thrive and awakenHumans are evolving emotionally and socially. Although we still have a lot of violence and injustice, there are significant signs we are becoming a more peaceful and loving society.
You can learn to consciously evolve! Explore the steps you take from moving out of Survival Mode and all of its reactive habits into Thriving Mode where you have the opportunity to be more mindful, heartfelt, and grounded in all aspects of life.
Then discover how to Awaken to a greater sense of consciousness, experiencing your deepest joy, awe, and love.
Surviving to Thriving: 4 Steps
SUMMARY:
Survival Mode is natural in all of us. It’s wired into our brains and bodies to protect us in life-threatening situations. This course increases your awareness around how Survival Mode shows up in you. The awareness plus the use of some tools create a foundation for you to choose how to respond rather than react, which is the essence of Thriving.
Highlights:
- Learn to Thrive by embracing your survival reactions.
- Recognize deeply how these reactions show up in you.
- Realize how everyday stress can activate your Survival Mode.
- Discover how tools such as Compassionate Curiosity decrease your reactivity.
- See how Survival Mode is woven into all our social interactions.
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Summary:
The Holding Environment is a field of love and support necessary for your inner journey. It is the capacity to unconditionally show up for yourself and others regardless of the circumstances. This course will review the qualities that make up a healthy Holding Environment and provide the tools for developing those qualities.
Highlights:
- Explore what a Holding Environment is.
- Inquire into your early Holding Environment.
- Have compassion for those who were less than ideal in their holding.
- How and why to create your own Holding Environment.
- Challenges in providing a Holding Environment for yourself and others.
- Why the Holding Environment is essential for Thriving & Awakening.
You deserve love and support, just because…
Summary:
Thriving is developing the tools to calm Survival Mode reactivity and CHOOSE how to think, feel, and engage in life. This course provides many examples of Survival Mode thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then describes their Thriving Mode counterparts.
Highlights:
- You find ways to see that life is happening FOR you rather than happening TO you.
- You learn to be grounded and present rather than reactive and focused on the past and future.
- You make healthy choices that are satisfying and have long-term benefits.
- You can consciously build in gratitude, awe, joy, and love rather than waiting for those experiences.
- Thriving is learning to embrace and adapt to reality vs resisting it.
This course on Exploring Thriving Mode explores these concepts and more. It provides the foundation that supports living your potential. You can learn to Thrive!
Summary:
Your body is wired to look for threats then have a fight, flight, or freeze reaction to protect yourself and others. Although adaptive in life threatening situations, these same reactions come into play during everyday stress. This course teaches specific methods to calm and release unnecessary reactivities and replace them with thriving and awakening qualities.
Highlights:
- You will learn the step-by-step process to prepare for clearing reactivities.
- This preparation will support you in identifying the specific thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to target in a clearing.
- You will and be able to follow along with several clearing tools such as: Tapping for Thriving, Forehead Hold, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), and Connecting Energy Centers
- The clearing will involve a shift in perspective from the limited survival lens to an expansive thriving and awakening consciousness.
- You will also witness four volunteers using the Clearing Reactivities method.
This course helps you clear the survival reactivities that have been accumulating your whole life. One feature that makes this course special is the attention to and practice of what will replace reactivity and how to prevent it from returning during everyday stressors.
Thriving to Awakening: 4 Steps
Summary
The ego goes through several phases in its transformation from being rooted in Survival Mode to experiencing ongoing Awakening. This retreat takes you through those phases while also discussing how we change habits. You will develop skills in creating the life you want to live.
Highlights
- Learn how we change habits effectively.
- Experience how the brain can reprogram itself.
- Release the primary habit of the ego that perceives itself as separate from others, the planet, and greater reality.
- See challenges as opportunities to expand your capacity to consciously evolve.
- Learn how to convert the inner critic into your own life coach.
- Expect that as you expand into Thriving and Awakening, you will contract into Surviving. This flow between expansion and contraction is the nature of the Universe.
This retreat is filled with experiential exercises, so you can practice conscious evolving.
Summary:
In Step 5 we covered how the ego transforms. In this step we discuss what the ego transforms into. The ego identity is normal but is limiting, keeping you locked in Survival Mode. We will explore the role of the ego in thriving and awakening modes.
Highlights:
- Learn about Enneagram personality patterns including their underlying unconscious influences.
- Recognize how the ego is programmed by your personality, personal history, culture, and genetic influences.
- You will uncover how Survival Mode has a set of beacons calling you to return to your essential nature.
- Discover how each personality style evolves when thriving and awakening.
- Your yearning now shifts from wanting something that is missing to a passion in exploring how reality is showing up as and through you in this moment. It is residing in the dynamism and awe of this unfolding moment, perfect as it is.
- Experience the deeper self that emerges as the ego transforms.
You can transform your limited perceptions and experience yourself as a unique creative expression of True Nature.
Summary:
This retreat pulls the curtain back on the illusory world of our limited perceptions. The primary illusion of “Separateness” is revealed by the current research demonstrating one interwoven reality. Two other illusions that guide our thinking and emotions will be illuminated.
Highlights:
- Discover how the illusions become the basis of our life stories.
- When the illusions are illuminated, there is a deep sense of freedom from the binds of your limited egoic nature.
- You’ll learn how to be with common perceptions of aloneness, nothingness, and emptiness that surface with the work.
- Embracing the mystery of reality will be an integral aspect of this step.
It is your deepest nature to discover itself hiding behind the veil.
Summary
The ego goes through several phases in its transformation from being rooted in Survival Mode to experiencing ongoing Awakening. This retreat takes you through those phases while also discussing how we change habits. You will develop skills in creating the life you want to live.
Highlights
- Review how we change/evolve.
- Experience how the brain can reprogram itself.
- Release the primary habit of the ego that perceives itself as separate from others, the planet, and greater reality.
- See challenges as opportunities to expand your capacity to consciously evolve.
- Learn how to convert the inner critic into your own life coach.
- Expect that as you expand into Thriving and Awakening, you will contract into Surviving. This flow between expansion and contraction is the nature of the Universe.
This retreat is filled with experiential exercises, so you can practice conscious evolving.
Thriving to Awakening Retreats
After members complete the 4 Steps from Surviving to Thriving, they are eligible to attend the Thriving to Awakening retreats. These will be live virtual retreats with Doug to extend over a 3-day period. There will be an ongoing chat group among members to share their experiences and receive support on the journey. Specific dates will be provided once there are sufficient members ready to participate.
Give the Content Time to Integrate
It’s important to experience and integrate the content, not just learn about it.
Some people have spontaneous awakenings. For most the awakening is a process. The courses & retreats associated with each of these 8 steps are designed to support that process. Each have reflections and practices so you are integrating them into your daily experience. This may take months for just one step. You are worth it!
It is suggested, but not required, they be taken sequentially to reap their maximum benefit. However, the contents of the steps are fluid and overlap each other. Many find themselves revisiting steps. Each time you go back to previous steps you are deepening into the work, developing the qualities needed to sustain your Presence.