Course Content

The course is divided into 5 modules/pillars, each building on the previous. We will explore each module over a three-week period, and each week, you’ll be given certain practices, meditations, Non-Sleep Deep Rest sessions and inquiries to take you toward mastery of the content. Non of this content will be overwhelming. You’ll be given practices that support your time, not take from it.

As we journey through the program together, I will be taking your feedback as to what has worked and been effective. I’ll also be listening to what you want and need. In this way, the content may morph, change and grow as we move through our time together. What follows is an outline for our time together.

Modules

• Pillar 1 - Master Tranquility 

• Pillar 2 - Unwavering Resilience

• Pillar 3 - Positive Intuition

• Pillar 4 - Visionary Genius 

• Pillar 5 -Steadfast Fortitude

Module 1 - Master Tranquility

From Overwhelm to Wellbeing: understand the neuroscientific discovery of the ‘Default Mode Network’ and how our brains are naturally wired to keep vigil for threats. 

Flipp Your Thinking: Explore practices that are research-proven to transform negative and recursive loops of thought and promote a deep sense of well-being. Discover how these practices pave the way for easy access to deeper rest.

Get Out Of Your Head. Our minds constantly produce thoughts, and it’s very hard to stop it. When we pay attention to body sensations, a natural transition from thinking to feeling takes place. Learn to exchange unending trains of thought for a deeply restful experience of inhabiting your physicality. Dissolve physical tension and learn how to rest the mind. 

Unwavering attention. Building on modules 1,2 and 3, learn to establish a steady and stable flow of concentration. Get over common pitfalls that create frustration by establishing a middle ground of relaxed effort, allowing for easy and accessible one-pointed focus. 

The Depths Of Being. We all knew how to ‘be’ when we were young children, yet as adults, we’re not taught how to value the art of doing nothing. Break down self-judgments and ideas about time and value and rediscover your most rested self. 

Module 2 - Bulletproof resilience

Stress triggers. Stress is defined as a perceived inability to cope. By exploring what our personal triggers are, we can unravel from learned helplessness and gain self-mastery. 

Upside Of Stress. Explore how nervous systems are wired to cope with certain amounts of stress. Find strength through harnessing stress. Explore a counterintuitive and little know approach to transform stress into an advantage. 

Reprogram overwhelm. Too much for too long can leave us feeling flooded and unable to cope. Beliefs that we hold to be true about this further disrupt our natural coping mechanisms. Explore psychology and the use of opposites to instill a new belief system. You can cope. 

Stepping Out. Cognitive problem-solving has its limits. Taking moments amidst overwhelm to gain perspective, gives room for new insight. Learn science-based micro-meditations that build neural plasticity.

Uninterrupted Core. Whilst our bodies, minds, and nervous systems can feel overwhelmed, there’s always part of our experience that is utterly at peace, in every moment. Discover the part of you that’s never stressed!

Module 3 - Positive Intuition

Self Trust. Build a set of personal affirmations that are touchstones amidst moments of doubt and uncertainty. Create strong psychological foundations on which to build inner knowing and conviction. 

Objective thinking. Learn to manage thoughts and break thinking down into neutral, negative, positive, and instructive. By taking perspective on the thinking mind, learn to gain distance and choose response over reactivity.

Interrupting self-doubt. Negative thinking and deep-rooted beliefs can interrupt our access to self-trust. Unlock core beliefs through a 5 step system of personal inquiry. 

Emotional Intelligence. Emotions fall into two camps, positive and negative, yet all emotions are instructive. Learn to listen to and distill the wisdom from feelings and move from overwhelm to integrity. 

Intuitive Knowing. Our rational mind makes up -at best -  10% of our mental processing. Accessing deeper knowing comes from relaxing our cognitive processes and getting in touch with this huge information storehouse, that lies just beyond the surface of thought. Trust in your hunches! 

Module 4 - Visionary Genius 

Learn from the masters. Throughout history, both creative and scientific geniuses have consistently exploited contemplative traditions to gain insight and creativity. Find out who, and how. 

The best-kept secret about genius. Our minds produce different bio-rhythms depending on our state: waking, sleeping, and dreaming. The hypnogogic state bridges all of these. Learn how to quickly access this and upgrade your genius. 

Hypnogogic phenomenon. Our bodies and minds produce certain responses to this state, such as waking dreams, images, sounds, and bodily reactions. Learn which is friend and foe, and how to distill insight.  

Developing insights: Tricks and tips on deepening moments of insight and keeping your ‘aha moments’ close, so you can build and foster them into big ideas. 

Bring it to your team: share your new-found knowledge to create top-down change, and learn how to bring insight into the boardroom to deepen group creativity. 

Module 5 - Steadfast Fortitude

Discover your Superpower. The same recognition lives at the heart of every contemplative tradition - our deepest experience is untroubled, calm, quiet and at ease - in every moment. Accessing this can be challenging. Learn simple yet profound ‘pointing out’ instructions that take you immediately and effortlessly to this deep well-spring of stillness. 

Beyond Activity. Learn how you don’t always need to take action to be at peace. Having built your way to resilience and deeper creativity, you now know how to ‘do this’ without doing anything at all. Set yourself free of technique for the deepest meditative experience. 

Open Hand. Let go of acquiring a certain ‘state’, in order to discover it. By losing expectations and surrendering all outcomes, paradoxical deep rest arrives. 

You don’t need to know! Give up knowing and figuring anything out. By letting go of thinking and developing ‘not knowing’, return to innocence and be fresh and present. 

Regaining time. By releasing the need to be anywhere: the past, the future, or the ‘now’, discover a super-charged meditation practice that’s easy and effortless. Leave all those other ‘meditators’ behind! 

No self. The most constant and perennial thought is that of ourselves. Yet, it is only a thought. Deep moments of meditation can spontaneously arise as we challenge and go beyond this narrative and discover our true selves as free of any self-talk and identity.