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
For a limited time, you can register for the EM Training Cycle bundle and receive EM Level One (self paced) + EM Level Two (Live) and save $100. >> Learn more here
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 Heart Mind
(March 16th, 2025)
> Students must complete EM Level One to participate
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
SHARE IT
3. EM Level Three: Stabilizing Awakening and Facilitator Certification
(Fall 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 + 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 now have an evergreen version of Level 1 available here, which you can take at your own pace.
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.
