What Is The Universal Family?

The Universal Family is a useful metaphorical bridge to inner experience — a bridge between psychology, neuroscience, and timeless non-dual awareness. It offers an intuitive and compassionate way to orient ourselves in any moment, supporting inner peace, coherence, and safety.

This model isn’t a rigid structure but a flexible lens — one that dissolves when no longer needed, yet returns as a helpful guide when confusion arises.

What if your mind were an adolescent, your body a child, and you the wise, loving parent they both long for?

In the Universal Family, you'll learn to navigate daily life and relationships from a grounded place: your own observing awareness. This unique workshop introduces a compassionate and practical model of self-understanding, where:

• The Mind is the Adolescent — intelligent, opinionated, often anxious, caught in thought, comparison, or imagined futures and past regrets.

• The Body is the Child — honest, sensitive, and direct, expressing its truth through sensation and emotion, often overwhelmed by the adolescent mind.

• You are the Loving Parent — ever-present aware beingness, calm and spacious, the true source of stability and wisdom. You do not react; you witness, include, and guide with compassion.

The Three Modes of Being

Using the Universal Family metaphor, we can observe how our inner system moves through three fundamental modes of being. These are not fixed states, but fluid orientations, each with its own physiological, psychological, and existential markers.

Child Mode

• Dominated by: fear, overwhelm, and survival responses

• Signs include: emotional flooding, hyperarousal, shutdown

• Neuroscientific view: limbic and brainstem activity (fight/flight/freeze)

• Non-dual lens: identity contracts into sensation; the body is mistaken for the whole self

We are no longer with our sensations — we are inside them.

Adolescent Mode

• Dominated by: the narrative mind — comparison, judgement, inner conflict

• Signs include: anxious thought loops, limiting beliefs, self-consciousness

• Neuroscientific view: heightened activity in the Default Mode Network (DMN)

• Non-dual lens: the mind overlays meaning onto experience, obscuring presence

The adolescent believes it must fix, prove, or complete itself — often by seeking control, approval, or identity.

Adult Mode

• Dominated by: presence, clarity, compassion

• Signs include: inner spaciousness, non-reactivity, calm inclusion

• Neuroscientific view: integrated brain states, vagal tone, open awareness

• Non-dual lens: abiding as the field of awareness — not part of experience, but its context

From this ground, the child and adolescent are not repressed or fixed, but lovingly met and integrated.

Why This Metaphorical Map Of Experience Matters

The Universal Family is a compassionate, practical framework for navigating inner complexity with clarity and self-trust. It unites neuroscience, psychology, and non-dual awareness into a single, intuitive map.

Why It Changes Everything

• In Child Mode, we are fused with emotional overwhelm. This model teaches us to meet these signals with radical compassion — welcoming and listening instead of suppressing.

• In Adolescent Mode, we live through limiting thoughts and inner criticism. The Universal Family shows us how to gently question these beliefs without becoming entangled.

• In Adult Mode, we rest as loving beingness — the stable space where the children of our mind and body can be seen, heard, held and feeling safe they can express their natural needs for healthy balance. As loving beingness our natural aliveness, enthusiasm, joy and peace is expressed through their unique capabilities.

What You’ll Discover

• Stop outsourcing emotional care and start parenting your inner world.

• Meet the body’s needs with intuitive presence.

• Understand the neurodiverse nature of your children.

• Dissolve limiting thoughts without becoming reactive through the power of “not knowing”.

• Honour emotions without being overwhelmed by them.

• Cultivate relationships rooted in mutual respect.

• Stay grounded during emotional storms in your true peaceful safe nature.

The Universal Family reminds us: You are already the safe, loving ground your mind and body long to return to.

Why the "Universal Family" Works

This metaphor is effective because it translates subtle truths into emotionally resonant human terms. It bridges non-duality and neuroscience with relatable imagery:

• 🌞 Reveals Being as the Loving Ground of All Experience

• 🧠 Highlights the Mind as Valuable, Yet Developing

• 🌱 Frames the Body as Innocent Expression

• ❤️ Illuminates the Inherent Love of Beingness

• 🌪️ Clarifies Psychological Fragmentation — and Points to Wholeness

• 🌍 Affirms the Purpose of Human Life

• 🧘‍♂️ Supports Direct Non-Dual Realisation

• 🧬 Aligns with Neuroscience and Psychology

• 🌟 Simple, Relatable, and Ready to Use

This model doesn’t tell you who you are — it reminds you of what you’ve always known: You are the steady, loving presence in which all of life unfolds.

