Consider the possibility that most people live their lives out in a sort of quiet desperation. They are desperate because they are trying to live up to the expectations of others, or the expectations that they have placed on themselves. They rarely enjoy simply just being who they are. There is a progression that happens. First, people forget themselves; then because they become traumatized or frustrated by life, they attempt to try to find themselves again. Perhaps they start going to church, or attend a workshop. They are trying to get back to the real. Some are successful, but most are not. Ultimately, those who are not successful resign themselves back into forgetfulness.

This state of being 'who you really are' is a childlike state of complete self-acceptance and connectedness to everything. In order to really be human, one has to let go of all the judgments and expectations that they have put on themselves, and just be real. Be who and what you really are. To be real is to be human. To be un-real is to be un-human.

I look at the idea of human potential, simply as the ability of a person to potentially be human. We have strayed so far away from ourselves, that we have grown used to the separateness. Separateness is the natural state for many people. We are separate from ourselves and each other. We are separate from the world we live in. We have forgotten who we are and where we are.

There are all sorts of workshops that center around human potential. Many workshops are process oriented, in that they offer a process through which participants are able to better understand who they are, or to actualize themselves. Processes run the gamut from meditation techniques, visualization and a host of others. If you go through a certain process that has been laid out for you in a workshop, you can definitely benefit with a sense of self-actualization, or a better sense of knowing yourself. Sadly, for many, as soon as they are back to their 'normal lives;' as soon as they are 'away' from the process, they begin to loose the sense of self-actualization that they achieved through the process.

Heart of the Initiate workshops are experiential in nature, rather than process oriented. We are not going to give you a process … we will offer you an experience. We will help you approach a place within yourself that you never knew existed. The experience will be something that you will always remember, because its memory will be recorded in your heart.