Patricia Ellsberg – The Emergence Process Advanced Practicum

• Clarify and set your intention for this course. Explore how you want to grow and evolve over the next six months
• Create an Inner Sanctuary, a place of peace and inspiration where you leave behind the concerns and pressures of daily life
• Set aside time each day for peaceful contemplation inside your sanctuary with a journal beside you
• Discover and deepen your connection to your Essential Self as you recall times of inspiration and guidance
• Identify and integrate the specific qualities of your Essence that you most love – such as joy, peace, security, love, wholeness and wisdom
• Strengthen your relationship with your own inner guidance by asking questions of and receiving answers from your Essential Self
• Share and discuss with others in the course your experience of Essence, and what your heart desires for your own Emergence

In this session with guest speaker Carolyn Anderson, co-author of The Co-Creators Handbook (see bio), you will learn and practice how to:

• Create and form an Emergence Circle
• Facilitate a Circle
• Lead attunements
• Lead deep guided meditations
• Deepen your ability to speak and others speak as Essence in Emergence Circles

• Spend as much time as you can in your Inner Sanctuary in Essential Self contemplation
• Become the director of your attention – instead of focusing on current problems and concerns, practice directing your attention to the Beloved presence within
• Learn the discipline of relaxation – whenever you feel tense or pressured learn to relax, stop, breathe, smile, and return to Essence
• Become intimate with your Essential Self – continue to contemplate the qualities of your Essence you most love and affirm these qualities within yourself
• Explore and envision how you can more fully incorporate these qualities into your life
• Deepen your experience of establishing and maintaining resonance in an Emergence Circle
• Strengthen your connection to Essence

• Imagine the Essential Self is incarnating, entering your body/mind and transforming it
• Put this purpose first – as much as you can, make your life a continuous process of placing your attention on the presence of your Essential Self
• Lift the local selves into a higher vibration by loving them and dissolving their sense of separation from Essence
• Allow yourself to feel a new freedom from anxiety, pressure and compulsions

This week our guest speaker will be Joanne Brem, who is a distinguished executive coach (see bio) and who specializes in bringing resonance to corporate meetings.

In this session you will learn how to:

• Establish and sustain a collective resonant field while leading a group
• Speak as Essence
• Discern when someone speaks more from ego than Essence and guide them back to speaking as their Essential Self
• Increase awareness of when a group drops out of resonance and how to regain it
• Honor sacred silence
• Trust the process

• Imagine the Essential Self is incarnating, entering your body/mind and transforming it
• Put this purpose first – as much as you can, make your life a continuous process of placing your attention on the presence of your Essential Self
• Lift the local selves into a higher vibration by loving them and dissolving their sense of separation from Essence
• Allow yourself to feel a new freedom from anxiety, pressure and compulsions

• Prepare for the Beloved to take dominion by taking a moral inventory to deliberately release what no longer serves you
• Prepare your inner sanctuary for a special event
• Express your passionate desire for a complete union of the Human and Divine within you
• Be introduced to a deeply transformative process for healing “sacred wounds”: The Almaas Process – a core training for Emergence developed by eminent spiritual leader, A. H. Almaas, the founder of the Diamond Approach
• Share your experiences with Inviting the Beloved to Take Dominion…your successes, challenges, insights and comments

• Form a deeper chamber within your inner sanctuary, the “Rose Chamber of Union of the Human and Divine”
• Explore your Essential Self as a radiant presence emanating light
• Experience your wounded local selves becoming facets of your Essential Self rather than fragmented negative aspects of your personality
• Be guided by your Compass of Joy
• Be in resonance with and affirm the highest in others
• Transmit bliss and fall in love with others at the Essence level
• Share your experiences of the Bliss of Union, your insights, your challenges and your successes

• Shift the “I” of your identity to your Essential Self
• Recognize you are the guide who’s been guiding; the voice you’ve been hearing; the Beloved you have loved
• Deepen your ability to speak and write as the voice of your Essential Self with grace and ease
• Experience an “inner smile” and practice “initiatory love”
• Practice and embody powerful affirmations, such as I AM love; I AM wisdom; I AM power; I AM the Beloved
• Move into causal consciousness
• Cultivate greater receptivity to the larger design

• Examine your attitude toward authority in your life
• Develop your own authentic power
• Transfer authority and responsibility to your Essential Self
• Re-parent yourself by evolving and maturing your internalized mother and father while strengthening the inner masculine and feminine aspects of your being
• Become a loving parent to yourself and forgive your own unskillful behavior as you do with a child

• Deepen your work with the Almaas Process – the practice through which the ego becomes a guide to Essence and learn to trust the guidance of this new identity
• Be introduced to RAIN, another profound process for dealing with difficult experiences or aspects of yourself
• Create an expanded Inner Sanctuary and enter a “Sunlit Garden of Co-creation”
• Develop the practice of creating “heaven within” yourself
• Stop trying to figure out or solve anything and experience the problems of your local self being dissolved, not solved
• Move from local, linear time to non-local, non-linear time, the pure awareness of the present
• Experience self-evolution through self-elevation

In honor of the New Year and new beginnings, you will be asked to explore what it is you want to let go of, and what new is emerging in your life at this time.

