Self-Enquiry Enlightenment Intensive and Awareness Intensive Meetups

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A Request for Support

We intend to continue offering these gatherings free of charge and would like some help to cover costs. If that is something you feel moved to help with, please see our Donate page. Thank you!

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For New People without Experience of Self-enquiry Dyads

As a new person, you are warmly invited to attend all the presentations which occur at the beginning of each monthly event. To participate in dyads in breakout rooms (the second part of each event), it will be necessary for you to be introduced to the particular dyad technique we use. There is an opportunity for this during the first dyad period so that you may then, if you wish, join the second dyad practice with another participant. For more information and an explanation of terms used, see ‘New to Dyads?’

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With special thanks to Osha Reader, Lawrence Noyes, and Grace Honore for their support and suggestions. Dedicated to Murray Kennedy and Edrid for their inspiration and personal guidance. Dedicated to Osho. 

If you have any queries, please email us at info@selfenquirydyads.org 

The Presentations

Each month an Awareness Intensive Leader from the Osho communities or an Enlightenment Intensive Master will present an informative and inspiring talk about various aspects of these intensives and of the dyad process.

“Awareness Intensive (AI)” is the name used in Osho communities; the process is the same as in other communities where they use the name “Enlightenment Intensive (EI)”.

Each monthly presentation will include the unique, and often inspiring, personal experiences of the presenter.

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There are many benefits of these intensives, especially how they are an opportunity for you to discover and “directly experience” the truth of who and what you actually are, of what life is, of what love is, and of what others are.

This process is suitable for every sincere seeker of truth in their lives, regardless of religious or spiritual orientation. Care is taken so that no belief system is introduced or taught. Only a method is provided to facilitate effective and satisfying personal enquiry and experience.

Previous Presenters

These monthly gatherings started in April 2022,  So far we’ve had presentations by Edrid (a student of Charles Berner, the creator of Enlightenment Intensives); Murray Kennedy leading a tribute to Jeff Love; Lawrence Noyes, Ganga and Garimo, Simone Anliker from Global Dyads, Zen Reverend Pitaka Christie Close, Forest Dalton, founder of the Love Intensive, Avikal Costantino, Colleen Santini, Smaran Stockard, Bill Savoie, Osha Reader, Russell Scott, Emma and Barry McGuinness, Murray Kennedy, Yoah Wexler, Doug Seeley, John Heron, Emir Salihovic, Paul Weiss, Grace Honore, Jake Chapman, Shivam O'Brien, Lila Paradigm group, Joseph Rubano, Satyen Raja, Luke and Matthew Farren, Attila Kalo, Sally Dearman-Cummings ,Zarina Parpia and Katrin Potticary.

Event Dates and Times

All events in this Zoom series occur on the first Wednesday of each month.

Events begin at:

• 8pm Central European time
• 7pm London time
• 2pm in Eastern USA/Canada  
• 11am Pacific Time  

Privacy: If you would like to remain anonymous on the Zoom call, please see Privacy on Zoom.

Next Presentation in this Series

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*** EXTRA PRESENTATION - DIFFERENT DAY & TIME ***

MONDAY, February 23, 2026 - presentation by Ava Harrison (formerly Berner)

Start time:

7pm in Eastern USA/Canada  

4pm Pacific Time

Tuesday, February 24:

12am London time

1am Central European time

7am Thailand

We are delighted to offer a one-off presentation at a different time to our normal monthly gathering as our presenter, Ava is currently in Thailand.

We hope that many of you will be able to join live in the US and Canada and Asia and maybe a few late-nighters in the UK and Europe. We will be sending a link to the recording to everyone on our mailing list and you are also very welcome to pre-submit any questions you have for Ava if you are unable to attend live. Please send your questions to info@selfenquirydyads.org

Ava and her late husband Charles Berner were the creators of the Enlightenment Intensive so this is a wonderful opportunity to gain an insight into the personalities and experiences that formed the process we all know and love.

Here are some words from Ava (transcribed from a voicemail so apologies for any errors!):

"I met Charles Berner in 1958 at a Scientology conference in Philadelphia. I signed up to get 50 hours of mind clearing from him and got back to California where he lived. Slowly, we became very close friends, and I ended up marrying him in 1961. We had our first child in 1962.

