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INTRODUCING…

The journey, practitioner.

Having experienced for yourself the power of transformation with The Journey, you’re in the perfect position to build an abundant business with truth, joy and love.

You transform every aspect of your own life – emotionally, physically, spiritually – and help others to achieve the same.

Journey Intensive & Advanced

Break through any life challenge during this dynamic, inspiring course jam-packed with countless insights, powerful tools and process work pioneered by Brandon Bays.

The Journey Intensive with Brandon Bays has been carefully designed to reveal your full inner potential and help you discover how to harness your body’s own extraordinary healing power.

Using the deeply transforming process work using The Journey Method, you’ll feel free to enjoy more peace of mind, experience greater joy of being, feel whole and fulfilled in yourself, and begin to live from your deepest potential of love, not fear.

J ourney Intensive & Advanced Skills

When you attend the journey intensive you will….

• Go where no meditation, positive mindset or healthy lifestyle has been able to take you:   to the infinite intelligence inside you!
• Understand why and how your emotions have a significant  impact on your health
• ​Experience  deep joy, fulfilment and freedom by clearing out the residue of old emotional wounds and traumas
• ​Stop ‘looping’ in our negative self-talk and old stories of hurt, criticism or judgement
• ​Learn how to truly forgive others, yourself, life… and  discover the real peace inside
• ​Develop a lifelong set of skills to get to the root cause of your issues and resolve them
• ​Release your past traumas and access  your body’s profound natural healing capacity
• ​Realize and genuinely appreciate the gifts and blessings you already have in life

Conscious Abundance Retreat

Clear your hidden limitations and manifest true abundance in all areas of your life.

During this 2 ½ day retreat you’ll uncover the beliefs, fears and unconscious programming that have held you back in life.

Financially. In your career, your health, your creativity and your relationships.

Offering you a unique insight into a deeper truth, revealing how until now you’ve been living with one foot on the gas pedal and the other on the brake.

When you attend the Conscious Abundance Retreat you will…

• Expose and clear the mistaken beliefs that have sabotaged abundance in your life
• Fulfil your potential to manifest abundance effortlessly, in all areas of your life
• Discover your heart’s deepest desire and envision a brand new, more fulfilling life
• Brainstorm a dynamic action plan that gives you practical ways to encourage abundance to flourish in your life
• Experience new found freedom and finally release the creative genius that resides within you
• Leave soaring in your true potential, ready to effortlessly draw abundance into all areas of your life: health, creativity, financial wellbeing and relationships

Nurturing, Joyous and Deeply liberating

Once your personal blocks have been revealed, you’ll experience a liberating, deep spring-clean of all the   self-denying   patterns buried deep inside you and gain a profound and deep gratitude for all that you already have in your life

Your Conscious Abundance Retreat will leave you with a lifelong understanding of how to effortlessly and congruently manifest more of everything you truly desire.

What previous graduates say about the Conscious Abundance Retreat:

“My whole life is so much more effortless and joyful”

The prayers and intentions I put out for seemed to just pop into my life quite miraculously after the Conscious Abundance event, but that wasn’t even the most powerful part. The greatest gift that I’ve received from the event is a whole new way of living, and being – by utilizing the power of manifestation and intention my whole life is so much more effortless and joyful.

“My ‘manifestation list’ came true within one year!”

Everything I put on my ‘manifestation list’ during the retreat came true within one year! And these were not small things! I moved into my own house and manifested my husband in that time. Such a blessing and so grateful!

Healing with Conscious Communication

Wake up to the deep healing and life transforming power of conscious communication

Discover how your limited perceptions, old conditioning and unconscious communication can compromise your daily life experience, and learn elegant and startlingly effective techniques and process work that will heal and transform – your life and others’

During the 2 ½ day retreat you will transform your ability to communicate and heal as you experience dynamic and powerful process work. By gaining access to your deepest self, you’ll begin to communicate consciously and elegantly.

This will help you facilitate profound healing and transformation within yourself and others.

When you attend the Healing with Conscious Communication Retreat you will…

• Experience the profound effect of communication on your own emotions, behavior and your body’s ability to heal
• Get into conscious rapport with your clients – and use language patterns that free and heal
• Find out how to work with phobias and pain management, deal with conflicting beliefs, unhealthy vows and promises, and liberate yourself from unhealthy behaviors and self-sabotage
• Work from absolute truth, with the language of empowerment, in an atmosphere of grace

“This workshop inspired me to stretch myself to the limits and beyond”

I really recommend this workshop to anyone who has ever questioned why they, or their life, is the way it is. It’s simple, it’s profound and these simple steps have truly been instrumental in changing my outlook and inspired me to stretch myself to the limits and beyond.

“It will forever transform the quality and depth of your communication”

If you get a chance to go to “HCC” I recommend it with all my heart. Kevin’s unique style of presentation is so beautiful – you bask in a warm presence of love and his wry and entertaining sense of humour brings such a lovely joy to this powerful seminar. It’s highly interactive, packed with amazing and transformative process work and it really is a blast! I use the powerful skills he teaches every single day. They are so simple yet so profound. It will forever transform the quality and depth of your communication. If you can make it, be there – you’ll love it.

The No Ego Retreat

Liberate your life from the lie of the ego and live in unbridled freedom

Dive deeply into the blaze of Truth, exposing painful patterns that have constructed your ‘game’, revealing the controlling behaviours that have run your life until now.

This 8-day retreat is not for the faint hearted, nor for those with a passing interest in freedom.

During this, our most powerful retreat you’ll undergo life changing process work.

And when the fire of truth burns through the lies, penetrates the traps and exposes the ingrained core fixation patterns you’ve mistaken as your real self, the scaffolding of your ego falls away – Leaving you with ultimate freedom.

When you attend the No Ego Retreat you will…

• Discover how you set up your whole personality and the games you’ve played
• Find compassion for the way we all run our ego trips
• Liberate yourself from the false identity you have bought into and lived in
• Expose and clear the patterns and traps that have created so much separation and pain in your life
• Spend each day experiencing truly liberating, freeing and life-changing process work
• Ultimately shatter your illusory identity and reveal the liberation of your true self.
• Leave feeling truly real, soaring in the magnificence of unbounded freedom

No Ego Coaching

During this Coaching support program, you will integrate the radical changes you underwent at the No Ego Retreat, become even clearer about your core fixation – including its implications, avoidances, needs, drivers and traps! Plus, you’ll understand even more deeply the power of the Enneagram model to help you see through the games of the ego.

Life Transformation Week

Evolve from student to master and become a healing expression of grace

Go from beginner to magician, as you dive into the in-depth work and become a living expression of Grace, catalysing healing on every level for yourself and with everyone you touch.

During this 8-day retreat Brandon Bays will reveal the in-depth techniques needed to create your own designer process, you’ll work energetically at the deepest level of consciousness.

You’ll learn to facilitate The Journey from a place of stillness and Source, letting grace be your guide as you gain an exquisite set of skills to help you work with others fluidly and with grace – from your soul to theirs

With designer skills now part of your DNA, when you attend Life Transformation you will…

• Throw away the formula and let grace guide you spontaneously and intuitively, with true artistry
• Feel confident working with a wide array of specific issues including sexual blocks, addictions, abuse, rape, illnesses, obsessions, relationship issues, depression and more
• Elicit and reveal the real core issues underneath the surface story
• Experience a Life’s Purpose Process and uncover your soul’s reason for being in physical form

Are you ready to continue your Journey?

For more information and to inquire about instalment options for the Journey Practitioner or Personal Transformation Programme,

please email:  [email protected]  or call  +44 1656 890400

THe Journey workshop

Journey started as a way for artists and creatives alike to get together, regardless of belief, background, culture or country and share in one of the company and inspiration of one another. whether strangers or friends, the idea is to get an intimate group together, learn new things, share, and embark together in the important moments of art, food and joy..

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It's time to unleash breakthrough performance, w o r k s h o p  e x p e r i e nce, breaking patterns.

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Students need more than theory, but vision and strategies for breaking free from unproductive thoughts and circles of people that keep them from achieving goals.  The Journey Workshop   Experience  empowers students for breakthrough performance. 

