As in Circle, As in Life
The field is your teacher. Circle is your path. Life is your practice.
A self-paced initiation into the somatic, shadow-aware foundations of Heart iQ Circle Work. Thirty daily transmissions that teach you to read a field, meet your own inner world, and hold space for others in a way that opens connection instead of trying to fix it.
Lifetime access · Self-paced · Certificate of completion
Facilitation is a life skill, not a job title
Learn to leverage the amplified field created by a resonant group, and to use that field to facilitate transformation in others while coming into deeper contact with your own inner world, your relational blind spots, and the parts of you that have been left in shadow.
Whether you are new to Heart iQ or ready to deepen your embodiment, this journey gives you the essential skills, language, and culture to navigate life with clarity, connection, and inner leadership.
This is not a method you use sometimes. It is a new way of being, from the inside out.
When the rain pours from the heavens, if a thimble is all you hold up, a thimble is all you will receive.
Christian Pankhurst, Founder of Heart iQ
What you will learn
Navigate your inner world and shadow with clarity and compassion
Read the field and track your sensations moment to moment
Take space and receive attention in ways that nourish connection
Share with precision, vulnerability, and impact
Facilitate others with presence, depth, and coherence
This is for your whole life
Everything you learn here applies to the school run, the boardroom, the hard conversation, and the creative dream that scares you. A way of being, from the inside out.
Lead your inner world
You are a circle of parts: protector, rebel, child, achiever, doubter, each with its own voice, need, and truth. When a trigger arises, when fear surfaces, when your inner compass goes quiet, facilitation becomes a life-saving skill. Not for others first. For you. You learn to hold space for your own shadow, resistance, and truth, and to lead yourself with clarity and compassion.
Make your relationship a sacred circle
Every relationship holds three things: you, the other, and the living field between you. Most of us tend to ourselves or to them, and forget to nurture the us. Here you learn to co-facilitate that shared space, to listen, attune, repair, and respond to what the relationship needs in real time.
Create connection-driven community
You do not need a certification to hold meaningful space. If you feel called to gather others in presence, in sisterhood, brotherhood, healing, or expression, this is your foundation. Whether you host a circle in your living room or anchor a whole community project, you leave with the practical skills and the culture to begin.
Amplify your purpose, without going professional
You do not have to become a facilitator to benefit from facilitation. This is for purpose-driven people who want to make an impact by showing up more consciously, communicating more clearly, and navigating group dynamics with grace. This is where your inner growth meets your outer leadership.
Live life in circle
Everything here applies to the real world: the school run, the boardroom, the hard conversation, the creative dream that scares you. It is a culture, a language, a way of being that helps you live more fully, love more honestly, and lead more wisely. Not a method you use sometimes. A new way of living, from the inside out.
The Open S.P.A.C.E Circle
The container this whole course lives inside. A somatically anchored sharing space where truth arises from the body, not the mind. Undirected, co-created moment by moment, based on what is alive in the field. Not therapy, coaching, or fixing. A group nervous system of presence, resonance, and coherence, so that when someone speaks, they are not just heard. They are felt.
Slowing Down. We create safety through tempo. When things slow, the body can speak and truth emerges gently.
Presence. We stay with what is, witnessing without rushing, fixing, or pulling attention. The ground of all facilitation.
Attunement. We listen with the whole nervous system, becoming available to feel and be felt, and to track impact.
Connection. We build a resonant field where people feel not only accepted but belonged, where your truth can touch others.
Embodiment. We let truth be shared through tone, breath, sensation, and posture, so what is felt becomes fully expressed.
In this course you learn the S.P.A.C.E method, feel it from the inside, and watch me facilitate it in real recorded circles. When you are ready to lead your own, the dedicated How to Facilitate a Heart iQ Open Space Circle training goes deeper on the craft of holding the space.
Thirty days, week by week
Each day is a short, potent video that distills one aspect of the work, ending with an invitation to apply it in your life. Every week closes with a recorded case-study circle and a short knowledge check.
Presence & Aliveness in the Now
The ground the whole method stands on. The open S.P.A.C.E circle, the two forces that generate a group field, the difference between soul forward and soul back, and the practice of just like me that dissolves separation.
- Day 1
What is Heart iQ?
