SeekHealing

My experience with SeekHealing is through the people in my life who have benefited from their direct connections. My partner is heavily involved in the organization. Focusing on creating authentic connections greatly influences the person he is in a positive way. His involvement gives him a sense of purpose and adds meaning to his life. I have other friends who have been involved with the organization and used the resources provided. The way they speak about the organization and its impact on their lives brings a sense of hope for the disconnected world we live in. I have recommended SeekHealing to many people who are starting their path to recover from trauma and substance abuse. I feel that the approach is an excellent supplement to traditional forms of recovery services.

Seek Healing is a wonderful organization that does a lot important work to help those who struggle to connect and the ways that can impact their lives. This is such a necessity in my opinion, and I love supporting this endeavor!

This non profit is not only helping heal the world but organizationally changing the ideas of what a work place should be. I have witnessed people who benefit from SeekHealing's services safely leave abusive relationships, heal from mental health issues, stay in recovery, feel deeply connected and supported in life's challenges. This organization provides the people who participate as an employee, volunteer, or receiver as services a huge purpose greater than ourselves. We understand that individual health is social health. Lives are being changed every day. As an employee, they set the standards of work environment that is caring, empathetic, compassionate, and engaging. The love and care for the human experience is a core value of this organization. Coming from a corporate background I felt liberated working for SeekHealing because they live what they preach and prioritize the human experience over productivity. Because of that I want to be productive and help grow this organization vs feeling resentful and obligated. I get to work from a place of freedom with in this supportive environment and see how the work we collectively do deeply impacts lives including my own healing.

Really content giving money to this organization, knowing its use is actually saving lives. I have attended their programming (Listening Traininig), met with staff members including the Executive Director, and attended donor/fundraising meetings which gave insight into the organizations vision and the opportunity to direct my pledge toward specific programming.

SeekHealing is great!

No stars. The olive branch seen below is fake af. I’ve never met a faker group of people. These people make living off suffering of those who trusted their program. Some of us actually came to program for good intentions. The executive director intentions is a career of silent treatment and not providing connection.

Lauren the Vice President called me a rapist and she hasn’t met me. Things like that. Hurtful terrible things like that everywhere in seekhealing as well as fraud.

You guys ruined Curt’s life. Horrible organization and horrible people. Zero stars

seekhealing ruined my life. They are ted talk cult affiliated people who are more obsessed with networking opportunities than connection. It’s all a big show for them. Incredibly authoritative organization who will try to censor and silence your voice in protest. The executive director should resign she’s personally responsible for this yet has no accountability yet unbelievably teaches accountability courses. Can’t make this kinda stuff up. The organization as a whole is bizarre. No stars. Seekhealing stole 333 dollars from me in 2019 never listed my loved ones name and provided me with relentless bullying. Money was never refunded by the organization. Really strange experience overall it was horrible. Please be safe in choosing who you recover with

SeekHealing is doing the incredibly hard and necessary work to build community and equip people to provide care for each other, especially those who have experienced significant trauma. It's hard to imagine a more important cause to support given the loneliness epidemic and increasing suicide rates. I've had the great fortune of meeting many people who have benefited from these programs and hearing their stories first-hand.

3 stars but it’s really none tired of spam flags I will have a voice. I had a really bad cult like experience with seekhealing. I’ve never met a more unaccountable strange group of people who can’t seem to think for themselves. I experienced sexual abuse, bullying, horrific name calling…idk what I did. All I did was show up to potluck with sugar cookies. I’m upset that only conflicts of interest leave positive reviews..for example staff or Jen’s personal friends. Recovery is serious please be safe in choose who you recover with

SeekHealing's programming is phenomenal and unlike anything I've encountered. They strive for a balanced mix of authenticity and compassion - being yourself with accountability to your perspective and needs and awareness of your impact on others. My relationships with myself and those in my life have dramatically improved since practicing my skills with SeekHealing.
I began my learning journey with SeekHealing's free-to-the-public Listening Training in January 2020. Since then, I have continued to be impressed by the evolution of programming and its impact on individuals and communities. In 2022, I took SeekHealing's Social Health Facilitation Training (SHFT), diving more deeply into how I hold safer and compassionate spaces with my facilitation practice - professionally and as a volunteer with SeekHealing.
As a board member since the end of 2020, I feel grateful and humbled to be contributing both my money and my time to the social health movement by way of SeekHealing. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to increase their understanding of self or their meaningful social impact to do the same.

