 1, 2020 7-8:30pm CT Register Here

When fear & anxiety are active within you, you experience an altered state of consciousness that radically shifts your perception, your thoughts, and your choices.

Left unchecked, your fear filter both serves your need for safety and sabotages your dreams and higher ambitions.

This pandemic and political environment have brought up much fear to be worked with, because the control-based ego defense mechanisms we’ve so carefully constructed have broken down.

Learn how to free yourself from the oppression of fear & anxiety while retaining their many gifts.

In this 90 min highly experiential session, you will:

INTERRUPT the fear-based messages in your head and the chemical flush of adrenaline and cortisol that hijack your central nervous system
Find your CALM using the power of breath and body awareness
Experience greater ease by bringing ATTUNEMENT and care to your stressed nervous system
Appreciate the WISDOM your Fear Filter carries and the path towards healing that it offers
Learn to track your RESISTANCE and work with it in useful ways
Decode the TRUTHS in your body’s natural responses
Explore how to relax into deeper TRUST

There is no better time than NOW to forge a new, HEALTHY relationship with your fear…one that becomes a solid foundation for the next chapter of your life.

10 second registration required in advance to get the web link to join us:

https://breakthroughcircle.as.me/Fear

FREE Tuesday BreakThrough Circles

Our free Tuesday BreakThrough Circles offer highly effective intrapersonal tools designed to guide you inward to your instinctual wisdom. Join us to gain the clarity you need for your life. Prepare yourself for a 60 or 90 minute web-based journey that includes:

Powerful Breathwork

Body-Based Somatic Practices

Movement, Sound & Neuroscience

Transformational Community-Buiding Practices

Guided Journeying

Powerful Questioning

Deep Listening

Vulnerability

Self-Compassion

Forgiveness

Self-Love

The BreakThrough Circle is a conscious web-based community focused on personal transformation.

This is a place for those on a path of inner work.

Free membership includes training to use somatic tools, breathwork, and structured processes to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness for powerful, deep inner work that cultivates BreakThrough Moments.

Free membership includes a monthly live 60 min BreakThrough Circle to help you learn a new Somatic BreakThrough tool.

Somatic BreakThrough tools are the strategies, structured processes, and techniques we've curated to help you cultivate BreakThrough moments quickly and efficiently.

We look forward to sharing this amazing body of tools with you and being here as a resource on your journey of self-discovery.

James & the BreakThrough Circle

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Fourth Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Tues, Nov 24, 2020 (rescheduled from Nov 17)

7-8:30pm CT Register Here

The Invitation-only Third (or sometimes Fourth) Tuesday BreakThrough Circle is a monthly small group BreakThrough program for individual Somatic Facilitation clients, members of the $97/month Inner Circle Somatic BreakThrough Facilitation program, and invited guests. Because we are serious practitioners, not newbies checking out a free webinar, we're able to build one-on-one connections in longer breakout rooms. Our personal work is witnessed compassionately by people I train to hold space with you. The safety of the container we create allows you to drop into the kind of vulnerability that is required for deep, transformative work. When done well, Community becomes Medicine.

Fear & Anxiety BreakThrough: How to Face your Fears and Relax into Deep Trust

Tues Nov 10, 2020 Register Here

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

When fear & anxiety are active within you, you experience an altered state of consciousness that radically shifts your perception, your thoughts, and your choices.

Left unchecked, your fear filter both serves your need for safety and sabotages your dreams and higher ambitions.

This pandemic and political environment have brought up much fear to be worked with, because the control-based ego defense mechanisms we’ve so carefully constructed have broken down.

Learn how to free yourself from the oppression of fear & anxiety while retaining their many gifts.

In this 90 min highly experiential session, you will:

INTERRUPT the fear-based messages in your head and the chemical flush of adrenaline and cortisol that hijack your central nervous system
Find your CALM using the power of breath and body awareness
Experience greater ease by bringing ATTUNEMENT and care to your stressed nervous system
Appreciate the WISDOM your Fear Filter carries and the path towards healing that it offers
Learn to track your RESISTANCE and work with it in useful ways
Decode the TRUTHS in your body’s natural responses
Explore how to relax into deeper TRUST

There is no better time than now to forge a new, HEALTHY relationship with your fear…one that becomes a solid foundation for the next chapter of your life.

