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Many of us spend our time focused on our outer journey through life by seeking satisfaction and success through external sources. While we may experience particular feelings of achievement, often a deeper part of ourselves remains unfulfilled.   

The Introduction to the Inner Journey is designed for guests to get a flavor of what this weekend experience has to offer them and also for graduates to revisit the power of the IJ; we promise an enlivening and fun evening for all. Please plan to attend and invite your friends, family and co-workers.  The Introduction will be led by Howard Ross.

An Inner Journey celebration for Graduates & Guests

Get ready for the 2nd Annual Saturday Night Alive! Come alive “Inner Journey style” and connect on and off the dance floor ith old friends and new!  Come single or bring a crowd – this is the perfect occasion to introduce your friends and family to the gifts of the Inner Journey. Dress to express – or just come as you are – anything goes!

In addition to the hot tunes and cool moves we’ll enjoy delicious appetizers and desserts, cash bar, silent auction, and a few words from Howard Ross.  

This year's Saturday Night Alive's silent auction is a treasure chest of over 25 temptations in every price range. Need a relaxing getaway?  Bid to win a weekend in a condo at Deep Creek Lake or Annapolis, or in a vintage cabin the Virginia countryside.  How about some transformational coaching from Michael Schiesser (creator of the Inner Journey) and Neelama Eyres to get your new year off to a powerful start? Win a signed copy of our own Howard Ross's book Reinventing Diversity.  Add a little beauty to your space with an original painting or photograph.  Make a bid to enhance your own beauty with a makeup consultation and some new jewelry. Maybe a relaxing massage…or myofascial release for those tight muscles.  Or get your home in shape in 2012 with an energy audit, an environmental or architectural design consultation, or handyman services.  Ahhhh, so many choices... a winning bid can make them yours!

All proceeds benefit the Inner Journey Scholarship Fund.

What on earth does Sex, God and Rock & Roll have in common? PASSION!! PASSION is that essential ingredient that makes us fully alive, fulfilled, attractive and joyful human beings! Yet so many of us walk around feeling half lived, on auto-pilot, leading a luke warm life.

**Do you feel disconnected from your own vitality and passion --as if nothing in life turns you on?

**Are you lonely or seeking deep connection, but not sure where or how to find it? **Do you struggle with your relationship to God or feel cut off from any notion of Spirituality?

**Are you conflicted with your sexual/creative energy unsure of how to express it or perhaps disconnected from this energy entirely?

Sex, God, Rock and Roll is a powerful opportunity to breakthrough anything blocking your experience of a passionately fulfilled life. We will use proven tools and techniques to access our passion and experience this energy in all levels of ourselves: mind, body, heart and soul. Don't postpone your LIFE!  Come and be transformed!

An Inner Journey celebration for Graduates & Guests
Get ready for the 2nd Annual Saturday Night Alive! Come alive “Inner Journey style” and connect on and off the dance floor with old friends and new. Come single or bring a crowd – this is the perfect occasion to introduce your friends and family to the gifts of the Inner Journey.

Get ready to come alive “Inner Journey style” and connect on and off the dance floor with old friends and new!  Come single or bring a crowd – this is the perfect occasion to introduce your friends and family to the gifts of the Inner Journey.
Dress to express – or just come as you are – anything goes! In addition to the hot tunes and cool moves we’ll enjoy delicious appetizers and desserts, cash bar, silent auction and raffle, and a few words from Howard Ross on the Inner Journey and upcoming courses.
All proceeds benefit the Inner Journey Scholarship Fund.

Stay tuned for a list of Silent Auction items!

AN EIGHT DAY MYSTIC MONASTERY

For millenia, spiritual seekers have undertaken pilgrimages and sought out spiritual sanctuaries to take refuge.

We invite YOU to become part of this RARE opportunity to immerse yourself into what matters most. Join us in our alternative Ashram where we weave together the jewels and practices from many different spiritual traditions, creating a non-denominational environment where anyone, regardless of religious and or sexual orientation can find their own unique connection with the DIVINE.

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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The Human Experience Seminar is based on the principles of Family Constellation Work developed by the German Psychotherapist Bert Hellinger in combination with the methodology of the Inner Journey Work.

