Unity Academy

The Unity Academy is a yearlong sequential series of residential workshops supported by virtual sessions. It is a community of transformation. As the community deepens, it provides a powerful and safe container for the vulnerability of the work. It also becomes more and more capable of holding a field that quickens and catalyzes breakthroughs. This is why we encourage you to enroll in the entire yearlong experience. The sequence of residential sessions is described below.

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Foundations

This four-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson and Terri O’Fallon. Prior to the workshop, participants will fill out and be debriefed on the LCP and the STAGES Assessments. This workshop will provide an integration of Terri’s adult development STAGES framework, the fundamental underpinning framework of the LCP, and the Unity in-formed integral model that forms the underpinnings of the Unity Academy. In addition, it will experientially explore the seven practices of Creative leadership, work somatically with the STAGES development framework (emphasizing what emerges at later states), and introduce the framework and practices of future coursework within the academy.

This workshop will launch the process of the school. It promises to be a very powerful personal and leadership development experience. Participants will leave with an expanded capability to use the LCP for working in a deep and transformative way with their clients at whatever is their stage of development. This workshop can be taken independently of going further on in the academy.

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The Energetics of Embodied Presence and Dialogue

This five-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson, Joel Yanowitz, and Donna Evans Strauss. This workshop is integral. It is Unity in-formed. It is an integration (both theoretical, scientific, and experiential) of many diverse traditions: energetic healing, Aikido, spiritual/wisdom traditions (North, South, East, West), quantum science (physics, biology, neurology), psychology (depth, cognitive, adult development), and shadow/trauma healing (individual, intergenerational, collective). This workshop is about expanding the human meta-capacities that allow us to become a more transformative agent for our clients and for our organizations. It will help participants embody and ground stable access to progressively deeper dimensions of the quantum field (and/or the human energy field), open pathways of intuitive access to unified informational field and to the field of the client, and develop an unprecedented level of subtle access and transformative presence from which to work with clients and lead organizations. Finally, this workshop will introduce the practice of dialogue—collectively and intuitively listening to and speaking from the field of intelligence for breakthrough insight on important issues. Participants will experience a new and unexpected level of transformative power and presence from which to work and lead. This workshop can be taken independently of any other workshops in the academy.

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Deep Process

This three-day workshop will be facilitated by Donna Evans Strauss and Bob Anderson. This workshop will build upon the capability to be an intuitive transformative presence and will teach coaches and consultants how to facilitate very deep process work with their clients. Deep process work is one of the gateways to integral human development. The primary focus will be on working with shadow and/or trauma. Shadow work opens the flow of vitality, energy, information, intuitive access in the body. The result is far greater effective, undefended, wholehearted, radiant transformative presence from which to lead and work. Participants will learn a very accessible process for working deeply with the core wounds, blocks, distorted and disowned parts, and traumas (personal, intergenerational, and collective) that live within all of us. This is an essential capability for Unity in-formed integral coaching. Attendance at this workshop requires having completed the Energetics of Embodied Presence and Dialogue workshop.

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Application and Manifestation

This five-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson, Chris Thorsen, Donna Evans Strauss, and Bill Adams. This workshop will build on all the above as it is applied. It will continue to work with Aikido and energetic and intuitive practices for individual, collective and systemic application. It will continue working with the practice of non-violent communication. It will explore the process of and capability to facilitate dialogue. This workshop will go beyond being informed by the field into practices that shape and “in-form” the field of manifestation. Participants will learn how to work at very expanded states of awareness, frequency, energy, and information density to accelerate the intuition and creation of an emergent future. Attendance at this workshop requires having completed the Energetics of Embodied Presence and Dialogue workshop.

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In 2023, Bob Anderson hosted, with the faculty, a series of pilot workshops that, taken together, evolved the Unity Academy. Each workshop focused on an aspect of the academy. After each workshop, there was a request to take the work further. The academy is a response to those requests. As you read the comments below, think of what the impact might be if you were steeped in this work multiple times over the course of a year and not just three days. A small sample of the comments from participants in these workshops is below.

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I cannot express enough gratitude for this experience as it has truly changed my life. I actually feel, in some ways, that it saved my life.

This is a powerful introduction to a radically different way of being, coaching and leading in a fragmented, disruptive world.

I tell you that no matter where you are in your journey, you will benefit tremendously from this workshop, both personally and professionally. At 60+ years old, with a clinical psychology and a coaching background, this has been the richest development initiative I have undertaken!

The facilitators were a lovely blend of genius, experience, and masters of this work.

It was one of the most unique learning experiences I have had.

This was powerful, beyond what I had imagined would be possible in a 3-day workshop. There are possibilities living in me now that will change the course of what’s ahead.

I experienced presence in a way that I never had before and didn’t even know was possible. What I discovered was the ability to tap into a field of energy and make a very strong connection with someone in the moment. Really incredible, and if I hadn’t experienced it multiple times during the course of the three days, I wouldn’t fully believe it was possible. And I now know I can tap into it at any time.

This workshop was PROFOUND. I will tell all my coaching colleagues that they should go experience it for themselves. Anything I could say about it would be insufficient!

I can sum up my experience in three words: unexpected, unbelievable, and unlocking – exactly what the world needs!

Arguably the most powerful learning experience I have had in many years. The instructors, easily counted among the best in the world, presented concepts that are confronting and transformational. This program hits squarely in the deepest regions of the body. I left with a vital new understanding of the “field”, the vastness of resources available to each of us, and a profoundly brave and new way of working with myself and with my clients.

The combination of knowledge from quantum physics combined with deep personal work on trauma and blockages enabled truly profound changes—a still very rare outcome in leadership coaching. It was also very touching to see how the field of participants finally became aware of the deep collective traumas that everyone carries within.

