Events and Workshops
Live experiences to work with your Inner World and feel better about the Outer World.
Upcoming
Why it Matters to Know Who You Are
The Reality of Multiple Minds Changes Everything About Your Life
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 9 am - 1 pm PST
In the Western World, we’re convinced we have one, unified mind. Despite heaps of evidence to the contrary, we believe that “I” or “ME” = one governing unit out of which all thoughts, ideas, and impulses emerge. We also believe our job is to be “in control of” that unit.
The problem with this delusion is that IT AMPLIFIES CONFLICT INSIDE OUR MINDS—crippling our creativity, wasting energy uselessly, and severely limiting our potential.
It does not have to be this way. Join us for a multi-sensory learning experience that gives you confidence in approaching yourself differently, bringing harmony to your inner world and unlocking unique gifts from within.
DEEP SELF DESIGN® Foundations
A 12-Week Journey Into the Heart of the Deep Self Design® Method for Greater Courage, Clarity, and Authenticity
Facilitated by the method’s creator, Sunni (Sun) Brown and CDSD cofounder Liya James
March 24 - June 12, 2025
In this collaborative journey, you’ll experience the transformative power of Deep Self Design® (DSD)—a multi-sensory, road-tested method for learning how to befriend diverse facets of your mind so you can activate natural gifts and capacities, without holding back.
Applied and refined over almost two decades, DSD is an elegant approach to self-authoring that’s responsive to real-life experimentation. You’ll quickly gain confidence by integrating it into the challenges of daily life and work, learning to change the course of a habitual reaction to get a better outcome. Bi-weekly Practice Circles keep the teachings fresh and applied, and a supportive community learns alongside you.
Coming Soon
The Birth of Purpose
Finding Meaning by Connecting to a Deeper Self
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 9 am - 1 pm PST
In a culture saturated with technology and distraction, many of us are feeling a crisis of meaning. But meaning is crucial to our humanity and vitality. Without a clear sense of it, we become vulnerable to boredom, nihilism, or despair—states of the psyche that can weaken or even destroy our creativity, dreams, our very life-force.
Much can perish in the absence of meaning, so a commitment to seek and sustain meaning is a radical, even defiant, act. When suffused with meaning and purpose, not only do we become less easy to manipulate and control, we also become courageous and clear about what we stand for. A life suffused with meaning, therefore, is not a frill. It is central to our wholeness and well-being.
This 2nd workshop in our trilogy weaves didactics with guided meditations and breakout experiences to connect you to the direct source of insight and inspiration that gives birth to meaning—a power intrinsic to who you are.
Porosity of Mind
Why Ignoring It Limits Your Life and Poisons Our Civilization
With Acclaimed Author and Groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) Consultant and Teacher, Robert (Bob) Falconer
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST
In this multi-sensory workshop, we’re invited to embrace a reality common in many non-Western cultures: that our minds are not singular or separate but instead are multiple and porous. This ‘porosity view’ of the mind shatters the outdated and erroneous ‘citadel view’ of the mind as being separate and disconnected—a view that fosters isolation and alienation, unnecessarily contributing to modern mental illness and intractable social challenges.
Porosity of mind reveals a deeper truth—that we are profoundly interconnected and intricately shaped by the relationships and environments we inhabit. By embracing porosity, not only do we gain access to resilience and a deeper sense of wellness. We also unlock a state of openness, inspiration, and transcendent creativity that allows insights, imagination, and archetypal wisdom to flow freely. Reclaiming this natural state of our mind helps us tap into vast resources of meaning that make life more worth living.
Practical Courage Workshop
A Collaborative Session to Explore a Time-Tested Approach to Taking Meaningful Action Toward a Goal
Facilitated by Cofounders of the Center for Deep Self Design, Sunni (Sun) Brown and Liya James
Saturday, May 24, 2025 | 9am-1pm PST
One way to think of courage is to see it as a blend of Doubt + Commitment + Action. In this workshop, you will learn and apply a time-tested approach for addressing inner friction or stuckness as it relates to a project, goal, aspiration, or longing. Using multisensory, embodied tools and a sound method for softening resistance, this collaborative experience will help you unlock your potential and make moves toward a horizon that matters to you.
You will leave this workshop with:
a better understanding of, and respect for, thought patterns that create fear or resistance
an ability to visually map elements of your inner landscape to elevate clarity and insight
reliable approaches to accessing Deep Self—an inner guiding intelligence that resources us with clarity and courage even when faced with fear, doubt, and uncertainty
a heightened capacity to resolve inner conflicts that complicate or muddy decision-making
The Inner Confidence Workshop
Workshop Recording Available For Purchase Below
This recorded workshop is an applied learning experience during which you’ll be guided to identify, explore, and directly impact a life goal, longing, aspiration, or project in order to enhance your degree of confidence in relationship to it.
You’ll leave this workshop with:
a clear understanding of what true confidence is and isn’t
an ability to visually map elements of your inner landscape connected to something meaningful
a practical technique for summoning inner confidence when facing something challenging
a felt sense that you can work with self-doubt, self-criticism, or other patterns that erode confidence
an elevated capacity to respond flexibly, recover quickly, and return to centeredness when it matters
a heightened capacity to resolve inner conflicts that complicate your decision-making
an enhanced sense of self-trust by tapping into your own inner guidance
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