26 years ago, I’d already done a psychology degree and was half-way through my Ph.D. on postnatal depression and the mother-infant relationship.
I already knew that I loved psychology; that I loved learning more and more about human beings, and particularly about how our early life – in the womb, during birth, and our early years of childhood; had a profound impact on our later life.
But that wasn’t enough.
I knew there was something more.
I’d got into what was then called “The New Age,” and I wanted to train in a form of psychotherapy that included both the impact of our childhood, but also our sense of something more, our soul, our needs for meaning and purpose.
And then Psychosynthesis found me.
I still remember the day that the prospectus for The Institute of Psychosynthesis in London arrived, and I sat up in bed one night in my room in Cambridge, reading through it.
As soon as I started reading it, I knew that this was the approach I wanted to train in.
The prospectus was sprinkled with beautiful quotes written in calligraphy, such as, “In every human being, there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.” ~ Paracelsus.
And “We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.” ~ The Talmud.
And “What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I went on to do their 4 year training, and did another 2 years of training with them after that, whilst seeing clients and becoming certified as a psychotherapist.
And the training did exactly what I wanted – it helped me see the interconnections between who we really are, and the personality that develops around our soul, and how healing from past hurts and integrating spiritual experiences helps us become more.
Ever since then, my journey has continued, to understand even more fully the intersection between human and divine, between our personality and our soul, and how we can life fulfilled and meaningful lives.
That’s also why I LOVE Aware Parenting, Because even though it never uses the word ‘spiritual’, practicing it with my children and walking alongside hundreds of other parents practising it, has given me the most real experience of understanding how painful experiences affect our true nature, and how we can help our children stay more deeply connected with who they really are.
You’ve probably often read my words about how a child’s true nature is compassion, connection, cooperation and contribution, and that it’s only unmet needs and accumulated painful feelings that gets in the way of their true nature? That is, in essence, a psycho-spiritual approach.
You have probably seen your own child emerge after having a big cry in your loving arms, and seeing afterwards that clearness in their eyes, the way they are so incredibly and deeply present, the way they want to be close, the relaxation in their muscles, their wanting to cooperate with you.
That is who they really are. That is their soul nature. That is their true essence.
Meeting their needs as much as we can, listening to their feelings as much as we can, responding compassionately and empathically as much as we can; all of these help our children develop a personality that is a more true reflection of who they really are.
In the past 20 years, I’ve also trained in lots of other modalities that have helped me get clearer and clearer about what ‘psycho-spiritual’ really means (to me)!
For example, when I trained in HypnoBirthing and CalmBirth, and used them during the births of my own children, I saw the incredible power we have to release old fears, and use the power of the mind and deep relaxation to have empowering birth experiences.
I also trained for 7 years with The Field Project, a consciousness-as-cause model, which left me in awe of the power of our own internal state to affect the ‘outside’ world.
I also went to many workshops on Nonviolent Communication, and had the honour of going to two with the founder himself, Marshall Rosenberg, both a 9 day intensive, and a one day workshop in London.
My PASSION is bringing all of these together.
For myself, I wanted to bring together COMPASSION and CONSCIOUSNESS.
Some of the maps I studied were BIG on consciousness and the power of our internal consciousness to create outer effects, and others were BIG on compassion and the power of deeply and empathically hear another.
I wanted to bring together ALL that I’d learned over 30 years of being immersed in these fields.
And to me, that is what my Inner Loving Presence Process for Entrepreneurs is.
It combines understandings from all these different approaches; the basic tenet being that we are each a unique soul, and that growing up in our culture, we have experiences that both foster our unique qualities, and others that hinder them.
Our soul calls us to share our unique gifts, but along with that calling, our psyche also presents us with old hurts that need to be healed, so that we CAN share those unique gifts.
It combines learning DEEP COMPASSION for ourselves, in the form of our relationships with our Inner Loving Crew.
With a COMPASSIONATE and powerful approach for healing past hurts, the Inner Loving Presence Process.
With information about how to understand and hear the unique CONVERSATION that Life is having with each of us.
And with the CLARITY of understanding the true power of WILLINGNESS rather than wilfulness to jet-power effective action in the world.
So, there’s a set of PRINCIPLES to help you understand the fullness of this approach.
And there’s a clear set of 4 PRACTICES/PROCESSES to help you receive messages from Life, do your own inner compassionate work, and talk back to Life through your willingness and action.
I feel so excited and fulfilled creating this, because it really is the culmination of 30 years of immersion in these worlds.
It’s me being deeply connected with my soul’s calling.
It reminds me of that lovely quote by Kierkegaard; “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Looking back over the last 30 years, the dots all fit together. Those times when I left academia, and then left psychotherapy; they make sense. The leaving behind Calmbirth to focus on Aware Parenting makes sense. Each step makes sense.
You are a unique soul, with unique gifts to share with your family, your friends and the wider world.
So is your child.
And I’m so excited that the Inner Loving Presence Process for Entrepreneurs Course is open for preorder.
It’s a self-paced course, made of 4 hours of video/audio with written versions available (although I recommend the videos or audios as there’s a whole lot of extra info. in there that isn’t in the PDFs.)
If you buy the course, you will also have the option of upgrading to the Zoom group facilitating calls, which will start in a few weeks.
There will also be the option of upgrading to ongoing 1-1 sessions with me using the ILPPE (very limited number available!)
If you’ve already done the Inner Loving Presence Process for Entrepreneurs Taster, I’ll be sending you a special email.
If you’re already doing the Respond Lovingly to your Calling Course, I’ll also be sending you an email about this.
And if you’re wondering what the difference is between the ILPPE and the Respond Lovingly to your Calling Course, the ILPPE is JUST the principles and practices, in a really concise and clear format, and the ILPPE calls are facilitating calls, where one person on the call gets facilitated in the Inner Loving Presence Process, The Inner Loving Crew Practice, The Willingness Practice, or The Conversation with Life.
Whereas the Respond Lovingly to your Calling Course has all of the principles and practices, plus lots of technical tutorials, on things like making your own online course, making a WordPress website, MailChimp, Instagram, Facebook, all with a be-authentic flavour. The Zoom calls are divided up so each person gets to share about wherever they are in their journey and I respond to each person.
(There will be another 4 month live round of the RLTYC Course starting again at the beginning of August).
I’m putting the finishing touches to the ILPPE, and whilst I do that, it’s available for preorder.
So, if you want to get $30 off the price of $150, you can buy it at that price until Monday morning, 8am Sydney time.
Click HERE or on the image below to find out more.
Love,
Marion
xxx