For mental health professionals, this insight can be transformative for their work of supporting so many who are struggling in our world today.

Compassion-Based Approaches for Working with Shame is a free online training for mental health professionals brought to you by the same team that produced the 2022 Compassion in Therapy Summit.

Over three days, participants will learn from leading experts in the field, gaining science-based insights and practical skills through in-depth instruction, demonstrations with real clients, and guided practices so that they can help their clients be:

• More accepting
• Less critical
• And more resilient

What You'll Learn During “Compassion-Based Approaches for Working with Shame”

Shame is widely considered to be one of the most difficult human emotions. It’s painful, sticky, notoriously difficult to treat in psychotherapy, and is associated with a broad spectrum of disorders. But as Chris Germer, PhD, has said, “Shame is ultimately an illusion. And it loses its grip when we turn toward it with kindness and curiosity.”

In this free online training produced by our friends at the Awake Network and the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, you’ll learn from some of the world's leading experts on shame, mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion in therapy.

With these teachers, you'll:

• Explore the latest research on shame and compassion
• Understand the relationship between shame and trauma
• Gain core skills for supporting your clients in embracing more self-compassion
• And learn how to navigate “backdraft” to compassion and other common obstacles

You’ll also learn specific interventions, practices, and insights for working with shame directly from the founders and leading teachers of Compassion-Focused Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, Mindful Self-Compassion and more.

“Compassion-Based Approaches for Working with Shame” Daily Schedule

DAY 1: Thursday, June 1, 2023

• “LIVE OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame” with Chris Germer, PhD & Kristin Neff, PhD
• “A Walk Through the Historic and Emerging Research of Shame” with June Tangney, PhD
• “Towards the Flourishing of All Life: Releasing Shame Related to Internalized Sexism, Racism, and Ableism” with Kamilah Majied, PhD
• “Working with Shame Through Internal Family Systems (includes Demo)” with Martha Sweezy, PhD
• “Shame in Relationships: Healing Mistakes, Regret, and Remorse” with Rick Hanson, PhD

DAY 2: Friday, June 2, 2023

• “Compassion as a Path for Healing Trauma and Shame (includes Demo)” with Gabor Maté, MD, CM
• “Unpacking the Power of Therapeutic Presence: Navigating Shame with Compassion” with Shari Geller, PhD
• “Exploring Body Oppression and Body Shame with Mindful Self-Compassion” with Sydney Spears, PhD, LCSW
• “From Self-Criticism to Self-Compassion: Insights on Shame and the Inner Critic (includes Demo)” with Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE

DAY 3: Saturday, June 3, 2023

• “LIVE CLOSING KEYNOTE: Polyvagal Theory and the Treatment of Shame (includes Demo)” with Deb Dana, LCSW
• “Transmuting Shame Through Soulfulness” with Shelly Harrell, PhD
• “Self-Compassion in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy: A Framework Rooted in Deep Ecology” with Jorge Armesto, PhD, C-IAYT & Susie Fairchild, MA
• “Shame, Vulnerability, and Resilience” with Deran Young, LCSW

Speaker List: Compassion-Based Approaches for Working with Shame

Gabor Mate, MD, Kristin Neff, PhD, Christopher Germer, PhD, Deran Young, LCSW, Paul Gilbert, PhD, Martha Sweezy, Phd, Deb Dana, LCSW, Rick Hanson, PhD, Shelly Harrell, PhD, Kamilah Majied, PhD, Shari Geller, PhD, and many more…

About Your Summit Host – The Awake Network

The Awake Network specializes in curated online events that truly impact your life. Every year we put our energy into a few quality online conferences on topics that matter, like mindfulness for well-being, relationships, education, business, and healthcare systems. We provide free talks about living a good life, and connect you with a vast network of resources from us, our partners, and our network of teachers.

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Cultivating your vocal expression as a gateway to your sovereignty opens you to the true wisdom of your soul — what pioneering voice teacher Chloë Goodchild calls your inner music — and provides homeopathic medicine for your emotions and your spirit.

What You'll Learn During “Give Voice to Your Truth”

When you embrace your inner music, you awaken a new storehouse of energy and resilience from deep within, which inspires courage and helps you release fear, self-doubt, and other emotional challenges that may be holding you back from reaching your full potential.

During this joyful hour-long event filled with wisdom, self-discovery, vocal empowerment, and spiritual upliftment. With Chloe’s guidance, you’ll experience for yourself the exhilarating original inner music of your soul.

In this highly experiential event, you’ll:

• Experience the essential power of intentional breathing, silence, and what Chloe describes as “the unchanging note” — awakening your awareness and gratitude for sound as the ground of consciousness and as a direct experience of your true nature
• Strengthen your nonjudgmental listening and compassionate self-observation through self-inquiry practices, using your voice
• Discover the power of sound affirmations to embody your full sovereignty, generate loving presence, and revitalize your body, mind, and soul
• Unify your three power centers — My Will, Thy Will, That Will — through sound, and experience the shift from the egoic love of power to the heart-centered power of love
• Activate healing and feel your interconnectedness and harmonic resonance with All That Is with Chloë’s anthem, “Singing Field”

As you release your attachment to what Chloë calls your “socially conditioned personality voice,” you’ll discover your sovereign voice and recognize yourself as an energy field that is vibrating with the frequencies of love — the impact of which is truly life-changing.

As you learn to access your soul’s wisdom through your sovereign voice, you’ll relish how embodied experiences of love and unconditional presence lead you to healthier and happier realms of coherence and harmony, nourishing you with self-acceptance and inner wisdom…

… and helping you transform fear into love, and separateness into deep connection.

You’ll also tap into your profound inner wisdom and unconditional love using the vocal techniques and sacred resonance of your authentic voice…

As you reconnect with the luminosity of your essence and bring healthier and happier states of coherence and harmony into your life.

About Your Teacher – Chloë Goodchild

Chloë Goodchild is the founder of The Naked Voice, a pioneering experiential vocal training program providing a sound-awareness toolkit of conscious core practices, music, audiobooks, and spoken and sung meditations that empower you to find and embody your authentic voice. She established the Naked Voice Charitable Foundation in 2004, an initiative to disseminate a deeper awareness of the essential role that deep, nonjudgmental listening and conscious communication play in strengthening ethical awareness, sound health, and wellbeing in all realms of human life.

Chloë’s seminal book, The Naked Voice: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Sound, invites you on a compelling adventure of self-discovery and creative fulfillment through a direct experience of your own authentic voice — the voice of your personal authority, the song of your soul, and your eternal identity.

