“Working with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Patricia Ellsberg’s class Ego to Essence is one of the most important pieces of personal work that I have done in recent years. To be given the tools to recognize ego and then move it, through love, to the sacredness of essence is the deepest, holiest, most spiritual work one can do. Transformative work is always challenging, and Barbara Marx Hubbard and Patricia Ellsberg guide you gently and with deep love.”

Donna Powers
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

“Barbara and Patricia offer a clear and powerful process for entering into a deep communion with our Higher Self. Their love and wisdom, and their joy in working together, create a nourishing and healing container for all of us who are called to do this critical inner work.”

Deborah Aikens
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.

"One of my favorite Barbara Marx Hubbard expressions is ’crisis preceeds transformation.’ The ’Ego to Essence’ program showed me not only how to deal with these crises but to embrace them and Thrive... highly recommended for those who need practical tools you can apply to your everyday life."

Tony Cotton
West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.

"In my over three decades of seeking self and spiritual growth I have not experienced anything more profoundly transformative than the Ego to Essence teleclass by Patricia Ellsberg and Barbara Marx Hubbard. I have never felt such joy, safety, comfort, compassion and gratitude as when I am in the space of full surrender to my Universal Self, and I would still continue to struggle to find that state without the guidance of Patricia and Barbara."

Kathryn Brewer
Arroyo Grande, California, U.S.

“It was such a privilege to be taught by two eminent souls with such love, grace and true humility. The goal of all spiritual striving, shifting from ego to essence is to manifest love in it’s purest form, which infuses us, all we come into contact with, and the greater collective field. For this offer to come into your life tells me you are a beautiful soul, don’t miss this chance to contact the bliss that you already are. Just Do It!”

Lynda Joy Somerville
Plymouth, United Kingdom

“Patricia Ellsberg embodies the whole course in her voice. To me, she seems to live in her Essence with no hint of ego. The relationship between Patricia and Barbara exemplifies the beauty of expressing and listening from Essence. The meditations and the teachings based on Barbara’s wonderful book, Emergence, are nothing less than profound.”

Karen Miner
Chesterland, Ohio, U.S.

“I found that with each passing week I was able to move deeper into my essence and to truly experience the depth and breadth of the magnificence that I am. The icing on the cake to put it so casually was that I had the opportunity to re-direct and re-image my past which enabled me to experience a more genuine and safe ‘present.’ Thank you All for this incredible journey of becoming!”

Alice Peabody
Benson, Arizona, U.S.

“The Ego to Essence classes open one’s heart to His/Her Beloved Self. Essence frees us from the imposed fear from the Ego and we evolve into the pure vibration of the Light of Creator. A must course for all to evolve. Words are hard to describe the impact of that course. It opened me up to so many dimensions.”

Evelyn Fisher
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada

The Emergence Process is described in Barbara’s inspiring book, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, which is recommended reading for anyone taking this course.

Week 1: Entering the Inner Sanctuary (Dec. 5)

In Week 1, you will:

• Make the personal shift from your egoic self to your Essential Self
• Begin to leave behind the concerns and pressures of daily life by creating an inner sanctuary
• Discover the deep connection you have with your Essential Self
• Be guided to strengthen your relationship with your own Inner Guide

“Infancy! This is the time when the newly born Universal Human emerges from the womb of self-centered consciousness and we begin to realize our new identity as our own higher Essential Self. We break out of the limits of our egoic identity and, in innocence and humility, make room for something new." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 2: Contemplating the Glory of the Beloved (Dec. 12)

In Week 2, you will:

• Discover the key to asking questions and receiving answers from your Essential Self
• Identify the specific qualities of your essence that you most love
• Experience the divine within, the Beloved, the inner voice and guide
• Integrate more fully the very highest qualities that you seek in yourself: joy, peace, security, love, wholeness, wisdom
• Take charge of your attention, which is vital to your emergence

"With the creation of an Inner Sanctuary, we have established the field of readiness for our emergence as Universal Humans. In the stillness, we may have felt the presence of our Essential Self, or perhaps a sense of expanded awareness and wholeness. Now, in this next step, we are ready to fully contemplate this Essential Self in its more personal form, the inner ’Beloved,’ and bring our focus to the specific qualities and wisdom of this all-knowing inner presence." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 3: Inviting the Beloved to Incarnate and Take Dominion (Dec. 19)

In Week 3, you will:

• Declare your heart’s desire for union with the Beloved; ask for a complete union of the human and divine within yourself
• Feel as if the Essential Self is incarnating, entering your body/mind and transforming it
• Lift the local self into a higher frequency vibration
• Feel a new freedom from anxiety, pressure and compulsions
• Follow the path of love by loving your own local selves and dissolving the sense of separation between ego and essence
• Fall in love with you Essential Self and experience a "natural high"