You do not go hunting for your pain. You learn to open so the parts you left behind can rise and be met.
- Day 2
The Open S.P.A.C.E Circle
Why being felt in presence, rather than fixed or coached, is itself the corrective experience.
- Day 3
The Two Forces That Create Circle Energy
The consciousness that holds space and the surrender that lets life move through you.
- Day 4
Soul Forward and Soul Back
Find your default posture and learn to become touchable, so life can actually reach you.
- Day 5
Just Like Me
A three-word practice that dissolves the illusion of separation and lets you take the medicine from anyone.
- Day 6
Storytelling in Circle
Feel the difference between a story that defends against the moment and one that is longing to be heard.
- Day 7
Open S.P.A.C.E Facilitation: A Case Study
Sit behind my eyes in a recorded circle as I narrate the small decisions of facilitation.
Shadow & Liberation
From managing pain to expanding range. There are no negative emotions, only energy that has been repressed. The fire energies of boundary and wildness, the water energies of grief and longing, and how they combine.
- Day 8
Expanding Your Range
Reframe the stuck places in your life as ranges waiting to be liberated.
- Day 9
There Are No Negative Emotions
Pain comes from resistance to feeling. It is repressed energy, not the emotion itself, that turns toxic.
- Day 10
The Range of Fire
Bring clear boundary and protective power by choice, by keeping your inner pilot light lit.
- Day 11
The Range of Water
Tell the grief that opens you from the sadness of a story, and let heartbreak move through you.
- Day 12
When Water & Fire Come Together
Blend passion and ache into a yearning heart, and unlock parts held since childhood.
- Day 13
Find Your Authentic Aliveness
Speak from the alive present, and generate aliveness on command, so your words land.
- Day 14
Case Study: Liberation & Shadow Work
Watch me coach a vague longing into a clearly named range and onto the mat, in a recorded circle.
Relational Truth & Boundaries
The relational field, the we that comes alive whenever people connect. Meeting points and the soul kiss, harvesting your own medicine, sharing impact so it lands as a gift, and why containment and tribe matter.
- Day 15
Trans-Personal Meeting Points
Discover the soul kiss, the distance at which a wider field opens between two people.
- Day 16
What's Your Medicine?
Turn any moment, even the boring or triggering ones, into personal medicine you carry into your life.
- Day 17
Sharing Impact in Circle
Meet someone’s opening so your response lands as a gift, instead of pulling energy onto your own story.
- Day 18
Are You An Asset?
Tell whether the charge you feel is your own, an amplified version, or the field’s to begin with.
- Day 19
Relationship Dynamics & Containment
Why real containment lets a partner bring all of themselves, and why intimacy needs the support of tribe.
- Day 20
Getting Triggered in Circle (and in Life)
Recognise your trauma responses as they happen and move yourself back into openness.
- Day 21
Case Study: Relationship Themed Circle
Watch how a relational share becomes a doorway that opens a whole field, in a recorded circle.
Alchemizing Pain into Gold
The hardest material met with the most care. How trauma actually resolves, through safety and attunement rather than analysis. Projection and enrollment as tools for repair, and what you tend to do with your pain.
- Day 22
How Trauma Resolves
Why attunement, not love alone, is what heals, and why you can stop excavating and simply open.
- Day 23
Projection & Enrollment
Read your attractions and aversions in a group as a map, with an advanced practice on roles and deroling.
- Day 24
Can Trauma Be Healed?
Release the pressure to be finished, and see which parts transform and which become your lifelong gold.
- Day 25
What Are You Doing With Your Pain?
Name the avoidance strategies that protect a core sense of unworthiness, and meet pain as fuel.
- Day 26
Emergence & The Field
How a group becomes a single intelligent field, with two bonus pieces on the science of emergence.
- Day 27
Unity Consciousness
The non-dual skill of feeling the goodness in every side of a divide, the deepest muscle a facilitator builds.
- Day 28
Case Study: Meeting Collective Pain
Watch how I meet collective grief while staying tethered to something larger than the pain.
Leading Circles & Retreats
The last lessons turn toward holding space for others. How I open a retreat by inviting surrender to the collective, and the full set of agreements that make a container safe.
