Leela School Events - Courses and Retreats

True Friend Immersion 12 Day Retreat
Therapy Training - Module 1
March 15 - 26, 2023
Module 1 of a 2-year part-time certified therapist training for those who are ready to end personal suffering for themselves, their clients and communities. Each year comprises 3 modules.

In this course you will

Receive direct & compassionate support to see through your egoic structure and awaken to your True Nature
Deepen your realization through direct investigation
Learn trauma-informed skillful means to support others, including the Enneagram of Character Fixation, the True Friend stance, NLP, and clinical hypnotherapy
Deepen your existing therapy/counseling/healing/leading or teaching practice
Become part of our global True Friend community and receive ongoing support for your self-discovery and skills mastery
Receive an A.C.H.E. accredited certification upon successful completion of the 2 years

The essence of our program
Being a skillful True Friend

Have you explored different healing modalities, sacred substances, spiritual paths, meditation and mindfulness but some residual suffering remains unresolved?

Are you willing and ready to end this cycle?

Do you want to support others to heal, awaken and live a fulfilled life?

This training is for you.
“Let both the client and therapist wake up.” With these words, Eli’s Teacher Papaji sent him back into the world and asked him to share the gift of self-realization one heart at a time. The True Friend Immersion uniquely combines Papaji’s direct transmission of Silence and Eli’s decades of therapeutic mastery in a single intimate container - a form of therapy beyond therapy. It is our mission to enhance the quality of life in the world by evoking self-realization in leaders, therapists, coaches, healers and teachers.
The course is heart-based and entirely experiential. It is founded on the principle of being a True Friend, which simply but powerfully means meeting yourself and the world with a silent mind and an open heart. A True Friend is a wisdom mirror - it adds nothing, it removes nothing, it takes nothing personally. Empty, quiet and free, it reflects back to the apparent “other” the wisdom, love and beauty of their own True Nature. For you to reflect this clarity, it requires your own depth of realization which is our primary focus.
This self-discovery and deep healing work is supported by trauma-informed skillful means. You will absorb and learn different hypnotherapeutic skills, NLP and self-inquiry based in non-dual insights and the clinical hypnosis certification program Eli Jaxon-Bear ran for many decades. Learn to be an awakened guide in the lives of those around you, whether it is family, friends, or clients. Discovering what it means to be a True Friend for yourself and others, you will experience what this means in a practical way, living in the world in skillful harmony.

This course is for you if you…

Have explored (and practiced) different healing modalities but feel that some residual suffering remains unresolved
Are already teaching, coaching or have a successful private practice but would like to take your own service to a deeper level
Hear the call to discover your essential nature deeper than your ego
Are willing to look through your fixated patterns and beliefs
Are ready to end your personal suffering and wish to support others

Quote:
“The Leela school is different from other therapy schools I know. Even though there is structure to the program, [It] doesn’t break things into mind-controlled rigid steps. Learning is never from outside in - it is always from inside out.” Kemila

What to expect in Module 1
Online Retreat/Course ~ 12 days ~ 80 hours

Prerequisites: none

Module 1 is a 12-day retreat with Eli Jaxon-Bear, the founder of the Leela School, alongside Leela Teachers and Mentors.

In this module you will learn:

What it means to be in Satsang with Eli - an opportunity to speak with him directly and ask your burning questions
What it means to be a True Friend
Exercises to discover the nature of reality
An introduction to the enneagram and its detailed map of the psyche
Clinical Hypnotherapy fundamentals
Therapeutic techniques to clarify the present & desired condition in a client
Resourcing, anchoring & reframing
The Meta model & NLP tools to break the trance of suffering
Basic trace inductions & therapeutic interventions for deep healing
Ecology
The Ethics of the therapeutic profession

Quote:
“I just finished Module 1 and I can't find words to describe the magnitude of the shift I am experiencing! I worked with clients as a psychotherapist before, but I did it from a totally different perspective. This course changed everything.” Silvia
Learn more about the program click here

You can attend only a single Module 1 retreat which is a twelve-day immersion. If you are called to certification, this is a two-year part-time course, offered in 3 modules per year - two twelve-day retreats (module 1 and 3) and a series of one-on-one mentoring sessions (module 2) plus numerous avenues for practice and meeting other students in the school. You are welcome to take the modules separately or attend the full program. However, you will be eligible for therapist certification after 2 full years of attendance.

Please note, as each retreat is unique and individual, not all of the syllabus will be covered in person during the retreats.
Quote:
"Module 3 was so powerful. By this stage of the process, the questions, skills and exercises started landing in a much deeper place and became an embodied experience, rather than an intellectual knowledge. I felt like I was listening with my heart, rather than my ears. This simple shift has changed my teaching and therapy work profoundly." Iri, UK

FAQ click here
Tuition: $1650 (AUD)
*For Returning Students only, if you refer and bring with you three or more new students who pay in full for Module 1, you can attend Module 1 for free.  If you bring in 1 or 2 new students, you would pay 1/3 off or 2/3 off tuition respectively. Leela School must be notified of this referral by the student at the time of booking.*
Cancellation policy
If you need to cancel your registration, please email us at info@leela.org
If you cancel more than 30 days before the retreat begins (for in person events) and 14 days before (for online events) your full payment minus $50.00 will be refunded. After that no refunds are given.

