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What if the healing breakthrough you've spent years chasing only took 3 days?

‍Through live, immersive sessions, Dr Alex Howard will show you what's underneath your struggle, and how to begin healing it in a whole new way.

Find the cause: Not just what happened, but what you needed and didn't get in childhood, and how it's still shaping you now
See the pattern: Recognise the walls you built to protect yourself, and why they're now what's keeping you stuck
Do the work: Guided sessions and small groups in a safe, supportive environment. The real thing, done together
Create a deep transformation: Start trusting your decisions and feel the shift in your mind, heart, body and nervous system.

Save My Free Place Now

“The Awakening program gave me the opportunity to take a deeper dive into myself. I gained much insight about the beliefs and fears underneath my feelings and emotions that hold me back from living a full life.”

- Suzanne

Why...

Why doesn't therapy help me?

Why do i feel empty even though life is fine?

Why do I still feel anxious after doing all the work?

Why does my life feel like autopilot?

Why do I feel disconnected from my own life?

Why do self-help books not help me?

Why do my relationships always end the same way?

You've read the books. Been to therapy. Done the mindset work. And yet something still feels heavy.

It's in the anxiety that hasn't lifted. The low mood that keeps creeping back. The relationship patterns on repeat.

Even the days that look fine can feel like autopilot. Like there's a layer you can't name, or a weight you can't lift. What if that's not failure, and not something that’s wrong with you?

But because all along you've been treating the symptom, not the cause.

The walls that once kept you safe are now what's keeping you stuck.

As children, we all need three things: safety, boundaries, and love. When any of those needs went unmet we found a way to cope.

This isn't about blaming your parents, or putting them on trial. For many parents, they were behaving in the way they believed was right. This is about seeing clearly what you did and didn't receive, because once you can see it, you don't have to keep living inside it.

Some things don't heal because you haven't tried hard enough. They heal because you finally understand why.

This program is for you if...

Whatever your version of "stuck" looks like, and whatever brought you here, you don't need a difficult childhood or a dramatic story for this to be true for you:

You’re tired of doing the work and still arriving back at the same place, feeling trapped or stuck

You’re ready to build deep and meaningful relationships on a level you have never experienced before

Your life looks fine on the outside but somewhere underneath it all, you believe there's more available to you

This program is designed to awaken your healing potential and create profound and lasting transformation in your life.

"I felt apprehensive at first. But the event was welcoming, and I felt properly 'heard' in the breakout sessions — something of a revelation."

- Sarah

Welcome to your healing journey

Friday - Coming home to safety

Introduction to the program and the core emotional need of safety

We begin at the foundation, because everything else rests on it. Before we can set a boundary, feel our feelings, or truly receive love, we need to feel safe enough to be ourselves.

Friday introduces the map for the weekend — the three core emotional needs and why we start with safety. We explore what safety actually is: not a story we tell ourselves, but the felt capacity to self-regulate our nervous system and return, again and again, to a place of calm and presence. You'll begin to notice the defensive patterns you learned long ago, understand the price they've quietly been costing you, and take the first steps in relating to your own experience with more kindness and less harshness.

What we explore:

The three core emotional needs — and why safety comes first

The difference between a nervous system that feels safe and one that's braced for threat

How a lack of safety shows up as a lack of confidence, freedom, and ease

Beginning to lean in to yourself rather than pull away

Saturday - Boundaries and the inner critic

The core emotional need of healthy boundaries and the inner critic

With safety as our ground, Saturday turns to power and protection. Healthy boundaries are the ability to say "yes, I want more" or "no, I want less" — to other people, and to ourselves. For many of us that's terrifying, and one key reason usually has a name: the inner critic.

We look at how the inner critic has moved into the mind and set up camp, running our feelings and taking our power and weaponising it against us — showing up as the guilt we feel the moment we try to protect ourselves. The work of the day is to establish a boundary with the critic itself: to create distance from it, to disengage, and to reclaim the power it's been holding. Along the way we explore anger not as something low or wrong, but as life force and information — and the important difference between healthy pride and arrogance that the critic loves to blur.

