Awakening Healers: Integrative Online Spiritual Emergence Support

Abstract

In a time of spiritual crisis, it may be difficult to find appropriate supports or resources. Western psychology and psychiatry typically pathologize these experiences or states of consciousness and some people are afraid to seek traditional treatments. This is why we have put together an online course that incorporates a peer-support model to help guide those that have gone through or currently going through a manageable crisis. Based upon our online course Awakening Healers, which includes psychoeducation, meditations, energy medicine, and Spiritual Emergence Support circles, we have developed a template for conceptualizing, honoring, and holding sacred space for the transformative power of these non-ordinary or extreme states of consciousness. We also include modules on neurodiversity, cognitive liberty, Stan Grof’s legacy, and research, breathwork, energy anatomy, sound healing, grounding meditation, self-care, and reSourcing. We have found that this model makes the content available to others all over the world, who may not be in a location where SE space-holding or education is available, as well as our wide-ranging and comprehensive toolkit for Spiritual Emergence Support and Integration. Kyle & Michelle will share their stories, background, and experience with developing and co-facilitating this flagship program.

Presenter Bio

Kyle Buller, SEC, MS

Kyle’s interest in exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness began at the age of 16 when he suffered a traumatic snowboarding accident. After this near-death experience, Kyle’s life changed dramatically. Kyle subsequently earned his B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology from Burlington College, where he focused on studying the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness by exploring shamanism, Reiki, local medicinal plants and plant medicine, Holotropic Breathwork, and psychedelic psychotherapy. Kyle has been studying breathwork with Lenny and Elizabeth since October 2010. Kyle is currently finishing his M.S. in clinical mental health counseling with an emphasis in somatic psychology. Kyle’s clinical background in mental health consists of working with at-risk teenagers in crisis and with individuals experiencing an early-episode of psychosis and providing counseling to undergraduate/graduate students in a university setting. Kyle also facilitates Transpersonal Breathwork workshops.

Michelle Anne Hobart, MA, SEC, AMFT

Michelle is a teacher, writer, energy worker, and Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Holos Institute. She trained as a Spiritual Emergence Coach with Emma Bragdon and collaborates with the Gnosis Retreat Center project. Her love for the Earth and education was exemplified in her past as a high school Biology and Health teacher working in the Baltimore parochial school system after receiving her BS in Biology from University of Maryland Baltimore County. Deeply longing to immerse herself in the subtle realms, she was drawn to the Bay Area to continue her studies. With her MA in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies, she continued her own personal journey of healing, and then sharing that path with others through her wellness center and intuitive collective. She has been in states of Spiritual Emergence throughout her life to varying degrees, and entered a state of Spiritual Emergency in 2013.. She completed and released her first book, Becoming Sacred Space in 2016. Then, in 2018, Michelle graduated from the Integral Counseling Psychology program at CIIS, and is currently finishing her second book, about Spiritual Emergence.