🌈 HETA WORKS!

Summer 2025 Workshop Series

A universal framework for embodied awareness and compassionate presence

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💡 What Is HETA?

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HETA is a practical, body-based framework designed to help you tune into your inner and relational signals—and respond with presence instead of old patterns. Grounded in experiential healing and collective care, HETA integrates three powerful approaches:

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• Polyvagal Theory (attunement to the nervous system)

• The Body Deva Method (somatic inquiry and emotional release)

• Nonviolent Communication (relational clarity and compassion)

 

At the heart of HETA is the Rainbow of Resonance—seven steps to reconnect with your body’s wisdom and build safe, compassionate presence:

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•Recognize Activation 

• Name Emotions 

• Identify Needs 

• Find Compassion
•Express Kindly 

• Listen Empathetically

• Resonate Integrity

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👥 Who These Workshops Are For

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Each weekend workshop is tailored to a specific peer group:

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#1 Parents of Children with Special Needs
#2 Those Navigating Sobriety
#3 Adults Healing from Childhood Sexual Trauma

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Participants are welcomed into confidential, small-group spaces (max 12 per group) where shared experience supports trust, safety, and depth.

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📍 Workshop Locations & Dates

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Each workshop includes 3 guided sessions (3 hours each) over 3 consecutive days:

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River Falls, WI

• July 8–10: Parents of Children with Special Needs

• July 11–13: Those Navigating Sobriety

• July 14–16: Adults Healing from Childhood Sexual Trauma

 

Asheville, NC

• August 12–14: Parents of Children with Special Needs

• August 15–17: Those Navigating Sobriety

• August 18–20: Adults Healing from Childhood Sexual Trauma

 

Fayetteville, AR

• September 16–18: Parents of Children with Special Needs

• September 19–21: Those Navigating Sobriety

• September 22–24: Adults Healing from Childhood Sexual Trauma

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🕒 Workshop Format & Schedule

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Each 3-day workshop follows this rhythm (CST):

• Day 1: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

• Day 2: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

• Day 3: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

 

Small Group Format:

• Max 12 participants per peer group for depth and confidentiality

• Held in nurturing indoor-outdoor spaces with light refreshments provide

 

🧭 What to Expect

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Day 1 – Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

• Overview: Understand how your nervous system shapes your experiences of safety, connection, and survival

• Practice: Explore your physiological states and begin to track the signals that lead to activation or ease

Day 2 – Exploring the Body Deva Method

• Overview: Learn how to access your body’s stored wisdom and work with its messages for healing

• Practice: Engage in guided inquiry to explore stuck emotions, inner-child work, ancestral patterns, and intuitive insights

Day 3 – Practicing Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

• Overview: Discover how needs and feelings drive our behaviors, and how to bring clarity to communication

• Practice: Learn to speak from the heart, listen with empathy, and repair relational ruptures through honest dialogue

 

🤝 Group Dynamics & Relational Care

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• Shared Experience: Learn and heal alongside others who relate to your story

• Confidentiality & Safety: Ground rules support honesty, consent, and trauma-informed practice

• Peer Community: Leave with not only tools—but also a network of support that may extend beyond the workshop

 

🎁 What You’ll Leave With

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• A practical understanding of how nervous system patterns, emotional triggers, and communication habits interact

• Body-based tools to calm overwhelm, name emotions, and express your needs with clarity

• A deeper connection to yourself and the people around you

• Confidence in your ability to meet life with presence instead of reactivity

 

📝 What’s Included

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• 3 guided workshop sessions (9 hours total)

• HETA Workbook

• Three books

  • Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety by Deb Dana

  • The Body Deva: Working with the Spiritual Consciousness of the Body by Mary Shutan

  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall Rosenberg

• Breathwork, movement, me

• ditation, and somatic inquiry

• Light refreshments

 

💵 Workshop Cost

 

$500 USD per person
Includes all sessions, materials, workbook, and refreshments.
Sliding scale options may be available—please inquire.

 

🧑‍🏫 About the Facilitator

 

Abigail Testaberg

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• Embodiment guide and medicine person

• Rooted in Polyvagal Theory, the Body Deva Method, and Nonviolent Communication

• Mother of two children with special needs, bringing lived and relational experience with addiction and childhood sexual abuse—alongside years of guiding others through their own healing

• Skilled in community-based healing and Plant+ Medicine integration

• Known for her grounded, direct, and compassionate approach to helping others reconnect with their bodies, relationships, and deep intuitive knowing

 

🔗 Register Now

 

Spots are limited to 12 per group.
Secure your place early to ensure availability.