An invitation to ignite, enliven and expand your connection to a Greater Guidance through a channelled Guided Journey…
We are all capable of connecting intuitively to a source of wisdom and knowing. It could be one’s Soul, Angels, Animals Spirits, Guides, Ancestors (to give a few examples) or something that is beyond a name or label – and none of these are mutually exclusive! Our beliefs and experiences are diverse. The term “Greater Guidance” serves as an umbrella for this ineffable, loving wisdom. How we sense, perceive and receives prompts, messages and signs is also different for each of one us. This changes over time, as we ourselves change and develop. There is no right or wrong way; the magic happens when we nurture our own way.
You will be led on a Guided Journey, to have an experience. It is not just what is spoken, but the energy being brought through, to create a conduit and container. Trance mediums, in an expanded state of consciousness, can channel words, art, healing – but the essence of it all is energy. Tanya will co-create an energetic space to facilitate your abilities to connect, receive and discover.
Often we have preconceptions about what should happen during a Guided Journey. Cast these aside and be open to exploring and expanding your personal way of communing with the Cosmos!
The aim is not to have a one-off experience, but to use this as a stepping stone to develop your relationship with this Greater Guidance, in your daily life.
Tanya is a psychic medium with a passion for trance mediumship and working with expanded states of consciousness, including Holotropic Breathwork. She has trained and studied evidential and trance mediumship under a number of Arthur Findlay College tutors and internationally renowned mediums. Tanya works in a one-to-one or group setting, to support individuals in developing their intuition and connection to a Greater Guidance, and in so doing, foster their self-empowerment. She also offers readings that are a mix of modalities and seeks to involve her client in the process.
What to Bring
Participants will be writing and/or drawing during the session, so be sure to have paper and a writing implement or two on hand.
Signing Up
Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!
As you will see in the registration form, there are two options for registering. However, thanks to the generosity of Neal Grossman, we are able to offer reduced (or even free) registrations to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. If you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, please selected the Supporting Angel ticket to make another free ticket available for future participants.
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You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.
Many people overlook the deeply metaphorical nature of our language, thought, and action. Metaphor can help us access deeper levels of consciousness, connecting to more universal and creative aspects of what it means to be human and revealing the interrelationships with each other and the world around us.
This creative workshop will guide participants through a series of Clean Language* questions to facilitate an imaginative process that will allow each person to create (by drawing, annotating and speaking in response to the questions) a personal metaphor, grounded in their own physical, cultural and creative experience.
The starting point will be to imagine a vessel, as an invitation to connect to individual and shared meaning and experience of what it means to be in participatory and reciprocal relationship with other humans and the more-than-human world.
*Clean Language is a method of questioning that removes all assumptions and biases from the questioner. Through a set of 12 simple questions, it draws on the power of metaphor to allow people to develop meaning and clarity that can support them to bring about personal or group change.
Jessica is an experienced facilitator with over a decade of expertise in Bohm Dialogue. The principles of a dialogue practice provide a grounding in all aspects of her facilitation work. As founder of Creating Meaning, she works with purpose-led organisations, supporting them to navigate complexity and change and strengthen the human skills that make transformation possible. Alongside her facilitation work she is researching a PhD in ecolinguistics and regenerative language. Enriched by her background in art and design, Jessica weaves theory and practice to create meaningful and creative dialogues and workshops that aim to transform how people communicate and relate to themselves, each other and the world around them.
What to Bring
During this session you will be drawing an image of your personal metaphor. Come prepared with drawing materials of your choice – pens, pencils, and paper. We will work on one sheet of paper so if you are able to have a largish sheet of paper (A3 or flipchart size, although A4 will also work) that will give you more space for your drawing to evolve throughout the process. The workshop will be a combination of individual drawing and small group discussion so please be prepared to participate in breakout sessions. Please ensure your microphone is working ahead of time, and we encourage you to have your cameras on during the breakouts to help the small groups connect and share together.
How we tell our stories – to ourselves and others – shapes our lives and defines the boundaries of our world. To fully explore consciousness, we must examine the stories that hold us. Join Robin Rice, Master Storyteller and Alchemist, as she guides you through deconstructing three of your personal life stories to see what they hide and reveal. You’ll then practice a “cleaner” and more integrated storytelling process. You will also learn how consciousness itself can be invited to become a character in your narrative. Expect a lifting of old burdens and a revitalization of your stories going forward.
