3 Day In Person Event
August 30th - September 1st, 2024
Cabarita, Northern NSW
30 spot max.
Live Calls for prep and integration:
26/8, 9am - 10:30am & 6/9, 9am - 10:30am (also recorded & emailed if unable to attend)
Is a culture for healers and visionaries to regenerate, sharpen their skills, and elevate their work through deep, experiential training.
INGONYAMA
There is BIG work ahead of us.
You need only a few minutes on any platform to be pulled into the swell.
It's crucial to honour our dedication to service by humbling ourselves from time to time and immersing ourselves in the work alongside our peers. And it is also important to be LIGHT about it all. We will bring both.
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We are a COMMUNITY who have one another's backs.
We gather to TOP UP and STEP UP by stepping IN.
We HOLD a VISION for everyone's SUCCESS.
We RESPECT you enough to REFLECT the VULNERABILITIES and SHADOWS of your craft.
We HUMBLE ourselves and RESOURCE intelligently to dissolve power dynamics, burden and burnout.
We will PRACTICE, we will HOLD, and we will be HELD.
We are going in DEEP to be WITH as opposed to work AROUND.
We will STRETCH ourselves to be FLEXIBLE, extending our RANGE and DEPTH.
We will EXTEND inward, outward, above and below.
We will LISTEN and REMEMBER where to pay RESPECT.
It is a place to BE WORKED WITH and get to the CORE of UNINTEGRATED places that limit your capacity to sustain the distance of this kind of work.
INGONYAMA 3-Day Live Training Immersion is where you master the art of holding others deeply, safely, and with intention. You'll unleash your Wisdom, craft, and skills to flow with speed and precision. This training teaches you to step aside, allowing the process to unfold without interference.
It is not a technique you can write in a book. It is a way of working that includes the visible and invisible, the Wisdom of your body, heart, intuition and Life experience. You MUST be anchored in trust for this work. It has to be learned, felt, experienced and expressed through your system to be truly understood.
"There is something you can experience and something you can know. But if you try to cross them and try to experience that which you should know and try to know that which you should experience, you're gonna have a problem." - Prem Rawat
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10 x more your trust in your craft.
100% increase in your capacity to guide people through new thresholds.
Unbounded growth in duty, clarity, and integrity.
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INGONYAMA
3-Day Live Training Immersion
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we’ll be your guide
Master the art of holding others deeply, safely, and with intention. You'll unleash your Wisdom, craft, and skills to flow with ease and precision. This training teaches you to step aside, allowing the process to unfold without interference.
Whether you’re working with one modality or several, we will demonstrate in real-time how to apply the skills we teach. We guide you to tune into the group or individual, delivering what is needed, guided by their energy and needs, as well as your knowledge, experience, and wisdom. This process is supported by the greater intelligence of Life itself, making it truly an art that demands discipline and a deep capacity for both depth and flexibility—a skill set you will exercise and refine during this training.
Your three trainers (Amber, Kurt, and Ryan) collectively draw from over 15 modalities in which we are apprenticed, trained, and qualified to teach and support this process over the three days. We will unpack the HOW, WHAT, and WHY of our choices, impulses, and guidance as we demonstrate, so you can learn, experience, and fully benefit from these skills firsthand.
It is not a technique you can learn in a book or a masterclass. It is a way of working that integrates both the visible and invisible aspects of life—the subtle wisdom that needs witnessing and fine tuning in real time. Trust is essential in anchoring this work, and so is the humility to realise just how advanced this skill is. It must be learned, felt, experienced, and expressed through your entire being to truly comprehend its depth.
The Curriculum:
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Module ①
Advanced Energetic Resonance + Contact (embodied presence)
This process involves layered work—inside out and bottom up. We need to re-train the system to anchor and not rely solely on intellect. While intellect has good info, it represents a tiny fraction of the total information needed for potent work. We'll provide a framework (to be discarded once you’ve embodied the essence of it) to open safely and create openings for others, forming a co-created field. Then, navigate and weave your unique genius with precision and intention, staying connected to Spirit/Source/Universal Intelligence. It is important that we explore the ways our system is wired to interfere (fixing, saving, giving answers, pushing, positioning as the authority, power dynamics, projection etc). Non-interference is the intention at every level—physical, psychological, energetic, emotional, and spiritual. We will do individual, partner, and group work to see and shift these outdated blueprints. Humility is a prerequisite here.
