A main focuses of my work since 2017 has been the founding a small school for personal transformation and professional development. It is called The School of Unusual Life Learning, SoULL for short.
To learn more about SoULL and get a sense of the lovely community taking root in those teachings, have a look at the website. If it calls to you, try out a program.
What is SoULL?
SoULL is a school for personal transformation and professional development for adults. We teach natural wisdom, somatic awareness and a whole human life perspective in programs that range from 3 hours to 3 years. It is a vibrant community where curious mortals, wisdom keepers, creatives and helping professionals take their life and work to a new level of depth, supporting and inspiring each other in the process. SoULL programs are offered in person in Wisconsin and online, but they also pop up in other locations around the world.
Who is this program for?
Heart-centered practitioners who enjoy thinking about the mind and body as one, are curious about mortality, energy, and are willing to touch into the unseen.
Psychologists, social workers, healthcare workers, clergy, and end of life doulas who have a body-centered orientation or training.
Professionals or students in helping, teaching or healing work: somatic therapists, healers, yoga teachers, or bodyworkers, for example.
Anyone with an inexplicable stirring within that says "I know I need to be there" is encouraged to apply.
Why do it?
This program will teach you how to be more deeply alive while radically reducing your existential anxiety.
Group learning will deeply support your personal growth and professional practice.
You will joyfully expand your service into stages of life that may be unfamiliar to you and see greater continuity in life processes.
You will deepen your intuition about all stages of life.
You will expand your clients ability to find peace within a culture of epidemic existential anxiety.
You will learn to become fascinated with aging and even dying rather than arrested by fear and discomfort. You will help others do the same.
To see if this journey is for you, schedule an interview with Jeanne Denney at soullcommunity@gmail.com
“Somatic SoULL has been a profound learning and life experience for me. It begins before the first gathering, and it continues far after the last. The course may span five months, but its teachings are like rich soil—the growth that emerges is quite endless.”
“I’ve spent years feeling like I was missing something about myself and life, as if there were pieces of a puzzle that needed to be found. Yet I didn’t know what they were or how to find them. Meeting Jeanne and taking the Somatic SoULL program answered that call and placed me on a life path of deeper awareness and understanding. I still have much to discover on my journey, but my questions now come from a clearer worldview. It’s as if I were fumbling around in a dark room and a candle was lit.”
“As a woman in her mid twenties, I have had my fair share of quarter life crises and this program enabled me to discover and connect to the inherent wisdom within my body, and of life processes. SouLL further strengthened my deeply rooted connection to nature. I know that these teachings will be with me for the rest of my life and am in deep gratitude for them, for Jeanne, and having been able to bear witness to other students’ journeys as well. Their process deepened my process, and created a sense of community I know I have been missing.”
“Jeanne’s teaching deeply touched my heart and opened it up to see my life’s purpose. It prepared me for the journey I had no idea I would take, when I was faced with my father’s passing. It gave me tools and language to explore my own body’s energy and to connect with nature and community around me.”
“I am a sprightly active 68 woman who was freaking out about aging. Taking the SOULL program last year recalibrated my whole perspective on aging and dying and the pulsation of relationship and change. Jeanne is on to something. This work is helping me figure out how to live the last quarter of my life. I recommend it to all ages but especially to the 60 somethings and on. Life vs Death is not the solution. ”