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Long-awaited training for the aspiring/professional practitioner! Special Offer: Register by March 29, 2025, for only $335 ($100 off the regular price), and get a 60-minute bonus private coaching session for free (value $180) - for a total savings of $280.
How to Lead a Development Circle
You have been sharing your spiritual gifts in a professional capacity for some time, and you have experienced great satisfaction and fulfillment with your vocation. Now you feel called to stretch (again!) and serve humanity in yet another way.
To share with others the personal joys that come from living life more intentionally and meaningfully. To lead others in studies of spiritual subjects that have inspired and resonated with you. To provide a safe space for others to explore their creativity. To encourage in others the unfoldment of their natural intuitive, psychic, mediumistic, or healing abilities.
It is no coincidence that this course has captured your interest. It will support you in taking this new direction, in stepping onto higher ground in your role as a spiritual mentor, and in trusting completely the intelligent design of the universe.
In this course, you will learn the key components of leading a mediumship or other development circle as part of a successful spiritual mentoring practice. And you will leave with a solid foundation on which to build this sacred community, including both esoteric principles and practical applications.
This course of study covers:
- Setting up the circle. Strategic considerations: the who, what, when, where, why, and how, of organizing a development circle. You will learn about various circle types to help you design one that suits your leadership style, nurtures your circle members, and provides a harmonious environment for everyone involved; for example, open or closed, frequency and duration, ideal environmental settings, a purpose for the circle, persons and personalities to include and the functions they will serve.
- Primary instruction. What is developed in the "development circle" depends on the circle's purpose; for example, expanded consciousness, the unfoldment of intuitive-psychic-mediumistic abilities, or spiritual community. You will learn core instructional activities, practices, and exercises that foster development that is engaging, illuminating, inspiring, and empowering for all kinds of circles.
- Meditation. An essential component of any development circle, meditation (in and out of the circle) is a key to your participants' spiritual growth. You will learn meditation formats that are an integral part of many development circles, including progressive relaxations, breath meditations, focusing meditations, guided visualizations, spiritual journeys, and "sitting in the power" meditations.
- Message work/coaching practice. Another primary component of many development circles, message work is how your participants apply the skills and knowledge they have learned in the circle. You will learn ways to coach circle participants in receiving and sharing the inspirations and insights they receive, including intuitive, psychic, and mediumistic messages for themselves and others.
- Demonstration/practicum. As part of this course, you will design a development circle of your choosing, from concept to execution. During our final session, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your facilitation skills in one or more core components of your circle, such as leading a meditation, an instructional exercise, or coaching of message work.
"When the student is ready, the teacher appears." You have already come so far in your spiritual evolution - now it is time to trust your calling and take the next steps on your path toward leadership.
DATES: Four non-consecutive Sundays: April 6, April 27, May 18, and June 8, 2025. Optional fifth session: Sunday, June 29, 2025.
TIMES: 1 - 4 pm ET each session.
LOCATIONS: April 6 and June 8: in person at 10945 Reed Hartman Hwy, Cincinnati OH 45242. April 27, May 18, and June 29 sessions: online via Zoom.
INSTRUCTOR: Joanne Franchina. PRICE: $435. Special Offer: Register by March 29, 2025 - for only $335 ($100 off the regular price), and get a bonus 60-minute private coaching session for free (value $180) - for a total savings of $280. Note: Private session must take place between April 15 and June 30.
REGISTRATION: Register here. Note: This course is for aspiring/professional practitioners; permission of instructor and pre-registration required.
LIMITED SPACE: Register early to ensure your seat; there is both a minimum and maximum number of participants required to hold this workshop.
ONLINE: The day before each online session, you will receive an email containing a link to the Zoom meeting and any handouts you may need, so you can print them ahead of time; read our suggestions for setting up your home space for the best experience. IN-PERSON: In-person events are conducted at the Inner Compass office in Cincinnati, Ohio; read our current policies before registering.
JOANNE FRANCHINA is a registered medium in Lily Dale, New York, and the founder of Inner Compass LLC, an intuitive life coaching practice. After enjoying a successful corporate career, Joanne pursued a higher calling and became an ordained Spiritualist minister. Since 2006 she has helped thousands of people through individual sessions, workshops, special events, and an extensive mediumship development program. Joanne brings to her unique path of service a drive to improve herself, her work, and even her enjoyment of life, which is enriched by her passions for music, creative projects, and nature.