Chloë sings, teaches, performs, and records on her Naked Voice Music label. Her podcast series,VOCE Dialogues: Voices of Compassionate Evolution, explores and reveals diverse examples of the transformative practice of compassion with innovators, artists, educators, and cultural activists.

Chloë and her trained Naked Voice Facilitators are now co-creating in-person and online Singing Fields — connecting and inspiring individuals and communities to co-create conscious compassionate communication. Her global Living Presence community provides a unique listening environment for people from all walks of life to find and express their truth together.

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What You'll Learn During “The Sound Medicine of Sacred Vedic & Kirtan Chanting”

How do you cope when circumstances feel out of control?

How do you sustain yourself and heal when events occur in your life, or in the outside world, that leave you feeling destabilized, afraid, or grieving — as if you’ve been thrown off your path with no roadmap to follow?

What strategies do you use to find your footing again?

According to beloved chantress Nina Rao, spiritual seekers have for centuries turned to the ancient devotional practice of chanting mantras to cultivate a powerful internal container — providing a sense of sanctuary and the kind of inner refuge we’re all longing for.

Even in our busy modern world, the discipline of a daily chanting practice can help you access this space of strength, comfort, and safety within yourself whenever you need to.

Chanting offers spiritual sustenance that feeds and supports you — providing inner strength and peace that you can return to time and again when life throws you off your axis.

Thousands of years ago, this mantra tradition was shared with all spiritual seekers. Over time, however, in an effort to suppress the masses, it became a privilege only accessible to monastic men. Our culture today is harkening back to the ancient roots of chanting to re-establish that Vedic mantras were meant to be available to everyone who wishes to undertake the practice.

Iterations of mantra chanting are found in the form of call-and-response kirtan, which is easily accessible to everyone and practiced all over the world by those who long to immerse themselves in the ocean of divine love through prayers sung from the heart.

Nina grew up in India and learned traditional chanting from her grandfather when she was just nine years old.

When she moved to the States, she met world-renowned chant master Krishna Das, and began chanting and working with him. Her own personal chant practice grew organically out of a natural resonance with music, mantra, and the Divine Feminine.

Nina draws on both her background and on ancient Sanskrit sacred texts to bring a unique perspective to her chanting and teaching… one that fuses East with West.

Class Topics for “The Sound Medicine of Sacred Vedic & Kirtan Chanting”

Join her for a nourishing hour-long event where she’ll share the sacred practices of both Vedic and kirtan chanting, which you can carry with you into your own practice.

During this illuminating experiential workshop, you’ll:

• Learn how Vedic mantras are precise and rule-driven,which helps you develop stronger concentration, deepen your practice, and honor the ancient tradition… compared to the kirtan that most of us are used to hearing (and singing!) in the West
• Discover how mantras create an auspicious inner state of gratitude, intention, and wellbeing — a sanctuary for refuge and sustenance in times of duress
• Hear Nina chant one verse from the Sri Rudram, the invocation of Rudra in the Vedic style — to cope with the karma of life and ask Shiva for his blessings
• Sing Om Namah Shivaya with Nina in kirtan style — call and response — repeating the name of God to calm your mind, open your heart, and help realize your inner Self
• Experience the dispelling of fear, and the peace and love that can wash over you as you chant mantras

Drawn from the highest authority in Hindu dharma, Vedic chanting is the practice of repeating a mantra in which exactness in notes, rhythm, and pronunciation is vital…

… while kirtan, which evolved from the original roots of the Vedic mantras, is sung.

They both result in a state of wellbeing of your physical, mental, and emotional bodies, although the Vedic style guides you deeper into your own devotion.

As Nina will explain, knowing how to access your palpable inner haven can soften anxiety and inspire feelings of confidence and calm you can carry throughout your day.

Sustained practice will help you deepen your devotion and cultivate a greater sense of surrender, patience, courage, generosity, clarity, and wisdom.

Chanting helps you develop a loving heart of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. As a form of prayer, mantras guide you to exercise your true free will, turning what can feel like helplessness into positive action.

With Nina’s guidance, you’ll experience for yourself the exhilarating truth that chanting is an expression of your own innate devotion.

About Your Teacher – Nina Rao

Nina Rao learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in a village in South India when she was nine years old. Her childhood was spent living in and moving between many countries around the world. Prior to rediscovering chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996, she worked in banking before switching to organizing and leading photographic wildlife safaris in Africa and India. For many years, she has been Krishna Das’ business manager and accompanist as well as a chant leader in her own right.

Nina tours with Krishna Das, playing cymbals and singing with him. In 2007, she recorded the track “Nina Chalisa” on Krishna Das’ CD Flow of Grace: Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa. In January 2013, she released her debut album, Antarayaami: Knower of All Hearts, which includes a duet with Krishna Das. Later that year, she was honored to accompany him at the Grammy Awards webcast performance. Her second album, Anubhav, released in 2018, was entirely crowdfunded.

For over 20 years she has supported conservationists in preserving the sacred wilderness and forests of India via her charity, Saving Wild Tigers. Nina regularly leads kirtan, chanting in workshops, festivals, and retreats in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, and beyond.

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The Living an Authentic Life Summit is a journey to inner peace, freedom, and joy.

What You'll Get During the Living an Authentic Life Summit

When you join the Living an Authentic Life Summit, you will:

• Get insight into the most common problems we experience that cause contraction in our lives and prevent us from living authentically
• Dive deep into the biggest causes of contraction and understand when you experience it the most so you can navigate life better
• Discover how the tools of compassion, gratitude and love can help you deepen states of expansion — and how you can apply them in different areas of your life
• Gain profound practices to help you cultivate resilience so you can experience a renewed sense of confidence and equanimity
• Expand your vision of what’s possible as you live more authentically and bring more joy, inner peace, and freedom into your life
• Get several free gifts immediately after registering

Why Attend The Living an Authentic Life Summit

If any of the following resonates with you, then you’ve come to the right place:

• Are you sometimes in a state of distress, with little or no idea how to start changing your life?
• Do you sometimes feel trapped, overwhelmed, and disconnected from who you really are?
• Are you easily triggered by external events and the state of the world, and need better tools to manage?
• Have you lost any sense of creativity or curiosity in your day-to-day reality?
• Are you seeking to transform yourself and your life, but need a clear path to move forward?

Through a powerful lineup of some of the world’s top experts in therapy, psychology and meditation, you will gain the clarity and tools you need to begin changing your life from a place of true alignment.