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The journey workshop   experience ©  is a high-performance interactive empowerment tool that helps students understand the root causes associated with failure cycles and self-defeating attitudes that could hinder personal and academic progress.  the journey workshop experience © helps students to focus and strengthen critical thinking skills so they can leverage their significance instead of empowering their disadvantages. the journey   workshop   experience exposes underprepared and first-time-in-college students to active learning strategies that prepare them for succeeding in the college environment by setting realistic goals, increasing academic effectiveness, and overall productivity., the journey workshop experience © video, about the creator & facilitator.

Steven LeMons has worked with students, academics, and business professionals nationwide, helping them elevate their potential and reach their goals. Steven’s dynamic content and incredible delivery captivate the most challenging audiences, equipping participants with an enlightenment that yields results. Steven is a nationally recognized speaker and workshop facilitator who knows how to engage audiences from 16 to 60. He delivers more than just content; he creates an unforgettable experience. 

The Journey Workshop Experience continues exposing many root causes perpetuating failure cycles and self-defeating attitudes hindering students from their breakthrough or discovering the edge they need to develop confidence and progress. Steven understands the science of motivating others, having held general management, national training manager, director of corporate development, and managing associate roles. 

Steven is a former television host, voice-over talent, and segment producer with over two decades of experience. He is also a content creator and subject matter presenter who delivers customized workshops, corporate training, and inspirational videos to thousands of sales representatives, corporate executives, and leadership professionals. His book, The Incredible Journey of a Life ,  is an autobiographical account focusing on the power of forgiveness, courage, and perseverance while facing adversity.   

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How to run a customer journey mapping workshop

The #1 reason why customer journey maps end up collecting dust on a shelf is that they are created by lone rangers and in complete isolation. Sometimes running a customer journey mapping workshop involving stakeholders seems like an overkill and a waste of time. It doesn't have to be like that. At UXPressia , we prepared a comprehensive how-to guide along with awesome freebies for you and your team.

Step 1: Set a goal for your customer journey mapping workshop

First, you should clearly define the goal of your workshop. The goal must be specific and achievable. It cannot be trying the CJM framework because you heard you should do it. Nor can it be creating a ton of detailed customer journey maps that cover all aspects of user interactions. This is just not feasible, won't fit into a single workshop, and will probably take a year to complete.

I'd say it's been a productive customer journey mapping workshop if you came up with the map structure and went over the as-is processes. This alone might take a good couple of hours, so don't think you'll nail an entire journey map in a day. 😉

Here is a list of sound goals you can set for your kick-off customer journey mapping workshop:

• Sharing knowledge across the team;
• Discovering pain points and problems;
• Ideating solutions for the pain points you discovered either before or during the workshop.

It could be educational too. However,teaching the team to use a new framework would require a slightly different approach and timing than condensed ideas brainstorming.

The important thing is for you to have a goal.

During your first workshop, you will want to get your first customer journey map off the ground. But don't think you can make an entire journey map in one sitting.

But even if you can't make it past the skeleton phase (where you just come up with the structure) it is Okay. What's most important is that you start communicating. Even if the only takeout is that the team grasps what the framework is all about—you are off to a great start. That will make the team prepared for further work.

If you want to run the workshop to educate the team though (and given that the team doesn’t have any experience with journey mapping), then prepare to explain the concepts and the context of the CJM technique, what you're introducing it for, and how frequently the workshops will happen, etc. So you will want to set expectations and give projected outcomes.

Step 2: Who you gonna call? Stakeholders!

When it comes to inviting teammates to your customer journey workshop, there are a few rules to follow.

Invite those who can share knowledge about actual customer journeys. These can be:

• Customer service and sales reps. They are the ones who talk with your customers face-to-face. There are lots of ideas and insights they can share, so they are your VIP guests.
• Marketing folks, customer experience specialists, and researchers (including the ones who do usability tests, web analytics reviews, etc.). Even if they don't talk to the customers, they know a lot about how things are with your customer journey now.
• Product owners if they communicate with customers and have a more or less clear idea of what the customer journey looks like at the moment.

These people might not take part in the transformation process and implement the changes by themselves, but you need their presence to fill in the gaps and share the knowledge they have.

Invite those who will bring the CJM to life and implement the changes . They may have little to no knowledge about the as-is customer journey, but it’s them whose work will be directly affected by whatever you find during the workshop. In this case, their roles can be pretty much the same as above. Plus, consider inviting the IT folks, office managers and any other internal roles who will participate in the implementation process.

Invite the influencers and decision makers . You need them aboard as long as you want to get time and resources for further service improvement.

Besides, they do not often communicate with the customers directly. They might have a very vague vision of what their customers are going through and what pain point they face. Showing them the areas of opportunity will be an eye-opener and the first step toward a better design process within the organization.

You’ll then need to break workshop participants into teams. The teams should have evenly distributed roles, with at least one person per team knowing what to do. You will also need at least one facilitator, i.e., the person guiding and expediting the process.

Step 3: Prep-work for the customer journey mapping workshop

To run a kick-ass customer journey mapping workshop, you will need to do some homework before. Things you want to have ready for the workshop are:

Place and time

The first one is obvious and probably the hardest. You need to invite all the people you plan to involve and decide on the time/place that works for everyone. Good luck with that one! 😀

The duration is up to you, but 4 hours seems to be the golden middle for one session . Go shorter, and you won't have time to do anything. The session will end all of a sudden when the participants are full of inspiration and ideas. Longer sessions are exhausting, and the last thing you want to achieve is having the whole team daydreaming.

Who's your customer persona?

Decide on the persona that will be your primary focus at the workshop and prepare a short intro for all the participants. You need a specific customer segment to map for. You won't have time to cover all possible touchpoints for all the personas within a workshop. Read more on how to create a persona in nine steps .

Make sure you print out your persona (or empathy map or any customer info you might have) to hand out to the participants. Also, prepare a brief speech to get everyone on the same page.

Define the scope

Define the journey scope that you will focus on at the workshop. This might be the most problematic service area that needs to be improved in the first place. It can also be the part you know the most about. You can start with onboarding or the purchase process, for instance. It really depends on the complexity of your service. Surely, you can take the whole journey if it's short and fairly simple. But for longer B2B cycles it definitely makes more sense to pick just a part.

No matter what scope you pick for mapping, gather as much information as possible upfront. If  any research data that exists for this journey, get a hold of it and take it to the workshop. This might also give you a clue into who needs to be invited - different influencers might be in charge of different journeys.

Get a room!

Book a room of the right size for your workshop. It should be big enough to accommodate all the participants but not too roomy. You don't want to run marathons from one table to another.

Speaking of tables, you will need enough tables for the participants. It's best to place tables closer to the walls. Ideally, you should be able to cover the walls with paper rolls. You’ll need as much surface as possible.

A projector or a screen is nice to have - they might come in handy when you need to show some research data, for instance.

Grab supplies

You will need to be armed up to the teeth with everything that might come in handy during the journey mapping workshop. And this is your lucky day as we've prepared some free downloadable goodies to save you hours of time. 😉

• Print out a customer journey template. Here's one for ya . Don’t print it too small - if the room allows, cover all the walls, you need as much surface as possible.
• Print out these instructions for participants and the facilitator cheat sheet .
• Grab some transparent tape to hang the templates around the walls.
• Sticky notes. Many, many, many sticky notes. All the sticky notes you can get. We recommend having at least three colors: one for the facts, the other one for the problems, and the last one for improvement ideas.
• Black markers for writing/sketching
• Last but not least: prepare tea/coffee breaks and snacks. Hungry and decaffeinated people are bad allies. 🙂

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On the journey mapping workshop day, block some time to set up the room. Arrange the tables, place printed reference materials on each table. Make sure sticky notes and sharpies all are placed within reach as well. Prepare journey mapping surfaces (e.g., the walls). You might need an assistant or two to do that.

Step 4: Run the customer journey mapping workshop

When the workshop starts, the first thing to do is set up some ground rules, give people context, and explain what you will do. Give them the agenda, an overview of the personas, and the scope of your today's journey mapping. It might be a good idea to ask people to put their phones or laptops aside.

Once everyone is on the same page, you can start mapping. Come up with the skeleton of your customer journey map first - these are the steps in the journey (or part of the journey).

Then complete the first step together to make sure everyone understands what the process looks like. Next, start writing information section by section on sticky notes and stick them onto the customer journey map.

