For your own life
Come home to more of yourself.
Begin gently with Heart iQ Foundations, build a daily practice through Mastery, or enter a deeper in-person retreat when the time is right.
Heart iQ · Together, we thrive
We go deepertogether than weever could alone.
Heart iQ is a body-based practice of emotional and relational intelligence. It helps you stay connected to yourself and meet another person without leaving what is true.
Now enrolling · Sep 11 — 13, 2026
What Only a Group Can Heal
A three-day live virtual retreat for coaches, healers and facilitators ready to discover what becomes possible when the group can participate.
20,000+hours of live facilitation
25+years of practice
30+countries reached
29live events through 2028
What Heart iQ is really about
There is a need in us that has no name. It is tribe.
Most personal growth asks you to understand yourself alone. Heart iQ brings that understanding into contact, where another person can affect you and where the group can offer something your mind cannot create by itself.
You learn to feel what is happening in your body, express what is true and let care reach you. The aim is a larger range for being human, especially when life becomes intense.
Feel
Notice what is alive before it becomes a reaction.
Express
Speak from your body without abandoning yourself.
Receive
Let care reach the places that learned to close.
Belong
Discover what becomes possible in a trustworthy group.
Three ways in
Start where your life is asking for something more.
You do not need to understand the whole path. Choose the doorway that feels closest to the life you are living now.
I’m here for
For love and relationship
Change how you meet the people you love.
Come on your own or with a partner. Learn what happens when contact becomes difficult, and find a more honest way back to one another.
For the people you serve
Learn to work with the whole room.
The Heart iQ Academy is for coaches, healers and facilitators who want to move beyond one-to-one insight into embodied group work.
Enter the room
Next, live.
Online gatherings and in-person retreats where the work becomes something you can feel.
Sep 11 — 13, 2026
Online · 3 Days
Three live days with Christian guiding embodied practice, teaching through real facilitator-training footage and staying in dialogue with the whole Zoom room. Friday to Sunday, 4 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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The founder
Christian Pankhurst
Christian has spent more than twenty-five years developing Heart iQ through live group facilitation. He still teaches from inside the room, where the work continues to evolve.
Meet Christian
The home of the work
New Eden
Fifty acres of forest and meadows in the Netherlands, with a residential retreat centre built for the kind of work that needs time, beauty and a shared home.
Discover New EdenWhat people carry home
Your inner lifechanges how youmeet another person.
These reflections come from people who have met Heart iQ through private study and the live rooms.
“This work helped my nervous system recognise a healthy relationship when it finally showed up.”
Sarah · London, UK
“Heart iQ made it safe for me to access my emotions, and it changed everything in my marriage.”
Marc · California, USA
From Christian
Ideas for living the work.
Essays on love, emotional life and the places where self-awareness becomes something we can live.
You do not have to know how far you want to go.
Foundations was made for people meeting Heart iQ for the first time. Begin privately, at your own pace, and discover what the practice opens in you. The wider horizon is belonging: bringing more of yourself into relationship and community.
Begin with Foundations