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Cudgerie Homestead, Cooroy Queensland.

 

OUR SPIRIT IN BUSINESS POLICY

Our mission is to further the role of consciousness, ethics and values in business and create business policies that respect all people as individuals.

To protect the environment rather than destroy it.

To care for humanity rather than exploit it.

To practice selflessness rather than selfishness.

To give rather than take and to place the value of people infinitely above the value of financial gain.

 

OUR STUDENTS

Our students come from all over Australia to spend a week exploring, learning, growing and sharing at our Intensive Residential Training Retreats.

They live in all sorts of places from small country towns
to bustling cities.

We have both male and female students and they range in
age from mid twenties to late sixties.

Some are already trained and have careers in other healing modalities, some are returning to the workforce after raising families and some are embracing a new,
life changing career direction.

One thing our students all have in common is that they are people who recognize the profound healing and life affirming
benefits of Meditation.

They are all following an innate desire to create a career in the holistic wellbeing industry, where they can put their own life experiences and the skills they are learning toward making a positive difference in the lives of others.

They are Healers and they are going to make a
difference in the world!

OUR PROMISE

By Jennifer Cunningham
Principal - IVHHD

I promise that if you use your intelligence and listen to your own instincts, you will make the choice that is absolutely right for you, right now.

For most people fulfillment, even bliss, comes with finding their life's purpose and then following that purpose ...allowing that purpose to govern their lives and be the foundation
of their existence.

For a lot of people discovering what their life's purpose is, becomes a life's quest and unfortunately for many,
the answer they seek never arrives.

When you have found your life's purpose...the very thing you seem to have been put on this earth to do ...everything else in your life becomes wonderful!

Your health improves, your relationships improve, your finances improve, you have more fun, you see more beauty and you are grateful to be alive in every moment of every day.

I know this because, I know my life's purpose...
you are looking at it.

Have I made a living out of teaching Meditation?
Yes, I have for many years.

Have I been able to be my own master because of Meditation?
Most certainly

Has Meditation allowed me to live a positive, healthy, happy life?
Without question

However, the one benefit of having taught Meditation for the past 25 odd years, that stands out most for me, is the indescribable soul enriching joy of showing the amazing gift of Meditation to others...and watching their lives change as they discover for themselves the boundless benefits that bringing Meditation into ones life truly brings.

So how do you know if teaching Meditation
is your life's purpose too?

There are thousands of jobs you could do to make a living. You are probably even already qualified to do many of them. A lot of them would be quite easy and some of them would even be fun...But how do you know when you come across that one thing that is going to make you want to bounce out of bed every morning, make you feel like you are living the best life you can possibly live and make your heart sing?

Here is the answer to knowing when you have found your life purpose (and it is not my invention, I have known it so long, I cant even recall where it came from.) If you want to know if the thing you are doing or the thing you are considering doing is your real life's purpose, ask yourself this simple question.

"If you could do this thing as much as you wanted to, or had time to do, but you could never make any money from doing it, would you still want to do it?"

Would you still want to spend your life helping other people
to have better lives?

For me, when it comes to teaching Meditation and helping other people to achieve the best for themselves in their lives, the answer is always, absolutely, yes.

If you feel the same way then you may have just found your life's purpose and the best thing about it is that you can make a living...
a very respectable living, from doing it as much as you want to.

Whether you choose to join us at IVHHD or you look for another way to bring heath, happiness and abundance into your life, I wish you every blessing on your journey.

Jennifer

 

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Jennifer Cunningham
(Principal)




 

 

 

 

  

OUR
TRAINING INSTITUTE

Inner Voyage Holistic Human development is a registered Australian Business. We are therefore accountable to the Australian Government and required by law to operate in a responsible and lawful manner.

IVHHD is privately owned and operated and we have three specific aspects to our business.

1/ We are a Meditation
Teacher Training Institute.
We provide comprehensive training via our off-campus (home study) and intensive face-to-face training retreats for people who wish to work as Meditation Teachers and Holistic Counsellor's in a professional capacity via the IVHHD Certificate in Meditation Teaching and Holistic Human Development. We also provide post-graduate course that lead to the IVHHD Diploma in Meditation Teaching and Holistic Human Development.