What we explore:

What a healthy boundary really is — and how to "pitch" one

Why guilt so often follows saying no, and how to set a boundary without it

The inner critic as the source of shame and self-blame

Establishing a boundary with the critic, and disengaging from it

Anger and power as felt experience, not something to fear

Sunday - Love, self-worth, and next steps

The core emotional need of love and where to from here

The final day is about love — not love for what we do, achieve, or how we look, but love for who we are. We explore self-love as the quality of our relationship with our own immediate experience: are we welcoming of it, or at war with it?

We look at self-esteem honestly, distinguishing the innate self-worth that comes simply from being ourselves from the earned self-respect that comes from living in line with our values. And we make it practical — because the ultimate act of self-love is staying with our experience, expressed in the small daily choices of how we show up for ourselves. The weekend closes by helping you gather what mattered most and clarify your most important next steps, so the work continues long after you leave the room.

What we explore:

Love as deep, unconditional acceptance of who we are

The two sides of self-esteem: innate worth and earned self-respect

Self-love as a daily practice, not a feeling

Gathering your insights and defining your next steps for integration

3 Core tools at the heart of the program

Therapeutic Coaching

An integrative framework for creating real change in how you think and act, not just how you feel

Therapeutic Inquiry

Small groups to delve much deeper that you would on your own, so you feel less alone and see yourself in the journey others are on

Therapeutic Meditation

Using visualisation and nervous-system-focused techniques to help what you learn actually stick, rather than fading a week later

You won't be left to work through this alone. Every step is guided, every insight is supported, and every shift is given the chance to embed. So you have the tools, motivation and momentum to follow through and create lasting change in your life.

"Far exceeded my expectations. Several key a-ha moments. Has massively deepened my meditation practice — and I can see the results in my wearable biometrics!"

- Jude

“Even if you have done loads of other healing modalities. Dr Alex Howard has a way to get you to a better place."

- Jennifer

Hi, I'm Dr Alex Howard

Over the last 25 years of my career, I’ve done over 10,000 hours of one-on-one sessions, taught thousands of hours of live events, and have impacted millions of people through my work. Through all of this experience, there is one thing I know to be absolutely true - real transformation happens when we make a deep commitment to focus on our inner healing.

What supports that is focused time, in a supportive community, learning the latest tools and frameworks that really work. That is what we do at the Awakening Program. Over 3 days you will put yourself and your inner healing at the front and centre, and together we will work to understand the impacts of your past, and the tools you need to break free from them.

This is different from just passively watching videos, or dipping in and out of your healing. This is a live transformational experience where we go deep and you don’t just learn about inner healing - you witness it, and you experience it.

If you’ve seen my YouTube series In Therapy with Dr Alex Howard, you know that I know what it takes to really drive change, not just understand the ideas, but to feel them shift in your mind, heart, body and nervous system. If you’re ready to create a deep and lasting change in your life, this is your opportunity to do the work with me

Hi, I’m Dr Alex Howard

What past attendees say

"I felt very involved, online was not an obstacle and the chats in the breakout rooms were well organised and very powerful."
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‍— Giotta

“Even if you have done loads of other healing modalities, Dr Alex Howard has a way to get you to a better place."
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‍— Jennifer

"Did the program last year as well but the experience and the insights this year were very different. So even if you have attended the program already it's definitely worth doing so again. The combination of teaching, meditation, small inquiry group and Q&A is very powerful."
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‍— Claudia

"The Awakening programme brings Dr Alex's and the team's work alive in an interactive, insightful and impactful way."

— Richard

"I felt apprehensive at first, but the event was welcoming, and I felt properly 'heard' in the breakout sessions — something of a revelation."

— Sarah

"Far exceeded my expectations. Several key a-ha moments. Has massively deepened my meditation practice — and I can see the results in my wearable biometrics!"

— Sarah

You’re tired of doing the work and still arriving back at the same place, feeling trapped or stuck

You’re ready to build deep and meaningful relationships on a level you have never experienced before

Your life looks fine on the outside but somewhere underneath it all, you believe there's more available to you

Therapeutic Meditation

Therapeutic Inquiry

Therapeutic Coaching

What are the event dates and timings?

What timezone will the live session be in?

What if I've already done Decode Your Trauma or The RESET Program?

How will I access the livestream?

What if I miss a day?

Do I have to pay to attend?

What if I'm shy, or worried about going that deep in front of others?