Our Training

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We know that change starts from within and that inside is the place to start from in order to be effective at whatever one wishes to accomplish in the world and with one’s life. To be successful, one must first be able to give oneself permission to succeed - which requires changing the stories in one’s subconscious that tell us “I don’t deserve,” “I am not good enough,” “I need to prove ourselves,” and the like... 

That's why our comprehensive Whole Being Training program begins with courses in Self Worth Work and Healing the Wounds of Life - programs that allow participants to organically transform their mindset, achieve their goals, and work together to Create Our Future. As a global social change organization, it is very useful when working with others, to not need to be better than anyone, and to be able to accept advice and criticism about one’s work without it disrupting our sense of self-worth. Our supportive spaces help build self-worth, improve relationships, and make lasting changes one step at a time.Through deep inner exploration, guided introspection and structured integration that aligns with one's core values, we have helped thousands of people reclaim a relationship with their innermost selves, their soul's journey, and their purpose & passion in this world. 

Join in one of our upcoming trainings, current campaigns, or scheduled events to learn more and begin Creating Our Future!!

Online Course
Acknowledge wounds and their impact to your sense of self while embracing your  authenticity and building resilience.Take charge of your personal development through guided, compassionate self-discovery in this self-guided course for beginners. 

Personal Healing Journey

Nothing is too big or too small to acknowledge and address here. In fact, if there is something you don't want to talk about (especially with your friends, family, or community), here is the place to talk about it. Everything we discuss is confidential and our trauma-informed coaches are ready to support you in letting go of the old story.

Group Healing Circle

Connection is one of the most important keys to healing. Cultivate deep empathy to support those around you, discover the healing power of your own narrative, and rewrite your mindset for lasting success. 

Weekend Retreat

Join in a transformative retreat where we bring these core healing practices to life and take time to integrate our innermost sense of self in a safe, secluded setting. Work with others to create a future that's rooted in abundance, clarity, and community - instead of fear and phobias.

Personal Training

We believe that healing is innate to the human spirit and that given the right conditions, we can transform ourselves above and beyond any & all self-limiting beliefs. This 3-journey series helps you to go deep into your healing journey, advocate for your younger self, and create a future that's rooted in life's abundance.

Professional Training

Healing the Wounds of Life is a catalyst program for life change that recognizes the power of connection, the benefits of listening, the magic in witnessing, and the grace of supporting each another along life’s journey. Extend your personal training to become a trained leader helping others to do their work.

Leadership Opportunities

Our trained professionals are invited to join us in providing services for our Self Worth Work clients, Healing Wounds trainees, and Creating Our Future campaigns. Share your expertise with those who need it most and help make a change!!

Advocacy & Alignment

Connect with your inner hero to help others. No one knows better than you how it is that we got here, and what we need to do to change. Use your expertise and experience to stand up for others, align with like-minded groups, and collaborate with those addressing your concerns in a healthy way. Together, we can be the change we wish to see.

Heal & Hold Space

Even if you never thought you could, you'll learn to successfully create and hold a healing space for transformation.

Yoga/spiritual practice
Whether or not one has any spiritual aspirations, developing a daily practice of asana and meditation gives one a daily place of inner clarity, a center from which to view one’s world as if from high on a mountaintop. When I began my spiritual practice, I thought that in doing so I would find my center, but instead, by doing my daily practice, I found that I was building my center.
 

Chanting and singing
Chanting and singing in community help create love and connection amongst members and elevates individual and collective consciousness. Learning to open one’s voice and open the throat center helps one be able to speak in a way that can be more easily heard, whether speaking to a large audience or in a small meeting. Even when I thought I could not sing at all, I could always chant, and then when doing public speaking, I could create a sacred space, by leading the audience in simple chants, so that the audience and I would be in tune with one another.
 

Martial arts practice like Aikido or Tai Chi
This helps one to be grounded, centered in the navel area, and in touch with one’s chi, or ki. It provides the capacity to defend the self and others, and confidence in one’s capacity to do so.
 

Satyagraha
Training in the use of this powerful tool for shifting consciousness while working strategically for social change. It would be a great service to the world to make effective use of it, and demonstrate its power and utility. This would begin with theory discussion and practice training sessions, and then move to training through working on actual on the ground projects.

Community Building  Entails learning how to establish a growing community of conscious people who share common purpose, a deep connection and love with one another, with the tools and skills to listen to and be present with and for one another; and who are committed to working for change while living in harmony with the planet and humanity in a deeply respectful an appreciative way.

Meeting process skills

We would learn from some of the leading meeting facilitation trainers in the country in the use of Appreciative Inquiry and other such processes many of which can be found on the National Council for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) website. Then we would practice these skills within our own circles and in our community and project building endeavors  

Project and Event planning skills  

Training to develop and carry out effective strategies to accomplish one’s goals, and how to organize, plan, host, and conduct projects and events at any scale from 50 participants to tens of thousands. In addition to meeting facilitation and project planning, which would be encompassed under Meeting process skills, there is the body of knowledge and skills required to plan large and very large social change projects, festivals, demonstrations, conferences, rallies and marches.  

Research

Studying best practices of successful leaders and movements of the past, as described earlier in this chapter.

Money skills  Training in how to master money.

Politics (local, national, global)  If one is working to change the system, one must know how it works, so that one can envision possible alternatives. This means learning know how things get done at each level of government, especially at whatever level one wishes to work at; knowing where the levers are and who is working them.  

Macroeconomics  Understanding the global economy, how the flow of goods, money and power works and how it impacts governments and daily life, is important knowledge if one wishes to play on the word stage and work towards more functional systems.  

Entrepreneurial skills  Training from accomplished social change entrepreneurs in how to create projects, businesses, and organizations that serve the greater good while being at least financially self-sustaining, and preferably substantially profitable. This entails in part learning to have the most appropriate and useful financial mindset, as it is as much work, and possibly more, to run a social change organization with a barely getting by on shoestring budget, as it is to allow financial ease and abundance. I clearly remember the transition within myself from the project fundraising I was doing feeling essentially like begging, to understanding that I was creating meaningful opportunities for people and organizations that had money to share, to be able to feel that we were doing something useful and important together.  

Information technology  It is critical to understand how to use this tool, the one medium that can compete with money for being the medium of the times.  

Communication  Training in good communication skills at every level of dialogue, from one on one, through very large groups, including effective use of social media. Plus, the skills required to communicate well with the fourth pillar of Democracy which is, the very much challenged in much of the world these days, public media; the first three of which are the major branches of government: legislature, executive, and judiciary.