Courage To Feel, 2.5 days
May 31 - June 2, 2024
in Buchanan, Michigan
Optional “Day 4” on June 3rd! Read below for details
Relax into presence, listen and speak from your heart, and watch how life arises to meet you, as your presence generates grace in every aspect of your life.
Feeling is listening. It begins with awareness.
Discover perspectives and tools that simplify awareness to navigate empathic information in a graceful friendship with your mind.
This event is an opportunity to experience who you truly are by working directly through your heart and true essence.
Over these 2.5 days, we’ll explore clarity that can shift your awareness, consciousness and the way you move in the world. You are nature, organized as a human. Let your mind work in service to your heart, and experience your uniqueness and innate harmony.
We begin at 1:30pm on May 31, 2024
This event offers a new and unique optional 5th day.
Please read the full description below for the details.
Play in a community of like-hearted people who are curious to know their own heart.
The insights, perspectives and tools offered in this 1.5 day event guide you to a new level of clarity and generate a way of being that restores your trust in your own senses. Peer-to-peer learning helps clarify the sensory information you are aware of, and expand your awareness to welcome more richness into your life.
Click here to read or listen to the full article, Slow And Easy
Why Courage To Feel?
Do you know how it feels when your thoughts get caught up in the “emotional weather” of others? Overwhelm or confusion can trigger defenses like self-punishments, numbness, fighting or dissociation.
Maybe you avoid certain situations to avoid empathic overwhelm.
You could be aware that you’re suppressing what you actually feel, avoiding what you sense, in order to create some sort of relief or sense of control.
The way your life unfolds feels smaller than you know it could be.
You know you have intuitive gifts and you may feel frustrated that you’re not sure how to integrate your intuition into your world.
Maybe you avoid having the conversations you really want to have because you’re afraid of what others will think.
Maybe you feel a fear of the unknown, and the fear keeps you from living with clarity.
Are you in conflict with yourself? Feeling unclear about your own experiences, or overwhelmed by all that you feel?
Simplify Your Approach
Receive tools and perspectives to create a sweet friendship with the mind.
It’s about recognizing that your natural state of being is a feeling of ease and grace. It’s about walking toward the feeling of lightness in your heart. These gatherings, the wisdom and tools offered, offer assistance for you to walk toward what your heart would create in your life rather than trying to get away from what you don’t want.
Neuroscience supports the approach of creating multiple, small experiences of good feelings while relating to a new pattern in order to change neural pathways and generate a new relationship with familiar things. The tools we share provide you with clarity and simplicity. The tools and perspectives we offer guide you to create a space that is absent of judgment where you can have multiple, self-guided experiences of your innate presence.
You'll create a new relationship with familiar thoughts, emotions and external circumstances.
Clarity eases the sense of conflict in your relationship with your own mind. Empowered to walk yourself through whatever you feel, you come to know a sense of growing confidence and harmony within yourself.
From that foundation, all of your relationships can flourish, beginning with the relationship with yourself.
The Tools help you navigate emotions, your own emotions and those of others, so you can feel clarity in your relationships. You come to know a sense of mastery, not because you know all the answers, but because you know how to use the information you have.
But, just learning the tools isn’t enough - we want to integrate the knowledge with felt, intuitive wisdom. To truly know yourself with more clarity takes experience. The magic of these events happens 10 seconds at a time.
The tools, perspectives and experiences that we share in these events work at every level of consciousness. Engaging at this level of simplicity bypasses the mind’s habit of controlling and micromanaging. We go straight into a dance with our own consciousness, our own presence, and watch as a higher frequency version of ourselves come forward. You’ll know it because you’ll feel it.
There is no limit to what we can address, discuss and guide you to regenerate in your lifestream.
Read below for more details
The way to get the most from this event ...
... is to bring yourself fully into the conversation. The more willing you are to be honest with yourself, you’ll be more available to the information and guidance designed in consciousness to speak directly to you.
2.5 days with an optional 5th day
Day 1 - Meet at 1:30pm for introductions, opening thoughts, meet the horses and begin with the first perspectives & wisdom. What is a harmonious relationship between the mind, the body and the heart? We’ll learn a foundational tool to “organize” your awareness for heart-centered perspectives in all contexts.
Day 2 - The day begins with an opening circle of reflection from or first experiences with Mind, Watch The Body. The day will include time with the horses and nature, to explore doing familiar things in a new way. You’ll begin to feel a rhythm within the relationship between the mind, the body and You.