Are you ready to expand towards inner peace, freedom and joy—and discover the power of authentic living?

Daily Schedule for the Living an Authentic Life Summit

Day 1: What is Authentic Living?

For Day 1, we’ll be exploring the journey that individuals typically undergo on the path from isolation to openness and freedom. We’ll also discuss the most common problems caused by contraction, such as loneliness, conformity, and much more.

Day 2: Contraction

For Day 2, we’ll be diving deep into the most common scenarios that are caused by and lead to further contraction in our lives, whether it’s shame, addiction, fundamentalism, or even fear — along with the tools to better manage them.

Day 3: Expansion

For Day 3, we’ll be discussing how to recognize the moments when each of us feels at our most expansive and how to enhance these states, as well as how to cultivate love, compassion, gratitude, and working for the common good.

Day 4: The Journey

For Day 4, we will discover what exactly we need to take and what we need to leave behind on the journey towards authentic living, whether it’s building community, deepening our awareness of death, processing how to let go, and many other powerful practices.

Day 5: The Emergence

For Day 5, we’ll be lifting the ceiling on what’s possible. With the dawning of clarity, we’ll be exploring how good things can emerge on the path to healing, as well as the wisdom, creativity, awe, and kindness we’ll be gaining as a result of this transformative journey.

About Your Host – Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers.

Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness.

Her new book, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom, is being released in April of 2023. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond

Sharon has been passionately committed for decades to sharing the transformative power of mindfulness, compassion, and meditation. As part of this commitment, she hopes this free summit will help you on your journey towards inner peace, freedom, and joy.

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• Befriend the ongoing process of your human experience and soul’s journey — including the multiple meltdowns, re-emergences, and uncomfortable in-between states along the way — through a powerful visualization of your own metamorphosis.
• Embrace the sacredness of your authentic self — your inner everyday mystic — with the confidence of knowing that you can always find safe refuge from the chaos of the world within your own being.

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What You'll Learn During “The Holy Emergence of Your Everyday Mystic”

It’s common knowledge that butterflies start their lives as caterpillars.

While not everyone feels an affinity for those tiny 6-legged crawlers, we all can relate to the analogy of a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.

Yet, are you aware of how dramatic and presumably painful the process is for those beautiful creatures to come into being?

A caterpillar has to completely digest itself… dissolving entirely into a liquid state before it develops its beautiful new butterfly body. And even then, their wings are initially soft and droopy, which delays their ability to take flight.

Mirabai Starr, interspiritual teacher and innovative translator of the mystics, gently holds this as a metaphor for the human experience and the continual evolution of the soul.

It’s her belief that we all carry within us an everyday mystic, and like certain indestructible cells of the caterpillar — even in its most challenging state of deconstruction — that part of ourselves is always there, waiting to be unlocked.

Mirabai, an award-winning author of contemporary translations of sacred literature, has taught philosophy and world religions for more than 20 years. She also co-led The Shift Network’s premiere year-long Global Mystics Certification program.

She has the divinely feminine capacity to guide people in reinventing their spiritual lives — releasing their traditional programming about what spirituality is supposed to be, and what it’s supposed to feel like.

She inspires people instead to unveil and birth their own inner mystic — holding them with profound compassion as they return time and again to the landscape of their heart and learn to look at everyone and everything through the eyes of love.

Join Mirabai in a complimentary online event in which she’ll explore the metaphor of the butterfly…

She’ll share how, throughout the journey of our lives and the unfurling of our souls, we experience multiple breakdowns and re-emergences, which can leave us feeling lost, uncertain, or even despairing… especially at a time when there are such challenging circumstances in our world.

Mirabai will invite you to rest in the awkward stage of the unknown, of the chrysalis — and even to embrace the discomfort — before you grow and spread your wings anew and take flight into the next phase of your transformation.

Class Topics for “The Holy Emergence of Your Everyday Mystic”

In this transformative hour, you’ll discover:

• A potent guided practice to visualize your own metamorphosis, as Mirabai lovingly walks you through its 4 stages — from caterpillar to butterfly
• A deep dive into the teachings of the ongoing unfolding of our bodies, minds, and souls as everyday mystics in this beautiful, broken, and constantly burgeoning world
• The importance and sometimes inevitability of transforming your inherited beliefs about enlightenment, freedom, salvation, and ultimate awakening — and the power of bowing at the feet of the reality of yourself and others
• How to make friends with ambiguity, mystery, and vulnerability — and rest courageously in the silence of unknowing with self-acceptance and peace
• How becoming an everyday mystic has global impact, because working on ourselves lifts up the whole planet

What It Means To Let Your “Everyday Mystic” Emerge

Mirabai will share the image of the silkworm — from the wisdom of the 16th-century Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Ávila — likening it to the human process of undoing our spiritual preconceptions.

Like caterpillars, we’re all born with everything we need to become butterflies. With Mirabai’s guidance, you’ll begin to liberate, bit by bit, the information — the knowing — that your inner everyday mystic carries.

Being a mystic often involves deconstructing your old beliefs and ways of being in the world, which can be difficult and disruptive…

… while also cultivating an almost childlike sense of curiosity, with the ability to perceive the Sacred rising in any ordinary moment.

Being an everyday mystic means fully welcoming the human experience in your current incarnation — exactly as you are — while continually weaving a renewed sense of meaning, peace, and creative energy.

It means allowing yourself to be guided courageously in a tumultuous world, remaining steady and grounded — a refugee, as Mirabai says, within your own heart.

Living in a state of deconstruction, however, is not sustainable… and Mirabai is eager to assist you in befriending and becoming intimate with the ongoing process of your soul’s journey, as you experience multiple meltdowns and re-emergences along the way…

… so you can reclaim your life as holy ground and show up with as much love in your heart and strength in your body and mind as you can cultivate.

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About Your Teacher – Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative nonfiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years, and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and interspiritual dialogue. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss.

Mirabai’s book, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was named one of the Best Books of 2019 by Spirituality & Practice. It’s essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within, and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world.

Mirabai has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary new translations of John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul and Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle. She is author of the poetry collection Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collaboration with iconographer William Hart McNichols, and the award-winning book God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The transparency of her journey through grief in her memoir, Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation, is a gift to those who are struggling with unimaginable losses.

Mirabai was named one of 2020’s 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.

