For your own life
Build the capacity to stay with yourself.
Start with the language of Heart iQ, turn it into a lived daily practice, then enter the deeper retreat room when you are ready.
Live online · September 11 to 13 · Heart iQ Academy
What Only a GroupCan Heal.
A three-day live virtual retreat for coaches, healers and facilitators ready to move beyond one-to-one work. Enter a real training room, see Circle Work in action and learn what becomes possible when the whole group can participate.
Now enrolling · Oct 1 to 4, 2026 · New Eden, Netherlands
Love, Relationships & You
Come on your own or with a partner. Four days to meet the patterns that shape how you love, and practise a more honest way back to connection.
20,000+hours of live facilitation
25+years of practice
30+countries reached
29live events through 2028
Why circle matters
There is a need in us that runs so deep our culture has forgotten it exists.
We reach for the word tribe. Tribe is the shorthand, but the thing itself is Unity Consciousness, the emergent wisdom that moves through a group once it becomes coherent. It is a state any of us can tap into, and it is what carries us from me to we.
The same movement is needed at every scale. I need it inside myself, to become coherent with the community of parts living in me. Two people need it before intimacy can hold. A room needs it before anything real can move. And we need it as a species, given the times we are living through.
Most personal growth happens in isolation. We reflect, we journal, and we try to process it all on our own. But there are parts of us we simply cannot see on our own, and what was wounded in relationship heals in relationship.
That is what a circle is for. Not performing, and not being fixed. I don’t need to be fixed. I need to be met.
The three ranges
What Heart iQ actually is
Heart iQ is not a method, and it isn’t therapy or another round of self-improvement.
The three currents are trained through one shared language: a living map with three parts, the vertical range, the horizontal range and the field that holds them. As you learn to open all three, the way you meet your life begins to change.
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The Vertical Range
Divine embodiment: your connection upward, to source, to something larger that holds you, and downward, into your body and the ground beneath you. The full channel between spirit and earth, running through you.
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The Horizontal Range
Relationship with others: your capacity to express all of who you are without shape-shifting, and to receive love, intimacy and care without shutting down. The give and the receive of being met.
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The Field
The circle that holds it all: the living energy between and around us that interconnects everything. When a room opens together, the field carries each person further than any of us can go alone.
When any one of these is closed, we compensate. We override, numb, perform or quietly withdraw. Heart iQ trains you to open the vertical, the horizontal and the field together, so you can stay present across the full range of being human.
Explore the Heart iQ mapThree ways in
Start where your life is asking for something more.
You do not need to understand the whole path. Choose the doorway that feels closest to the life you are living now.
I’m here for
The Heart iQ app
Keep the work closewhen the lesson ends.
Your courses, lesson notes and progress live together in the custom Heart iQ app. Begin on your computer, continue on your phone and return to the exact place you left.
Selected programmes also include Z, your private Heart iQ guide. Ask a question by text or voice, use Practice with Z to explore what is alive, or find a human practice buddy inside the Hub when you want another person beside you.
Video and written teaching together
Progress shared across app and web
Text or speak with Z when included
Community and practice-buddy connection
Enter the room
Next, live.
Online gatherings and in-person retreats where the work becomes something you can feel.
Sep 11 — 13, 2026
Online · 3 Days
Three live days with Christian guiding embodied practice, teaching through real facilitator-training footage and staying in dialogue with the whole Zoom room. Friday to Sunday, 4 PM to 10 PM CEST.
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Oct 1 — 4, 2026
New Eden, Netherlands · 4 Days
An intimate retreat exploring the heart of your relational world. Four days of deep inquiry into love, intimacy, and what it truly means to show up fully in your most important relationships.
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Oct 4–18, 2026
New Eden, Netherlands · 14 Days
A facilitator immersion in healing, alchemy, and corrective experience. Fourteen days of intensive practice, embodiment, and deep facilitation training at New Eden, learning to hold space and facilitate transformation.
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The founder
Christian Pankhurst
Christian has spent more than twenty-five years developing Heart iQ through live group facilitation. He still teaches from inside the room, where the work continues to evolve.
Meet Christian
The home of the work
New Eden
Fifty acres of forest and meadows in the Netherlands, with a residential retreat centre built for the kind of work that needs time, beauty and a shared home.
Discover New EdenWhat people carry home
The distance in your relationships started as a distance from yourself.
These reflections come from people who have met Heart iQ through private study and the live rooms.
“This work helped my nervous system recognise a healthy relationship when it finally showed up.”
Sarah · London, UK
“Heart iQ made it safe for me to access my emotions, and it changed everything in my marriage.”
Marc · California, USA
From Christian
Ideas for living the work.
Essays on love, emotional life and the places where self-awareness becomes something we can live.
You do not have to know how far you want to go.
Foundations was made for people meeting Heart iQ for the first time. Begin privately, at your own pace, and discover what the practice opens in you. You do not need to have it worked out. You only need to be willing to begin.
Begin with Foundations