Day 3 - The weekend unfolds like a running conversation, addressing familiar emotional/empathic/mental disharmonies with profoundly simple tools. The priority will be offering you tools to facilitate yourself in very simple yet pragmatic ways to navigate life with an open heart. What will be your priority when you return to “the land of the familiar” after our weekend together?
Day 4 - OPTIONAL - Receive a 30 minute 1-1 session with Kerri, and come together for one more 2-hour Reflection session in the afternoon. Wander the farm, relax and visit with the horses in-between your session and the final group reflection session.
To register for both the event and the optional day, you’ll need to click each button individually.
Our location is a private farm in Buchanan, Michigan.
We’ll be 1.5 hours from Chicago, IL or Grand Rapids, MI, and 30 minutes from South Bend, IN.
What might you experience during and after this program?
Everyone's experience is unique, but there are common threads
Cultivate a sweet relationship between the mind, the body and the heart
Experience a new sense of grace in your relationships
Feel a sense of increased lightness of being as you walk through your life
Live with confidence that, when difficult emotions and energies present, you know your own ability to support and guide your thoughts from the wisdom of your heart.
Watch your body shift and change as you relieve yourself from conflicts that were never yours to carry.
Watch and feel over time as you continue to “stay organized” with these tools - you will discover the grand and subtle ways your heart truly begins to create and guide you through your world.
Know yourself in the absence of judgment and feel the lightness of being that is your birthright.
Watch relationships evolve in love and clarity
Expand your enjoyment of experiences in all circumstances
Heal traumas, change patterns and live with an open heart
This is about learning how to walk differently in a familiar world, opening space, creating life from the heart. The Tools Kerri shares empower you to bring your heart forward into every situation, to navigate emotions (yours and others’) with grace, to communicate in a tone that feels true to your heart, and to be willing to receive what actually works for you.
Explore how it feels to operate with no need for conflict or competition.
Exploring together gives us the opportunity to listen each other into being. We are all walking side-by-side. When we engage this way, listening and sharing beyond judgment or competition, together we generate harmony.
Who is Courage To Feel for?
People in both professional and non-professional settings
For Professional Settings
Therapists, animal assisted professionals, coaches, teachers, nurses and others whose work directly touches the mind, the body and the heart.
Receiving the assistance of these tools and perspectives accelerates your own evolution and nourishes your capacity to give and receive simultaneously.
Let the tools benefit you personally, and the way you assist your clients will continue to grow, expand and integrate.
Relieve yourself of any and all “compassion fatigue” - there is no need for it.
Clarify and expand your intuitive clarity in service to your clients and to your own journey.
Discover the absolute simplicity of organizing your world from an open heart, and watch how it amplifies abundance, ease, grace and love.
Feel confident in your ability to connect and communicate clearly with your clients.
Generate a sense of integrity and honesty with yourself so you can build trust in your work.
For Non-Professional Settings
If you have relationships with animals and people in your life, this program is for you.
These tools and perspectives empower you to know yourself more clearly, regardless of the relationship, so you can show up as your authentic self.
These tools invoke healing and personal evolution on every level - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Discover and expand your intuitive clarity.
Discover and expand your ability to communicate with animals and other non-human life.
Discover how intuitive intelligence informs “everyday life” without being in conflict with it.
Live in communion with your higher consciousness
Enjoy the fluidity of life as the love that you are
Receive tools, perspectives and experiences that are supportive and appropriate for anyone who is on a journey of self-awareness and interested in experiencing ever-deeper aspects of their own heart with simplicity, grace and humor.
How does presence play a role in all of this?
In creating a livelihood from the heart, we step into a whole new level of integrating “doing” and “being.” It’s like taking all of the practice, learning and playtime we’ve invested in knowing and opening our heart, and letting that heart-opening presence begin to transform into action.
Along the way, there will always be opportunities to address old, limiting beliefs, heal wounds and remedy the misunderstandings that leave us feeling powerless.
Over these three and a half days, we’ll address all of this and more in an environment of pure, open-hearted beingness, the way horses, nature and the absence of judgment would have it.
This is about learning how to walk differently in a familiar world, connecting with your innate energetic gifts and creating life from the heart.
$650 to attend
Non-refundable deposit: US$380
All payment is due by May 15th, 2024.
Use the button above to make a non-refundable deposit, or pay the full amount.
