At the Becoming Self Institute, we believe that continuing education should do more than check a box – it should deepen your practice, nourish your perspective, and reconnect you with the heart of your work. Our CEU-accredited trainings are designed for therapists, educators, coaches, and wellness professionals who want to integrate The Becoming Framework into their existing modalities. These offerings are crafted to support both technical growth and soulful expansion, helping you meet students and clients with greater clarity, compassion, and developmental insight.
Each course is grounded in Life Cycle Sequencing, a model that maps human development across thirteen distinct stages. You’ll learn how to recognize where someone is in their unfolding, how to support transitions with timing-sensitive tools, and how to use symbolic language to help clients make meaning of their experiences. Our trainings blend structured templates, experiential exercises, and nature-inspired metaphors to create a learning environment that is both intuitive and profound.
Whether you’re working with grief, identity shifts, burnout, or reinvention, our CEUs equip you with a developmental lens that honors the whole person. You’ll leave with practical strategies for assessment, intervention, and reflection – plus a renewed sense of purpose in your role as a guide.
These trainings are ideal for professionals who want to bring more depth, resonance, and soul into their work, without losing the rigor and clarity required in clinical or educational settings.
You can sign up for CEUs individually, choosing the topics that resonate most with your current practice or developmental edge. We also offer customized trainings for organizations, schools, and practitioner groups – tailored to your context, needs, and timing. If you don’t see a CEU listed that fits what you’re looking for, we welcome your inquiry. Together, we can co-create a training that meets your vision and supports your community.
CEUs are offered by Dr. Jason Geoffrion, founder of Becoming Self, in partnership with certified Institute Guides – each bringing their own expertise, lived experience, and relational presence. Depending on the topic and certification requirements, your training will be led by a collaboration of Institute Guides whose background aligns with your field and needs.
Each CEU includes:
Whether you’re seeking personal enrichment, professional development, or a deeper way to serve, our CEUs are designed to meet with clarity, compassion, and a commitment to lifelong becoming.
Our CEU offerings are daylong events, running six to eight hours, held in a beautiful retreat home tucked into the Rocky Mountains just outside Lyons, Colorado. The rhythm of a single full day gives us enough time to move from presentation into practice, to slow between exercises, and to let learning settle into felt experience without the hurry of a typical workshop.
The retreat setting comfortably welcomes up to twenty participants, creating a somatic container that is intentionally different from conference rooms and hotel ballrooms. Surrounded by pines and open sky, the house offers a council room, gathering spaces, and quiet corners to pause between sessions, so the landscape itself becomes a co‑teacher for reflection, ritual, and deeper attention.
Because the day is held in an intimate, domestic space, the work can be both rigorous and relational. Small group size allows for sustained conversation, close feedback from Institute Guides, and practice that moves beyond theory into embodied skill. Participants leave with more than handouts; they leave with practices they can try the next week, and with the felt sense that the material landed inside them.
For organizations needing training for larger groups, our Institute Guides will come to you. We design on‑site daylong programs that carry the same practical rigor and ceremonial attention into your setting so the work can scale without losing intimacy.
1. Life Cycle Sequencing: A Developmental Map for Therapeutic Practice
2. Meeting the Forming Self: Developmental Awareness in the High School Classroom
3. Mentoring the Forming Self: Developmental Guidance in Higher Education
4. Symbolic Storytelling & Archetypal Mapping in Human Development
5. Stewardship & Transmission: The Ethics of Generative Leadership
6. Embodied Alignment: Integrating Perception and Adjustment in Client Work
7. Ritual as Integration: Designing Threshold Experiences for Transformation
8. The Circle Path: Applying Cyclical Models to Client Growth
9. Narrative Reconstruction: Rewriting the Self Through Life Cycle Reflection
10. Embodied Timing: Somatic Tools for Life Cycle Integration
11. Community as Container: Facilitating Group Growth Through Life Cycle Work
12. Soulful Branding for Practitioners: Aligning Identity, Message, and Mission
Subtitle: Reclaiming Timing, Identity, and Narrative Across the Lifespan
Audience: Educators, coaches, therapists, and transition specialists
Format: 6 – 8 hours, with workbook, guided meditations, and client templates
Overview: This CEU introduces the 13 Life Cycles as a dynamic framework for understanding identity, timing, and transformation across the lifespan. Practitioners learn to locate clients within their developmental arc, identify
ruptures or delays, and guide re-integration through narrative, reflection, and symbolic mapping. It’s a foundational course for applying cyclical wisdom to
therapeutic work.
