The Heart iQ Blog
Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.
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Video · 30:44Focus 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.
Video · 15:26Unlock 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.
Video · 10:06Your 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.
Video · 22:03Dive Deeper into the Power of Somatic Shadow & Circle Work
Christian and Maanee Chrystal describe how group shadow and circle work uses the amplified field of others to surface contracted emotion, translate it into practice, and integrate it back into the body.
Video · 20:40The Connection Ritual: Repair, Regulate and Explore Together
A reflection on the connection ritual: learning when a relationship needs repair, regulation or room to explore, and allowing leadership to move between partners.
Video · 29:43Heart iQ: January 2024 Reflections from the Awakened Living Project
Christian reflects on a ten-day community living project at New Eden, exploring brotherhood, slowing down, and the tension between guided facilitation and organic community leadership.
Video · 30:51A Vision for Community: Reflections from New Eden in 2023
Christian reflects on eight years stewarding New Eden, sharing his evolving vision for longer immersive trainings, a heart-intelligence-based village community, and his hope to one day return to large-scale gatherings like the Heart Summit.
Video · 11:43Transforming Burnout into Bliss
An expanded account of a coaching session on burnout and receiving, exploring why rest doesn't always register in the body, the thimble metaphor for capacity, and how stored nervous system charge shapes our ability to feel joy.
Video · 15:42Diving Deep in Community: Insights from the 'Healing in Tribe' Retreat
Christian reflects on facilitating the 'Healing in Tribe' retreat, describing how group settings, slowing down and separate men's and women's containers support a felt sense of safety and belonging.
Video · 19:40From Pain to Purpose: Transcending Trauma through Conscious Connection
Christian explores the difference between love and attunement, how early sensitivity shaped his facilitation, and practising self-acceptance while taking responsibility for old patterns.
Video · 44:30Accelerate Your Transformation: Healing in Tribe
A panel conversation about belonging, different settings for group practice, and Christian’s distinction between self-love, relational love and tribal love.
Video · 0:55Building a Home for the Work, Then Travelling Again
In a short exchange with Genell Gorman, Christian reflects on returning to travel after years focused on building New Eden.