Instructor Profile

2025 Instructor lineup
Alan

Alan Pennington is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist specializing in trauma work. Alan believes self-love is the heart of all healing. By learning to be kind and compassionate to ourselves, by bringing healing to our inner child, we can find joy and peace. In doing so, we will then be able to spread that love, joy and healing to everyone around us. “If we don’t love others well, it’s because we don’t know how to truly love ourselves well.”

Alan has written a book “Crisis to Calm” describing this process and enjoys sharing ways to heal on his podcast “The Curious Counselor”. I hope you will be able to join Alan on a curious, compassionate journey to inner healing and joy.

Healing Your Inner Child
Healing your inner child means learning to: (1) calm your mind, (2) compassionately work with internal resistance that is protecting your inner child (fear, anger, distraction, self-critic, racing mind, etc) and (3) slowly, compassionately and curiously connecting with your inner child. In this workshop we will be reviewing all three phases and I will be collectively and individually helping you slowly and carefully navigate this journey to make progress in whatever way feels good for you. Percy (my inner 6 year old) and I hope you can join us but even if you can’t, look for a summary of this on my podcast The Curious Counselor episodes 25, 26 and 27.