Effortless Mindfulness Level Three
Advanced Practitioner &
Facilitator Certification
Take this next step in your Effortless Mindfulness Training journey.
Join Us for this Effortless Mindfulness advanced training. Become a fully Certified Effortless Mindfulness Facilitator or train as an Advanced Practitioner. Learn EM through sharing it.
(Save up to $589 – Early Bird Ends 6/20)
The Only Nonduality and IFS Training in the World
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Share It to Embody It
The EM Level Three Advanced Practitioner & Facilitator Certification program is a combination of live training and self-paced video lessons. To take this immersive training you must complete levels one and two from one of our core training programs. The theme is Share it to Embody it.
During this live + self-paced training you’ll 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 activity. 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.
EM Level Three Prerequisites
To Join the EM Level Three training program, participants must first complete levels one and two in one of our self-paced programs. You can find package discounts at checkout below.
- EM 1&2
- EM+IFS 1&2
- Effortless Focus & Flow 1&2
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 EM Facilitator Certification participants must faithfully complete all recorded sessions, live dyads and peer groups, submit a final video presentation of a guided Mindful Glimpse, complete a final knowledge check, and sign an ethics statement. Upon satisfactory completion of the training, EMI will list your as a Certified EM Facilitator on the Lochkelly.org website (see the main menu).
2. Advanced EM Practitioner Track
As a dedicated practitioner of Effortless Mindfulness, you aspire to more fully embody and live from the ground of Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind. You’re a lifelong learner who appreciates 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 EM Facilitator 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, Judith Blackstone, PhD, Stephen Bodian, and Dr. Dan Siegel.
Training & Practice Manual
You’ll get an in-depth 200-page training manual 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.
5 Live Q&A Integrations (10hrs)
In addition to your core curriculum of self-paced video lessons and modules, you’ll Join Loch Kelly each month to review what you’ve learned with live instruction, Q&A, and integration.
Self-Paced Video Modules & Lessons
EM Level Three is presented via self-paced monthly video modules and lessons that you’ll study at the pace that’s right for you. You will have lifetime access to this material so you can revisit it whenever you like.
4 Peer Dyad Training Sessions
Meet monthly in peer dyads and lead each other through Glimpses, provide feedback, and develop your EM facilitator skills.
4 Peer Group Training Sessions
Meet monthly in small peer 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.
60 Hours of Facilitator Training
Through the prerequisite courses and the EM3 live Q&As, pre-recorded training modules, peer groups, dyads, and guest teacher sessions, you’ll receive approximately 60 hours of direct training.
Lifetime Access
Lifetime access to all course replays and media in your virtual classroom.
Referral Directory 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 Facilitator Certification & Advanced Practitioner training 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
Professional Benefits
Graduates of EM Level Three use their facilitator certification in a range of settings:
- Private practice: Therapists, coaches, and counselors integrate Effortless Mindfulness (EM) teaching into their existing client work
- Workplace programs: Leaders and HR professionals run EM sessions for teams, often as part of wellness or leadership development
- Healthcare and clinical settings: Nurses, physicians, and social workers offer EM to patients managing stress, pain, or chronic conditions
- Schools and universities: Educators bring EM Glimpse practices into classrooms, faculty wellness programs, and student support
- Community teaching: Public classes, retreats, faith communities, recovery programs, and underserved populations
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.
- Listing as an Official EM Facilitator in the Referral Directory on Lochkelly.org
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.
- Official EMF certification to add to your CV, website, and professional marketing materials
- Listing as an Official EM Facilitator in the Referral Directory on Lochkelly.org
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
- Official EMF certification to add to your CV, website, and professional marketing materials
- Listing as an Official EM Facilitator in the Referral Directory on Lochkelly.org
EM Facilitator Certification Track
What are the Prerequisites for the EM Certification program?
- You acknowledge that you have completed one of the following program combos before the program starts in Sept:
- EM Levels One and Two
- EM+IFS 1&2
- EF&F 1+2
- 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
- Health professional
- Team manager
- MDiv
- Chaplain
- Hospice volunteer
- Death Doula
- High school or college teacher
- Professional in career transition
- Lifelong learner
Here's What You'll Experience During the EM Level Three Training
1. Five Live Integration + Q&A Sessions (10hrs)
Each live training session with Loch will take place via Zoom and focus on two Glimpse doorways. We’ll address your questions on 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.
2. Four 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.
3. Four Peer Dyad Practice Sessions
In the Peer 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.
4. Special Guest Teacher Sessions
EM Level Three will feature live and prerecorded guest teachers like IFS creator, Richard Schwartz, PhD, Adyashanti, Judith Blackstone, PhD, Stephen Bodian, and Dr. Dan Siegel.
