Heart-Based Community Building for Well-Being Professionals

Are you a well-being professional, a change maker, a pioneer at something that contributes to the well-being of people, animals or the planet? If your answer is yes, then you might have the dream of having your own heart-based community of people who share your mission, who feel deeply connected, who support each other, who keep involved, join your sessions and support each other. Maybe your dream community is worldwide and huge, maybe your community is local and small, maybe it's both. 

Does it sound too good to be true? Have you already started with online or offline communities and encountered some struggles? Are you wondering how to reach people, how to engage them, how to keep them involved, and how to do all of this without exhausting yourself? Do you have a complicated relationship with social media, hate spending too much time online and have some hesitation around your (online) visibility? Have you encountered some of your own shadows around money or anxiety around being considered too 'pushy', 'salesy', 'commercial', 'woo woo' or too 'alternative'? Have you watched how the voice in your mind saying you're 'too much' can paralyze you, or was it the voice telling you you are not 'good enough'?

Rest assured that many well-being professionals struggle with exactly the above. Many of us have the silent script of 'I first need to be perfect' before I can expose myself and start building a community. Many amazing people exhaust themselves by trying to do what the social media gurus tell them to do, and then stop completely, burned-out and discouraged. I've talked to them. I've listened to their stories. I've been there myself. 

And I also know that there is another way. A way that works, and that can nourish you instead of exhausting you. In the EcoNIDRA teacher training, I have devoted a whole module to what I call the Authentic Marketing. Consider this course to be a 2.0 version of that, based on your particular questions and situation. We've got this! We are in this together. We are one beautiful worldwide mycelium, and we have collective wisdom to share with each other!

Video Walk-Through: What will you Receive in this Course?

Contents

  • 01

    Connecting with your Intention

    • Welcome

      FREE PREVIEW

    • How to get the Most out of this Course

    • Planting the Seeds of your Intention

    • EcoNIDRA Practice to Plant your Intention

    • The Structure of this Course
  • 02

    The Heart-Based Way

    • Breaking it Down to Little Pieces

    • My Journey with Heart-Based Communities

    • The Paradox: Subtle Action

    • The Heart-Felt Sense of the Present Moment

    • EcoNIDRA: Your Heart-Felt Wish

    • Reflective Writing

    • Playsheet
  • 03

    Seeing the Shadows

    • Our Programming: The 4 Resistance Archetypes

    • Our Programming: The Silent Scripts

    • Our Programming: Not Asking for Help

    • From Hiding behind the Practice to Authentic Self-Expression

    • The Biggest Trap: 'I'm Alone in This.'

    • Perfectionism is Anti-Life

    • Radical Respect for Other (Human) Beings

    • PS: Don't Become a Cult Leader ツ

    • Reflective Writing

    • Playsheet
  • 04

    Seeing the Light

    • The Sunlight Through the Leaves: A Guided Komorebi Journey

    • Nourishing Yourself and Your Community

    • Examples & Tips for Local Communities

    • Examples & Tips for Online Communities

    • Real Connection: The Way of Council

    • Acts of Kindness & Words of Magic

    • How to Be Discovered, Not Pushy

    • The Different Way of Doing Social Media

    • The Path Is the Destination

    • Reflective Writing

    • Playsheet
  • 05

    Daring to Simplify & Play

    • Guided Imaginal Journey: The Light in Your Eyes

    • How can I make this Easy and Fun for Myself?

    • Collective Learning: Community #1

    • Collective Learning: Community #2

    • Collective Learning: Community #3

    • We are Creating this New World Together

    • Reflective Writing

    • Playsheet
  • 06

    Bonus 1: The Bohemian Recipe for Living Lightly

    • The Bohemian Recipe for Living Lightly
  • 07

    Bonus 2: The Bohemian Recipe for Abundance

    • The Bohemian Recipe for Abundance

This course is based on:

If we want to create a new world, we can't create it the old way.