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Subtitle: Supporting Identity, Timing, and Belonging in Adolescents
Audience: High school teachers, counselors, and instructional coaches
Format: 6 hours, with classroom templates, student reflection tools, and educator journaling prompts
Overview: This CEU equips high school educators with developmental insight into the Forming Self Life Cycle (ages 14–21), helping them recognize the deeper identity work unfolding beneath academic performance and behavioral patterns. Teachers learn to create classroom environments that honor timing, foster belonging, and support students in forming a coherent sense of self.
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Subtitle: Cultivating Purpose, Autonomy, and Inner Coherence in Emerging Adults
Audience: College professors, academic advisors, student life professionals
Format: 6 – 8 hours, with mentoring frameworks, student dialogue guides, and developmental case studies
Overview: This CEU supports college professors and advisors in understanding the Forming Self Life Cycle as a critical phase of identity consolidation, existential questioning, and relational experimentation. Educators learn to mentor students not just academically, but developmentally – helping them navigate the deeper work of becoming.
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Subtitle: Using Myth and Metaphor to Deepen Client Insight
Audience: Depth-oriented therapists, expressive arts facilitators, and spiritual guides
Format: 4 – 6 hours, with visual cards, journaling prompts, and sample scripts
Overview: Explore the power of metaphor, myth, and nature-based symbolism to deepen client insight and emotional resonance. This CEU equips practitioners to use spirals, seasons, directions, and archetypes as tools for meaning-making, identity exploration, and developmental reflection. Ideal for those seeking to enrich their practice with symbolic depth.
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Subtitle: Mentoring, Legacy, and the Contributing Self in Practice
Audience: Senior practitioners, supervisors, educators, and organizational leaders
Format: 6 hours, with reflection prompts, case scenarios, and peer dialogue
Overview: Designed for seasoned practitioners, this CEU explores the shift from mastery to mentorship. Participants learn how to guide others with integrity, humility, and discernment – offering their wisdom without projection or overreach. It’s a soulful approach to legacy-building, relational leadership, and ethical transmission.
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Subtitle: Supporting Coherence Through Subtle Shifts and Somatic Awareness
Audience: Somatic therapists, life coaches, and holistic practitioners
Format: 5 – 7 hours, with experiential practices, audio resources, and client tools
Overview: Centered on the Aligning Self Life Cycle, this CEU teaches practitioners how to help clients attune to dissonance and make subtle, soulful shifts toward coherence. Through somatic awareness, rhythm-based interventions, and relational mapping, participants learn to support alignment as a lived, embodied practice.
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Subtitle: From Transition to Transmission
Audience: Therapists, coaches, spiritual directors, and retreat facilitators
Format: 6 – 8 hours, with ritual design workbook, sample scripts, and case studies
Overview: This CEU explores the role of ritual in marking transitions, healing ruptures, and honoring developmental timing. Practitioners learn to design and facilitate personalized and group rituals that support integration, belonging, and symbolic transformation. This is a powerful course for those working at the intersection of healing and ceremony.
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Subtitle: Beyond Linear Development
Audience: Depth-oriented therapists, educators, and life coaches
Format: 5 – 6 hours, with visual aids and client-facing materials
Overview: Move beyond linear development with this CEU focused on circular-based thinking. Practitioners learn to track recurring themes, symbolic returns, and layered growth across time. The course offers tools for mapping cyclical progress and supporting clients in navigating complex, nonlinear journeys of becoming.
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Subtitle: Healing the Past, Reclaiming the Present
Audience: Narrative therapists, trauma-informed practitioners, and coaches
Format: 6 hours, with client worksheets and facilitator guide
Overview: This CEU guides practitioners in helping clients revisit and re-author past life cycles. Through storytelling, memory work, and symbolic reframing, participants learn to support healing, coherence, and agency. It’s a transformative approach to identity work rooted in developmental timing and personal myth.
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Subtitle: Listening to the Body’s Clock
Audience: Somatic therapists, bodyworkers, and holistic coaches
Format: 6 – 8 hours, with experiential modules and guided practices
Overview: Explore how the body holds developmental timing and how somatic awareness can support integration. This CEU offers breathwork, movement practices, and sensory tracking to help clients locate themselves in their life cycle and restore rhythm, regulation, and relational presence.
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Subtitle: Holding Space for Collective Becoming
Audience: Group therapists, facilitators, educators, and spiritual leaders
Format: 8 hours, with group guidebook and sample session outlines
Overview: Learn to design and lead group experiences rooted in Life Cycle Sequencing. This CEU covers group dynamics, ritual facilitation, and curriculum design for collective transformation. Practitioners gain tools to hold space for shared inquiry, relational depth, and community-based healing.