5. Self-Paced Video Modules & Lessons
The core curriculum of EM Level Three is presented via self-paced monthly video modules and lessons that you’ll study and absorb at the pace that’s right for you. Then you’ll meet with Loch live via Zoom once each month to integrate and deepen your engagement with the monthly course materials. You will have lifetime access to this material so you can return to it.
6. Official EM Facilitator Certification or Certificate of Completion
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. Referral Directory Listing (For EM Facilitators)
To help you promote your work and gain clients, all certified EM Facilitators will have a listing on the Certified EM Facilitators Directory on Lochkelly.org linking 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 designed for certified EM Facilitators. Stay current with the evolution of the EM system.
Feature Spotlights
1. Guest Lectures (Dates TBA)
Richard Schwartz, PHd
(Pre-Recorded) 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
(Pre-Recorded) 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.
Dr. Dan Siegel
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, UCLA professor, and NYT bestselling author known for pioneering the field of "interpersonal neurobiology" and coining the term "mindsight"
Judith Blackstone, PhD
Judith Blackstone is an innovative and experienced author and teacher in the contemporary fields of nondual realization and spiritual, relational, and somatic psychotherapy.
Stephan Bodian
Stephan Bodian is a licensed psychotherapist and teacher in the nondual traditions of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. He trained as a Buddhist monk and spent many years studying with Advaita masters Jean Klein and Adyashanti.
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 is to support the thoughtful and effective spread of Effortless Mindfulness. One way we’re doing this is through our official directory of 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
Live Q&A Sessions with Loch
Attend live or review the replays at your own pace.
Session 1: Sept 22 – 12pm-2pm ET
Session 2: Oct 13 – 12pm-2pm ET
Session 3: Nov 17 – 12pm-2pm ET
Session 4: Dec 15 – 12pm-2pm ET
Session 5: Jan 19 – 12pm-2pm 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
EM Level Three Prerequisite Packages
To qualify for the EM Level Three training, you must complete levels One and Two in one of our core programs. If you need to fulfill the preliminary programs, one of the following packages is right for you. Choose the one that fits your situation and preference.
If you’re new to Effortless Mindfulness, we recommend that you choose the first program option—EM One, Two, and Three. If you’ve taken courses in one of the other programs, choose the one that best pertains to you.
(Note: Early Bird 20% coupon automatically applied at checkout)
1. Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle
In the EM Levels One & Two self-paced training programs, you’ll learn the Five Levels of Mind and discover your unique doorways to living awake in the world. In EM Level One, you learn the map of the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process. EM Level Two narrows the lens and hones in on the the methods, markers, and unique doorways and learning styles that are best for you. This is the canonical EM Training.
EM Levels One, Two, and Three Package
(You save an extra $150 with this combo)
EM Levels Two and Three Package
(You save an extra $100 with this combo)
2. EM+IFS Training Program
In these self-paced introductions to EM+IFS, you’ll learn a new psycho-educational approach to experientially navigating your consciousness during the day, seamlessly shifting out of a parts-based view into Self Leadership.
EM+IFS One & Two + EM Level Three Package
(You save an extra $150 with this combo)
EM+IFS Two + EM Level Three Package
(You save an extra $50 with this combo)
3. Effortless Focus & Flow Training Program
How do we live fully awake in the world? Is it possible to consistently live with confidence, passion, and clarity? Many of us know this from our best moments. But how do we do it on demand and sustain it? That’s what you’ll learn during this self-paced immersion in Effortless Focus & Flow. And you might be surprised to learn that this capacity was in you all along.
EFF One & Two + EM Level Three Package
(You save an extra $150 with this combo)
EFF Two + EM Level Three Package
(You save an extra $50 with this combo)
4. Effortless Mindfulness Level Three
This if for you if you’ve already completed Levels 1 and 2 of the program streams above.
Facilitator Certification Track
20% Early Bird Discount-
Lifetime acess to all EM3 course materials
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10 Hours of Live Q&A with Loch Kelly
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Curated EM3 Video Modules & Lessons
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In-Depth EM3 Training Manual
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Official EM Facilitator Certification
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Listing in EM Facilitator Directory
Advanced Practitioner Track
20% Early Bird Discount-
Lifetime acess to all EM3 course materials
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10 Hours of Live Q&A with Loch Kelly
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Curated EM3 Video Modules & Lessons
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In-Depth EM3 Training Manual
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Certificate of completion
FAQ
During EM3, we will have three live guest teacher sessions that will take place during a weekday between the monthly Q&A sessions. 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.
All EM3 students must complete levels one and two from one of the following EM training programs: EM Levels 1&2, EM+IFS 1&2, EFF 1&2.
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 and dedicated 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.
Scholarships are not available during the early bird window but are available on the full priced course. 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.
