The Magic of Presence

Serving the Healing and Awakening of Others

This is a six-month professional training—and you will be transformed.

It is for those who seek to work one-on-one in healing relationship with another. It is also for those who want to take their current healing work to a deeper level. This includes coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, dietitians, and other practitioners.

The Magic of Presence teaches the building blocks of presence and provides you with a program to access and stabilize in a state of wellbeing.

In other words, you will increase your capacity to be with whatever arises in you and whatever arises in your clients.

When you are fully present, you are grounded, embodied, and attuned. Your system harmonizes, and your client’s system begins to harmonize with yours.

This training prepares you to use your own presence as a relational field that supports the healing and awakening of others.

This will set you apart.

What will I learn?

  • A map of the psyche

  • Four steps designed to open your awareness and refine your attention

  • How to be fully present—in your body, with access to the surrounding field of awareness, and with your heart open

  • The core competencies of being in healing relationship with another to evoke greater awareness and growth

  • The power of accepting “what is” as the first step toward change

  • A vocabulary to support understanding of consciousness

  • The organizing principles of Internal Family Systems

  • A protocol that will give your client access to their deepest internal resources

  • How to dance with meta-skills, such as sitting in the mystery of silence, amplifying relational resonance, and trusting what is arising in the relational field

How will I evolve? 

You will:

  • Increase your confidence and competence in working one-on-one to facilitate healing and awakening

  • Increase your capacity to be with what arises in you and the world around you

  • Have greater and more stable access to a state of presence

  • Become an open vessel vessel through which Spirit can flow

  • Respond creatively in times of chaos

  • Gain access to your own wisdom, divinity, and sense of wellbeing 

  • Experience a shift in consciousness, to see the world through new eyes

  • Discover your innate gifts so you can live and work from your true nature

What Students Are Saying

Jay Hansen
Professional Coach

Robin Whitfield
Professional Coach

Rachel Parks
Personal Development Coach

Session dates/times

All class days run from 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Eastern Time (New York) on Zoom.

Session 1: Fri-Sat, Oct 16-17, 2026

Session 2: Fri-Sat, Nov 13-14, 2026

Session 3: Fri-Sat, Dec 18-19, 2026

Session 4: Fri-Sat, Jan 15-16, 2027

Session 5: Fri-Sat, Feb12-13, 2027

Session 6: Fri-Sat, Mar 19-20, 2027

Is this for me?

We’ve designed this program for those of you called to end suffering, to bring the light of love to others, and are on your own journey of awakening.

You may be:

  • Considering becoming a coach and seeking a training that will set you apart

  • A therapist, coach, spiritual director, dietitian, or other healing practitioner seeking transformational ways of being and working with others

  • Feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how to process “what is”

  • A former student of The Institute for Healing and Awakening seeking to continue your healing journey and stay connected to the community

  • Curious about Internal Family Systems but not yet trained as a practitioner. This training will prepare you for our IFS trainings.

How does it work?

This is an intimate and interactive training made up of six monthly two-day (Fri-Sat) sessions.

Meetings:

  • Live on Zoom

  • 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Eastern Time (New York).

  • Two 15-minute breaks and one 60-minute meal break.

Class days include a combination of presencing practices, teaching, demonstrations, debriefs, Q&A, peer practice, and mentoring.

Our goal is to provide a learning environment that is structured, open, inclusive, and energizing, and to create a community that is connected and resonant.

Between sessions you will:

  • Practice in dyads with your peers at least three times

  • Complete the assigned reading from the manual

Support for your journey

Six 2-day sessions

Learn live with Co-Founders Guthrie Sayen and Barti Bourgault. Experience meditations, coaching demos, breakouts with mentors, and Q&A.

Magic of Presence manual

Receive a comprehensive manual to help you integrate your learning.

Class recordings

The live sessions are recorded and can be watched for up to 1 year post completion.

40 ICF CCEs

Continuing education credits through the International Coaching Federation are awarded at completion. (Pending approval)

The Magic of Presence

$3,900

Early-bird discount $500
(Ends August 31, 2026)

$3,400

Enroll

  • "With its focus on cultivating a relationship to Self as a foundation for both the coach and client, the integrity of the process, and the safe container created by Guthrie and Barti, I found a map for my day-to-day spiritual practice."

    — Kari Noble

  • "Over time, I built more and more trust in following my own heart and intuition."

    — Brandon Wong

  • The high caliber level of the facilitators, their vision and materials, and (importantly) the group participants all enhanced my own growth as a meditation facilitator. The work ripples out into communities in very meaningful ways, and I am grateful to have had the experience.

    — Susanna Stinnett, Women of UVM Meditation Facilitator

  • "Guthrie and Barti create a safe and intimate space that allowed me to explore my inner self with confidence. Their compassionate guidance and expert knowledge truly facilitated my personal growth and healing journey. I am deeply grateful for the transformative experience they provided."

    — Marcelo Cabra

  • "I felt honored to be able to witness these gifted mentors. Both of these teachers delivered clear communication on techniques that aid me, as a coach and as a person, to create transformational conversations for my clients and just about everyone I interact with."

    — Mary Sanislo