
The Heart iQ Facilitator Intensive
Become the Kind of Facilitator the World Needs Next
Lead Transformational Group Experiences That Awaken Collective Intelligence, Liberate Suppressed Life Force Held in the Shadow, and Unlock the Wisdom of the Body
June 25th - 29th, New Eden - Netherlands
July 9th - 13th, Casa Sagrada, Colorado, USA
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âI've been a therapist for 30 years & if others like me want to shed the therapist paradigm &Â move into real heart centered, transformative work, THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE!"Â
Joyce Lynn, Graduated from the Heart iQ Academy in 2013Â
If youâre a coach, therapist, or healer and youâve felt the limits of one-on-one work, this is your invitation into something deeper...Â
The Heart iQ Facilitator Intensive is a powerful, 4.5-day live experience where youâll learn to:
- Lead transformational group experiences that go beyond coaching
- Unlock the amplified power of Circle Work and group intelligence
- Liberate bound emotional energy stored in the body
- Deepen your confidence, presence, and facilitation range
Most space holders try to âhelpâ by solving problems.
In Heart iQ, we do it differently.
We read and attune to the emotional field of a group.
We expand the nervous systemâs capacity to receive love.
We create healing not by fixing â but by opening to whatâs already here.
Youâll walk away from this training with more than insight.
Youâll have real-world experience, new tools, and the embodied knowing that you can hold a group⌠and lead it somewhere truly transformational.
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âHealing happens in connection, not isolation. When we gather in tribe, we unlock a field of transformation that no one can access alone.â
CHRISTIAN PANKHURST, FOUNDER OF HEART IQ.
What Makes Heart iQ Different?
Heart iQ is not just about learning to facilitate groups â itâs about learning how to work with the field.
This modality blends circle work, somatic awareness, emotional range, shadow integration, and trauma-informed care. At its core, Heart iQ is about expanding into more of our true essence by tuning into love, connection, and community.
We donât just focus on the wound. We open to the intelligence of the body and the wisdom of the tribe.
We donât just reveal the shadow. We liberate life force by integrating repressed parts and expanding our ability to receive connection, presence, and belonging.
We donât just teach tools. We give you a transmission that changes who you are in the room.

Go Beyond One-to-One Work
Youâve likely felt it already: the limitations of working only in one-on-one containers.
There are places your clients canât reach alone.
Heart iQ and Circle Work unlock a new realm of transformation â powered by the intelligence of the group field.
Learn to lead spaces where collective resonance creates the breakthroughs no single session ever could.
Stand Out in a Crowded Market
Coaching has exploded. So has competition. If you want to rise above the noise, skill isnât enough â mastery is.
Most facilitators are trained to guide individuals. Very few know how to hold a room.
This training gives you a rare and potent skillset that positions you as a leader others remember, trust, and refer.


Multiply Your Impact and Income
Group work isnât just more powerful â itâs more scalable.
When you know how to hold deep, safe, and amplified group spaces, you can serve more people, more deeply â without burning out.
Whether you want to run retreats, grow your community, or expand your offerings, this training sets the foundation.

Step Into Whatâs Next
There comes a point on every facilitatorâs path where technique isnât enough.
Where you realize youâre no longer meant to follow methods â youâre meant to embody a transmission.
Youâve done the trainings. Youâve read the books. Youâve coached, guided, held space.
But something in you is stirring â a deeper knowingâŚ
That the next chapter of your leadership wonât come from more information â it will come from transformation.
This intensive isnât just about learning a new tool.
Itâs about becoming the kind of leader who channels wisdom in real-time, who reads the room without words, and who creates spaces where others remember who they truly are.
Itâs about anchoring into a kind of presence that doesnât just facilitate growth â it amplifies it.
Youâre not here to stay in the known.
Youâre here to become a vessel for something bigger than yourself.
To become a clear, coherent signal that calls others home.