10 second registration required in advance to get the web link to join us:

https://breakthroughcircle.as.me/Fear

The BreakThrough Circle

The BreakThrough Circle is a web-based community of practitioners who utilize simple, proven BreakThrough Tools to transform our lives.

BreakThrough Tools include:

Tools for creating a SAFE, connected environment ideal for your specific, vulnerable inner work
Cultivation of deep PRESENCE and attunement to what’s happening in your inner landscape
Powerfully facilitated processes for gaining CLARITY from within you to guide your journey
Naturally- induced altered states of consciousness and shamanic JOURNEYS that create new possibilities
Step-by-step structured tools for working through your EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS the moment they arise
Cathartic EMOTIONAL RELEASE work that shifts the nervous system from fight/flight to a state of deep healing and connection
Tools for cultivating an environment and a nervous system that is optimized for the emotional healing of TRAUMA and the physical healing of DISEASE
Courageous conversations and structured processes that confront your identity, your ego, and the SHADOW parts of your personality
Somatic (body-based) exercises that illuminate your natural BODY WISDOM
Cutting edge AUTHENTIC RELATING tools that cultivate BreakThrough Moments in how we relate with ourselves and others within a community of sensitive healers
Tools for deprogramming from our family and cultural CONDITIONING to bring greater consciousness to our lives
Guided journeys to uncover the various parts of our personalities and what they each need to THRIVE

Fear & Anxiety BreakThrough: How to Face your Fears and Relax into Deep Trust - Election Night 2020

Tues Nov 3, 2020 Register Here

Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

When fear & anxiety are active within you, you experience an altered state of consciousness that radically shifts your perception, your thoughts, and your choices.

Left unchecked, your fear filter both serves your need for safety and sabotages your dreams and higher ambitions.

This pandemic and political environment have brought up much fear to be worked with, because the control-based ego defense mechanisms we’ve so carefully constructed have broken down.

Learn how to free yourself from the oppression of fear & anxiety while retaining their many gifts.

In this 90 min highly experiential session, you will:

INTERRUPT the fear-based messages in your head and the chemical flush of adrenaline and cortisol that hijack your central nervous system
Find your CALM using the power of breath and body awareness
Experience greater ease by bringing ATTUNEMENT and care to your stressed nervous system
Appreciate the WISDOM your Fear Filter carries and the path towards healing that it offers
Learn to track your RESISTANCE and work with it in useful ways
Decode the TRUTHS in your body’s natural responses
Explore how to relax into deeper TRUST

There is no better time than Election Night 2020 to forge a new, HEALTHY relationship with your fear…one that becomes a solid foundation for the next chapter of your life.

10 second registration required in advance to get the web link to join us:

https://breakthroughcircle.as.me/Fear

See Yourself Clearly: A Somatic Mirror Work session

Tues Oct 6, 2020 Register Here

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

How you unconsciously see yourself influences EVERYTHING about your thoughts, your actions, and the results you get. Somatic Mirror Work combines the felt-sense in your body with advanced miror work to transform how you see yourself. I'll guide you through a faciitated experience where you'll gain clarity about how you unconsciously see yourself. We'll explore the impact your current self-perception has on your life....and what to do to shift the self-awareness dynamics that get in the way of your goals.

Transform your Critical Voice into an Ally: A Somatic Dialogue BreakThrough Journey

Tues, Sep 1, 2020 Click to Register

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

An active Critical Voice can sabotage your important goals. You’ll learn what your Critical Voice is really trying tell you (no, it’s not that you’re not good enough...that’s just the disguise). You’ll discover that the Critical Voice has a very helpful function and that you can use it for good in your life, once you begin listening to it and treating it differently. You can re-negotiate your deal with your Critical Voice so that it becomes an ally rather than a hindrance.

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Third Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Rescheduled to Tues, Aug 25, 2020 7-8:30pm CT Register Here

The Invitation-only Third Tuesday BreakThrough Circle is a monthly small group BreakThrough program for individual Somatic Facilitation clients, members of the $97/month Inner Circle Somatic BreakThrough Facilitation program, and invited guests. Because we are serious practitioners, not newbies checking out a free webinar, we're able to build one-on-one connections in longer breakout rooms. Our personal work is witnessed compassionately by people I train to hold space with you. The safety of the container we create allows you to drop into the kind of vulnerability that is required for deep, transformative work. When done well, Community becomes Medicine.