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Module ②
Trust, Kairos & The Ecocycle of Practitioner/Artist Evolution
First order of business: address the part of you that doesn’t trust yourself, life, or nature—wrap it up powerfully. We need to close that loop so every renewal, pivot, transformation, or upgrade doesn’t freeze in that inevitable moment of required evolution. This is where most of us contract and either get stuck in procrastination, which elevates into doubt, or grasp tightly to what was, exhausting ourselves trying to uphold what once worked out of fear of losing it all. Moving at the pace of trust is an inner process. Enquiry enables us to see our own biases, which stop our expansion and limit our ability to guide others through growth and evolution—because we are not yet comfortable going all the way through our own.This will be a humble journey of witnessing where we move too fast, influenced by a linear, fast-paced, greed-driven mindset. Your blind spots will be revealed, unconscious incompetence highlighted, and shadows brought to light that keep you in the grips of pride, judgment, and insecurity..
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Module ③
Authenticity & Refining The Quality of Your Transmission
Here, we drop the performance, anchor to an inherent inner belonging, and honor our teachers to preserve the potency of old Wisdom. Teaching what is not embodied, taking the work of others without permission (c’mon, it happens) and getting caught up in the roles of ‘The Artist,’ ‘The Practitioner,’ ‘The Healer,’ ‘The Ceremonialist,’ or ‘The Coach’ is a symptom of a deeper problem: believing that who you are and what you have to give is enough. Suppressing the humble, untamed version of you feeds comparison and competitive insecurities and paths that take us out of integrity. Learn skills to stay connected with your center, amplifying the accuracy of your intuitive impulses and ease of delivery. We will work with techniques to train for greater capacity and energetic resilience, enhancing the quality of your expression and preventing burnout.
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Module ④
Discernment and Deep Listening
Listening goes beyond hearing, seeing, experiencing, holding space, understanding, or healing. It involves deeper exploration to cultivate intimacy and unearth discernment within your inner world, extending outward before practicing with others. Deep listening is a skill that takes decades to refine (you’ve worked with this extensively by now, but let’s go deeper), with discernment as its delicious fruit, applicable to everything you do. Imagine trusting yourself—your feelings, wants, needs, creative ideas, decisions, ability and capacity. Now, imagine passing this confidence to those you guide simply through how you are with them. Remember, we are shifting paradigms. This is not entry-level; it is a mastery with mature intentions, aiming to contribute to the bigger picture. Establishing a consistent practice of slowing, emptying, quietening and clearing is an essential ritual to cultivate this skill. We will give you these tools to use for life. The feminine is LIFE and DEATH - REBIRTH. The masculine is INTELLIGENCE and DYNAMIC ACTION. We bring them together, giving you range, depth, willpower, and courage. Our duty is to protect what is sacred and beautiful. This integrated approach avoids floating away into dreaming or burning out from overdoing when we lean too far to either side.
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What we will get up to across the three days
EXCITED?
…here’s the the stuff you should expect:
❶ 54 Day Practice - Deconstruction for Reconstruction
Gain lifetime access to a comprehensive online training pack, including a masterclass from the 2023 INGONYAMA online intake. This 54-day framework is designed to prepare you, support integration, and foster continued growth. Establish a healthy relationship discipline, will, humility and trust. Granted 24 hours after ticket purchase.
❷ Acquire EMBODIED Contact Skills
Leave with techniques and rituals that enhance your ability to connect with others from a place of deep presence, integrity, and flow. Develop skills to intuitively read, interpret, and respond to the dynamics of the field, guiding your actions with clarity and precision.
❸ Effective Support and Feedback
We will balance intensive practice with space for rest and integration. You'll receive direct, honest feedback on how to maintain contact and harmony, along with immediate guidance to adjust disruptive patterns.
❹ Seven Step Framework: Working with the Resonant Impulse
Rooted in 45 years of collective experience in healing, teaching, therapy, and ceremony, this framework empowers you to infuse your craft with precision and ease, adaptable to any modality or approach.
