To step efficiently into and learn a new paradigm, it’s useful to become aware of the silent assumptions, hidden expectations and unconscious conditioning that conflict with the new framework. You’ll learn:

• The critical differences between inner presence-based support of Clients and other systems.
• The essential mindset shifts you must make before you can step into supporting your Clients’ inner presence.
• How we determine what is an effective means of support.
• What conflict situations can teach us about presence.
• The most common responses helping professionals have with Clients that can seem beneficial, but upon closer inspection, are not so helpful.
• The most under-utilized and overlooked source of supporting another’s transformation, that’s been right under our noses all along….PRESENCE!

Your understanding and experience of presence will set the stage for doing effective Inner Presence sessions. In this module, I’ll give you a step-by-step experiential understanding of presence and explain in detail EXACTLY what you need to offer to make the optimal gift of presence to yourself and others. You’ll learn:

• How to work with presence as a dynamic state instead of a static state.
• How to avoid falling into the trap of making presence an ideal state to attain.
• The difference between contrived and uncontrived presence.
• The various referential markers that are indicating presence.

Imagine having a conversation with someone where they are speaking from such a high-level abstractions; there is little or no reference to what they are talking about as it specifically relates to their life. This is how many of us start our inner inquiries. We get trapped using labels before we even start! In this module we’ll learn:

• Why it is essential to make your daily life your meditation cushion.
• The biggest mistake people make when looking within and how to avoid that.
•  How to see without using evaluative labels.

In this module, you will raise your emotional intelligence to the highest possible quotient. You’ll learn how:

• Optimizing your emotional intelligence will allow you to connect more deeply with yourself and others, which means more efficiency in supporting effortless transformations.
• Attuning deeply to what others are feeling (even though they are not expressing feelings directly) will allow you to give others the gift of clarity and deep self-connection.
• Distinguishing between feelings and what are pseudo-feelings, so you don’t make the mistakes most people make when expressing feelings.
• Learning to connect with the emotional centers of the brain is the key to accessing hidden beliefs and constructs that impact our lives in so many ways.

Many of your needs, wants, desires, and values are tightly held in your body/mind system and operate outside of your conscious awareness of them. The information in this module is the foundation to inspiring effortless transformations when you begin to hold these desire/want/ values lightly (become detached). You’ll learn:

• How to increase your need/want/desire literacy in your own life as a way to connect with yourself and others in deeper, more meaningful ways.
• The truth about the relationship between what you feel and what you need/want/desire.
• How understanding what you desire radically empowers you in any given situation or circumstance.

In this module, you’ll learn the most effective way of holding compassionate empathetic presence for others. This deep way of being with someone is transformative in and of itself. It will be one of the important building blocks for doing Inner Presence Inquiries. You’ll learn how to:

• Effectively hold compassionate space for another, which allows them to connect powerfully with themselves.
• Clear yourself before being present to another.
• Empathetically reflect back what a person is saying and watch their whole body and disposition transform before your eyes. (It is rare to be heard on such a deep level!)
• Distinguish between Pseudo-empathetic methods you should NEVER use which take the energy and focus away from the other and draws it to yourself.
• Ask the wrong questions can cause the other to disconnect and inspire them to go up into their head.

What is a part and how do you know a part is emerging in your experience? We tend to be conditioned to think of ourselves regarding a singular “I”. We are going to break up this notion by looking at our experience regarding parts emerging. Just making this shift to perceiving parts has given people so much relief in living under the tyranny of the “I.” You’ll learn why…

• Using parts in describing our experience is liberating.
• It is beneficial to determine what is and is not a part.
• It is essential to know whether you’re identified with a part or not.
• It is important to speak for our parts instead of from our parts.

When you begin to look inside yourself, it can be very confusing. At any given time, there is kind of a stream of thoughts, feelings and body sensations happening. We have been enculturated to believe this stream is our “I,” who we are. In this module, we’ll sort out and tease apart your stream into various parts categories and begin to understand the relational aspects of these parts. You’ll have a robust framework to understand and navigate your inner terrain. You’ll learn how to:

• Hold a high degree of Presence in the face of painful aspects of yourself and not be consumed by these painful parts.
• Hold presence for the parts of you that protect you and keep us safe from painful experiences.
• Practice holding presence for protective parts, which helps you disidentify from these parts as “me, in my entirety.”
• Understand that the parts we don’t like are looking out for our best interests, but doing so in a way where there are huge costs to the bodymind system.