Elevate Your Emotional Intelligence: A 60 minute Somatic Dialogue BreakThrough Journey

Tues, Aug 4, 2020 Click to Register

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

If you get OVERWHELMED by anger, sadness, fear, or shame...if you REGRET the decisions you make when you get emotional...or if you find it difficult to TRUST your emotions, then this session will bring guidance.

You’ll explore the role of Emotions as Messengers from your inner guidance system. You’ll learn to dialogue with your body’s deeper emotional wisdom through the areas of the body where you feel them. Learning how to get actionable decision-making power from your emotions brings emotional stability and greater inner peace.

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Third Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Rescheduled to Weds, July 22, 2020

An "Inner Circle" Third Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Calm, Connected, & Powerful: 3 Shifts to a Thriving Life

July 7, 2020 Register Here

A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Friends, this is my medicine, my give-away, and my response to "The Great Realization" viral bedtime story video that is my current inspiration and call-to-arms. Please join our community for a playful, adventurous, and transformatively interactive guided journey tonight.

What's YOUR Medicine for these times?

Join us to experience the 3 fundamental shifts you need to make to emerge from this global pandemic feeling calm, connected, and powerful.

As a Somatic BreakThrough Facilitator, I use body-based wisdom tools to facilitate powerful, emotionally nourishing BreakThrough moments in the lives of my clients.

And yes, I’m talking about those earth-shattering, life-changing, bawling your eyes out, come to Goddess moments that re-define who we are at depth. This is the sandbox I play in.

I lead people through structured processes that create profound, positive shifts in their lives.

I guide clients through a series of Somatic BreakThrough Journeys that hone in on the most fundamental inner conflicts within you. I guide you through a process to heal the social conditioning of your culture, the emotional wounds of your childhood, and the traumas stored in your central nervous system. This process fundamentally rearranges the landscape of your inner world.

When you go through these interactive guided journeys, you free up new inner resources to emerge and become available to you.

This is the territory where BreakThrough moments dwell. And it’s been my special focus for the past 12 years working with my BreakThrough clients.

An essential core truth I’ve learned can be boiled down to this:

The most common bottlenecks

to our evolution as co-creators of our lives

occurs when we have unmet needs

for Safety, Connection, or Power.

These are required emotional needs for all human beings and when they go even partially unmet, we create coping mechanisms and defense patterns that become the core problems in our lives. I know this because I’ve seen the same patterns emerge in five year olds, teenagers, adults, and clients in their nineties.

When we feel unsafe...

we become anxious, overwhelmed, or controlling.

When we feel disconnected...

we become needy and unfulfilled or isolated and lonely.

When we feel disempowered...

we lose confidence and play small or seek external validation .

What the world needs now is YOU, all of you, aligned towards a purpose and sharing your medicine...serving your mission powerfully in the world.

Unmet needs for Safety, Connection, and Power get in your way!

I have a reliable method for addressing these blocks and I’m on a mission to help as many people as possible to feel safe, connected, and powerful. If you join me, I’ll teach you how to use these BreakThrough tools to find your calm, your connection, and your power. This will allow you to finally begin to serve your mission in a bigger way in your life.

Join us to learn more about these 3 essential human needs and the 3 shifts you must make before you can step into your true potential.

We’ll have a brief teaching section and then quickly drop into an experiential activity…a bedrock process for inner clarity that I call Somatic BreakThrough Dialogue, where we use the power of breathwork, focused attention, body awareness, and a type of somatic questioning to gain clarity from your inner wisdom about an area of your life needing attention.

This is a 60 min session. We will end on time. There will be an option to stay on for an additional 30 min afterward to experience or witness deeper individual work or learn more about how to receive a free one-on-one web-based facilitated "Clarify your Next BreakThrough" session (for those who have not already received a free BreakThrough session).

Invitation-Only "Inner Circle" Third Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

June 16, 2020 An "Inner Circle" Third Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Overcome Your Fear & Anxiety in just 60 minutes!

June 4 & 8, 2020 A Free BreakThrough Circle

Learn how to find your inner calm.

After several requests from past clients asking for help overcoming the fear & anxiety that accompanies our current COVID-19 pandemic, I've decided to offer this additional free BreakThrough Circle. I've helped hundreds of clients to overcome fear & anxiety, so these tools are proven to help find your calm during these groundless times.

