Season 9 Episode 17 Kevjorik Jones-Moving forward with Strength and Power 🩵
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e17-Kevjorik-Jones
Welcome to our season 9 finale, this generous, vulnerable conversation with Hoffman grad, Kevjorik Jones, and host, Drew Horning.
There are many reasons why people come to the Hoffman Process — as many reasons as people who have graduated from the Process. Kevjorik, a self-described consummate student of the human condition, came because he felt he was falling short. He was aware of the powers and opportunities he had. He was aware of the great relationships in his life. And yet, Kevjorik sensed he was falling short of living up to all he sensed he could become.
In October 2024, Kevjorik completed his Process at the Guest House, the Hoffman Retreat Site in Chester, CT. Nature and the labyrinth on site provided a lot of healing. Rising early in the morning, Kevjorik would walk the labyrinth. One morning, he entered the labyrinth feeling shame. He emerged feeling connected to the child within.
The beauty of this conversation lies in the generous stories Kevjorik shares with us. He offers stories of his childhood, the trauma he experienced, and the courage he found to do the deep work of the Process to heal the pain of his past.
We hope you enjoy this moving, enlightening, uplifting conversation with Kevjorik and Drew. Thank you for listening to the Hoffman Podcast. We will be back for season 10 in early 2025. Happy New Year!
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Season 9 Episode 16: Christy Foley - Living in the Presence of the Unknown💙
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e16-Christy-Foley
Christy Foley is a dynamic connector, life explorer, and philanthropist. She’s also Vice-Chair of the Hoffman Board of Directors. Christy attended the Process two decades ago, just two weeks after her father graduated.
The Hoffman Process was the first step in Christy's spiritual journey. To this day, Hoffman remains one of the three most profound experiences that completely transformed her life. She shares that a transformation happens at the Process that "you can't go back from." In doing the work of the Process, we leave our week there with an awareness we didn't have before. This profound awareness allows us to see situations or patterns more clearly and respond wisely with a more conscious choice. If we get caught in the pattern, we can forgive ourselves, choose again, and move on.
After the Process, Christy embarked on a spiritual journey that has taken her to many places, but most importantly deeper into her inner world. She tears up as she talks about living in the presence of the unknown. It's living from her heart. In her words, it is "where the magic happens."
In this generous conversation, Christy speaks of the trap of our attempts at perfection. As she says, to be human is to be imperfect. There's a great relief in that. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Christy and Drew.
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Season 9 Episode 15: Arielle Ford - As Much Fun as Possible💙
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e15-arielle-ford
Arielle Ford, author, and love and relationship expert, joins Drew for this episode centered on change, truth-telling, and having as much fun as possible.
Arielle came to the Hoffman Process in the early '90s on recommendations from her sister Debbie Ford and her friend Joan Borysenko. Seventeen students were at the Process alongside Arielle. Their Process was held in the Big House at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Raz Ingrasci was one of their teachers.
One of the most powerful takeaways from this conversation is Arielle's realization of the need to have as much fun as possible. People she meets ask her how she became so happy. As Arielle shares, she learned to be a happy person at Hoffman.
As someone who has worked in the personal growth world for decades, working with many well-known experts in the field, Arielle has stories to tell. She shares some fascinating ones in this conversation. Arielle is now in an in-between place with her career. Her life story helps us understand how she has learned to relax in a new unknown place.
Arielle shares much life wisdom in this engaging, joyful conversation. We hope you enjoy it.
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Season 9 Episode 11: Sarah Abrams & Virginia Benson Wigle - The Gifts of Our Story💙
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e11-sarah-abrams-virginia-benson-wigle/
Sarah Abrams and Virginia Benson Wigle join host Sharon for this warm-hearted conversation about their friendship, their Process experience, and the non-profit they founded, The Starfish Connection.
Virginia attended the Hoffman Process at the urging of her husband, John. Years later, John passed away. Virginia, in turn, passed the Hoffman Process on to Sarah, and then to her new husband. Giving the gift of the Process to someone ready and willing to attend is a profound way to pass along the gifts discovered during the week.
