Workshop Series
Additional Workshops
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The Act of Unforgiving™
A Two-Session Therapeutic Process for Reclaiming Psychological Sovereignty
The Act of Unforgiving™ is an original therapeutic framework developed by psychotherapist Deirdre Rolfe that addresses one of the most difficult aspects of trauma recovery: the psychological attachment that can remain between a survivor and the person who caused the harm.
Many individuals are encouraged to forgive in order to move forward. While forgiveness can be meaningful for some people, it is not always the most appropriate or accessible pathway to healing. In situations where harm was profound, unresolved, or never acknowledged, individuals can remain emotionally bound to perpetrators through unresolved anger, grief, obligation, or the internalised demand to reconcile.
The Act of Unforgiving™ introduces a different psychological pathway. Rather than focusing on reconciliation, it focuses on truth recognition, personal authority, and the conscious withdrawal of emotional allegiance from those who violated trust or safety.
This process combines existential psychology, trauma-informed therapeutic practice, somatic awareness, and structured symbolic action to help individuals release persistent emotional attachments and reclaim their psychological agency.
The workshop is designed as a two-session process that allows participants to move through both understanding and embodied integration.
Session One
Understanding and Witnessing the Injury
The first session focuses on clearly identifying and articulating the psychological injury.
Participants are guided through a structured conversation that allows them to:
• describe the events that created the unresolved attachment
• be witnessed in the psychological, emotional, and existential impact of the harm
• examine how unresolved relationships continue to affect thoughts, behaviours, and emotional responses
• understand the principles behind the Act of Unforgiving™ process
This session creates the foundation for the second stage of the work.
Session Two
The Act of Unforgiving™ Ritual Process
The second session focuses on a guided therapeutic process designed to help individuals actively reclaim their emotional authority.
This involves a structured and embodied exercise that allows participants to:
• externalise unresolved emotional attachments
• withdraw psychological allegiance from the perpetrator
• reclaim personal power and narrative authority
• create a clear psychological boundary between past harm and present identity
Participants are then encouraged to repeat the process independently as a personal integration practice.
The Therapeutic Approach
The Act of Unforgiving™ process is:
• trauma informed
• somatically integrated
• grounded in psychological and neurobiological principles
• structured as an active rather than purely reflective intervention
By engaging both cognitive insight and embodied action, the process can help individuals release longstanding patterns of emotional entanglement that may have persisted for years.
Format
Two structured sessions
90 minutes per session
Sessions are typically scheduled one to two weeks apart to allow reflection and integration between stages.
Delivery:
Online or in person
Workshop Fee
The Act of Unforgiving™ is offered as a two-session process.
Total fee: $450
Both sessions are booked and paid for together.
Book This Workshop
To enquire or schedule the Act of Unforgiving™ process:
Call or text Deirdre Rolfe
☎ 0412 106 496
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TR6 Trauma Model™ Antidote Workshop
Following the assessment, participants may choose to explore the TR6 Antidote Workshop, which focuses on practical strategies for addressing patterns identified in the assessment.
This session introduces psychological principles that support:
• greater emotional regulation and self-awareness
• understanding trauma-related behavioural patterns
• strengthening adaptive psychological functioning
• developing clearer direction for personal growth and therapeutic work
The goal of the workshop is to help individuals translate insight into practical psychological direction.
A Directional Framework for Self-Understanding
The TR6 Trauma Model™ offers a depth-psychology approach that integrates existential psychology, trauma research, and clinical experience.
Participants often describe the process as providing a psychological compass that clarifies:
• where they are functioning well
• where unresolved patterns may exist
• what steps may support further development and healing
For some individuals this workshop provides valuable insight and direction on its own. Others may choose to continue exploring the model more deeply in further therapeutic work.
Workshop Format
Two structured sessions are available.
Each session is 90 minutes in duration.
Sessions may be completed separately or together.
