What Only a Group Can Heal: a Heart iQ Academy virtual retreat with Christian Pankhurst, September 11 to 13, 2026
What is Heart iQ?
Heart iQ is a relational practice that explores emotional awareness, honest communication, and deeper human connection. Not as a concept, but as something we live and experience together.
It is an invitation to expand your range: your capacity to feel, to be seen, to open to life in ways that may have felt too much, too real, or simply not allowed.
Through live retreats, online programs, and a growing global community, Heart iQ creates the conditions for something real to emerge. In the body, in relationship, and in the way you meet the world.
20,000+
Hours of live facilitation
20+
Years of the work
25+
Countries with certified practitioners
29
Live events scheduled through 2028
Where Do You Want to Begin?
Four doors into the same work. Choose the one that matches where you are right now.
For You
Begin with Heart iQ Foundations, then deepen through Heart iQ Mastery and Accelerated Awakening when you are ready.
Explore FoundationsFor Your Relationship
For singles and couples ready to transform how they love, in a room where the work is live.
Explore the retreatFor Your Work
Professional facilitator training for coaches, therapists, and leaders through the Heart iQ Academy.
- What Only a Group Can Heal
- Mastery Facilitator Edition
- Circle Work Facilitator Training
- All Academy immersions
In Person
Retreats and immersions at New Eden and beyond, where the work goes deepest.
See the calendarA Personal Journey
There is no rush. Each step is an invitation, a doorway that opens when you are ready.
Step 1
Heart iQ Foundations
Learn the core practice
A self-paced introduction to the four core practices, inner tracking, emotional range and the foundations of Heart iQ Circle Work.
Explore FoundationsStep 2
Heart iQ Mastery
90 days of relational transformation
A 90-day container of personal, relational and circle practice, live community calls and a live Love, Relationships & You retreat.
Learn About MasteryStep 3
Accelerated Awakening
The advanced personal retreat
A seven-day application-based retreat for people ready to meet the work at greater depth and intensity in a live group field.
Explore Accelerated AwakeningStep 4
On the horizonBelong
The community that carries it
Ongoing circles, member hubs, and a shared library to keep practising with people who speak the language. Taking shape now, opening to the whole community soon.
Next Up, Live
The nearest doorways in: retreats, immersions, and gatherings at New Eden and beyond.
Sep 11 — 13, 2026
Online · 3 Days
Three live days of Circle Work teaching, facilitator-training footage, guided practice and daily questions with Christian. Friday to Sunday, 3 PM to 10 PM CEST.
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Oct 1 — 4, 2026
New Eden, Netherlands · 4 Days
An intimate retreat exploring the heart of your relational world. Four days of deep inquiry into love, intimacy, and what it truly means to show up fully in your most important relationships.
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Oct 4–18, 2026
New Eden, Netherlands · 14 Days
A facilitator immersion in healing, alchemy, and corrective experience. Fourteen days of intensive practice, embodiment, and deep facilitation training at New Eden, learning to hold space and facilitate transformation.
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Heart iQ Academy
For those called to hold space for others. The Academy is the professional training arm of Heart iQ, and its first specialisation, Healing in Tribe, is a 14-day facilitator immersion at New Eden in healing, alchemy, and corrective experience.
Immersion: October 4–18, 2026 · New Eden, the Netherlands
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Founder
Meet Christian Pankhurst
Heart iQ is the life’s work of Christian Pankhurst: chiropractor turned group facilitator, winner of Britain’s Next Top Coach in 2009, and author of the Amazon bestseller Insights to Intimacy. More than two decades and over 20,000 hours of live facilitation have shaped the method you meet on this page.
In 2015 he established New Eden in the Netherlands as the work’s permanent home, and he still leads most retreats and trainings himself.
New Eden
Set on 50+ acres of forest, meadows, and silence in the Netherlands, 90 minutes from Amsterdam. New Eden is the physical home of Heart iQ, and the ground from which this work grows.
Community house, ceremonial dome, sauna, pool, walking trails, and the kind of spaciousness that lets something deeper arrive.
B&B Stays at New Eden
What People Experience
Experiencing Heart IQ Circle Work was nothing short of profound... where deep listening, attuned touch, movement, and raw expression replaced the numbing and suppression of modern life.
I was confronted with difficult truths and shadow aspects of myself, yet in the safety of the field, I was able to face them, move through them, and step into liberation.
A simple yet powerful exercise on co-regulation helped me realize that my attempts to connect through words weren't enough. What she needed was presence, attuned physical touch, and deep listening beyond words.
Latest from Christian
Reflections on relationships, emotional awareness, and living from the heart.
4 June 2026
The Gift You Are Trying to Get Rid Of
So much of the healing world is organised around getting rid of things. Fixing what's broken, removing what's wrong with us. But whatever we try to get rid of tends to get stronger. A reflection on trauma, sensitivity, and the difference between erasing your history and alchemising it.
1 June 2026
When Healing Becomes a More Sophisticated Shame
There is a shame that hides as ambition, and a shame that hides as healing. The second is sneakier, because it looks like the cure. A reflection on the costume self-awareness can become, why pathologising every part of ourselves is not freedom, and what shadow work actually offers when it stops trying to fix us.
18 May 2026
Why the Wrong Relationship Feels So Right
Most of us were never taught the difference between love and intensity. So we chase the feeling, and we assume the rush is the real thing. Often it isn't. A reflection on why the connections that hurt us are sometimes the ones that felt the most right, why intensity bypasses judgment, and why the patterns that catch us are usually ones we're participating in too.