Going Out of Your Mind

Course Description

To truly break free from habitual consciousness, we cannot rely on mental, emotional or psychological processes alone. With embodied intelligence (MQ) we can access different states of consciousness through the intelligent body. This in turn can bring about radical change and transformation.

We all have moments when we feel stuck in unwanted situations; where we continue to feel as if we are not moving forward or finding a lasting solution. We keep moving in circles and feel unable to break free from the same old storyline we are living. This is because we have been conditioned to use our rational intelligence (IQ) or even our emotional intelligence (EQ).

Yet, there is an entirely different kind of intelligence which is hardly ever considered in the world of traditional psychology: embodied intelligence (MQ). Unlike IQ or EQ, MQ probes into the roots of your consciousness to provide radically new information. Expanding your own MQ is one of the key objectives of this course.

Whether we are facing a personal crisis, want a career that is more meaningful, or dealing with unexpected changes in our life, finding new ways to approach a situation is crucial to breaking free. Old stories create stale routines and prevent fresh perspectives.

In order to help participants break free from their habitual consciousness, this course does a deep-dive into a variety of universally relevant topics. During each class, Robert shares simple and effective techniques and exercises to help you to get out of your mind and into your intelligent body. He provides practical examples of how to raise your MQ, and also explores attitudes that help or obstruct your embodied intelligence.

Ready to embark on a wild journey of going out of your mind and getting into your intelligent body? Join this course and learn why the concept of embodied intelligence (MQ) is worlds apart from what is available in the traditional psychological market and enlightenment practices.

This course is ideal if

• You want to find new solutions to recurring problems and break away from getting stuck in your thinking and your patterns.
• You enjoy embodiment practices and want to learn a new method that helps you embody dreams, fantasies and your creativity, while bringing you out of habitual consciousness.
• You want to learn how to tap into the intelligence of your own body and your imagination.

Course Overview

You will be oriented around the different themes and terminology that will be referred to during the course. Robert shares why routine or habitual consciousness is problematic; how, despite having high intelligence, the rational mind has significant limitations to finding joy, resilience or creativity; what the key principles of embodied intelligence are and how it offers radically different information compared to IQ and EQ.

Robert considers the very unique set of routine consciousness challenges that each generation faces: Millennials and their quarter-life crises (being 25 and now what?), GenX-ers at their midlife (is this all there is?), and the first wave of Baby Boomers now rounding 70 with their late-life challenges (retirement, failing bodies and the last phase of life).

Whereas a lot of traditional psychological or self-help modalities encourage you to merely shift your thinking, create another narrative or merely focus on positive thinking, Robert shows how embodied intelligence (MQ) allows you to consider the conscious experience of multiple perspectives.

Learn to recognize and dialogue with images in your dreams and in daily life. Participants can consider this course as an in-depth apprenticeship to the world of dreams where by learning to be more ‘dreamlike’ in our perceptions, we can be more present to the dance between perspectives in daily life.

Learn how to dialogue with the unknown dis-identified selves through the craft of Embodied Imagination and through Embodied Intelligence (MQ). The techniques and practices shared will show how – through our body and through building an attitude of ‘not-knowing’ – we can awaken to hitherto inaccessible realities and be touched by a sense of unknown mysteries with an attitude of wonder.

Learn how, by using our bodies as tools to explore the other presences surrounding us in the here and now, we can have dramatically enriched experiences. Robert teaches participants how to do this, and how to stay away from confabulation or making things up. True embodied imagination is the very opposite of mere figments. And in this way we can become the fully embodied alchemical vessel for all perspectives as we witness the emergence of fresh presences from the brew.

Explore alternate states of consciousness, and how our bodies as carriers of subtle intelligence provide conscious access to otherwise inaccessible information essential to creativity and healing. Understand, recognize and apply basic principles of alchemy when exploring alternate states of consciousness.

The course also shows how we can hold multiple perspectives vs. the singular perspectives that likely got us stuck in the first place. By seeing our immediate physical environment as an image-environment, we can begin to experience our surrounding world as intelligent and vibrantly alive. A world full of perspectives that differ from ours and, through MQ, a world with which we can interact and have access to.

By the end of this course, you will

• Develop your embodied intelligence and have more resilience.
• Be able to adapt fluidly to the interior and exterior challenges in your world.
• Open up to the creative potential within you.
• Allow for a fundamental transformation in your approaches to situations or problems in your life.