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Bring Connection Back to the Heart of Therapy

A Webinar for therapists, counselors, and coaches who want faster, deeper, more sustainable change—using Connection-Based Tools.

 
Connection-Based Tools Webinar + Book: $39
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Is Your Care Creating Change—or Carrying Weight?

Do you find yourself thinking about a session hours later? Do you wonder if you’re missing something deeper?

You care deeply about your clients.
But sometimes, that care starts to feel heavy.

Traditional methods often keep us focused on analyzing or managing the problem. But lasting change doesn’t just happen through more insight—it happens when clients feel safe enough to connect with their inner experience in real time.

That’s the foundation of Connection-Based Tools.

It’s not another theory. It’s a living practice that helps clients:

  • Drop the story and meet the emotion underneath it

  • Trust what they feel, instead of trying to fix it

  • Reconnect with their innate sense of value and worth

And it helps you stay grounded, human, and clear—without carrying their pain home.

Because therapy isn’t about doing more for your clients; it’s about being more connected with them in the moment change actually happens.

Connection-Based Tools:
A New Way to Create Real Change

You already know how to hold space.
The issue isn’t your competence or compassion — it’s the old model most of us were trained in. 
Insight alone doesn’t transform emotion or behavior. Connection does.

When clients feel truly seen and safe, their nervous system shifts from defense to openness.

In that moment, change happens — not through analysis, but through presence.

What Connection-Based Tools Make Possible

Connection-Based Tools is a practical, experiential approach that helps you:

  • Facilitate real-time emotional attunement instead of staying in analysis.
  • Guide clients past repetitive stories into direct inner experience
  • Create sessions that feel alive, not mechanical or draining.
  • Stay centered, grounded, and fully yourself — even in intense emotional terrain.

 You’ll learn the Three Doors Process, a simple but profound framework that helps both you and your client move beyond reactivity into calm presence and authentic connection.

This isn’t about “holding it together” — it’s about being together, so transformation happens in the moment, not in theory.

- After the Workshop -

Here’s What Connection
Looks Like in the Room

  • You walk into sessions lighter, centered, and fully yourself.
    Your clients sense that safety — and they meet you from their own center, not their story.
    You both stop managing and start connecting.
  • Boundaries feel natural, not forced.
    You don’t need to “perform” professionalism — you model presence.
    Moments that once felt tense now become turning points of genuine transformation. 

-  This is the shift -

Connection-Based Tools creates

  • Sessions move past looping stories into direct emotional contact

  • Clients experience progress in the moment — not in the future

  • You feel free to be both human and professional, grounded and open

  • You leave sessions with energy left for your own life

Connection-Based Tools helps you remember what drew you to this work in the first place — the joy of authentic connection and the quiet fulfillment of seeing someone reclaim their own wholeness. 

 If this vision resonates,join us for Avive la Vie’s

2-Hour Live Experiential Workshop!

It’s a small-group experience designed to help you feel the difference Connection-Based Tools make — in your body, your sessions, and your life.

Get Book + Connection-Based Tools Webinar – $39

In This Live Experiential Workshop, You’ll Learn How To:

  • Facilitate deep emotional attunement — guiding clients from overthinking into genuine self-connection.

  • Interrupt looping stories by helping clients access the emotion beneath the narrative.

  • Model calm presence that restores safety and trust, even in moments of high activation.

  • Apply the Three Doors Process to help clients move from reactivity → awareness → inner worth.

  • Use inquiry rooted in connection (not analysis) so insights arise naturally from shared presence.

  • Set kind, clear boundaries that actually increase trust and connection instead of creating distanc

  • Recenter between sessions in under two minutes — leaving your nervous system calm, clear, and reset.

These aren’t abstract ideas. You’ll experience the shift in real time — how small connection-based moves can create profound breakthroughs while helping you feel lighter and more energized.

What you get with this Webinar

(Built for Real-Life Practice)

Live Experiential Learning
Not Another Lecture
 

You’ll practice Connection-Based Tools in real time through guided exercises and live demonstrations.

The Three Doors Framework
 

A practical, easy-to-use process to guide clients from reaction into calm connection and self-worth.

Quick-Sheets & In-Room Scripts
 

Clear, concise language prompts to help you bring connection into any modality — from trauma work to coaching.

Everything is designed to fit seamlessly into your current work — so you can feel the benefits of Connection-Based Tools right away, without adding more to your plate. 

Get Book + Connection-Based Tools Webinar– $39

Why This Workshop & Approach — and Why Now?

 

Therapists are trained to stay objective, steady, and professional — but not always how to stay connected while doing it. That’s what the Connection-Based Tools Workshop restores.

Most professional trainings cost hundreds of dollars and deliver theory without transformation.
You walk away with new ideas, but not a new way of being in the room.

This is different.

