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1.1 Welcome to ISEMI

1.2 How to get the most most out of this programme

1.3 Practical exercise: The Art of Relaxation

1.4 Heart-Brain coherence - introduction video

1.5 Heart-Brain coherence - basic exercise

1.6 Heart-Brain coherence  - 3 minute exercise

1.7 Embodying your Being Energy - exercise

1.8 Embodied Intention – exercise

Welcome to the Inner Power programme

Core methods: Reiki 1, bodywork, breathwork, basic NLP state management

1.1 Coming home into your body – grounding and centring

1.2 Breath, state, and presence – the basis of state management (NLP)

1.3 Reiki 1 initiation and self-healing capacity

1.4 Self-love as a birthright & energetic boundaries

1.5 Rhythm and a daily devotional practice

Chapter Summary: Rooting into safety—learning to feel supported by your body and grounded by the Earth.

1 – Being grounded: knowing what you stand for and taking your place

Core methods: Emotional Mastery, bodywork, attachment / Secure Base themes

2.1 The language of emotion – feeling without drowning

2.2 The body as compass – from shame to sensual presence

2.3 Mapping your secure bases – attachment & Secure Base

2.4 Regulating tension – heart–brain coherence & anchoring (NLP)

2.5 Boundaries, surrender, and creative expression

Chapter Summary: Making space for pleasure, vulnerability, and aliveness.

2 – Passion: the capacity to long deeply and direct energy

Core methods: NLP Practitioner core, mindset, Secure Base Leadership, circles of influence

3.1 Your inner fire – motivation, focus & well-formed outcomes (NLP)

3.2 Beliefs, submodalities & identity (NLP)

3.3 Self-love and self-worth – strength without hardness

3.4 Leadership from trust – Secure Base Leadership (care & dare)

 3.5 Circles of control, influence, and concern

Chapter Summary: Healthy assertiveness and boundaries, grounded in dignity.

3 – Mastery: developing your own mastery in your field

Core methods: Systemic Work, Inner Child work, TA, HNLP, Reiki

4.1 The order of the heart – orders of love in family and organisation

4.2 Inner child, attachment styles & life positions (TA)

4.3 Family and organisational constellations in practice

4.4 Self-love as healing – acknowledgement, grief, forgiveness & Reiki as a healing presence

5 Relationship dynamics & flow – structuring time, strokes (TA) & HNLP Beyond Goals

Chapter Summary: Love is not an emotion, but a state of consciousness. When you are present with an open heart, healing happens naturally.

4 – Love: the power of transformation

Core methods: NLP (language), Transactional Analysis, communication ethics

5.1 The power of language – Meta Model & gentle trance language (NLP)

5.2 Speaking and listening authentically

5.4 Ego states, transactions & psychological games (TA)

5.5 Silence, resonance & professional ethics in communication

Chapter Summary: Speaking from awareness shapes reality. When language and intention align, communication becomes healing.

5 – Communication: Communicating Authentically

Core methods: Reiki 2, intuitive development, visualisation, (H)NLP, shadow work

6.1 Reiki 2 initiation – symbols, distance, and field awareness

6.2 Intuitive perception and synchronicity

6.3 Shadow, projection, and transference – working with the unconscious

6.4 Visualisation, inner advisor & submodalities (NLP/HNLP)

6.5 Decision-making from inner knowing

Chapter Summary: Guided by intuition, you learn to recognise patterns and the undercurrent. As trust grows, your perception becomes an inner compass.

6 – Intuition: trusting your inner knowing

Core methods: Hermetic philosophy, meditation, reflection, a systemic lens, Secure Base Leadership, professional ethics & devotional practice

7.1 Meditation and stillness – resting in presence

7.2 Hermetic philosophy in practice – the seven principles as an inner compass

7.3 Service, professional ethics & leading as a secure base (Secure Base Leadership)

7.4 Integration of the seven sources – your personal leadership profile

7.5 Personal devotional practice & a completion ritual

Chapter Summary: Bringing wisdom into action. Inner power isn’t an outcome—it’s a way of being.