The seed for The Starfish Connection came from John's dying words - "Our story." The vision for The Starfish Connection, the non-profit Virginia founded, began as storytelling. Now, it focuses on giving gifts to people needing momentary help without expecting anything in return. John's gift continues to grow with numerous gifts given through Starfish.
This conversation begins with what's possible in a friendship when two people have had powerful transformations in the Process and have come to trust each other profoundly. The way that Sarah and Virginia are there for each other is what gives their friendship such a strong foundation. We hope you enjoy this heartening conversation.
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Season 9 Episode 10: Annie Looby – It’s Just on the Other Side of This💙
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e10-annie-looby
Annie Looby, Hoffman Process Senior Facilitator in Australia and Gestalt Psychotherapist is our delightful and wise guest today. Annie teaches the Process internationally, including at our Petaluma site in California.
For much of her life, Annie has had an extensive career in the performing arts, including film, television, and theatre. A couple of decades ago, she found the Hoffman Process. Annie decided to do the Process after witnessing the change in her husband after he completed the Process.
During her Process, Annie experienced a shame attack so painful that she wanted to leave. Her teacher guided her to see that everything Annie was looking for was just on the other side of this painful moment. If Annie could just stay with it, she would find what she was looking for. In this pivotal moment, Annie found the strength and resolve to stay. Listen in to hear what she found on the other side.
While in her Process, Annie realized that the work of the Process was the work she'd been searching for to do in the world. Annie's first step to becoming a Hoffman teacher was to study to become a therapist. She returned to school for graduate studies in psychotherapy. From there, she trained to become a Hoffman facilitator.
Annie is fascinated with the human condition and why we are the way we are. Over time as a teacher, she learned to lean back and trust the Process. Listen in as Annie shares her wisdom and experience of teaching the Process.
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Season 9 Episode 8: Alysse Godino - Inner Change Into External Action💙
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e8-alysse-godino/
Alysse Godino, Money Coach and Founder of Saffron Money tells her story of transformation during her week at the Hoffman Process. But like all stories of transformation, it begins long before her time at Hoffman. When the Maui fires hit, Alysse was preparing to fly to California for her Process. She wondered if she should go, wondering if it made sense to go during a time of such emergency. But she knew it was the right time, and her transformation was fueled by her grief of what was happening on the island she loves.
When Alysse returned home to Maui, she was ready to be part of her rebuilding her community. It was time to put the inner change she experienced into external action. A beautiful example of Love's Everyday Radius.
What caused Alysse to enroll in the Process wasn't any big traumatizing event. Rather, it was something that she noticed happening inside of her. On the outside, her life was good, even great. But on the inside, she felt an anxiety that wasn't tied to anything apparent. She would come to see, after her week at Hoffman, that she'd been living with an unconscious internal level of anxiety and anger for a long time. Through her work in Petaluma, she let go of it all.
We hope you enjoy this powerful story of healing and love, community and rebuilding, loss and new life.
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Season 9 Episode 8: Alysse Godino - Inner Change Into External Action 💙
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s9e8-alysse-godino/
Alysse Godino, Money Coach and Founder of Saffron Money tells her story of transformation during her week at the Hoffman Process. But like all stories of transformation, it begins long before her time at Hoffman. When the Maui fires hit, Alysse was preparing to fly to California for her Process. She wondered if she should go, wondering if it made sense to go during a time of such emergency. But she knew it was the right time, and her transformation was fueled by her grief of what was happening on the island she loves.
When Alysse returned home to Maui, she was ready to be part of her rebuilding her community. It was time to put the inner change she experienced into external action. A beautiful example of Love's Everyday Radius.
What caused Alysse to enroll in the Process wasn't any big traumatizing event. Rather, it was something that she noticed happening inside of her. On the outside, her life was good, even great. But on the inside, she felt an anxiety that wasn't tied to anything apparent. She would come to see, after her week at Hoffman, that she'd been living with an unconscious internal level of anxiety and anger for a long time. Through her work in Petaluma, she let go of it all.
We hope you enjoy this powerful story of healing and love, community and rebuilding, loss and new life.
https://www.instagram.com/saffronmoney/
https://www.instagram.com/alyssegodino/
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