Seekhealing is a echo chamber. They dishonored my loved ones life. August 2019 I donated 333 dollars…they never listed samuels name. I was shamed publicly for subutex use by Jen’s conflict of interest boyfriend. I shared vulnerabilities and then those vulnerabilities became the target of my pair and his bullying. Jennifer and her team of networking junkies royally failed me. All in all…let down. Forgot to mention I was sexually assaulted by Daniel the sound healer in sound healing session. If you want to learn how not to be accountable join seekhealing.

I often have expectations of what I want to get out of something like SH, and to my delightful surprise, I have gotten so much more than what I expected. When I put my focus on connection with others and being there for them, and them for me...that's the magic.... that's the medicine!

I've had a truly wonderful experience with SeekHealing. SH helps people connect with each other to heal trauma and remove the loneliness at the root of addiction. I have been totally blown away by this approach, as it has helped me and allowed me to serve others without any shaming or problematizing of me or others. The community has been a source of great kindness and meaning in my otherwise difficult life. I love the ideas and the people involved in SeekHealing and I hope the work continues.

SeekHealing is an organization that truly walks the walk and puts almost all of their donations and grant funding right back into the programs and therefore the communities that they serve. My own involvement has changed my way of relating- to self and others and it is transforming my relationships from the inside out. Listening Training I and II, are so vitally needed by individuals, families, businesses and communities- in order to move from the disconnected place we live to the more beautiful, connected world we all know is possible.
Bravo to SeekHealing and the team who are passionately working to help us get there!
Annie M

I feel fulfilled when volunteering for Seekhealing. There is such a variety in volunteer positions that whatever you enjoy doing there is almost always a place for. And for whatever you need there is someone willing to serve you right back.

I have volunteered in numerous ways, though my favorite so far was volunteering for the Herbal first aid assembly days. I got to be in community while being creative and serving those that needed support detoxing and those with anxiety.

I love what this organization is doing for the world and I love that I get to witness first hand the impact it has on people.

I am so grateful for this organization and the opportunity to connect with others on a meaningful level at the myriad events it offers. I have been personally enriched by it and volunteer to ensure that it remains in our community here in Asheville and surrounding areas. Volunteering is a way for me to show my enormous gratitude for its existence. I continue to learn and gain so much from my participation.

I feel this non profit is providing an incredible service to the world. Through volunteering I have seen so many people's lives touched, served, and changed by the support that SeekHealing offers. The organization teaches essential listening, communication, and emotional intelligence skills that very few of us sadly have ever learned before. And the safe spaces that SeekHealing provides for people to practice these skills, and feel really seen, heard, and allowed to be exactly who they are no matter what they are going through is a medicine that is so dearly needed in our world. I'm very grateful for all the organization does.

I joined SeekHealing at a time when Asheville was still slowly opening up after the pandemic lockdown. I was feeling a lot of social isolation and disoriented in regards to (re)connecting again with folks around me in a new city.
SeekHealing quickly became a place where I would be able to start fostering some really unique relationships, given SH's emphasis on authentic connection. With time, I have begun to understand the importance that being active in one's community is and how important it is to keep our relationships afloat and healthy.
Seek has been a place where I've developed my listening skills and have found an avenue to engage in community service in a meaningul way.

SeekHealing has been a great resource for the local Asheville community and since 2020 the larger global community.
Their approach of providing ample resources that are easily accessible is life-saving.

SeekHealing has changed my life in every way. I went from codependent, depressed, and chronically lonely, to thriving in a community of amazing people that make me feel safe, supported, and like I belong to something that really matters. I have seen SeekHealing meetings and trainings transform people for the better in a matter of hours. If every town and city had SeekHealing, the overdose and suicide crisis would be over in a matter of months. I'm honored and inspired to be a part of this amazing community!

SeekHealing is pioneering a groundbreaking approach to the mental health epidemic. They give people training and opportunities for connecting with other humans in an authentic and safe way. When I went through the Listening Training course, I immediately saw big improvements in the quality of my relationships with my family, friends, and colleagues. I now volunteer with the group to help hold space for the many Connection Practices and Listening Trainings that Seek offers. It is such a valuable service.

