One to one, everything runs through you. You create the safety, you track, you intervene, and you carry the weight of the whole process. An attuned group can carry it with you, and almost nobody is taught how to let that happen.
A free three-part video series for practitioners
The deepest work your clients need cannot be done one-to-one.
Whether you work as a coach, a therapist, a bodyworker or a facilitator of any kind, I want to show you how a group becomes an amplified field that reaches places one-to-one work cannot touch, and why on this path your clients' growth and your own are never separate. The same field that heals and awakens the people in your circle keeps healing and awakening you as you hold it.
Start the Free SeriesThree sessions · About 90 minutes · Free, inside the Heart iQ Hub
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What is Heart iQ Circle Work?
In this short introduction I walk you through the layers of this work, from attuned group facilitation, through what I call tribal regulation, to circle as a practice of liberation.
For practitioners who can feel the edge of their own range
You are good at this work. So why does it still feel like there is more?
I meet coaches, therapists, bodyworkers and facilitators all the time who are genuinely good at what they do and still feel a quiet itch that says there is more. I know that itch. It is what moved me out of a thriving chiropractic clinic and into this work. In Heart iQ, the function of the collective is to awaken the individual, and when a whole circle turns its heart towards one person, something becomes available that neither of you can produce sitting opposite each other. I have also seen, over and over, that the people who give this depth to others are often the least met in it themselves. This series is for that part of you too.
Your client sees the pattern clearly. They can explain it back to you. And it is still running their life next week, because the understanding arrived in the mind and the pattern lives somewhere else.
Alone with you, a client shows you what they already have access to. In a circle, the rest of it surfaces too. The defences and the shadows come into view, along with the parts of them that have been quietly steering their life. As in circle, as in life.
Why words are not enough
You can describe the Concorde. It will never be the same as flying it.
Only a small community of pilots ever knew what it was actually like. Twice the speed of sound, the curve of the planet from sixty thousand feet, a hundred passengers behind you, arriving before you left. You can describe that with the best words in the world and it will not replace the experience of it.
Facilitating circle at a high level is like that, which makes it very hard to explain and very easy to underestimate. So these three sessions get as close as film can. The first is about why this work exists at all. The second takes you inside the mechanics that make a Circle work, and the third walks you through how the work can enter the body.
I filmed all three teachings at New Eden with a group of our graduates. I am explaining the stages and showing you what is possible in principle, so these are not recordings of clients taking space in a live Circle. If you want to see the work applied to real client processes, that is what the virtual retreat is for.
This is an introduction, not a qualification. What you see in Session Three rests on consent, careful pacing, supervision and years of practice. Please do not try to reproduce it on your own.
25+years of practice
40,000+hours in circle
500+practitioners trained
30+countries reached
Meet your teacher
Christian Pankhurst
Before I could train others to hold this work, I had to learn to hold it myself.
I'm Christian Pankhurst, founder of Heart iQ, and I will be your guide through these three sessions.
I came to this work through my own nervous system first. A childhood shaped by intensity and a lack of safety left me with anxiety and a deep sense of disconnection. What began as a search for relief became a lifelong study of what lets a person stay open and present in connection, especially when it gets hard.
I trained first in the sciences, with a degree in Human Sciences and Chiropractic, and then as a facilitator in Neale Donald Walsch's Leadership Education Program, where I was mentored as his protégé. Around twenty-five years ago I began the work that became Heart iQ, a structured and embodied approach to relational group facilitation that is now practised and taught around the world.
I have led hundreds of retreats and trainings since 2002, with people travelling from more than thirty countries to sit in circle with us. In 2016 we bought New Eden, our own custom retreat centre on its own land in the Frisian countryside. It moved this work out of hotel venues and into a home built for it.
I have never seen myself as someone who fixes or heals anyone. My work is to create the conditions, and to teach you to create them, where another person's own capacity and goodness can finally emerge.
“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.”
Respected by peers
What leaders in the field say
“Christian is part of a very small group at the very top of the profession. I would place him in the top one percent of practitioners in trauma-informed group facilitation, and I am not aware of anyone else who combines his level of scale, structure, and impact.”
“Many facilitators rely on personal charisma and intuition. Christian has gone significantly further, turning what is often viewed as intuitive into a repeatable method that others can learn and apply.”
Your three-session journey
Three sessions, released over four days.
The schedule begins when you enrol, rather than on a fixed launch date.
01
Available immediatelyFocus on Joy, Not Pain
31 minutes
Most of us were trained to go towards the pain. In this first session I make the case for going towards joy instead, because underneath all the healing and awakening, the whole purpose of circle is to help a person find, connect to, and open to joy. I also lay out the HEART map that sits beneath everything we do: healing your past, expanding your range, awakening your divinity, relationship bliss, and trusting life.
02
Releases 48 hours laterAmplify Your Impact
31 minutes
A random group of people does not automatically create a field. In this session I show you what turns a group into one, what happens the moment a circle grants somebody space, and why a resonant group amplifies everything while a dissonant one actually makes your tracking worse. I also introduce circle wisdom, the part of this work that still astonishes me after all these years.
03
Releases 48 hours after thatTime To Get Physical!
28 minutes
Awareness is where most modalities stop. In this final session I walk you through what can happen when a missing range is given physical form and the group becomes part of the process itself. It is an explanation of the stages and what is possible rather than footage of clients taking space in a live Circle.
What comes after
Watch all three, then decide whether you want to experience an amplified field for yourself.
The series stands on its own and there is nothing you need to buy to get the value of it. If it lands, the clear next step is What Only a Group Can Heal, a three-day live virtual retreat from 11 to 13 September where I work through real Circle Work case studies. And if the October dates work for you, the step beyond that is the Healing in Tribe facilitator immersion, fourteen days at New Eden from 4 to 18 October, with your virtual retreat ticket credited in full towards its tuition.
Start the Free SeriesA few practical answers
Before you begin
Is the three-part introduction free?
Yes. There is no charge for the three recorded sessions, their reading companions or the discussion space inside the Hub.
Do I need group experience already?
No. This is an introduction to how Circle Work operates, and it assumes you know how to work with one person and have never been taught to work with group dynamics, circle wisdom and the power of an amplified field. If you have done group work elsewhere, my own request is that you empty your cup a little, because this differs from most of what carries the same name.
How long are the sessions?
Sessions One and Two are 31 minutes each. Session Three is 28 minutes. The complete series is about 90 minutes.
What is the Heart iQ Hub?
It is the private member space where your videos, detailed session notes and moderated conversation live together. Your secure email link signs you in.
When do the sessions become available?
Session One opens as soon as you use your secure link. Session Two opens 48 hours after your original enrolment, and Session Three opens at 96 hours. Rejoining does not reset your clock.
How long can I access the series?
Your access does not expire in the current programme. You can return to the sessions and reading companions in your Hub.
What happens after the video series?
You will be invited to participate in an upcoming virtual retreat called What Only a Group Can Heal, where I work through real Circle Work case studies. Learn more about the virtual retreat.
You can also explore Healing in Tribe, an application-only, live two-week facilitator immersion with Christian and the Academy team at New Eden in the Netherlands. Learn more about Healing in Tribe.
Held in the Heart iQ Hub
Everything in one private place.
- Private video access tied to your Hub account
- Session notes beside each teaching
- A moderated conversation with other enrolled practitioners
- Later sessions remain visibly locked until their release time
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Session One is waiting for you.
Use the email address you want connected to your Heart iQ account, and we will send your secure link straight there.