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in the heart. My heart just tells me. For some it will center around the back of the head so it’s like there’s an inner voice that guides you. But it’s not one-size-fits-all and it can be all of the above. The frequency of
energy informs you vibra-tionally about the nature of the situation you’re in.
LN: Does everyone have intuitive ability?
Sonia: Everyone has an inherent intuitive chan-nel. Science has developed enough studies in which they have isolated parts of the brain, parts in the stom-ach, even parts in the heart that pick-up and respond to vibration. But not ev-eryone is conscious or ap-preciative of the intuitive faculties. The general pop-ulation still, unfortunately, ignores or invalidates their
intuition for a number of reasons, primarily because they’ve not been educated about it, or due to family impressions, social training, religious background, or a lack of aware-ness. Also, it is a subtle sense so it takes a certain amount of attention to discern an in-tuitive feeling in the moment. Interestingly, I run across a huge general population that says “I felt that” after the fact. They had that “I’m not sure” sense but it’s subtle, so it’s a matter of bringing attention to it and claim-ing it as a valid form of information.
LN: I imagine that some people’s intuition
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Raz: Sonia, you often refer to the “sixth sense” as our most important sense. What is the sixth sense?
Sonia: The sixth sense is the voice of your spirit, and it communicates to you through the physical body, but it borrows the awareness of the heart or the gut, even the hairs on the back of your neck. It is the voice of your soul and your all-knowing self that is connected to the meta-morphic field of all there is.
LN: Why do you consid-er it our most important sense?
Sonia: It’s important be-cause it’s the natural in-ner barometer that keeps us faithful to what is authentic for our growth and to what is naturally protective for our safety. It directs us toward our relational optimum opportu-nities; it guides us when we are faced with challenges and are in circumstances of the unknown; it activates our creativity; it in-forms us on how to keep our physical bod-ies and emotional states healthy and basi-cally feeds our spirit so that we feel whole and complete.
LN: Is what you call the “spiritual voice” distinct from the voice a person describes when they say “I feel it in my gut”?
Sonia: Yes. The spiritual voice communi-cates to you. It originates in the heart and then it travels to get your attention through-out your body. In some people, it’s an actual frequency or a vibration of awareness that might travel and center in the gut, hence, the gut feeling. For some it might stay centered
Building Your Intuitive Muscle An Interview with Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. Sonia Choquette is a
world-renowned author, storyteller, teacher,
vibrational healer, and intuitive. She is the
best-selling author of 10 books and numerous
audio editions. Sonia was educated at the
University of Denver and the Sorbonne in
Paris, and holds a Ph.D. in metaphysics from
the American Institute of Holistic Theology. She is a graduate of
the Hoffman Process and serves on the
Institute’s Advisory Council. Sonia recently
spoke with Hoffman president Raz Ingrasci
about the crucial role of intuition in our lives. For more information
about Sonia and her work, please visit www.
soniachoquette.com
SPRING 2008
CONTENTSFundraising Page...........3
Graduate Pages.........5,6,7
2008 Process and Q2
Dates ........................... . 9
Teacher Feature ............11
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is targeted. For example, if someone’s a brilliant athlete their intuition’s in-forming their athleticism. Or if some-one is a great intellect or a great musi-cian it might come to them differently, and some are spiritually intuitive.
Sonia: It comes through for every-body most obviously in what you love. That’s because it originates in the heart in the most authentic self and what you love is an expression of your most authentic self. That is where the sixth sense demonstrates itself first. Someone who loves real estate is going to have the knack for it, or a doc-tor who loves healing and medicine will have an intuitive sense with people’s health. The second place it presents itself is with the people you love; you’ll feel it in your personal intimates, in your family, with your children. But the thing is, it can be stretched. Like any muscle it can be developed to oper-ate in all arenas of your life, and that’s what it should and can be developed into with the slightest bit of attention.
LN: You’ve spent your entire career,
more than 30 years, helping people on the intuitive level to be more closely aligned with their spiritual self. When did you know that you had the gift of a strong intuition?
Sonia: It was never an “ah-ha” mo-ment. I was always intuitively aware and when I started school it became ap-parent that what I felt in my bones and in my body and what I could perceive intuitively was neither shared or en-
couraged by others. I feel very strong-ly that we all start at the same place, with a perfectly functioning intuitive radar, but it gets shut off by our social conditioning. In my case I didn’t have social conditioning that interrupted it because in my family, intuition was a valued sense. Other people who come
from families where intuition was a valued sense also say that it was just very natural and commonplace. So I’m not unique, though I am very for-tunate. I’ve studied it enough to know that when any person of any age gives the same support and attention to their intuition, it’ll bounce right back into operation. It’s a very resilient sense.