I am thankful for Seekhealing, as it has given me a safe space to go to where I can feel accepted in my authenticity and understood. Thank you!

This nonprofit and its programs are transformational, life-changing, and so so healing. This is what humans are meant to be about. Living from the heart and sharing with one another in this way.

The work SeekHealing does in my community changed my life and changed my whole perspective on addiction. They've helped me grow in my ability to communicate with others. I simultaneously feel held and like in have the strength to uplift others who are struggling. I especially love the art connection nights.. Thanks SeekHealing!

When I first heard about SeekHealing I was newly sober, in a completely new city, trying to learn how to live life without drugs and alcohol after spending 13 years abusing them. Although it was definitely a tall task, I was blessed to run into Jennifer at a local community meeting. Desperately seeking connection, I was signed up and apart of the seek healing family. I began making myself get vulnerable and putting myself out there at all kinds of seek healing events. Slowly I started to realize I wasn’t alone with my issues and I found connection to others in similar situations as me and I found the benefit of getting real with people. This was 3 years ago now and for the first time in many, many years I am 3 years sober and clean of all substances. If it wasn’t for Seek Healing and Jennifer lending out a hand in early recovery I don’t know if I would be to say that I would be sober today. I am forever grateful and will always speak highly of this program!

When I first encountered SeekHealing, I understood it and the world it operated in like I imagine most people would: there are people who use drugs and there are people like me who don't; those people need help and I'm a person who can charitably help. This lens I had divided the world into people like me, and people like them.

What I never imagined is that through working with SeekHealing, I'd have that lens shattered. There is no me and them; there's only us.

We're all humans growing from trauma, as life is by nature traumatic. We're all realizing we came into adulthood with strategies and tools that helped us get through childhood but hold us back as adults. Some people have more devastating and pervasive trauma in their life than others. Some people bond with substances to get them through - whether that's a couple glasses of wine at the end of the day or IV whether that's IV heroin. But the differences are but in degree, and all else is a story people like me tell ourselves to make us feel better about our own traumas - "At least I'm not them."

SeekHealing has helped me grow through my own past, limitations, and traumas - in vulnerable and respectful partnership with everyone else in the Seek community. It's the most revolutionary, compassionate, and empowering community I've ever encountered, and it's changed my life forever in ways I never could have imagined.

I thought I was going into SeekHealing to give to people in need. In truth, the people I've helped have also helped me. I've been given so much from everybody at SeekHealing that I couldn't possibly give back enough. I'm a person with something to give but I'm a person in need too. We all are, and so we all have a place at SeekHealing to grow, heal, and thrive.

My life has been changed by the practices taught by SeekHealing that are genuinely lived in the community. Deeply listening to myself and others with such practical and applicable tools that is also life changing and relationship changing. It has changed the way I relate with myself, my family, the way I work, the way I look at other humans. The connection practices continually evolve me into who I am, who I am becoming and how I show up in the world.

I first found SeekHealing through Jennifer and our mutual love of Authentic Relating. Once I learned about Seek's methods and mission, I was sold big-time! I've been involved with Seek for a over a year and a half now and I have never been so smitten with an organization and the movement it represents. Everyone I've met with Seek genuinely puts kindness and connection at the center of personal and planetary healing. And I can't count how many times I've heard that Seek has saved someone's life, or at least changed it for the better. It has certainly changed mine! I'm excited to see how this revolution in mental wellness will spread and create a sea-change in the way recovery and social wellness is done in our country and in the world!

I stumbled upon Seek Healing by happenstance one fateful day a couple years ago and I had no idea what I had found. Although I didn’t have any addictions, I did have depression. I Began by going to the social gatherings as a method of learning more about how I relate to others. It was during a weekend long Listening Training that I found the missing piece to my life: Authentic Connection Practice- a practice that comes from a non-judgement, guilt/shame-free perspective that allows individuals to talk about ANYTHING in a safe container without the fear of it all. I have now been a member for 2 years and I can’t thank Seek Healing enough for the bountiful happiness and secured grounded feeling I rejoice in. They are a flagship of transformative recovery!