- Day 29
How to Start a Retreat
How I frame the opening of a retreat so people surrender to the field, with a deeper piece on culture.
- Day 30
Heart iQ Retreat Agreements
The full set of agreements that turn a gathering into a safe container, ready to adapt for your own spaces.
Four case-study circles
Real Heart iQ circles I facilitated, with the footage paused throughout so I can narrate what I noticed and the choices I made. You sit behind my eyes as a facilitator.
Weekly knowledge checks
A short quiz at the end of each week, so you can confirm the core ideas have landed before you move on. Not a test. A mirror.
Certificate of completion
Finish all thirty lessons and pass the four checks, and your certificate is issued automatically, marking the true beginning of your Heart iQ facilitation journey.
More than a video course
As in Circle, As in Life lives inside the Heart iQ hub, so you move through it in connection, not alone.
Z, your AI coach, for 30 days
Z knows this course inside out. Ask it anything as you go, from a concept you want unpacked to how a teaching lands in your own life, any time of day or night through your first thirty days.
A community to belong to
Share your reflections under each lesson and in the group space, be witnessed by others walking the same path, and take the medicine from what they bring.
Lifetime access
The lessons are yours to keep. Return to any day whenever life asks for it, long after the thirty days are complete.
This is for you if
- You are longing for deeper connection in your relationships
- You are curious about Heart iQ and want a powerful, embodied entry point
- You are already on the path and want to refine your core skills
- You want to develop your presence, emotional range, and relational intelligence
- You want to bring what you feel in circle into your everyday life
You do not need to be a professional facilitator. You simply need to be human.
What people carry away
This training is heart-centered, heart-led and heart-opening. You will laugh. You will cry. But most of all you will deepen in an experience of what it is to truly feel loved and to love others authentically from your innermost heart.
I could not do the work in my community, helping and mentoring young men, giving them a sense of purpose and belonging, without the Heart iQ model. Now I am giving back. Thank you.
Since using Heart iQ with my clients I am having amazing results. It is changing lives. They are sharing, expressing, and feeling without holding back.
It has made such a huge difference in myself and my ability to be present with clients. It has transformed my coaching.
Meet Christian
I am Christian Pankhurst, founder of Heart iQ. My journey began in a childhood marked by intensity and unsafety, which led to years of anxiety, panic, and inner disconnection. Through those challenges I developed Heart iQ, a trauma-informed, body-based approach to healing and group facilitation that now helps thousands of people lead with more presence, depth, and authenticity.
I have spent the last twenty years refining this method and training facilitators across the world, integrating wisdom from both Eastern and Western traditions, always toward safe, attuned group spaces where transformation happens naturally.
This young man, Christian Pankhurst, knows how to articulate these messages as well as, if not better than I can. He is a profound source of wisdom and depth.
Begin your facilitation journey
As in Circle, As in Life
$497
$297
Lifetime access. One payment.
- 30 daily video lessons, including four recorded case-study circles
- Session notes and reflection prompts on every lesson
- 30 days with Z, your Heart iQ AI coach, on call any time
- A community space to share, connect, and be witnessed
- Four weekly knowledge checks and a certificate of completion
- Lifetime access to all the lessons
New to Heart iQ circle work? At checkout you can add Heart iQ Foundations, the practical companion, for $97, and go deeper with our facilitation training for $197.
Questions
What does it cost?
As in Circle, As in Life is $297 for lifetime access, one payment, shown in your local currency. Brand new to circle work? You can add Heart iQ Foundations at checkout for $97, and go deeper with our facilitation training for $197.
I have no experience. Is this still a fit?
Yes. You do not need to be a professional facilitator. Everything is taught from the ground up in short daily lessons you apply the same day. Many people take this simply to become more present in their own relationships and life.
How much time will it take?
Each day is one short video and an invitation to apply it. You can move a lesson a day, or at your own pace. You have lifetime access, so you can return to any lesson whenever you want.
Is anything live or scheduled?
No. The whole course is self-paced and pre-recorded, including the case-study circles, which are real Heart iQ circles I narrate you through. Start whenever you are ready and move at your own rhythm.
What do I get at the end?
A certificate of completion once you have finished all thirty lessons and passed the four short knowledge checks. It marks the ground you have covered and the true beginning of your facilitation journey.