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THE AWAKENING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Sacred Plant Medicine Journeys
For Leaders, Coaches, and Forums

“Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakes.”

OUR PHILOSOPHYAPPLY NOW

MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE

Experience a rite of passage that 75% of people rank among the 5 most spiritual experiences of their lives

PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION

Experience integration coaching that clients describe as more powerful in an hour than a year of talk therapy 

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Experience a deep sense of belonging with fellow travelers as you share in the journey of a lifetime

THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME

The Awakening Leadership Program is for leaders, coaches, and forums
who are seeking to self-actualize through genuine, mystical experience.

There is a profound connection between mystical experience and leaders who live out their purpose in the world – for those who are willing to do the work of integration.

“What does it mean to be alive? What happens when we die? Is there a God? Is there a point to any of this? Well, according to the ancient philosophers and mystics, there are answers to these questions. Like, real answers.”
-Brian Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author, The Immortality Key

THE AWAKENING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
(ALP) 

Virtual Launch:

2-Hours

Preparation

Two Months

 

Journey Retreat

2, 3, 5-Night Options

Integration

One Month

3-Month ALP

Sliding Scale

JOIN A FORUM

5

Journey with one of our carefully curated forums of ~8-12 members

5

3-month GPT-powered curriculum + 1:1 integration coaching 

5

3-night journey retreat

BRING YOUR FORUM

5

Journey with an existing forum, mastermind or (wo)men’s group

5

3-month GPT-powered curriculum + 1:1 integration coaching

5

2, 3, or 5-night journey retreat format exclusive to your forum

SOLO OR PARTNER

5

Journey solo or with a partner

5

3-month GPT-powered curriculum + 1:1 integration coaching

5

2-night journey retreat format exclusive to you

Solo ALP

Weekly 1:1 Coaching 

Group ALP

Bi-Weekly 1:1 Coaching
Bi-Weekly Group Coaching

ALP∞ Infinity

Annual Coaching Engagement:
Bi-Annual Retreats
Weekly 1:1 Coaching

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OUR TEAM

Nathanael Chawkin, 
Founder

For nearly twenty years, Nathanael Chawkin has been a trusted executive coach and spiritual guide to leaders, coaches, and YPO/EO forums who are seeking to realize their full potential and make a conscious impact in the world.

The felt sense of presence that opens up in coaching sessions with Nathanael allows leaders to awaken to conditioned patterns and relationship dynamics they have been asleep to, oftentimes for decades, resulting in radical shifts in mindset and behavior that can occur from a single moment of realization. These sessions are said to have a lasting, exponential impact that is psychoactive in and of itself.

Elizabeth Huebner Chawkin,
Reverend Priestess

Elizabeth is the founder of the Bee Divine Hive Temple Collective. She is a Priestess within the Divine Mother Church and the Temple of Isis, and an initiate of the Pythoness (a feminine shamanic tradition that originates in Western Europe). She is also a certified hypnotherapist and holds a BA in Philosophy and an AD in Theater. She serves as a spiritual mentor and leadership coach, bringing forward Sacred Feminine pathways of spiritual awakening.

  • "If you allow Nathanael to coach you into the real reasons why you do some of the things that you do it will collapse ten, twelve years of therapy into three months. Then you’ll really see - as I really saw - how I was showing up not as the person I wanted to be. As someone wise to me once said, ‘Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.’ Now that I have seen it, I have my work set before me about who I want to be now."

    Terence Young, Architect & Design Principal at Gensler

  • Nathanael has a talent and razor sharp skills for guiding his clients to uncover new pathways to effectiveness and a better understanding of self. He is incisive, patient, open, and able to introduce a masterfully interwoven set of tools that make the overwhelming seem approachable.

    Evan Zall, President, Longview Strategies

  • "Nathanael’s impact to me personally has been nothing short of life changing. He is a rare bird in the best way. If you have the opportunity to work with him, consider it a true gift of good fortune."

    Aaron Bright, Emergency Physician & CEO/Founder, Hippo Education, LLC

  • "The intention I set for my own journey was really to open my heart and my soul and get reconnected to myself. The experience was very powerful for me. It really felt like a watershed."

    Thea Polancic, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Clearspace

  • I feel blessed to have found Nathanael and Elizabeth. Their guidance and mentorship over the past 6 months has helped me navigate obstacles and better understand myself after an amazing journey. I would highly recommend anyone work with them who is looking to level up professionally, personally or spiritually.

    Samantha Alspaugh, Director of Global Sales & Corporate Development, RapidSOS

  • Working with Nathanael and Elizabeth I received everything I asked for, nothing I expected. It was a profound experience. They offer a unique combination of embodied experience with the ballast of deep intellectual wisdom. Together, with thorough integrity, they maintain a challenging and supportive container for inner transformation.

    Jonathan Domsky, Founder, Untangled Coaching

  • "Having worked closely with Nathanael over the last 4 years in both a personal and professional setting I can attest to the power of his process and the pervasive positive impact it has on both company culture and team members personally. I won't start another company without this commitment being embedded in the culture."

    Ian Gardner, CEO, GoFor Delivers

  • ¨I have journeyed with every psychedelic - even combinations of psychedelics - and all of my biggest breakthroughs as a leader have come from doing The Work with Nathanael.¨

    Jon Vroman, CEO, Front Row Dads

  • ¨Nathanael changed my perspective and my whole foundation for growth. He is a trusted advisor, peer, and confidant that enables and supports a different level of coaching and questioning. Get ready to work and get ready to change as you grow your leadership and self. Enjoy the ride."

    Brian Turner, Executive President - Americas, Slalom Consulting

  • "In over 20 years as a forum group, we had never experienced a forum retreat as transformative to our interpersonal dynamics as the one we had with Nathanael."

