MENTORING PRESENCE

Sensing, Relating, and Living from the Ground of Your Being

For experienced Realization Process practitioners and certified teachers
who seek to live realization in relationship with others.

Ten Sessions • Tuesdays, 9:00 AM–1:00 PM Pacific
Sep 15, Oct 6, 26 • Jan 12, 26, Feb 9 • Mar 9, 16, 23 • Apr 6

Online via Zoom
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The Invitation

Mentoring Presence is an eight-month journey into the lived experience of the unified relational field of fundamental consciousness—the subtle continuity of self and other that underlies all relationships.

As you make deep contact with the internal space of your body, you begin to live more fully from within yourself. Old protections soften. Perception changes. You discover that you can remain with yourself while being in direct contact with others. Contact is no longer something you try to create, but something you can feel—immediate, embodied, alive.

Through guided meditations, somatic inquiry, truth-speaking, study groups, affinity groups, collaborative teaching, and private sessions, you loosen the protective patterns that limit authentic contact with yourself and others. You clarify what matters from within your own experience. You speak from what is real. You let the ground of your being shape how you live and relate.

Throughout this journey, you are companioned. Your mentors have each walked this path over many years. They know intimately what it is to lose the thread and find it again—to stay close to what is here, even when it is difficult. In their presence, and in the presence of your cohort, you may find yourself known in ways that quietly change how you are with yourself and others.

Your Mentors

Jason von Halle

Jason brings a rare steadiness, grounded warmth, and a sensitivity shaped by lived experience to the complexities of life, love, relationships, and self-discovery. He helps people feel less alone and more able to meet themselves and others with honesty, ease, and heart.

Marika Baxter

Marika brings a highly attuned sensitivity to the body and to subtle layers of emotion, energy, and consciousness, along with a grounded joy in expressing what is alive and true for you. Her warmth makes it easier to be deeply human—messy, tender, and still arriving—and to feel at home in her presence and in yourself.

Mikael Mofarrej

Mikael brings unusual clarity, warmth, and sensitivity to the subtle movements of transformation. He has a lived familiarity with paradox and helps people stay close to the living edges of their own experience, opening to the immediacy of the wholeness that is emerging.

Wholehearted participation during and between sessions is an essential part of the program. We welcome those who feel called to join us in a shared commitment to depth, intimacy, and living in truth as a path unfolding our humanity.

Sessions Overview

Session 1
You arrive. You meet your cohort and Study Group. Something begins to stir as the field comes alive—a gentle yet fierce sense of belonging to one another, and to something larger than any one person brings alone.

Session 2
You begin to notice where you pull back—the subtle ways you leave yourself, or hold against contact. These patterns once protected you. Now they shape how you meet life.

As they soften, something deeper begins to emerge. A question already alive in you. Felt in the body, it reveals what matters most and begins to organize your path from within.

Session 3
From the depth of your contact with yourself, what matters most begins to clarify—what is actually alive and true in you. You share a short truth talk drawn from lived experience. Then you move into an Affinity Group shaped around the burning question that is most alive in you.

Autumn Interim
Your Affinity Group finds its own rhythm. You meet independently, sit with your advisor, and let the inquiry deepen between sessions. Something begins to take shape—not just an idea, but a living understanding becoming embodied.

Sessions 4–6
Each Affinity Group offers what has emerged to the whole cohort. Relationship becomes the place where realization is lived. Together, we move through what matters most:

  • Healing fragmentation and unmet needs
  • Embodying the essential self
  • Relating as our essential self

Winter Interim
You return to your Study Group changed by what has unfolded. Together, you prepare personal teaching talks—opportunities to stand in what has become most real, to speak from within your own lived experience, and to let what remains unresolved stay open and alive.

Sessions 7–9
Through personal teaching talks and Bohmian dialogue, we turn together toward the questions that run beneath everything:

  • What is healing? What is being healed?
  • What is awakening? What is being awakened?
  • What is living nondually?

Session 10

We gather one last time to honor all that has moved through us and between us. In presence and gratitude, we recognize what has unfolded—not an ending, but a threshold. A deep beginning.

Materials Needed

To support your participation in the program, please prepare the following:

1. Technology

Zoom
Please keep it updated.

Camera and microphone
A reliable camera and microphone are important. Built-in devices are fine, though external equipment may improve quality.

Environment
Please set up your space so that:
– your presence fills the screen
– your lighting, colors, and background create a sense of safety, warmth, and connection

For help choosing equipment, you may contact Abraham Sanchez at Sweetwater:
abraham_sanchez@sweetwater.com
+1 800 222 4700 x1645

2. Books

The Enlightenment Process: A Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening
Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness
Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person
—all by Judith Blackstone

3. Journal

Choose something that feels good to write in—a place for insights, dreams, confusions, and discoveries.

Session Folders Guide

Each session in the private portal includes the following folders to help you prepare and know what to expect:

Prepare
A brief orientation to the session, with guidance for reading, journaling, and preparation.

Read
Selected quotes from Judith Blackstone’s books, along with suggestions for reading for inspiration, understanding, and specific purposes.

Meditate
Guided meditations chosen to deepen your attunement for each session.

Reach Out & Connect / Study Group Guidance / Affinity Groups
Guidance for connecting with spiritual friends and engaging the work between sessions.

Resources
Articles and support materials on Somatic Journaling, Courageous Acts, Burning Questions, Collaborative Teaching Sessions, and model talks from previous years.

Breakout Rooms
Previews and guidance to help you prepare for breakout room explorations.

Tuition $2,250 Includes the full eight-month program: ten cohort sessions, all recordings, group guidance, and the practice library.

Individual Mentoring To support your personal integration, a minimum of three sessions with your personal advisor is an essential part of the curriculum. These sessions allow for individualized guidance and are billed directly to your mentor at $150 per session.

You are welcome to schedule additional sessions as you wish, either to deepen the work with your primary advisor or to explore the unique presence of the other program mentors.

Space is limited.

Over the course of this eight-month journey, you will receive:

  • Ten experiential cohort sessions (40+ hours), including a final graduation gathering
  • Access to all three mentors, with one assigned as your personal advisor
  • Private sessions with your personal advisor for individualized guidance and integration (minimum of three, billed separately)
  • Ongoing Study Group and Affinity Group meetings between sessions
  • Small-group mentor support for dialogue, inquiry, and collaborative sessions
  • Access to a rich library of 100+ guided meditations and practices
  • Recordings of each session, plus selected video excerpts for reflection
  • Close reading of Judith Blackstone’s books, with journaling and inquiry-based practices
  • Opportunities to speak from lived experience and engage in collaborative learning
  • A sustained, attuned field of practice with a committed community