Welcome, Cert 17 class!

You are beginning your training in a way I did not. Though the circumstances are very different now than they were in 2007, I can imagine that much of beginning this new journey feels the same: excitement, uncertainty, trepidation, wanting to make a good first impression, feeling both scared of and in awe of my instructors and classmates, and just general “first day jitters.” 

What I feel moved to tell you is that you are in the right place. And you are with the right people.

I belong to — and have joined, quit, and started — many groups.

And what I can tell you is that regardless of what is happening in the world or in myself, the Fitzmaurice Voicework community is the most consistently accepting, supportive, and healthily fluid organization and bunch of humans I have ever had the pleasure of being part of. 

Maybe it’s the destructuring; maybe it’s the encouragement to voice whatever is present fully and without apology; maybe we are all just a little weird.

I don’t know and it really doesn’t matter — this is an awesome group of humans.

There is little we can be certain of right now. 
But I can unequivocally assure you that you are in the right place.

Virtual hugs!
~Elizabeth