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Kate Siner Francis PhD
Psychotherapist, writer, and educator
Program
A concept that guides my sessions is the essential self. I believe that each of us has a core way of being that finds its way into all of the things that we do. Overtime, many of us come to think of our preferences and opinions as the person that we truly are. Frequently, these preferences and opinions are much more about our persona, mask, ego than they are an expression of our essential self. However, frequently there are signs of our essential self within these more superficial trappings of our identity.
What is the essential self? The essential self is who you are at your core. I prefer to think of it in more abstract terms. I think of it as the core energy. Some people might think about it as a person’s nature -- if a person where giving his or her ideal environment what would he or she be?
Somehow in all of our thinking, we come to believe that we should BE something. This something is inevitably something other than we know ourselves to be. In fact, after a while of doing this, we even forget who we truly are. We might get upset with ourselves or we might have a vague feeling that something is wrong.
Living from this place of should, can be like expecting a grapevine to grow pears. We think that we should really be growing pears even if we are in fact a grapevine at heart. We wonder why the pears that we make are not quite right and never seem as good as they should be.
The fact of the matter is that we ARE something. And, when we reconnect with our essential self, we no longer expect ourselves to be what we are not. When we do this, it is possible to give ourselves our ideal environment and care so that we can really thrive.
The question at this point usually is “well then how do I connect with my essential self” That is what this workshop is about.
Bio
Kate Siner Francis, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, and educator who has been practicing integrative psychotherapy, holistic success coaching, and running programs and workshops in the Providence area since 2005. She calls her work the Life Fulfillment Formula and has dedicated her work to helping people find and develop their own fulfillment.
The Fulfillment Formula is based on the theory that fulfillment comes when we are healed and developed enough to give back -- when we in our own way are making the world a better place with what we do. In order to have this happen, we need to work on our selves --our self awareness- and our relationships -- our connections with what is not us. Empowered action --giving back-- is a natural by product of a self aware and connected state. As we heal ourselves and our connections, our actions become healing actions. At this point, we can learn new skills to expand our impact and deepen our fulfillment.
She, also, recently launched a non-profit, Larger Visions, which is dedicated to providing leadership training for emergent women leaders dedicated to social change and safe-house programming to victims of gender-based violence.
