Seminars

In addition to individual private therapy, Joel conducts weekend group seminars. Group work (community healing) can be very powerful and helpful. We come to see other members of the group as mirrors of ourselves and leaders in taking us to deeper places within and to much greater self-understanding and self-acceptance.

To register in any seminar or for further information, please contact the Seminar Coordinator, Jason Baird, at (236)330-4703 or seminarsjoelbrass@gmail.com.

Weekend Programs

Healing The Original Pain Of Your Life: The Inner Child Seminar “Examining Your Relationship with Yourself”
Healing The Original Pain Of Your Life: The Inner Child Seminar helps us to discover the unhealed wounds and emotional damage that we still carry by returning to the most formative people, events and moments of our lives.

Relationships: The Work of Love Seminar “Examining Our Egos’ Operation in Matters of Love”
We explore the ego defense system, a way of being that helped us survive the worst hurt and emotional injuries of our young lives, but now in turn is a major part of what’s causing them.

Long Term Intensive Programs – Where the Real Work Gets Done

Shifting the basis of our identities, our priorities and our relationships from an ego based paradigm to a spirit and heart led one does not occur within the confines of any two day seminar. A vigorous, ongoing practice is required to sustain and reinforce the significant shift in consciousness which the weekend seminar participant will glimpse and temporarily experience. For those serious and committed individuals who realize that laborious and extensive work is required to become skilled at a whole new way of being, the long-term intensive programs are recommended. These include:

May 2/3, 2020:
Beyond the “I” I Think I Am: A Deeply Personal One Year Program on Spirituality and Non-Dual Teachings
If you are anything like me, you have spent most of your life identifying yourself as a separate person, with a distinct name, form and place in the world. This “I” that I think I am feels itself to be a small, temporary, inadequate, and vulnerable entity, subject to being easily thrown by the twists and turns of situations, events and relationships. It is enslaved by “I want”, “I don’t want”, “I like”, “I don’t like”, “I need”, “I don’t need”. When we get what we want or like, we’re happy. When we don’t get what we want or like, we’re miserable, frightened, angry or strategic. A tremendous amount of control, manipulation and struggle is always required to ensure that we get only what we want. This is the suffering and plight of seeing who you are as a separate self. This and the sorrow and terror of dodging illness, aging and death for as long as possible. Seeing yourself as a separate “I” runs the show in this way from cradle to grave. Read more…

April, 2025:
Down the Rabbit Hole: A One Year Program In Emotional Healing
It’s in our bodies – symptoms, aches and pains that seem to just land on us; ailments and unwanted physical conditions that have no known origins. It’s in our minds. They are never still, rarely peaceful, filled with an endless barrage of judgments, worries, and self-recriminations. It’s in our stress levels. We’re on edge, too busy, too rushed, everything is too much. It’s in our fearful dreams and disturbed sleep patterns. When was the last time you had a deep, restorative night’s sleep? It’s in our relationships. In spite of our deep desire for only love and harmony, we experience conflict, tension, confusion and even anger. Read more…

Past Year Long Intensives

The Transfer of Trust: From Seeking Happiness, Peace and Safety from the World to Finding it Within
If you pause long enough and really think about it, from whom or what do you seek your happiness, peace, safety, and self-worth? An honest self-inquiry will show you that you believe you gain these things from outside of you – from the world and from other people.

In God We Do Not Trust: Examining Our Blockages to a Personal, Authentic, and Heart-Based Spirituality as the Most Significant Guide for Our Life. “Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.” This program will support the participant to examine their most deeply-held ego-based beliefs, judgements, and grievances towards God, or any other name for the most deeply sensed source of spiritual comfort and guidance within.

The Resistance to Surrender: Exploring the Ego’s Unwillingness to Trust in A Human Being. The primary love relationship: There are few areas in life in which we experience as many heart-soaring and heart-breaking experiences – moments of clarity and confusion, closeness and loneliness, love and pain.

Choices, Growth and Inner Freedom in the Second Half Of Life: Most people in our society are extremely ill-equipped to deal with the psychological issues, challenges and potential inherent in the second half of life. The so-called “mid-life crisis” is both inevitable and necessary. This is so because what is required in the second half of life to experience deep personal meaning, happiness and fulfillment is nearly the mirror opposite of that which is asked of its first half.

Family of Origin: Truly healing the relationship with our fathers and mothers is the single most powerful thing we can do to make our inner world a safer and happier place to be. Until we do, we see and recreate versions of them everywhere.

Open Programs in Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Others: Applying ourselves to the Inner Family Recovery Model, these are intensive, process-oriented programs that devote their attention to the further understanding, healing and integrating of the Inner Family.

Healing Through A Course In Miracles: A One Year Program In Remembering Inner Peace: It cannot be seen, only felt. It cannot be heard, yet it speaks to us gently, softly, imploringly, invitingly. It cannot be spoken, yet there is a hunger inside us for something that our words can never describe. Like the eternal, persistent pull of the tides to the shore, we are relentlessly drawn to a homecoming and (re)union with a deep spiritual presence within and all around us.

Down the Rabbit Hole: A One Year Program In Emotional Healing: It’s in our bodies- symptoms, aches and pains that seem to just land on us; ailments and unwanted physical conditions that have no known origins. It’s in our minds. They are never still, rarely peaceful, filled with an endless barrage of judgments, worries, and self-recriminations. It’s in our stress levels. We’re on edge, too busy, too rushed. It’s in our fearful dreams and disturbed sleep patterns. When was the last time you had a deep, restorative night’s sleep. It’s in our relationships. In spite of our deep desire for only love and harmony, we experience, conflict, tension, confusion and even explosions.The emotional pain we carry must find some screen upon which to project its shadows;some place to land or outlet to keep itself at bay.