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
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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
What do you do when you are feeling badly - feeling anxious, hurt, jealous, angry? Do you blame someone else, making others responsible for your feelings? Do you shut down, numb out, use substances or processes to not feel? Instead, try opening to learning about what you are doing or not doing, or what you are telling yourself that is causing you to feel badly. Your upset feelings are a signal that there is some way in which you are not taking care of yourself.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
"I found some very useful concepts which are kind of new to me, with an understanding of this relationship between inner child, loving adult and wounded self. It shed a lot of light on my relationship with my adult daughter and I am looking forward to beginning to apply them."
Rachel
'I really enjoyed the workshop. It's a lot to take in - some I already knew from the website - but this really helped me to begin to integrate it all. It feels like a great starting place, or, I mean that I am excited for what this weekend is going to spark in me.' Kripalu Workshop - Lenox, MA, 9.13
Elizabeth Donahue
"This has been a deepening of my work with prayer and Alanon to try to develop healthy living patterns that allow me to finally accept myself and work with a higher power, to find a joyful purpose and a loving heart." Rowe, MA Workshop, April 2000
Cara Groman
"I attended Margaret’s Virtual IB Workshop and it was outstanding, I experienced deep understanding and acceptance of my wounded parts and why it is there. The virtual workshop was delivered extremely well, I always felt safe. I have attended face to face workshops and 5 days Intensive and now virtual, I always find that I learn something new, does not matter how many IB workshops or IB Intensive I have attend....I enjoyed the group work very much, the visualizations’ and listening to Margaret’s, prayer was so soothing. Margaret, Victor and Pavlos were understanding, patient and so gentle with all participants including myself. Everyone was so loving. Thank you all!!
"Margaret provides a wonderful,set of tools so we can learn how to love others and our ourselves. IB is changing my life and I am passionate about healing my false beliefs. Observing others work is a powerful way for me to learn. I cannot believe I am saying it but for once in my life, I am starting to be gentle with my wounded self and understanding why is present and how she kept me alive, but no longer is serving me a purpose. I want to choose love over fear. LOVE is the greatest healer. Margaret is so patience, compassionate with others pain and trauma, so experienced in deep severe trauma. I thank GOD for IB!!"
Melinda Griffiths
'This workshop is both practical for learning how to enjoy life everyday as me, & for showing up filled with confidence & the ability to flow in what I do & who I'm interacting with. I can see & feel how applying Inner Bonding in my life will not only benefit me, but will have a positive loving impact on others.' Kripalu Workshop, 9.15 - Lenox, MA
Maria Allen
'This workshop was challenging, amazing, spot on - exactly what I have needed forever to move through the stuck (agonizing at times) places in my life & in my relationships. I've realized that I have choice at my disposal, choice to come to my own aid & support rather than endlessly succumbing to feelings of helpless & victimized. Thank you for helping me reclaim myself at mid-life!' Inner Bonding Weekend Workshop, Rowe, MA, 4/10
Ellen Saxe