You’ll experience, in real time, what happens when you lead from connection instead of fixing — and you’ll feel how that changes both you and your clients.

Your investment: $39 (the price of the book).

You’ll receive the workshop and the book that anchors it, so the seminar is essentially free.

Most training delivers theory. This one changes how you feel and work in the room.

Clients are anxious, isolated, and disconnected. Therapists are carrying more than ever.
This workshop is designed to give you a moment of belonging, renewal, and genuine professional growth—all in one place.

 Here’s why it’s worth your time:

  • You’ll experience immediate relief and reconnection during the workshop.

  • You’ll gain tools you can use in your very next session — regardless of your modality or experience level.

  • You’ll practice in a small, supportive group, guided by the team that developed this method.

  • You’ll remember why you love this work — and how to do it without burnout or over-responsibility.

Avive la Vie Workshop Ready to Experience the Power of Connection-Based Tools?

Join us for a 2-hour experiential workshop designed especially for therapists, counselors, and coaches who want sessions that feel lighter, deeper, and more effective.

This isn’t another lecture — it’s an experience of connection that you’ll feel in your body and carry into your next session

Here's What You Get When You Register:

  • A reserved seat for the 2-hour experiential training 
  • Avive la Vie - An Adventure in Belong Paperback 
  • The Three Doors framework 
  • Quick-sheets and in-session scripts to use immediately

You’ll leave with tools and an inner clarity that shift how you work — and how you feel — in every session

“It was truly a pleasure to be part of your Avive la Vie therapist support group. I appreciated how JF modeled reaching deep emotions and making connections. I have given 7 Avive la Vie books to various clients and initiated connection-based work through the individuals featured in the book. I would highly recommend clinicians to work with JF in a support group, as it has enhanced my work supporting my clients.” 

— Emi Jean Sakamoto Sanderson
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC

Therapists Recognize “Avive la Vie” as a Transformative Book for Healing and Connection

“Lessons were profound and easily utilized and explained for myself as well as for clients. I loved how Benoist explained the concepts he wanted to convey by storytelling and through the people's stories.”

 — Brian Imperial, Licensed Therapist

“JF does a fantastic job at bringing the characters to life so I really felt like I knew each of them like a personal friend. It also teaches valuable life truths. It takes you on a relatable journey to ponder more about life and the different ways we all seek to be loved and accepted as humans. 5 stars all the way..”

— Jillian Foster, LCSW, LCAS

​​“As a therapist, I loved how simply and engagingly JF talks about the false stories we tell ourselves about the things we need to do to earn love and belonging. The stories are so relatable, and the integration of both resonating examples and what you can actually do about it are very helpful! I would recommend this to anyone who struggles to feel enough and helpful on how to move forward.”

— Tyana Tavakol, Licensed Therapist

A Clear, Simple Commitment

Enroll in a small, live training designed for therapists and coaches who want lighter, more effective sessions starting now.

What you get when you register today:

  • 2-hour live experiential webinar 
  • Quick-sheets + scripts for in-room language
  • The Three Doors framework
Get the Webinar + Book for $39

More Than a Webinar - A Lived Experience

What You’ll Experience


Join us live to experience Connection-Based Tools in real time. If you don’t leave with at least one tool or shift you can use in your very next session, there’s no obligation of any kind.

This isn’t another CE lecture you’ll forget by Monday. It’s a space to reconnect with why you began this work — designed for you to feel supported, centered, and seen.

A Lighter Way to Help

The Weight You’ve Been Carrying

  • You became a therapist to help people feel whole — not to carry their pain as your own.
    But somewhere along the way, the work began to feel heavier than it should.
  • You still love what you do,
    but you can sense there’s a deeper, more connected way to practice.
  • That’s exactly what this training is built for.
  • You don’t need to carry more to care more.
    With Connection-Based Tools, you’ll facilitate change in the room — and leave centered.

A Choice Point

  • You can keep holding it all — the looping stories, the fatigue, the quiet question, “Is this just how it is?”

  • Or you can choose something different.

  • Choose to practice therapy where connection replaces fixing.

  • Where sessions move from managing pain to revealing resilience.

  • Where you feel centered, alive, and genuinely connected — to your clients, your purpose, and yourself.

  Join us for

the Avive la Vie 2-Hour Live Experiential Webinar

and experience Connection-Based Tools firsthand.

You’ll receive:

  • Live, small-group practice (no slides, just connection) 
  • Downloadable scripts & quick-sheets for in-session use 
  • The Three Doors framework 
  • A safe, supportive learning space (capped at 30)

If you’ve been carrying too much for too long, this is your moment to experience the relief and renewal that comes from connection.

Reserve your spot — and rediscover what healing feels like when you don’t have to do it alone.

Get Book + Connection-Based Tools Webinar– $39