By the time you finish the first step, everyone will have an idea of how to move forward. If you have a complex journey, make sure to split it between the participants (for instance, Team A maps the product research journey stage, Team B maps the onboarding, etc.) — this will speed up the journey mapping process and make it more manageable. Remember to have at least one knowledgeable person in each team to help others.

When the participants are done, make sure to get everyone back together and discuss the results. Encourage people to contribute to the journey stages they didn’t map initially.

Finally, when the workshop is over, take photos of the resulting map before you leave, you’ll need it later.

Step 5: Digitize & distribute

Sticky notes are fun, they give enough flexibility when you need to arrange things fast and collaborate during a workshop. But you will now want to keep the journey map you created, share it with the team, update and present it. And that's where UXPressia comes up on the stage. 🙂

Make sure to keep your map easy to present and read. Check out our tips for making your customer journey maps more visual and digestible.

Of course, there is more than one way to conduct a customer journey mapping workshop. We shared the approach we use in the UXPressia team, but feel free to add your own stories and share your know-how in the comments section.

Meanwhile, I welcome you to try our persona and CJM tool to digitize the paper map you end up with after your customer journey mapping workshop. More than that, you can even use it for digital workshops with your distributed (or local for that matter) as we support real-time online collaboration.

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This article was updated in 2022. Original publishing date: October 11, 2018

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Nice tips, downloaded the bundle archive as well, very helpful. I’m all for the old-school offline workshops, but sometimes, you just can’t physically get everyone in the same room. Do you have any tips for running a customer journey workshop online?

Hi Tony, we do indeed! Here’s a post you can check out: https://uxpressia.com/blog/online-journey-mapping-workshop

It’s a complete guide for running a customer journey mapping workshop online, with step-by-step instructions on what to do before, during, and after the meeting to make the most of the session. Hope this helps 🙂

Wow, this is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to elevate their customer experience strategy. My team has been struggling with organizing a customer journey mapping workshop, but I believe that the free resources you provide can make a significant difference. Thank you for this fantastic article, and I’ll certainly recommend it to my colleagues.

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On this page you will learn everything about the method and registration options for the training: The Journey by Brandon Bays . The official name is: ‘ The Journey , a practical guide to healing your life and setting yourself free’. You can also learn this method from Brandon Bays in 2024 in her event called “The Journey Intensive”. This is the most informative and substantive page about Journey Therapy and the seminars.

Contents of this page:

Handy information about training courses & workshops of The Journey

Are you looking for a Journey Therapy training? The main training of The Journey is called ‘The Journey Intensive’ and is given by Brandon Bays herself through The Journey Intensive events. This is an integral training, but after you have completed The Journey Intensive, you can possibly follow various follow-up courses about The Journey.

Most chosen option: Brandon Bays’ The Journey Intensive in 2024

Actually, Brandon Bays is focussing mainly on giving The Journey Intensive trainings. Scroll further down for more information about the methodology and  training of The Journey with Brandon Bays. Further on in this page you will find all the information, but if you want to register directly for the 2024 edition, you can do so here with a special discount.

The highest possible promotional code of 50 euros discount  is always automatically applied via the confidential link above . It is therefore not possible to enter an additional discount code . The lowest possible price to learn from Brandon Bays in the Netherlands is therefore 545 euros.

Alternative Options are not available anymore

Since some years, Brandon Bays has completely stopped with organising in-person-events. Everything is now on-live. It is completely live, but it is online.

Also keep reading on the page where you are now. At the bottom of this page you will find a taste of the written techniques of The Journey, but let’s start at the top of this article at the beginning … What is The Journey actually?

>> If you want to register directly for the 2024 edition, you can do so here with a special discount

What is The  Journey, or Journey therapy ?

The Journey of healing is an effective and inspiring method for (self) healing. The Journey was developed by Brandon Bays, and it’s not just a philosophy – it also offers practical steps, techniques, and meditations you can perform to get issues like stress and ‘fakeness’ out of your life once and for all.

For example, with one of the techniques of The Healing Journey, the intention is to fall deeper and deeper through your emotional layers, in order to reach your essence: an all-encompassing feeling of joy.

A short Brandon Bays ‘Wiki’ – Who is she?

In 1992, the creator of The Healing Journey, Brandon Bays, was diagnosed with a large growth in her abdomen (tumor). This diagnosis stimulated her to develop a method of self-healing. Seven weeks later, her tumor was completely gone, without drugs, without surgery.

Since then she has been able to help thousands of people free themselves from physical complaints, emotional blockages and limiting thoughts. Brandon Bays has collaborated with great masters such as Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins and Wayne Dyer.

What is the essence behind why The Healing Journey works?

The core on which The Journey is based has to do with the memory of the cells of your body . If you are doing The Healing Journey, you are tackling that cell memory: you are cleaning it so that in the days that follow, new cells can arise that are very healthy. These new cells are no longer affected by old unprocessed memories.

In other words, experiences that are not processed properly will remain in your body. This can eventually lead to emotional and even physical problems. The simple, yet incredibly powerful, Journey method helps you to let go of old pain and thus heal your body and mind.

The core of The Healing Journey can therefore be captured in two powers:

• Showing your true nature. You can let yourself be by processing your past emotions and being able to live free from the past in the here and now. You get in touch with your emotions, instead of putting on a mask or a wall so that you ‘behave’ neatly for the outside world without emotion.
• Harnessing the power of innovation: we are always new. Our character is new every moment and our body is constantly renewed.

With The Healing Journey you process old emotions and events

If you have already tried everything but you keep falling back into old habits, it may be because you have not yet been busy with fully processing old emotions and events.

How can you do that, process that? Among other things with love and forgiveness. From now on we grant you that you will not try to change yourself: learn to embrace who you are and learn a number of new strategies that The  Journey method offers you. They work so well because unprocessed things are finally released, clearing the cell memory.

From which 3 methodologies and techniques did The Journey arise?

The Journey uses 3 methodologies, which combine it all in one long intervention for an explosive effect:

• NLP . To be precise, use is made of: Change Personal History, Reimprinting  and  Time Line Therapy®, (Drop Down Through Technique & Reframing by saving lessons from old events). Brandon Bays was an NLP practitioner and you could argue that The Journey is Brandon’s own NLP technique.
• Hypnosis: deepening the trance.
• Spiritual concepts: forgiving the other, expressing an intention / prayer  and using The Source of Unconditional Love.

Are there also Journey therapists?

It is easy to find therapists who use the Journey Healing method. If you would like to contact our own experienced Journey coach to see if she is right for you, mail to [email protected]. Then we will send you the contact details of this attentive Travel Healing Therapist.

For whom is The Healing Journey suitable?

According to The Journey Netherlands, everyone is welcome at The Journey. If you are that person who has already tried everything, tried to change himself several times but keeps falling back into old habits, then the Journey is a gift for yourself. Because luckily there is a choice. A choice to now make the switch from ‘fake to real’, from ‘absent and busy’ to ‘present and relaxed’.

And specifically: the 3-day ‘The Journey Intensive’?

The Healing Journey (The 3-day Journey Intensive) is suitable for everyone: beginners and advanced, young and old. After such a 3-day Journey Intensive you can feel that emotional blockages transform, physical complaints dissolve and themes around relationships, bad habits, health, addiction, self-confidence, fear and depression disappear. All this in a safe and inspiring atmosphere. An incredibly powerful method that you can use for yourself and others for the rest of your life.

What does the  Journey method  do for me?

Perhaps there are times when the stress runs through your body. What would it be like if you could convert the ‘hustle and bustle’ or ‘tension’ that you may feel now into more peace, more freedom, more attention and more life?

Above all, The Healing Journey is primarily a way in which you remove masks, walls and protection for your authentic self.  This will bring you to your true emotions. You will actually express these emotions, so that all unusable masks and personas will disappear.

When you commit to applying the philosophy and techniques of The  Journey  , everything will change for you in the short term. You feel better, you are healthier, you are in balance, you are more present and you start to feel calmer and happier. This is because the cell memory is cleaned, so that new, healthy cells start to develop.

I too have experienced surprising results after training and private coaching. Rubin Alaie: Scars of years are gone! My skin is smooth again. I’m shocked. Mijn coach: So miracles do happen, when you heal from within. Well done Ruben! ✨🙏🏻🌟 & that’s in ONE session. You obviously had a big prayer 😍.