Benefits of participating in The Human Experience:

• Improve relationships with your family of origin and your current family.
• Grow in your career and enhance your creativity.
• Feel connected and supported.
• Experience relationships that bring satisfaction and fulfillment.
• Experience more physical vitality and energy.
• Reconnect with deeper aspects of yourself.
• Positively effect individuals, communities, and organizations

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• Release of deep-seated emotional charges
• Healing of negative childhood patterns
• Relationship improving teachings for couples and singles
• Profound parental guidance on how to raise children respecting their souls
• Receive special Oneness Blessing to help establish an intimate and personal relationship with the Divine
• Ancient meditation practices are taught to help open, balance and clear the body's energy system (Kundalini energy
• Initiation into becoming a Oneness Blessing Giver

Howard, Michael Schiesser and Neelama will be faciliating this course.

THE most dominating force in our lives, which lives between our ears, is our mind. When unexamined, this thinking machine creates the most suffering in us humans via the negative self talk of the inner Supreme Court. Through an in-depth examination of this mechanism, this course offers a profound opportunity to discover who we are beyond the realms of our seemingly normal thought chatter.

*Dis-identification from the Supreme Court voices

* Accessing the realm beyond the mind's chatter

*Freedom from the limitation of the mind

*Techniques, tools and Deeksha for increased self awareness

The course will equip you with tools that will continue to empower and motivate you to live life to the fullest. 

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Howard, Michael Schiesser and Neelama will be faciliating this course.

THE most dominating force in our lives, which lives between our ears, is our mind. When unexamined, this thinking machine creates the most suffering in us humans via the negative self talk of the inner Supreme Court. Through an in-depth examination of this mechanism, this course offers a profound opportunity to discover who we are beyond the realms of our seemingly normal thought chatter.

*Dis-identification from the Supreme Court voices

* Accessing the realm beyond the mind's chatter

*Freedom from the limitation of the mind

*Techniques, tools and Deeksha for increased self awareness

The course will equip you with tools that will continue to empower and motivate you to live life to the fullest. 

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The Inner Journey

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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What on earth does Sex, God and Rock & Roll have in common? PASSION!! PASSION is that essential ingredient that makes us fully alive, fulfilled, attractive and joyful human beings! Yet so many of us walk around feeling half lived, on auto-pilot, leading a luke warm life.

**Do you feel disconnected from your own vitality and passion --as if nothing in life turns you on?

**Are you lonely or seeking deep connection, but not sure where or how to find it? **Do you struggle with your relationship to God or feel cut off from any notion of Spirituality?

**Are you conflicted with your sexual/creative energy unsure of how to express it or perhaps disconnected from this energy entirely?

Sex, God, Rock and Roll is a powerful opportunity to breakthrough anything blocking your experience of a passionately fulfilled life. We will use proven tools and techniques to access our passion and experience this energy in all levels of ourselves: mind, body, heart and soul. Don't postpone your LIFE!  Come and be transformed!

This past February, after a three-year battle with cancer and one of the largest snowstorms in D.C. history, Josh died peacefully in his home with his wife Susan and his cats close by. One thing remains true: he was -- and still is -- a peaceful, spiritual force in the Inner Journey community.
On the evening of Sunday, November 14, Susan, Howard and members of the IJ family will come together to honor Josh Bennett, celebrate his life, bring closure to our physical relationship with him, and support Susan in her journey forward. Please join us. We will begin gathering between 6:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. and will start our evening together with a meditation at 7:00 p.m.
  
You are welcome to bring a poem, song, reading, or thought to share with the group. Also, please bring a light appetizer, fruit or dessert. RSVP to Marusia at marusia.iati@gmail.com by Sunday, November 7.  We hope to see you there. 

An Inner Journey celebration for Graduates & Guests
Get ready to come alive “Inner Journey style” and connect on and off the dance floor with old friends and new. Come single or bring a crowd – this is the perfect occasion to introduce your friends and family to the gifts of the Inner Journey.
Dress to impress – or express! In addition to the hot tunes and cool moves we’ll enjoy delicious appetizers, a cash bar, a silent auction and raffle, and a few words from Howard Ross on the Inner Journey and upcoming courses.
*To donate a silent auction, email Bruce and jbtria@msn.com You need a full description, pic and retail value to give to Bruce.   Below is a current list of outstanding vacations and items up for auction!

• A weekend at Deep Creek Lake
• A 4-day weekend at Ogden Farm
• Watercolor painting by Leslie Traub
• Professional Dog Training package
• 2-hr Design Consultation for home, garden
• Energy Audit for your home
• Handcrafted Jembe Drum from Senegal
• 60-min therapeutic massage
• 90-min Myofascial Release treatment
• Bronze Statue of Dancing Indian Elephant God Ganesha

Bring a non-graduate guest and receive a complimentary beverage ticket for you both!
Advance Sale Tickets $30* (tickets will be available online until Oct. 2, 12pm) After 12pm on Oct 2, tickets are available at the door for $40.

