Insights & reflections

The Heart iQ Blog

Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.

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“We teach what we need to learn the most” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 11:19
Teaching

How to Lead and Heal Without Being Perfect

Christian answers participant questions on separating trauma from personality, staying open on hard days, and why waiting to feel fully healed before serving others can become its own trap.

Christian Pankhurst11 Sept 20243 min read
“Our nervous systems are plastic, they are moldable, and they continue to receive imprints and continue to learn” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 16:36
Teaching

Regulating Your Child’s Nervous System: It’s Never Too Late

Christian answers a parent's worry about missing the early window for co-regulating a child's nervous system, offering reassurance that attunement and repair remain possible at any age.

Christian Pankhurst24 Jul 20243 min read
“This place wouldn't have been possible without your devotion, love and hard work.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 24:52
Personal

A Dedication to Sumir Brown

A dedication to Sumir Brown following the June 2024 handover of her share of New Eden, with archive footage of the beginnings, shared work and community that helped make the centre possible.

Christian Pankhurst21 Jul 20242 min read
“Who you are is more important than what you know and the tools that you embody.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 41:37
Personal

Behind the Scenes: 10 Days of Life-Changing Transformation

Christian reflects on ten days of facilitation at New Eden, exploring readiness for leadership, the capacity to receive, and what a tired group taught him about rest.

Christian Pankhurst19 Jun 20243 min read
“The physical reveals quicker than the verbal.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 13:34
Teaching

From Trauma to Transformation

A 2015 facilitator-training demonstration of physicalisation, exploring what movement can reveal and why pace, consent and careful observation matter.

Christian Pankhurst22 May 20242 min read
“We all need to find and tune to our own instrument.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 13:47
Teaching

How Becoming Attuned Can Unwind Your Trauma with Heart iQ Circle Work

Christian explores attunement, the experience of being supported, and why facilitators need to meet each person without assuming every difference is trauma.

Christian Pankhurst24 Apr 20243 min read
“The predominant intention right now is just to drop in, take care of myself” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 17:36
Personal

April's Update: Reflecting & Recharging

Christian reflects on a period of rest in Devon, teaching shadow work in Colorado, and the end of a relationship, exploring the blurred boundaries of facilitating community and his own need for personal healing.

Christian Pankhurst24 Apr 20243 min read
“What I repress, somebody else has to express” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 27:54
Teaching

Time to Get Physical

Christian explains how circle facilitators read predictable energetic patterns between participants and use physicalisation to give clients a direct, in-the-body experience of an emotional range they are missing.

Christian Pankhurst20 Mar 20242 min read
“The circle in resonance does not heal. It's the start.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 30:44
Teaching

Amplify Your Impact

Christian explains how resonance, safety and taking space combine to create an amplified field in group work, and how circle wisdom emerges when individuals speak what another needs to hear.

Christian Pankhurst20 Mar 20242 min read
“Heart iQ is the art of finding, connecting to, and opening to joy.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 30:44
Teaching

Focus on Joy, Not Pain

Christian explains why Heart iQ works across multiple layers of a person, why group circle work differs from one-to-one coaching, and how the HEART acronym frames healing, growth and trust in life.

Christian Pankhurst18 Mar 20244 min read
“Think of trauma as energy in your body that's stored, that has information for you” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 15:26
Teaching

Unlock the Power Within: Transform Trauma into Your Greatest Strength

Christian explores beginning with the places where a person already feels open, and reflects on independence, unmet needs and the influences on his facilitation.

Christian Pankhurst5 Mar 20242 min read
“You're no longer needed, but thank you for your service.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 10:06
Teaching

Your Inner House: Transforming Shadows into Your Deepest Gifts

Christian uses the image of a house with a guarded, locked room to explain how hiding shame invites curiosity, and how thanking the guard rather than fighting it allows integration.

Christian Pankhurst1 Mar 20243 min read

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