The Way of Love
The Way of Love is our intensive three-year course in personal transformation and healership. This highly personalized program of study helps students heal emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually so they can make profound changes they desire in their own lives, and support others in being able to do the same.
Grounded. Practical. Effective.
We believe that whenever you show up as your authentic, joyous, and loving self, you naturally act in healership to the world. That’s why the Way of Love works both as a graduate-level training for therapists, and as a life-changing, highly applicable program of personal healing for people from all walks of life and in any profession.
Our unique three-pillar approach offers deep, sustained healing for profound personal transformation. The experiential group setting helps students to practice and integrate their education in real time. Students learn to:
understand and address unfinished developmental tasks and familial patterns;
access and support their bodies’ wisdom; and
connect with their own unique spirituality as a source of power and resilience.
Practical and Professional Applications
Many students in the healing professions — psychotherapists, counselors, nurses and doctors — have used the Way of Love to “clear the mirror” of their intuition, gain new tools for working with clients, and deepen their spiritual commitment to their work. However, many others in varied careers (professors, artists, lawyers, doctors, nonprofit leaders and businesspeople) use their training within their families and workplaces to become more confident, authentic, and effective leaders, parents, and community members.
“I changed my marriage and my work. I experienced huge professional benefits from this process, receiving promotions and raises that I otherwise wouldn't have been ready to ask for or receive.”
— Amy Snyder, 66, chief financial officer
“I came to Inner Source because I was becoming consciously fed up with feelings of self-hate and needed to change it. My classmates and I experienced a big change: a shift from a desire to remove self-hate to a willingness to cultivate self-love.”
— Brett Naylor, 35, chef
“The philosophies at Inner Source help me make sense of a chaotic world that is both beautiful and challenging. It’s not always easy, it’s not always pretty, but it’s always real. And for that I am grateful.”
— Andrea White, 39, acupuncturist
Overview
The program’s basic content areas are described here, although how the content is delivered will vary. Our experienced teachers are highly responsive to student needs and tailor the curriculum to each class.
Human Behavioral and Spiritual Frameworks
Study of how humans develop core beliefs and ingrained behavioral responses, and how to uncover and dissolve these patterns through healing inquiry.
Energy Healing Training
Hands-on training in sensing and directing energy emitted by the human body.
Human Anatomy and Energy Healing
Study of major bodily systems and their relationship to energy.
Healing Project and Presentation
Completion and presentation of an in-depth healing project, totaling 60 hours of applied healing practice.
Assisting and Mentoring
Integrating knowledge and skills by assisting during Way of Love and healing workshops; learn to experience and work in your full authority.
Certification in Reiki levels I, II and Mastership
Study of techniques and supervised hands-on practice leading to Certified Mastership. Training is distributed across all 3 years.
Curriculum
YEAR ONE
Freedom from Limited Thinking; Bodily Awareness
This year lays the intellectual and physical foundations for the Way of Love program. Students work with the victim-villain-savior triangle, address and unpack their unique dynamics and relationships that consistently create internal conflict, and learn to fully enjoy, celebrate, and expand upon areas of ease and strength in their lives.
Objectives:
Learn to identify the negative stories about yourself and others that keep you feeling small, trapped in unhealthy situations, or unable to achieve your goals.
Gain a foundational body awareness — the ability to receive and interpret information from your body.
Let yourself and the people you love off the hook; experience more fun and connection in relationships.
YEAR TWO
Freeing Up Energy; Fully Living in The Body
In this year, students go deeper learn to identify how the human body stores unhealthy patterns of thought and behavior developed in childhood, as well as how to work with the body to release these patterns.
Objectives:
Learn the five major energetic defense structures and how they manifest in one’s own relationships
Complete intensive healing exercises designed for each of the five major defense structures.
Experience increased energy, and greater vibrancy and pleasure in daily life.
YEAR THREE
Becoming Your Own Healer; Owning Your Authority and Personal Power
This year formally initiates you into the role of healer. You will complete approximately 60 hours in the role of healer and healee, and share your experience in the Case Presentation – a cornerstone experience of the Way of Love program.
Through completing a case presentation and supporting 1st and 2nd year students, you’ll learn to inhabit your full power and authority in relationships – from your class to your families and workplace.
Objectives:
Practice supporting a client throughout a long-term healing relationship, from exploring family history to where they experience ease and dis-ease in their present lives.
Set up a healing space and receive support in your project from a school mentor.
Practice full embodied presence — with yourself and with others — through the Case Presentation process.
Complete the Third Year Case Presentation: give and receive up to 60 hours of talk therapy and hands-on energy healing work.
Mentor 1st and 2nd year classes.
Details
Commitment
Participants are asked to commit to just one year of this 3-year program at a time, committing to attending all 7 weekend workshops of the first year.
Schedule
Each weekend will run from 10 AM to 3 PM on both Saturday and Sunday, with an hour break for lunch and two other short breaks during the day.
Activities
Each weekend will consist of a wide variety of activities, which will include various forms of meditation, movement exercises, role-playing exercises, healing exercises, lectures, and sharing of experiences in small groups and with the group as a whole.
