CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER
PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
2019, May 1st at 10 AM PT/ 7 PM CET
A Collaborative Relationship with Life
WITH MICHAEL HOFFMAN
This conversation explores the natural practice of actively participating with your already-present relationship with Life (aka Spirit, God, Buddha Nature, the Tao, the Universe). This discussion applies this relationship with Life to the spiritual practices of intention and cocreation.
Intention is a partnership with Life. When you offer an intention, you initiate a partnership to collaborate with Life to create something together. Both you and Life have a role to play. Your role is to offer an intention, and Life’s role is to present doorways and situations for the thing you intended to unfold. When you orient your intention with the qualities of being formless, collective, equal, honest, and inquisitive, your intention aligns and resonates with Life allowing it to be powerful and far-reaching.
The dance of creation (aka cocreation) is a collaborative process between you and Life as you actualize the things you want for yourself. The dance goes back and forth between you and Life as you offer an intention, Life presents a doorway, you step into the doorway, and Life unfolds your creation. It’s a conversation. You initiate this back-and-forth dance by offering your intention, and Life responds by presenting a doorway. You then recognize the doorway and step into it. Life responds to you stepping into it by presenting a new experience for your creation to further unfold, which you in turn respond to.
STREAMED LIVE HERE on May 1st 2019
HEIDI´S INTRO TO THE SHOW
We are used to think and believe that life is happening to us, that we have to accept it as it is and that we do not have much influence on how it unfolds. This idea seems to be verified whenever our beliefs come true, whenever things happen to us and we feel the overwhelm of being the victim of outside forces chasing us around.
Yes, in essence, life is happening to us. We have no real influence on being born to which parents and in which location – although certain spiritual schools affirm that even this is a matter of unconscious choice or a consequence of previous lives. I don’t want to go so far, but concentrate on this life here on earth. Yes, we are born with a certain DNA structure, a certain temperament and proclivity. And yes, we are formed in our childhood by our environment, our culture, even in the womb of our mothers. And yes, what we experience in life informs what we think about it and what attitude we have towards it.
But – and this is the message of our guest Michael Hoffman: We have the power to change our beliefs and our orientation towards life. We can co-operate with it instead of resisting, and we can free ourselves from structures which were laid on us and which are not what we really are or meant to be. A powerful message – and not always easy to put into practice!
ABOUT MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Michael Hoffman is a spiritual coach, psychotherapist, author, and trained spiritual teacher. He created Transformation Services in 2009 (which became Natural Way of Being in 2014) to help people trust their heart and create the things in their life that they truly want. He also provides spiritual and relationship coaching via online video-conferencing and phone to reach clients throughout the world.
Michael draws on 22-years of psychotherapy experience and 32-years of spiritual training to offer spiritual and relationship coaching, psychotherapy, and in-person and online workshops to guide people to awaken and integrate a natural way of being. He uses guided meditation, Native American ceremony, sharing circles, and other experiential modalities so clients can directly experience their personal truth and what they value at their core.
Michael is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Oregon. He completed his Master’s Degree in Social Work at Boise State University in 1997 with a focus on direct practice and earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 1987. Since then he has worked as a psychotherapist and clinical social worker in private practice, psychiatric and medical hospitals, chemical dependency programs, and with Marines at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton.
Michael also trained with and assisted Bart Anderson, a Spiritual Teacher, Zen Master, and Shaman from 1985 to 2007. This intensive apprenticeship ultimately lead to Bart “passing on the medicine” to him before Bart died in 2007. During those 22 years, he was formally trained in meditation, Native American ceremony, Zen Buddhism, and Jungian dream interpretation. This apprenticeship also guided him to address his own emotional issues and develop his spiritual awareness which created clarity in my work with his clients and writing. He continues to do his own work and grow spiritually through attending meditation retreats with Adyashanti and the Summer Solstice Ceremonies at Deer Creek. He currently lives in Bend, Oregon.
Michael is the author of two books, Your Natural Gift (2013) and Natural Way of Being (2019). Your Natural Gift is a tool to walk people through unfolding their creative and spiritual gifts. Natural Way of Being guides readers to trust their intuition, collaborate with life, and walk with their hearts open. It will be published in 2019. You can learn more about Michael’s work at www.naturalwayofbeing.com.
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