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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Every year Inner Journey Seminars offers a week-long facilitator training where students are trained in applying Spiritual Facilitation tools and techniques in their work with people both in groups and individually.

This training always culminates in a beautiful one day workshop, created facilitated by the trainees themselves, and supervised by Howard, Neelama and Michael Schiesser (Creator of the Inner Journey Program)

This workshop is a nourishing 'retreat' in the middle of summer encompassing a variety of guided meditations, group processes, & individual work for those interested.Please join us for what will surely be a very deep and touching day, led by devoted and committed trainees who want to share their newly-learned skills, experiences, and open hearts with you.

This program is a wonderful guest event and is open to all.

Presented by Inner Journey Seminars and Cook Ross Inc.

This program is designed to train individuals in the facilitation of individual and group work. Participants will learn the integrated spiritual, philosophical, and psychological work of the Inner Journey Seminar. This training teaches a powerful combination of skills techniques with the potential for tremendous inner transformation.

What makes this training unique is the spiritual perspective of the work. Our approach starts with the psychological, emotional, and mental levels and facilitates people towards a deep inner spiritual experience: a "non-denominational religiousness."

To be a 'spiritual facilitator' in this context is a special privilege and gift that requires the trainee to walk their own path of inner growth.

This program is not specifically offered to train participants to facilitate the Inner Journey Seminar, but rather to learn the tools, techniques and spiritual approach of the Inner Journey work to facilitate people in your current or future profession.

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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If you are planning to staff the June Inner Journey, please join staff leader Dee Rosenberg and men's staff leader Tim Castallo for a prep and planning session.  If you are interested in staffing, there are few spots left.  please contact Dee at catdee2004@yahoo.com

The Essential Pilgrimage is a weekend program designed to explore the essential themes of our lives. It’s a school of enlightenment for the modern soul - a supportive, encouraging, and inspirational place to inquire, to connect with Spirit, and to Awaken. Led by Michael Schiesser – original creator of the Inner Journey, the program synthesizes dynamic teaching with profound experiential work, and expressions of devotion and grace to guide us on our journey within.

The subject of this Essential Pilgrimage is JOY. In our essential nature we are joyous, are able to en'joy', to delight in the gifts of life. Yet, to different degrees we have lost access to this inner source of JOY. This  weekend is dedicated to reconnect and open up to the true JOYOUSNESS from within our Being.

The Enneagram is a personality mapping system, which describes a system of knowledge about nine distinct but interrelated personality types, or nine ways of seeing and experiencing the world.  The Enneagram is generally presented as a system for mapping and understanding the nine personality types. Each personality type associated with the Enneagram represents a map of traits that highlights patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. By learning one’s type and the patterns and habits associated with that type, one can use the Enneagram system as an effective tool for self-understanding and self-development.

In addition, an understanding of the Enneagram can prove effective in creating better understanding in personal and business relationships. Each Enneagram personality type is a description of a particular pattern of attention, sometimes referred to as a fixation. By learning about what kinds of things we attend to and put energy into, we can observe yourself more accurately and develop more self-awareness, and thus can exercise more choice about our functioning rather than engaging in patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior in an automatic, habitual, unconscious way.

If you did not attend the one-day session, please take the test in The Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Don Riso and Russ Hudson to find out your primary type.   There are also tests online you can take, with varied reliability.  These results will give you some context for when you attend the individual sessions.

The Enneagram is a personality mapping system, which describes a system of knowledge about nine distinct but interrelated personality types, or nine ways of seeing and experiencing the world.  The Enneagram is generally presented as a system for mapping and understanding the nine personality types. Each personality type associated with the Enneagram represents a map of traits that highlights patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. By learning one’s type and the patterns and habits associated with that type, one can use the Enneagram system as an effective tool for self-understanding and self-development.

In addition, an understanding of the Enneagram can prove effective in creating better understanding in personal and business relationships. Each Enneagram personality type is a description of a particular pattern of attention, sometimes referred to as a fixation. By learning about what kinds of things we attend to and put energy into, we can observe yourself more accurately and develop more self-awareness, and thus can exercise more choice about our functioning rather than engaging in patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior in an automatic, habitual, unconscious way.

If you did not attend the one-day session, please take the test in The Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Don Riso and Russ Hudson to find out your primary type.   There are also tests online you can take, with varied reliability.  These results will give you some context for when you attend the individual sessions.

