The Heart iQ Blog
Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.
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Video · 4:00The Practice Behind Becoming a Heart iQ Facilitator
Christian explains why facilitator development begins with personal practice, how supervised hot seats make group dynamics visible, and what it means to carry the work into daily life.
Video · 9:55The Magic of Emergence: A New Path to Healing Together
Christian explains field facilitation and the emergent coherence that can arise in group circle work, drawing on his experience training facilitators and running the Healing in Tribe retreat.
Video · 11:19How to Lead and Heal Without Being Perfect
Christian answers participant questions on separating trauma from personality, staying open on hard days, and why waiting to feel fully healed before serving others can become its own trap.
Video · 16:36Regulating Your Child’s Nervous System: It’s Never Too Late
Christian answers a parent's worry about missing the early window for co-regulating a child's nervous system, offering reassurance that attunement and repair remain possible at any age.
Video · 24:52A Dedication to Sumir Brown
A dedication to Sumir Brown following the June 2024 handover of her share of New Eden, with archive footage of the beginnings, shared work and community that helped make the centre possible.
Video · 41:37Behind the Scenes: 10 Days of Life-Changing Transformation
Christian reflects on ten days of facilitation at New Eden, exploring readiness for leadership, the capacity to receive, and what a tired group taught him about rest.
Video · 13:34From Trauma to Transformation
A 2015 facilitator-training demonstration of physicalisation, exploring what movement can reveal and why pace, consent and careful observation matter.
Video · 13:47How Becoming Attuned Can Unwind Your Trauma with Heart iQ Circle Work
Christian explores attunement, the experience of being supported, and why facilitators need to meet each person without assuming every difference is trauma.
Video · 17:36April's Update: Reflecting & Recharging
Christian reflects on a period of rest in Devon, teaching shadow work in Colorado, and the end of a relationship, exploring the blurred boundaries of facilitating community and his own need for personal healing.
Video · 27:54Time to Get Physical
Christian explains how circle facilitators read predictable energetic patterns between participants and use physicalisation to give clients a direct, in-the-body experience of an emotional range they are missing.
Video · 30:44Amplify Your Impact
Christian explains how resonance, safety and taking space combine to create an amplified field in group work, and how circle wisdom emerges when individuals speak what another needs to hear.
Video · 30:44Focus on Joy, Not Pain
Christian explains why Heart iQ works across multiple layers of a person, why group circle work differs from one-to-one coaching, and how the HEART acronym frames healing, growth and trust in life.