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• Fear
• Deep sadness
• Anxiety
• Grief
• Uncertainty over the present and what the future holds
• Vulnerability
• Despair
• Anger
• Hopelessness

What You'll Learn During “The Strength of Self-Compassion” with Kristin Neff

• Discover mindful self-compassion as a crucial form of self-care
• Learn about motivating yourself more effectively with kindness and encouragement, rather than criticism
• Find out why the more compassionate you are towards yourself, the stronger you are
• Hear about the latest surprising findings in the field of self-compassion
• Learn the three components of self-compassion, and how they apply to your life

During our time together, we will also explore what it really means to have “strength” with your self-compassion. This involves taking action in the world for protecting, providing for, and motivating ourselves to alleviate our suffering. It means saying “no” to others who are hurting us – drawing our boundaries firmly. Or saying “no” to our own harmful behaviors, so that we can be safe and healthy.

It means giving ourselves what we genuinely need – mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually – without subordinating our needs to those of others, so we can be authentic and fulfilled.

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About Your Illuminate Speaker – Kristin Neff

The Hospice of Santa Barbara illumunate Speaker Series features a new nationally-known speaker every other month. This month's presentation is with Kristen Neff, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research and is the author of the bestselling book, Self-Compassion and also Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive.

In her presentation, she will share the theory and research on self-compassion, which studies have increasingly shown to be powerfully associated with psychological wellbeing.

A short practice will be taught for use when needed in daily life.

This event will not be recorded, so make sure to watch live!

Watch Kristin Neff's TedX Speech

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About The Illuminate Speaker Series

The illuminate Speaker Series is a free virtual series of renowned speakers who address the feelings and questions that accompany our challenging time – speakers that will inspire, educate, encourage deeper inquiry and action, create community discussion, and help bring people closer together.

Hospice of Santa Barbara created the free illuminate Speaker Series to address the feelings of anxiety, grief, and uncertainty that we are all experiencing.

The series continues through 2022 with Kelly McGonigal, Richard Louv, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. Additional speakers will be announced in the coming months. Hospice of Santa Barbara would like to give a special thanks to Natalie Orfalea Foundation and Lou Buglioli for sponsoring this event.

About Your Host – Hospice of Santa Barbara

Hospice of Santa Barbara provides professional counseling, support groups, and patient care services free of charge to individuals and families who are grieving the death of a loved one or experiencing the impact of a life-threatening illness.

Hospice of Santa Barbara also provides counseling in their offices and on fifteen local junior and high school campuses to children and teens who are grieving the loss of a loved one. For more information about Hospice of Santa Barbara, including volunteer opportunities, call (805) 563-8820 or visit www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org

Spanish Translation:

Autocompasión y Cuidado Tema del próximo evento de la serie de oradores illuminate, presentación por Kristin Neff

La serie virtual de oradores illuminate de Hospice of Santa este 22 de junio de 6:00 a 7:00 pm PDT

Acompañe a Hospice of Santa Barbara este miércoles 22 de junio de 6:00 a 7:00 p. m. (PDT) para su próximo evento virtual de la serie de oradores, illuminate, con Kristin Neff: The Strength of Self-Compassion (El poder de la autocompasión).

Actualmente, Kristin Neff es profesora adjunta de Psicología Educativa en la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Es pionera en el campo de la investigación sobre la autocompasión y es autora del libro más vendido: Self-Compassion (Autocompasión). En su presentación, expondrá la teoría y la investigación sobre la autocompasión, cuyos estudios han demostrado cada vez más que está fuertemente relacionada con el bienestar psicológico. Se enseñará una breve técnica para poner en práctica en la vida cotidiana cuando sea necesario.

El evento es gratuito, pero es necesario inscribirse. Para inscribirse, ingrese aquí: https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/self-compassion

Fecha: miércoles 22 de junio

Hora: 6:00 a 7:00 p. m., PDT

Precio: GRATUITO

Enlace para registrarse: https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/self-compassion

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Gain insights into your relationship dynamics through the Enneagram, and discover how you can relate better and hurt less by developing greater openness, acceptance, and compassion.

We spend so much of our lives relating to others — our families, friends, colleagues, and neighbors — that, even if you spend most of your time at home, you’re likely connecting with others on a daily basis.

In these many relationships, we may encounter misunderstandings or challenges that can trigger us to behave in ways that don’t serve us or those we love.

During such conflicts, if we don’t take the time to pause and give ourselves space before reacting, we may say or do something we regret.

What could our relationships look like if we gave ourselves permission to better understand ourselves and our loved ones before we acted on our impulses? 

According to personality coaches Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer, the Enneagram is a profound tool that not only helps you understand your own personality type better, you can use it to understand more deeply the challenging experiences in your relationships.

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What You'll Learn During “Empower Your Relationships With The Enneagram”

During this free online spiritual healing workshop, Suzanne and Sean will show you how to use the Enneagram to achieve a greater understanding of yourself and your loved ones. You’ll discover how it can help you relate to them better — and bridge the gaps between yourself and those you love by achieving a broader acceptance of yourself and others.

What Is The Enneagram?

The Enneagram is an ancient tool that illuminates nine primary personality types. It offers a path to wholeness, integrity, and compassion by helping you unearth your true essence and deepening your intuition.

Enneagram insights can shed light on elements of your personality that you may not be aware of — those parts of yourself that are easily triggered in challenging situations and create default behavioral patterns that may disservice you or those you love.

Suzanne and Sean believe that the Enneagram is a powerful tool for building relationships that are:

• Healthier
• More stable
• More loving relationships.

It not only helps you understand others’ triggers and difficult behaviors, it can show you how you may be projecting your own fears and insecurities onto someone else.

In this thought-provoking event, Suzanne and Sean will teach you a method for responding to other people and life situations that can create space for understanding — without compromising your own truth or shrinking yourself to appease someone else.

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About Your Teachers – Suzanne Dion and Sean Palmer

About Suzanne Dion

Suzanne Dion co-wrote the book, The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy: Understanding One Another Leads to Loving Better and Living More Fully, with her mentor, David Daniels, MD. In its pages, they marry the wisdom of the Enneagram with Dr. Dan Siegel's mindful awareness research and teachings.

Suzanne’s focus, as she carries forward David’s compassionate approach, is on bettering our human relationships through intrapersonal healing and developing our capacity for emotional literacy and deepening intimacy — with both ourselves and others.

Now a teacher, coach, and educator of the Enneagram system for personal and professional self-awareness, Suzanne completed her teacher certification with The Narrative Enneagram (TNE) program (formerly called the Palmer-Daniels Enneagram Professional Training School) in 2008. Suzanne was one of the founding board members of the Enneagram Prison Project and spent several years developing its curriculum and teaching incarcerated men and women in Northern California jails and San Quentin State Prison.

