Practicing Presence

For Healers and Teachers, Practical Guidance in Serving Others with Presence  What is the most essential trait for an effective healer or teacher? Yes, things like intelligence, skill, and compassion are important, explains Eckhart Tolle, but without presence, our work in service of others will fall short of its potential. Practicing Presence is a retreat for health practitioners, educators, spiritual teachers—or anyone who shares wisdom—with the bestselling author of A New Earth, offering more than seven hours of Eckhart’s practical advice for those fostering transformation in others. Covering a wide range of challenges and concerns specific to the helping professions, Eckhart discusses: Rooting one’s work in stillness to become “a teacher of presence” Finding the balance between structure and formlessness in your teaching or healing modality The question of readiness for the would-be teacher or healer Becoming comfortable with not knowing in order to make way for the arising of