Integrating the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual: Illuminating and working through — at the optimal pace — whatever obstructs our well-being

Taking the suffering out of our pain: Making wise use of disappointment, disillusionment, illness, and unpleasant sensation

Understanding — and not just intellectually — how our past (and what we’re doing with our past) is shaping our present, and applying that understanding to all areas of our life: Accessing and embodying deep insight.

Expanding the circle of self: Learning to develop compassion for what we don’t like about ourselves.

Turning fear into something not to fear: Neither avoiding nor giving in to our fearfulness, by getting close enough to it to cease treating it as a problem.

Balancing the need for containment with the need for release: Developing and maintaining healthy boundaries without diluting our passion.

Spiritual emergencies: Working through the disturbing and disorienting phenomena that may arise in conjunction with spiritual opening, so that emergency becomes emergence.

Dreamwork: Appreciating, understanding and making wise use of our dreams.

Lucid dreaming: Learning to recognize that we are dreaming while we are dreaming, and using this for healing and spiritual deepening.

Somatic knowing: Recognizing how our body — through its structuring and memories — reveals both our personal history and our current choices.

Conscious relationship: Using relational difficulties to generate a deeper intimacy, in which love and integrity outshine reactivity.

Turning anger into an ally and resource: Distinguishing anger from aggression, learning that openly expressed anger and compassion can coexist.

Releasing sex (and everything else) from the obligation to make us feel better: Learning that real happiness is not in having, but in Being.

Relating to our mind, emotions, sensations, perceptions, and intentions rather than merely from them: Exploring and using meditative practices.

Freeing up blocked vitality and attention: No longer committing our energy to life-negating activities.

Finding intimacy with the Sacred in the midst of whatever is happening: Recognizing that the Divine is not an alternative reality, that there is no such thing as an insignificant act, and that we are more than we can imagine.