The Soul-Centered Series Participants
I am so excited to share the testimonial video with some of the participants from the first Soul-Centered Series. It is so moving to hear how their lives have been impacted!
I sent out the official email announcement today letting people know enrollment is open for the second and final Soul-Centered Series program.
This series offers a unique opportunity to work with many of the first generation principles teachers who were mentored by Sydney Banks. Each weekend is an immersion in the understanding and the cumulative impact of the weekends is profound.
Since the program was such a success this past year, it is going to be offered one more time starting October 2019. This is the final time this series will be offered, and it is going to be even bigger and better than the first one. The early bird price is available now until July 31st.
There will be:
- Seven live weekends with ten original teachers who all were mentored directly by Sydney Banks.
- Live webinars with the weekend teachers between the weekends, and
- Weekly office hours with me
The Soul-Centered Series is available for both in-person and virtual participation. However, to preserve the container of the closed group experience, space is limited to 65 participants total with a maximum of 25 virtual spots.
Last year’s program sold out, and since this is the last time this program is being offered, it is anticipated this one will too.
And for a limited time, there is a special bonus offer!
Participants who register in the Soul-Centered Series will also receive a free spot in either the 2019 fall or 2020 spring session of Dr. Amy Johnson’s Little School of Big Change.
The Little School of Big Change is a 6-week guided program designed to help you overcome anxiety and unwanted habits without needing to rely on willpower or self-discipline.
It is an impactful program worth $499 that will be included when you register for the Soul-Centered Series at no additional cost to you. All you need to do is choose which session you would like to participate in.
Whether or not you want to participate in the seven-month program, please join me for the upcoming free webinars with all of the teachers in the series.
Here is the current schedule for the free webinars:
Linda Pransky June 13th at 4 pm Pacific US
Elsie Spittle June 27th at 11 am Pacific US
Dicken Bettinger July 8th at 4 pm Pacific US
Aaron Turner July 22nd at 11 am Pacific US
Cathy Casey August 3rd at 10 am Pacific US
Judy Sedgeman TBD
Chip Chipman TBD
George Pransky September 11th at 11 am Pacific US
Mark Howard TBD
Christine Heath TBD
An easy way to stay up to date regarding the schedule for the webinars is to join The Soul-Centered Series Community Group.
Click the link below to learn more about the program:
Chip Chipman – The Simplicity of Syd’s Teachings
Spiritual Facts 
Christine Heath & Judy Sedgeman – Spirituality and Resilience
Rohini Ross
Are you self-critical, hard on yourself, and constantly trying to “fix” whatever you think is wrong with you? Perhaps you have tried all kinds of different personal growth techniques and spiritual practices in the hope of solving all your problems. This cycle can be exhausting and never-ending, because there will always be something to improve about yourself, from that mindset. Sydney Banks’ teachings can help you to see how your humanness is normal and not something that needs fixing: as a spiritual person, you don’t need to change or eradicate your humanness! Seeing yourself as normal allows you to love and accept yourself exactly as you are—warts and all. Adopting this perspective naturally brings out the best in you and helps to find peace with your personality. Self-love and self-acceptance is your natural state, and any disconnection from your true nature is only temporary. What a relief!
In our culture, success is often associated with hard work and narrowly defined as material gain. However, authentic success, as shared by Sydney Banks, includes such intangibles as happiness, well-being, love, joy, compassion, and peace of mind that are innate in each one of us, along with outward goals and achievements. It honors the whole person in all walks of life, whether you are a professional, leader, executive, solopreneur, employee, mother, teacher or student. From this knowing and experience, you can access the infinite wellspring of love that is your essence, then share your gifts with the world from a place of fulfillment and meaning, through a profound understanding of the interaction between your psychological and spiritual natures. While conventional success can deplete you, authentic success only fills you up.
Your ability to enjoy life comes from being present in the moment rather than caught up in habitual, negative thoughts that take you out of the Now. Sydney Banks’ wisdom supports you in becoming aware of how you get seduced by your limited personal thinking and thus, create a painful reality of misunderstanding, fear and restriction. When you recognize how and why this happens, you can step free of the pattern. This understanding assists you to dismiss unhelpful thoughts and not take them seriously. Unlike traditional self-help or therapy, experiencing more psychological freedom and enjoyment does not rely on techniques. There are no magic bullets on the path of well-being. All you need to do is follow an internal compass that points to the truth of who you really are—beyond transient thoughts to your unchanging, formless essence.
Greater psychological freedom is the gift that keeps on giving. How grateful would you feel if you no longer had to listen to your negative, self-punishing and painful inner narrative, day in and day out? Understanding the role of thought and recognizing how it creates your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt is truly liberating! You will be better able to hear and heed your inner wisdom and become less driven by the noisy thoughts of fear and constriction. As an ongoing practice, this allows you to more fully experience your resilience and reach a greater sense of clarity about how you want to move forward in your life. As a result, you can live in a way that feels authentic and true in every area, including your career, family, home, creative expression, play, relationships and overall well-being.
When you no longer give authority to the fear-based thoughts in your consciousness, all you are left with is happiness. Through the teachings of Sydney Banks, you can see how your psychological functioning works, which makes you less compelled to follow those thoughts that do not serve you. Becoming more aware of the wholeness and integration of both your human and spiritual natures helps to ground you in the unchanging essence of who you are, and ride out the ups and downs of your emotional experience more gracefully. Accepting the normalcy of your humanness will naturally reduce your anxiety and fear and enhance your joy and happiness in each moment. By placing less pressure on yourself to feel a certain way or be hung up on self-improvement, you may find that low moods do not derail or debilitate you; instead, you will become much more attuned to your innate wellbeing and peace of mind and experience more happiness as a result.
One of the first areas people often experience profound transformation from the teachings of Sydney Banks is in their relationships, both personal and professional. While it often seems like another person’s irritation, anger, indifference, insensitivity, rudeness, etc., directly affects your experience, in reality your disturbance is a product of your own individual thinking. By making someone else responsible for how you feel, that person automatically becomes the cause of your suffering. Once you understand that you always have a place of well-being inside, independent of another’s behavior, it is easier to maintain equanimity through their changing moods and behaviors. Romantically, you may experience deeper love and intimacy with your partner, but the teachings benefit all relationships. This awareness supports more authentic connection and expression, while facilitating greater understanding, improved communication, reduced reactivity, more acceptance of self and others, and improved ability to work out differences and find common ground. Best of all, just one person shifting in a relationship is enough to transform it.
Clare Dimond
Scott Kelly
Barbara Patterson
Barbara Patterson
Michael Neill
Dicken Bettinger – The Spiritual Nature of the teachings of Sydney Banks
Elsie Spittle – The Soul of the Principles
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