After April 1st, registration is due in-full.
Total: US$650
**Schedule a 1-1 session with Kerri after the event - please request details**
Accommodation is available nearby. Please contact Elizabeth directly for details. Lunches and snacks will be provided for our three full days together.
Questions about the event itself? Email Kerri Lake for more info.
Drawing from personal experience and broad education, Kerri shares pragmatic tools for self-mastery and living with an open heart in every context. There is no limit to what we can discuss, address, accelerate, clarify and enjoy.
Rather than teaching a modality or a practice, the events share an opportunity to learn intuitively, to be in a healing environment while getting to know yourself without judgment. Wisdom and perspectives are shared through stories and discussion around each topic.
We will be among animals, although this is not an animal-handling event. Their sublime presence helps humanity remember the experience of just being.
The event purposely offers as little structure as necessary to facilitate listening, creativity and living in a fluid, creative state of being. Retreat is not the goal - rather, we’ll play with stepping fully IN to your life, just as it is.
Welcoming a transformation into your genuine expression means you’ll get to use your awareness in new ways among familiar things. Shifting awareness can happen slowly or in big swooshes. It’s impossible to compare “big” movements with “small” movements - trying to think about it in linear terms just limits your experience and slows down the whole works! We’ll play together to generate the space for you to move yourself from your heart toward your heart.
The more willing you are to bring your real life to the conversation, the more movement and experience you give yourself through our conversations.
One of the seminal questions I’ve asked is “how can I be a human with humans in the same absence of judgment that horses are with humans?”
This event is an opportunity to actually experience yourself being among humans without judgment.
We will use our awareness to address deep conflicts and defenses in ways that invite humor, kindness, ease and genuine healing.
You don’t have to scare yourself into wholeness!
**Professionals and non-professionals alike are welcome!**
A future of harmony is in our own self-awareness.
We are at a point of evolution in how we relate to enlightenment, self-mastery, personal growth, healing, clarity and loving relationships. For thousands of years, the teaching has been about realizing that You are so much more than your body. Today, millions of people are aware that we are energy expressing through a body.
Our evolution accelerates when we begin to welcome all that we are into and through the body, starting right where our lives have us, right now.
Let self-awareness be the foundation on which you stand, the ground from which you apply your tools, and those you work with will begin to rise to meet you at the highest level of awareness you are willing to engage. The only barriers to flourishing relationships from this standpoint are the expectations and judgments you carry with you. To be without judgment is to be closer to how animals live in every moment. It is possible for humans to know and sense the absence of judgment in themselves, although it's admittedly unfamiliar. Let's play with it, and start to get some experience. A little experience can go a very long way.
The tools I share are a distillation of knowledge, awareness, and application through my total surrender to my life’s journey. I’ve had the support of horses and many people on this journey to embody my divine heart. Assisting facilitators and participants alike to greater sensory awareness benefits the whole of life in ripples beyond imagination. Each participant’s self-awareness and self-empowerment makes them infinitely more available to integrate, embody and express their divine, natural state of being.
With nothing to prove and nothing to earn, all are free to share their gifts for the benefit of the whole. Horses demonstrate this way of being, and humanity is finding perpetually more astute and creative ways to notice and adapt our awareness in kind. Horses have never had the opportunity to forget who they are. This is one of the greatest differences between animal consciousness and human consciousness.
“I feel fortunate to have attended the class with Kerri. She is a fantastic teacher and I learned a great deal that I can apply to all aspects of my life. I have been on the spiritual path for awhile and have listened to many great speakers but what she had to offer was truly unique and life changing. I really enjoyed her book as well. At the end of the last class all of those present sincerely shared with Kerri about how amazing and impactful the class was for them.”
– A.B., Encinitas, CA
“If you are trying to find answers to problems or situations, she will guide you through any blockages, allowing you to discover what is right for YOU not those around you, but you. In short, Kerri, gives you the opportunity to reconnect to your truth, to your heart; to feel and to believe. Kerri is truly special. I hope you have fun and enjoy working with her.”
-N.C., Bruton, UK
“Kerri’s presence made me feel very much alive, and I knew she completely understood me without having even heard anything about my story. This made for a very safe environment. And playing with the tools Kerri presented to us, gave me the opportunity to look at some issues in my life from a different angle, giving me valuable insights and ways to take action towards the true me.”
– K.O., Encinitas, CA
