Effortless Mindfulness Level Three: Advanced Practitioner & Facilitator Certification
Take this final step to complete your Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle journey.
Join Us for this inaugural EM3 advanced training. Become a fully Certified Effortless Mindfulness Facilitator.
Dates: Sept 13th – Jan 10th
Early Bird Discount Ends 5/31 (Save $500)
(For EM Level Two Graduates Only)
Share It to Embody It
The EM Level Three Advanced Practitioner & Facilitator Certification program is an immersion training for graduates of EM Levels One and Two. The theme is Share it to Embody it. This training will help you go deeper in your own practice by putting Effortless Mindfulness into words and integrating into all areas of your life including career, relationships, and the engaged flow of daily life. It will equip you with the tools you need to share Effortless Mindfulness with others.
Whether you want to deepen your daily embodiment or you’re a coach, mentor, therapist, meditation teacher, or helping professional looking to weave this model into your existing practice, this program will take you there. The EM Level Three training will help you develop the confidence, knowledge, and vocabulary, and it will give you supportive materials to guide others to experience the transformative benefits of Effortless Mindfulness.
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.
What You Get
Special Guest Teacher Sessions
EM Level Three will feature special guest teacher classes with leaders like IFS creator, Richard Schwartz, Phd, Adyashanti, and more.
Training & Practice Manual
You’ll get an in-depth training manual, with a new chapter delivered each month, covering key EM theory and practice principles. This comprehensive manual will include scripts, teaching prompts, metaphors, and student FAQs to fine tune your facilitation and practice.
3-Day Retreat
This immersive opportunity to practice together real-time—whether in-person or online—will feature in-depth dyad and small group work as well as immersion in fine-tuning the different Glimpse Doorways.
4 Online Daylong Trainings
Learn and practice together in this teacher-led group environment.
5 Dyad Training Sessions
Meet monthly in dyads and lead each other through Glimpses, provide feedback, and develop your EM facilitator skills.
5 Small Group Training Sessions
Meet monthly in small groups and lead each other through Glimpses, provide feedback, and develop your EM facilitator skills.
Facilitation Scripts
Get the EM scripts with step-by-step blueprints to confidently lead 1.1 or groups through the different Glimpse doorways.
Facilitator Certification or Certificate of Completion
Depending on your training track, you’ll receive either an EM Facilitator Certification or a certificate of completion.
52 Hours of Facilitator Training
Through the retreat, daylong trainings, peer groups, and dyads, you’ll receive 52 hours of dedicated EM Facilitator training.
Lifetime Access
Lifetime access to all course replays and media in your virtual classroom.
Website Listing
We will feature newly-certified EM Facilitators on the official EM Facilitators Page listing on Lochkelly.org.
Ongoing EM Education
Get future access to exclusive content designed for EM Facilitators.
A Note from Loch
Why I Created this Program
My goal with Effortless Mindfulness has always been to make “open source” and democratic that which, in many traditions, is considered advanced and reserved for the inner circle. I’m talking about Awake Consciousness, which is learnable, teachable, and available because it is inherent within all of us.
In Northern India, in 1100 CE, people lived in villages and shared with each other an approach to directly recognizing their true nature and basic goodness. They called it Mahamudra, the great seal. It was democratic because it didn’t rely on a guru or religion to realize it. This awake nature was pointed out one to another and shared among the people in daily life. It spread like a flame.
And today we are fortunate to have these teachings available to us, integrated with modern neuroscience and psychology.
My own experience with these methods is one of gratitude and a heart’s desire for others to experience the benefits. The way we share this in EM is not to preach but to live it and offer simple but elegant pointers so people can find it within themselves. Generosity and service are the natural expressions of awake loving flow—a dedication to the relief of suffering and the awakening of all beings.
I believe that Effortless Mindfulness points us to the natural next stage of human development, especially in these distressing times. Of course, all of us still need to do psychological work and cultivate ethics to bring together the ultimate and relative levels of our consciousness. There are different learning styles and obstacles to address. And we live in a culture that is not yet grounded in this inherently awake awareness. Naturally, that culture exerts tremendous influence on our sense of self, others, and the world.