❺ Cultivating Trust Through Healing
Address unintegrated parts, shadows, and old conditioning to restore a deeper sense of wholeness. This process shapes your integrity and confidence, guiding you toward a regenerative, cyclical practice in harmony with the wisdom of our Ancestors who thrived in alignment with Nature and Spirit.
❻ Join a Community of Visionary Radness & Integrity
Connect with a rare group of generous, powerful individuals who are ready to engage deeply. Discover your people—a community that values mutual care, the healing power of strong relationships, and genuine recognition of each other’s inherent worth.
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You will learn…
Tell me!
✷ How to create openings, repair ruptures and take someone to intense places without getting pushed, pulled or disoriented by any part of their process.
✷ Practices to enhance sensitivity across mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual realms.
✷Opening and closing and integrating the process securely.
✷Exploring shadows and potential blind spots in your practice.
✷ Being a safe and genuine channel for life's intelligence, and Spirit.
✷ Allowing influence without losing yourself and influencing with integrity.
✷ Listening deeply, receiving, and translating into action.
✷ Embracing your unique approach with right relationship with teachers and Wisdom.
✷ Achieving safety, coherence, and alignment with inner and outer awareness.
✷ Developing a regenerative roadmap and inner compass.
✷ Nurturing a relationship with your innate guidance and Source.
✷Addressing vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your art.
In short, do good work in a good way. And, celebrate the expansion and success of others doing the same.
See us at work
Forever a student, ready for the lessons as they come and so grateful for the gifts they offer. Excited by the wonder of life and soothed by the stillness of content.
I’ve gone from barely keeping my shit together and afraid of being alone to feeling so at home within myself and like I have nothing to lose. I have me, my truths and that’s all I’ll ever need.”
I’ve always known I’ve needed to do things differently - dropping that competitive, self judging, fear and scarcity mindset. Both for myself and my work.
I now feel the truth of it so much within my body and my soul. There is still so mcuh more I long to learn and explore but I no longer feel like I have to do it all now because I’m unworthy without it. I am worthy, just as I am. I already have so much to give.
Forever a student, ready for the lessons as they come and so grateful for the gifts they offer, Excited by the wonder of life and soothed by the stillness of content.
For our final call, this container has been so strong, ferocious in its authentic truth… I have been inspored so many times by you all, have often gone to bed resting into the activism of this container and the hope it shares, BEINGS who are ready to cut deep into the rawness of life and not flinch then the fire comes close… Respect. The time change is too big to make.
It has really shone a light on the collective wounding we share, we may have all walked a different path but we can carry such similar wounding that can hold us anf that needs healing. So many of shares I swear some of you were in my head, the words, the emotions and desires resonated so much. I appreciate everyone in this container and Amber thank you , for your responses, the gift you have for responding to an individual yet tailoring your response so that it touches, guides and yeaches the collective weounds of the container…
Something I notice and love is the depth of care, integrity and reverence with which Amber brings to her facilitation evident in the experience I have. As I continue to expand my facilitation, I will absolutely be keeping this front and centre of my awareness.
Why do we do this work?
Because in the West, it is easy to forget with all the noise, we must sharpen our discernment and calm our inner realm to remember.
Some principles we will be working within, teaching and giving you space to question (don’t just take our word for things, it is important that you discard what doesn’t genuinely align), explore, practice and apply.
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HEALING unfolds in the RESONANCE of safety.
RELEASE responds to DECOMPRESSION and opening, where both infinite space and containment exist.
Stagnant energy dissipates with the REPAIR of old or CREATION of new circuits.
PRECISE contact with CORE ruptures occurs when "me," "you," and Source intelligence converge.
INTEGRITY is established after integration has space to unfold.
WISDOM can be carried with CONFIDENCE when REVERENCE is given to the original SOURCE and its FULL potential is understood through experience.
EMBODIMENT and a sense of WHOLENESS find ground in the system after a complete cycle of DEATH & REBIRTH
COURAGE and TRUST are extensions of CONSISTENT and authentic connection and acts of service to something greater than yourself.