Join our community of holistic healers, entreprenuers, and heart-centered professionals as we gather to use a structured process to cultivate BreakThrough Moments. We'll utilize Somatic Attunement tools and Somatic BreakThrough tools to relax fear & repattern anxiety within your central nervous system.

I'll guide you through a faciitated experience where you'll learn how to tap into your inner wisdom to learn what your Fear & Anxiety need from you.

If you'd like immediate relief from fear and anxiety, you can watch and experience the replay of our April 2020 53 min virtual BreakThrough Journey here:

Overcome Your Fear & Anxiety replay

Calm, Connected, & Powerful: 3 Fundamental Shifts You Need to Thrive

May 5, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Join us to experience the 3 fundamental shifts you need to make to emerge from this global pandemic feeling calm, connected, and powerful.

When you go through this interactive guided journey, you get more deeply in touch with your unmet needs and how to begin to meet them better. This frees up new inner resources to emerge and become available to you. Because when we have unmet needs for Safety,Connection, or Power, we suffer.

Safety, Connection, and Power are essential emotional needs for all human beings and when they go even partially unmet, we create coping mechanisms and defense patterns in response...and these become the core problems in our lives. I know this because I’ve seen the same patterns emerge in five year olds, teenagers, adults, and clients in their nineties.

When we feel unsafe...we become anxious, overwhelmed, or controlling.

When we feel disconnected...we become needy and unfulfilled or isolated and lonely.

When we feel disempowered...we lose confidence and play small or seek external validation instead of serving our mission powerfully in the world.

What the world needs now is YOU, all of you, aligned towards a purpose and sharing your medicine.

Unmet needs for Safety, Connection, and Power get in the way.

I have a reliable method for addressing these blocks and I’m on a mission to help as many people as possible feel safe, connected, and powerful. I can teach you how to use these BreakThrough tools to find your calm, your connection, and your power. This will allow you to finally begin to serve your mission in a bigger way in your life.

Join us to learn more about these 3 essential human needs and the 3 shifts you must make before you can step into your true potential.

We’ll have a brief talky section and then quickly drop into an experiential activity…a bedrock process for inner clarity that I call Somatic BreakThrough Dialogue, where we use the power of breathwork, focused attention, body awareness, and a type of somatic questioning to gain clarity from your inner wisdom about an area of your life needing attention.

Hear Yourself Wisely: A Somatic Dialogue session

Tues April 14 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Learn how to attune your attention to the most active parts of your unconscious mind. This session gets you listening to parts of you that you’ve been ignoring so you can gather wisdom that hasn’t yet been fully available to you. You’ll learn how to dialogue with your body’s deeper wisdom through specific areas of the body where you feel sensations. Learning how to listen to and trust your body sensations and inner voices in new ways leads to taking actions that are more aligned to your deeper values. It creates inner harmony which feels like deep, trusted guidance...like truth from deep in your bones. Such clarity brings the confidence to take powerful, decisive action, which leads to success.

Overcoming Fear & Anxiety During a Pandemic

A Free BreakThrough Circle offering, by request

"Overcoming Fear & Anxiety" replay

See Yourself Clearly: A Somatic Mirror Work session

Tues March 3, 2020 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Gain clarity about how you see yourself and the impact that your current self-perception is having on your life. This is highly specific to you and is a great starting place for inner work. This is not a session of saying affirmations you don’t believe while looking into a mirror. It’s a facilitated journey asking questions of yourself...about what you see in the mirror...and then listening deeply to what you say. It’s about SEE-ing you exactly as you see yourself and being honest with what you see and feel. This work can often bring up emotions of sadness, joy, anger, fear, or shame to be worked with directly. This set of tools is especially useful when working with low confidence, self-esteem, financial issues, or shame.

The 7 Types of Self-Love & Why They Matter for Your Life

Feb 12, 2020 A Valentine's Day Facebook Live Event

To celebrate Valentine's Day, I'll be going LIVE on FB on Weds Feb 12 from 7-7:30pm CT to share the 7 types of Self-Love that we can foster within us in order to increase the quality of our lives. Whether you're in a relationship or not, Self-Love is critical to an amazing life, as my life and my BreakThrough Circle clients have shown me over and over again. Valentine's Day encourages us to seek outside of ourselves for love. As a gift to yourself, join us to learn how to seek INSIDE of you for the love you've always wanted...so you can feel well-loved and then share your love with the world!

