The Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle
Welcome to the Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle. We’ve developed this 3-course training series in response to overwhelming demand from Effortless Mindfulness students and practitioners who want to take their practice to the next level.
Culminating with an advanced Level 3 practice level that also offers an EM Facilitator Certification, this training series will provide you with an in-depth journey through the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process (EMAP). With each successive training, there is an increase in time commitment.
This training cycle is for you if:
- You want to go deeper into waking up and growing up and you want to share this by living it fully
- You are a helping professional (therapist, yoga teacher, meditation teacher, healer, coach, organizational leader, consultant, etc) who wants to integrate EM into your existing profession
- You want to share EM with others as a certified EM Meditation Facilitator
LEARN IT
1. EM Level One: An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind
(Fall 2024)
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 Heartmind
(Early Spring 2025)
In the Five Levels of Mind, levels 3-5 move through extremely subtle dimensions of human consciousness granting us the capacity to embody and heal our shadow parts. Discovering and inhabiting these dimensions, we will learn about different types of awareness and locations of Self. We will focus on how to live from awake loving flow and integrate the powerful tools of IFS that lead to Self Leadership. That’s why the goal of EM Level Two is to give you an applied immersion in Levels 3-5 so you can develop the experiential reference points that will help you internalize the Effortless Mindfulness model and process.
If you intend to facilitate EMAP for others, establishing confidence and fluency in navigating the five Levels of Mind, five locations of Self, and five types of awareness is essential. Because we will focus on moving from our thought-based mind to Awake Aware Mind and Heart Mind, EM Level Two also includes experiential day-long immersions at the beginning and end of the training.
In EM Level Two, you will:
- Deepen your experiential understanding of the 5 Levels of Mind, Self, and awareness
- Learn how to seamlessly move between the 5 Levels
- Learn how to access calm, confidence and compassion
- Practice parts work from the 5 locations of Self
SHARE IT
3. EM Level Three: Stabilizing Awakening and Facilitator Certification
(Fall 2025)
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 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 + 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 choose to move on from EM Level One to EM Level Two, you’ll have the opportunity to join a peer group that meets in between the trainings. 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. If you can’t take the live course, we will have an evergreen version of Level 1 available in early 2025 which you can take at your own pace.
Loch feels strongly that EM has the potential to awaken countless others to the 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.