• Set intentions for the New Year
• Take a deeper moral inventory, looking further at “What do I want to let go of that is no longer serving me?”
• Allow your life to re-pattern itself
• Become aware of self-doubts and limiting beliefs
• Develop new beliefs and strategies that will empower you
• Discern and nurture what is new that is emerging
• Experience ease of effort replacing overwhelm and discover greater flow in your work and life, seamlessly blending being and doing
• Realize you are fully “response-able” – you can respond to every need that arises as your Essential Self
• Presence your own Essence as your true nature

This session will be an important time for integration, discussion and review prior to our entering our final step in the Emergence Process – Youth. We will have time for laser coaching, individual reflections and questions and deep facilitation practice.

With guest speaker, Karen Buckley, director and co-founder of The Wisdom Connection, you will learn how to infuse being and doing with the energy of Essence and live as “Essence in Action”

• Nurture your “vocational arousal” as the expression of the unique impulse of evolution within you
• Become clear about what you are passionate about creating
• Commit to taking steps to manifest your vision
• Find allies and create a team that supports you in bringing your vision into form
• Learn to foster resonance as you co-create with others
• Experience you are one with the Essence that pervades the whole Universe

• Review and reflect on our journey together of deepening and facilitating of this process
• Celebrate completion of the course and honor Facilitation Certification and Non-Certification choices
• Share how you have “emerged” in our time together; what are the most meaningful insights and experiences you have had; questions and discussion
• Determine the next steps for you after Emergence
• Discover how you want to contribute to the larger Shift and what resources you need to make that happen
• Learn how to form a HUB, a group that joins together with a common goal or join one the many HUBS that already exist
• Become part of a vast movement of pioneering souls devoted to creating a culture of co-creativity, synergy and love, inspired by Barbara Marx Hubbard and Stephen Dinan and The Shift Network
• Celebrate your own and our collective Emergence

In this session you will be guided in a powerful shamanistic ritual that will lead you towards an embodied experience of the sacred union of the Human and Divine and your birth as your Universal Self.

Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a respected Peruvian kamasqa curandero, UN Observer to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology, originator of Pachakuti Mesa cross-cultural shamanism, and founder of The Heart of the Healer Foundation.

Oscar has dedicated his life to the revitalization of ethno-spiritual wisdom traditions as a way to restore sacred trust between humankind and the natural world. A popular international teacher and master ceremonialist, his work has been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E and the Discovery Channel.

In this 60 minute session, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Deepak Chopra will explore the profound nature of the crises of humanity, how your consciousness can help to shift the system, and most importantly, what key insights and practices you need now to shift personally and to be a more effective change agent in the world. This live dialogue between Barbara and Deepak will offer powerful inspiration not only for being the change but how to create actions that flow from your essence.

Deepak Chopra, MD, is a world-renowned authority in the field of mind-body healing, a best-selling author, and the founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Heralded by Time magazine as the “poet-prophet of alternative medicine,” he is also the host of the popular weekly Wellness Radioprogram on Sirius/XM Stars.

In this illuminating 60-minute conversation, Ken and Barbara discuss the role of Spirit-in-action and offer insights into how your own God-essence is an integral, co-creative expression of evolution itself. Revered as the “Einstein of consciousness,” Ken Wilber is one of the world’s leading integral philosophers and Barbara Marx Hubbard is considered one of the foremost evolutionary futurists.

Revered as the “Einstein of consciousness,” Ken Wilber is one of the world’s leading integral philosophers. Wilber has written 16 books exploring different facets of human development and cultural evolution such as A Brief History of Everything and A Theory of Everything. His philosophy integrates body, mind, soul, and Spirit with self, culture, and nature. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of Integral theory. Integral Life is the sponsoring organization of Integral Institute.

Dr. Michael Beckwith says, “Vision without action is fantasy. Action without vision is chaos.” In this powerful bonus training, you’ll hear Michael Beckwith share with Barbara Marx Hubbard how you can move the inner revelations of your vision into outward action, as well as how you move from personal emergence into societal emergence.

Dr. Michael Beckwith’s life is a living testament to building spiritual community. In 1986 he founded the Agape International Spiritual Center where thousands gather weekly to receive inspiration from Dr. Beckwith in Culver City, California. He participates on international panels with other peacemakers and spiritual leaders and is co-founder of the Association for Global Thought, an organization dedicated to planetary healing and transformation. He has received numerous humanitarian awards, has written several books and is one of the most prominent spiritual leaders in America, inspiring transformation in millions of people.

As part of your course registration, you’ll be entered in a drawing from which ten people will receive a one hour personal coaching session with Patricia. This session is sure to support your sustained shift from Ego to Essence and is a unique and special opportunity.