Becoming a Sun Workshop

Emotional & Spiritual Intelligence for a Happy, Fulfilling Life

Have you come to a point in your life of realizing that wisdom of the heart is necessary for all human happiness and fulfillment? And that the most significant elements on your life journey rely on emotional intelligence?

If this is true for you, I invite you to attend the Becoming a Sun Workshop.

Emotional Intelligence Is Essential to All Your Life

When you think about your life carefully, it is easy to see that high emotional intelligence is essential to it all. Health and well-being, relationships, and professional success all rely on emotional awareness. And if your own emotions are highly conflicted, or blocked, it becomes impossible to be happy or fulfilled.

An emotionally intelligent person knows an internal spiritual peace and well-being. They attune easily to the source of wisdom and love within themselves. They develop a practical spirituality that stays with them through daily life. Their emotions radiate empathy, compassion, generosity, and kindness that transcend any religious beliefs or practice. Because profound emotional intelligence leads to profound spiritual intelligence.

Without developing emotional awareness, the human spirit is in chains. And no matter how rigorously they may apply any spiritual practice, they can’t access who they really are in their heart of hearts. And who they are can’t get out. It is locked up inside their emotions. So, the world never knows how much they care, how much they love, and how much they wish the best for the people in their life.

We have all seen people who thought they were spiritually motivated but lacked wisdom, authenticity, and spiritual warmth. Because no matter what a person’s religion or belief, there is no spiritual intelligence without emotional perception and clarity.

Teaching Emotional Intelligence

The world is waking up to the reality of emotional intelligence and how critical it is for human psychology. Research suggests that a person’s emotional quotient—a measurement of emotional intelligence—may be more important than IQ in determining a person’s success in life. EQ has been linked to job performance, more satisfying relationships, and the ability to recover from acute stress.

Emotional intelligence is like the weather. Everybody talks about it, but no one does anything about it. Or even more relevant, no one teaches it in a way that transforms people’s lives.

For the average person, an academic concept of EQ, or the ability to test for it, doesn’t help. And traditional concepts, such as the idea that we need to “manage emotions,” don’t bring us the emotional freedom we seek. We have to go beyond the belief that we have to “manage emotions,” to an experience of emotional flow and mastery.

For that to happen, we need an understanding of EQ that maps to our own day-to-day experience. We have to find a way to see what is happening within our own feeling realm and then become masterful about what we see. We have to get eyes on our emotional experience to become emotionally intelligent in all the dimensions of our human experience.

This is what the Becoming a Sun Workshop offers. It presents a map of the human emotional experience that correlates with your actual experience. Then it explains how the elements of your experience are in dynamic relationship with each other. And finally, it lets participants work that dynamic in themselves and feel what it is like when it is working creatively.

What does this mean for participants in the Becoming a Sun Workshop? They transform emotions that have been sabotaging them into emotions that empower them. Emotions of love, empathy, and compassion that were frozen melt and flow easily out. Destructive anger turns into devoted commitment and service.

EQ and SQ

Emotional intelligence—EQ—is a doorway to higher levels of spiritual intelligence—SQ. Researchers have found the SQ is a predictor of leadership. Other research suggests that SQ has a significant influence on the quality of life for adolescents.

Bestselling author Stephen Covey said this about SQ:

Spiritual intelligence is the central and most fundamental of all the intelligences, because it becomes the source of guidance for the others.

He’s right. But the combined effect in a person’s life of EQ and SQ goes far beyond that. It unleashes powerful spiritual energies into a person’s physical body, creating vitality where there has been stress. It unlocks the mind. It brings an emanation of loving goodwill into a person’s world.

The combined effect of EQ and SQ opens a person to the source of all creativity that is possible to them in all phases of their life.

An Emotional Intelligence Journey

The Becoming a Sun Workshop is a journey through the seven key facets of emotional intelligence:

• The Warmth of Blessing ~ Learn the emotional pathways that melt numbness, disconnection, and loneliness, and let love flow through the feeling realm and into the world. Explore the simple formula for exposing the human heart to its inner power.
• The Atmosphere of Understanding ~ Discover conscious practices that transform hypercriticism and judgment to clear insight and understanding of yourself and others. Find how the emotional body—someone else’s or your own— becomes more peaceful, joyful, and supportive when you stop criticizing it and seek to understand.
• The Bursts of Action ~ Feel the power of the life force within that wants to explore, create, and express itself. Know your inner strength and the fertility of your soul.
• The Fusion of Fulfilling Mission ~ Understand and know for yourself the internal dynamic that lets dreams and visions become real. Dare to touch your highest aspiration and live it now.
• The Rays of Enlightened Thinking ~ Learn the emotional intelligence behind the most creative thinking. Set your mind free to not only understand what is but to see what can be.
• The Gravity of Courage ~ Adopt the ultimate courage—the courage to be yourself in all the myriad dimensions of who you are. Discover the inner power you have to protect what is sacred to you in your life.
• The Radiance and Reflections of Grace ~ Learn the self-confidence and assurance that comes when you know that your entire human journey is embraced by a spiritual reality that is larger than you as a human being. Learn to open your feelings to a higher love in the middle of challenging circumstances.