Brandon Bays Workshops and Training (What is the ‘The Journey Intensive’ seminar?)

The Journey is the method, we already know that. But what is The Journey Intensive? You will learn that in this section. The Journey Intensive is the first step you can take to experience The Journey of Healing in seminar form, so you really learn it thoroughly.

The 3-day  Journey  Intensive with Brandon Bays is a carefully developed program, in which you learn to discover and use your full inner potential. During these three days you will let go of emotions, you will look at limiting beliefs and other unhealthy conditioning. You will learn how past events and causes affect your health and how you can transform and transform them powerfully.

These 3-day seminars offer a safe and inspiring atmosphere. The Journey of healing is an incredibly powerful method that you can use – for yourself and others – for the rest of your life. That is why such a Journey Intensive is recommended. You can read how to register in the next section.

There are also various follow-up training courses, for example to become a Journey Practitioner. Information about this will be distributed at the end of the Journey Intensive.

How can I register for The Journey Intensive in 2024?

Do you want to process your theme from your life once and for all? Brandon Bays often comes to the Netherlands. Also in 2024, so do you want to learn directly from Brandon Bays? Then join The Journey Intensive. This is organized by The Journey Netherlands. The available data in the Netherlands can be found by clicking on the link below. Have you already done the Journey Intensive? Then you can follow the same link and then click on ‘Advanced Level Events’ for a follow-up training.

Participate? Take advantage of The Journey’s special offer (via this link)

Ready to master the powerful Journey method? To get the most out of yourself and live your life in freedom, spontaneity, pleasure and inner peace? You can register by clicking on the following link:

Click here for more information about all Journey Intensives

In this 3-day immersion you will get Brandon’s knowledge completely at your disposal. The 3-day course gives you so much knowledge and practical experience about The Journey that you can use this powerful method – for yourself and others – for the rest of your life.

Brandon Bays Books, PDF and Other Resources

Below you will find the book of The Journey, together with other books by Brandon Bays. She is a very eloquent speaker and writer, which helps a lot in reading. That is why so many people love Brandon’s books. There is even a version of The Healing Journey for children.

In addition to books, there are a number of other interesting resources:

• The six-week online version of the Journey method starts several times a year. Here you can participate in the new online edition.
• There are also a number of free resources available. Here you can download the ebook version of Brandon Bays’ book for free as a PDF  and here you will find a guided meditation  of The Journey so you can already experience an aspect of the method.
• Click here for experiences  about The Journey Intensive.

And the next three-day live event in the Netherlands is the biggest immersion.

The techniques of The Healing Journey – Step by step, a tip of the veil …

How does the healing journey method work? How are the meditations and techniques going? In the coming paragraphs you can already get a feeling about how the meditations of The Journey are going.

You will notice that these techniques are based on NLP techniques, among other things, since Brandon Bays is an NLP developer. An important note here is that the author of this page has described the techniques in his own words.

Preparatory meditation: A guided meditation ‘The Friendly Welcome’

This is one of the newer additions to The Healing Journey. The Friendly Welcome is a ‘pre-frame’ that aims to prepare you to let your masks and walls fall away, so that you can feel your emotions fully and authentically. You use The Friendly Welcome until you experience a strong emotion. As soon as that happens, you can immediately stop The Friendly Welcome and immediately continue with a main technique of The Journey.

• Sometimes we can find it a bit challenging to feel our emotions. That is natural. So let’s just take a moment to turn in, to open ourselves up so that we can experience what is here now.
• So you can kindly close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths … And out … And let your body soften, open and relax … While it softens your face … Relaxes the corners of your mouth … The chest softens … The door to your own heart opens … Your stomach relaxes and soothes … Your pelvis … Your thighs … Your legs … just let your whole body relax and open. The doors to your heart open left, right, in front and behind you. All masks and walls go out of the room.
• Then let your consciousness expand, while it allows your heart to be as wide as the whole world – Let that space of consciousness stretch far in front of you … Stretch beyond you boundless … Infinitely in all directions … You become one space of love. And just rest like an open sky full of all acceptance.
• Welcome all your emotions into this vast heaven of acceptance … All the feelings you have ever felt … Even the emotions of your ancestors … That’s how vast your love is.
• Now direct your consciousness inward, into your body. Your body, your being, is like a container, a barrel full of all kinds of emotions, all kinds of feelings … And our feelings are like little children – some are loud and require a lot of attention, others are calm and past, and still others have hidden themselves far away behind covers or closed doors. They may not trust you anymore because they have been rejected so many times … So you may want to apologize for your feelings and let them know that you will be open for the change, that you will start listening, that you she will and that you will feel whatever comes up.
• Now find an area of ​​your body where you feel some tension, contraction, or cramping. And breathe but just in that area, so you let it overflow with your love, your acceptance … With what you make it soft and open … and if there is an emotion would be, I wonder what it would are? … Some of our feelings are very subtle, so welcome whatever is there.
• Or maybe there is no feeling, but a picture that comes to mind. If so, how does the picture make you feel? Or if this area could speak and had words what would it say? How does that make you feel? Just welcome whatever is here and what is not here. {Name the emotion}
• Where in your body does that feeling grip you most strongly? {Write down the emotion and where it is strongest.} Just allow this emotion to become even fuller …
• Now put yourself in a neutral state of mind and find another area where there could be a little tension, stress, holding or hiding. Here too you overflow it with your own love, your own acceptance and if a feeling were to arise now, what would that feeling be? {Take the time to answer this.} Or if there were words what would it say? How do these words make you feel? {Give it some time.} Or if there was a picture, how does that picture make you feel? … Or maybe there is a lid or a door. If there is a lid, just feel how you pull the lid back and ask yourself, what am I covering? What am I hiding from? Just open yourself up to whatever shows up. How does that make you feel? {Take your time, write it down.} Where does it come in the strongest? {Write it down.
• Thank you. Put yourself in a neutral state.
• Do the same with a third area where there is some tension, stress, holding or hiding.
• Which of all these three emotions is the strongest for you now? {Use this emotion for one of The Journey’s main techniques.}

Main Technique 1: The Emotional Journey

Part 1 of the emotional journey: drop down (falling through the emotions).

• {You start by discovering the first layer.} What feeling arises? {Let the client name the emotion.} Just allow this feeling to flow completely … It can be allowed to come even stronger … Fall through the emotion. Let it swallow you. Let the emotion be there. Well done, and so on. Just breathe. Shout through it. Just scream through it. Fall through, fall through, fall through. Fall Fall Fall Fall Fall through it. Now surround the feeling with your own love, your own acceptance … And feel yourself opening gently, right in the very core of it, as you ask yourself, ‘What’s at the core of this feeling, at the center of it? What is at the heart of this feeling? Or what’s underneath … Or what rises from it? Which emotion is greater than yourself? And just stay there … What’s in there?
• {The answer introduces the next layer. Let the client name the feeling and write it down}. Where do you feel this most strongly? {Write down the location in the body.} If any  persons or images come up, let me know (where did you first experience that grief?) And if not, stick with the feeling. {If a person or image comes to mind, add a mark. This is the emotional layer that will be processed later in the next part, ‘Het Kampvuur’.}
• {We are still on the second layer and we are looking for the third layer.} Now just allow this feeling to fully flow … Welcome it all the way. As the feeling becomes stronger and more complete, you ask yourself: what’s at the core … Or underneath? And then surround it with your own love, your own acceptance … And feel yourself opening up to the core of it and just stay there … What’s in there? What emerges? What’s deeper than this? {Write down the feeling.}
• {We’ve got to the third layer.} Great. Where in your body do you feel this most strongly? Are people or images also emerging? {If a person or image comes to mind, add a mark. This is the emotional layer that will be processed later in the next part, ‘Het Kampvuur’.}
• {Continue like this – you do this by continuously repeating steps 3 and 4 from this point on – until you end up in the ‘unknown zone’.}
• {This is the step of the unknown zone: Limbo. You skip this step if there is no unknown zone, but if the ‘source state’ – the next step – is entered immediately}. Great, you are in the unknown zone, and you know what to do: just relax and welcome it. It’s just another layer … Tell me how it is … Are there any limits, or does it just go on and on? Describe it …
• Also fall through this unknown zone. What slowly enters this endless field of nothingness, this emptiness? What is seeping in now? What’s coming through the cracks and pores? What’s starting to get through this?
• {The answer to the previous question is usually something such as: light, love, peace, calm, or some other label for the core state. Another indication that you know you are there is that this feeling is everywhere, and not just in the stomach, for example. Sometimes The Source does not come immediately, but there are intermediate steps of positive emotions, which you can also fall through until you reach The Source.} {Write down this answer – the core state of The Source. You are now done with the Drop Down. You can go directly to the next part of the Emotional Journey: The Source! See below.}