EASE and TRUST are the harvests of HUMBLE, CONSISTENT, DEVOTION to the MYSTERY and intelligence we simply cannot fathom — getting out of your own way.
More than just training
Ingonyama training immersion is a culture & community that exists to answer the void for those who give a damn about the bigger picture but are finding a lack of cross-modality support, in what they do.
Plenty of us want to push the limits of what we are capable of alone and also wish to walk alongside other Lions on duty, doing this good work.
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I had a colourful childhood that asked me to get really crafty at reading the play so that I could avoid abuse, neglect and the collateral damage of addiction. I can scan, read and ‘see’ beyond the visible, and I have consciously applied this to my work for a third of my life.
I have been doing in-depth work, somatic experiencing, and energetic tracking for the last 12+ years, and I will bring every inch of experience, discernment, and refinement to this training.
Kurt, Ryan, and I (Ambs) have over 45 years of combined experience in the healing arts, with more than a decade spent honing our crafts individually and collaboratively in immersive settings such as ceremonies, rites of passage, rituals, healings, and activations. We bring all this expertise to you, distilled and delivered in this three-day experience.
This intensive, face-to-face training deeply connects you to your core. We will move between training and teaching and holding and integrating.
You’ll get all the tools, so to speak, receive reflection and go again.
We will use this practice, partner and group work to spot the gaps in your system.
What is firing when it shouldn't?
What is not firing when it should?What is turned off and what is turned on?
What needs to be dialed in and what needs to be wound down?
Where do you need to work within you to refine what we are showing you? Most practitioner training addresses just the tool, not the hand working with it.
We are different, we will do both.
Want to get Black Belt at bringing this into what You do?
Their Words, not mine ☻
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Tanya McArthur, Artist
“Amber and Kurt’s unique and individual teaching styles perfectly complement each other to create the most supportive, welcoming and transformative experience I have ever had. Together they create an environment of safety and trust that allowed me to let down all my barriers, move beyond past wounds to place of inner peace and self trust where I am able to hold myself and support others..”
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Emma Rennie-Hynes, Founding Principal of Nourish for children
“It feels like remembering all that makes us human. Connection. The deepest non judgemental, unconditional loving space to be who I am. The truth of me. The brave, ugly, soft, gentle. It makes my eyes tear up for the genuine connectedness and beauty I have experienced. The absolute best of us.”
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Tash, Nurse and Women’s Coach
“How its feels to work with Amber and Kurt, it feels like I can let all me come to the table, thats the level of safety I feel, when I say all of it I mean all of it, my shortcomings, my darkness, my judgements, and most importantly my light, I get to shine so bright around them and fall apart all at the same time.”
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Ian Robson, CEO
“Never anywhere, have I felt such safety to come out of hiding.
Never anywhere, have I felt safer to be me. Never anywhere, have I been supported as such on my path of truth and trust.”
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Joanne Michelle, Medical Professional (trail blazer in the field)
“Amber is strong, terrifying and exuding radiant love. Amber and Kurt will hold you firmly yet so gently.
Their love and wisdom is like the deepest and most still lake imaginable, and as you dare to look into it, you will know…”
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Uncle Maurice Woodley, Musician, Mentor, Founder of Picqui Arts and INGONYAMA Guest Speaker
“Amber Hawken is an amazing human and such a beautiful soul. Amber’s grounded approach to yarning allows authentic, genuine connection to achieve the desired learning outcomes at every session. Yarning with Amber, allowed me to first identify limiting beliefs, concerns and issues. Amber then guided me to go deeper into the emotion and held space and lead the journey for me to identify my own answers and way forward towards healing…”
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Caitlin Hosking, Shadow Work Coach and Trainer
"What can I even say about INGYONAMA. Words for a course like this do it no justice, but I will try because I know someone will need to hear them. Joining INGYONAMA, I was looking to remember myself, my voice and my power — particularly in my business…INGONYAMA was a safe space to land while someone held up a mirror to reveal my shadows that kept me stuck in patterns that weren’t serving me, or my clients… After INGONYAMA, I have never felt so trusting in myself or my business. I have made big decisions that have allowed me and my business to flourish and am creating deeper impact and ripples in my community.
