Effortless Mindfulness
Levels 1 + 2 + 3
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An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind
Learn the map, method, and markers of the Effortless Mindfulness System in this self-paced introduction.
Dates: Self Paced – Complete before Sept 13th
Discover Your Unique Doorways to Living Awake in the World
As a graduate of EM Level One, you can take the complete self-paced version of EM Level Two before September 13th and join the live EM Level Three cohort with Loch Kelly.
Dates: Self Paced – Complete before Sept 13th
Advanced Practitioner & Facilitator Certification
Join us for this inaugural EM Level Three advanced live training. Become a fully Certified Effortless Mindfulness Facilitator.
Dates: Sept 13th – Jan 10th
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1. EM Level One: An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind
In the EM Level One training, you will get an introduction to the map of the Five Levels of Mind. In this overview course, you’ll spend each week exploring a new level of Mind. Loch will provide you with a map, markers, and a method for navigating each level. Developing an experiential understanding of how to safely and fully awaken with Effortless Mindfulness is the first step in your journey.
You’ll also start your glimpsing practice. Glimpsing is the cornerstone practice of EM. They are short shifts of awareness, inquiries, and pointing instructions called Mindful Glimpses. These glimpses serve as your doorway to deeper levels of Mind that yield clarity, confidence, and buoyant compassion. And most importantly, they enable you to discover and gain access to your Awake Aware Mind—the hidden but ever-present dimension within us that can unlock your higher potentials.
In Effortless Mindfulness Level One, you will:
- Get an overview of EMAP
- Learn the 5 Levels of Mind
- Start you daily Glimpse practice
- Discover and experience your Awake Aware Mind
- Experience a glimpse of unity and flow
LIVE IT
2. EM Level Two: An Experiential Deep Dive into Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind
In Effortless Mindfulness Level One, you receive experiential introduction to the map, method, and markers of the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process. In particular, EM Level One focuses on the map.
EM Level Two narrows the lens and hones in on the details of the method you’ll need to establish yourself in Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind.
In Level Two, we focus on the method and markers. The key to embodying this new stage of life is to find the distinct doorways and learning style that are best for you.
Why is this important? Because each of us has a different learning style. And every learning style features different supports and different obstacles to awakening.
In EM Level Two, you will learn:
- How to distinguish thought-based learning from awareness-based learning
- How to confidently stop checking back with the Thinker
- How to identify and optimize the doorways that best align with your learning style
- How to ensure that you don’t get stuck anywhere in the awakening process: the mindful witness, blissful experiences, the void, etc
- How to avoid state-chasing and spiritual bypassing
- How to identify the triggers that take you out of awakening
- How to return when you lose access and then remain and integrate with everyday consciousness
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3. EM Level Three: Advanced EM Practitioner & Facilitator Certification
Starts September 13th, 2025
> Students must complete EM Level One & Two to participate
In EM Level Three, we bring it all together. This is the most rigorous of the three training courses. During this training, you’ll learn ways to deeply stabilize your experience of awakening and how to share the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process with others. Whether you want to share this by living it, as a helping professional, or as a mindful glimpse meditation facilitator, you’ll experience how sharing EM is one of the best ways of embodying.
Working with Loch directly and with your cohort of peers in small working groups, you’ll learn a concise, methodical, step-by-step system for sharing Effortless Mindfulness. We’ll spend time learning, internalizing, and practicing presentations while clarifying key concepts and themes related to each of the 5 levels. You’ll also learn how to lead the corresponding Mindful Glimpses that help open the doorways of consciousness that allow us to navigate the Five Levels of Mind. Finally, you’ll develop fluency in the essential FAQs that you’ll need to field if and when you are facilitating an EMAP session. EMI will maintain a listing of certified facilitators on this website.
In EM Level Three, you will:
- Deepen your foundation of awake loving flow
- Learn how to share the map, method, and markers of EM
- Develop and hone your presentation skills in small groups
- Take turns leading others in the EMAP
- Learn the ethics of facilitating others in the subtle art of meditation
EM Level Three: Two Tiers of Training
1. EM Facilitator Certification Track:
This is for you if you’re an EM Practitioner looking to bring Effortless Mindfulness into your existing therapy, healing, teaching, coaching, leader, trainer or helping professional practice. Whether you’re a meditation teacher, yoga teacher, bodyworker, therapist, coach, or mentor, the Facilitator Certification Track will empower you to share Effortless Mindfulness with others.