Testimonials for Suzanne Dion

“Suzanne Dion is an amazing presenter and writer. I have had the pleasure of co-teaching/leading with her throughout the years and the collaboration was amazing. Suzanne has a deep grasp of the Enneagram and is able to language it in a way that all feel included. She comes forward with compassion and clarity regarding people and the system. Participants feel “held, heard, and understood.” I highly recommend allowing Suzanne to lead you on the journey of self-discovery because she has done the work herself.” — Deborah Ooten

“Suzanne has received outstanding recognition from Enneagram, trauma-recovery-informed, and relationships teachers in the field. Suzanne is a truly gifted individual as well as a couples' coach, and I can’t say enough about her natural charisma and ability to present and communicate with individuals all the way to large groups. Suzanne has a way of breaking things down succinctly, sometimes humorously, as well as compassionately and in a way that brings it home for people, including having brought highly complex teachings to those incarcerated with great success.” — Denise Daniels , PhD, developmentalist and Enneagram author

“Suzanne's 15-plus years of working with the Enneagram and now relationships, together with many other leading experts, have made her a true source of wisdom on this complicated topic. She has both a theoretical understanding and practical experience, which make her a fascinating teacher. Her insights have helped me tremendously in my research. If you really want to understand how you create challenges to your own relationships and want to do something about it, then Suzanne's compassionate approach and in-depth knowledge will guide you on the right path!” — Frederik Coene, PhD, Enneagram researcher

A Message From Suzanne Dion

It’s Our Relationship to Ourselves That Makes or Breaks Our Relationships With Others — the Enneagram Can Make a Difference

We are living in a very interesting, very fascinating time. Gender is up for discussion even obliteration, divorce is somewhat expected, nurture-dependent infants are left in daycare as early as six-weeks old — the potential for developmental neglect nationally normalized, technology has far surpassed our wildest dreams and so many of us struggle to find a partner who can meet our needs, who can “make us happy.” The level of disenchantment across our world is incredibly high as well as the level of progress, advancement, and fascination too.

Today, couples are struggling to stay together let alone stay in love. Making a living in the midst of a recent pandemic — keeping our families and our savings from dissolving — has just about maxed out the very best of us.

As we seek to make sense of it all, how we get along with others seems to come up over and over again as we look for happiness. Our relationships are what seem, each time, to be at the center of the joy we often experience. There’s no doubt relationships affect how connected we feel to ourselves as well as to what creates meaning in our lives. And, there’s no doubt they seem to be the number-one cause of the greatest suffering in our lives as well, over and over again. At the center of much unhappiness, conflict, and despair even, our inability to relate to one another lovingly, our inability to communicate with one another honestly or effectively, and our inability to manage our emotional upheaval and reactivity are at the very heart of so many of our lifelong struggles.

Is our strive-and-surpass, me-first, go-getter driven American society actually in line with our fundamental human structure and most basic of emotional needs? It’s a good question. Because, we actually really need each other. We weren’t designed to be alone, swimming isolated in riches. It’s that simple. We need each other and we need relationships, all kinds of relationships. We do not fully develop, embody, or expand our ‘sense of self’, without them. Research tells us that we are social creatures with a social brain. This means we are co-regulatory and interpersonally connected, stunningly interdependent, and wired to belong in order to not only survive but hopefully thrive — and to experience ourselves innocently and authentically, and develop fully.

A social brain is a “relationships brain.”   And it begins the very moment we are born. Our first attachments are our first love stories. To understand our lives we need to understand our relationships — their importance, their quality, and the critical role they play in shaping our minds and hearts, our narratives and our becoming.

There is nothing more important to human life than two very simple things:

1. Our relationship with ourselves
2. Our relationships with others

Our relationship to ourselves is where we begin. As paradoxically, it's our relationship to ourselves that determines the kind of relationships we will allow, engender, and cultivate with others. Understanding ourselves is what leads to understanding others. Intimacy with ourselves first determines our capacity for true and lasting intimacy with any and all others — psychologically, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

How do we actually develop a relationship with ourselves? This might seem to some a very silly question because, isn’t it already a given? “I talk to myself all the time!” someone once shared. So, let’s reword the question. How do we develop a quality, intimate relationship with ourselves? Quality and intimate meaning the kind of relationship that yields an authentic, felt-experience of our cognitive-emotional inner world, of the truth of our innermost being-ness, and our acceptance of it.

The answer I’d like to offer up: We study “the Enneagram.” The Enneagram is a body of wisdom that helps us recognize and then learn about ourselves, from the inside out. The Enneagram gives us permission to learn about ourselves in a way that is de-shaming and profoundly empowering. “Oh, that’s why I express anger that way!” “OH WOW, that’s why I believe I have to be so strong, so prepared, so easy-going, so perfect, so special, so smart, so fun, so…, so…, so… to be loved.” The Enneagram is a system that takes us to the core of understanding our personality’s (temperamental) structure — its patterns, core beliefs, and propensities. Understanding “how we’re wired” to either ensure that we are loved and connected or that we’re safe and protected, we can truly and more intimately come to know ourselves — and then grow! And as we come to know and understand ourselves, another great benefit becomes attainable: Self-mastery. We can begin to free ourselves from the on-automatic, habitual cognitive-emotional perceptions and behaviors that may be interfering with how good or bad we feel about ourselves and our lives, how well we can possibly get along with others, and how fully we actually love (and allow ourselves to be loved). What we’ll tend to find is that these on-automatic patterns — particularly our unmanaged emotional reactivity and defendedness, are at the center of much of our relational upheaval, fear, grief, and dissatisfaction.

So, this is where we begin, and we must begin with ourselves. A commitment to knowing ourselves from the inside out is a noble, so-worthwhile, life-enhancing, “my development is my gift to me!” pursuit. We can begin by studying the Enneagram, as its wisdom is so kind, so de-shaming, so talents and gifts illuminating, and so vastly incisive.

The foundation of this pursuit is self-awareness. The method at all times is curiosity. The mantra at each stage is self- and other-acceptance. And the outcome is a truly intimate, quality relationship with ourselves and truly intimate, quality relationships with each and every special other in our lives.

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About Sean Palmer

Sean Palmer is the Principal at Sean Palmer Coaching Company, LLC. He is an Enneagram expert, trainer, and author of Speaking by the Numbers: Enneagram Wisdom for Teachers, Pastors, and Communicators… Forty Days on Being a Three (Enneagram Daily Reflections)… and Unarmed Empire: In Search of Beloved Community.

