What is Pathwork?

The primary goal of Pathwork is our realignment with God, Spirit, or however you might call the experience of a higher power. The Pathwork offers an experience of God that opens us to unification on all levels of our being.

In the Pathwork, we educate, mature and heal those parts of ourselves that have become split off, distorted and “lost”. With positive intention, focus, and identification with the Higher Self, we learn to open into our true nature and the treasure of our wise, loving, inner Self.

This is a path of self-knowledge, self-responsibility, and acceptance of our humanness. By working with our observer self to honestly face ourselves we learn to connect the cause and effect of various levels of our consciousness and behavior.

In developing our capacity to love, our sense of humor, the ability to allow ourselves and others the benefit of the doubt, and the flexibility to allow Higher Powers to guide us, we create a positive attitude that helps us to move through and heal the shadowy territory of our lower self and the wounds of our personality, ego, and soul. In our light and in the beauty of our own hearts, we become whole again by meeting and dealing with our inner destructive forces and by welcoming the lost and isolated parts of ourselves back home into unitive consciousness and positive reality.

What Does Pathwork Offer?

This free online group is led by a Pathwork teacher or helper and is a great way to encounter Pathwork® without commitment to a group. You are welcome to join as often as you can.

This offering is available to those having completed the Lecture Study series and wanting to have on-going support in a group setting. Members commit for a series of 8 meetings on a bi-weekly schedule.

PTP is a three-year program, taught in 4 in-person modules and 3 online classes per year.  Participants commit to one year at a time. A systematic approach is used to educate, mature, and heal those parts of ourselves that have become split off, distorted, and “lost”. Simultaneously, we develop our capacity to love, our sense of humor, the ability

Individual sessions with a Pathwork Helper are the opportunity to explore and apply this practical spiritual wisdom to your own life by looking at the challenges and blessings you are experiencing. Pathwork Helpers affiliated with Pathwork of California can be found on the Helpers page. Please contact them directly.

Pathwork workshops are geared towards beginning and advanced friends of the teachings and center around a specific topic addressed in assigned lectures.

Helpership Training Program (HTP), a four-year residential program, followed by an apprentice year, is for those who are called to become a Pathwork Helper. This program is available to those who have completed the PTP program or equivalent, and offers an in-depth training in the psychological and spiritual task of supporting others on their journey.

Why Pathwork?

Vibrant Community

Pathwork® is a worldwide community of people dedicated to honestly examining themselves, and bringing spirit into their lives. The Pathwork Foundation can connect you to resources all over the globe.

Powerful Teachings

The lectures given by Eva Pierrakos from 1957 until her death in 1979 are the heart of the Pathwork®. They are an astonishing roadmap to self-responsibility, self-knowledge, and true self-acceptance. They point the way to genuine love of self, others, and the Divine.
You can read them online, for free.

Passionate Work

Our Helpers are all graduates of rich, rigorous Helpership Programs and decades of practical experience. They are deeply moved by their own ongoing process in the Pathwork and bring the energy of their self-work and purification to helping others on their Path.

Structured Course Offerings

Pathwork® of California has courses ranging from short introductions for the curious to years-long group offerings for those who really want to dig into their own transformation.

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Testimonials

PoC-affiliated Helpers

“Helping is one of the most satisfying, beautiful, noble, enhancing, stimulating experiences there is. It is truly a marriage, in a spiritual sense, of your channel with the channel of the other person. The other person’s path unfolds. It is a living organism that reveals itself.”

Bodger, Jack

Jack is a Pathwork Helper who teaches Pathwork in Santa Barbara County, California. He graduated from Pathwork Helpership Training, Madison VA, in 2018 after completing Advanced Pathwork Studies in 2016 and Pathwork Transformation Program in 2014.He is also a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (class of 1998). Jack also assisted with the Pathwork in Japan’s Helper Training Program, years 1 & 2. He offers individual sessions and Pathwork Study Groups at his home and online in Carpinteria, California.His passion for Pathwork includes exploring an in-depth study of the various methods of meditation described in the Pathwork materials and their counterparts in the Vedic Tradition of India. He can be contacted by phone: 805-717-1373 or jackbodger@gmail.com.

Knight, Denise

Denise graduated from The Pathwork® of California’s Transformation Program in 2003; while also enrolling in their Helpership Training Program, which is their advanced four-year program.  In 2007 she graduated but extended her training for an extra year for teaching and group experience; being recognized for full Helpership in 2008.  Part of the curriculum requirements included giving 105 hours of personal process sessions and receiving supervision from Senior Pathwork® Helpers.

Krekeler, Maria

Maria started her Pathwork journey in 1991 in Germany. She lived at the Phoenicia Pathwork Center for 3 years prior to moving to California, where she completed her Helpership training. A Senior Pathwork® Helper, a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner,and a graduate of the TWT training with Thomas Huebl, she has been teaching the Pathwork Transformation Program in California since 2005, and Helpership since 2018. Her deep longing and aim is to “bring love, where love seems not to be”. Maria offers individual and couple sessions, Pathwork process groups, and Pathwork workshops in English and German in California, Germany and online. She can be reached mkdevotion@gmail.com

Schirrholz, U. Ingrid

U. Ingrid Schirrholz, Dipl.-Psych., MA, TEP has been a Pathwork Helper for nearly 20 years. For the last 10 years she trained Helpers in California, Michigan, New York and Vermont. Trained in Psychology and in Expressive Therapies she brings her love of the creative arts to her sessions and classes to help others experience the truths of the Guide's teachings within their own being. Ingrid lives with her husband Mel in an old farmhouse near Woodstock, NY, and works in private practice in New Jersey and in West Hurley, NY.

Wood, Charles Cresson

Charles read his first Pathwork book back in 1991, and he was so excited that he stayed up all night to complete it. While he has been a student of contemporary channels like Paul Selig, Hellen Schuman, and Jane Roberts, nothing that he has encountered has provided the clarity and extensive practical guidance that is found in the Pathwork lectures. Charles has written two Pathwork meditation books, entitled “Opening to Abundance” (2004) and “Rapid Crisis Resolution” (2017). He has served on the Pathwork of California Board of Directors, and also taught classes and delivered sermons about “abundance consciousness.” He particularly invites those who are now in a stuck place, a painful place where they have been going around in circles, to have private sessions with him. Together, and with God’s help, we can set your trajectory into a new direction of light, love, truth, abundance, joy, and inspiration. www.abundantreality.com

Apprentice Pathwork Helper

Chong, Marisa, Tijuana MX

Marisa started studying Pathwork in 2006 to find peace and create healthy relationships. During the past years, she has deeply discovered herself and has learned to accept and enjoy life. Her journey through Pathwork has been guided by her faith and trust in God/Universe, her curiosity, and her willingness to change old destructive patterns. She is Mexican and currently lives in Tijuana, Mexico on the border with San Diego, California. She completed the Pathwork Transformation Program in 2013 and graduated from the POC’s Helpership Training Program in January 2023. She recently retired after 36 years of working at COLEF, a Social Research Institute in Tijuana. Now, she wants to share her knowledge, experience, and passion for Pathwork, both in Spanish and English. Marisa can be reached at mcm867@gmail.com

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