Part 2 of The Emotional Journey: Experiencing everything as The Source

• Just rest in the infinite space that you are in essence … Knowing yourself as this boundless, infinite presence, this pure love … If {your label for The Source} had something to say to {the next layer back up} . what would it say then? {Write this answer down}. And now just allow {Source} to wash through the layer, so that it can bathe in it and dissolve in the infinite presence of {Source}.
• {Repeat the previous step until you reach the very first, top layer. On your way to the top layer, you wash through all the layers in between. When you get to the layer with the mark – that is the layer where a person or image appeared – you also wash through it with The Source and you treat that layer directly with The Campfire – the next part. After you are done at The Campfire, you continue through the layers until the first layer has also been transformed from The Source.

Part 3 of the Emotional Journey: The Campfire

In part three there will be a forgiveness ritual. This is a very important part: forgiveness is healing. Among other things, you will work with the child in yourself. You give him / her a present and there will be a ceremony / ritual where the little you will grow up: the boy becomes a man and the girl becomes a woman.

• Imagine a campfire – a campfire of unconditional love and pure acceptance.
• To this campfire, welcome a younger you, the current you, a wise mentor of yours, and specific people who played a part in the painful emotions of Part 1. Who is all there?
• It’s time to give voice to the younger you – who has been feeling all those painful emotions from Part 1. An opportunity to express all those strong feelings, which may not have felt safe to do before. They can now be spoken and the people at the campfire can now listen. Now is the chance.

This was not even half of the first technique. Do you want to learn the full technique – and the other techniques? In any case, take a look at the seminar of The Journey! See the offer below …

How can I register for The Healing Journey with Brandon Bays? (Offer)

Ready to master the powerful Journey method? To get the most out of yourself and live your life in freedom, spontaneity, pleasure and inner peace? You can view the offer and register by clicking the following link:

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A research-based approach to relationships

It’s Time to Change How We Treat Couples in Recovery

We need to increase awareness of the importance and place for couple recovery.

It has been a remarkable journey toward creating a modality of therapy for treating couples in recovery from addiction. I developed the Couple Recovery Development Approach (CRDA) in 2002 for my doctoral dissertation, based on my research from the Family Recovery Project at Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California. My first Gottman exposure occurred in 2005 when John presented a Level 1 Training  in San Francisco. I knew at that workshop that Gottman Method Couples Therapy was a perfect fit. Fast forward to today and we have the  Couples and Addiction Recovery  program for professionals.

Couple Recovery Development Approach, meet Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Both models were completely compatible and even overlapped in emphasizing specific parts of the relationship. I had a model to conceptualize couple recovery, now I had found a research-based approach to target those areas that needed attention. I continued my training in GMCT and became a Certified Gottman Therapist in 2007. Throughout this process, I continued to develop CRDA and presented my research at Gottman trainings and conferences. John became very interested in the model and invited me to collaborate in writing and researching a relational approach to addiction recovery as a research scientist at The Relationship Research Institute (RRI).

Why aren’t we helping couples in early recovery ?

I began my doctoral work at the MRI by concentrating on couples with established recovery, because all of my schooling and training up to that point had instructed me to wait until couples had established recovery before doing couples work. However, something was developing during that time that surprised me. It turned out that couples I was seeing in my practice, and some of the research couples at the MRI, were getting the benefit while still in the early recovery phase.

This felt confusing until I began to present at conferences and received feedback from therapists that the CRDA model could apply to couples experiencing any severe or chronic medical or psychological illness or disorder. Couples need to talk about the impact of chronic issues and how to manage the recovery process. In my own work, we would identify addiction, hopefully get into recovery, and then I’m supposed to say, “Sorry I’m not supposed to work with you?”

Some partners relapsed and it usually made more sense to continue the couple work to help establish or strengthen individual recovery programs as well as address what was happening in their relationship.

Let’s work with couples when they need the help the most

We can work with couples in early recovery! This is going to surprise a lot of people, and may not necessarily be well-received in some corners. And I challenge the prevailing norm.

This isn’t about couples work replacing individual recovery. Couples work doesn’t automatically shift the recovering person’s priority to the relationship. Yes, both partners ideally focus on their own recovery as a priority, but what if we simultaneously addressed three recoveries: each partners recovery and the relationship recovery, to actually support individual recovery?

Longitudinal research indicates that relationship stability is a significant predictor of established long-term recovery, 8-years post primary treatment. 1 in 13 people who enter a therapy office or clinic are addicted, yet only 10% receive treatment. We also know that addiction brings with it a divorce rate four times higher than average and that the first year of recovery is really, really hard for couples.

While addiction is often referred to as a “family disease,” current approaches in recovery typically do not provide treatment approaches that address or account for the relationship between addict and partner. To help move our clients from addiction to recovery, professionals need to know how to assess and treat addiction, and feel comfortable using tools and strategies to help couples address addiction and support recovery.

Couple recovery is a game changer

There isn’t any research that I know of that establishes that couple recovery should be avoided in the early phase of recovery. “Roadmap for the Journey: A Gottman Workshop for Couples Embracing Recovery”  is an effort to help couples in early and in ongoing recovery, couples that desperately need hope, direction, and tools to navigate down the path of recovery individually and as a couple. I appreciate Drs. John and Julie Gottman and The Gottman Institute’s support in advocating and promoting this work.

I have given the Roadmap for the Journey workshop twice to professionals, and four times now with real couples in recovery, all of them sponsored by treatment centers. It works. When you give couples the tools and create ways to talk about the difficult stuff, couples can succeed. I gave the workshop in Seattle, sponsored by The Gottman Institute and Edgewood Seattle Addiction Services. We learned a tremendous amount about what resonated with couples and received suggestions for changes in the curriculum going forward. Here are some important results from that workshop:

Of the 34 respondents who attended the Seattle Workshop, 76% reported “Yes” when asked: “Do you feel the workshop helped you to develop a recovery approach for your relationship?” When tallying the respondents who stated  “Somewhat helpful,” 91% of workshop respondents feel the workshop was helpful or somewhat helpful to develop a couple recovery.

When asked “Do you feel this workshop was helpful for your own recovery?,”  remarkably 82% responded “yes.” When adding in “Somewhat helpful” responses, 94% reported the workshop was helpful or somewhat helpful for their individual recovery!  And 97% endorsed “Very important” when asked, “How important is it for couples to address their relationship as a part of recovery?”

Granted, this was a self-selecting group that might have selected “Very important” before the workshop, but the fact is we didn’t lose any believers, and most probably we may have made a few new converts for those who weren’t sure before the workshop. So where does this lead us now?

The importance of couple recovery

We need a community to increase awareness of the importance and place for couple recovery. In collaboration with Drs. John and Julie Gottman and The Gottman Institute, I have created a new workshop for therapists, counselors, and professionals who work with couples struggling with addiction as well as couples in recovery from alcohol, drugs and/or behavioral addictions. I am presenting “Couples and Addiction Recovery”  and I would love for you to train with me. This training provides a relational approach that includes the addict’s recovery, the partner’s recovery, and their relationship’s recovery, and you can learn more  here .

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Dr. Robert Navarra is a Master Certified Gottman Therapist, Trainer, Consultant, Speaker, and Certified as a Master Addiction Counselor. He designed the Roadmap for the Journey workshop for couples and the Couples and Addiction Recovery training for professionals. Dr. Navarra maintains a private practice in San Carlos, CA.

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How to run a journey-mapping workshop: a step-by-step case study.

July 5, 2020 2020-07-05

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When journey maps are used in the right way — as a means to address a specific, known business goal — the benefits are vast. Our earlier research on practitioners’ journey-mapping activities identified several advantages, including aligning stakeholders around common goals and vision, enabling focus on customer needs, and helping team members establish a personal connection with the end users.