7 – Wisdom: acting from the best version of yourself

<h3 id="17862268-69cb-40d0-80ee-198caa9db5c7" data-toc-id="17862268-69cb-40d0-80ee-198caa9db5c7" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">ISEMI Masterclass 1</h3><h3 id="c61d5b77-1ac7-476f-9873-645b54c66aa1" data-toc-id="c61d5b77-1ac7-476f-9873-645b54c66aa1" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Personal Leadership</h3>Living and Working from Inner PowerPersonal leadership begins with the ability to lead yourself. Not by constantly controlling yourself or pushing harder, but by learning to notice what is happening within you, regulate yourself, and consciously choose the place from which you want to act. In this first ISEMI Masterclass, you develop Inner Power: the ability to remain connected to yourself even under pressure and to give direction from a place of inner security, awareness and trust. You do not simply learn to think or act differently; you develop an inner foundation that becomes visible in the way you live, communicate and work.<h3 id="b152501b-7a77-4c86-bbc4-786e2f0226ec" data-toc-id="b152501b-7a77-4c86-bbc4-786e2f0226ec" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Begin your personal leadership journey</h3>What will you develop?Within ISEMI, personal leadership means becoming increasingly aware of what influences you and how automatic patterns shape your choices, relationships and professional behaviour. You develop the ability to create space between what happens and how you respond. We work not only with thinking and behaviour, but also with the body, emotions, attention, the nervous system, awareness and meaning-making. This creates greater freedom to act not only from what you have learned or experienced in the past, but from who you consciously choose to be.You will develop, among other things:<ul><li>greater inner calm, self-regulation and resilience;</li><li>awareness of automatic patterns and the ability to choose differently;</li><li>a more refined body awareness and inner attunement;</li><li>communication and action with greater presence and congruence;</li><li>the ability to connect personal and professional choices with what truly matters to you.</li></ul><h3 id="d5f732ed-a58a-4c35-9679-28de00cf3941" data-toc-id="d5f732ed-a58a-4c35-9679-28de00cf3941" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Inner Power as the Foundation</h3>Within ISEMI, personal leadership is not only about what you do, but especially about the place from which you live, choose and act.We call this inner foundation Inner Power: the ability to remain connected to yourself, even under pressure, and to act consciously from presence, autonomy and inner attunement.Within the masterclass, we work on psychological, existential and spiritual-energetic levels. You develop self-awareness, self-regulation and resilience, explore who you are and what you want to stand for, and deepen your connection with your body, inner knowing and deeper essence.In this way, personal development becomes visible in how you communicate, make choices, take responsibility and contribute meaningfully.Connect within. Act from within. Contribute meaningfully outward.<h3 id="da16621b-d811-406c-a18c-76fb3fb29a51" data-toc-id="da16621b-d811-406c-a18c-76fb3fb29a51" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">A year to truly integrate</h3>Personal development rarely arises from a single insight or one intensive training day. New insights need time to be explored, experienced, practised and integrated into everyday life. That is why Personal Leadership is designed as a 12-month learning journey in which independent learning, personal guidance and experiential practice complement one another.Your year journey consists of three elements. Through the ISEMI app, you follow video lessons, in-depth theory, guided exercises, reflections and practical assignments at your own pace. During the monthly live training sessions, we deepen the material through questions, personal learning experiences, exercises and case studies. In addition, throughout the year ISEMI organises small-group contact and development days in the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany, where personal practice, feedback and direct transmission are central.<h3 id="b1005783-0583-4e09-bf24-1edbb8b3e453" data-toc-id="b1005783-0583-4e09-bf24-1edbb8b3e453" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Small-Group Learning Across Levels</h3>The personal contact days are a distinctive part of the ISEMI learning path. We deliberately work with groups of no more than 12 participants and choose to continue offering personal training even when only a very small number of participants are present. Sometimes this means a residential gathering; at other times, a quiet training space with just a few participants. The quality is determined not by the size or luxury of the location, but by the attention, encounter and personal guidance.During these sessions, skills in NLP, communication, leadership and coaching can be practised personally and directly. Reiki initiations and other elements that require personal transmission also take place during these contact moments where appropriate.Participants at different levels of experience consciously learn with and from one another. A participant in Personal Leadership may, for example, join a contact day focused on communication, leadership or coaching when this supports their development. Advanced participants in the Trainer Programme and Master Trainer programme, in turn, learn by facilitating parts of earlier masterclasses under supervision.This creates a living learning path of:experience → apply → guide → transmit → mastery<h3 id="8c8e275d-bbde-48af-9e0e-e24851a06ff5" data-toc-id="8c8e275d-bbde-48af-9e0e-e24851a06ff5" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Who Is It For?</h3>This masterclass is designed for people who do not want to separate personal development from their everyday life and professional practice. Coaches, trainers and facilitators develop a stronger inner foundation for working with others. Leaders, entrepreneurs, HR professionals and advisers deepen their self-regulation, communication and personal leadership. And those who primarily enter from a personal development perspective find a structured learning path in which psychological, existential and spiritual deepening are brought together.You do not need prior experience with ISEMI, NLP, Reiki or other methodologies. Beginners and advanced participants can each take part from their own level.<h3 id="e711458f-1225-42e9-9225-20ea63266bbf" data-toc-id="e711458f-1225-42e9-9225-20ea63266bbf" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Part of the seven-year ISEMI learning path</h3>Personal Leadership forms the foundation of the complete ISEMI learning path. It is followed by Professional Communication, Secure Base Leadership, Secure Base Coaching, the Trainer Programme, Master Trainer and finally Hidden Wisdom.Each masterclass forms an independent one-year learning journey, while together they create a continuous path of development: from learning to lead yourself, to connecting, leading and guiding others, and ultimately to transmission, mastery and deeper exploration of wisdom and meaning.<h3 id="9315d5d7-0dae-40ac-9e19-cdde28fd8958" data-toc-id="9315d5d7-0dae-40ac-9e19-cdde28fd8958" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Certification</h3>After successfully completing the required elements of the year journey, you will receive the ISEMI certificate:ISEMI Personal LeadershipFoundation in Inner Power &amp; Energetic AwarenessDepending on the learning route followed and fulfilment of the relevant training, practice and assessment criteria, additional certifications may form part of the programme, including NLP Practitioner and Usui Reiki 2 Practitioner.Within ISEMI, certification is not based solely on attendance or theoretical knowledge. Personal integration, professional and ethical conduct, and the practical application of what you have learned are also part of the learning and assessment process.<h3 id="a2174b67-2628-4d77-83fd-35eb2c34aa2a" data-toc-id="a2174b67-2628-4d77-83fd-35eb2c34aa2a" style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.2;">Start When the Time Is Right for You</h3>You can join throughout the year and begin the online learning journey in the ISEMI app immediately. The live training sessions and contact and development days then give you the opportunity to explore, practise and further integrate what you learn online.Contact days are organised throughout the year in the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany. The investment for each session is determined individually, based on factors such as location, duration and any accommodation costs. This allows us to keep personal training as small-scale, flexible and accessible as possible.Leadership ultimately does not begin with leading others, but with learning to lead yourself.

Course content

Personal Leadership

Marcel den Hartog

What you will learn

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