At that time, we were still Scientologists until about another eight years in, when Scientology became corrupt, so we quit and started the Institute of Ability. The Institute of Ability was using Charles's version of auditing as well as discoveries that the two of us made. We started a center in Costa Mesa, California, and it became quite popular. We did that for a few years and then moved to the Mojave Desert to a place called Lucerne Valley.

The importance of that is that this is where we had our first Enlightenment Intensive, and it was incredibly successful. It was given in a tent, we had two outhouses, and the cooking was all done by me on basically a glorified camp stove. It was the beginning of an adventure that lasted 10 years, where Enlightenment Intensives became more popular and we trained more people.

Charles and I were partners in the realm of supporting people to become more enlightened, to know who they are. I still support that and I still give intensives. I'm now part of an incredibly beautiful retreat in the bamboo forests of Chiang Mai, Thailand, where we give an intensive once a year. Our main activity is health retreats where we have acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and we set up diets for people based on their particular chi energy. We teach qigong-type exercises and we teach people communication skills, which we still believe are very important—that people have the ability to have authentic communication.

Charles, till the end of his life, was always helping people. We believe ourselves to be helpers, and help is a very interesting thing because help cannot be forced. It can be offered, and people have their own destinies, their own responses to help.

Dan Harrison, who has been my partner for 45 years, is a helper of people, and it's his passion in life. We help organizations with our product called Harrison Assessments, and we're now developing it for coaches using the paradox, which is the basic structure of the mind based on paradox. So we help people get free of their minds psychologically and then experience enlightenment, which is beyond the mind.

That's been my life, and it's my life with people who share that passion." 

Ava and Dan’s websites: harrisonassociates.com    and    wholelifeprofile.com

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This presentation is likely to be longer than our regular presentations and most likely with a considerably longer Q&A - some of you will be reconnecting with Ava after a gap of several decades!

Consequently, we may or may not complete with one or two optional dyads.

(The presentation will be followed by two optional dyad sessions. If you have not participated in online dyads before, you are welcome to join a free training session during the first dyad and then participate in the second one if you wish.)

Join the Zoom Call

A few minutes before the event start time (we have music playing 15 minutes before the start), click the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83979867311?pwd=aFJjTkN5b0FzRDYvMkNVTkFjZmVnUT09

Meeting ID: 839 7986 7311

Passcode: 768440

Future Presentations

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - presentation by Russell Scott

Subject of the Talk:

Every ancient mystical tradition seems to have its  signature” awakening experiences such as: no-self, emptiness, atman, divine love, non-duality, cosmic consciousness, pure potential, etc.

The Enlightenment Intensive is unique in that it combines one-pointed self-inquiry with the eastern method of contemplation and  the western approach of relational psychology and the availability of many other levels of awakening experiences, present in all traditions. 

In this presentation, Russell will share:

• The 3 elements that define an awakening experience (you will get more clarity on this)

• The  kinds of direct experiences participants have related to the 4 questions (you may recognize some of your own)

• How these experiences are similar to those in ancient traditions (but without the dogma)

• Why some experiences seem to conflict (this may help dissolve some confusion)

He will also share the concept of “Co-evolution”…how the divine evolution of consciousness is reflected in the very nature of everyday life.

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About Russell

Russell Scott has been leading Enlightenment Intensives for over 40 years (aka Coming Home retreats), as well as many personal development and meditation retreats and training Mind Clearing Practitioners. He is the author of the best-selling book “Awaken The Guru In You”  which has helped broaden awareness of Enlightenment Intensives in the world. For 11 years he was the director of a spiritual retreat centre in Ontario Canada, where he met many well-known spiritual teachers and became acquainted with the aims and practices of many diverse spiritual traditions. After all his years of involvement, he is still blown away by the power and magic of the method and gets great joy witnessing people fall off their seats in fits of laughter when they realize who they are actually are!

Website: awakentheguruinyou.com  

Some Appreciation

"Thank you so much for this!

I'm training to be a Master and all this early history helps me learn more about the nature of the intensive.

Warmly, MM, US"