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Healing and Awakening groups:
A 6 week program to bring loving awareness and healing to painful places inside

The Healing and Awakening groups are for you if you feel a need for healing in your life (due to a painful issue or pattern, a traumatic experience, or a sense of stuckness or disconnect), and if you are looking for healing and transformation in a way that includes bringing awareness to what is ultimately real and true rather than just focusing on healing the personal me that is hurting. In bringing loving awareness to the pain that keeps showing up, we invite both healing and awakening to a self beyond pain. The painful reality that you're starting with can become a healing gift and a true teacher.

Tuesdays, at 2pm EST, 11am PST, 7pm UK, 8pm Europe; or according to the availability of group participants.
Next starting date: 2018.
The program:
  • week 1: learning to hold what is painful with love
  • week 2: exploring the pain
  • week 3: going to the heart of the pain
  • week 4: tools to help healing and transformation
  • week 5: surrendering the pain
  • week 6: the miracle of healing
The topic for each week is a way of structuring your inquiry and healing, as well as the group process. But there is always space during meetings for individual themes, questions or issues, even if they are not related to that week's topic. Whatever comes up in a meeting is obviously meant to be part of it!
How does this group work?
  • We'll have 6 weekly online meetings via Zoom (zoom.us). 
  • The groups are small (4 - 6 participants) so that all of you can get individual attention. 
  • The length of the meetings depends on the number of participants (4 participants / 90 mins, 6 participants / 120  mins). The timing is approximate, if more time is needed the group may last a bit longer.
  • Each meeting starts with a quick 'check-in' and a few moments of meditation.
  • During each meeting there are at least 15 mins dedicated time for each of you to invite your painful places into Love and healing.
  • There may be some preparation and/or homework from one week to the next related to the topic of the next session.
  • You can share your inquiry and process in a private and confidential facebook group between meetings.
  • You can record the sessions yourself and watch again if you so wish.
    An experience from the Living as Love 
    group program:
Dear Grace, we just finished our group and I just want to say THANK YOU. I find that something about this spacious loving space you create really allows that to be here in me and I really experience this in the online group with you, it is a beautiful gift you bring to us. I feel blessed to have this from my own home, in my family life without having to move out into a satsang space or to be on retreat [...] Bless you for being here and for helping me/us to realise this space right here 'within' and embodying it 'without' so it is realized to always be here, no matter what story is running or feelings thoughts sensations are occurring... It feels very loving, holding and deeply caring having your presence at this time of transition, rewiring and re-anchoring... Love love love,
Chris, UK
What will you get out of participating in this group?
  • 1-on-1 attention and guidance for your personal healing and awakening without having to pay for more expensive 1-on-1 sessions.
  • Insight and support through the sharing of the others in the group: we learn so much from witnessing one another in our inquiry and healing.
  • Comments and support by others through the private facebook group.
  • Access to videos of the sessions so that you can watch a session again that you have missed or that was really powerful for you.
Is this group for you? 
This group is for you if you feel there are painful and/or stuck places inside that you keep recycling into, and if you resonate with a few of these descriptions:
  • I know my pain (grief, anger, despair, depression...) is ultimately not real, but it still keeps coming up.
  • I would like to find a way of healing that is based on the non-dual spiritual understanding that I know to be true.
  • I just can't seem to make much headway on my own with the pain I'm dealing with, I do need some help.
  • I'm open to look at and work with whatever comes up in the process of healing.
  • I feel Love is ultimately the answer to my issue or pain, but I can't access it by myself when this comes up.
  • At this point, I need some individual attention, feedback and guidance for what I'm dealing with.
  • The loving and compassionate presence of others in a group feels good and healing to me.
You don't need to be able to say Yes to all of these, but they give you a good indication of how well the group will meet your needs. If you're unsure about this, feel free to contact me to check things out a bit more (contact details below). This group is NOT for you if you're in an acute inner crisis that needs sustained professional attention. Please consider doing some 1-on-1 sessions where you can get much more sustained support and guidance.
Working with Grace and our "Living from Love" group was profoundly moving and powerful. While I would not have believed that it was possible to create such intimacy and presence in an on line environment, in fact it was, in large part because of the open and loving way that Grace held the space. Together we created the actual experience of living from/as love, rather than just discussing the concept of it. Grace helped me walk through a time of great change, and to do so in a way that was compassionate and fresh. I was enriched and nourished each week, and continue to be even now after the group has ended. It is a wonderful opportunity to work with Grace and I feel grateful to have had such an experience. I will do it again.
Nancy Colier, www.nancycolier.com
Why am I offering this group and what are my credentials?
I love working with people in a way that combines close attention to how we function psychologically with spiritual insight and inquiry, allowing all of Life to invite us into Love and to teach us about where we're stuck in ego and suffering. This work draws on many of my strengths and passions: my lifelong experience of teaching and guiding groups, first in academia, and for the last 16 years in personal development, meditation, and 'spiritual support groups'; my background and expertise in psychology, counseling and healing, working with people 1-on-1 to help them flourish and thrive; my ability to 'tune into' people's energy and help them move out of stuck places; and, last but not least, the ongoing deepening of my own opening into Love.  For more information about my professional credentials, please go to the About Grace page. You can also check out Heart of Love healing, one of ways I work with people, as well as the research project on Heart of Love healing that I did a few years ago: www.heartoflovehealing.net.
Would you like to see what it's like to work with me? 
Here are two extracts from sessions of the Awakening as Love group program. Just as fear can relax and let go when held in loving presence, so can pain! And just as 'the personal' is included in Love, so is the healing of pain and suffering. For healing work testimonials go HERE.
Any questions?
Contact me by e-mail. I'll be happy to respond to your questions. It's important that it feels good or right for you to take part in the group.
Fee for the 6-week program: $150 (USD)
Please contact me if you'd really like to participate in the program, but can't afford to pay the full fee.
A sliding scale based on ability to pay is possible.