We will teach you how to facilitate and introduce this model so you can integrate it into your existing work. Facilitating means sharing the Glimpse practices that are found in Loch Kelly’s books and app from the level of your own experience and understanding. You’ve learned the basics of the EM system and now you know enough to share it with others.
To earn the EMF Certification participants must faithfully attend all sessions, dyads, and peer groups, submit a final video presentation of a guided Mindful Glimpse, and also respond to a frequently asked question in their own words. Upon satisfactory completion of the training, EMI will list your name as a Certified EM Facilitator on the Lochkelly.org website.
2. Advanced EM Practitioner Track
As an advanced practitioner of Effortless Mindfulness, you aspire to more fully embody and live from the ground of Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind. You appreciate that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to others. But your personal goal is not to share EM with others as an EM Facilitator. Instead you want to deepen your practice so that Effortless Mindfulness becomes your default operating system.
Advanced EM Practitioners will receive a certificate of course completion but are not Certified EM Facilitators. You’ll take the same course, but you’re not obliged to complete the EMF certification requirements.
EM Level Three: Feature Spotlights
1. Guest Teachers: Dates TBA
Richard Schwartz, PHd
Richard Schwartz is a contemporary psychotherapist who founded the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) of therapy, a therapeutic approach that views the mind as composed of multiple parts or "subpersonalities".
Adyashanti
Adyashanti is an author and spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.
Paige Kelly
Paige Kelly, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and meditation teacher who integrates IFS Level 3, EMDR, Clinical Supervision, Gestalt Therapy and is Certified by Pia Melody in (PIT). She has expertise in Couples therapy, using Imago and IFS.
2. Comprehensive Training Manual
You’ll get a training manual covering key Effortless Mindfulness theory and practice principles. EMF Training Manuals will include essential elements like:
- Scripts and step-by-step blueprints for how to facilitate individuals and groups through Effortless Mindfulness sessions and courses.
- The benefits and application of different Glimpse Doorways for your students or clients.
- Key learning objectives and essential points you need to cover as a facilitator.
- Maps, methods, and markers tailored to different doorways, learning styles, and obstacles.
- A comprehensive list of FAQs highlighting the essential Effortless Mindfulness questions and answers to help you effectively guide your students/clients and their growing practice.
- Instruction on how to best support your student or client using different doorways and troubleshooting the evolution of their practice. Learn how to navigate client reports and best support them with their unique practice.
- Tips on how to tailor your sessions to account for different sensitivities and learners including recommended doorways for: Trauma sensitivity, Neurodivergent learners, and Adhd learners.
- Instruction on when and how to introduce and use the Wisdom Maps, Charts, Graphs, Practices, and Recommended Readings.
- An outline of facilitator ethics.
- Curriculum for conducting 1.1 sessions or multipart courses.
3. Certification Listing & Referrals
Our aim in to support the thoughtful and effective spread of Effortless Mindfulness. One way we’re doing this is by creating an official listing for Certified EM Facilitators on the Lochkelly.org website. By having your name listed on the site you will:
- Add your name to an authoritative website devoted to relational nondual IFS
- Have the opportunity to receive client referrals
- List your name, professional title, website, and social media links
- Be part of a growing professional network of practitioners who are sharing Effortless Mindfulness with others
- Improve your own website SEO with linkbacks from a website with high SEO
What People Are Saying About the EM Training Cycle
EM + Internal Family Systems
Effortless Mindfulness is informed by the Internal Family Systems model of therapy. A basic working understanding of IFS is helpful in learning how to internalize, navigate, and flourish across the 5 Levels of Mind. Why is this the case?
Most popular mindfulness programs begin with Everyday Mind and end with Subtle Mind, which is the second level in Loch’s model. Effortless Mindfulness really diverges from other mindfulness paths at Level 3, which is Awake Aware Mind.
This is the ever-present dimension within us that is always awake, calm, clear, and untouched by worry, doubt, shame and fear. This marks the life-changing discovery of consciousness beyond thought-based knowing.