At each step along the way, the participant is unleashing another element of the spiritual power within them. They are liberating another facet of who they are.

Emotional Intelligence Behind All Phases of Human Experience

Participants receive a comprehensive understanding of the emotional intelligence behind all aspects of human experience—from personal to professional to family and relationships. They learn the essential emotional pattern that replicates throughout it all.

The workshop goes beyond the conceptual knowledge of the principles of emotional intelligence. Through journaling, silent reflection, and a variety of exercises, the concepts become real. Participants gain emotional understanding. They find the source of their own emotional strength. And their own powerful spiritual connection grows.

The Core Principles of Emotional Intelligence Are Universal

I have taught the emotional competencies I present in this workshop for the past 25 years to people around the world—to people at the Novalis Centre in South Africa, the Omega Institute in New York, Sunrise Ranch in Colorado; and in British Columbia, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Australia, and many other places around the globe.

My travels have proven to me that the ideas in my book are not unique to a specific type of person or people of a particular background. These ideas resonate deeply and profoundly with people from many walks of life. I’ve found that, while all cultures are different, the core principles of emotional intelligence are universal. There is a common language of the heart, and when you access it the power of positive emotion is unleashed.

You can imagine what an honor it has been to witness the joy on the face of a person I’ve never met before when they realize they have the power to set themselves free. It is one of the most fulfilling things in my life to watch a person become liberated from an unconscious block that had starved them of emotional fuel—to see them feel victorious and joyful about their life.

What You Will Learn

·       You will learn the concepts and principles that lead to real emotional intelligence.

·       You will understand emotions in a way that surpasses the limiting insights generally available in academia and business.

·       We will go beyond concepts, to show you how it feels. And how you can release the healthy flow of emotional energy in your life.

·       You will experience the power of emotionally intelligent expression as you take the course.

·       You will feel what it is like to be in an emotionally supportive environment for your learning with the mini-community of workshop participants.

·       Becoming a Sun is a carefully guided, step-by-step course that helps you locate the origins of healthy emotional flow in your own experience. And what blocks it.

·       You will learn the simple, reliable strategies that dissolve emotional blocks.

·       You will learn formulas that empower you to go beyond a momentary happy feeling to an experience of spiritual fulfillment you can consciously, deliberately replicate.

·       You will learn self-help methods that empower you to be emotionally intelligent in your interpersonal skills, and emotionally intelligent on the inside, knowing true inner peace and well-being.

From Past Participants

I want to give you a feel for what people experience when they encounter the formulas I share in the Becoming a Sun Workshop. Of course, each person’s experience is unique to them, as your experience will be to you. But if I had to generalize, I would simply say that these formulas are life-changing.

What a phenomenal experience! Being given the opportunity to navigate the mystery, magic and meaning of love’s fire and receive the warmth of this is an extraordinary gift that fills the heart both deep and wide. ~ Annette McFarlane ~

David’s courses and programs opened the doorway for me back home to my truest, most authentic self, uncovering the jewels that had been buried beneath those self-created layers of fog and debris. Through his programs, I learned how to release personal shame and judgment of myself and others rooted in the past, forgive others and myself and relish in the freedom of no longer carrying these heavy burdens and suffering.

Through thoughtfully constructed personal and group exercises and activities, coaching and insightful and creative presentations and meditations, I experienced love, blessing, understanding, and enlightened thinking with and from my teachers and guides, fellow students, and most of all, from and within myself. I aligned with my life’s purpose as an advocate for human and planetary health and the path of action towards its fulfillment, fully inhabiting courage and resilience to persevere through all obstacles and express my truth at all times without apology.

Enveloped in grace throughout, I embraced my knowing and assurance that all is always in perfect and divine order and that every stop on the journey is exactly as it must be for my highest good. ~ Melissa Jacobs ~

Becoming a Sun went much deeper than I could have ever imagined! It was truly magical and has certainly changed my life! I have never attended such a profound workshop in all my journeys! I am in awe. Thank you. ~ Elania L. ~

I experienced a deep healing from a past incident that will allow me to live a much happier, more fulfilled life going forward. ~ Patty M. ~

A true experience that has power and sustenance. This will feed my soul for a very long time. ~ Colleen S. ~

I am very blessed to have had this opportunity to share in this heart-opening and sacred experience. I felt the puzzle pieces fit. The dots have been connected. ~ Chris Buentiempo ~

Incredibly powerful exercises and emotional work, with enough lecture to give it structure and meaning. ~ Pat Campbell ~

This is a well thought-out and presented course. It reaches to all individuals in various ways and helps them develop their life skill toward Becoming a Sun. Thank you. ~ Anita Kindt ~

I feel a deeper and more tender understanding of myself and others. I leave with a serene softness and sense of connection/understanding/acceptance. ~ Tara Crown-Yakovee ~

A wonderful and engaging workshop that breaks down the universal steps of the Creative Process, provides experiences to better understand my own blocks, and offers tools to transform my experience as the Creator of my life experience. ~ Gary Goodhue ~