    Patrick Condon, President, Finished Basement

*Testimonials do not necessarily reflect client participation in plant medicine ceremonies.

CURRENT ENROLLMENTS

GROUP ALP (3 MONTHS)

3-Month INTENSIVE
3-night Retreat
FOR Conscious Leaders

All-New
GPT-Powered ALP 2.0!

Bi-Weekly 1:1 COACHING
Bi-Weekly GROUP COACHING

8-12 Seats

SOLO ALP (3 Months)

3-MONTH INTENSIVE
2-NIGHT RETREAT
For CEOS, EXECS,
Public figures, HNW

ALL-NEW
GPT-POWERED ALP 2.0!

Weekly 1:1 Coaching

Limited Availability

 

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Psychedelics in the News

How To Change Your Mind is officially streaming on Netflix! Based on the best-selling book by author Michael Pollan, this docuseries dives into the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance.

Episode #2 is dedicated to psilocybin history and ceremony. Get an intimate view into what it looks like to experience this sacred medicine and hear the profoundly moving and life-transforming impact of these journeys.

If you’ve been wondering whether this type of journey is for you, this series could very well be How To Change Your Mind.

Awakening Leadership Program

OVERVIEW

Accept The Call to Adventure of your own personal hero's journey: align your intentions for healing and growth with the impact you want to create in the world.

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Cross the threshold of the known world and prepare yourself for the retreat: train your body, mind, and spirit, and do the deep work that will help you "peel the onion" on the inner dynamics of your own ego. Explore your current leadership style and how you unconsciously sabotage your ability to actualize your vision and get to the next level.

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Enter into ceremony as the descent of the hero into the underworld: experience a genuine ego death and rebirth as you are profoundly healed and transformed inside of an expanded state of consciousness that cannot be described in words.

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Stabilize your metamorphosis through the integration process: make meaning of the key insights and takeaways from the journey and build life practices around a new way of being that reflects your next level of leadership.

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Return back home with the ultimate boon: integrate the otherworldly gifts of the journey into inspiration and action in the ordinary world. Show up differently at home and at work. Translate expanded states of consciousness into everyday awareness to create a life aligned with your vision, values, and purpose.

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HIRE A COACH

“Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology, or the telescope is for astronomy.”

DR. STANISLAV GROF

DEMOCRATIZING MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE

KNOW YOURSELF

Psilocybin Occasions
Mystical Experience

In Johns Hopkins clinical studies of high-dose psilocybin therapy, 75% of all participants to date reported that the experience was one of the five most meaningful experiences of their lives, while 25% said it was the single defining mystical experience of their lives.

MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE
HEALS

In clinical studies at NYU, a “complete mystical experience,” provided by a high dose of psilocybin, was critical for the therapeutic effects that produced sustained reductions in depression and anxiety levels in end-of-life cancer patients over at least 6 months.

THIS IS AN ADVANCED TRAINING

We invite all leaders, coaches, forums or wo/men’s groups to apply who have previously participated in YPO/EO forums, executive coaching, leadership development, psychotherapy, shadow work, couples work, (wo)men’s work, self-inquiry and/or other spiritual practice. All members will be invited to step into coaching and being coached by their peers – in addition to doing advanced integration work with expert facilitators. If you do not yet meet these criteria, we would be happy to support you in joining one of our other stepping-stone offerings.

Please keep in mind that a history of mental illness, schizophrenia, or psychosis are contraindicated for psychedelic use and may disqualify you from participation. Always consult a physician before modifying any regimen of medications or antidepressants.

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The Journey Continues

Continue in a bi-annual retreat rhythm with your forum, nominate and mentor new members OR move on to a next-level Call to Adventure.

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Pursue advanced training in the Mystery School: a spiritual community of practice based on the principle of Gnosis - knowing by direct experience as opposed to belief.

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Join our Coaching Dojo as part of a bootcamp for leaders & coaches who would like to bring the gift of continuous learning and development into organizations.

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Continue in a 1:1 coaching intensive with Nathanael (limited availability) or other certified coach.

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After completing a bootcamp, begin to disrupt and democratize the culture of your organization by upshifting to a “Zen Basketball” approach to team dynamics.

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Scale leadership throughout the entire company with regular rhythms for peer coaching: “The Airbnb approach to talent management.” Take your core values “Off the wall” and put them “On the mat” as a Conscious Culture where "Everyone is a coach." Develop a dynamic action-learning approach as a Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO) that makes people development an integral part of your business strategy.

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OUR WORLDVIEW

We believe that psychedelics are entheogens that have the power to occasion mystical experience. We believe that mystical experience heals at an underlying, existential, root-cause level. We believe that it is mystical experience that is at the root of clinical outcomes. 

We believe that sacred plant medicine journeys are initiatory rites of passage that require intensive preparation, intentional set and setting, and an inward orientation to the mystery. 

We believe that integration is a practice (not an event). We believe the work of psychedelic integration is psychological integration (i.e. shadow work). We believe that membership in a Community of Practice is the best way to sustain integration and find belonging, meaning, and purpose.

We believe that as a leader integration continues beyond you: we invite you to transform your team into your Community of Practice –  a Conscious Culture, and Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO) that makes people development an integral part of your business strategy.  

We believe the work of an awakening leader is to wake up the workplace by empowering their workplace to become the primary source of their own personal awakening as a leader.   

“Every time I had a personal breakthrough, Whole Foods had a breakthrough. And, every time I was ready to have another breakthrough, Whole Foods would show me because of what I was complaining about in Whole Foods.” 
-John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods Market and the Conscious Capitalism movement 

ACCEPT THE CALL

To the Journey of a Lifetime

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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

HOWARD THURMAN