2/ We are an industry support organization that assists postgraduate students (registered associate practitioners)to establish and run their own holistic wellbeing businesses in an ethical, professional and successful manner.

3/We are a Meditation School and through our comprehensively trained Registered Practitioners, we conduct a wide range of Meditation and personal development class throughout Australia.

IVHHD is an innovative organization that blends the ancient traditions of Meditation with modern scientific research and the advances of technology. This allows us to bring our students the best of the past, the present and the future.

1/Through our off-campus delivery methods and our intensive residential retreat training courses we can offer students, who live in remote areas and who may otherwise be unable to access this kind of training the opportunity to gain the skills and qualifications they requite to pursue rewarding careers in the wellbeing industry.

2/We choose our staff members based on them being the best in their field. All of our teachers must have substantial experience in the wellbeing industry, have run their own private practice and have completer our training course with honors, before embarking on our rigorous teacher training program.

OUR HISTORY

The Inner Voyage training course and associated practitioner registration was formalized in January 2009.

Prior to this our founder and principal, Jennifer Cunningham, established a career as a meditation teacher and holistic counsellor, spanning some 25 years and began training other people to be meditation teachers on an informal level, around a decade ago. These teachers have gone on to establish their own businesses individually.

The formalization of the course and the associate practitioner membership was designed to overcome the pitfalls most people face when they endeavor to work for themselves within the holistic wellbeing industry.

Regardless of how well trained a practitioner is, issues like small business management, marketing and mentoring can often severely limit their success. The associate practitioner membership provides a range of support services, designed to overcome these issues.

Our training material is based on solid medical, physiological and psychological research coupled with ancient traditions from a broad range of cultures.

The Inner Voyage training program has been designed to meet the needs of individual students regardless of culture.

Our students are supported prior to their contact training course by qualified teachers who are always available to them via email and telephone, while they work through their preparatory lessons in the comfort of their own homes.

Our retreat students are then provided with quality face-to-face training at the residential retreat.

Our off-campus students are provided with solid ongoing support through their study program with regular contact with their teachers via email and telephone.

Once our students graduate they are supported through our Practitioner Support Centre. They receive all the equipment, support and business mentoring they need to turn their passions into rewarding careers.

We also have a virtual student lounge where our students and practitioners can communicate with each other, share information and gain peer support.

Many prospective students are curious about accreditation and where their certificate will be recognized…Meditation is a difficult modality to have recognized under any government department at this stage. However there are several natural therapies bodies that do recognize Meditation as a holistic therapy and we are continuing to work toward bringing our course content inline with their requirements. At this stage our courses are IMTA accredited. Our students are able to register with IMTA and obtain professional insurance.

Our institute is located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia but our students come from all over the country (and the World) to train as Meditation Teachers and Holistic Counsellor's so they can go forward and bring the healing and life affirming benefits of meditation (in all its traditions) and holistic wellbeing to all who seek to improve the quality of their own lives…and who want to make a positive difference in the lives of others, where ever they are.

OUR MOTIVATION

Mission Statement
Inner Voyage – Holistic Human Development has been developed to facilitate the acceleration of human potential in people who wish to live their lives to the best of their individual ability. That is, in holistic health and happiness.

All of our methods are self empowering, non-sectarian and suitable for people of all ages, all socioeconomic groups, all cultural backgrounds and all walks of life.

Our Goal
To provide opportunities through affordable, grounded, empowering and respectful training programs and holistic counselling, for all people who want to develop the skills, wisdom and experience they need to live their lives to the full…in health, happiness and with purpose.

 

OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE

We have big plans and we would love you to be a part of them... Our vision is currently focused on achieving the following goals.

1/To actively promote Meditation, as a grounded, positive, natural and self-empowering tool that is available to all people at all times and when used will not only significantly improve each persons ability to better cope with life; it will drastically improve their health and enhance the quality of their life, without limits.

2/ To gain public and official recognition for Meditation as a healing modality.

3/ To set world standards for the training of Meditation teachers outside of traditional and religious disciplines.

4/ To bring an awareness of Meditation and an understanding of its practices and benefits to as many people as possible.

5/ To simply offer something that is good, wholesome and accessible that shines a little guiding light into, what is too often, a world that has become too hectic and confusing for many.