The Hoffman Process

The Hoffman Process Official page of the Hoffman Process, USA. www.hoffmaninstitute.org

The Hoffman Institute Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, delivers the Hoffman Process, a week long residential course of personal discovery and development. The Hoffman Process allows you to examine and better understand your life and reveals why you behave the way you do. Published scientific research demonstrates the long-term positive effects that the Hoffman Process has had on relieving depre

ssion and anxiety. To date, more than 80,000 people around the world have used the tried and tested Hoffman techniques to improve their quality of life and restore their relationships with friends and family.

12/19/2024

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.

https://www.instagram.com/christyfoley/


12/12/2024

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.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/arielleford_author/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/queenagerscelebrate


We invite Hoffman Process graduates who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to a first-of-its-ki...
12/08/2024

We invite Hoffman Process graduates who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to a first-of-its-kind offering – a Q2 for BIPOC grads. This Q2 will cultivate an environment that builds community and brings the transformative power of Hoffman tools and practices to your lived experiences as they are today – beyond Mom and Dad. Using mindful awareness, you’ll explore how “othering” and other forms of bias show up in your life today. Join this shared, safe space to focus on healing, find freedom, and celebrate this vibrant and diverse community! Feb. 15-17 2025 - California visit https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/q2-intensive/ for more info and to register. ⁠
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All Hoffman teachers for this program identify as BIPOC.

What are you grateful for? 🍁
11/28/2024

What are you grateful for? 🍁

We invite Hoffman Process graduates who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to a first-of-its-ki...
11/18/2024

We invite Hoffman Process graduates who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to a first-of-its-kind offering – a Q2 for BIPOC grads. This Q2 will cultivate an environment that builds community and brings the transformative power of Hoffman tools and practices to your lived experiences as they are today – beyond Mom and Dad. Using mindful awareness, you’ll explore how “othering” and other forms of bias show up in your life today. Join this shared, safe space to focus on healing, find freedom, and celebrate this vibrant and diverse community! Feb. 15-17 2025 - California visit https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/q2-intensive/ for more info and to register.

All Hoffman teachers for this program identify as being in the BIPOC community.

11/14/2024

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.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/thestarfishconnection/


11/07/2024

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.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-looby-95117514/


📣 Upcoming 1-Day Refresher! 👏 Participating in a Hoffman Refresher is a wonderful way to immerse yourself in a day of de...
11/05/2024

📣 Upcoming 1-Day Refresher! 👏

Participating in a Hoffman Refresher is a wonderful way to immerse yourself in a day of deep learning and growth, connect with other members of the Hoffman community, and come away enlivened and connected to your own wisdom.

💙 Register here:
https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/1-day-graduate-refreshers/

📣 Upcoming 1-Day Refresher! 👏 Participating in a Hoffman Refresher is a wonderful way to immerse yourself in a day of de...
10/29/2024

📣 Upcoming 1-Day Refresher! 👏

Participating in a Hoffman Refresher is a wonderful way to immerse yourself in a day of deep learning and growth, connect with other members of the Hoffman community, and come away enlivened and connected to your own wisdom.

💙 Register here: https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/1-day-graduate-refreshers/

10/27/2024

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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