The Great Work popped up in my feed at a time in my life when I was feeling aimless and lost. Every day felt like a repeat of the one before, focused on just maintaining life as a mother, spouse, employee, household manager, and small business owner. The description of the program spoke to my exact worries - how do I break the cycle of my thinking (often negative in nature) and figure out who I really am, what is important to me, and how to manifest a life from which I do not need to escape? When you have to dig deep, you need a facilitator who can ask the probing questions without making you feel vulnerable. Faith does such a good job of holding space for and spending focused time with each member (during group time and one-on-one appointments) to address their unique needs and ways of learning, processing, and final embodiment of the work. The pacing of the program meetings and homework is more than manageable, and the final product is important reference material for each individual's journey. It's not expected that you reach your fullest, embodied self by the end of the program, but the physical takeaways created become the map that guides you, on your own timeline. One extraordinary thing about The Great Work is that even though you are digging deep into yourself, it is not expected or necessary to fully share your traumas or personal problems unless you want to. You can do the work and reap the benefits even if you just listen and do the work on your own. I feel like there may be a perception that group work means having to bare it all to a group of strangers (even if some are friends), but that is not the case. There's also no hard and fast timelines. The program moves along in a logical way, but group participants do not need to feel pressured to fully complete each stage before the next, and the unique processing times of each member are respected. I have been so grateful for the sacred space that Faith created for a group of people in similar phases of their lives to come together and discover ourselves. There were some huge, enlightening revelations. I'm excited to witness, in myself and in the others, the continued growth that The Great Work started.

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