These things don’t just disappear when we first connect with Awake Awareness. It takes practice to shift our operating system. And so we discover what it means to learn to return and act from Self Leadership. We’ll address all of this in EM Level Three.
Today, I feel confident in the development of the Effortless Mindfulness system. I see how many of you are recognizing and realizing it with transformative impact. My own life has changed. And therefore my heart’s desire is to share this widely with others.
The EM Level Three Advanced Practitioner & Facilitator Certification is about living an awakened life. Inner insights are helpful as part of the program, but they’re not the main event. As you continue to advance through the EM awakening process, it’s all about manifesting awake loving flow off the cushion rather than on the cushion.
My hope is that Effortless Mindfulness can help us build a culture that’s infused with these qualities of compassion, awakening, and heart-centeredness. And I’m so happy that you’ve chosen to join me on this journey!
With a grateful heart,
Loch Kelly
Benefits for Advanced Practitioners
- Share it to learn it. Sharing presence with others, not through words alone, but through your being and relating. By sharing this system with others, you’ll gain deeper confidence in your expression of Effortless Mindfulness.
- By sharing EM with your peers, you’ll develop a clear sense of your own growth edges and learn how to express your Awake Aware Mind while more deeply connecting with others.
- Discover areas of both competence and developmental opportunity
- Become more independent in EM and learn how to guide yourself through your optimal doorways.
- Get feedback from others in a safe space to help you hone, sharpen, and tune your understanding.
- Make it your own. As you practice guiding others, you’ll naturally start to make EM your own by expressing it in your own words and in your own style. This is a critical step on the path to fully owning and inhabiting EM as your own operating system.
- Deepen your experience of effortless focus and flow while sustaining states of thoughtlessness.
- Tap into a solution for cognitive overload at work and tap into a clarity by simply shifting through the higher levels of mind.
- Develop your capacity to operate from optimal flow where energy is abundant and focused tasks fuel you up (instead of tap you out).
Benefits for Helping Professionals
(Therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, body workers, counselors and client-centered service providers.)
- Everything listed above and…
- Become a more effective helping professional by working increasingly from a ground of awake loving flow.
- Gain proficiency in facilitating a potent new system of healing and awakening that you can weave into your existing profession.
- Add a complementary modality to your skillset to help you better and more skillfully support your clients/students.
- Integrate a powerful form of nondual relational mindfulness, bringing your EM practice into listening, attuning, talking, and caring.
- Add your official EMF certification to your CV, website, and professional marketing materials.
Benefits for Meditation Teachers
- Everything listed above and…
- Add a new offering to your meditation teaching model
- Provide clients and students with a science-backed pathway from conventional mindfulness to nondual mindfulness.
- Help your students or clients move beyond the common roadblocks of other meditative approaches so that they sustainably deepen their practice. Whether your students or clients are having a hard time with concentration practices, or stall out due to emotional regulation challenges, the EM system will help you meet them where they are with compassion and inclusivity.
- Nonduality is hard to share with others. How do you use words to communicate that which words can’t convey? This certification equips you with the tools you need to effectively introduce a simple yet advanced system of embodied nondual practice to the people and organizations you support.
Benefits for Professionals & Impact Makers
(Nonprofit and Social leaders, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs)
Awake loving flow is as close to a superpower as any of us might get. It evokes latent capacities that are nothing short of transformative. In this training, you’ll deepen your grounding in awake loving flow and can expect:
- Enhanced creativity to unlock self expression and access your inner flow
- Increased innovation to create great and original work in the world
- Renewable resilience to navigate the challenges and obstacles in your life
- Time freedom to complete your tasks in less time with more fulfillment
- Piercing clarity about who you are, what you care about, and your life’s purpose. To respond in the right way, at the right time, for the right reasons
- Intelligent flexibility to effortlessly dance with complex and challenging situations
- Penetrating insight to see, feel, and respond to the deeper patterns and levers of relationship
- Greater EQ to attune to and understand the emotional ebbs and flows that drive so much human behavior
- Increased productivity so you can double your output at a higher level in half the time
- Greater energy to do more, be more, and love more
EM Facilitator Certification Track
What are the Prerequisites for the EM Certification program?