Where Leaders Go to Expand Their Capacity to Hold SpaceÂ
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Anyone can learn techniques. But the worldâs most impactful leaders donât just share informationâthey transmit a deeper frequency of presence, mastery, and embodied transformation.Â
If youâre a coach, therapist, facilitator, or leader, the Heart iQ Facilitator Intensive is a full-bodied immersion into a new way of holding space. You wonât just learn how to facilitate; youâll experience firsthand the power of a high-coherence field and what it means to anchor transformation in your own being.Â
Great leaders donât just guide others through changeâthey become the change. This is where you step into that level of mastery.
Client Spotlight: Jenni Morris, Colorado, USA
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What Others
Have Experienced
"This training is heart-centered, heart-led and heart-opening. You will laugh. You will cry. But most of all you will deepen in an experience of what it is to truly feel loved and to love others authentically from your innermost heart.â
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- Priya Mahtani, Graduated in 2014
"I can't see how I could do the work in my community helping and mentoring young men, giving them a sense of purpose and belonging, without using the Heart iQ model. Now I am giving back. Thank you!""
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- Dan Hartley, Graduated in 2012
"Since using Heart iQ with my clients, I'm having amazing results. It's changing peoples lives! They're sharing, expressing, and feeling without holding back."
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- Marc Adams, Graduated in 2013
"It has made such a HUGE difference in myself and my abilities to be present with clients. It has TRANSFORMED MY COACHING!"
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- Kim Joy, Graduated in 2014
"This young man, Christian Pankhurst, knows how to articulate these messages as well as, if not better than I can. He is a profound source of wisdom and depth.
NEALE DONALD WALSH, NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
What Youâll Learn & Receive
This isnât just information. Itâs transformation â layered, embodied, and designed to last.
Over 4.5 days, youâll build the essential skills, fluency, and confidence to begin leading Heart iQ Circle Work. Whether youâre just starting out or deepening an existing practice, this training meets you where you are, offering a powerful first step on the path to Heart iQ mastery. While true mastery takes years, this journey lays the foundation for becoming a skilled facilitator of embodied, connection-based group work.
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Learn how to lead circles using the Heart iQ Open S.P.A.C.E model
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Receive a transmission of the  4 energetic dimensions of circle work: Relational, Emergent, Alchemy & Liberation
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Learn how to facilitate without rescuing, fixing, or diagnosing
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Learn how to receive feedback, track group energy, and open to intelligence of the Field
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Learn how to build the inner capacity to be a non-anxious, regulated presence
What is a Heart iQ Open S.P.A.C.E Circle?Â
The Core of This 4.5 Day Intensive
At the heart of this intensive lies the Open S.P.A.C.E Circle â Heart iQâs foundational practice and methodology for trauma-informed, attuned group facilitation.Â
This is the root system of all that youâll be embodying and practicing during the event.Â
An Open S.P.A.C.E Circle is a somatically anchored sharing space â one that invites truth to arise naturally from the body, not the mind. Itâs undirected, unforced, and co-created moment by moment, based on whatâs alive in the field.Â
Unlike therapy, coaching, or advanced trauma process work, Open Space is not about fixing or performing. Itâs about cultivating a group nervous system of presence, resonance, and coherence â so that when someone speaks, they are not just heard, they are felt.Â
Throughout the event, youâll be part of an intimate practice pod of around 8 participants, where youâll have the opportunity to refine your skills, explore a range of Circle Work tools, and receive real-time feedback and guidance to support your growth as a facilitator.


The Open S.P.A.C.E. Framework
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Heart iQâs Open S.P.A.C.E Circle is guided by five core competencies:Â
S â Slowing DownÂ
We create safety through tempo. By slowing down, we allow the body to speak, the field to settle, and truth to emerge gently and fully. Healing happens when things become feelable â and feelable happens when thereâs space.
P â PresenceÂ
We train our capacity to stay with what is â to witness without rushing, fixing, or pulling attention. This is the ground of all authentic facilitation.
A â AttunementÂ
We listen with our entire nervous system â becoming available to feel and be felt, to track impact, and to reflect with sensitivity and care.
C â ConnectionÂ
We build a resonant, relational field where individuals feel not only accepted, but belonged. Where your truth can touch others, and theirs can touch you.
E â EmbodimentÂ
We support truth to be shared not just with words, but through tone, breath, sensation, posture, and presence â so that whatâs felt becomes fully expressed and integrated.
What Youâll Be Learning and PracticingÂ
During the intensive, youâll be developing the real-world, embodied skills to:
- Create and maintain somatic safety and co-regulation in a group setting
- Hold space for truth-telling without fixing, teaching, or collapsing into emotionÂ
- Track subtle cues and amplify whatâs alive in the room â without taking over
- Invite depth, authenticity, and connection in a way that feels gentle, clean, and clearÂ
- Help participants share from their bodies, not their stories â and be witnessed in wholenessÂ
- Reflect and mirror with precision and care, so others feel seen, felt, and metÂ
- Practice attuned leadership that slows down the field, bringing safety and coherence
- Guide a group to speak into whatâs unspoken â not through confrontation, but through presence


