Emberlight: A Mind-Body Skills Group for Cultivating Wellbeing in the Winter Months

With the guidance of a seasoned, certified facilitator, participants will practice powerful techniques for regulating their autonomic nervous systems.

By listening to brief, facilitator-developed podcasts before each session and engaging in experiential learning during each session, participants will learn about and practice soft-belly breathing, guided imagery, self directed relaxation, art for surface wisdom, journaling for insight, shaking and dancing, and more.

Mind-body skills groups gather together to give their members space to be heard, to practice listening with compassion, and to witness each other’s growth. The facilitator and participants do not give advice, suggestions, or other interventions intended to “fix” each others’ concerns. Rather, the group holds space for each member to learn and grow as a unique, empowered, internally guided individual over the course of the six weeks.

Facilitated by:

Emily McCord is a certified Mind-Body Skills Group Facilitator dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with their inner wisdom and innate capacity for healing, balance, and growth. Emily empowers clients to cultivate their internal compass — the connection of mind, body, and heart — as a steady source of guidance in a world often filled with noise and overwhelm. Her practice is grounded in the belief that each person holds the tools for resilience and thriving within themselves.

Emily brings over two decades of experience in education and professional development facilitation to her practice. She is a former K–12 teacher and current Board Certified Coach and Professional Development and Training Specialist in a higher education context. She received her training in Mind-Body Skills Group facilitation through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s (Home – CMBM ) Signature Certification program.

Emily is passionate about supporting people in finding strength, agency, and healing in their lives. All are welcome and treated with reverence in her practice. Due to her own lived experience, she has a particular interest in serving mission-driven, heart-centered professionals; members of the LGBTQ+ community; individuals living with chronic illness; and those in recovery.

It is very important that people commit to attending all sessions when they register.