However, moving past awake awareness into the other levels of mind requires some basic understanding of parts work. Why? Because as we traverse the 4th and 5th levels of Mind and Self, parts are going to come up.
And we need to learn how to navigate those parts in the most wholesome and effective way to further heal, liberate, and awaken our own consciousness and so you can live with abiding calm, clarity, and compassion. And it is Levels four and five of the mind that makes the real difference in this model as we integrate our full human experience.
To this end, we will provide you with recommended readings before the course to help you learn the basics of this powerful psychological model of healing and growth.
Peer Groups
If you purchase the EM Levels 1, 2, 3 bundle, you’ll have the opportunity to join a peer group in EM Level Three. These peer groups can serve as powerful and alchemical containers to help you further internalize and integrate Effortless Mindfulness while building supportive community and connection.
Requirements
Because Loch is constantly evolving the Effortless Mindfulness model, each level of training is dependent on the previous one. So you must take EM Level One and Two if you aspire to become an EM certified facilitator or simply wish to take Level 3 for your own development.
Loch feels strongly that EM has the potential to awaken countless others to the healing promise and transformative potential of Awake Aware Mind. And that’s why he’s decided to develop this training cycle and empower others to share Effortless Mindfulness with the world.
What Thought Leaders say about Loch...
“With wisdom, clarity and care, Loch Kelly offers teachings and practices that directly evolve consciousness and liberate the heart.”
World-renowned psychologist and meditation teacher. Founder of Insight Meditation Community. Bestselling author.
“Awakening is moving your inner center of gravity from your protective parts to your magnificent essence. Loch not only makes you realize that such a shift is possible, but provides exercises to help make it happen.”
“In many years of knowing and working with Loch Kelly I feel that he is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know.”
EM3 Facilitator Certification + EM 1 & 2
Save $110 when you join the Limited Time Full EM Training Cycle!Available until June 16th.
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EM1 Lifetime Access
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EM2 Lifetime Access
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EM3 Lifetime Access
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Official EM Facilitator Certification
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Access to the Live rollout of EM3 - Sept. 13, 2025 to Jan 10, 2026
EM3 Advanced Practitioner + EM 1 & 2
Save $110 when you join the Limited Time Full EM Training Cycle!Available until June 16th.
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EM1 Lifetime Access
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EM2 Lifetime Access
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EM3 Lifetime Access
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Certificate of Completion
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Access to the Live rollout of EM3 - Sept. 13, 2025 to Jan 10, 2026
FAQ
Yes, each session is recorded and posted in your course for review.
If you need to miss a session in EM3, replays are available for self-paced review. Certification track students must participate in the peer groups + dyads to be certified. Unlike EM1 &2, we don’t plan to offer EM3 as a fully self-paced course in the future.
All EM3 students must complete EM Levels One & Two to be eligible for EM Level Three.
Certification track students should have previous experience in a helping or leadership role working with other people and feel comfortable speaking in front of a group so you can lead a 20-45 minute Intro to Effortless Mindfulness session.
Yes, the Advanced Practitioner track is for seasoned meditation practitioners and will help you deepen your practice of Effortless Mindfulness and immersion in Awake Loving Flow.
Bringing Effortless Mindfulness into the sphere of activity by speaking about it and acting from it reveals the areas where we’re not yet fully embodying this teaching. At the heart of this is a shift in perspective where you move from receiving the teaching to being responsible for it on a deeper level. Until we try sharing it with others, there are gaps in our own embodiment that are hard to identify. This is why, even if you aren’t planning to be an EM Facilitator, learning how to share it with others is invaluable.
EMI will continue to develop trainings for EM Certified Facilitators in the future. Loch also plans to offer adjunct trainings on a range of topics like: pain management, adhd, psychedelics, trauma, and more. These trainings will be a powerful complement to your EMF Certification and will help you nuance your offering to the world.
We have a limited number of scholarships available for this training. They are available for those who are in serious need. Scholarship applications are first come first serve and you can find the application on the checkout page after clicking the Enroll Now button.
- If this program doesn’t meet your needs, please email [email protected] to request a cancellation and refund by August 1st at 5pm ET. You will receive a full refund minus a $150 processing fee.
- Refunds are no longer available after August 1st. Our policy is firm, no exceptions. Thank you for understanding.
