The Heart iQ Blog
Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.
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What I Saw From Dubai
A personal account of conversations in Dubai, the limits of seeing a situation from one place and the practice of letting another person’s experience reach us.
The Shadow Side of Openness
Christian reflects on the difference between holding a group and absorbing it, and how boundaries can help a facilitator stay sensitive without losing their own centre.
She had everything. Except the ability to feel it.
A story about achievement, emotional disconnection and what it can mean to feel received without performing. Christian explores the difference between intensity and sensitivity.
Video · 17:04Ten Years at New Eden: What It Means to Steward a Home
Looking back on ten years at New Eden, Christian reflects on belonging, practical responsibility and the people and culture that turn a retreat centre into a home.
Video · 18:132025 in Review: Holding the Chi Generator and Learning to Put It Down
Christian’s end-of-2025 reflection on overcommitment, creative work, community and learning to build a more sustainable life.
Video · 66:43Reading the Room, Feeling the Field: The Future of Facilitation
In conversation with Rachel Rickards, Christian explores how he listens to a group, recognises his own defensiveness and works with a team, and why facilitation reaches beyond leading workshops.
Video · 66:35Embodied Living and the Liberated Living Residency
Christian explains the thinking behind New Eden's Liberated Living Residency: a communal living model built to let facilitators and seekers practise embodiment, relational skill and rest inside ongoing tribe rather than isolated retreat.
Living the Work: What New Eden's Residency Experiment Explored
A reflection on New Eden’s residency pilot and the question it explored: how to carry the connection of circle into shared work, relationships and ordinary daily life.
Video · 75:42Stepping Into the Heart Field: Vulnerability and Embodied Leadership
Christian discusses the group experience he calls the Heart Field, the responsibility of holding space, and his own need for places where he can be received.
Video · 64:48Beyond Retreats: Living Transformation Through Community & Circle Work
Christian reflects on learning through mimicry before finding his own voice, and explains why he sees personal growth as inseparable from long-term community and group work.
Video · 63:12Awakening Through Heart iQ: Circle Work and Embodied Leadership
Christian traces Heart iQ's origins from childhood attunement to years touring with author Neale Donald Walsch, and explains how circle work, shadow integration and amplified group fields support embodied healing without dogma.
Video · 27:562024 End of Year Update & Reflections
Christian looks back on 2024, a year of returning to the US, deepening work with live musicians, launching a new facilitator training format, and closing a long chapter with New Eden's co-founder.