Delivery:
Online or in person
Fees
TR6 Trauma Model™ Assessment
90 minutes — $225
TR6 Antidote Workshop
90 minutes — $225
Participants may also choose to complete both sessions together.
Combined session package — $450
Book the TR6 Trauma Model™ Workshop
To enquire or schedule a session:
Call or text Deirdre Rolfe
☎ 0412 106 496
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Trauma Bond Recovery
Breaking the Attachment Cycle
Trauma bonds are powerful psychological attachments that can develop in relationships where emotional harm and intermittent care become intertwined. These bonds can make separation from unhealthy relationships extremely difficult, even when individuals clearly recognise that the relationship is harmful.
This workshop explores the psychological mechanisms that create and sustain trauma bonded relationships. It integrates attachment theory, trauma psychology, and evidence based therapeutic techniques to help individuals understand why these bonds form and how they can be disrupted.
Participants are guided through a structured process that examines the emotional and cognitive patterns that maintain attachment to harmful or manipulative individuals. Understanding these patterns allows individuals to begin separating emotionally while strengthening personal agency and psychological stability.
The workshop also introduces targeted techniques designed to support emotional processing and reduce the intensity of trauma related memory activation. These methods can help the nervous system begin to reorganise its response to past relational experiences, allowing individuals to move toward greater clarity and autonomy.
What This Workshop Explores
Participants will gain insight into:
• how trauma bonds develop within attachment based relationships
• why harmful relationships can feel psychologically compelling or difficult to leave
• how intermittent reinforcement strengthens emotional attachment
• how early relational patterns can influence adult relationship dynamics
• strategies that help weaken trauma bonded attachments and restore personal clarity
The goal of the workshop is to help individuals understand the psychological mechanisms behind trauma bonding and begin the process of reclaiming emotional independence.
Therapeutic Approach
This workshop integrates principles from:
• attachment theory
• trauma informed psychotherapy
• cognitive and emotional processing techniques
• structured therapeutic interventions designed to reduce emotional reactivity
By combining psychological insight with targeted techniques, the process helps individuals begin separating from patterns that may have remained entrenched for extended periods of time.
Workshop Format
Sessions are 90 minutes in duration.
Delivery:
Online or in person
Participants may choose either:
Single session workshop — $225
or
Two session deep exploration — $450
The extended format allows for deeper exploration and integration of the concepts introduced.
Book This Workshop
To enquire or schedule a session:
Call or text Deirdre Rolfe
☎ 0412 106 496
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Archetype Assessment Workshop
Understanding Your Core Psychological Archetypes
Human behaviour is often shaped by underlying psychological patterns that influence how individuals think, respond, and relate to others. In depth psychology, these patterns are frequently described as archetypes, universal psychological structures that shape identity, motivation, and emotional response.
The Archetype Assessment Workshop introduces participants to a structured exploration of their three primary psychological archetypes. These archetypes influence both adaptive strengths and potential blind spots that may affect decision making, relationships, and personal development.
Drawing on Jungian depth psychology and shadow work, this workshop helps individuals examine both the constructive and maladaptive expressions of their archetypal patterns.
The goal is not simply to categorise personality traits, but to provide deeper psychological insight into how these patterns operate and how they can be consciously integrated.
What This Workshop Explores
Participants will explore:
• their three dominant psychological archetypes
• how these archetypes influence behaviour and identity
• the constructive or adaptive qualities of each archetype
• shadow expressions that may create difficulty or limitation
• how unconscious archetypal patterns can influence relationships and life choices
Through guided discussion and reflection, participants begin to understand how these psychological patterns operate in everyday life.
Depth Psychology and Shadow Exploration
The workshop includes a series of reflective questions derived from Jungian shadow work, designed to help individuals examine aspects of their archetypal patterns that may remain unconscious.
This process encourages participants to:
• recognise hidden motivations and internal conflicts
• understand recurring behavioural patterns
• identify areas where growth and integration may be beneficial
By bringing these dynamics into conscious awareness, individuals can begin to relate to their archetypal patterns with greater clarity and intentionality.