Who Is This For?

This workshop is for anyone seeking clarity, compassion, and integration through a spiritually informed, trauma-aware lens.

🧘‍♀️ Spiritual Seekers & Meditators

• Wrestling with thought loops despite spiritual insight

• Seeking to include mind and body in awakening

💬 Therapists, Coaches, & Healers

• Supporting others in integration and healing

• Looking for trauma-aware, spiritually grounded models

🌈 Neurodivergent Individuals

• Sensitive to internal and external stimuli

• Seeking frameworks that honour non-linear rhythms

💡 Sensitive & Introspective Minds

• Emotionally rich, deep thinkers

• Caught between insight and anxiety

🧠 Overthinkers & Perfectionists

• Struggling with inner criticism and pressure

• Ready to reframe mental loops with love

💓 Those on a Healing Path

• Carrying emotional wounds

• Ready to become their own inner parent

👩‍👧 Parents & Caregivers

• Seeking to model attuned presence

• Offering love inward as well as outward

🧍‍♂️ Anyone Longing for Inner Wholeness

• Tired of managing or fixing

• Ready for peace, presence, and integration

The Universal Family Gathering

This half day workshop is a transformative, experiential immersion. Through the metaphor of the Universal Family, we will explore the three inner modes of being — the Body (Child), the Mind (Adolescent), and Beingness (Adult or Parent). Rather than offering fixed techniques, the day gently invites a direct encounter with your own wholeness — not as a theory, but as a living, felt reality.

What You Will Explore

• How to recognise and rest as beingness that is everything

• How the body’s needs are naturally met

• How to gently disidentify from anxious or limiting embodied thoughts

• How to live from the coherence of being while honouring both mind and body

By the End, You Will...

✅ Experience beingness as your true, calm nature
✅ Recognise the three modes of being in everyday life
✅ Recognise thoughts without being ruled by them
✅ Learn how to be a wise parent of your mind and body
✅ Use simple, real-time tools to shift from reaction to presence
✅ Deepen your sense of inner love and integration
✅ Leave with a practical inner orientation of your inherent wholeness

Gathering Structure

Four Themed Q&A Sessions and Guided Contemplations
All times shown in local time

🌼 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Welcome & Orientation
An opening to arrive, settle, and align with the theme of the day.

🧒 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Session 1: Understanding Loving Beingness (Parent)
Meeting the wise, still, compassionate core of beingness that is the source of the mind and body.

☕ 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Break

🧠 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Session 2: Understanding the Adolescent (Mind)
Exploring how the mind defends, doubts, and dreams points and ignores your true nature, and how to gently guide it back to clarity.

🍵 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Break

🌞 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM
Session 3: Understanding the Child (Body)
A guided contemplation and exploration into the body's needs, innocence, and grounded presence.

🌿 6:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Short Break

💠 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Session 4: Integration – Living as the Universal Family
Bringing it all together into daily life. Closing with space for sharing, questions and felt integration.

Note:
These sessions are not theoretical discussions, but direct and open explorations of lived experience. Each is an invitation to notice what is already here — through quiet reflection, shared dialogue and gentle presence.

Gathering Pricing — Accessible, Fair, and Supportive

At Naturally Being, I believe that clarity and integration should be available to all, regardless of financial background. This workshop is offered through tiered pricing:

• €100 – Standard rate

• €75 – Enter code NB025 for 25% off

• €50 – Enter code NB050 for 50% off

✨ Select the full price at checkout and apply the discount code that reflects your current financial situation.

If these rates are still not accessible, please reach out. Open, respectful conversations about access are always welcome.

Ready to Remember Your Innate Wholeness?

Come as you are. Join us for this one-day workshop and begin living from the clarity, coherence, and compassion that’s already within you.

🌿 Reserve your place now and take the first step toward deep, embodied transformation
Please note this work is of a educational, spiritual and philosophical nature and not a form of therapy or psychological treatment and not a substitute for psychological or medical treatment. If you are in any doubt please see a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist in your region.