LN: People learn to listen to and trust their intuitive self at the Process. I’m
thinking of those parts of the Process where we recognize our spiritual selves, and also where we do that beautiful in-tuitional understanding of our parents’ child-hood.
Sonia: What’s so fabu-lous about the Process is that it engages the truth that intuition is timeless. It transcends time and
space so you can become accurately in-formed, which is what happens in the Process when we have the healing with our parents and the conversation with the child of our mother and the child of our father. That accurate informing is a gift of the intuition.
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“What’s so fabulous about the Process is
that it engages the truth that intuition is
timeless. It transcends time and space so
you can become accurately informed...“ --Sonia
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You are the future, the immense morning skyturning red over the prairies of eternity.
You are the rooster-crow after the night of time,the dew, the early devotions, and the Daughter,
the Guest, the Ancient Mother, Death.
You are the shape that changes its own shape,that climbs out of fate, towering,that which is never shouted for,
and never mourned for,And no more explored than a savage wood.
You are the deepest meaning inside thingsthat never reveals the secret of its owner.
And how you look depends on where we are:from a boat you are the shore,
from the shore a boat.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
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SAVE THE DATE -- Hoffman’s Annual Picnic is August 30!
Every spring we invite Process grads to submit their design(s) for our Annual T-shirt Design Contest. We
hope you’ll participate!
Your design(s) should visually convey the light, love, com-passion and fun of the Process. Whatever image comes to you, please turn it into a design and send it to us. Your work can be hand-drawn or computer-generated, silly or serious, amateur or professional, but please follow the design guide-lines below.
Submissions will be voted-on (blind ballots in which artist’s names are hidden) by the Hoffman Institute’s office staff. The winning design will become the 2008 Hoffman T-shirt and it will be sold on the Hoffman website, at the picnic, in the Light News, and at the final day of every Hoffman Pro-cess and Q2. The winning artist will be credited in the Light News, on our website and on the T-shirt itself.
Calling all Entries for the Hoffman Institute’s Annual T-Shirt Design Contest!
DESIGN GUIDELINESSize: Keep your design smaller than 15” w x 18” h
Colors: Use no more than four colors in your design
Placement: The design will appear on the front of the shirt only
Shirt: The winning design will be silk-screened onto an organic cotton T-shirt, in several neutral shades
How Many: You may submit up to three designs
Deadline: Design submissions must be received by Friday, May 23. The winner will be announced on Friday May 30th!
Please email your design to [email protected] or mail your hand drawn design to:
Hoffman Institute FoundationAtt: Ellie
1299 Fourth Street, Suite 304San Rafael, CA 94901
2006 T-shirt Design Winner
Come to our beautiful 45-acre Napa Valley campus for a day of SUN, FUN, SWIMMING, MUSIC and DELI-
CIOUS FOOD! Stay for the exciting raffle drawing at 3:00 (when we’ll raffle a 2008 Mini Cooper and other great prizes).
Round up your friends, family and classmates and share in what is always a great day!
Date: Saturday, August 30th
Time: 12 Noon – 4:00 PM
Where: White Sulphur Springs, St. Helena, CA
Cost: FREE!
RSVP: Please call 800/506-5253 or email [email protected] by August 15th
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FOUNDATION
Board of DirectorsMyron A. Wick, III, Chair
Giles H. Bateman
Joan Belkin
Steve Belkin
Thomas Driscoll
Jean M. Halloran
Gerald Harris
Liza Ingrasci*
Raz Ingrasci*
William Johnson
Barbara LaTour
Betsy Manchester**
Pete Neuwirth
Randy Perkins
Michelle Schmitt
Stephen Seligman
Susanna Thompson
*Executive Management
**Director Emeritus
Advisory CouncilJoan Borysenko, Ph.D., Chair
Margot Anand, Ph.D.
Ward Ashman, Ph.D.
Anat Baniel
Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.
David Bork
Matthew Budd, M.D.
Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.
Ken Druck, Ph.D.
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.
Rev. Hal Milton
Claudio Naranjo, M.D.
Bruce Price, M.D.
Michael Ray, Ph.D.
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Joseph Wu, M.D.
Hoffman Graduate Groups are a sacred space in which graduates gather to connect with one another and to do Process work. Groups are facilitated by trained graduate volun-
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Graduate GroupsContinuing Connections and Process Work
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Help The Hoffman Institute Go Green!
