Actualizing the Personal Essence
  Dates TBD Late Sept./Oct.

“The presence and energy of the group field reveal both my ego resistance and my essential nature in a way that would not happen on my own.”
     ~Leslie, ALI Student for five years

General Format for a Weekend Workshop & Learning Objectives Each weekend will be devoted to the understanding and direct, personal experience of a certain Essential aspect. We will examine the aspect (e.g. the personal essence) recognizing that it is part of our inherent treasure. (In October and November we will focus on the Personal Essence.) Each aspect of Essence is a presence, beingness and a conscious intelligence that can be directly experienced by the participant, revealing its qualities, nature and capacities. This focus brings the possibility of evoking the aspect of Essence into the collective energy field of the group.

Participants will examine how a lack of connection to a particular Essential aspect, e.g. the Personal Essence, creates a specific set of corresponding, easily recognizable life challenges and psychological issues. These issues act as barriers to the free and spontaneous expression of our precious inner nature. During the workshops we will explore these issues and their expression in your daily life, using modern psychological understanding. Exposing and understanding these barriers in a systematic way allows one to reconnect to the relevant Essential aspect.

Reconnection unites us with the intelligence of Essence, which immediately begins to guide, teach, and inform us about right living. Our perceptions of life, decision making and actions now have a clarity and potency that gives us the resources to begin transforming our external life in a way that expresses and harmonizes with our inner nature.

Hence, the weekend is not only a detailed and specific guidance for the student, but also an expression and manifestation of the unfoldment of the human Essence as it reveals its mystery, wonder, and exquisiteness.

Although these weekends can be taken as stand-alone experiences, they will also be part of a larger body of teaching delivered over time to a consistent group of individuals.