One of the biggest practitioner pain points revealed during the same research, however, is that many people are unclear about the specifics of the actual journey-mapping process. While we’ve previously provided a 5-step process for journey mapping , this article is a more detailed guide to one of those steps: the journey-mapping workshop.

Because the structure of a workshop is dependent on the skill level and preferred methods of the facilitator, there are many ways to lead a journey-mapping workshop. This article provides an overview of one way—a case study with examples from a recent workshop—but there could be many variations of the activities listed that could also be productive.

In This Article:

Before the journey-mapping workshop, during the journey-mapping workshop, after the journey-mapping workshop.

Before getting everyone together in the same room, take these steps to ensure that all contributors are engaged, prepared, and that they understand the purpose and scope of the workshop.

Step 1. Build a team: Journey mapping is a collaborative process. If you create your map in a silo without involving others, you run the risk that the people whose support you need to get things done post mapping will not believe in it or be passionate about your findings. Create a crossfunctional team of allies who can help you advertise the process and build buy-in for your recommendations. They will also be your workshop participants.

Step 2. Prioritize actors and scenarios: Decide whose journey (the actor ) and what journey (the scenario ) you’ll be mapping ahead of time. You should focus on one actor and one scenario per map , but that doesn’t mean you can’t have more than one scenario or journey map per workshop. You’ll just have to allow for extra time and figure out logistics (e.g., splitting up into small groups) to accommodate the additional complexity. If necessary, plan how you’ll split up teams before the workshop. Know who’s coming and assign each person to the most appropriate journey. (You wouldn’t want the designer of a small-business product working on the journey for consumer products.)

Step 3. Gather and share existing research: It’s often beneficial to start with what you already have. Gather and review any existing UX, marketing, analytics, or customer support data related to your journey, consolidate relevant insights, and identify knowledge gaps. Create a shared repository so everyone on the team has access to the artifacts you’ve gathered, which may include previous experience maps , research reports, data from diary studies , or brand or experience guidelines .

Step 4. Assign “homework”: Provide attendees with background reading ahead of the workshop. No matter how much you feel like you have shared, briefed, and campaigned, prime participants one last time before the workshop. Provide relevant background reading, existing research takeaways, and a few open-ended thought-starter questions to mentally prepare participants.

This particular journey-mapping workshop structure incorporates activities to lead participants through:

• Creating a current-state hypothesis map
• Evolving the current-state journey map based on customer input
• Prioritizing pain points within the journey
• Brainstorming new ideas and potential solutions with customers
• Creating a future-state vision through sketching and design-studio activities

It’s divided into three parts:

• Part I: Laying the foundation: Review of basic concepts and inputs for mapping
• Part II: Current-state mapping: Creation of an assumption map, review and evolution of the map with customers, and prioritization of pain points
• Part III: Future-state visioning: Brainstorming future-state ideas and interactions through sketching

Depending on the number of workshop attendees and the number of prioritized scenarios and actors, this workshop could be structured over a period of a couple to several days.

Part I: Laying the Foundation

The activities within the first segment of the workshop ensure that participants share the  mental model and the language of journey mapping, understand existing research, and agree on the workshop inputs — specifically, the journey-map stages, actor(s) and scenario(s) that will be used.

Step 1. Refresh and educate: Here’s something you may find shocking: Some participants may not even open your thoughtfully prepared workshop homework! That means you’ll have to find a creative way to ensure that attendees understand core concepts while not putting those who did diligently prepare to sleep. Blend teaching opportunities into methods for gaging the room’s level of preparedness with an activity such as trivia based on your provided background reading. Bonus: Trivia also acts as an energizer to start the day. Split the room into small groups so that those who were sincerely unable to prepare are not singled out and the vibe remains fun.

Step 2. Review actors and scenarios: Though you will have decided which actor(s) and scenario(s) to focus on before walking into the room, give your participants a chance to feel ownership over them (and ensure they understand these concepts). For example, enabling discussion over a quick interactive quiz like the one below helps participants connect with the narrative of the scenario and reinforces buy-in for the scenario.

Step 3. Review the research (again): Even if you consolidated and shared existing research with the team before the workshop, it’s possible that not everyone took the time to pore over it like you did. You should dedicate time within the workshop agenda to review the key findings. And even if the team is familiar with the research, it’s still better for everyone to be aligned on the takeaways as a group and for those takeaways to be fresh in everyone’s heads. The research review could take the form of one or two people simply presenting recent research findings, or it could be something more interactive.

For a recent journey-mapping workshop for a team very familiar with existing research, we did a quick postup of “what we know” about the journey. Participants worked in small groups to generate one research insight per sticky note, cluster them into groups, and then shared their themes back to the larger group. This approach has the bonus of providing an artifact that the team can hang and reference in their workspace as they begin mapping

Step 4. Provide facilitation training for participants: If customers will join your workshop, help your participants prepare. As the workshop facilitator, you’ll likely have more small groups than you can actively lead, so you’ll need to empower your attendees. Remember: This is a crossfunctional team, so not everyone is familiar with user research! Provide some guidance. I prefer to do two things: First, plan a training segment within the workshop to review facilitation guidelines . Secondly, provide teams with printed interview guides with suggested lines of inquiry related to their scenario.

Part II: Current-State Mapping

In the second segment of the workshop, teams go through a series of activities to create a draft map, update the map based on customer input, and identify pain points.

Step 1. Map the current state: Here, each team concentrates its collective knowledge into a map specific to its assigned scenario. It’s helpful to remind participants that they are creating an assumption map, meaning that there may be gaps or unknowns. At this point in time, it’s okay to make some assumptions, because they’ll continue to adapt the map and make adjustments with additional research. That’s why we make maps with sticky notes — so we can tear them off or scribble over them with Sharpies as learning evolves!

Step 2. Interview customers: The act of consolidating what the team knows from existing research creates a current-state assumption map. At this point, customers who align to each group’s primary actor or persona join the teams. Recruit your customers based on relevant screening criteria . (For example, for journeys related to opening a new credit card, it’s ideal to recruit participants who are actively looking for a new credit card or who have recently opened a credit card.) Using the provided facilitation guide, small groups interview the customers, asking open-ended questions about their experience with the journey they are assigned.

Step 3. Evolve the map: Once customers have shared experiences without seeing their team’s assumptions, the discussion moves to the wall. Teams walk customers through their assumption maps, continuing to ask open-ended questions and encouraging customers to share stories. It can be useful to provide some tangible tools to customers to lower their barrier to engagement. For example, in this journey-mapping workshop, we gave customers stickers to represent agreement or disagreement, and asked them to physically contribute to the map to reflect their experience and help us validate or evolve our assumptions.

Step 4. Generate and prioritize pain points: After time for in-depth discussion and map adaptation, allow the groups to focus on frustrations that occur throughout the journey. These frustrations, also called pain points, will serve as an input for the future-state visioning. Make pain-point generation easier for attendees by providing a fill-in-the-blank structure for them to fill in:

• I need ______ in order to ______.
• I need ______ so that ______.

Example: “I need a simple way to compare options so that I don't get overwhelmed.”

Give participants a time limit to silently generate needs statements on sticky notes, have them place the stickies on the pain-points swim lane of the map, and then discuss and affinity diagram them. After discussion, use dot voting to identify which pain points are most critical.

Part III: Future-State Visioning

The workshop concludes with a third segment: future-state visioning. Here, participants brainstorm ideas with customers, then use rounds of sketching, presentation, and critique to create future-state flows.

Step 1. Generate “big ideas”: Using the identified pain points as catalysts, both internal workshop participants and customers come up with abstract ideas that align to known frustrations within the journey. It’s useful to encourage the teams to think big and use metaphors to express their ideas so that they don’t jump to specific solutions (e.g., features) too soon. Use a time limit and provide a quantity goal (e.g., try to generate at least 5 ideas in 5 minutes) to keep participants from over-censoring their ideas. After this round of idea generation, participants post up and present their ideas to the rest of the team.

In this workshop, we followed the presentation of ideas with a round of impact and effort voting. Customers and internal participants whose primary job responsibility was user research voted on the most impactful ideas by placing a set number of gold stars on the corresponding stickies. Remaining internal team members voted on the most feasible ideas by placing the same number of green dots on the ideas. The result was a visual ranking of the ideas that takes both feasibility and impact into account. This is a good time to break, thank customers for their time, and continue the workshop with internal participants only.