A Welcome BackElaine Boucher served as facilitator of the Maine group for two years and recently moved to Chester, NJ, where she is leading a new graduate group.
Create a Hoffman Group or a Social Event
Thinking about getting graduates together near you? Contact our graduate department to learn how it’s done.
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GRADS, DIAL IN and SHARE YOUR HEART- Monthly Intro Calls Let You Share the Process -
We look forward to speaking with you and your friends!
When: The first Tuesday of every month at 5:00 PM (Pacific time)
Phone: 866-322-7998 (Toll-free). Password: 86157# (Note: you must include the #)
Cost: Free! No RSVP required, simply call and enter the password above.
Teleclasses – Ideal for both Recent and Seasoned Process Grads!
With the arrival of spring and summer come wonderful new teleclasses. Empower yourself! Disconnect from negative love patterns, stay connected to your spiritual self, and gain greater
access to your personal joy! Join Process teachers and special guest, Ken Druck, Ph.D., for these offerings.
Deepening Joy and Happiness in Daily Life with teacher Mary Amrita Arden. Wednesday, May 7 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern. Explore how to honor what life has to offer so you can return to deepened states of joy and happiness. You will also learn to access your own resiliency for support during challenging times, and practices for the health and nourishment of your body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Healing The Grieving Heart with Ken Druck, Ph.D. Wednes-day, May 21 at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern. In this new teleclass, bereavement specialist, psychologist, Process graduate and Hoffman advisory council member Ken Druck, Ph.D., will explore what it means to work through signifi-cant life losses and awaken to some of life’s most profound truths. Learn how to transform grief into deep spiritual con-nection, compassion, intimacy and authentic hope.
Why Did I Eat That? Exploring Emo-tional Hunger with teacher Laurel Callan. Tuesday, July 8 at 5:00 PM Pa-cific / 8:00 PM Eastern. Does your dark side fill your grocery cart? Partake in an in-depth look at why we keep eating “THAT STUFF,” and learn strategies for embracing a healthier lifestyle.
Parenting: Using Triggers to Grow into Your True Self with teacher Linda Ruffin. Wednesday, July 16 at 4:30 PM Pacific / 7:30 PM East-ern. Identify and gain freedom from what triggers you and your children, and reconnect to your spirit-guided parenting path.
• Each teleclass (1hour in length) is $25, which is non-trans-ferable/non-refundable.
• Please register by 3:00 PM the day before each Teleclass. To register call 800/506-5253 or go to the Teleclass section of our website at www.hoffmaninstitute.org.
• Participants must call from a land-line phone (sorry, no Skype or cell phones), in a quiet location.
• Please sign up early; many of our Teleclasses fill well in advance!
• All teleclasses are recorded.
Additional Teleclass dates and descriptions are posted on our website. Visit Graduate Programs & News for a complete listing. Call 800/506-5253 or email [email protected].
Once a month the Institute offers a free conference call for people who want to learn more about the
Hoffman Process. Callers dial a toll-free number and they get to speak directly with Hoffman Managing Director Liza Ingrasci and a Process teacher, who offer valuable information and answer questions about the Process.
Process graduates are also invited to dial-in, and many do; to share their experience and insight with those who are considering whether the Process is right for them.
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to grief-stricken families. The JDF’s award-winning ‘Families Helping Families’ program assists thousands of people in their journey through
grief every year via support groups, grief education, workshops, commu-nity outreach to schools and the work-place, original publications and grief literacy advocacy. Ken’s spoken word CD, “Healing Your Life After the Loss of a Loved One” has been distributed worldwide to grieving families.
JDF’s other program, “Young Wom-en’s Leadership,” established to honor Jenna’s accomplishments as a leader, provide leadership development and
GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT
Process graduate and Advisory Council member Ken Druck, a
noted organizational consultant and author, lost his beautiful and talented daughter Jenna at the age of 21 in a tragic accident while she was studying abroad in 1996.
Ken found that support for bereaved parents and families is often elusive during their darkest, most difficult hour.
Less than a year after Jenna’s death, Ken was told about the Process by a dear friend, Dr. Harold Bloomfield. “I am grateful I found a safe place to go into the depth of my heartache and an-ger with God -- and begin to transform my pain into an expression of love that would honor my daughter, my family, my own life and even the world,” he said.