"Our Infancy is maturing. We, as emerging Universal Humans, leave behind our former self-consciousness and become aware of our Essential Self much of the time... At this stage the local egoic personality self becomes so enchanted with the experience of its Essential Self that it freely, voluntarily, even joyfully, chooses to surrender its dominance. It invites the beloved Essential Self to enter in the whole way. We gain a feeling of peace and joy as the local selves relax their fears and let go of their efforts to control." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 4: The Bliss of Union with the Human and the Divine (Jan. 2)

In Week 4, you will:

• Form a deeper chamber within your inner sanctuary, the "rose chamber of union of the human and divine"
• Experience the Essential Self as a radiant presence, glowing and emanating light
• Invite the local selves into the rose chamber, where they can merge with the light
• Experience your local selves becoming facets of your Essential Self rather than fragmented negative aspects of your personality
• Be guided by the Compass of Joy
• Learn to be in resonance with others, affirming the highest in one another
• Transmit bliss and fall in love with others at the essence level

"In this stage, for the first time, the Beloved takes the initiative and invites the local selves to come up into it. They enter a chamber of the heart and there in the field of love, experience the Bliss of Union of the Human and Divine." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 5: Shifting Your Identity (Jan. 9)

In Week 5, you will:

• Fully shift your identity to embody your Essential Self
• Recognize you are the guide who’s been guiding; the voice you’ve been hearing; the Beloved you have loved
• Begin to speak and write as the voice of your Essential Self
• Experience an "inner smile" and practice "initiatory love"
• Practice powerful affirmations, such as I AM love; I AM wisdom; I AM power; I AM the Beloved and feel your presence substantiating as them
• Move from witness consciousness to causal consciousness and cultivate greater receptivity to the larger design

"At this point in its development, the infant becomes a child. A new identity emerges, born out of the fusion of the Beloved and the local selves. In Childhood we come together as our integrated selves, as the Essential Self expressing through its personality self." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 6: Transferring Authority (Jan. 16)

In Week 6, you will::

• Examine your attitude toward authority in your life and develop your own authentic power
• Transfer authority and responsibility to your Essential Self
• Deepen your capacity to speak with and heal the wounds of your local selves
• Re-parent yourself by evolving and maturing your internalized mother and father and strengthen the inner masculine and feminine aspects of your being
• Become a loving parent to yourself and forgive your own unskillful behavior as you do that of a child

"In this stage, we learn that the nurturing parental authority is within us, as our essential divine essence. Now, as the process of incarnating continues, the Essential Self becomes proactive and is willing to be the genuine authority within the household of local selves. Our local selves become willing disciples of the Essential Self within." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 7: Educating Your Local Selves (Jan. 23)

In Week 7, you will:

• Create an expanded Inner Sanctuary and enter a "Sunlit Garden of Co-Creation"
• Develop the practice of creating "heaven within” yourself
• Learn the process through which the ego becomes the guide to essence; trust in the guidance of your new fused identity as ego/essence
• Stop trying to figure out or solve anything and experience the problems of your local self being dissolved, not solved
• Experience moving from local, linear time to non-local, non-linear time, the pure awareness of the present
• Experience self-evolution through self-elevation

"True Essential Self education begins when we are no longer looking outward to external powers but are experiencing the Bliss of Union, the Shift of Identity and the Transfer of Authority as an on-going, ever deepening process. We are no longer victims. There is no one to blame. We become co-creators of our own reality." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Week 8: The Repatterning of Life and Creating the New (Jan. 30)

In Week 8, you will:

• Take a moral inventory, asking, "What do I not want to have happening in my life any more?"
• Experience ease of effort replacing overwhelm and discover greater flow in your work and life, seamlessly blending being and doing
• Create resonance by attuning with others and becoming co-creative with them
• Align with the deeper patterns that are creating all existence and yourself
• Move toward becoming a Universal Human evolving as an expression of the magnificent, organizing universal intelligence; put this purpose first and realize that the "force of creation" is with you as you

"As young universal humans, we gradually come into greater Essential Self confidence, deeper trust of our inner knowing, a new way of relating to one another. There is a coincidental relationship between inner integration and outer manifestation. We see clear demonstrations that the inner creates the outer, that intention manifests, that our consciousness is causal in the events, relationships, projects and visions of our lives." -Barbara Marx Hubbard in Emergence

Weekly activities and live interactive calls include:

1. Eight weekly 90-minute class sessions with Barbara Marx Hubbard and her sister, Patricia Ellsberg, who Barbara considers one of the best teachers of the inner Shift available. Includes live, interactive calls plus Q&A time.
2. Eight 30-minute Global Café sessions: Live, teleconference discussions and breakout groups to facilitate your deepening into Emergence Process topics while giving you an opportunity to build connections with your fellow course-mates from around the world.
3. Weekly exercises and practices for deep inquiry and action-learning.
4. Optional online learning community throughout each week with other course participants.
5. Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the MP3 file to your iPod or audio player).
6. PDF transcripts for each class session.