SETTING
Healthy Boundaries
A Live, Online Workshop on the Science of Protecting Your Time, Energy, and Emotional Well-Being — Without Guilt
Early-Bird discount ends September 3rd.
Saturday, September 19, 2026
9am-2pm PT
(Check your local time here)
Underneath most guilt about boundaries is an old, mistaken belief that other people’s comfort is your job — and the path out is not more willpower, but a nervous system that has learned, again and again in small ways, that it is safe to take care of yourself.
This workshop will help you:
Say No Without Guilt
Learn how to set clear limits without feeling selfish, anxious, or consumed by worries about disappointing someone.
Care Without Carrying
Stay compassionate and supportive without absorbing other people’s emotions or feeling responsible for fixing their problems.
Protect Your Time & Energy
Recognize where you’re overgiving, over-functioning, or taking on too much — and start making conscious choices about where your energy goes.
Stay Strong Through Pushback
Learn to remain grounded when someone is disappointed, frustrated, or angry about a boundary you’ve set.
Handle Difficult Relationships
Stay steady around strong personalities, family dynamics, workplace challenges, and people who have a hard time respecting your limits.
Build Relationships With Less Resentment
Create clearer expectations and more sustainable relationships by balancing compassion for others with respect for yourself.
Early-Bird discount ends September 3rd.
From Overgiving to Healthy, Sustainable Boundaries
For many of us, boundaries activate deeply learned fears about approval, rejection, conflict, and connection. So even when a boundary is completely reasonable, something inside us can still insist that we’re being selfish, the other person will be upset, and that we should just do it, because it’s our job to make things better for other people.
This workshop will help you understand where these reactions come from — and gradually build a different way of responding. Here’s what that could look like:
FROM: Saying yes when you really want to say no
You agree to things you don’t have the time or energy for because saying no feels uncomfortable, selfish, or unkind. You avoid disappointing others — and wind up exhausting yourself instead.
TO: Setting clear limits with warmth and confidence
You learn how to give a kind but firm “no,” tolerate the temporary discomfort that can come with setting a boundary, and protect your own needs without shutting other people out.
FROM: Feeling responsible for other people’s feelings
When someone is upset, struggling, disappointed, or angry, you immediately feel like you need to make it better. Their emotional state quickly becomes your responsibility.
TO: Caring deeply without carrying everything
You learn to distinguish empathy from emotional absorption — staying compassionate and present while allowing other people to have their own feelings and experiences.
FROM: Giving until you’re depleted
You keep helping, fixing, accommodating, and taking care of things — sometimes long after you’ve run out of energy. Over time, generosity turns into exhaustion, resentment, or compassion fatigue.
TO: Protecting your energy before you’re running on empty
You become more aware of your limits around time, attention, responsibility, and emotional energy — and learn to act on them before you’re burned out.
FROM: Collapsing when someone pushes back
You finally set a boundary — but then someone gets angry, disappointed, or hurt. Suddenly you’re explaining, apologizing, negotiating, or taking the boundary back altogether.
TO: Staying steady even when someone doesn’t like your limit
You learn to stay grounded through another person’s reaction, maintaining both warmth and firmness while remembering that pushback doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve done something wrong.
Early-Bird discount ends September 3rd.
Hi, I’m Dr. Rick Hanson.
I’ve been a clinical psychologist for over 40 years, and I’ve seen again and again how hard it can be for good, caring people to set reasonable limits.
Often, the problem isn’t that we don’t know what our boundaries should be.
It’s what happens inside us when we try to set them.
For many people, approval became associated early in life with safety and connection, while disapproval felt like a threat of rejection or disconnection. These experiences can shape the brain’s systems for attachment, emotional learning, reward, and threat detection.
Years later, you may logically know that it’s perfectly reasonable to say no — while your brain and body react as though you’re putting an important relationship at risk.
In this Setting Healthy Boundaries workshop, I want to help you go beyond simply learning the right words to say. We’ll work with the underlying reactions that make boundaries difficult in the first place.
Because these patterns were learned. And what has been learned can be updated.
My hope is that you’ll leave this workshop with practical ways to protect your time and energy, greater confidence about what’s yours to carry and what isn’t, and a growing sense that you can stand up for yourself while still being the warm and caring person you want to be.
What You Get:
4 Hours of LIVE Teaching with Rick Hanson
Join Rick for an immersive day of practical teaching on September 19, from 9am-2pm PT, grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and decades of clinical experience.
Downloadable Workshop Materials
Use the workshop materials to follow along during the event and continue practicing what you’ve learned afterward.
Your Questions, Answered
Bring your questions about boundaries, difficult relationships, guilt, overgiving, family dynamics, and other real-life situations, for Rick to answer LIVE.
Experiential Practices
Don’t just learn about boundaries. You’ll practice skills for staying grounded, tolerating discomfort, separating your responsibilities from someone else’s, and building greater inner strength.
Protect Your Energy Without Closing Your Heart
Join Dr. Rick Hanson for this live workshop and learn how to set clear, healthy boundaries without guilt.
This live workshop takes place on September 19, 2026.
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2-Month Payment Plan
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Answers to Common Questions:
When is the live workshop?
This is a LIVE, online workshop that will take place on September 19, 2026, from 9am-2pm PT.
(check your local time here)
Is this in-person or virtual?
This is a LIVE, Virtual workshop that will take place online, on Zoom.
What if I can't attend live?
- This workshop will be recorded, and you will have access to that recording starting on Tuesday, September 22.
- The recording will eventually be edited into a step-by-step on-demand course, and you will receive lifetime access to that once it is complete.
Is this workshop mainly for people who have trouble saying no?
Not at all. Difficulty saying no is one common boundary challenge, but we’ll also address overgiving, emotional responsibility, burnout, compassion fatigue, difficult relationships, family dynamics, workplace boundaries, and limits around your time and attention.
What if I can set boundaries but feel guilty afterward?
Then this workshop may be particularly useful. We’ll look closely at why guilt can arise even when a boundary is completely healthy — and how you can gradually update the emotional learning that makes reasonable limits feel wrong.
Will this help me deal with someone who doesn't respect my boundaries?
We’ll spend an entire section on difficult relationships and another on handling pushback. While you can’t control how another person responds, you can become more skillful at staying grounded, communicating clearly, and maintaining your limits when someone reacts strongly.
What if I need to cancel after I've registered?
No worries, just send us an email at rick@rickhanson.net and we’ll process your cancellation and refund within 2 business days
When does the 30-day money-back guarantee end?
The 30-day money-back guarantee is good until February 24, 2026.
Are there scholarships available?
For those who are genuinely unable to pay for this course– which could include people who are unemployed, disabled, students, on a small fixed income or public assistance, or living in a developing country – there are full and half scholarships available.
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