To watch the replay, simply come to my personal FB page (Facebook.com/JamesMayfieldSmith) and scroll down to find the recording.

Stop Fighting & Start Connecting Deeply: An Authentic Relating BreakThrough session for Couples and Singles

Feb 4, 2020 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Stop fighting with your partner! This session focuses on couple's work, although the strategies taught are also appropriate for anyone in relationship with freinds, family, or colleagues. We'll give you practical tools for turning towards one another, appreciating one another, for hearing one another deeply, and for feeling deeply heard. Stop half of your fights in their tracks by doing this ONE thing to prevent them. And finally, we'll practice moving the energy of love and care in your body, allowing you to intentionally feel the love and care of others and for yourself.

The Inner Rebel: A Somatic Resistance session

Jan 14, 2020 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Your New Year's resolutions will be sabotaged by your inner RESISTANCE...your resistance to a specific situation, to other people, or to the reality of your life. Using Somatic tools, you’ll discover WHERE you resist, WHY you're resisting, HOW your resistance is showing up, and WHAT IT’S COSTING you. You'll learn where you've divided yourself, with one part resisting the other. And you’ll dialogue with these parts to learn how they can work together to get what they need...so you can accomplish your goals!

The Inner Teenager: A Somatic Re-Parenting session

Dec 3, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Re-Parenting the Inner Teen is very different than re-parenting the young child. It requires listening in a different way and responding with more nuanced attention to the need for power. Our Inner Teen often carries our voice of outrage over unfairness, is highly attuned to rejection or criticism, is idealistic, and may easily become disappointed or bitter. When an active Inner Teen is working against you, it can feel like self-sabotage, can make relationships difficult, and can lead to addictions. Working with the Inner Teen in an engaged way can be a fast route to behavior change.

Focus on the Young Inner Child: A Somatic Re-Parenting session

Nov 5, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

Inner Re-Parenting requires more than one session. It’s an ongoing dialogue with parts of you from your past. This session focuses attention on the part of you that has unmet needs from your earliest experiences. From conception through elementary school, you relied on caregivers to meet your needs for safety, care, connection, and power. When these go unmet, young children develop coping mechanisms that get in the way as an adult...such as people-pleasing, dimming our light, doubting ourselves, or isolating, to name a few. This session gets you in touch with these tender unmet needs and begins to repair by giving yourself these directly, so that you fill up your empty well and are able to give to others (and to yourself) from a full place.

Healing your Younger Inner Selves: A Somatic Re-Parenting session

Oct 1, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

This session gets you attuned to the unmet needs from your childhood that are still at play and sabotaging you today. You’ll learn how to somatically find, feel, & nurture these neglected parts of yourself. This work addresses the effects that come from not getting the kind of attention, care, and love that we needed as a child. We can use this body of tools to address long-standing patterns of relationship dysfunction and disconnection, feelings of rejection & abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, people-pleasing, feelings of low self-worth, financial struggles, and lack of follow-through for self-care (physical care areas of diet/sleep/exercise & emotional care areas of safety/connection/power.) Re-Parenting your inner child is one of the fastest ways to create a BreakThrough moment that changes how you see, hear, and hold yourself in new, more successful ways.

Transform your Critical Voice into an Ally: A Somatic Dialogue session

Sep 3, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

An active Critical Voice can sabotage your important goals. You’ll learn what your Critical Voice is really trying tell you...and no, it’s not really that you’re not good enough...that’s just the surface level message.

You’ll discover that the Critical Voice has a very helpful function and that you can use it for good in your life, once you begin relating to it differently. Your Critical Voice is your small ego self "voice of experience" who has some very young coping mechanisms. You can re-negotiate your relationship with your Critical Voice so that it becomes an ally rather than an obstacle. We will identify your inner mentor, your inner champion, and your inner cheerleader as you begin to transform the voices within into ones of encouragement and support.

