The Essential Path Workshops

The Essential Path is comprised of six educational programs designed to introduce you to the full spectrum of your human potential. The simple and profound practices you will be offered in these programs will develop the six facets of your being (as described below) and will bring balance to your life.  They also will empower you to be a catalyst for creating a more awakened world.  At the Center for Creative Intelligence we draw on the wisdom of human experience to offer an essential path to finding solutions to the problems that face us individually and as a global society.

We offer the following workshops from The Essential Path.  We can also create customized workshops to fit the specific needs of your group or organization.

All of our programs include:
Leadership by experts in their field
Creative activities
Meditative and contemplative exercises
Small group and individual interaction
Relevant and cutting edge information

  • Mental Clarity

    "Developing Mental Clarity"
    We all know the feeling of an undisciplined mind that pulls our attention from one thing to another.  In this workshop we will explore ancient and modern meditative and contemplative techniques that tame the mind and harness its energy so that we can see clearly what needs to be done, and how to do it. 

  • Intuitive Insight
    "Awaken Intuitive Insight"
    In this free-flowing workshop we will learn how to connect with and trust what life is showing us.  We will explore the magic of being in the moment and the meaning of coincidence.  We will learn to “trust the process” as we listen to the voice within. The workshop will help us achieve a new level of confidence and a greater appreciation for and attunement to the unseen. This will be fun, and could change your life.

  • Self-Expression
    "Exploring Self-Expression"
    A meaningful life reflects that which is unique in each of us.  Sometimes what that gift is may not be apparent to us, or we have learned to push it deep inside of ourselves and not to let it out.  In this workshop we will identify our obstacles to self-expression and transform them, in order to explore our passion and invite it to dance with us.   Then we will explore how to develop a practice of self-expression that connects us with our genuine self.     We will help you unleash you creativity, tap into your natural talents and abilities, and explore the variety of ways in which you can express your imagination and authenticity.  Learn how creativity is more than the tradition arts and how it can be a way to add joy to your life.

  • Open Heart
    "Living Fearlessly with an Open Heart"
    Fear causes us to close our hearts, both to ourselves and to others.  In this workshop we will begin to discover how this mechanism works in our life, and how to trust our tender hearts.  We will explore our obstacles to an open heart and learn how to increase compassion toward ourselves and others. The workshop will address ways we can take down our walls and let the world touch us, and provide tools to work with the challenge of staying open. We will see how gentleness to ourselves can profoundly affect all who are a part of our lives.

  • Body and Mind

    "Releasing Stress in Body and Mind"
    In this workshop we offer tools for synchronizing body and mind to develop a practice of self-care that includes generating compassion toward oneself and healing for one's body.  We will learn to tap into a natural energy and wisdom that allows us to let go of the limiting stress of today's world.  The workshop will help us identify both the fears that lie behind our stress and our stress-relieving behaviors, learn the physiological impact of stress, energy medicine exercises to reduce the effects of stress and creative processes to connect with our own body wisdom. We will learn techniques to apply in daily life that can release us from the grip of overwhelm.

  • Emotional Wisdom

  • "Working with Emotional Energy"
  • In this workshop we will uncover and learn to transform a powerful and painful emotional pattern. Utilizing tools from the previous workshops--awareness, insight, authenticity, open heart and balance--we will see how we can actually transform our emotional energy and reactive behavior in order to improve our relationships with others and our world. We will begin to understand which energies dominate in our personal and work lives, and how to use this knowledge to transform that energy so that it enhances our life.

  • Special Workshops

  • Authentic Communication

  • This workshop combines the Open Heart and Mental Clarity modules.  An open heart and mind lead directly to interest in and curiosity about our world and others.  Genuine interest is the key to authentic communication.  Tools to improve how you interact with others are the heart of this workshop.

Creative Intelligence at Work

This workshop using material from the Mental Clarity module is directly applicable to your work and daily life.  It is a unique interactive seminar that will inspire you to question and go beyond your current ways of thinking, shine light on your hidden creativity, gain insight into shifting habits that hold you back, and make the changes you desire.