Patricia Ellsberg – The Emergence Process Teaching Intensive

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.

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.

This week our guest speaker will be Joanne Brem, a distinguished executive coach (see bio) who and 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.

This session will emphasize facilitation.

• 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.

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 and help as Essence in Emergence Circles.

• 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.
• Speak with the power of who you truly are.

• 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.

• 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 Wilhelm Buckley, a Consultant and Executive Coach developing wise leaders and organizations (see bio) who grow resonance and love while putting their personal mission into effective 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. Become part of a vast movement of pioneering souls devoted to creating a culture of co-creativity, synergy and love. Celebrate your own and our collective Emergence.