The Magic of Presence

Serving the Healing and Awakening of Others

This six-month program is both a personal development workshop and a professional training. 

It teaches the building blocks of presence and provides you with a program to access and stabilize a state of wellbeing.

In other words, you will move from a fear-based operating system to an awareness-based operating system—increasing your capacity to be with whatever arises in you and whatever arises in the world around you.

When you are fully present, you are grounded, embodied, and attuned. You become a coherent field that dissolves dissonance.

Therefore, as you engage in your own healing and awakening, you prepare yourself to help others transform.

Join us for a free one-day program to get a feel for the full training.

Saturday, January 17, 2026

10:30 am - 5:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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What will I learn?

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

  • A vocabulary to support understanding of consciousness

  • from which to coach

  • How to be in healing relationship with another from and embodied, grounded, open, and awake presence

  • Use fundamental coaching skills and strategies

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

  • Access your native gifts so you can live and work from your true nature

  • 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? 

It will:

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

  • Give you greater and more stable access to a state of presence

  • Support you in responding creatively in times of chaos

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

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

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

  • Increase your confidence and competence in working one on one in healing relationship

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:

  • Feeling the call to change professions and become a coach

  • A therapist, spiritual director, social worker, or other healing practitioner seeking transformational coaching skills 

  • Realizing the value of coaching skills for social change

  • Feeling overwhelmed, unsure of how process “what is”

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

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

  • A future student of The Institute of Healing and Awakening curious about our teaching style and community

  • "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

Session dates/times

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

Session 1: Fri-Sun, Oct 16-18, 2026

Session 2: Fri-Sun, Nov 13-15, 2026

Session 3: Fri-Sun, Dec 18-20, 2026

Session 4: Fri-Sun, Jan 15-17, 2027

Session 5: Fri-Sun, Feb12-14, 2027

Session 6: Fri-Sun, Mar 19-21, 2027

Support for your journey

Class recordings

The live session is recorded and can be watched for up to 1 year post completion.

What Students Are Saying

Jay Hansen
Coaching with Spirit Student

Robin Whitfield
Magic of Presence Student

Rachel Parks
Personal Development Coach
Coaching with IFS-1 Student

vHow does it work?

This is an intimate and interactive training made up of seven monthly three-day sessions.

Our three-day sessions will take place live on Zoom. 

Each day:

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

  • We take 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 small groups with your peers at least three times

  • Complete the assigned reading from the manual

  • Work to fulfill 15 hours of independent study focused on the ICF Code of Ethics and Core Competencies. (This is an elective)

After completing the sessions, you will:

  • Schedule three one-on-one mentoring sessions with one of our trained mentors

  • Provide a recording of your coaching for a final pass/fail evaluation. When you pass, you will receive your certificate of completion for use in applying for your entry-level credential from the ICF, the ACC (Associate Certified Coach)

The Magic of Presence

A free one-day training

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