Regardless of the personal work you’ve done with yourself, the certifications, and licenses you’ve collected, or the wealth you’ve accumulated, you will leave with extraordinary new understanding of exactly WHAT you are (not just who) and what the universe is inviting you to say “YES” to now.

This is not a workshop. It is an immersive experience into the collective field of healing leaders and activating a new way forward. It is a portal for deeper coaching, expanded strategy, and profound impact. The use of aikido as an instrument into the body and the field is beautiful and brilliant.

What an unforgettable experience! I’m not sure if workshop is the right term for it. For me the experience evades categorization and that is part of what made it so great. I am hungry for more!

I loved how learning about the leading edge of quantum physics became palpable as we directly connected into it and felt the subtle energies in our bodies. By experiencing and practicing the work, we became more aware and sensitive to what is going on for our clients.

I love so much about this workshop.  First, bringing science and spirituality together and showing us how it’s all the same reality! Second, bringing coaching and healing together by demonstrating how our personal healing brings deeper Presence into our Coaching practice. Third, blending teaching and practice so the flow was beautiful and engaging.  Fourth, holding the intention to help us release our blocks so we can serve best as leaders and coaches. Fifth, the Space: Holding the space so that everything that was ready to emerge could emerge without fear/judgement or limitations.  Finally, the facilitators are exemplary Masters of their craft and I so grateful we could be in their Presence.

My Buddhist practice has brought me a long way in sensing The Field, and these teachings completely turbo-charged that journey. You kept us out of ‘talking about it’ and into EXPERIENCING IT. Unforgettable.

This workshop captures the essence of where we, as coaches, need to go in our practice facilitating the transformation of leaders and organizations. This is the next frontier.

My life will never be the same. Thank you!

This workshop far exceeded my expectations!

Come prepared to have your world rocked by a new paradigm of reality integrating quantum physics energetic, and healing practices that can be applied right away! While this workshop provides a transformative and healing experience for you, the practitioner (coach/consultant), you will also you learn to harness the power of your intuition and work within human energy field to support your client’s transformation. You will experience and practice the crucial ingredient in transformative human relationship, embodied presence—the kind of presence that heals and makes whole—Being the presence that transforms not merely using coaching techniques.

A profound experience! Energetic Coaching embodies the future of coaching and leadership development. It is a deepening of our profession into something entirely new.  This workshop is a homecoming to the very essence of our work. This experience is for anyone who is as committed to their own healing as they are to healing the world.

This workshop was different from anything I’ve ever done before in the leadership development arena, and I’ve done a ton. I have learned so much I didn’t know about quantum physics and how it relates to working with my own and others’ energies that I intend to pursue more practices in this arena for the rest of my life.

If you feel ready and called to go beyond the current cultural stories and worldviews, which create so much suffering and separation, then this workshop can catalyze the embodied discovery of deeper, more essential layers of “what you really are”.

Words fail me. When I saw this workshop announcement, I thought, “Oh here is a way I can learn how to integrate my coaching and healing practice and learn how best I can serve by clients”. Little did I know what was in store for me personally. While I did learn what I thought I would, what I wasn’t ready for was the birth of my whole Self, my full Self, my integrated Self!  This was the most sacred experience of my life thus far.

If you want to get in contact with your truest and most authentic self, this workshop is for you. But know that in the process you will have to face your core wounds, allow energetic healing to transform you, experience the process of transcendence, and feel what transformational love is. This is deep work!

A truly transformational experience. To be honest, very powerful, intense, deeply and truly awakening. Prior to this workshop, I wasn’t aware of many of my emotions and that collective trauma lives in me. It facilitated a deep understanding of personal, generational, and collective trauma and demonstrated how touching this field can help us unify ourselves towards a higher purpose. The most beautiful gift I have given to myself is attending this program!

One of the best workshops I have attended, ever. I will encourage people to attend, but first to carefully read the workshop description a few times to make sure this is something they want to attend.  Shadow work is not for the faint-hearted. This is deep personal work. And I appreciated it greatly. Thank you.

This was an out of the park, extraordinary, mind-blowing event.  It stretched me beyond my current paradigm of reality with mind-blowing concepts of energy, spirit, and emotion. It deepened and expanded my spiritual practices.  Just wow!

Loved that the workshop was underpinned by Unity Physics—that universal connection we worked within all session is supported by science.

I most appreciated the deep and transcendent quality of the space and field generated. The practices. The opportunity to explore collective/ancestral healing opened for me a new relationship to the mystery of life, death, and new life. I’m truly grateful for this experience.

Some of the experiences I had, for lack of better words, I can only describe as spiritual: the transcendent experience of unity and the void—simultaneously experiencing my being and my body as the complete emptiness of the void and the fullness of Unity.  Other experiences opened the capacity for feeling a depth of emotion that I have yearned for.  Experiencing the depths of despair and grief has put me in touch with a connection to life and aliveness (words are inadequate) that is rich, full, and affirming.  I am on fire with the integration.

The depth and breadth of its impact on my daily experience continues to grow.  Interactions with friends, family, and clients have all had moments where the space that opened and the depth of the interaction was new and surprising. For example, I met with an executive client on Tuesday. After designing with him a new way for us to be with each other while coaching, I settled in and coached primarily from an embodied state and spent little to no time in the client’s narrative. What a shift! The outcome was different, and we agreed to keep coaching in that way.

Elegant. The way in which this workshop synthesized so much wisdom and integrated it to make it all accessible was an incredible gift. The blending of science and spirit, head and heart, body and soul gave words to pieces of me I could feel yet couldn’t name or readily access. There were quite a few moments of the light of simplicity on the other side of the complexity.