Mondays, 5:00 - 6:30pm Pacific (all sessions recorded)
Back By Popular Demand: Now You Can Live from Your True Essence
And Give Your Gifts to the Shift with Ease and Grace
Never before in this pivotal moment in history – where we face societal breakdowns and breakthroughs on a grand scale – has it been more important to elevate our consciousness and develop a cocreative partnership with our Essential Self, so we can successfully navigate this time of global transformation and evolve our world.
The Essential Self is the highest part of us that emanates qualities such as love, wisdom, wholeness and freedom and is the personal expression of the larger design of creation.
When you learn to shift your identity from that of the egoic “local self” to the magnificence of your Essential Self and then beyond to your Universal Self, the highest frequency of your being, you become fully available to BE the change and become an activation point for conscious evolution.
Through the 8-week Emergence Process, you will learn to live from your true essence, release life’s daily struggles and liberate your gifts of healing and transformation – at a time when the world needs YOUR full participation.
Guided by one of today’s greatest and most empowering evolutionary pioneers, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and her sister, Patricia Ellsberg, a transformational meditation teacher, life coach and social change activist, you will learn to access your divine guidance and live with grace, confidence, creativity, purpose and joy.
Here’s what your life can look like when you go through The Emergence Process:
- You go about your day with ease and lightness, instead of feeling stressed or overwhelmed – even if your life is VERY full.
- You feel centered and have more energy for doing the things you love to do.
- You’re able to nourish others and yourself – the ultimate "self-care."
- You find easy solutions to situations that previously confounded you.
- The "mask" drops; you relate to the world and those around you from your heart, instead of your head.
- You develop a new identity and experience the bliss of the union between the human and the divine.
- You recognize that you are the guide who has been guiding, the inner voice you have been hearing, the Beloved you have been seeking.
- You integrate all levels of your being, emerging as your full potential self.
- You’re able to fully give your gifts to the world and be supported by an evolving cocreative community.
This transformative training will empower you to BE your Essential Self – the wise, loving, compassionate, powerful and radiant part of you. You will move from fear into love and creativity and be prepared to help catalyze this wave of planetary change.
This course was originally developed just for Agents of Conscious Evolution graduates. But due to the extremely positive response to the Emergence Process and its relevance at this historic turning point, Barbara and Patricia are delighted to offer this course again to the wider Shift Network audience. They both feel this process is a vital core teaching for anyone who wants to make their highest contribution to the Planetary Birth.
Each of these transformational teachers have devoted their lives to personal evolution in service to societal transformation. Their shared wisdom and history, as well as their love for each other, makes this course a truly one-of-a-kind offering.
We invite you to sign up for this life-changing 8-week course by clicking the button below.
What Students Say About The Emergence Process
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Arroyo Grande, California, U.S.
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Chesterland, Ohio, U.S.
Benson, Arizona, U.S.
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
What You Will Learn: Course Overview
The Emergence Process is described in Barbara’s inspiring book, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, which is recommended reading for anyone taking this course. We will also be including practice around the codes from Barbara’s book, 52 Codes.
Week 1: Entering the Inner Sanctuary and Contemplating the Glory of Your Essential Self (May 14)
In Week 1, you will cover Emergence Process Steps 1 and 2:
- Begin to leave behind the concerns and pressures of daily life by creating an inner sanctuary
- Discover the deep connection you have with your Essential Self
- Be guided to strengthen your relationship with your own Inner Guide by asking questions of and receiving answers from your Essential Self
- Identify and integrate the specific qualities of your essence that you most love: joy, peace, security, love, wholeness, wisdom
- Experience the divine within, the Beloved, the inner voice and guide by taking charge of your attention, which is vital to your emergence
“Infancy! This is the time when the newly born Universal Human emerges from the womb of self-centered consciousness and we begin to realize our new identity as our own higher Essential Self. We break out of the limits of our egoic identity and, in innocence and humility, make room for something new."
Week 2: Inviting the Beloved to Incarnate and Take Dominion (May 21)
In Week 2, you will cover Emergence Process Steps 3 and 4:
- Declare your heart’s desire for union with the Beloved
- Feel as if the Essential Self is incarnating, entering your body/mind and transforming it
- Lift the local self into a higher frequency vibration
- Feel a new freedom from anxiety, pressure and compulsions
- Invite the Beloved to take dominion and learn how to “put this purpose first”
- Lift the local selves into a higher frequency vibration by loving your own local selves and dissolving the sense of separation between ego and essence
- Feel a new freedom from anxiety, pressure and compulsions
"Our Infancy is maturing. We, as emerging Universal Humans, leave behind our former self-consciousness and become aware of our Essential Self much of the time... At this stage the local egoic personality self becomes so enchanted with the experience of its Essential Self that it freely, voluntarily, even joyfully, chooses to surrender its dominance. It invites the beloved Essential Self to enter in the whole way. We gain a feeling of peace and joy as the local selves relax their fears and let go of their efforts to control."