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Adam Kavanagh, Barefoot Bush Experiences in Doomadgee, and Naked & Afraid Contestant
“Amber has an extraordinary way of speaking that draws you in and hits you to the core. With impactful information she gets to the realness of life, which is both refreshing and life changing. In my time around Amber's retreats, I have seen her amazing ability to help others see themselves more clearly. This incredible wisdom and insight can target an individual or group. Amber delivers clear information thats easy to understand and absorb. Her natural gift at counselling and teaching others is clear to see. Amber was born to be a leader, teacher and guide.”
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Benny Grover, Men's Coach
Being held by Ambs and Kurt is the most human thing I have ever experienced. A gift from the universe to say the least.
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Ellen Travassarus, Teacher and Facilitator of the Human and Healing Arts
"What has allowed me to experience true and lasting transformation as a human and facilitator is the immensity of Amber's love. She has this inextricable ability to cut through my distortion while honoring me deeply. And this always gave me the courage to come into greater alignment and deeper truth within myself. She embodies an integrity that mirrors back to you the responsibility and privilege that is ours to facilitate healing at great depths. But it's what She enlists in your heart through her own ability to be fierce and tender that sets her apart from the rest.
She teaches from a space that is wholeheartedly committed to greeting and harnessing the innate intelligence and wisdom within and invokes your love and integrity simply through the activation of her own"
Meet our Trainers
"To love and make peace with the masculine allows it to become dynamic and expressive of integrity, purpose, justice and protection… this potency within…defends the Sacred Feminine by putting in the energy, action and commitment required to bring her values to life."
– Alana Fairchild speaking to the essence of 'INGONYAMA' within her Earth Warrior guidebook
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To the best of my ability, I facilitate deep remembering, guided by my great teachers, lived experiences, and Life's intelligence. I believe within our bodies lies a great wisdom that the ancients have spoken of since the beginning of time. Our work is to tend to the distortions within ourselves, allowing this wisdom to flow effortlessly.
I am known for throwing out frameworks and sensing what is alive in the moment. My teachers include Elders in psychology, indigenous wisdom carriers from the Q’eros people of the Andes, and Western holism path practitioners. I have facilitated deep healing through over 40 retreats, immersions, ceremonies, and hundreds of events.
My qualifications include Deep-State Repatterning Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Training in Somatic Trauma Therapy, Attachment Therapy, Breathwork (functional, performance and Shamanic) and Meditation.
I have been serving in ceremony and healing with the elements for 12+ years, aligned with my teachers and Celtic lineage.
I revere our natural ability to self-heal and spiritually actualise. For over a decade, I have facilitated thousands through personal healing, spiritual reconnection, and grounding their creative potential. I co-create with my groups to sense, dissolve, and realign anything that needs to move, holding community with firm love.
My work is a culmination of my life as a woman, mother, partner, facilitator of sacred spaces, Retreat Leader, and seeker of Truth. Ultimately, my evolutionary purpose is building community in service to modern Eldership.
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My name is Kurt Iwanina and I am a meditation teacher, intuitive healer, visionary, musician, dreamer and earth warrior. I have many people ask many questions about what it is I actually do, for many westerners the ancient practice of energy and sound healing is very unknown or misunderstood. For these amazing and powerful tools have not been taught as a way of life as in past times. Just as the ways of the ancient people all over the world, the ones who truly lived at one with this beautiful and precious earth. Their voices are being lost in the noise of the “modern material world”. We have lost our way, forgotten our past, forgotten the teachings of our ancestors. I am here to bring forth and awaken the ancient wisdom that lies within all beings. A wisdom that has been forgotten, it is a way of living in its simplest form. To live in peace, harmony and balance with all life. And to start we must bring balance back into our being, our body, mind and spirit.