Calling SeekHealing a nonprofit or a charity prevents one from knowing the joy, the movement, the revolution that is SeekHealing. As we all struggle to connect with each other, both prior to the pandemic but especially highlighted during the pandemic, Jennifer Nicolaisen's vision grows. Her implementation of using connection to battle what we call "addiction," i.e. struggles with unhelpful behaviours in our attempts to self-placate, becomes a vital port, an oasis, in this storm of isolation and disconnection.

The culture of care and compassion is not limited to a mantra or a mission statement. The leadership team at SeekHealing mean what they say, say what they mean, and live their lives authentically and open-heartedly. They promote accountability but not at the cost of autonomy. They promote encouragement and growth, even if might be uncomfortable and awkward at first. As a non-profit, I was thrilled to see the number of free programs they extend into the community, never placing volunteers or participants in obligatory positions. As a woman of colour with a disability, I felt at home along every axis, and that's a statement I don't make all too often.

They're an organisation worth interacting with on all levels: as a volunteer, as a participant, as a donor, and as a curious member of the public. You can't walk away from SeekHealing without wondering: how is each of us managing to survive under this paucity of connection?

I attend several connection practices. I am encouraged to come as I am, meaning if I am angry, lonely, heartbroken, gitty or any other emotion I am welcomed. I have never felt judged or pitied. Instead I feel as though everyone there has compassion for me in my struggles and celebrates my victories. I continually discover new things about myself by the curious questions the other Seekers ask. Seek Healing is a place where I can let my guard down, be totally raw and vulnerable and feel safe at the same time. They know more about me than anyone else ever has because I feel safe doing so.

SeekHealing came into my life when I desperately needed connection and a sense of family.

I previously was working a residential recovery job working towards my CSAC and through my own selfish actions, got terminated and lost everything. I lived there for three years and it was my recovery. It was my residence, my recovery family, and my employment. They gave me 24 hours to leave the property with no offer of help or any support. I was a heroin user that came through that program, dedicated my future to helping that program and people in recovery. I gave a lot of my heart and feel good about what i accomplished there but received nothing but criticism and judgement from one mistake. Three years of hard work completely wiped by one action. I never felt more alone or shamed. I was just a number to them, another addict that made them money.

So I had to push forward no matter how hard it was for me. I faced two options, try to connect again or eventually go back to using with the intent of leaving this world. Seek Healing was a perfect fit. It emphasized just connection with no judgement. I knew this was the key to my recovery from my work in the field, my actual experience. It also gave me better tools to actually connect with people in an authentic way through Listening Training. There were no shame based behavior modification practices, no requirements to be "clean and sober", no adding up "clean time" to form a sense of hierarchy. It was perfect! Everything I needed to be a better human without all the bullshit.

I have been involved with SeekHealing ever since and couldn't imagine my life without it now. I've never felt more supported, more connected, and more importantly - NOT JUDGED.
It truly SAVED my life as a former heroin IV user and I am forever grateful.

This is the best organization in the world, made up by the best people in the world, all coming together to serve the best purpose in the world. I believe this with all my heart and will gladly stand up to say it.

Greetings, my name is Cameron Payne. I came into Seek Healing; as a "Seeker", looking to heal a life of traumas, co-dependency, addictions and self-sabotaging ways. I was greeted with love and acceptance. I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 5. I was a hyper-sensitive person, unable to properly process my emotions. I was greeted with compassion and empathy. I was greeted with connection. I was educated in various practices to learn to connect with myself and others in a compassionate, empathetic, non-hierarchical, unconditional loving way. I was fostered and cared for. I was supported and given direction and purpose. I shown the worth and value that I had within myself and others. I was given the gift of connection. I learned tools of "listening" to connect with others in a authentic and vulnerable way without judgement. I was made to feel safe and seen and heard. Thanks to Seek Healing and all the other fellow "Seekers", I was given direction and purpose to help others along with their healing journeys. I now am giving to what was so freely given to me. I am eternally grateful to Seek Healing! This healing modality is truly a gift that I wish will spread around the country and around the world.I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to express my healing journey and to support Seek Healing!

My personal experience with Seek Healing is deep healing and opportunity to advance myself and my life in the direction I wish to go. I also witness great healing in others, in some cases, I hear personal stories of lives being saved.