Step 2. Sketch individual future-state flows: Armed with the ranked “big ideas,” internal participants begin the task of translating the ideas into a set of interactions using the design-studio technique of timed rounds of sketching, presentation, and critique. First, individuals silently sketch flows based on the most feasible and impactful big ideas. Next, they present their ideas back to their team for critique. In the example below, we used tangibles (i.e., sticky notes) to capture the critique discussion: The team members called out aspects of the sketches they thought were particularly powerful or well-aligned to known frustrations on green sticky notes (green = good). For aspects of the individual flows that could be improved, they wrote comments on yellow sticky notes (yellow = ideas). These sticky notes were placed directly on the sketches for reference.

Step 3. Create consolidated future-state flows: In the final workshop activity, small groups combine the most powerful ideas and strongest aspects of their individual sketches into one group sketch, reflecting a future-state journey for their scenario. Small groups then present their consolidated journey back to the entire workshop team.

Move quickly after the workshop in order to maintain momentum and make use of the excitement generated in the workshop.

Step 1. Share takeaways: Capture the workshop outputs by taking photos of each artifact and action shots of internal participants and customers working through the activities. (Of course, make sure you have consent ahead of time.) Share these artifacts in a central repository for reference, and capture and share next steps and action items in one place for the entire team.

Step 2. Bring the ideas life: The team members left the workshop with several strong flows and new interactions captured in sketches. Now, they can use iterative design to create low-fidelity prototypes of these flows and test them with customers, continuing to make adaptations based on user feedback.

Step 3. Keep refining the process: As you apply the workshop structure to additional journeys, continue to tweak and refine the activities to be the most successful and productive for your team.

This article provides guidance on a specific set of activities; however, there are many ways to run a journey-mapping workshop. The overall structure and activities are a starting place, created for one specific context. Use this as a starting place and adapt it based on your needs, scope, and limitations.

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Share the journey with friends, encouraging them to learn and practice AH alongside you.

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Regularly schedule calls with AH International staff or mentors to discuss your experiences, ask questions, and seek advice.

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Complete the evaluation to assess your understanding and application of AH principles in a group setting.

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Congratulations! You've taken significant steps toward becoming an AH facilitator. Keep learning, practicing, and growing. Use your newfound knowledge and skills to foster love, understanding, and healing in your community.

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Pathway to Becoming a Mindful Forgiveness Facilitator

Step 1: Immersion in Mindful Forgiveness

Learn about the principles and concepts of Mindful Forgiveness through relevant literature and resources.

Begin your journey by attending a 12-hour Mindful Forgiveness workshop.

Consistently apply forgiveness practices in your personal life and maintain regular mindfulness practice .

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Step 3: Practicum Experience

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Step 5 : Annual Recertification

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Remember, the magic is in the practice. Each moment is an opportunity to apply and deepen your understanding of mindfulness and forgiveness, transforming not just your life, but also the lives of those who will join you in this journey.

24 Reasons to Visit Moscow in 2024

Moscow is one of the most happening and exciting cities to visit in 2024 which is why you should come prepared to experience a ton of fun activities. There are a million things to do in Moscow , so we decided to limit them to 24 to give you an idea what to do when you visit Moscow in 2024.

1. Spasskaya Bashnya – International Military Music Festival

Moscow’s Red Square becomes the stage for the 9th annual music festival from August 26 to September 7, showcasing a grand display of folklore ensembles, orchestras, and military bands, symbolizing a “visiting card” of Moscow’s cultural scene. This festival, a true feast for music lovers, draws tens of thousands from across the globe, featuring performances by the best artists complemented by fireworks and a special appearance by Kremlin’s riding school equestrians. A children’s play area ensures everyone in the family has a delightful experience when you visit Moscow in 2024.

2. K5 Museum on Red Square

The Moscow Kremlin ‘s museum landscape is set to expand with a new addition: the K5 Museum. Tucked behind the Kremlin walls, this venue breathes new life into the historic Middle Trading Rows on Red Square . Housing exhibits currently hidden in the storerooms of the Armory Chamber, K5 is a modern marvel nestled within a 19th-century facade, preserving the integrity of Russia’s main square.

This multi-layered museum will seamlessly integrate a contemporary structure behind its historic front, constructed with a sleek white glazed brick frame. At its heart lies a vaulted space adorned with light ceramic tile scales, dedicated to the imperial weaponry collection that names both the collection and the Armory itself.

3. The Alexandrov Ensemble at the Kremlin

Moscow beckons with the unique opportunity to experience the Alexandrov Ensemble, Russia’s premier military music group, at the Kremlin Palace on October 10th. Celebrated for its powerful performances in over 70 countries, the ensemble offers an unrivaled choir and a distinctive orchestra that blends traditional Russian instruments with classic orchestral sounds. With a vast repertoire that crosses genres and borders, their performance is a testament to Russia’s rich cultural legacy, making it a compelling reason to visit Moscow.

4. Moscow Metro and an underground Moscow metro museum of stunning Soviet-era art

Explore the history of Moscow Metro , one of the world’s most beautiful metro systems, located beneath the skyscrapers of Moscow City. The museum showcases uniforms, documents, and interactive simulators, offering a deep dive into the metro’s past.

5. Scenic Moskva River Cruise – Moscow’s landmarks from the water

Embarking on a river cruise in Moscow offers a unique perspective on the capital’s landmarks. Traveling along the Moskva River and other waterways is not only about the city’s vistas. It also enriches your knowledge of its cultural monuments and history, thanks to the guided tours available on most routes. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to explore Russia’s capital from the tranquil embrace of its waterways.

6. PANORAMA360 Observation Deck – Europe’s Loftiest Observation Deck

Perched an incredible 354 meters (1,161 feet) above the city on the 89th floor of the iconic Federation Tower East in Moscow City, PANORAMA360 offers an unrivaled vantage point that will leave you breathless. The city is extremely panoramic like never before, so it’s a great idea to visit Moscow in 2024 and be ready for a seriously scenic views. But the awe-inspiring sights are just the beginning!

Step into the world’s highest ice cream factory, where you’ll witness the fascinating process of transforming simple ingredients into irresistible frozen delights, and savor the taste of these freshly crafted confections. And if that’s not enough to satisfy your sweet tooth, marvel at the tallest chocolate factory on record, officially recognized by the Book of Records of Russia.

7. Sparrow Hills – breathtaking panoramic views of Moscow

Explore Sparrow Hills and the vast Moscow State University (MSU) campus with a local guide. Embark on a journey from the village of Vorobyovy Gory to the Main Building of MSU. Marvel at Moscow’s skyline and delve into MSU from every angle and detail — after this tour, you’ll easily distinguish it from any other Stalinist skyscraper. With over 5 stunning observation points to choose from, you’re guaranteed breathtaking views and a deeper understanding of one of Russia’s most iconic educational institutions.

8. Russia Day in Moscow

Visiting Moscow in the summer? Don’t miss Russia Day on June 12th! There’s no better place to celebrate this significant national holiday than in the capital itself. The city comes alive with a wide array of events, from historical reenactments and concerts to festivals, educational workshops, and much more. These festivities offer a fantastic opportunity to deepen your appreciation for Russia and its capital, making your visit truly memorable.

9. The magic of Russian crafts

The Firebird Festival, a vibrant exhibition and fair, is held twice a year in Moscow, showcasing authentic Russian folk arts and crafts unlike the typical souvenir. This unique event offers a chance to purchase original works from folk artists, designers, and craftsmen. Highlights include a “City of Masters” with workshops for children, performances by folklore groups, and a gastronomic center. Catch the spring fair on April 24-28 and the autumn fair on October 2-6.

10. Russian history at the State Historical Museum, from ancient times to nowadays

The State Historical Museum in Russia, with its vast collection of approximately 5 million items, is the country’s largest. Given the enormity, covering the entire collection in one visit is impractical. Visitors are encouraged to concentrate on specific historical periods, like Peter the Great’s reign or the Romanovs’ history. The museum’s treasures span from Paleolithic artifacts to personal items of Tsar Alexander II, displayed across two floors based on the pre- and post-Peter the Great eras. The museum also offers scholarly lectures.