Robin Rice is an AGI Strategist, serving as a trusted partner to C-suite leaders navigating the ethical frontiers of emerging technologies. Bridging the gap between code and consciousness, she helps her clients align their efforts with the betterment of humanity. She is the author of 11 books and a Story Strategist behind multiple high-profile bestsellers. Her interest in conscious narrative is largely due to her 28 years of personal inquiry into the “hard problem” of consciousness—a journey sparked by a profound personal awakening at age 35. Her latest project, the audiobook Stories About Stories with Robin Rice, explores these intersections and is available for free on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Learn more at RobinRice.com.
No background in storytelling or writing in general is required for this workshop, only an interest in trying something different in a safe, welcoming online group setting.
Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality
From the Indigenous to the Academic
A unique conference to explore how experiential and intellectual learning can be united into a fully holistic science.
ICRL’s president, Jeff Dunne, is proud to be chairing this special event at the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy from May 20-27, 2026. Bringing together some of the greatest minds and hearts of our time from both Western and Indigenous cultures, we will hear presentations, engage in practices and ceremonies, and discover the power of collaborative, community exploration of ourselves and our realities.
Do not wait to register, as space is limited to 30 participants and will fill up very quickly. Click below to learn more and reserve your place!
Knowing the Knower
The Physics of Consciousness and the Hidden Nature of Reality
In this conversation, episode 5 of the Galileo Commission‘s “Know Thyself” podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Dunne and Athena Potari explore how self-inquiry stands as the foundation of authentic science — how understanding the knower becomes essential to understanding the known.
Synchronicity, Self Awareness, and the Collective Future
ICRL’s Jeff Dunne returns to the Connecting with Coincidence podcast in episode # 425 to talk with Dr. Bernard Beitman about Synchronicity, Self Awareness, and the Collective Future (and not a small number of other fascinating topics to boot).
degree from Hollis University and has accumulated a diverse work experience, spanning multiple disciplines: education, technology, business and law, predominately in support and administrative roles. She currently works for the College of New Jersey in its Office of Disability Support Services. Lynn Ann has been an administrative assistant to ICRL’s President since 2011, and has extensive familiarity with the organization’s structure and activities, along with a deep commitment to its mission.
Vasileios Basios is a physicist, conducting interdisciplinary research on the foundations of complexity science and nonlinear systems, self-organization and complex matter. During his formative years, he was tutored by Ilya Prigogine, at ULB where he received his PhD, and by Emilios Bouratinos on meditation and philosophy. He is currently interested in the complex interface between action and information. Other interests include the history of ideas in science and their role in the transformation of science beyond the prevailing naïve, materialistic, mechanistic-reductionist world-view. With others from PEAR, he initiated the Mind-Matter-Mapping Project and has since published several essays for ICRL. He is also a member of the Board of the Scientific and Medical Network and the Steering Team of the Galileo Commission. Vasileios is inspired by the prospect of introducing self-reflection into the practice and understanding of science, and the emergence of a Self-Reflexive Science of Consciousness.
Ian Cook is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he directs the UCLA Depression Research and Clinic Program at the Semel Institute and was the inaugural holder of the Joanne and George Miller and Family Endowed Chair in Depression Research at the Brain Research Institute. He has been a part of the PEAR/ICRL family since 1980, when he was among the first undergraduate students to conduct research at the PEAR lab. He graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and pursued his residency training and research fellowship at UCLA. His research has focused on understanding the relationships among the mind, the brain, and the body, and in translating developments in technology into more effective treatments for disorders of mood and cognition.
Bob (Brahmatirtha) was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1949, completed his B.S. in Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971, and received his M.S. in Geology from Rutgers University in 1975. After a twenty-year career serving as a geologist and vice-president of a large regional environmental company, he currently works as an environmental consultant to state governments. He has been a member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute since the inception in 1976, giving a presentation at their First International Conference on Life Comes from Life in 1977, and working on a multitude of projects with R.L. Thompson (Sadaputa) from 1995 through 2008. He is also a certified court mediator. He now serves as the Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies.
Carolyn is a writer and dancer, two avenues that support her central purpose as a healer. Through her numerous books she teaches that every moment brings unbidden opportunities from the universe, that every day of is filled with beauty and surprise. Ecstatic experience is the goal of her work, the personal to the cosmic. 
The largest dataset collected at PEAR used Random Event Generators, or REGs. These devices were essentially electronic coin flippers that produced a series of 1’s and 0’s; operators were instructed to influence the machines to produce more 1’s than 0’s or vice versa.