- You acknowledge that you have completed the EM Levels One and Two courses.
- You have previous experience in a helping or leadership role working with other people.
- You will adhere to professional ethics standards in your relationship with students and clients.
This Program is for You if you are a:
- Yoga teacher
- Meditation teacher
- Therapist
- Body workers
- Psychedelic integration coach
- Coach
- Mentor
- Professional manager
- HR professional
- Team manager
- MDiv
- Chaplain
- Hospice volunteer
- Death Doula
- High school or college teacher
Here's What You'll Experience During the EM Level Three Training
1. Four-Day In-Person & Virtual Retreat
Join Loch for a two and half day retreat at The Garrison Institute along the Hudson River in rural upstate New York. For those who can’t make it in person, you can join the retreat virtually. The retreat will include small group and dyad work for both in-person and online participants. Retreats like this are a potent opportunity to deepen and consolidate your practice and understanding of Effortless Mindfulness.
Note that your retreat tuition is included in the program fees. If you decide to attend in-person, there are additional costs for room, board, and travel. Whether you attend in-person or virtually, you’ll have the opportunity to work in dyads and small groups during the retreat.
2. Four Daylong Online Trainings
Each daylong training session will take place via Zoom and focus on [two] Glimpse doorways. We’ll review theory, practice, and application for each Glimpse. We’ll also explore the common questions and stumbling blocks related to each and how to skillfully support your students and clients as they navigate these Glimpses for the first time.
3. Five Peer Group Practice Sessions
This is where you’ll start to practice your Glimpse presentations with others. Peer group participants will offer supportive and focused presentation feedback and everyone will have the opportunity to practice their presentations in this encouraging environment.
4. Five Dyad Practice Sessions
In the Dyads, you’ll have a more intimate environment to practice your Glimpse scripts and presentations while giving and receiving helpful feedback from your Dyad partner.
5. Special Guest Teacher Sessions
EM Level Three will feature guest teachers like IFS creator, Richard Schwartz, Phd, Adyashanti, and others. Dates and times for the guest speakers TBA.
6. Certificate of Completion or Official EM Facilitator Certification
Upon completing EM Level Three, Advanced Practitioner track students will receive a certificate of completion and EM Facilitator track students will receive their official EM Facilitator Certification.
7. Website Listing (For EM Facilitators)
To help you promote your work and gain clients, all certified EM Facilitators will have a listing on the Lochkelly.org Certified EM Facilitators page including links to your website, socials, and email.
8. Ongoing EM Education
As part of the Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle, you’ll have the opportunity to join future trainings exclusively designed for certified EM Facilitators. Stay current with the evolution of the EM system.
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
EM Level Three Training Dates
Session 1: 9/13/2025 – 10am-4pm ET
Session 2: 10/16 to 10/19 – Garrison Institute Retreat
Session 3: 11/8/2025 – 10am-4pm ET
Session 4: 12/6/2025 – 10am-4pm ET
Session 5: 1/10/2026 – 10am-4pm ET
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.”
Student Testimonials
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FAQ
During EM3, we will have three guest teacher sessions that will take place during a weekday between the monthly daylong trainings. Dates and times TBA.
Each session will last two hours. For the first 90min, our guest teacher will give a talk on a relevant topic and then take Q&A. Loch will then use the last 30min to integrate the discussion into the EM3 training arc.
We will record and post all guest teacher sessions in your online course classroom.
Yes, each session is recorded and posted in your course for review.
If you need to miss a session, 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.
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Effortless Mindfulness is brought to you by Natural Wakefulness Center, a 501(c)3 public charity. NWC is dedicated to teaching direct methods to access awake awareness, living from a flow state, nondual mindfulness, and heart mindfulness. It is the Center’s goal to make awakening learnable, teachable, and more accessible to everyone.
