The Inner Bonding Workshop
Heal the cycle of shame and self-abandonment that leads to anxiety, depression, addiction, aloneness and relationship failure. Discover how to love yourself rather than reject yourself, and learn to make your best decisions through consistent connection with your personal source of spiritual guidance.
The innovative Inner Bonding process shows you how to:
- Rapidly heal false beliefs about yourself, others and higher spiritual guidance
- Heal guilt, shame, emptiness and aloneness
- Move beyond self-judgment into self-compassion
- Address the resistance that may be keeping you stuck
- Learn how to heal relationship conflicts and attain the intimacy you've always wanted
This powerful and life-changing process is the result of Dr. Margaret's over 50 years of personal inner work and work with her clients.
Unless you were raised by parents or caregivers who were loving to themselves, each other and to you, you may not have learned how to lovingly manage your painful feelings. As a result, you may be operating from your ego wounded self, controlled by your fears and false beliefs.
Your wounded self may often take over in unloving ways, trampling on your hurts, ignoring them or avoiding them with various addictions and controlling behavior such as:
- Addictions to drugs, junk food, nicotine, alcohol, relationships, work, TV or gaming.
- Co-dependence - trying to control others with anger, violence, guilt or compliance - making others responsible for your sense of safety and worth.
- Staying in your head rather than being present in your body
- Self-judgment, shaming yourself
- Obsessive thinking, ruminating, worrying
- Resistance to self, others, spirit - to taking loving care of yourself
These forms of self-abandonment not only perpetuate fears of rejection, abandonment, aloneness, engulfment or failure, but they can contribute to illness. Inner Bonding is a powerful process for healing self-abandonment and learning to love and value yourself.
Through discussions, exercises and direct work with Dr. Margaret Paul or other Inner Bonding Facilitators, you learn the Six powerful Steps of Inner Bonding.
"Transformational Beyond Words! My heart and soul and true essence overflow with love and gratitude. I'm so eager and excited to go home and do Inner Bonding, and share this with my husband and son, and most of all MYSELF at any given moment." Kripalu Workshop, Margaret Dean Godhard, Mom, Educator, Gainesville, GA
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Format for the Workshop
- Exploring Your Ego Wounded Self
- Contacting Your Core Soul Self
- Discovering Your Loving Inner Adult
- Releasing the Anger of the Ego Wounded Self
- Learning the Dialogue Processes with the Wounded Self, Core Self, and Personal Spiritual Guidance
- Getting Stuck, Getting Unstuck
- Relationships: Handling Conflict and Setting Loving Boundaries
Other Facilitators teaching an Inner Bonding Workshop may change or add to the format.
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The Mini-Workshop
The Mini-Workshop is a shorter version of the Weekend Workshop. The Mini-Workshop offers an overview of Inner Bonding along with demonstrations, questions, and an experience of the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. In addition, participants are taught how to contact their personal spiritual Guidance. See the description of the Weekend Workshop for more details.
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One-Day Workshop
Similar to a weekend workshop, but shorter. Presents an overview of the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. It may include other processes, depending upon the Facilitator conduction the workshop.
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Weekly Workshop
Dr. Margaret Paul offers the Inner Bonding Workshop for two hours weekly over 8 weeks.
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Daily Inspiration
If you shut down your feelings to avoid pain, how can you know what is right or wrong for you? Spirit often speaks to us through our feelings, so when you protect against pain rather than open to learning about what your feelings are telling you, you are shutting out the very guidance you need to feel safe.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
'It has been helpful to see the process worked in front of a group, to see others experiences, as well as working in small groups. Sharing each others experiences, strength & hope. Margaret defined over & over the differences of the Loving Adult & the Wounded Child & that has been very helpful as I have struggled with this concept.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.12
Melisa Seely
It was wonderful and challenging experience. I have learned that I tend to be controlling, demanding and impatient and these tendencies are not serving my core self. I find that doing this inner bonding practice frightens me because I have become so disconnected from my core self over the years. It’s took a lot of courage to attend the retreat and I’m very proud of myself for coming and committing to the work.- 2019
Anonymous
"I recognized this process as tough love for myself. Because I embraced it
even feeling the risk and fear of finding out about myself, I am awakened,
being transformed and my life commitment now is to Being and giving Love. Thank
you." Omega Workshop, 5/04
Patricia Bruno
"I would love to share my experience, particularly with people with alcohol addictions. I am also doing 12 step work - this along with that will heal my wounded self." Art of Living, 5.18
Karin Small
'This was a wonderful experience. Having done a bit of inner growth with other people, I had many similar beliefs and techniques, so this was a great segue into Inner Bonding which provides a concrete step by step procedure for loving ourselves and others. Margaret was fabulous—clear, warm, human, humble and very knowledgeable. Thank you!' Los Angeles Inner Bonding Workshop, 4.12
Jill Porterfield
'I wanted to attend this workshop, no obstacle would have prevented me from attending. At the workshop I was able to immerse myself in the process, previously, I only read the instructions on your website. I specifically liked learning about all of the ways that we deny ownership & responsibility for our Inner Child, and all of the ways we can integrate this Inner Child into our lives. I did benefit in understanding dynamics of relationships much better, and in understanding false belief systems and how they sabotage our happiness. I would recommend the Workshop because it is excellent for achieving awareness of how to evolve into a better person. I am grateful for this experience. It has opened up my understanding of my life.' Los Angeles Weekend Workshop, 3.11
Maria Erso
