The Inner Bonding Workshop
Heal the cycle of shame and self-abandonment that leads to anxiety, depression, addiction, aloneness and relationship failure. Discover how to love yourself rather than reject yourself, and learn to make your best decisions through consistent connection with your personal source of spiritual guidance.
The innovative Inner Bonding process shows you how to:
- Rapidly heal false beliefs about yourself, others and higher spiritual guidance
- Heal guilt, shame, emptiness and aloneness
- Move beyond self-judgment into self-compassion
- Address the resistance that may be keeping you stuck
- Learn how to heal relationship conflicts and attain the intimacy you've always wanted
This powerful and life-changing process is the result of Dr. Margaret's over 50 years of personal inner work and work with her clients.
Unless you were raised by parents or caregivers who were loving to themselves, each other and to you, you may not have learned how to lovingly manage your painful feelings. As a result, you may be operating from your ego wounded self, controlled by your fears and false beliefs.
Your wounded self may often take over in unloving ways, trampling on your hurts, ignoring them or avoiding them with various addictions and controlling behavior such as:
- Addictions to drugs, junk food, nicotine, alcohol, relationships, work, TV or gaming.
- Co-dependence - trying to control others with anger, violence, guilt or compliance - making others responsible for your sense of safety and worth.
- Staying in your head rather than being present in your body
- Self-judgment, shaming yourself
- Obsessive thinking, ruminating, worrying
- Resistance to self, others, spirit - to taking loving care of yourself
These forms of self-abandonment not only perpetuate fears of rejection, abandonment, aloneness, engulfment or failure, but they can contribute to illness. Inner Bonding is a powerful process for healing self-abandonment and learning to love and value yourself.
Through discussions, exercises and direct work with Dr. Margaret Paul or other Inner Bonding Facilitators, you learn the Six powerful Steps of Inner Bonding.
"Transformational Beyond Words! My heart and soul and true essence overflow with love and gratitude. I'm so eager and excited to go home and do Inner Bonding, and share this with my husband and son, and most of all MYSELF at any given moment." Kripalu Workshop, Margaret Dean Godhard, Mom, Educator, Gainesville, GA
For more workshop testimonials, click here.
Format for the Workshop
- Exploring Your Ego Wounded Self
- Contacting Your Core Soul Self
- Discovering Your Loving Inner Adult
- Releasing the Anger of the Ego Wounded Self
- Learning the Dialogue Processes with the Wounded Self, Core Self, and Personal Spiritual Guidance
- Getting Stuck, Getting Unstuck
- Relationships: Handling Conflict and Setting Loving Boundaries
Other Facilitators teaching an Inner Bonding Workshop may change or add to the format.
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The Mini-Workshop
The Mini-Workshop is a shorter version of the Weekend Workshop. The Mini-Workshop offers an overview of Inner Bonding along with demonstrations, questions, and an experience of the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. In addition, participants are taught how to contact their personal spiritual Guidance. See the description of the Weekend Workshop for more details.
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One-Day Workshop
Similar to a weekend workshop, but shorter. Presents an overview of the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. It may include other processes, depending upon the Facilitator conduction the workshop.
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Weekly Workshop
Dr. Margaret Paul offers the Inner Bonding Workshop for two hours weekly over 8 weeks.
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Daily Inspiration
It takes both the brilliance of the sun and the blackness of sky to create a rainbow. And so it follows, that without conflict life would be colorless.
By Dr. Erika Chopich
"This was wonderful. The workshop has definitely helped to establish a deeper bond with my inner child, and given me a path to help and listen to him. It's also been helpful in integrating my connection to Spirit and my relationship to how to let Spirit flow through me and nourish me. Thank you! Rowe, MA Workshop, April 2000
Mike Moran
'Wonderful experience, very instructive with a lot of practical role plays and lots of time for question and answer. A good way to deepen your understanding of the process.' Rowe, MA Workshop, 4/08
Robert Goniprow
'I read the Inner Bonding steps before I came, but now I understand them much better. I can identify my wounded self now and I understand what my core feelings are. I was feeling very lonely and my wounded self was telling me I was unloveable and I would be alone forever. I am learning that I am loveable and I have the ability to make myself happy. I don't need others to bring happiness to me.' Weekend Workshop - Anaheim Hills, CA 3.14
Judy Catherall
"Incredible - insightful - as if I am taking the workshop for the very first time [this is her second time] - but as a 'different' me. I am grateful for my growth and yet still see how far I have to go. [Margie was] amazing. Open. Honest. Beautiful." Los Angeles, May 2000
Elaine Katz
'Very helpful in getting, (beginning), to get in touch with myself. Seeing how I'm sabotaging my relationships. Regular therapy hasn't gotten to the core of my problems/issues. This has. I'm hopeful things will change for me now.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.10
Denise
(This is from the April, 2020 5-Day Intensive - the first one we have done on Zoom. It was very successful!)
Attending an Intensive with Dr. Margaret Paul is giving yourself the gift of learning how to embody the Inner Bonding process. If you want to master becoming a Loving Adult to your Inner Child, then there’s no better place to be than at Dr. Paul’s intensive. You will discover the holes in your current Inner Bonding process – whether that’s challenges around feeling your feelings, accessing guidance, or taking loving actions, and with loving support of Dr. Paul, you will be given feedback and tools to fill those very holes. Even better, you will have the benefit not only of learning from your own work with Dr. Paul, but also of learning from the work of every other participant in the program, which can be as deeply if not more impactful from your own work. You will see aspects of yourself in every participant, and as a result will gain tools from every coaching session, every role modeling exercise, or Anger process Dr. Paul does with others.
Having studied Inner Bonding for close to a decade now, I’m constantly amazed how every time I attend an intensive, I learn how much deeper I can go in this work to grow my Loving Adult and to live a life of peace, and joy, instead of fear, anxiety and sadness.
This last intensive showed me how often I have indulged a wounded part of me that likes to feel sad, worrying feelings as a means to “control” my helplessness over relationships and my career. During this intensive I had my first powerful experience of watching my wounded self try to make me miserable as I woke up by telling me lies about the future, and I was able to CATCH IT and SIT ON IT as Margaret likes to say. And the result is I was able to feel JOY for the rest of the day where normally that feeling could have lingered for days.
I was also able to stay inside the intention to learn with my husband during a three and a half hour conversation about things that he’d experienced that I needed to hear but normally would have avoided or reacted to or shut down. What a gift to both of us!
If you have relationship issues, or if you are struggling to stop sourcing your value from WHAT YOU DO, or WHO YOU LOVE, or WHO LOVES YOU and are ready to start sourcing your value from WHO YOU ARE – YOUR ESSENCE – and those UNIQUE QUALITIES OF GOD IN YOU – then get yourself to an Intensive ASAP! It will be the best investment of time and money you could EVER make for yourself. And this is speaking as someone with decades of therapy and inner work under my belt!
Anastasia Frank