11. Moscow Jazz Festival

Whether you visit Moscow in 2024 for the first time, or you’ve been here before – we certainly recommend to experience Moscow from a different perspective and go off the beaten path. Check out Moscow Jazz Fest to see Moscow through the eyes of locals and have an idea how locals hang out. On June 10-16 more than 1,000 performers from Russia and abroad will perform on seven city venues. The lineup includes not just jazz musicians but also folk, opera, and rap artists.

12. Discover Russia’s innovations at VDNKH

From November 4, 2023, to July 8, 2024, VDNKH hosts the “Russia” international exhibition-forum, showcasing the country’s paramount accomplishments. This half-year event transforms VDNKH into a vast showcase of Russia, presenting modern technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs across various sectors. Alongside, the exhibition will feature vibrant cultural, educational, and business programs, including regional days where visitors can explore the traditions, natural beauty, and culinary delights of Russia’s diverse regions.

13. STATION 2025 Entertainment and Game Center

STATION 2025 is Moscow’s cutting-edge entertainment and gaming hub, offering a collection of the latest in fun. Dive into virtual reality worlds with top-tier VR headsets, engage in thrilling yet safe laser tag battles in a one-of-a-kind arena, and explore a gaming zone filled with unique retro consoles and mini bowling. It’s the perfect spot to celebrate birthdays and other special occasions, all under one roof. With over 1,000 games and attractions, STATION 2025 is your go-to for futuristic fun and celebrations in the heart of Moscow.

14. A cultural bloom at Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve

From August 23 to September 1, 2024, the 7th Historical Gardens Festival unfolds at Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve’s Air Gardens. This year’s theme, “Gardens in Art,” explores how garden motifs have inspired architects, painters, graphic artists, composers, and writers throughout history. Attendees can look forward to a rich program of bold garden projects, workshops, guided tours.

15. Underbasement Exhibitions in Zaryadye – our favorite reason to visit Moscow in 2024

Dive into an immersive journey through Moscow’s rich past at the cutting-edge Zaryadye Underground Museum. Nestled beneath the modern cityscape, this interactive wonderland showcases the 17th-century Kitai-Gorod wall’s foundations and a trove of archaeological treasures unearthed during excavations.

Solve ancient puzzles, embark on a thrilling treasure hunt, and uncover the secrets of this captivating underground realm. With so many hands-on experiences awaiting, the Zaryadye Underground Museum promises an unforgettable adventure for tourists of all ages!

16. “Gagarin: The Journey to Space” at the Cosmonautics Museum

The Cosmonautics Museum, one of the world’s largest science and technology museums, hosts the “Gagarin: The Road to Space” exhibition from March 7 to September 1, 2024, celebrating Yuri Gagarin’s 90th birthday. You can see previously unseen artifacts, including Gagarin’s Air Force colonel uniform and declassified personal files. The exhibit spans five themes reflecting key life stages of the first cosmonaut: his childhood, the war years, professional training, becoming a pilot, and his historic spaceflight.

17. Interactive Miniature Moscow Exhibit

Brace yourself for an awe-inspiring experience at VDNKH’s Pavilion No. 75, where the extraordinary “Moscow in Miniature” exhibition awaits! This one-of-a-kind permanent display showcases an architectural marvel – a meticulously crafted model of Moscow that’s set to etch its name in the prestigious Guinness Book of World Records. From the iconic Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral to the towering skyscrapers and bustling neighborhoods, every inch of this miniature masterpiece has been painstakingly crafted to capture the essence of Russia’s capital city.

18. Red Square and the Kremlin, symbols of Russia’s grandeur

Now, Red Square is not the main reason to visit Moscow in 2024. Because it’s the #1 thing to do for anyone any time of the year, any year. It’s the heart of Moscow, which is the heart of Russia. Dive into the history and secrets of the Kremlin with a local guide tour that unveils the evolution of its iconic walls and the masterminds behind their construction.

Discover the purpose of each of the 20 towers and the tales that they harbor. Learn about Moscow’s first bridge and its rivers, along with many other intriguing stories. This journey through Moscow’s heart promises a vivid exploration of its architectural marvels and historical rivers. Whether you’re a history enthusiast, an admirer of architectural marvels, or simply someone seeking to uncover the hidden gems of a city steeped in legacy, this guided tour of the Kremlin is an absolute must-visit in 2024.

19. Haptics and Art at Krasnokholmskaya Gallery

The Krasnokholmskaya Gallery in Moscow, unique for its ecological focus, hosts the “Haptics. The Tangible World” exhibition from March 23 to May 19, 2024. This exhibit explores touch and tactile sensations, blending art with multisensory experiences to challenge and engage visitors. It features a broad range of mediums, including art and design objects, scientific innovations, and interactive technology, inviting you to experience the physical and artistic world in new, immersive ways.

20. StereoLeto Festival in Moscow – funky reason to visit Moscow in 2024

Scheduled for July 6, 2024, in the picturesque setting of the Hermitage Garden, this festival promises a day filled with music, art, and entertainment suitable for the whole family. The Hermitage Garden is known for its beautiful landscape and cultural events, making it a perfect venue for a family day out. This year’s festival promises to be a true celebration of music, bringing together a diverse array of talents from across the globe.

21. Light Museum in Moscow

Dive into the future in Moscow with the opening of the Light Museum, Russia’s premiere multimedia space. Located in the “Sun of Moscow” complex near VDNKh, this 4,000 square meter venue transforms the concept of light into an immersive experience. Forget traditional displays; here, light becomes a journey of emotion and interaction, pushing the boundaries of art with cutting-edge technology. It’s not just a museum visit; it’s an adventure into the sensory wonders of light.

22. World Friendship Games

From September 15th to 29th, The Luzhniki complex will be the centerpiece for most events, including the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies. Spearheaded by the International Friendship Movement, this inaugural sporting extravaganza will showcase athletes competing across 33 sports, with 28 hosted by Moscow itself.

From the high-flying action of acrobatic rock’n’roll to the strategic battles on the chessboard, not to mention the physical prowess displayed in boxing, judo, and artistic gymnastics, spectators are in for a treat. With nearly 8,000 athletes from over 70 countries going head-to-head, the World Friendship Games promise to be a global celebration of diversity and athleticism you won’t want to miss.

23. VR Art Exhibition in Moscow

Step into the captivating world of VR ART, where cutting-edge virtual reality technologies transport you across time and space. Immerse yourself in over 40 awe-inspiring locations and interactive panoramas, from encountering prehistoric dinosaurs to soaring through the cosmos in a hot air balloon.

But this isn’t just a visual spectacle – with multisensory experiences, you’ll not only see and hear but also smell the wonders that surround you, whether it’s the serene ambiance of a Japanese temple or the earthy scents of distant eras brought to life. Strap on your VR helmet and prepare for an extraordinary journey!

 24. The Kremlin Christmas Tree – best reason to visit Moscow in 2024

For nearly 70 years, the Kremlin Christmas Tree has been a central part of Moscow’s Christmas season , offering a magical experience that draws both children and adults. In 2024, this tradition continues with a surprise-filled performance, fostering anticipation with its secret lineup. Visitors can enjoy a variety of traditional activities, including foyer games, contests with prizes, and a grand show.

This event promises an unforgettable start to the New Year, showcasing why Moscow remains a must-visit destination during the festive season. If you didn’t have a chance to visit Moscow in 2024, you still have half of January 2025 to catch Christmas vibes in Moscow and get impressed with a seriously huge Christmas Tree. Russian Christmas is January 7th, and most events and Christmas trees will be still on until mid January.

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Interested in starting your journey in genealogy? MDAH Historic Research Specialist William Thompson will lead a genealogy workshop at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 6, at the William F. Winter Archives & History Building. This workshop is geared towards researchers who are interested in learning about genealogical research or reevaluating their existing research. Space is limited for this program. Register here . For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email  [email protected] .

Beginning Genealogy Workshop

Interested in starting your journey in genealogy? MDAH Historic Research Specialist William Thompson will lead a genealogy workshop at 10 a.m.

Free Sundays at the Two Mississippi Museums

Admission to the Two Mississippi Museums is free every Sunday. 

History Is Lunch: Pete Smith, “Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s-1980s”

At noon on Wednesday, April 10, Pete Smith will present “W

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