During the Process, Ken had a pro-found and comforting vision in which he was met by Jenna’s outstretched hand at the end of his River of Life. “Jenna would expect nothing less of me than to use what I was learning at the bottom of pain to help other fami-lies who suffer.” Ever since, he’s been doing exactly that.
In 1996 Ken founded the Jenna Druck Foundation (JDF), a non-profit organi-zation offering free support services
Ken Druck, Ph.d.
Process Graduate Ken Druck
training to young women through an Annual Conference, quarterly Forums, a magazine and community educa-tion.
Ken is considered an international expert on turning life’s tragedies into opportunities and has appeared mul-tiple times on Larry King Live and Oprah. He has delivered inspirational keynote speeches at Harvard School of Public Health, YPO and for hundreds of conferences. Ken is often called upon in complex, critical incident situ-ations such as in New York after 9/11, following the Columbine and Santana school shootings and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Ken will share his wisdom, compas-sion and insight with Process gradu-ates when he leads a Teleclass titled “Healing The Grieving Heart.” During the call Ken will guide us on acknowl-edging loss and transforming grief into profound spiritual deepening, compas-sion, and hope for the future. Ken’s Teleclass is Wednesday May 21st at 5:00 PM Pacific/8:00 PM Eastern. Please register at hoffmaninstitute.org or call 800/506-5253. We hope you will join us!
For more about the Jenna Druck Foundation, please visit www.jennadruck.org.
The Minnesota graduate group, heralded by Nancy Blasberg and Maisie Wolzson, recently enjoyed a potluck and other group activities. They captured the fun for Light News readers!
Where there are Graduates, there is Love!
“Try to love the questions themselves, like
locked rooms and like books written in a foreign
language. Do not now look for the answers. They
cannot now be given to you because you could
not live them. It is a question of experiencing
everything. At present you need to live the
question. Perhaps you will gradually, without
even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the
answer, some distant day.”
--Rainer Maria RilkeFrom Letters To A Young Poet
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April 25- May 2 HQP – CaliforniaMay 1 Ceremony of Integration – CaliforniaMay 2-9 HQP - MassachusettsMay 6 *Process Intro Call 5:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 86157#May 7 Create Graduate Group call 4:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 49361#May 7 Teleclass: Deepening Joy & Happiness in Daily Life, 6:00 PM.May 8 Ceremony of Integration – MassachusettsMay 9-16 HQP – CaliforniaMay 15 Ceremony of Integration – CaliforniaMay 21 Teleclass: Healing The Grieving Heart, 5:00 PM.May 23-30 HQP – CaliforniaMay 29 Ceremony of Integration – California
*Process Intro Calls are a great way to learn about the Process. They’re free to attend, and open to all. No rsvp required. If you are already a Process graduate and would like to share your experience with others, bring a friend and call in!
All times listed are Pacific time.
MAY 2008
June 3 *Process Intro Call 5:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 86157#June 4 Create Grad Group Call 4:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 49361#June 6-13 HQP – CaliforniaJune 12 Ceremony of Integration – CaliforniaJune 20-27 HQP – CaliforniaJune 24 Teleclass: Tools for New Grads, 5:00 PM.June 26 Ceremony of Integration – CaliforniaJune 27-29 Q2 Graduate Intensive – California
JUNE 2008
July 1 *Process Intro Call 5:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 86157#July 2 Create Grad Group Call 4:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 49361# July 8 Teleclass: Why Did I Eat That? Exploring Emotional Hunger, 5:00 PM.July 11-18 HQP – CaliforniaJuly 16 Teleclass: Parenting: Using Triggers to Grow into Your True Self, 4:30 PM.July 17 Ceremony of Integration – California July 18-20 Q2 Graduate Intensive – ChicagoJuly 25 - Aug 1 HQP – CaliforniaJuly 31 Ceremony of Integration – California
JULY 2008
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Sonia
LN: We say that being disconnected from one’s intuitive self leads to fear and confusion, and conversely, being connected to our intuition leads to a more authenticated, integrated life.
Sonia: Absolutely. If we lose all of our senses but we still have our intuition, we will be fine. But if we lose our in-tuition while all our other faculties are still working, I can’t say that is so.
Helen Keller is a great example of this. She was completely disconnected from her other resources and directly relied on her intuition, and she became one of the most prolific healers and teachers of our time.
LN: Right, a miracle person. I’ve heard it said that a highly intuitive person can sometimes help others heal more than they can heal themselves. So I
have to ask, what happened for you at your Process?