6th Annual Wildman Gathering near Asheville, NC

Aug 16-18, 2019 A Powerful Weekend Experience FOR MEN

Join us for this Earth/Air/Fire Water Initiation, co-led by 5 very experienced facilitators…a Druid, a Shaman, a Firewalker, an Energy Healer, and a BreakThrough Coach. After co-leading 24 men’s initiations over the past 11 years, I can say with confidence that this is the wildest, most exciting men’s initiation available.
More info here: www.WildmanBreakThrough.com

Transform your Critical Voice into an Ally: A Somatic Dialogue session

Aug 6, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

WildmanBreakThrough Online Course

Second and Fourth Tuesdays: July23 - Oct 22, 2019

An engaging journey for men, featuring the BreakThrough tools needed to connect deeply to ourselves so that we can begin to share our gifts more fully in the world. This offering includes 7 sessions (2 per month) of one-on-one training and coaching leading up to the Aug 2019 Wildman Gathering near Asheville NC, followed by additional follow-up support. A ticket to the optional 2019 Wildman Gathering is also available. More info here: www.WildmanBreakThrough.com.

Emotional Intelligence: A Somatic Dialogue Session

July 2, 2019 A Free First Tuesday BreakThrough Circle

If you find yourself overwhelmed by emotions, if you regret the decisions you make when you get emotional, or if you find it difficult to trust your emotions, then this session will bring you guidance. You’ll explore the role of Emotions as Messengers from your inner guidance system. Your emotions express your values. Most people don’t know how to listen to and interpret them, though, so they try to ignore them. That never goes well. Learning how to get actionable decision-making power from the clarity of your emotions is an important key to finding emotional stability in life.

Personal Power FOR MEN: How to Cultivate Safe, Connected Power

Tues June 25, 2019 A 90 Minute BreakThrough Circle for Men

Most men carry wounds from our past that inhibit our feelings of POWER, leading to low self-esteem, inability to take action, or a need to dominate to prove something to ourselves or others. This session zeroes in on the healthy need for empowerment and what happens when we have unmet needs around our freedom, our sovereignty, our ability to act, or our capacity to trust ourselves to be successful with life's challenges. You'll be invited to go within to find your power and let it teach you how it wants to express through you in the world. You'll also be guided into the parts of you that feel disempowered and to listen for the unmet needs that lie here, so that you can begin to meet them better. Lastly, we'll explore how to wield your power in a way that remains connected to yourself and those around you, making you more safe for the world. This allows you to step forward confidently to take action in ways that bring optimum results.

FOR MEN: Connection with Self and Others: Jet Fuel for the Wildman

Thurs June 20, 2019 A 90 Minute BreakThrough Circle for Men

Most men carry wounds from our past that inhibit our feelings of CONNECTION to ourselves, others, or nature, leading to loneliness, isolation, or addictions. Join us to go within to discover your specific blocks to connection to yourself, to men, to women, to authority figures, and to nature. Then allow yourself to be guided deeply within to get information from yourself for how to heal your connection wounds. This allows you to re-connect to your essence and to become available for authentic connection with others. It also often super-charges your Wildman, because feeling like you deeply belong mysteriously has this beneficial effect.

FOR MEN: Safety, Connection & Power: 3 Prerequisites to Feel Wildman Energy Within You

June 11, 2019 A 90 Minute BreakThrough Circle for Men

Our healthy masculine energy becomes available when we feel safe, connected, and powerful. Most men carry wounds from our past that inhibit our feelings of:

- SAFETY, leading to anxiety, overwhelm, or control issues

- CONNECTION, to ourselves, others, or nature, leading to loneliness, isolation, or addictions

- POWER, leading to low self-esteem or inability to take action

This session will focus the most on Emotional Safety and how as a man I can meet this need for myself, making me more available.

When we discover the unmet needs that lie at the root of the Safety, Connection, and Power wounds in our lives, we are able to meet them and recover our Wildman!

Safety, Connection & Power: A Three Session Series FOR MEN

A Breakthrough Circle is a powerful container for doing personal work, accompanied by others working towards similar goals, using the BreakThrough tools I teach. Each BreakThrough Circle is offered at 1 pm CT and again at 7pm CT, to accommodate work schedules.

Tues June 11: Emotional Safety

Thurs June 20: Attuned Connection

Tues June 25: Personal Power

Check out the 2 min video below to get a sense of the work we’ll be doing together.

https://www.facebook.com/james.mayfieldsmith/videos/2291974270837898