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Subtitle: Building a Practice That Reflects Who You’re Becoming
Audience: Therapists, coaches, and guides launching or refining their practice
Format: 6 hours, with branding workbook and design templates
Overview: This CEU helps practitioners clarify your voice, values, and visual identity through developmental reflection. Participants learn to craft offerings that resonate, build authentic messaging, and design a practice that reflects who you’re becoming. Ideal for those launching or refining their professional presence.
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The Invitation
Every life has a rhythm, a hidden architecture that shapes the way we grow, change, and become. You’ve felt it before – the sense that certain moments arrive right on time, while others feel like they’re pulling you forward before you’re ready. Life Cycle Sequencing: Foundations is your key to understanding these patterns. It’s not just theory; it’s a living map of your own unfolding.
Why You’re Called Here
If you’ve ever wondered why certain challenges keep repeating, or why some seasons of life feel effortless while others feel like uphill climbs, this course will give you the clarity you’ve been craving. You’ll learn to see your life not as a series of random events, but as a purposeful sequence – one that you can navigate with awareness instead of guesswork.
What You’ll Gain
By the end of this course, you’ll have a clear framework for recognizing where you are in your current cycle, what’s coming next, and how to prepare for it. You’ll be able to identify the signs of transition before they arrive, make decisions with greater confidence, and align your actions with the natural flow of your development.
What to Expect
Over several modules, you’ll explore the stages of the life cycle through engaging video lessons, live interactions, reflective exercises, and guided Life Cycle Sequencing activities. You’ll work with real examples from your own life, uncovering patterns you may never have noticed before. You’ll also have access to a supportive online community where you can share insights, learn from others walking their own paths, and find allies on the journey.
The Transformation
This isn’t just about learning a model – it’s about reclaiming your agency. When you understand the timing and structure of your own growth, you stop fighting the current and start moving with it. You’ll leave with a sense of grounded confidence, knowing that you have the tools to meet whatever comes next.
Timing & Commitment
This course runs four consecutive weeks with one live, two‑hour class each week. Between sessions you’ll engage with focused coursework – short readings, reflective exercises, and practical experientials – designed to deepen learning and integrate discoveries into your life. Expect an engaging, rigorous experience that asks for steady participation: plan on the two‑hour live class plus roughly 2 – 4 hours per week of preparatory and integration work. Live sessions are interactive and practice‑focused; recordings and resources are provided for catch‑up, but full benefit comes from attending and participating in real time.
The Invitation
Imagine walking through every cycle of human becoming – not as an abstract idea, but as a lived, embodied experience. Life Stance: 13 Life Cycles in 13 Weeks is a guided journey through the full arc of development, from the first breath to the wisdom of elderhood. Each week, you’ll immerse yourself in a new cycle, exploring its gifts, challenges, and lessons.
Why You’re Called Here
If you’ve ever felt like you’re living one chapter while still carrying the weight of another, or if you sense that understanding the whole story of human development could unlock your own growth, this course is for you. It’s for seekers who want to see the bigger picture and your place within it.
What You’ll Gain
By the end of these thirteen weeks, you’ll have a deep, embodied understanding of each life cycle and how they weave together. You’ll see your own journey with fresh eyes, recognize the cycles you’ve mastered, and identify the ones still calling for your attention. This awareness becomes a compass for every decision you make.
What to Expect
Each week brings a new module with video teachings, reflective prompts, live interactions, and guided practices. You’ll engage in rituals that help you embody the qualities of each stage, from the curiosity of childhood to the vision of elderhood. Group discussions offer a space to share insights and witness others’ transformations.
The Transformation
This isn’t just learning – it’s remembering. You’ll leave with a living map of your life, one that honors where you’ve been, clarifies where you are, and illuminates where you’re going. The cycles become allies, guiding you toward wholeness.
Timing & Commitment
This course runs for an entire season of thirteen consecutive weeks with one live, 90-minute class each week. Between sessions you’ll engage with focused coursework – short readings, reflective exercises, and practical experientials – designed to deepen learning and integrate discoveries into your life. Expect an engaging, rigorous experience that asks for steady participation: plan on the two‑hour live class plus roughly 2 – 4 hours per week of preparatory and integration work. Live sessions are interactive and practice‑focused; recordings and resources are provided for catch‑up, but full benefit comes from attending and participating in real time.
