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Taking Off the Mask: A Two-Hour Class

  • Venture Retreat Center 201 Eden West Road Pescadero, CA, 94060 United States (map)

Taking Off the Mask: A 2-hour Experience Organization® class with Morgan Goodlander

How much of how you appear to be is actually you?

Most of us wear a mask we did not fully choose to put on. It started being built early, through reflection, comparison, and the need to belong, and it has been running our lives in ways we rarely notice. We mistake it for ourselves. We perform versions of ourselves that don't quite fit. As a result, we often feel a low-grade exhaustion no amount of self-improvement seems to touch.

In Experience Organization® (a contemporary framework for understanding how human experience occurs), this constructed self has a name: the Eidolon, the copied self - organized through unconscious reflection and adaptation It is not who you are. It is what you have been organizing your life around. Underneath it is something simpler, steadier, and far more alive: your Being.

This 2-hour class is a direct, experiential introduction to the practice of stepping out of performance and into presence. In the class, you will:

  • Recognize the moments when the mask is running you

  • Dicover the field of Being the mask has been hiding

  • Learn one practice you can take home and use the next day

  • Experience what it feels like to relate from Being rather than from performance

This class is for you if you:

  • Sense you have been performing a version of yourself

  • Are tired of self-improvement that doesn't reach the root

  • Want a new framework for awareness and change

  • Want a 2-hour experience rather than a multi-week commitment

You will leave with a felt experience of what lies beneath the mask, a clearer sense of your own organizing patterns, and one practice you can apply in daily life.

Format: Group experiential · 80% experience-based, 20% theory-based · No prior background needed · Limited to 10 participants.

Your guide: Morgan Goodlander is the founder of Experience Organization® and Director of GETI Institute. With over 25 years of practice across 15 countries, he brings a distinctive blend of humor, depth, and insight to the work of stepping into Being.

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