Higher Self Expansion Workshop
A Six-Week Personal Growth Workshop for Expanding Your Awareness of the Higher Self
Attend in person at Anam Cara Wellness Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, or join live through Zoom.
What might change in your life if you could access more calm, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage, curiosity, creativity, and connectedness?
Your Higher Self is not something you need to create or awaken. It is already present. However, the stress, fears, protective patterns, and demands of everyday life can make it difficult to remain consciously connected with this deeper source of wisdom.
The Higher Self Expansion workshop is a supportive, experiential six-week group designed to help you expand your awareness of the Higher Self and bring more of its qualities into your daily life.
Through teachings, guided meditation, reflective journaling, and supportive discussion, you will learn practical ways to quiet internal distractions, recognize your own inner wisdom, and develop a more consistent relationship with your authentic spiritual nature.
This workshop is open to beginners and experienced spiritual seekers. It can also serve as a meaningful complement to Internal Family Systems therapy, mindfulness, meditation, and other personal or spiritual growth practices.
What Each Session Includes
Each 90-minute session will include:
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A teaching on the week’s topic
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A guided meditation
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Reflective journaling
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Supportive group discussion and optional personal sharing
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Time for questions and integration
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Practical exercises to continue between sessions
The Eight Qualities of Self-Energy
As awareness of the Higher Self expands, you may begin to experience more of the qualities described within Internal Family Systems as the Eight Cs of Self-energy:
Calm • Clarity • Compassion • Confidence • Courage • Curiosity • Creativity • Connectedness
These qualities do not need to be forced. They can emerge naturally as we develop greater awareness of the Higher Self and learn to relate compassionately to the parts of us that carry fear, worry, self-doubt, or protective beliefs.
The Six-Week Journey
Week One: What Is the Higher Self?
We will explore the meaning of the Higher Self and how it may be experienced as an inner source of wisdom, compassion, presence, and spiritual connection.
Potential Benefits
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Develop a clearer understanding of the Higher Self.
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Learn to distinguish Higher Self awareness from fear, habitual thinking, and protective reactions.
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Recognize moments when you may already be experiencing Self-energy.
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Establish a personal intention for the six-week journey.
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Begin developing greater trust in your inner awareness.
Week Two: Relaxing the Protective Parts of the Ego
We will explore how protective parts may become anxious, self-critical, controlling, perfectionistic, or overwhelmed. You will practice gently creating space around these reactions rather than fighting or suppressing them.
Potential Benefits
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Learn practical ways to calm overthinking and internal tension.
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Develop greater compassion for the protective parts of yourself.
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Create more space between an emotional reaction and your response.
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Increase access to calm, clarity, and present-moment awareness.
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Practice relating to yourself without judgment or shame.
Week Three: Experiencing the Chakras
Through meditation and guided awareness, we will explore the chakra system as a spiritual framework for noticing energy, emotion, intuition, expression, compassion, and connection.
Potential Benefits
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Increase awareness of your body and subtle energy.
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Explore the relationship between emotion, physical sensation, and spiritual awareness.
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Develop practices for feeling more grounded and centered.
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Strengthen your connection with intuition and inner guidance.
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Experience meditation through the body rather than only through the thinking mind.
Week Four: Raising Your Vibration
We will explore what it means to raise your vibration in a grounded and emotionally honest way. The session will focus on practices that support gratitude, compassion, intention, presence, and spiritual alignment without denying difficult emotions.
Potential Benefits
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Identify experiences and habits that support or drain your energy.
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Learn realistic practices for cultivating a more peaceful internal state.
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Increase gratitude, hope, joy, and emotional resilience.
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Become more intentional about the energy you bring into relationships and daily activities.
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Understand the difference between spiritual growth and forced positivity.
Week Five: The Void—Navigating Change and Transformation
Periods of personal or spiritual growth can sometimes involve uncertainty, emptiness, disorientation, or the feeling that an old identity no longer fits. We will discuss “the void” as a period of transition and explore ways to remain grounded while something new is emerging.
Potential Benefits
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Develop a framework for understanding periods of uncertainty and transition.
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Feel less alone during experiences of personal or spiritual change.
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Learn grounding practices for managing discomfort and ambiguity.
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Increase patience, trust, and emotional resilience.
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Explore how to integrate change without rushing to find immediate answers.
Week Six: Being Your Higher Self in Daily Life
The final session will focus on integrating the workshop into daily living. We will explore non-attachment, connection with higher will, compassionate communication, intention setting, and ways to avoid spiritual bypassing.
You will also practice communicating from greater Self-awareness by using language such as, “A part of me feels...” rather than identifying your entire being with one emotion or reaction.
Potential Benefits
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Make choices from greater wisdom rather than fear or reactivity.
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Communicate with more compassion, clarity, and authenticity.
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Develop greater awareness of attachment and the need to control outcomes.
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Learn to honor difficult emotions without allowing them to define you.
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Recognize and avoid spiritual bypassing.
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Create a personal plan for continuing your Higher Self practices after the workshop.
Session Recordings
The educational teaching and guided meditation portions of each session will be recorded.
Registered participants will receive access to the recording following each class. You may use the recordings to:
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Revisit the teaching and meditation between sessions
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Deepen your practice through repetition
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Review material that was personally meaningful
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Catch up on the instructional portions of a session if you are unable to attend
To protect participant privacy and create a safe environment for authentic conversation, personal sharing, questions involving private experiences, and group discussion will not be recorded. Recording will be paused during those portions of the session.
Who Is This Workshop For?
This workshop may be a good fit for adults who:
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Want to deepen their spiritual awareness
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Feel disconnected from their intuition or inner wisdom
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Desire more peace, compassion, confidence, and emotional balance
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Are curious about meditation, chakras, consciousness, or the Higher Self
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Want practical ways to integrate spirituality into daily life
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Have an interest in Internal Family Systems or Self-energy
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Enjoy learning and reflecting within a supportive community
You do not need to be in therapy or have previous experience with meditation, IFS, or chakra work to participate.
Workshop Details
Format: Hybrid—attend in person or live through Zoom
In-Person Location: Ankara Wellness Center, Burlington, Massachusetts (space limited to 10)
Length: Six weekly sessions
Session Length: 90 minutes
Investment/Energy Exchange: $290 for the complete six-week workshop
Registration includes all six live sessions, guided meditations, journaling exercises, session materials, and recordings of the educational and meditation portions of each class.
Dates: Saturday: September 19, September 26, October 3, October 10, October 17, and October 24, 2026
Time: 10:30 am - Noon
Space will be limited in person to support personal connection, discussion, and a comfortable group experience.
Click the registration button below to select the Higher Self Expansion workshop and reserve your place.
Questions about the workshop may be directed to:
Kim Burkland-Ward, LICSW (she/her)
Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist
Approved IFS Clinical Consultant
Associate Ordained Spiritualist Minister
Email: kim@nashuatherapy.net
Phone: 603-521-7806
Important Information
This workshop is educational and experiential in nature. It is not psychotherapy, a psychotherapy group, or a substitute for mental health or medical treatment. Participation does not establish a therapist-client relationship with the facilitator.
Participation in group discussion and personal sharing is always optional. Participants are asked to respect the privacy and confidentiality of others; however, confidentiality between group participants cannot be legally guaranteed in the same manner as it can within individual psychotherapy.