Sean has been profiled in The Washington Post and was named in Christian Standard magazine's “40 Leaders Under 40.” With 24 years of communications experience, Sean is a sought-after national keynote speaker, teacher, writer, and workshop facilitator. He works with nonprofits, business leaders, city managers, mayors, and chiefs of police and fire departments.

Sean’s work has been featured on Fox News and in Enneagram Today, Enneagram Magazine, Christianity Today, Success magazine, Sojourners magazine, and The Lookout magazine. Sean is vice-chair of and a featured writer for Missio Alliance, a contributing writer to The Voice, and a frequent guest on various podcasts and programs, including National Public Radio (NPR).

Testimonials for Sean Palmer

“Seldom do we get to experience a teacher who doesn’t suffer fools, who immediately grasps what’s most important, and yet genuinely cares about us. Sean Palmer exudes that rare combination of wisdom and warmth. He not only understands people, but wants them to flourish in ways that matter.” — Jeff Cook

“Sean’s robust experience in public speaking and storytelling, combined with his mastery of Enneagram wisdom, gives people helpful tools to live more effectively.” — Hunter Mobley

“Sean’s years of experience with the Enneagram have created a foundation of understanding that he has been able to bring to many other areas in his life. As a type 3, he wants to appear excellent as an Enneagram teacher, and clearly has done the work to achieve that goal. What’s more, with his focus firmly set on the future, he has an eye on where the Enneagram is going — and is on the forefront of bringing the system into new areas of study and application.” — T.J. Wilson

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Here are some important questions to consider:

• Do you wish for a world free from oppressive limitations, yet find yourself unconsciously complicit in the cultural norms and systems holding you and others back?
• Are you aching to move beyond survival to cultivate a better version of yourself — to rise up and respond… from the heart?
• Do you yearn to transform your relationship with unprocessed trauma so you can trust your intuition?

Perhaps you’re a highly sensitive individual who feels disconnected from yourself, and desires more tools and support to bring inner calm to your system — to live better in a world that makes excessive demands on you.

One thing we know for certain is that lasting change only becomes real when we face the beliefs, stories, and actions that maintain our complicity.

During this free online spiritual healing class, join Langston Kahn and discover his transcendent, body-based approach to radically transform the fear-based stories we each hold in ourselves — from our traumatic experiences, internalized oppression, habitual emotional patterns, and the many outmoded beliefs that hold us back.

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What You'll Learn During “Radical Human Transformation” With Langston Kahn

Wise beyond his years, Langston appeals to people of all ages and backgrounds by weaving together somatic movement, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into the traditions of the African diaspora, and the helping spirits of our ancestors.

Langston’s own life is so deeply entwined with his expertise and training, you’ll come to understand that he didn’t choose shamanism; instead, shamanism chose him at a young age to help humanity uncover its authentic nature.

This is your opportunity to start creating a better world for yourself and others by taking control of your life and future, liberating your unique voice, and taking conscious responsibility for a deeper level of purpose and power.

Langston will guide you to discover your true potential by embodying a calm level of radical human acceptance, building an authentic, restorative relationship with your emotions, and solidifying the foundation you need to transform from stressed in the now to patient with your future.

During this free virtual healing workshop, you'll discover how to:

• Unleash your power through a Cauldron of Desire exercise to fuel your career, activities, passions, and love — tapping into your deepest energy source and gaining clarity for the person you want to be and the world you want to see
• Explore the importance of repairing your relationship to the land through becoming an ecological steward who tends the Earth as a custodian… versus seizing resources in an extractive, manipulative, one-sided way
• Discover how to better relate with others through clear and authentic communication — without fear or confusion — and centered on preventing miscommunication
• Examine how making peace with your discomfort is a form of empowerment… connecting you with your authentic self and enabling deeper, more meaningful connections with everyone around you
• Discover how getting out of your own way can reveal an enlightened path and liberate your power in the service of a vision — opening the door to becoming something bigger and more meaningful than you can imagine

This is your opportunity to start creating a better world for yourself and others by taking control of your life and future, liberating your unique voice, and taking conscious responsibility for a deeper level of purpose and power.

Don’t hesitate to discover your true potential by embodying a calm level of radical human acceptance… building an authentic, restorative relationship with your emotions… and solidifying the foundation you need to transform from stressed in the now to patient with your future.

You’ll reclaim your power by letting go of what’s holding you back to discover a centered, audacious, loving version of yourself — informed by the wisdom of your ancestors and Mother Earth — in a meditation designed to liberate energy fueled by your innermost desires.

Langston will help you clear your focus to access your innermost center of energy — and tap into your Cauldron of Desire, the life force for creative energy deep within your body.

Connecting with the archetype of death, you’ll be invited to dive deeply into what needs to die within you… opening you up to the vastness of what is possible. You simply need to learn to trust your emotions as the source of all wisdom.

Honoring your emotions is where this journey — your journey — begins.

Discover how to wipe away limiting beliefs as you learn how to build a life foundation based on authenticity — grounded in compassion and curiosity as you lean into your body’s wisdom.

Experience inner awareness without trying to fix or change anything — instead, fully acknowledging the boundless container that is the real you.

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About Your Teacher – Langston Kahn

Langston Kahn is a queer Black shamanic practitioner and teacher specializing in radical human transformation, ancestral healing, and the restoration of an authentic relationship with our emotions.

His practice is informed by somatic modalities, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into traditions of the African diaspora, training with Indigenous elders, and the guidance of his helping spirits and ancestors weaving it all together.

He gives workshops and lectures globally, both in person and online, and is the author of Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma.

Excerpt From the 2021 Ancestral Healing Summit

Lisa Bonnice & Langston Kahn discuss “Liberating Our True Longing With the Ancestors.” This 4-minute excerpt is from the full session in which they explore how to engage with the wisdom and symbolic language of and deepen your relationship to your ancestors to align with your passion and purpose.

Langston shared how working through ancestral grief, especially in these times of immense global change, can restore your connection with your deepest desires, while also illuminating the path forward on how to manifest them into the world.