The Invitation
Life’s turning points can feel like storms – unpredictable, disorienting, and powerful. Transitions to Transformation is your guide to navigating these moments with clarity, grace, and depth. Instead of resisting change, you’ll learn to harness it as a force for growth.
Why You’re Called Here
If you’re in the midst of a career shift, relationship change, relocation, or personal awakening, you know how destabilizing transitions can be. This course is for those who want to meet change with open eyes and a steady heart, transforming uncertainty into opportunity.
What You’ll Gain
You’ll develop a personal toolkit for navigating transitions – from recognizing the early signs of change to integrating the lessons they bring. You’ll learn to release what no longer serves you, honor the space in-between, and step into new beginnings with confidence.
What to Expect
Through live interactions, guided meditations, journaling exercises, and practical tools you’ll explore the anatomy of transition. You’ll map your own turning points, identify patterns, and practice rituals that help you move through change with intention. Live Q&A sessions offer real-time support and insight.
The Transformation
By the end, you’ll no longer see transitions as disruptions, but as thresholds – sacred gateways into the next chapter of your life. You’ll carry the skills to meet future changes with resilience and trust.
Timing & Commitment
This course runs four consecutive weeks with one live, two‑hour class each week. Between sessions you’ll engage with focused coursework – short readings, reflective exercises, and practical experientials – designed to deepen learning and integrate discoveries into your life. Expect an engaging, rigorous experience that asks for steady participation: plan on the two‑hour live class plus roughly 2 – 4 hours per week of preparatory and integration work. Live sessions are interactive and practice‑focused; recordings and resources are provided for catch‑up, but full benefit comes from attending and participating in real time.
The Invitation
In a world that moves fast and demands more, stability can feel like a luxury. Strengthen into Stability is your invitation to slow down, root deeply, and build the resilience you need to thrive in your current life cycle.
Why You’re Called Here
If you’ve been feeling unsteady – emotionally, mentally, or physically – this course offers the grounding you’ve been seeking. It’s for anyone who wants to stop reacting to life’s chaos and start responding from a place of strength.
What You’ll Gain
You’ll learn practical, body-based practices to restore balance, along with mindset tools to keep you steady when challenges arise. You’ll create a personalized stability plan that supports your unique needs and rhythms.
What to Expect
Each module combines short, accessible practices with deeper teachings on resilience. You’ll explore breathwork, grounding rituals, and daily habits that anchor you in the present. Reflection prompts help you track your progress and notice subtle shifts.
The Transformation
By the end, you’ll feel more rooted, calm, and capable – no matter what life throws your way. Stability will no longer be something you chase; it will be something you carry within you.
Timing & Commitment
This course runs four consecutive weeks with one live, two‑hour class each week. Between sessions you’ll engage with focused coursework – short readings, reflective exercises, and practical experientials – designed to deepen learning and integrate discoveries into your life. Expect an engaging, rigorous experience that asks for steady participation: plan on the two‑hour live class plus roughly 2 – 4 hours per week of preparatory and integration work. Live sessions are interactive and practice‑focused; recordings and resources are provided for catch‑up, but full benefit comes from attending and participating in real time.
The Invitation
Life is made of moments – but too often, we rush through them. Ritual in Everyday Life teaches you to slow down, infuse intention into your routines, and transform the ordinary into the sacred.
Why You’re Called Here
If you’ve been craving more meaning in your daily life, this course is your answer. It’s for those who want to feel connected, present, and purposeful – not just during big milestones, but in the quiet moments in between.
What You’ll Gain
You’ll learn simple, powerful rituals to mark time, honor transitions, and cultivate presence. These practices will help you reconnect with yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you.
What to Expect
Through video lessons, printable guides, live discussions, and community interactions, you’ll explore rituals for morning, evening, work, relationships, and self-care. You’ll experiment with micro-ceremonies that fit seamlessly into your life.
The Transformation
By the end, you’ll see your days differently. Every sip of tea, every walk outside, every pause will become an opportunity to connect with the sacred.
Timing & Commitment
This course runs four consecutive weeks with one live, two‑hour class each week. Between sessions you’ll engage with focused coursework – short readings, reflective exercises, and practical experientials – designed to deepen learning and integrate discoveries into your life. Expect an engaging, rigorous experience that asks for steady participation: plan on the two‑hour live class plus roughly 2 – 4 hours per week of preparatory and integration work. Live sessions are interactive and practice‑focused; recordings and resources are provided for catch‑up, but full benefit comes from attending and participating in real time.