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The Future of Love

Access this complete 6 session course If you are tired of feeling dissatisfied, frustrated and hopeless about experiencing ease and joy in your intimate relationships, this course is for you! Please join Kelly in this course to rethink and relive your perception of love so you can actually feel love, let love in and be love. In this course recording, Kelly uses music, humor, handouts and...
Truth as an Act of Love

Speaking the truth creates congruence, which creates trust, facilitating understanding and cooperation. Without truth there is no growth in our relationships and community. Without truth, we create growing resentment which subtlely and inevitably undermines relationships. If this is true, then what keeps us from speaking our truth? Many of us think that honesty will actually create more...
Financial Freedom and Integrity

Access this complete 8 session course “We went from food stamps to financial independence in 8 years two decades ago! We continue to learn and integrate many skills for nurturing all aspects of well-being including personal and spiritual values, work, family and play. We now spend our lives doing work we love and supporting others in creating the lives they want for themselves. We are eager to...
Wanting Fully without Attachment

Do you want to befriend your needs and live without shame about them? Would you like to increase your inner freedom by letting go of attachment to outcome? Many of us equate letting go of attachment with giving up on wanting. This telecourse recording explores a path to full aliveness and inner freedom that invites you to the paradox of allowing yourself to want what you want without the...
Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs

Using her own and participants’ examples, Inbal enlightens parents on where they might be struggling with connecting to their children’s needs, especially in situations where the children are responding to the parent’s request. Inbal offers a new definition of interdependence, then explores the variety of feelings and needs that can be present in any given situation between parent and child,...
Choice in the Face of Demands

Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way? Would you like to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic? No one likes demands. Some of the time we respond to perceived demands by saying “Yes” out of fear; and some of the time we respond by saying “No” to perceived demands regardless of the nature of what’s being asked, even if we might want to say “Yes” if...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 17

Author and psychotherapist Francis Weller believes that we each carry a heavy load of grief. In his interview in the Oct. 2105 issue of The Sun (The Geography of Sorrow) he explains that through most of human history grieving was communal. There were songs and rituals to support people to grieve and let the energy of grief move through. Without communal rituals or some kind of support for...
From Obedience and Shame to Freedom and Belonging

Abstract The core question I address in this article is: What will it take to reclaim our fundamental relatedness with all things alive, surrender our attempts to control nature, and find a way of living that averts or mitigates the worst possible catastrophes awaiting us while it's still possible? I drawn on Humberto Maturana's investigations of the "biology of love" and on the growing field...
Embracing Leadership within Yourself

Access this complete 4 session course Join Miki as she covers a lot of territory, defining leadership, helping us lead when we're not in the leadership chair, showing us how to have power in every moment and engage our fear instead of let it run us. Get some powerful leadership tools you can put to use today. What does it really mean to take leadership of your own inner life? In simplest terms,...
Grounding in Interconnection and Solidarity

Human health is connected to health of ecosystems and other societies. Our wellness and liberation is found in our interconnection, kinship, reverence for life, and solidarity. Solidarity erodes through narratives, practices and policies that separate us from each other -- and this impacts societal functioning. The breakdown creates conditions for pandemic, racism, police brutality,...