Testimonials for Langston Kahn

“Langston is one of the first senior teachers at Last Mask Center in the Cycle of Transformation Teachings. He has dedicated years of study with me, mentored community members, and explored many years of independent study of additional work that allows him to deepen and express his unique gifts. I am honored to call him a community member and senior teacher. You will be in exceptionally good hands.” — Christina Pratt

“Langston is a powerful teacher. I have been in therapy for years working on untangling deeply entrenched stories and beliefs that have long held me trapped in persistent, oppressive patterns. Langston’s thoughtful, patient, and skillful instruction has helped me not only discover root causes of these deep beliefs and stories but also has helped me to clear them. As a Black woman doing my clearing work during a time when racial tensions in my country are high, it was really refreshing to work with a person of color who could also offer support around clearing stories/beliefs rooted in my response to growing up in a racist culture.” — Ngozi Olemgbe

“Langston blends humor with sincere guidance and integrity in his work. The tools and techniques that he teaches have acted as a mooring for my emotional presence to discern what’s actually at the root of my habitual feelings, or the patterns connected to the choices I make. Langston is patient, grounded, and discerning in how he teaches and holds space. He has taken me through my various states of growth, and at times struggle, and I recommend his work for wherever you may be in your own journey.” — Ray Crouch

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The secret teachings of the Enneagram — ancient wisdom from Babylon, Greece, and Egypt — view your personality as a dynamic “map” to your Highest Self and full potential as a human being.

Illuminating nine primary personality types and paths to wholeness, these powerful teachings support you in unearthing your true essence, deepening your intuition, and embodying your unique gifts.

In these times of turmoil — clouded by the missteps of the collective shadow — we can turn to the Enneagram to help us unveil our own personal shadows…

…those parts of our personality we don’t see or may attempt to hide, which actually hold the keys to our personal and spiritual evolution.

When we welcome the parts of ourselves we habitually deny, we become better able to navigate stressful times, maintain healthy relationships, and achieve the inner peace we so strongly desire.

Enneagram teacher, psychotherapist, and author Beatrice Chestnut will provide a fascinating glimpse into the shadow sides of your Enneagram type, as well as the gifts that await when you learn how to illuminate and allow these parts of yourself to surface and accept yourself more fully.

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What You'll Learn During “Illuminating the Shadow of Your Enneagram Type”

• Discover the Enneagram as a map to wholeness that can help you better navigate your life
• Glimpse the shadow sides of the 9 personality types of the Enneagram and learn how your own shadow may be emerging in these difficult times
• Discover how the Enneagram increases self-understanding, illuminates relationship dynamics, and helps build compassion for self and others
• Learn how healing practitioners and therapists can use the Enneagram to gain powerful insights into a client’s personality and challenges
• Experience a guided meditation to tap into the shadow, and light, of each Enneagram type and discover each personality’s governing focus and common blind spots

Now more than ever, as fear, anger, frustration, and overwhelm are pushing many of us to our limits and exposing our shadows, we can use the Enneagram to better see and understand these blind spots in ourselves and others.

You won’t want to miss this opportunity to harness this powerful tool for building healthier, more stable, and more loving relationships — especially during challenging times.

You’ll explore the shadow sides of the Enneagram types for greater self-awareness, inner peace, and compassion — for yourself and others during these difficult times.

When fear, anger, frustration, and overwhelm are pushing many of us to our limits and exposing our shadows, we can use the Enneagram to better see and understand these blind spots in ourselves and others.

Illuminating Your Shadow for Self-Understanding & Compassion

Enneagram insights can shed light on what may be preventing you from living harmoniously with your loved ones (especially while sheltering in place), accessing self-understanding and compassion, and being who you truly want to be.

And, as you identify your Enneagram type and enter into a deeper exploration of the whole system, you glimpse the characteristics and shadow sides inherent in all the types… so you not only grow compassion for yourself, but for others as well.

The Enneagram can be a window into understanding the triggers and difficult behaviors of others, as well as how you may be projecting your own shadow onto someone else.

It can be a powerful tool for building healthier, more stable, and more loving relationships — especially during challenging times.

If you’re already working with the Enneagram, this self-empowering hour with Enneagram teacher, psychotherapist, and author Beatrice Chestnut will provide a fascinating look into the shadow sides of your Enneagram type, as well as the gifts that await when you learn how to illuminate and allow these parts of yourself to surface and accept yourself more fully.

You just might discover something new about your Enneagram type that you never knew before.

Beatrice is one of the most authoritative voices and thought leaders in the modern Enneagram movement. She’s been studying and working with the Enneagram for 30 years — since she learned about the system from pioneering Enneagram expert David Daniels, MD.

During this free online spiritual growth event, she’ll take you beyond simple personality typing — to discover the essential aspects for lasting transformation through the Enneagram.

More than anything, Beatrice is committed to walking her talk, and has used the Enneagram as a lifelong tool for expanding her own inner work. She views its ancient teachings as an important modern-day framework for our personal and spiritual evolution — and for raising global consciousness to create a more positive, sustainable, and self-aware world.

Enneagram and Self-Awareness

Beatrice Chestnut Shares How the Enneagram Helps You Know Yourself More Fully

There are many sides to our personality that we don’t or can’t see — and we often act from those unconscious places.
The Enneagram helps us understand ourselves better — even our shadow sides that we may not wish to acknowledge.

According to Beatrice Chestnut, looking openly and honestly at all parts of ourselves helps us become more compassionate. In the following short video, Beatrice explains how she’s come to see the Enneagram as a secret weapon for better understanding ourselves and others.

Beatrice Chestnut Shares Why Shadow Work Is So Important

It can be quite the challenge to come to terms with your shadow self — those less-than-ideal parts of yourself that you’re not fully conscious of. It’s understandable to want to keep those aspects of your personality out of sight and out of mind.

Of course, when you ignore your shadow self, it doesn’t go away — it’s still part of who you are. When you don’t understand or recognize these parts of yourself, you often unknowingly project them out into the world and onto other people.

For instance, have you ever met someone who possessed a trait or characteristic that just plain irritated you? Perhaps you couldn’t put your finger on why your aversion was so strong. Well, you may have been unknowingly projecting your unprocessed, less-than-ideal qualities onto that person!

It’s so imperative to acknowledge your shadow side and learn to embrace your whole self. The Enneagram is a map to wholeness that can help you better navigate your life. Each of the nine Enneagram personality types has a shadow side, and exploring them can lead to greater self-awareness, inner peace, and compassion for yourself and others — no matter what’s happening in the world.

Have you ever met someone who possessed a trait or characteristic that irritated or triggered you? Perhaps you couldn’t put your finger on why your aversion was so strong…

As Beatrice teaches, you may have been unconsciously projecting your unprocessed, less-than-ideal qualities onto that person.

