About Heart iQ

Christian's route into this work was indirect. He qualified as a chiropractor and opened a practice in 2002, and within a year he began to suspect that for many of his patients, physical pain was the visible edge of an emotional life that had nowhere to go. So he ran an experiment. Instead of their regular adjustments, he invited a group of patients to a series of evening workshops on connecting to their emotional and energetic bodies, and asked them to track their symptoms. What he saw changed the direction of his career. He closed the clinic and sold what he owned, then travelled in search of the best group facilitators he could find.

The years that followed were an apprenticeship across Europe, Australia, and the United States. He spent a year as a protégé of Neale Donald Walsch, the author of Conversations with God, and he was later mentored in circle work by Tej Steiner. Everything he learned was tested immediately in his own live seminars, and out of that testing a distinct body of work began to form, the practice now known as Heart iQ. More than two decades and over 20,000 hours of facilitation later, it spans live retreats and online programmes, together with a professional training academy.

In 2009 he won Britain's Next Top Coach, a public competition whose final round asked each coach to film a complete ten-minute session in a single take and put it to an open vote. More than the title itself, the win restored his conviction that people wanted this work, and that a life could be built around it.

That conviction became a book. Insights to Intimacy: Why Relationships Fail & How to Make Them Work, an Amazon bestseller endorsed by Neale Donald Walsch, distils thousands of hours of client sessions into a practical account of why relationships break down and what actually repairs them. You can read about the book and its companion video course on the Insights to Intimacy page.

The professional side grew alongside it. After years of requests from coaches and therapists, the Heart iQ Academy opened in 2011, and certified practitioners now work in more than twenty-five countries. In 2015 Christian established New Eden, the retreat centre in the Netherlands described below, as the work's permanent home. He continues to teach internationally, including at Ängsbacka in Sweden, and has spoken about leading from the heart on The Embodiment Podcast.