Spiritual Mentoring
or
"Awakeness" Mentoring

Apologies, but I am not able to do

phone mentoring with people at this time.

I am working full time and writing another book in my spare time, so it is difficult to fit  in the phone calls.

If you like, you may email me and be on a waiting list.

Alice

Whatever you call it...

Chapter 6 from the upcoming book: Life Beyond Belief, Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice is now being given away with your new subscription to the monthly Wide Awake Living Newsletter to the left.

This is an offering of a particular kind of spiritual mentoring. "Awakeness Mentoring" is called that because it is not Alice as an individual who is doing the mentoring, but it is instead the mutuality of our inherent awakeness that is the source. It might be also called "Spiritual Mentoring from Awakeness" I suppose.

Being with a real down-to-earth person who is a bit further along in the awakening process seems also to yield benefits, and this mentoring will be an offering of that also, and offering from life experience if appropriate. But overall, both mentor and mentee will be simply opening up space to what is beyond our separate selves and being awake together.

The form is a weekly space on the telephone in the midst of your busy life, to become comfortable with your own inherent awkeness.  Into this space of awakeness you may bring the content that your life is currently bringing up to work with. These sessions can be also scheduled bi-weekly, monthly or as needed. The options that are available are listed on the ordering page: Click here to go there. To request a free initial mentoring appointment, send Alice an email. This appointment will help you see what this mentoring is all about, and see if the energy is right, and if it is a fit for you.


Those who might be interested need to consider if they have a real willingness to examine what is really going on for ourselves, and not to be looking outside of themselves for answers or directions for how to live.

Awakeness doesn't tell us what to do. It only wants us to come back into our natural state of wakefulness, and to live freely as that.

If you think you may be interested, also check to see if you can find in yourself a willingness to look into how we have invented a mentally derived version of ourselves, and how we tend to perceive the world from and function from that made-up version. This needs to include a willingness to simply be with any discomfort that such a realization may release within the personality structure, and to be willing to relax even with that.

What will the sessions be like?

There will be a starting of the sessions in silence, as a demarcation of the setting aside of the rule of the personal self for the meeting time, and opening to what else is always and already present.

You will be encouraged to keep part of your attention during the session on who it is that is Here, who is speaking, etc., and welcoming the personal content to be present in the session in a way that is transparent to the one in whom it is arising, and on what it's value is in a process beyond the personal.

There will some emphasis on not allowing the space to simply fill up too much with personal story telling, or with the unexamined content of the personality structure, but practicing using what the personality and the stories bring, as an invitation to penetrate and examine that content to find what is true in it and what is not.

What if someone is feeling uncomfortable during a session?

If either person is feeling that the session has become confusing or complicated, they are invited to request a moment of silence, to again demarcate a return to what is beyond mental activity.

The space as what is important.

The space created by the mentoring agreement is held as significant, above whatever fills that space. The essential ingredient for relaxing out of mind generated versions of identity is recognized as being the opening up of this space for the already existing beingness to be felt and experienced.

What is the cost of this mentoring process?

It is suggested that the mentoring relationship be used for ongoing support through whatever your everyday life brings to your attention. That is best accomplished through committing to a package of several mentoring sessions, ideally to be used on a weekly basis, and this purchasing in bulk will also keep the cost down.  You have the option to purchase single sessions, or packages of five or ten sessions together. These sessions are recommended to be used for weekly contact, but can also be used on an as-needed basis. They will expire in six months from purchase.

Paying for this kind of mentoring can be a wonderful choice that you make and commit money to, which in itself can help you to hold your focus on what is most important to you -your spiritual life- but which otherwise may so often be forgotten in the heat of everyday life. Choose a plan that does not cause you financial hardship but that also represents a significant committment to help motivate you to stay with what really matters.

See costs and options now available by clicking here.

Why do mentoring regularly? Why not session by session?

Although ultimately awakening is not a time bound occurrance, it still appears in our lives as a process that develops over time through a committment to finding out what is true, and to keeping a fidelity to prioritizing truth above comfort or personal benefit in the midst of daily life. So often we pay attention to such matters only when our level of pain rises to the point where it demands our attention. If we pay attention in our easier moments, the painful moments are less needed by us for motivation,and can be left behind.

The goal of the relationship, if there is one, is to outgrow the need for it by bringing the awakeness into all aspects of daily life.

Both roles in the relationship are held to be temporary, based on the realization that the One who is awake is the same in both "people", and that if the relationship is doing its work that the roles will vanish over time. The container of the "mentoring" relationship intends to dissolve itself into being the same as one's relationship with one's world in everyday life.

Please be aware that Alice is not a psychotherapist, and does not wish to try in any way to replace therapy if you are dealing with mental illness conditions. If you are dealing with diagnosable mental problems, please see a qualified therapist first, and then it would be appropriate to do mentoring also, as an additional support.

Free Initial Call, no risk... see what it is!

To apply for a initial 30 minute phone call and to see if you may be interested in Awakeness Mentoring, simply send an email by clicking here, and give whatever information about yourself that you feel is pertinent, and the times that you are generally available in any given week.  Alice will email you back to set up a time with you that will also work for her.

To find out more about the prices and options for an ongoing mentoring relationship, go to the Order page. 

To request a free initial appointment, click here, and include an appropriate amount of pertinent information about yourself, and also times in the week that you are available. Alice will reply by email to find a mutually available time for the appointment.

Click here for information on Alice's experience and degrees and spiritual resume (good term hey?).

Awakeness Mentoring Code of Ethics
(a word document)

Awakeness Mentoring Order Page with prices

Theoretical Basis

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