About the Grounded Connection program

What do you need to fall in love with life?

Presence…

…is often presented as the necessary ingredient for doing just about anything right.

It appears to play a key role in preserving physical and psychological well-being.

But it’s hard to be present if you’re bored, ‘triggered,’ distracted or in physical pain.

I think the easiest path to presence is to fall in love with life.

Not to live your #bestlife - that may or may not be possible.

I’m certainly not here to promise such a thing.

I’m talking about coming home to your body. Finding fascination in all facets of your life. Seizing upon every opportunity to practice. Cultivating meditative creativity and a consciously imaginal use of your attention.

Each layer of being is relational and is in relationship to every other layer.

‘Self-care’ is no longer about band-aids or metrics. It’s more like ‘soul-care.’

It’s about expanding possibilities and seeing beauty everywhere.

The spiritual path isn’t about perfection. Yet you have clearly defined ideals - which most likely you’ll never attain. Nonetheless, they define pathways for progress.

By cultivating skillfulness at each layer - body, mind, heart, soul - you’ll never run out of opportunities to practice kindness, flex your attention and follow the path of eros.

You don’t just ‘practice’ at home. You practice in the world. Not compulsively, but because the world keeps inviting you back into learning.

Trust me, it’s fun!

That is, it’s fun if ‘progress’ doesn’t depend on ideas of ‘success’ from society that have throttled your creativity for the whole of your lifetime.

It’s fun because you learn to cultivate ‘fun.’

On good days, the world is a piece of music. Your feet tap to the beat of the pulsing polyrhythmic duet of your heartbeat and the rhythms of the world all around you.

On bad days, when it hurts, you practice ‘turning towards’ what’s there - as much as you lovingly can - knowing in your bones that insights hide in your blind spots.

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Grounded Connection is the name of my 16-week group coaching program.

Do you want to grow more well-being without surrendering your creativity to the psychic aggression of the algorithms so you can be of more service to those you love?

If so, this was made for you.

It’s definitely the best program I’ve ever made. It took ten years to make it.

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Grounded Connection - Key themes & practices *

Modules 1-3:

Befriending Yourself to Support Your Learning Journey
Practicing Presence to Fall in Love with Life . . . Unlocking the Doors of Possibility

Modules 4-6:

Shining Light on Your Blind Spots . . . Cultivating the Calm to Weather All Storms . . . Grounding into Being

Modules 7-9:

Concentrating Your Power . . . Strengthening Your Muscles of Imagination . . .
Expanding Your Capacity for Holding Space

Modules 10-12:

Savoring Aliveness . . . Dialoguing with Divinity . . . Bringing It All Back Home

• Presence Mantra - your foundation practice, anytime and anywhere

• Dialogical Journaling - inner friendship as the ground of your learning

• Somatic Inquiry - deep listening in the land of your body

• Meditative Creativity - expanding the vocabulary of your perception

• Embodied Dialogue - collective well-being through call & response

* The Grounded Connection program is delivered via self-paced home curriculum & weekly interactive live calls . For more information or to enroll, contact me.

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Some words from participants:

“I would describe this as a training program to be more skillful in awareness, perception, connection, and relating. The practices in this program have enabled me to find my surrounding environment to be both more easily accessible and more beautiful at the same time, thus enriching and enlivening my experience in daily life.”

“I am an episcopal priest. To be a faith leader is a very high-contact, high people-oriented service-focused role. Coming into experiencing and paying attention to my body and how my feelings show up in my body and using that in my work - I came late to all that. I was really struck at how powerful a tool it was.”

“I’ve been tensing my muscles unnecessarily probably for most of my life. I’m starting to recognize that and be able to release it. It’s just been great!”

“One really useful aspect of the program was that we had both time to do the practices on our own and journal about them, then show up live on a call and practice in dialogue together.  That powerful connectivity and relationality that we had with one another -
I relied on those experiences when I was sitting across from someone in my office.”

“My employer put so much pressure and constraints on me. Working with you helped me to see - to notice - how much I was suffering from that situation. I started focusing on finding a new job. And it was during the program that I got my new job.”

“I have a very fierce inner critic. How Seth talks about pursuing a practice without the inner critic interfering was really powerful, the invitation he gave to just show up the way you are. I was very focused at the beginning that "I have to do this right" - letting go of that really pushed my practice forward and freed me up to practice anytime and anywhere and put these principles into my life.”

“A big outcome for me was that I found the resources to challenge my sedentary habits, be more comfortable entering unfamiliar places, take more of an interest in others’ present moment experiences, and connect up with a larger sense of my life as being part of humanity as a whole.”

“If you feel a pull to this program, you should just do it. You can show up just as you are and you can benefit from the practice and the relationships just as you are. You don't have to 'clear your calendar', so to speak. You just have to be willing - and that willingness to take care of yourself is really a gift and you will be enriched by the experience.”

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Most of my life I’ve felt thwarted by the institutions and ideologies of modern culture.

I get the strong impression I’m not the only one.

Furthermore, it’s only going to get noisier and bull-shittier.

So we all have to get better,

Both at keepin on keepin on like a bird that flewww…

(like Dylan said)

…as well as at reimagining everything.

The easiest path to presence is to fall in love with life.

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