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.
| Date | Event | Location | Hosted By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages: | |||
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.
| Date | Event | Location | Hosted By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages: | |||
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.
| Date | Event | Location | Hosted By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages: | |||
Weekly Workshop
Dr. Margaret Paul offers the Inner Bonding Workshop for two hours weekly over 8 weeks.
| Date | Event | Location | Hosted By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages: | |||
Daily Inspiration
Spiritual growth is like the perennial flowers that emerge, bloom and die and then come back again next year, fuller and more beautiful. When we open to learning about loving ourselves and others, evolution and change will always occur, and the small deaths of our wounded self open the way to the emergence of the beauty and fullness of our true Selves.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
"It was insightful and sooo helpful. God/Guidance led me here to deal w/ anger which I did in chair work for the first time in my life. I was able to express, (in a good, safe way), anger at the past abuses and deaths of loved ones, the present, and allow myself to feel anger in the NOW. Thank you. Thank you sooo much!" LA Workshop, 7/05
Maureen Brugh
'This workshop has given me a safe place to look into myself to find my own internal resources as well as the connection with my spiritual Guidance. I found the demonstrations to be most genuine and helpful in the learning process.' Los Angeles Workshop, 1/09
Muna Crook
"I truly connect with Dr. Margaret Paul and her Inner Bonding process. 'Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God' is the most inspirational book I've ever read and I recommend it to my fellow colleagues (ie: therapists, my clients and my friends), to help them heal and evolve.
Lisa Lipton
'I enjoyed the Inner Bonding process, it all came together and made sense at the 5th & 6th Step. I now look forward to applying it to relationships and my profession as an attorney.' Weekend Workshop - Kripalu - Lenox, MA 9.14
Joseph Tramuta
"This has been an amazing experience. My awareness of my part in my last relationship has increased a lot, as has my awareness of how badly I treat myself. I am hopeful about continued healing and learning to love myself and others and not give myself away (or throw myself away)!" L.A. Workshop, 1/08
Cindi Harris
"The Inner Bonding workshop has helped me learn different tools so I can understand my self and others more efficiently. I am happy to say it was a weekend very well spent. I enjoyed myself." Toronto Workshop, April, 2000
Colette Bertrand
