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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.

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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