Pearl Collectors - Psychological Workshops for Women

Pearl Collectors - Psychological Workshops for Women

Kraków, starting 10.04.2026. A cycle of 3 workshops.

In the busy demands of everyday life it is easy to forget yourself, lose contact with what matters to you, what needs care and attention. We miss recognising our needs, emotions, sensations and inner experiences, and along with them the awareness of who we really are, what defines and builds us, and what does not serve us.

We invite you to a series of workshops during which we will make room for all these elements, including those that until now for various reasons stayed quietly hidden, so that we can integrate them, verify them, perhaps reorganise them. We will put into words what was previously unspoken, learn to listen and — which can sometimes be difficult or entirely new — we will experience being attentively heard. We will help others hear and see themselves, we will use the knowledge and understanding of the group (and mine as well) to reach ourselves. In other words, we will reflect on each other to discover pearls within us that have until now been unnoticed, forgotten or unnamed.

A cycle of 3 workshop meetings in which:

• we will focus on getting to know ourselves and others, recognising our own states, feelings and experiences
• we will get in touch with our unconscious (Z. Freud)
• we will examine social conditions, influences of patriarchal culture and family transmissions, archetypes (Animus, Anima, Shadow according to C. G. Jung)
• we will experience ourselves in the group, learn to take and give, establish supportive and non-judgmental relationships, also with ourselves
• we will take care of ourselves in the here and now using relaxation techniques

For such work to be possible, we will meet in an intimate group. We will work at an unhurried pace, without coercion, maintaining safe boundaries and caring for mutual kindness and support. The group is closed — no new people will join during subsequent meetings — which creates appropriate conditions for deeper reflection in growing trust and a sense of safety. You may join the group with a close person as well.

Facilitator: Elżbieta Brodnicka, psychologist and psychotherapist. She has many years of professional experience gained, among others, in health centres, foundations, associations, the army and courts. She has conducted hundreds of trainings and workshops, including development workshops dedicated to women. She currently runs an individual psychotherapeutic practice in Kraków. Author of the blog with therapeutic stories 'Znaczenia Cienia'.

Please register with care. Think well about your decision, because we need participants who will be truly present for themselves. The workshop is developmental in nature, not therapeutic.

ORGANISATIONAL:

• Term: Fridays 10.04, 24.04, 8.05.2026
• Hours: 18:00-21:00
• Place: workshop room at ul. Biała Droga 4/6, Kraków-Dębniki
• Cost: 690 PLN (whole cycle)
• Sign-ups (only for the whole cycle)
• There is a limit on places. The organizer reserves the right to change the date or cancel the workshop if the group does not form.

Organisational matters: contact@jalla.pl, katarzyna@jalla.pl
Consultation with the facilitator: Elżbieta 501 746 870

Welcome: Elżbieta and Jalla!