  • Real Experience

    This course is based on real experience with about 20 years of heart-based community building, including the struggles, the successes and the aha-moments leading to communities that feel nourished, deeply connected and involved. It's an honest and authentic conversation about the topics that pretty much all community builders bump into, with examples of real and successful communities as well as those who are on the way, discovering and sharing their insights. In each module, you are invited to reflect on concrete questions in journaling exercises and to directly implement even the smallest insights and changes into your life and work with the so called Play-sheets (we don't work, we play :).

  • Collective Wisdom

    The course taps into the collective wisdom based on honest conversations with well-being professionals like forest therapy guides, movement, dance and breathwork facilitators, EcoNIDRA teachers, yoga teachers, coaches, therapists, sound healers, meditation teachers, mindfulness trainers and more. It is based on the experience of real communities and the insights and struggles of community builders who co-shaped the content.

  • Deep Dive

    The struggles and questions that appear on the surface are often the top of the iceberg. The roots go much deeper into the community holders' own experience of life, high standards for ourselves, expectations form others, and our thought and behavioral patterns. That's why this course is also a very practical and very deep dive into our shadows, into the light and into the topics of self-care, self-awareness, and how to be a frequency holder and heart-keeper in your daily life. It is a practical and inspirational guide for you to bring more ease and simplicity into the process of community building and living your life in an effortless way.

How does this Course Work?

This course is based on simplicity, authenticity and collective wisdom. It has been created on demand and it keeps growing organically, with content like videos about inspiring topics, audio for your deep relaxation & reconnection like EcoNIDRA and guided imaginal journeys, questions for reflective journaling and play-sheets with fun tips to implement small changes directly. Heart-based community builders like you from all around the world have shared what they would like to learn in this course, and very honestly shared their questions, struggles, shadows, doubts and hopes around community, the process of community building and engagement, (online) visibility, and the dilemmas of being approachable versus spending too much time online, the sustainable way spreading their mission and maintaining their own energy and well-being at the same time, the role of social media, and more. The result is inspiration, wisdom, eye-openers and very practical invitations for you to directly implement into your community building and into your own life. We are creating this New World together.

Your Investment

An Investment in Yourself is an Investment in the whole Community.

Instructor(s)

Instructor Bio:

Kat is the founder and teacher of EcoNIDRA™. Kat's passion and mission are to help people reconnect with nature, with themselves and others, by focusing on deep relaxation, slowing down, the heart intelligence and the relationship between humans and the planet. As a certified Forest Therapy Guide, Kat has guided more than 420 groups in both private and corporate settings. As a former Forest Therapy trainer (ANFT) and EcoNIDRA founder, she has trained about 230 Forest Therapy guides and 140+ EcoNIDRA teachers to spread this connective work even more. As a Chair of the European Council of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, Kat has served to nourish the community of European Forest Therapy guides. Kat has more than two decades of experience in teaching adult students in both private and InCompany settings. She is trained in Yoga Nidra, Forest Therapy, Holistic Nutrition, Cross-Cultural Communication, and is using her skills, gifts and passion to help improve the wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature.

Kat Mertens

Founder, Certified EcoNIDRA™ Teacher

What others said:

“Kat, after so many years of taking marketing courses from the time I first became a health educator, it has kind of burned me out. Your module about Authentic marketing has been like a breath of fresh air. I am really feeling my next steps already in a much more authentic way. Thank you.”

Training Participant

“I want you to know how much I love you and your beautiful energy. You inspire me always with your sweetness, wisdom, knowledge and loving nature. Your creative energy has led you to create absolutely amazing gifts to the world, for which we are all grateful for. Your mentorship, your listening and allowing heart stoke the hearth of so many people. I can only wish that I can find within myself the confidence and ease that you show in all of your creative endeavours. I absolutely love how you follow your visions to create beauty and love that allow others to find their paths. You are an important part of my lineage 💗💗💗 and I deeply thank you with all my heart.”

Training Participant

“Dit resoneert helemaal met me! Zeer goed, met mooie, duidelijke praktijkvoorbeelden en tips vanuit Kat's eigen ervaringen. En dat al in de eerste twee hoofdstukken! Een absolute aanrader voor welzijnsprofessionals die op authentieke en écht hart-gevoelde manier willen (samen)werken.”