A Tool for Psychological Insight
The Archetype Assessment Workshop offers a structured way to examine the internal patterns that shape behaviour and perception.
Participants often gain insight into:
• areas where they are naturally thriving
• patterns that may contribute to emotional or relational difficulty
• opportunities for personal development and integration
The aim of the workshop is to provide a deeper understanding of the psychological structures that influence identity and behaviour.
Workshop Format
Duration
90 minutes
Delivery
Online or in person
Workshop Fee
90 minute session — $225
Book This Workshop
To enquire or schedule a session:
Call or text Deirdre Rolfe
☎ 0412 106 496
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The Living Senses™
A Course in Presence, Perception, and the Art of Fully Experiencing Life
Created by
Deirdre Rolfe
Counsellor On Call
The Living Senses™
In modern life we move quickly from one task to the next. Phones, screens, schedules, and constant information compete for our attention.
In the process many people lose contact with the most powerful tools they possess: their senses.
We see without truly observing.
We hear without deeply listening.
We eat without tasting.
We move without feeling our bodies.
The Living Senses™ is a guided journey back into presence.
This course helps participants slow down and rediscover the richness of everyday experience through deliberate awareness of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, and inner sensing.
When we reconnect with our senses something remarkable happens.
Life becomes deeper.
Emotions become clearer.
The nervous system begins to settle.
Intuition becomes stronger.
Ordinary moments become meaningful again.
The Living Senses™ is both simple and profound. It invites participants to return to the natural intelligence of the body and rediscover how much beauty and meaning already exists in daily life.
The Philosophy Behind The Living Senses™
Existential psychology teaches that meaning is not found through constant activity or productivity but through conscious engagement with life itself.
Presence is not doing nothing.
Presence means observing.
Listening.
Feeling.
Participating in the world with awareness.
This course draws from depth psychology, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and simple neuroscience to show how engaging the senses can calm the nervous system, deepen emotional insight, and restore a feeling of connection with life.
The goal is not to add more to your schedule.
The goal is to experience the life you already have more deeply.
The Living Senses Model
The course explores six dimensions of experience.
Seeing
Hearing
Touch
Taste
Smell
Inner sensing
Each sense becomes a doorway into deeper awareness.
Participants move through four stages of perception.
Observation
Embodiment
Meaning
Intuition
First we notice.
Then we feel the experience in the body.
Then we understand what it means emotionally.
Finally we begin to recognise patterns and insight.
This is where intuition naturally develops.
Who This Course Is For
The Living Senses™ is ideal for people who want to
Slow down and reconnect with life
Reduce stress and mental overload
Develop greater emotional awareness
Strengthen intuition and self-trust
Experience more beauty and presence in everyday life
The course is particularly valuable for professionals, therapists, creatives, and anyone seeking deeper self-awareness.
What Participants Receive
6 guided modules
Experiential exercises and practices
A sensory awareness journal
A 30 day sensory awakening practice
Integration tools to apply the practices in daily life
Course Format
The Living Senses™ may be delivered as
3 week course (1 hr per week)
$297 per participant
1/2 day immersive workshop (3 hrs)
$225 per participant
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For those who would like to work with me in person, you may also enjoy creating your own small personal retreat in the beautiful Daylesford region. Many people choose to combine one or more of the workshops with a few days away, staying in a local Airbnb, motel, or hotel and enjoying everything the area has to offer. Daylesford is known for its wonderful cafés and gourmet restaurants, the peaceful walk around Lake Daylesford, the Sunday market, and the calming atmosphere of the surrounding countryside. If this idea appeals to you, you are welcome to select one workshop or combine a few and contact me so we can explore suitable dates during the week or on weekends. Your accommodation and other activities would of course be arranged independently, but I would be delighted to contribute to the experience by offering workshops that can become part of your own personalised retreat.