You School: Transformative Tools for Self-Leadership
A 9-Month Curriculum in Knowing Yourself More Deeply
Hosted by Odessa Healing Center and Galia Collaborative
You've built a life, but have you truly met yourself?
Many of us arrive at a season where the roles, responsibilities, and rhythms we’ve carried for years begin to feel… less defining. We look around at careers we’ve grown, families we love, the homes or communities we’ve built, and still sense something unsettled, something unnamed.
Questions pull at us:
Who am I underneath everything I've learned to manage?
What actually guides me from the inside?
How does my inner world really work?
You School is an invitation to pause, turn toward yourself with curiosity, and become a devoted student of your own inner world in a way that’s evidence-informed, fluff-free, and aligned with your own pace and values.
This program is designed especially for women who are thoughtful, growth-oriented, and may be used to navigating life through their minds — yet are increasingly aware that insight alone isn’t enough.
You School is a place for the overthinkers and high-capacity humans who sense something deeper calling but don’t quite know how to access it.
Why You School?
Self-awareness is valuable. But it isn't the same thing as self-attunement.
You can understand why you react the way you do and still find yourself reacting. You can know your patterns and still get pulled into them. You can have years of therapy, reflection, reading, or personal growth behind you and still lose contact with yourself when you're overwhelmed, activated, uncertain, or trying to take care of everyone else.
You School is about closing some of that distance between what you know and how you live.
The traditions that inform this work—psychology, contemplative practices, neuroscience, and wisdom teachings—share a core belief:
As we expand our capacity to be with ourselves, we expand our capacity to be with the world, to meet it as it is,
This program helps you cultivate that grounded inner core. Not through force or through perfection. But through steady, supported practice.
This Program Is for You If…
- You’re in a life transition and feel unsure who you are becoming.
- You sense a change you want to make (or a pattern you want to break), but you feel stuck in loops.
- You intellectually understand things about yourself but can’t seem to shift them.
- You’re a leader at work or home and you know your own grounding matters.
- You want practices that help you feel more in your body without requiring you to become a different kind of person.
- You’ve noticed familiar dynamics repeating—in relationships, work, communication—and you want a new way in.
- You’ve been doing work on your own but feel like something is missing or plateauing.
FROM INSIDE YOU SCHOOL
This program weaves together the tools and practices that have shaped years of practice with individuals and organizations.
You’ll learn and experiment with concepts drawn from:
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Attachment Theory
- Mindful Self-Compassion
- Pema Chödrön Meditation
- Neuroscience of attention, identity, and consciousness
- Narrative reshaping and the psychology of meaning-making
While this isn’t therapy, you can experience these practices as unlocking and clarifying.
Testimonials
You School has been a transformational experience for me. I signed up looking to gain further insight into myself, and gained so much more. Each session brought my learning and awareness of myself to a deeper level that was made more meaningful by shared experiences and reflections from fellow group members. Ashley is a wonderful teacher who has a gentle way of making you feel seen, heard, and valued in your most vulnerable moments. I am deeply grateful for my You School experience and the group members I shared it with.
-2026 You School Participant
You School came at the perfect time for me. I had been feeling a call to step out of my comfort zone and explore and grow myself as I approached the next chapter of my life: the empty nest. I am so glad I went on instinct and signed up for this experience. I have felt welcomed and at home from the first session. Ashley and Galia created a safe and comforting space to explore new ideas and ways of meeting myself and learning more about myself. The intentional decision to keep the groups small truly fosters a sense of intimacy and belonging. It has been such a joy to sit with women from different ages and stages of life who were also asking themselves the same questions I was and to hear and benefit from their perspectives.
-2026 You School Participant
I highly recommend this program: it has fostered growth on multiple levels. Ashley presents the concepts / materials and tools in very instructive and contextual ways with ample opportunity for gaining clarity. The space is grounding and allows one’s curiosity of self to be held gently. The group setting and monthly pace are conducive to personal unfurling and discovery both by real connection with others and time between sessions to process and delve more deeply.
-2026 You School Participant
Next Cohort Starting Fall 2026
Nine Months. Nine Gatherings. One steady discovery of yourself.
All sessions will be from 6:00p - 8:15p EST in person at Galia.
2245 Gilbert Avenue, Suite 200 | Cincinnati, OH 45206
- November 12, 2026
- December 10, 2026
- January 14, 2027
- February 11, 2027
- March 11, 2027
- April 8, 2027
- May 13, 2027
- June 10, 2027
- July 8, 2027
Why Nine Months?
Growth takes time.
Identity takes time.
And community takes time.
Nine months gives you space to learn, practice, forget, return, integrate, and build something sustainable.
This pacing can allow this work to take root.
Program Investment
Equity Pricing: $90/session // If you struggle to maintain access to your other needs and would traditionally qualify for sliding scale services, please select this option. If you are interested in participating and this price is out of reach, please contact us, and we will do our best to help you access our services.
2.25-hour gatherings each month for nine months
Participants commit to the full series to ensure continuity and support the group container.
JoIn the waitlist
The next cohort starting November 2026 is full, but please join the waitlist and we will notify you if a spot opens up. If you’re craving structure, reflection, connection, and the chance to understand your own mind in a deeper way, this is for you.