Meeting Yourself:
Building Inner Friendship and a
New Relationship to Your Energy

Healing means becoming more whole. And for most of us, the journey toward wholeness means seeing the blocks and congestions of energy that cloud our emotional lives and our thinking – about others and about ourselves. In order to heal these patterns, the course will help you build greater capacity for self-witnessing and clearer self-awareness. That’s why meditation is a central part of this six-month program. You will learn and practice a variety of mindful meditation approaches to expand your contemplative practice repertoire. You will experience body psychology exercises and Energy Constellations to help promote this healing process for your attitudes and emotions.

Meaning is all about making sense of what’s happening now and seeing a positive way forward. Even though there are days when everything may seem random or arbitrary, learning how to unconditionally befriend oneself can move consciousness to a place of seeing and feeling in “inner order” to everything that is going on. To that end, clarifying and connecting with the values and strengths that inspire your life will bring increased vitality and purpose. You will reconnect with an excitement just to be alive, and an appreciation for the ways in which life brings challenges and opportunities for your growth toward wholeness. As Viktor Frankl wrote, a person who has a sense of meaning in life has the means for dealing with any adversity or trauma or challenge that may arise.

From the course title, the phrase “Building Inner Friendship” speaks directly to what you’ll cultivate over the six months of this course. You’ll see how powerful self-forgiveness can be. You’ll explore the way in which having the courage to “let go of what no longer serves you” can be a pathway to a new sort of relationship with yourself. And you’ll experience ways to nurture a more comprehensive approach to self-care and self-appreciation. Building this kind of inner friendship is the foundation for being able to renew and enhance the relationships you have with family, friends, work colleagues and everyone else whose lives you touch. To “meet yourself” and “befriend yourself unconditionally” opens a place in your heart for compassionate action in the world around you.

We all want to be happy, but how do we do it? It has a lot to do with creating greater space and capacity within oneself. Capacity-building and resilience are vital to personal transformation, well-being, and happiness. There are several ways that the course is designed to do just that. Both the conceptual and the experiential learning in the program will build your capacity for healthy will – that is, enhanced ability to make good decisions, to stand up for yourself and have healthy boundaries, and to live in harmony with a Higher Will that provides guidance. The course will also help you build capacity for greater “emotional stamina” – to be able to be present to your growth process even when situations or other people are making you uncomfortable. And we’ll also help you build capacity for seeing and “owning” your gifts, talents, and strengths. These are the ingredients you need to claim in order to live your own soul-purpose and experience the depth of meaning that is possible for each one of us. It’s all about freeing up energy so that you can take steps toward implementing your personal passion in life.