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Thank You for the Now

This Thanksgiving weekend, we invite you to gather around the warmth of shared Work.

Thank You for the Now is the theme of our upcoming workshop with E.J. Gold. It’s a simple phrase, but one that holds everything: presence in the face of chaos, grace in the midst of uncertainty, and the quiet courage to meet each moment fully.

In a world that feels increasingly unstable, this workshop is a chance to reconnect by becoming more present. Together, we’ll explore gratitude as a spiritual stance. One that meets what is with awareness, attention, and a whisper of “yes.”

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What to Expect at an IDHHB Workshop

IDHHB workshops blend hands-on creativity, practical attention training, collaborative group work, and modern tools like AI and virtual environments into a uniquely grounded approach to inner development.

1. What You'll Actually Do

Workshops are active, creative, and practical. You may find yourself painting rocks, doing simple presence exercises, writing short stories, improvising music, building small art pieces, or exploring virtual spaces. Ordinary activities become conscious tools for self-observation and strengthening attention.

Many workshops also include creative tasks (drawing, art, music, comedy), hands-on making (jewelry, crafts), group problem-solving, micro-commerce experiments, or exercises using AI, videos, or the GoDD Engine. Everything is designed to reveal patterns, loosen habitual reactions, and build skills that carry over into daily life.

More about What You'll Actually Do

Hands-on creative exercises

Rock painting
Jewelry or bead work
Drawing or sculpting in virtual environments
Improvisational music or group singing
Creative writing prompts (like Parallel Life Survey work)

Attention and presence practices

Simple embodied exercises
Zen Basics (“touch a rock”)
Immersion-without-identification exercises
Group synchrony via Movements or rhythm-based practices

Technology as a tool

Using AI for creative dialog
Exploring virtual worlds
Engaging with the GoDD Engine / digital orbs
Video-based exercises or shared digital tasks

Small-scale commerce and entrepreneurship

Making and selling small items
Micro-shop experiments
POD (Print-on-Demand) experiments
Real-world feedback loops for overcoming hesitation or mechanical habits

Group work and collaboration

Paired or small-group activities
Peer support for technical tasks
Shared projects or problem-solving sessions

2. The Atmosphere of an IDHHB Workshop

The mood is warm, playful, and deeply collaborative. There is a shared feeling of exploration — people learning together, helping each other, and discovering unexpected things about themselves through simple activities.

The atmosphere is light without being trivial, and serious without being heavy. Many describe moments of surprising clarity arising in the midst of a creative task, a game, or an everyday action. Technology plays a gentle supporting role, used as a mirror or facilitator rather than a distraction.

More about The Atmosphere of an IDHHB Workshop

A playful seriousness

Workshops are lively, creative, and sometimes funny — but the play is purposeful. Simple tasks carry a subtle charge. Mundane actions suddenly feel alive. People often say the atmosphere has a strange mixture of focus, curiosity, and lightheartedness.

A collaborative field

There is a shared sense of “we’re doing this together.” Breakthroughs happen in the presence of others. Mistakes are welcomed. Newcomers feel supported the moment they arrive.

Creative sparks everywhere

You might be painting a rock, fixing an eBay listing, or improvising a song — and suddenly something opens. A moment of clarity. A strange inner stillness. A glimpse of yourself behaving differently than usual.

Technology, but with soul

AI, virtual worlds, or digital tools appear — but never as cold tech. They feel like extensions of the group’s attention, like mirrors or prompts that help you notice yourself.

An atmosphere of gentle awakening

There’s no preaching, no belief systems to adopt. People simply work, play, create, try things. In the middle of doing something very ordinary, you may find yourself unexpectedly more present.

3. Why We Structure the Workshops This Way

The workshop format is rooted in the principle that real transformation happens through conscious engagement with everyday life. By working with ordinary actions — and meeting them with attention — participants develop the capacity to observe themselves, loosen habitual patterns, and experience moments of presence.

Creative work opens non-conceptual doors. Group work creates resonance and support. Technology provides new mirrors for awareness. Taken together, these elements cultivate the kind of stable attention and inner freedom that matters both in daily life and in the deeper inner journey explored in IDHHB teachings.

More about Why We Structure the Workshops This Way

The philosophy behind the workshops

IDHHB workshops treat everyday life as the real location of spiritual work. Instead of retreating from the world, participants learn to wake up inside it.

Ordinary actions → extraordinary attention

Simple activities bypass the conceptual mind and allow people to observe themselves in action — which is the real training ground for consciousness.

Creative work opens inner doors

Creativity disrupts habit. It destabilizes the mechanical self in a gentle, non-threatening way, allowing something more essential to surface.

Group resonance amplifies everything

Group work is not a convenience; it’s the mechanism. The field of shared attention accelerates transformation.

Preparation for Bardo and waking state

The ultimate orientation is toward stable presence and continuity of consciousness — skills cultivated through repeated, real-world engagement.

It was extraordinarily great! The PVA always feels special, but the sense of love, joy and community at this celebration just took my breath away.

M.L.

In the last few days in my life, have had a few moments of actual enjoyable easeful-ness, for the first time in many many many years. I have to even engage a bit of extra attention and will to surrender into it, rather than reverting to my habitual 'story', because its such an almost foreign experience.

I attribute it largely to the last two workshops and the Prosperity Path Remedy Orbs, and I'm guessing a certain amount of Grace given by EJ.

So, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Am also realizing a bit more deeply that the ICW's are not so much talks as they are transmissions.

Thanks and Happy Trails to all,

Mark

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