The Edge of the Next
August 9-12th, 2025 at Good Medicine in Portland, Maine
Emergence, communion & family constellations.
Join us -- Suzi Tucker and Sage Hayes -- in the beautiful, wild, and soulful environs of coastal Maine, where we will join forces to teach the things we love in surroundings that naturally support and expand those things.
Some of the words we are guided by – emergence, communion, constellation – the experiences we embrace on both sides of “next.” Of course, we are always at the edge of “next,” but in this moment, the edge is especially sharp.
Emergence is an orientation, a readiness and openness to what is not already known. Emergence depends on “curiosity” as its guide – about ourselves and about one another. Habituated thinking keeps us within a cocoon of self-reference. When we are ready for something new to happen, learning to look for and follow emergent cues can show us the way. Emergence is an invitation out.
Communion represents the weave of all that we bring, all that we are, all that we fear, and all that we discover together. An organic exchange that finds its own rhythm. The sum greater than the whole, we build connectivity, care and emergent practice with each other and with the sea, sky and trees around us.
Constellation is a lens accompanied by a process. Constellation is not one thing - it provides shared access to the heavy images that, once lifted from the body-mind, can be walked around and even walked away from. When the pain we carry, perhaps have carried forever, is given a place, it may not have to take every place. We witness this in the individual and in the generational body.
We gather in Portland for three full days and one evening at the Good Medicine Collective, which is set on a peninsula extending into Casco Bay. Portland is a multilayered city of diverse contributions – an urban landscape set inside a stunning natural one.
Our hope is that you will be nourished, inspired, bedazzled, deeply connected to self, each other and nature. More than ever, creating collective coherence can be an essential balm in uncertain times. Our invitation is to locate ourselves and each other with care and curiosity.
Dates & schedule
August 9th, 6-8pm, Welcome potluck at Good Medicine for all attendees
August 10-12th at Good Medicine, daily 930am-1230pm, 2pm-5pm
Cost and registration:
In the spirit of access, cost for workshop is offered at a sliding scale. To discover where your price access point is on the sliding scale, please take the time to refer to this amazing resource by Alexis Cunningfolk, The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice. Cost includes workshop and snacks.
Workshop cost:
You can pay in full with links above or make a $150 deposit to save your spot. Balance will be due by August 1. Deposit - RESERVE SPOT HERE for $150
Payment plans available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com.
BIOS:
Suzi Tucker
SUZI TUCKER
As a cofounder of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Publishers, Suzi played a pivotal role in introducing Family Constellations to the United States. Her position as the Acquisitions Editor not only led her to become friends with Bert Hellinger, the pioneer of the approach, but also to collaborate with him on most of his English titles and to organize many of his workshops in the United States.
Suzi is a presenter, teacher, facilitator, and writer. In addition to her own venues, she has been privileged to serve on guest faculties for Omega Institute, The Open Center, NYU, Union College, Manhattan College, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, among others.
An essayist and contributor to numerous publications in the fields of psychology and well-being, Suzi is the author of Gather Enough Fireflies. Most important, Suzi is immensely proud to be called “teacher” by some of the most brilliant lights in the Family Constellation field today.
Oh, and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with Sage Hayes!
Sage Hayes
SAGE HAYES
Sage (she/he/they) brings a heart forward and grounded approach co-creating exploratory spaces like Into the Blue. Moving at the speed of trust and deep knowing is at the core of how Sage relates to collaboration, care and community building. Having trained extensively in healing and somatics for 25 years, Sage brings a keen eye and capacity to embodied process, leadership and nervous system intelligence.
Sage is a devoted healing arts practitioner who believes wholeheartedly in individual and collective transformation. Exploring lineage, embodied presence and emergent relational care are the threads braided together in Sage’s work. Sage is a somatic experiencing practitioner of 17 years, a bodyworker with a massage and biodynamic craniosacral therapy background and a student and practitioner of family/systemic constellations. You can read more about Sage’s background here. Sage is over the moon to be collaborating with colleague, teacher and friend Suzi Tucker.