Sonia: I was motivated to go to the Pro-cess for personal historical problems and because I was working on a book called “The Intuitive Spark,” about intuition in a family. At the Process I realized that even in a family like mine which is highly intuitive, family patterns can
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NAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIAApril 25 - May 2May 9-16May 23-30June 6-13June 20-27July 11-18July 25 - August 1August 8-15August 22-29
September 5-12September 19-26October 3-10October 17-24October 31 - November 7November 14-21December 5-12December 12-19
May 2-9August 1-8September 19-26November 7-14
SHEFFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
Please join us at the Q2, our 3-day residential graduate program that offers you the chance to examine and
disconnect from specific thoughts, issues and behaviors that no longer serve you. With the guidance of a team of Hoffman teachers and the energy and support of other Q2 students, you’ll experience deeper self-love, compas-sion and community.
Many students repeat the Q2, attending whenever they want to delve deeply into their patterns within the frame-work of the Hoffman Process.
When asked what students can expect at the Q2, Hoff-
man teacher Mary Amrita Arden said “the Q2 is a strength-ening of one’s self empathy, and a wider and deeper ex-perience of one’s wholeness as being of the Light.”
To the delight of many Process graduates, Hoffman teacher Linda Ruffin recently joined the Q2 teaching team. Linda shared, “I love teaching the Q2 because it’s an opportunity to support grads in their next step of ex-ponential growth. This unique, yet familiar setting allows us to go much deeper faster given all the Process move-ment already achieved. For some, the Q2 is even more powerful than their original Process.”
Q2 GRADUATE INTENSIVE – WELCOME HOME TO YOURSELF
Register online at www.hoffmaninstitute.org, and click “Graduate Programs and News,” or call 800/506-5253. Tuition is $1,295 with a $250 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit.
Please register early – most Q2s fill quickly.
June 27–29July 18-20 (Techny Towers in Chicago)August 15-17
September 12-14October 17-19 (Techny Towers in Chicago)November 7-9
Please join us at any of the following 2008 Q2s!
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override the direct connection to your intuitive wisdom. Even though I was an extremely intuitive person when I went in, when I came out my intuition was much more powerful, expansive, compassionate, lucid and much more patient. When I left the Process a deep sense of knowing settled in, that as long as I follow my spirit all things will fall into order. And now it’s been 12 years and it’s deepened --
LN: Wow, it’s been 12 years? Time flies.
Sonia: I know! That’s one of the rea-sons why I enthusiastically encour-age my clients and students who are blocked or have self-doubt or are un-comfortable in trusting their intuition, to go to the Hoffman Process.
LN: Because as you stop identifying with your negative patterns…
Sonia: You begin to recapture your authentic essence, which is the direct informing of the intuitive self. The Pro-cess reveals for most people the spiri-tual self as a valid and legitimate self, so they become conscious of this spirit that is reliable.
LN: One of the things closely looked at in the University of California research
Sonia
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study was spirituality. Not religios-ity but every day spiritual experience, connectedness to people, to nature, and feelings of oneness. Those spiritu-al feelings went up dramatically after taking the Process. Not only did those feelings stay up, but a year later they had gone up even higher. I be-lieve that once you give your-self permission to live that way, you cross through a certain gateway and there it is.
Sonia: It’s like a butterfly out of a cocoon for a lot of people. They cross a threshold into a new perspective that’s much richer and deeper. I tell people that once you become introduced to your intuitive spiritual self you have to work those muscles because you’ve had years and years of ignoring them. So in my work, and where I see it working beautifully at the Process, I’ve created systems in which people can comfortably, naturally work those in-tuitive muscles in a way that is subtle and grounded.
LN: You recently introduced a coach-
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ing program called “Psychic Sit-ups.” Can you tell us about it?
Sonia: Yes, I love it! By doing psychic sit-ups you get your “intuitive six-pack.”
LN: [Laughter]
Sonia: In working with people for nearly four decades I know that intu-ition is like any other muscle -- you have to work it; to check in with that inner voice and begin to develop a strong connection. The way to do that most effectively is in bite-size exercises that attract your attention back to your intuition and give it a voice and a vote. It’s like “this is what my emotional body says, this is what my history says, well what do my vibes say?” I call it
Starting here, what do you want to remember?How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softenedsound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waitingfor time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift thisnew glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spentreading or hearing this,keep it for life -
What can anyone give you greater than now,starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?
-- William Stafford
You Reading This, Be Ready
that because your intuition is a vibra-tional frequency.
LN: What’s the structure of the Psychic Sit-ups program?