Week 3: The Bliss of Union with the Human and the Divine (June 4)
In Week 3, you will cover Emergence Process Step 5:
- Form a deeper chamber within your inner sanctuary, the "rose chamber of union of the human and divine"
- Experience the Essential Self as a radiant presence, glowing and emanating light
- Invite the local selves into the rose chamber, where they can merge with the light
- Experience your local selves becoming facets of your Essential Self rather than fragmented negative aspects of your personality
- Be guided by the Compass of Joy
- Learn to be in resonance with others, affirming the highest in one another
- Transmit bliss and fall in love with others at the essence level
"In this stage, for the first time, the Beloved takes the initiative and invites the local selves to come up into it. They enter a chamber of the heart and there in the field of love, experience the Bliss of Union of the Human and Divine."
Week 4: Shifting Your Identity (June 11)
In Week 4, you will cover Emergence Process Step 6:
- Shift your identity to embody your Essential Self
- Recognize you are the guide who’s been guiding; the voice you’ve been hearing; the Beloved you have loved
- Begin to speak and write as the voice of your Essential Self
- Experience an "inner smile" and practice "initiatory love"
- Practice powerful affirmations, such as I AM love; I AM wisdom; I AM power; I AM the Beloved and feel your presence substantiating as them
- Move from witness consciousness to causal consciousness and cultivate greater receptivity to the larger design
"At this point in its development, the infant becomes a child. A new identity emerges, born out of the fusion of the Beloved and the local selves. In Childhood we come together as our integrated selves, as the Essential Self expressing through its personality self."
Week 5: Transferring Authority (June 18) 
In Week 5, you will cover Emergence Process Step 7:
- Examine your attitude toward authority in your life and develop your own authentic power
- Transfer authority and responsibility to your Essential Self
- Deepen your capacity to speak with and heal the wounds of your local selves
- Re-parent yourself by evolving and maturing your internalized mother and father and strengthen the inner masculine and feminine aspects of your being
- Become a loving parent to yourself and forgive your own unskillful behavior as you do that of a child
"In this stage, we learn that the nurturing parental authority is within us, as our essential divine essence. Now, as the process of incarnating continues, the Essential Self becomes proactive and is willing to be the genuine authority within the household of local selves. Our local selves become willing disciples of the Essential Self within."
Week 6: Educating Your Local Selves (June 25)
In Week 6, you will cover Emergence Process Step 8:
- Create an expanded Inner Sanctuary and enter a "Sunlit Garden of Co-Creation"
- Develop the practice of creating "heaven within” yourself
- Learn the process through which the ego becomes the guide to essence; trust in the guidance of your new fused identity as ego/essence
- Stop trying to figure out or solve anything and experience the problems of your local self being dissolved, not solved
- Move from local, linear time to non-local, non-linear time, the pure awareness of the present
- Experience self-evolution through self-elevation
"True Essential Self education begins when we are no longer looking outward to external powers but are experiencing the Bliss of Union, the Shift of Identity and the Transfer of Authority as an on-going, ever deepening process. We are no longer victims. There is no one to blame. We become co-creators of our own reality."
Week 7: The Repatterning of Life and Creating the New (July 2)
In Week 7, you will cover Emergence Process Step 9:
- Take a moral inventory, asking, "What do I not want to have happening in my life any more?"
- Allow your life to repattern
- Experience ease of effort replacing overwhelm and discover greater flow in your work and life, seamlessly blending being and doing
- Realize you are fully “response-able.” You can respond to every need that arises as your Essential Self
- Presence your own Essence as your true nature
"As young universal humans, we gradually come into greater Essential Self confidence, deeper trust of our inner knowing, a new way of relating to one another. There is a coincidental relationship between inner integration and outer manifestation. We see clear demonstrations that the inner creates the outer, that intention manifests, that our consciousness is causal in the events, relationships, projects and visions of our lives."
Week 8: Fulfilling the Promise (July 9)
In Week 8, you will cover Emergence Process Step 10:
- Nurture your “vocational arousal” as the expression of the unique impulse of evolution within you
- Attune and become cocreative with others by fostering resonance with those you love and work with
- Align with the deeper patterns that are creating all of existence and yourself
- Move toward becoming a Universal Human evolving as an expression of the magnificent, organizing universal intelligence; realize that the "force of creation" is with you as you
"We are crossing the threshold from our Childhood into the vast and as-yet-uncharted realm of our Youth as Universal Humans. We are undergoing a new rite of passage, yet to be fully acknowledged in this world. At last, we arrive in the developmental path at a very early phase of Youth, ready now to come into form in the evolution of our selves and our world We celebrate within us the shift from the creature human to the cocreator.”
Bonus Audio #1: Opening to the Deeper Revelations of Your Own Emergence
Dr. Michael Beckwith and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Dr. Michael Beckwith says, "Vision without action is fantasy. Action without vision is chaos."