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About Your Enneagram Teacher – Beatrice Chestnut

One of the most authoritative voices and thought leaders in the modern Enneagram movement, Beatrice Chestnut has been studying and working with the Enneagram for 30 years. She teaches workshops on the Enneagram internationally, focusing on using it as a tool for personal and professional transformation.

Beatrice, who has a PhD in communication and an MA in clinical psychology, is the author of two books, The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Awareness, and The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st-Century Workplace. She served on the board of directors of the International Enneagram Association (IEA) for six years and was president of the IEA in 2006 and 2007.

Over the last eight years, the center of gravity of her work has shifted from depth psychotherapy to executive coaching, leadership development, and team coaching. She offers trainings and retreats based on the Enneagram internationally through Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy, the Enneagram school she co-founded with Brazilian Enneagram expert Uranio Paes, focusing on using it as a tool for personal and professional transformation.

Beatrice, who is passionate about supporting people in doing the work of creating more fulfilling relationships, work, and life experiences, views the Enneagram as an important vehicle for the larger, all-important goal of raising global consciousness so we can, collectively, create a more positive, sustainable, and self-aware world community.

Testimonials for Beatrice Chestnut

“I am especially pleased to see Chestnut’s credible research support for the renewal of this historic system in a postmodern setting. Work of this caliber invigorates the dialogue between science, mysticism, and psychology, streams of thought that have become estranged.” — Helen Palmer

“The Complete Enneagram title befits [Beatrice’s] work beautifully. This work is clear, thoughtful, comprehensive, and compelling. Examples of the types speaking for themselves, along with the historical roots of the Enneagram, further enrich Chestnut’s work. She artfully interweaves theoretical and practical information, and enhances this work with her insightful psychology background.” — David Daniels

“With the best subtype information currently available in print and an exquisite intermixing of the psychological, spiritual, and developmental, The Complete Enneagram more than deserves its title. Pleasurable to read and with abundant theory and practice for both the personal and professional arenas, I will encourage all of my clients to read it, even those who are already Enneagram-savvy. It is solid, classic, bold, even-handed, and original!” — Ginger Lapid-Bogda

“The field of Leadership Development has long needed a shot of inspiration. Well, here it is! Beatrice Chestnut makes her brand of Enneagram wisdom ultimately accessible and intimately usable. Every leader, or those who strive to lead, should read this book.” — Andrew Greenberg

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When people fail to find joy and meaning, they often turn to substances and other addictions as a coping mechanism to check out emotionally from a life that isn’t grounded and purposeful.

As human beings, we are intimately linked to the Earth and the Cosmos. When we don’t live in harmony with nature and stay connected to Source, we lose our connection to ourselves.

During this free online spiritual healing event, Matthew Fox, a theologian and prolific author, will share why cultural historian Thomas Berry’s teachings are so vitally important at this unique juncture.

As Matthew notes, Thomas Berry was an eco-prophet who spoke out about the earth’s destruction over four decades ago.

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What You'll Learn During “Sacred Earth, Sacred Self” with Matthew Fox

• Find that when you take action to save the Earth, and connect to Source, you are taking steps to save yourself and future generations
• Discover humanity’s most basic flaw — and its resulting consequences
• Explore why embodying a sense of sacredness is a vital element of human survival — emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and environmentally
• Discover why academic barbarism (when the left brain devours your values by overpowering the right brain) leads to the destruction of the planet by prioritizing profits over respecting the sacredness of the Earth
• Experience a Tai Chi breathing and movement exercise to invite you to breathe in and embody Earth consciousness

In this thought-provoking hour, Mathew will reveal a basic flaw of humanity and its long-term consequences — emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and environmentally.

He’ll share his reflections on Berry’s view of our planet as sacred, and how decades of exploitation have caused tremendous damage, some of it irreversible.

You’ll be invited to do the great work of saving yourself and the planet because personal transformation is not only possible, it’s necessary…

Not only for your survival, but for the survival of the planet.

You'll reconnect with the sacred Earth to ground yourself, and find a deeper, more meaningful purpose through embracing the truths of mystics…

And in the process, saving the planet for future generations.

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About Your Spiritual Teacher – Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox is a prolific author of books dedicated to renewing the ancient tradition of Creation Spirituality, including Original Blessing, A Spirituality Named Compassion, and Christian Mystics. This earth-based mystical tradition is feminist, welcoming of the arts and artists, honors Indigenous wisdom, works with science, and is committed to interfaith approaches and eco, social, and gender justice.

Matthew’s effort to reawaken the West to its own mystical tradition has sparked awareness of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, and the mysticism of Thomas Aquinas, as well as the wisdom tradition that nurtured Jesus. His work helps reconnect science and spirituality by honoring the sacredness of the Cosmos and interacting with contemporary scientists who are also mystics. He believes that “by reinventing work, education, and worship, we can bring about a nonviolent revolution on our planet.”

Matthew received his doctorate summa cum laude in the History and Theology of Spiritualities from the Institut Catholique de Paris. A member of the Dominican Order for 34 years, he established an Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality that operated for seven years at Mundelein College in Chicago, and for 12 years at Holy Names University in Oakland.

He founded the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland in 1996 and was president and professor until 2005, when he left to create a pilot project to reinvent the educational experience for inner-city teenagers.

Matthew is a recipient of many awards, including the Gandhi King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, which is awarded for dedication to peace, unity, nonviolence, and justice. He also received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award; other recipients have included the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Testimonials for Matthew Fox

“I think of Matthew Fox as “God’s Talent Scout” for all the pivotal figures and ideas he has reclaimed for the reform of Christianity. He knows the sources and translates them into modern idioms for the rest of us! What he has done with Hildegard, Eckhart, and Aquinas makes him a major teacher and guide.” — Richard Rohr

“Matthew Fox is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of spirituality. He has redefined what healthy spirituality is, and what it is not. We should place him at the same level of cultural importance as Thomas Berry, Gandhi, and Dr. King.” — Steve Mortimer

“If one person deserves credit for the great Hildegard renaissance in our time, it is Matthew Fox. Here in the long-lost legacy of Hildegard of Bingen, Fox found blindingly beautiful paintings, radiant writings overflowing with fresh insights of the deepest kind, prophetic wisdom, and engaged political spirituality. Here was a mystical genius who could help to illuminate the human soul spirituality, ecologically, politically — in every dimension of life.” — Mary Ford-Grabowsky

“History will name Fox one of the great Christian spirits of our age.” — John Shelby Spong

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