The Enneagram is a personality mapping system, which describes a system of knowledge about nine distinct but interrelated personality types, or nine ways of seeing and experiencing the world.  The Enneagram is generally presented as a system for mapping and understanding the nine personality types. Each personality type associated with the Enneagram represents a map of traits that highlights patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. By learning one’s type and the patterns and habits associated with that type, one can use the Enneagram system as an effective tool for self-understanding and self-development.

In addition, an understanding of the Enneagram can prove effective in creating better understanding in personal and business relationships. Each Enneagram personality type is a description of a particular pattern of attention, sometimes referred to as a fixation. By learning about what kinds of things we attend to and put energy into, we can observe yourself more accurately and develop more self-awareness, and thus can exercise more choice about our functioning rather than engaging in patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior in an automatic, habitual, unconscious way.

If you did not attend the one-day session, please take the test in The Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Don Riso and Russ Hudson to find out your primary type.   There are also tests online you can take, with varied reliability.  These results will give you some context for when you attend the individual sessions.

*Type 7, The Enthusiast, Sunday, February 28, 6:30-9:30

Type 6, The Loyalist, Sunday, March 14, 6:30-9:30

Type 8, The Challenger, Sunday, March 23, 6:30-9:30pm

Last Session: Type 9, The Peacemaker/Wrap-Up  TBA

*The Enneagram Type 7 is scheduled out of order due to the snow cancellations

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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For all graduates staffing the Inner Journey Seminar February 18-21, 2010

The Enneagram is a personality mapping system, which describes a system of knowledge about nine distinct but interrelated personality types, or nine ways of seeing and experiencing the world.  The Enneagram is generally presented as a system for mapping and understanding the nine personality types. Each personality type associated with the Enneagram represents a map of traits that highlights patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. By learning one's type and the patterns and habits associated with that type, one can use the Enneagram system as an effective tool for self-understanding and self-development. In addition, an understanding of the Enneagram can prove effective in creating better understanding in personal and business relationships.

The program will be designed as a one-day session followed by a series of evening sessions. The first full day will provide an overview of the Enneagram system, and the subsequent evening sessions will each focus more deeply on each of the types, using a wide range of medium (music, video, TV and movies, etc). to explore how the type occurs and how it impacts people’s view of the world.  We will also explore specific techniques for gaining freedom from the fixation within each of us.

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This seminar is sponsored by Inner Journey Seminars WDC, a non-profit educational organization committed to creating healing environments where people can learn and grow emotionally and spiritually. The seminar includes work inspired by the IJDC programs and includes trust-building, interactive dialogue, self-awareness exercises, experiential processes and various meditation techniques. Led by Howard Ross, internationally recognized diversity consultant and lead facililitator of The Inner Journey Seminar in DC, and Bill Pullen, executive coach, life coach and leadership development consultant, this program will be groundbreaking in addressing not only the individual concerns of being a gay man in our culture, but the impact of homophobia on both the gay and heterosexual communities.

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The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life.  The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices.  Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

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Join Howard Ross, Neelama Eyers and Michael Schiesser, founder of The Inner Journey, for an extraordinary learning experience! Facilitator’s Training is for anyone who longs to develop an ability to connect more deeply and to be more effective with people in their work. Participants will develop the ability to integrate the group and individual skills that are utilized in the Inner Journey Seminar into their work as counselors, coaches, teachers, nurses, leaders, human resources personnel, managers and salespeople.

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life. The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal, philosophical, and spiritual practices. Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.

The weekend is dynamic, joyful and heart-opening as well as very deep and peaceful. A new perspective is gained - one that opens your heart and mind to a deeper understanding of yourself and others. This profound awakening can catapult you into a new dimension of living- feeling fully alive, self-expressed and acknowledged for who you truly are.

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The Introduction to the Inner Journey is designed for guests to get a flavor of what this weekend experience has to offer them and also for graduates to revisit the power of the IJ; we promise an enlivening and fun evening for all.   Please plan to attend, invite your loved ones and confirm attendance with Michael Lucy - michaelslucy@gmail.com - (202) 557-5814 as soon as possible.

The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program intended to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life. Drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal, philosophical, and spiritual transformational practices, the Inner Journey is a modern-day response to the ancient search for t ruth and meaning in our lives.

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Graduate Inner Journey: The Pursuit of Happiness

This Graduate Inner Journey will use some familiar and some new processes of the Inner Journey Seminar as vehicles to explore what happiness is for you and how to live life from a place of fulfillment. We will explore the balance between the pursuit and the striving, and creating and achieving a fulfilling life. By offering the connection to the familiar structure of the Inner Journey, yet using each process in a totally unique way, we are catapulted forward in a safe container that allows for profound depth, richness and Spirituality to emerge from within.

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