GUIDE OF THE HEART TRAINING PROGRAM
1ST SPRING QUARTER
INCARNATION & PRIMAL CREATION
Preparation Call: 12-2pm March 3
Retreat: Portland March 12 – 16
2ND SUMMER QUARTER
SUCKNESS & SURRENDER
Preparation Call: 12-2pm May 26
Retreat: Portland June 4 – 8
3RD FALL QUARTER
LIFE/DEATH STRUGGLE & INITIATION
Preparation Call: 12-2pm September 1
Retreat: New York September 10 – 14
4TH WINTER QUARTER
REBIRTH & COMPLETION
Retreat: Portland December 3 – 7
THE SCHEDULE
Retreats begin at 6pm on Tuesday, early arrivals are welcome. Ensure your travel plans have you arrive before dinner as it is part of the program.
Integration concludes at 1pm on Saturdays – departures any time after 2pm. A detailed schedule will be sent to you upon application.
ONLINE RITUAL TRAININGS
These Ritual training weekends with the whole training group, provide a way for you to continue to digest the quarterly training content and do your own personal work in an intimate setting. It is a beautiful community event that demonstrates the potency of presence in the online environment.
1st QUARTER |
2nd QUARTER |
3rd QUARTER | 4th QUARTER (2025) |
April 26 Training Call 1-3pm | July 19 Training Call 1-3pm | October 25 Training Call 1-3pm | January 17 Training Call 1-3pm |
April 28 Training Call 8-9am | July 21 Training Call 8-9am | October 27 Training Call 8-9am | January 19 Training Call 8-9am |
April 28 Ritual 9am-5pm | July 21 Ritual 9am-5pm | October 27 Ritual 9am-5pm | January 19 Ritual 9am-5pm |
QUARTERLY TRAINING CALLS
Every quarter, all trainees have one individual mentoring call with Namae, one call with their own cohort and one whole group training call. If you miss any or part of these calls, you are required to catch up the content through other participants. The calls will not be recorded as they are interactive.
2nd Year Group Zoom Training Calls (PT) | ||||
1st QUARTER | 2nd QUARTER | 3rd QUARTER | 4th QUARTER (2025) | |
1 hour – Year 2 Training Group | April 18 12 – 1pm | July 11 12 – 1pm | October 17 12 – 1pm | January 9 12 – 1pm |
2 hours – | May 16 10am-12pm | August 8 10am-12pm | November 14 10am-12pm | February 6 10am-12pm |
2nd year curriculum
Actual syllabus content may vary and/or include subjects from other years, in response to your group’s needs.
RETREAT PREPARATION CLASSES This year, you will have 2hour online preparation classes at least a week before each quarterly retreat. This will give you more time to work with the new material and begin exercises and practices to experience and absorb the content.
1st SPRING QUARTER: INCARNATION & PRIMAL CREATION
Basic Perinatal Matrix 1 – Oceanic Bliss, Union with Mother/Great Mother – What is Birth & Rebirth? – Incarnation & Conception – Good Womb/Bad Womb – Cosmic Engulfment – Amniotic Universe – Primal Union
Health Assessments & Groups – Chaordic Model of Group Functioning – Retreats – Emergency Procedures & Safety Considerations – Privacy & Security – Data Management – Health Assessments – Medical Contraindications – Drug Interactions – Perils & Pitfalls – Best Practices
2nd SUMMER QUARTER: STUCKNESS & SURRENDER
Basic Perinatal Matrix 2 – No Exit/Stuckness – Antagonism Against Mother – Rhythms of Expansion & Contraction – Role of Aggression – Understanding Negative Emotions – Resistance – Surrender
Symbols & Dreams – Symbols & their meanings – Language of the Unconscious – Gestalt Processes – Dreamwork – Sandplay – Ceremonial & Sacred Objects & Symbology
&3rd FALL QUARTER: LIFE/DEATH STRUGGLE & INITIATION
Basic Perinatal Matrix 3 – Life/Death Struggle – Synergy with Mother – Meaning and the Transformation of Struggle – Suffering – The Death Wish – Language of Feelings
Creativity & Mandalas – Sacred Spaces – Mandalas – Flow States – Flow Technologies – Practicing Creativity – Nature As Art – Role of Creativity
4th WINTER QUARTER: REBIRTH & COMPLETION
Basic Perinatal Matrix 4 – Life/Death/Rebirth – Separation from Mother – Birth Processes & Methods – Separation Trauma – Rebalancing Birthing Energies – Transformation & Completion of the Initiation – Maps of the Journey II – Nesting & Rest – Mother Caregiver Archetypes
Why Birth Affects Us – Life’s Stress Blueprint – Birth Traumas – Anesthetics – Cesarians – Breech Births – Vanishing Twins – Lactation – Adoptions – Post Natal Traumas – Attachment Disorders
INtegration
This is very deep transformational work. Your ability to implement all the teachings, the experiences, the processes and your shiny new intentions, requires adequate time to rest, deep regenerative sleep and adequate time to integrate. The quality of your sleep effects your capacity to remember.
The quarterly retreats finish mid afternoon on Saturdays to provide a quiet day or two afterwards to continue integrating and reduce your travel stress. Plan on creating more flexibility in your schedule for your inner process as we proceed.
Some of the homeplay assignments may need more time to feel your way through the work. We encourage you to find whatever additional mental health, emotional or physical services that will to support your integration on all levels.
Click here for the Guide of the Heart Foundations, our values and training principles.
“When we KNOW our Life/Death patterns,
freedom becomes a choice.”