Sonia: The program is one year long. Once each week you get an email from
me in which I introduce a 7-min-ute video on an intuitive, fun ex-ercise for that week. It’s typical-ly small and quite inviting and you can watch it every day and you can just record your results and watch your progress. This program keeps people faithful to their intuition without it be-ing a burden. Whatever day of
the week you choose, you receive the video, and I’ve also compiled the entire library of 52 weeks onto a DVD, in the event that someone wants to keep re-visiting them. It’s like meeting with a personal trainer every week.
LN: So psychic sit-ups let people get better at faithfully exercising their intu-itive muscle and living more fully from their spiritual self.
Sonia: Every week a person can get a little stronger, a little more confident, a little more comfortable. There’s also a chat room so people can communicate with each other. They’re having a blast because they have support and com-munity and they begin to connect with one another and to build this bond with others vibrationally. They learn first hand that this is a valuable sense and that they’re not alone in giving this validity and importance in their life.
LN: That’s beautiful.
Sonia: It was kind of an intuitive hit on my part to do that. I woke up one day and I thought, I need to teach peo-ple the way I was taught.
I get to remind people that the impor-tant thing is to work those intuitive muscles every day just like any other muscle, if you want it to be strong and reliable. And it feels good!
LN: That’s fabulous. Thank you so much, Sonia.
Sonia: Thank you, Raz, and all my love to the Hoffman community.
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TEACHER FEATURE
Process teacher Tim Callan has had an amazing and distinguished ca-
reer. And that was BEFORE he became a Process teacher!
Tim’s path is one of unexpected twists and for the most part, wonderful turns. He was raised in an Irish-Cath-olic family in California’s bay area. As the second oldest of five kids, he learned independence at an early age, mostly out of necessity -- his dad was a busy CPA and his mom was unavail-able during much of his childhood.
As a boy Tim looked for a sense of belonging that was lacking at home. He dreamed of being a police officer. After high school he enrolled in col-lege to study law enforcement, but as a self-described “average student,” he dropped out after two years, and com-pleted his degree several years later.
In the mid-1960’s, Tim enlisted in the California Army National Guard. There he found his home and over a distinguished 34-year career, he rose through the enlisted and officer ranks and retired from the Army National Guard as a Colonel. He also served for six years as former California Gov-ernor Pete Wilson’s military aide, an intense position that required him to be on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Another of Tim’s most chal-lenging and rewarding assignments was working in Eastern Europe with many Ukrainian institutions support-ing their transition to a democratic form of government. Fortunately, Tim’s first wife Ginny had a military
Tim Callan
Tim Callan, Hoffman Teacher and C.A.O.
background, so she understood and supported the commitment his work required. Tim and Ginny’s wonderful 23-year marriage ended with Ginny’s death in 1998.
Tim says, “I’m blessed in that I en-joyed every day of my military career and I haven’t had one minute of regret about retiring when I did. I am particu-larly grateful for what I learned in my leadership assignments. The job of a leader is not to impress followers with his or her brilliance; rather it is to call forth and develop the brilliance of the followers.”
Tim’s always been interested in personal development. When he was in deep grief after Ginny’s death his friend Charlie Bloom, a Process gradu-ate, suggested he do the Process. “At my Process in 1999 I found my spiri-tual essence and the deep sense of con-
nectedness that had eluded me - it was an amazing gift,” he said.
After spending several years in the human potential and personal devel-opment fields, Tim became a Process teacher in 2005. “In becoming a Process teacher, I did an incredible amount of personal work and through it, I learned a lot and deepened my connection to my spiritual self. My awareness of my patterns is very heightened. Patterns still show up, but they don’t have the hook they once did,” he said.
Tim’s strong leadership skills and unwavering commitment to the Pro-cess serve the Institute in several ven-ues. He teaches the Process and the Q2 Graduate Intensive, and as Chief Administrative Officer, he is part of the Institute’s executive team along with Liza and Raz Ingrasci.
Tim has a lot to thank the Hoffman Process for. Several years ago, he met a special woman at a Process gradu-ate group meeting. While she didn’t remember having met him that night, in 2001 Tim and Laurel reconnected when they were both studying to be-come Process teachers. That time Tim made a lasting impression; they mar-ried in 2003.
Today Tim and Laurel live in So-noma, California with their two cats. They love the outdoors -- they cross-country ski, travel, and they both love to read. Tim, with his many years of service to the military, continues to be interested in leadership, politics, world affairs and our government.
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