In this powerful bonus session, you’ll hear this dynamic duo share how you can move the inner revelations of your vision into outward action, as well as how you move from personal emergence into societal emergence.
Dr. Michael Beckwith’s life is a living testament to building spiritual community. Gifted with a vision of a trans-denominational spiritual community based in the new thought-ancient wisdom traditions, in 1986 he founded the Agape International Spiritual Center where thousands gather weekly to receive inspiration from Dr. Beckwith in Culver City, California.
Dr. Beckwith participates on international panels with other peacemakers and spiritual leaders. He is co-founder of the Association for Global Thought, an organization dedicated to planetary healing and transformation; has received numerous humanitarian awards; and has written several books including: Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace. He is one of the most prominent spiritual leaders in America, inspiring transformation in millions of people.
Bonus Audio #2: Waking Up to Your Most Authentic Evolutionary Self
Andrew Cohen and Barbara Marx Hubbard
Andrew Cohen is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication EnlightenNext magazine. He is known for bringing the timeless depth of enlightened wisdom into the 21st century-calling not for transcendence of worldly attachment, or even for compassionate care and service, but for a deep and heroic responsibility for the evolution of the world.
Andrew and Barbara will engage in a deep dialogue on how you can actually become a genuine agent of conscious evolution at this most critical time in our culture, when the whole system is both breaking down and breaking through.
Drawing from his forthcoming book Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew will share the nature of the Impulse of Evolution, the “Inner Big Bang,” the prime motivating force within you, for self and social evolution. His message is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self.
About Barbara Marx Hubbard and Patricia Ellsberg
Barbara Marx Hubbard is co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. An evolutionary educator, speaker and social innovator, she is the author of six books communicating the new worldview of conscious evolution.
As a co-founder of The Evolutionary Leaders Council she is co-chairing with Andrew Cohen a global dialogue on The Meaning of Conscious Evolution. Barbara is also the subject of a recent biography by Neale Donald Walsch entitled: The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of You.
In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a "Peace Room" as sophisticated as our war room, to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world.
As a citizen diplomat in the former Soviet Union during the 1980’s she co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new form of conferencing called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence. This model brings opposing groups and functions together to seek common goals and match needs and resources including the growing edge of human capacities, spiritual, social and scientific/technological of the whole system.
Patricia Ellsberg is a social change activist, meditation teacher, life coach and public speaker. In 1971, she helped her husband, Daniel Ellsberg, release to the press the Pentagon Papers, a top secret history of US involvement in Vietnam, which helped end the Vietnam War. The Oscar nominated documentary, "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers," tells the riveting story of this era and Daniel and Patricia’s role in changing history.
A central theme of her life has been bridging spiritual experience with social activism. Working closely with her sister, Barbara Marx Hubbard, in furthering social transformation through Conscious Evolution, Patricia guides people to make a shift from ego to essence, so they live with greater joy, purpose and meaning. Patricia’s special gift as a coach is transmitting and helping people access a profound sense of joy and wellbeing through the artful use of guided meditation. She is currently coaching and teaching The Emergence Process and her own teleseminars on the theme of “Finding Mother-Love Within.”
What You Will Receive
Weekly activities and live interactive calls include:
- Eight weekly 90-minute class sessions with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Patricia Ellsberg, who Barbara considers one of the best teachers of the Inner Shift available. Includes live, interactive calls plus Q&A time.
- Following each 90-minute session, eight 30-minute Global Café sessions: Live, teleconference discussions and breakout groups to facilitate your deepening into Emergence Process topics while giving you an opportunity to build connections with your fellow course-mates from around the world.
- Weekly exercises and practices for deep inquiry and action-learning.
- Optional online learning community throughout each week with other course participants.
- Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions, including original weekly meditations by Patricia Ellsberg (listen online or download the MP3 file to your iPod or audio player).
- PDF transcripts for each class session.
Classes are held on Mondays at 5 p.m. Pacific / 8 p.m. Eastern, May 14 – July 9, 2012
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups, and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Please note that dialing MaestroConference from your phone is a regular toll call to California, and your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. You can also use Skype credit/subscription or Google Voice to dial in to MaestroConference, and you’ll need to use your virtual keypad to enter your PIN and to indicate that you want to ask a question. Other options include calling cards and discount long-distance carriers, and we also have a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! If you find that the course is not meeting your needs, please submit a request to support.theshiftnetwork.com so that we can address your concerns. We offer a satisfaction guarantee for a full week so that you can try out the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is before the start of the 2nd class on May 21. Submit refund requests at support.theshiftnetwork.com with the subject "Refund request."
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to a problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
Q: What are the benefits of telling my friends to join the program?
A: You can sign up as an Affiliate of The Shift Network and receive 20% for anyone that you introduce who registers for the virtual event. If you bring five friends into the event, you can cover your own! Register at theshiftnetwork.com/affiliate and you’ll receive a promotional link to use.