Explore Whatâs Possible â Without Needing to Master It All Now
Youâll be immersed in a wide range of Heart iQ Circles, offering a powerful window into whatâs possible as you deepen your mastery. While the field is emergent and ever-responsive to the group, you can expect to experience a variety of transformational circles and themes â each designed to expand your awareness, inspire your facilitation, and reveal the full potential of this work. Some of the formats we may explore includeâŚ
- Grief Circles â help others name and feel their losses in a safe, held field
- Shame Sharing Circles â invite exiled parts to be met with love and resonance
- Wisdom Council Circles â access the intelligence of the group without advice-giving
- Dare to Share Circles â open tension-releasing truth in the group for greater unity
- Needs & Boundaries Circles â support participants in naming and expressing what they truly want
- Generational Release Circles â create space to speak what no longer belongs to us
- Clearing Circles â resolve unspoken tension and restore relational coherence
RECEIVE A TRANSMISSION OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE
The R.E.A.L. Model of Heart iQ Facilitation
A Glimpse into the Future of Your Mastery
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One of the most powerful reasons to attend this intensive live is to receive a direct transmission of whatâs possible in this work â a felt, energetic imprint that you carry into your personal and professional life.
This is the foundation of embodied leadership: where who you are becomes the medicine, and your presence speaks louder than any technique.
During this immersion, youâll be guided through four advanced Heart iQ circle formats â not to learn how to facilitate them (that takes years to master), but to experience their depth, power, and transformative potential.
These circles form the R.E.A.L. Model â a dynamic map of how collective intelligence moves through group space, offering different flavors of healing, awakening, and expansion.
Each one reveals a unique dimension of whatâs possible when space is held with attunement, presence, and amplified field awareness.
Once you experience them, youâll never hold space the same way again.

Relational Circles
A space where two or more individuals come together to explore the intelligence of the field between them â deepening intimacy, polarity, truth, and connection.
This is the evolution of âus.â

Emergent Circles
A surrender into the intelligence of the collective field â where âweâ awakens and something greater moves through us all.
This is where âmeâ becomes âweâ â and the magic unfolds.

Alchemy Circles
A therapeutic group space where trauma is gently revisited, re-patterned, and healed through physicalization, attunement, and corrective experience.
This is healing in motion â where the nervous system rewires in connection.

Liberation Circles
A space for shadow work, emotional range expansion, and the reclamation of bound life force.
This is where power and permission meet.
Hear From Those Whoâve Experienced It
Watch as past participants share how this facilitator intensive has transformed their professional and personal livesâmore impact, more income, doing what they love.
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More Participant Experiences
"Eye-opening is the best way to describe this retreat. 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. The experience was deeply transformative, and Iâm leaving with so much to carry forward into my life."
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Anselm Achberger
"Every Heart iQ retreat leaves me with a full heart and a renewed sense of possibility. It has expanded my capacity to feel, express, and connect more deeply than anything else in my life. The experience is nothing short of magical, and Christian and Sumir are masterful facilitators who hold the space with unwavering presence."
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Sasha Langesfeld
"Experiencing Heart IQ Circle Work was nothing short of profound. It felt like stepping into an ancient way of healingâwhere deep listening, attuned touch, movement, and raw expression replaced the numbing and suppression of modern life. In this masterfully held space, I confronted and embraced parts of myself I had long rejected, receiving imprints of compassion that redefined how I want to live. Witnessing others in their liberation became my own. This wasnât just personal healingâit was a portal for collective awakening."
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Karmen Kovic
âOne of the biggest gifts I received from my time with Christian was learning to trust my body as a guide for authentic connection. A simple yet powerful exercise on co-regulation helped me realize that my attempts to connect with my partner through words werenât enoughâwhat she needed was presence, attuned physical touch, and deep listening beyond words. That night, I simply held her, and like magic, we refound our connection. Since then, this practice has transformed how we relateâbringing more depth, presence, and ease into our relationship. Iâm deeply grateful for this unexpected yet life-changing gift."
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Client Spotlight: Coco, NC, USA
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Meet Christian...
Before I could guide others into wholeness, I had to find it for myself.
Hi, Iâm Christian Pankhurst, founder of Heart iQâ˘, and Iâm honored to be your guide on this path.
My journey began in a childhood marked by intensity and unsafety â experiences that led me to years of anxiety, panic, and inner disconnection.
Through these challenges, I developed Heart iQâ˘: a trauma-informed, body-based approach to healing and group facilitation that now helps thousands of others lead with more presence, depth, and authenticity.
Iâve spent the last 20 years refining this method and training facilitators across the globe.
Along the way, Iâve integrated wisdom from both Eastern and Western traditions â always with the goal of creating safe, attuned group spaces where transformation happens naturally.
If youâre ready to deepen your impact, lead from your heart, and become a master of embodied spaceholding, Iâd be honored to walk beside you on this journey.
Now, let me introduce you to the rest of my team â the ones whoâll be supporting you every step of the way.

THE TEAM
Heart iQ Facilitators, Teachers & Embodiment Coaches

Sylvie FrĂśhlicher
Heart iQ Facilitator & Embodiment Coach
Sylvie FrĂśhlicher is a skilled somatic coach, circle facilitator, and embodiment teacher passionate about empowering clients to embrace bold, vulnerable, and authentic self-expression. She has a unique ability to create playful yet deeply transformative spaces, enabling individuals and groups to connect with their true essence and foster meaningful growth.
Sylvieâs expertise spans conscious communication, somatic intelligence, powerful self-expression, deep listening, and loving curiosity.
A strong advocate for inclusion, Sylvie is dedicated to amplifying unheard voices and creating spaces where diversity is celebrated and respected. She believes in the power of authentic self-expression as a catalyst for social change, beginning with the transformation of individuals and radiating outward to impact communities.
Sylvieâs holistic and integrative approach reflects her belief that true transformation arises from embracing both our strengths and vulnerabilities, enabling us to show up fully for ourselves and the world around us.