This will be a Hybrid Event.  Jared and the group will be in the room and Eli will be live via Zoom.  For the meetings that Eli is leading, you will be able to interact live with him via Zoom if you are an online participant or if you are in the room.

Venue For in-person participants:
Lennox Head Cultural Centre
1 Mackney Lane, Lennox Head, NSW 2478
Lennox Head Cultural Centre Website

Tentative Daily Schedule (This is subject to change):
Sydney AEDT Time:
Wed March 15th: One Meeting at 1:30pm
Thurs March 16th - Sat March 18th: Three Meetings each day at 10am, 1:30pm and 4:30pm
Sun March 19th: One Meeting at 10am
Mon March 20th: One Meeting at 4:30pm
Tues March 21st - Sat March 25th: Three Meetings each day at 10am, 1:30pm and 4:30pm
Sun March 26th: Last Meeting at 10am

US Pacific PDT Time (for online participants):
Tues March 14th: One Meeting at 7:30pm
Wed March 15th - Fri March 17th: Three Meetings each day at 4pm, 7:30pm and 10:30pm
Sat March 18th: One Meeting at 4pm
Sun March 19th: One Meeting at 10:30pm
Mon March 20th - Fri March 24th: Three Meetings each day at 4pm, 7:30pm and 10:30pm
Sat March 25th: Last Meeting at 4pm

**Allow up to 2 hours for each meeting

Please use www.timeanddate.com to convert to your local time zone.

This course is equal to 44 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for students applying for advanced certification or certification renewals.

For the first time in many years, Gangaji and Eli will lead this one day event together in Ashland.  Come join us for two meetings, along with a brief inquiry session.

Time and Date:
Thursday April 27th: Meetings at 11am and 4pm, with a 2pm inquiry exercise led by one of our Leela School Mentors

Online Attendees will be given Zoom links and will be able to participate in real time.

Price:
$125 (USD) per person

Cancellation policy
If you need to cancel your registration, please email us at info@leela.org
If you cancel more than 30 days before the retreat begins (for in person events) and 14 days before (for online events) your full payment minus $50.00 will be refunded. After that no refunds are given.

In-Person Requirements: Regarding Covid safety and vaccination requirements TBD.

The Leela School - Europe
True Friend Immersion
Module 2
For those in their first year, this is an online course that includes private mentoring sessions.  You will watch Eli work with different clients using a variety of hypnotic inductions and clinical interventions. Each video will be broken down into workable parts for you to practice at home. In addition, you will have 10 hours of private one on one mentoring sessions, usually on Skype.

Students in their 2nd year will receive videos that consist of a full Enneagram Retreat at Esalen Institute as well as a complete section of Enneagram exemplars, from each fixation and sub-type, explaining and demonstrating their fixation, with recorded insights from Eli and Staff.

The multidisciplinary approach of The Leela School includes an Enneagram year, where students will discover their own fixation, leading to deeper personal insight, clarity and integrity, and in this way being more available as a true friend to clients and to the world. You will also become proficient at recognizing your client’s fixation, as well as learning how to work with the different fixations, using this insight therapeutically as leverage for profound seeing and understanding, and an appropriate intervention.
Tuition: Online plus 10 Mentor Sessions: € 1300
 

The Leela School of Awakening
True Friend Immersion Module 3; 12 Day Retreat
September 8th - 19th, 2023

MORE INFORMATION TBD

This is the third part of a one year course, offered in three modules. The foundation of this course is to be a True Friend, for yourself and the world. Discovering a silent mind and an open heart, you will be supported in waking up out of the trance of egoic identification.

Based in non-dual insights and the clinical hypnosis certification program Eli ran for many decades, you will absorb and learn different skills for being an awakened guide in the lives of those around you, whether it is family, friends, or clients. Discovering what it means to be a True Friend for yourself and others, you will experience what this means in a practical way, living in the world in skillful harmony.

As part of this immersion course, we will use Eli’s unique insight into what he calls the Enneagram of Character Fixation (very different from the more commonly used Enneagram of Personality). Seeing the fixated structure of ego in ourselves, our relationships, and our clients will cast the world in a completely new light. Insight into the structure of our own character fixation assists in the discovery of our true character, and the difference between ego and essential self.

Professional Certification available for 2nd year students. This class is led by Leela School teachers; with Eli leading portions of the retreat online.
Prerequisite is having attended at least one Leela School course in the past.

Meeting Details: TBD

Location: TBD

Tuition: € 1430 (EUD)

Cancellation policy
If you need to cancel your registration, please email us at info@leela.org
If you cancel more than 30 days before the retreat begins (for in person events) and 14 days before (for online events) your full payment minus $50.00 will be refunded. After that no refunds are given.

Daily Schedule:
TBD

This course is equal to 44 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for students applying for advanced certification or certification renewals.