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Ryan Pope is a chiropractor, breathwork instructor and holistic health and lifestyle coach. He is the CEO of Powerhouse Mind Body Chiro, a multidisciplinary wellness centre on the Gold Coast in Australia and Becoming The Mountain, a mentoring and events business focused on preparing men physically, mentally and emotionally for their rite of passage into fatherhood. Dr. Ryan is a holistic neuro-structural chiropractor, men’s coach and a student of natural health and healing with a giant beardy smile and infectious laugh that lights up any room. Ryan facilitates mindfulness, and men’s work and co-facilitates at Alchemy, a multi-modality healing and transformational retreat for men and women. His focus is on creating balance and harmony in self, life and relationships through nervous system regulation, acceptance and commitment therapy, self-reflection and mastering daily practices. His explorations have led him to the unforgiving Australian outback armed only with a guide and crossbow, scaling icy mountains in his undies, co- facilitating healing and transformation retreats for men and women and recently supporting a group of pilgrims on the Camino de Portugues through Portugal and Spain.
"To love and make peace with the masculine allows it to become dynamic and expressive of integrity, purpose, justice and protection… this potency within…defends the Sacred Feminine by putting in the energy, action and commitment required to bring her values to life."
– Alana Fairchild speaking to the essence of 'INGONYAMA' within her Earth Warrior guidebook
Pick Your Ticket:
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Full Event Access ✦ $1,690 AUD
2 x live masterclasses with Amber & Kurt (Connection + Integration)
3 days of immersive training access
54 day Devotional practice framework
Organic lunch and snacks each day
Rad community
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Full Event Access + Recordings ✹ $1,890 AUD
2 x live masterclasses with Amber & Kurt (Connection + Integration)
3 days of immersive training access
Recordings of tools and techniques - lifetime access
54 day Devotional practice framework
Organic lunch and snacks each day
Rad community
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Full Event Access + Recordings + Mentorship ✦ $2,490 AUD
2 x live masterclasses with Amber & Kurt (Connection + Integration)
3 days of immersive training access
Recordings of tools and techniques, lifetime access
1:2 Session with you, Kurt & Amber - post event for tailored feedback and support
54 day Devotional practice framework
Organic lunch and snacks each day
Rad community
Payment Plan Options:
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Supportive Fair Access
3 x Monthly Payments $660 AUD
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Supportive Inclusive Access
3 x Monthly Payments $730 AUD
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Supportive Ultimate Access
3 x Monthly Payments $930 AUD
This Training↓ is for you if…
You hold what you do in high regard, deserving respect and reverence.
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I use the term "facilitator" to encompass those who activate, lead, and support. My expertise spans multi-modality healing, ceremony, behavioral therapy, and medical science (formerly a Radiation Therapist). This includes those in the healing arts, ceremony, leadership, parenting, teaching, allied health, wellbeing, birthkeeping, and more. If your aim is to deepen your connection with self and source, recognising our individual actions collectively impact us all, this is your community. It's about your intention more than your title.
My qualifications include Deep-State Repatterning Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Training in Somatic Trauma Therapy, Attachment Therapy, Breathwork (functional, performance and Shamanic) and Meditation.
I have been serving in ceremony and healing with the elements for 12+ years, aligned with my teachers and Celtic lineage.
I revere our natural ability to self-heal and spiritually actualise. For over a decade, I have facilitated thousands through personal healing, spiritual reconnection, and grounding their creative potential. I co-create with my groups to sense, dissolve, and realign anything that needs to move, holding community with firm love.
My work is a culmination of my life as a woman, mother, partner, facilitator of sacred spaces, Retreat Leader, and seeker of Truth. Ultimately, my evolutionary purpose is building community in service to modern Eldership.
You value straight forward feedback, even when it challenges you.
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I'll share feedback only when you're open to it, invite it, and permit it. By attending this event, I assume these conditions and commit to reflection. I don't claim infallibility; my approach involves asking questions to guide you towards your own insights. Those close to me, including my partner Ryan, recognise my keen insight into people's minds, emotions, and energies — a gift I bring to every interaction.
You're ready to move beyond the games of performance, bravado, and ego.
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These traits will be met with silence, becoming mirrors that reflect back for your self-discovery.
You recognise the power of your words to shape reality through vibrations, impacting every human on this planet.
You firmly believe you are not the healer, guru, or answer for anyone but yourself.Your dedication is to the collective good, not just personal gain.
Hello, World!
You sense a larger purpose in stewarding the birth of a brilliant, new Earth through collective effort, even if it's beyond full comprehension.
You acknowledge our limited understanding and are open to seeing the world through fresh perspectives.
Your focus is on creative intention.