Sumir Brown
Heart iQ Facilitator & Lead Teacher
 Sumir is a sought-after international facilitator specializing in Womenâs, Menâs, and Couples retreats. Her work focuses on attunement to love, expanding consciousness, and the art of beingness, guiding individuals toward deeper connection and self-awareness.
As the co-founder of New Eden, a retreat center in Friesland, The Netherlands, Sumir has created a space for personal and collective transformation. She is also co-owner of The Lilley Center, a wellness hub in the United States, and founder of Feminine Rising and Humanityâs Heart, a nonprofit fostering compassion and unity.
Since 2014, Sumir has played a vital role in nurturing Heart iQ, co-creating New Eden, and building multiple successful ventures. Her partnership with Christian reflects her commitment to cultivating relationships founded on emotional intelligence and mutual growth. Through her unique blend of personal growth and professional expertise, Sumir empowers individuals and couples to unlock their potential, embrace vulnerability, and embody their fullest expression of being.

Lara Kolesar
Embodiment Facilitator
Lara is the Founder of the BodyAsMuse Method and The Art of Ecstatic Touch, both born from her devotion to the body as a gateway to presence, pleasure, and profound transformation.
She opens herself to the field of aliveness and gently attunes others to itâguiding them home to the truth of who they are through touch, breath, movement, and the body's innate intelligence.
Rooted in a lineage of subtle awareness and energetic alchemy, her work draws from the wisdom of authentic Tantric Yoga, bodywork modalities, Heart IQ, and somatic awakening.
Her approach is grounded in years of hands-on experience and her own journey of healing and deepening embodiment.
Through workshops, retreats, and collaborative events, she creates compassionate spaces for individuals to slow down, attune to themselves, and discover the pleasure of being fully in their bodies. Her work invites others to embrace the body as a sacred ally, opening the door to more connection, vitality, and truth.
Choose Your Location
You can attend the Heart iQ Facilitator Intensive in the Netherlands or the United States. Explore the options below and when you're ready to apply, simply click "Begin Your Application"
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Join Us in the Netherlands
đ Location: New Eden Retreat Center, Friesland, Netherlands
đď¸ Dates: June 25â29, 2025
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Early Commitment Bonus (Save 50%): âŹ995
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Standard Rate: âŹ1,995
(Tuition only â accommodation & meals extra)
đ˝ď¸ Meals & Accommodation: âŹ460
Includes 4 nights in shared occupancy and 3 nourishing vegetarian meals per day.
Upgrades to private rooms available. Camping options offered at a lower rate.
đ Why New Eden?Â
New Eden is our own dedicated retreat center, nestled in 50 acres of private forest. Itâs a sanctuary of presence, magic, and transformation â far from distractions, fully devoted to your growth. This is where Heart iQ was born and where itâs most powerfully felt.
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Join Us in the United States Â
đ Location: Casa Sagrada, Downtown Loveland, Colorado
đď¸ Dates: July 9â13, 2025
đľ Investment:Â
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Early Commitment Bonus (Save 50%): $995
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Standard Rate: $1,995
(Tuition only â accommodation & meals not included)
đ¨ Where to Stay:Â
Casa Sagrada is located in the heart of Loveland with a wide selection of local Airbnbs and hotels just minutes away. Once registered, youâll receive a curated list of recommended accommodations and nearby restaurants â everything within easy walking distance.
đ Why Casa Sagrada?Â
This stunning, renovated church blends urban soul with sacred energy. Under vaulted ceilings and stained glass, youâll step into a space that feels both grounded and transcendent â like being taken to church in the most heart-opening way. Itâs a place where community, transformation, and your authentic leadership can truly come alive.
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Attend the entire training, participate fully in all sessions, and if by the end you feel this retreat didnât offer the value you were hoping for, come speak to us before you leave. Weâll refund your tuition in full within 30 days.
Please note: Food and accommodation costs are non-refundable.
This is our way of honoring your courage to say yes, while giving you peace of mind that your investment is safe..
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This isnât just another training. Itâs a turning point.
If something in you feels the pull â a knowing, a quickening, a quiet âyesâ â this is your invitation to follow it.
Whether youâre ready to expand your impact, deepen your embodiment, or finally feel part of a community that gets you, this journey will meet you where you are⌠and take you where youâre meant to go.
You donât need to have it all figured out. You just need to show up.
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