Make the paradigm shift to a social model of disability
Through Phoenixx Fundamentals of Compassion workshops and individual/family coaching, you’ll better understand, advocate and gain the tools to support children and adults experiencing life threatening illness, trauma, grief and living with disability and neurodiversity. What do these experiences have in common? A need for honest, flexible informed decision making that aligns with your personal value system. We recognize the need for a medical model for some problem solving, it has a very important place at the front of the line. However we instead choose to embrace a social strength-based model of radically inclusive, trauma-informed and intersectional philosophy that meets people where they are and centers their needs. We are most closely aligned with the therapeutic approach of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), with teachings based in current research in androgogy, pedagogy, neuroplasticity, and how people learn.
An intersectional and cross cultural approach
Shoshana is a passionate and dynamic community educator with decades of experience providing education, direction, therapeutic support, grief counseling, and group facilitation in social service organizations, health care and mostly urban community settings. She is a chaplain and serves as an end of life doula. She is an expert and thought leader with experience as a keynote speaker, and has presented at national and regional conferences, hospital grand rounds, and university nursing and medical schools.
There is no healing unless we all get to heal. Shoshana is committed to improving the lives of individuals and families impacted by disability and life-threatening illness while providing comprehensive, culturally, and spiritually competent care. Shoshana brings the personal experience of a queer, interfaith, Jewish, transracially fost-adopt mom with chronic medical conditions and disabilities, who successfully runs her own business and serves several communities as a volunteer. Learn more about Shoshana-
Success Stories
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Shoshana was extremely knowledgeable, compassionate and able to address complex topics with great sophistication! She used real-life examples, a non-judgmental approach, provided new language and improved my understanding. Now I can better support my students.
Tami, Workshop Attendee
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I appreciated Shoshana's expertise and engagement, and the usefulness & applicability of the interventions she suggested. She was creative, passionate and knowledgeable! From her teaching, I can be more creative in my sessions, both in building rapport and in understanding interests and certain behaviors.
Gabriel, Workshop Attendee
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Passion and knowledge shined through as Shoshana presented. This was great material that is difficult to find. I appreciated her expertise and engagement, and the usefulness and applicability of her interventions.
Alex, Workshop Attendee
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Shoshana helped me convert my experience as an authoritative manager into new ways of serving my communities as an equal, cooperative, and productive member of committees and commissions. Shoshana responds with empathy, offers effective and helpful ideas, and knows instinctively when to apply humor or sympathy.
Rani, Coaching Client
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Shoshana Phoenixx's trainings combine compassion with the courage of rebirth, arising from the fires of experience.
Anna, Workshop Attendee
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Great information to support the team in how we work with youth in the program! Shoshana answered all our questions in great detail, with knowledgeable responses. It was an excellent training!
Duanee, Workhop Attendee
“ ..I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible ...”
— George Bernard Shaw
