The Method

A precise path to spiritual awakening.

The Wholeness Work is a reliable, repeatable method oriented to awakening, the direct recognition of being, the “I am” that is already the case beneath the sense of a separate self. People come through their pain. And find Awakening. The relief, in all its forms, is a side effect.

The position.

Most paths to awakening rely on grace, luck, or decades of practice in the presence of a teacher. The Wholeness Work’s claim is the opposite: spiritual awakening can be reached by a precise, repeatable method that reliably produces the shift, for ordinary people, including those with no spiritual interest at all.

Awakening itself still cannot be handed over as a trophy or sold as a peak experience. It is being, a presence, that is already the case. But the method that brings someone there is precise and reliable. Where the traditions point and wait, it gives a procedure that does the work, again and again.

What awakening means here.

The direct recognition of being, the stillness and peaceful presence already present beneath every thought, mood, and circumstance. It is not a peak experience to collect, not a state to acquire, not a belief to adopt.

The method works one structural layer beneath thought, with the felt sense of the self that holds every reaction, story, and pattern. When the structure of that separate self loosens, what’s already present is recognised. No belief is required. No tradition needs to be adopted.

The field of Awareness

The felt “I”, a contraction within the field of Awareness that holds it.

The mechanism.

Start by directly experiencing the sensation linked to something you want to change (a situation, a behaviour, even a dream). Get to know it intimately: where is it located, how large, what shape, what quality? This shifts you from thinking about to experiencing directly.

Then bring attention to the location of the “I” experiencing the sensation, which has its own location, size, shape, and sensation quality.

The sensation of that “I” is invited to open and relax in and as the field of Awareness, already present around and through the body. The release is effortless. The Awareness was there all along.

This is what awakening means in the Wholeness Work: realising the “I” as Awareness, a recognition the unconscious can be brought to, by procedure, again and again.

This is the starting place. Simple, gentle, easy, and it works on its own.

That’s just the first exercise, working with the first structure. In Level I already, you’ll go on to work with the next two unconscious structures as well.

What the work has charted

What the work has mapped.

The small “I” is the first unconscious structure to be healed and transformed. Beginning in 2007, Connirae has mapped the essential structures of the unconscious that hold suffering and pain in place. Each has its own format. Here are a few, and below you can see which are covered in each level of the training.

Layers of “I”. The small “I” usually doesn’t sit alone. There’s typically one inside another, like a hand in a fist with another hand wrapped around it. The outer ones hold the inner ones in place. Each needs to be noticed and released in turn.
Authority. Inner representations of authority, coded as “other” or “not me.” Often dense, sometimes shaped like a person, a parent, a teacher, a felt presence of being watched. The energy in it is your own; it just hasn’t been recognised as yours.
What’s missing. The felt experience of incompleteness or longing, coded as “out there somewhere.” Useful with grief, neediness, the pattern of looking to a relationship for what feels missing in oneself.
The “me” as object. Distinct from the “I” as subject. The one who is hurt, embarrassed, ashamed. A different layer, with its own way of integrating.

Each format is the same procedural mechanism, applied to a different structure.

The formats, by level.

Basic Process, Meditation Format, Authority Process, Integrating What’s Missing, sleep application.
Roles and identities, attachments and aversions, healing the victim within, reclaiming aspects of consciousness that have “evacuated,” integrating the “not self” or the “other,” and work with intergenerational patterns.
Polarity work, two-stage dream processing, meta-program identities, finding “the game” (what we hide from ourselves), and special steps for integrating the auditory channel.
Systemic integration, family constellation work at a level only possible once the earlier structures are cleared, time encodings and the eternal now, plus What’s Avoided and Integrating “the Teacher.”
First taught in retreat format, in Portugal.

Connirae outdoors at golden hour, hills and sky behind

The relief is real. It just isn’t the point.

Four decades

How the work developed.

1977

Connirae and Steve learn NLP and attend their first workshop.
1979

A transformative experience visiting Dr. Milton H. Erickson.
1989

Connirae develops Core Transformation.
March 1990

First public teaching of Core Transformation, to advanced NLP students from across the US and abroad. It is then taught repeatedly across the US and Canada through 1991 and beyond.
1994

The Core Transformation book is published.
2007

First Wholeness Work explorations.
2012

First Wholeness Work trainings, taught in Connirae’s home training room.
2013

First Wholeness Work hotel training, recorded and turned into the first streaming video program. The same year, the first Level I trainer manual is created for Tamara to teach in Austin.
2018

The European Association for The Wholeness Work (EATWW) is founded in Vienna, with Connirae as an honorary founding member.
2020

First live online training, “Advanced Wholeness Work”, the first time Connirae taught through Level III.
2026

Cologne: all four levels taught in person together for the first time.
July 2026

First Level V taught in retreat format, in Portugal.

The teaching faculty

Who carries the work.

Connirae Andreas

Creator of the Wholeness Work

Deepa Somani

Senior teacher

Marcela Devoto

Senior teacher

Tamara Andreas

Senior teacher

Mark Andreas

Senior teacher

Ralph Köbler

Senior teacher

Sebastian Mauritz

Senior teacher

Ulrich Bührle

Senior teacher

Around the world

Where the work lives.

The Wholeness Work originated with Connirae Andreas, and this is its home, where the method is developed and taught. It is now practised internationally.

In Europe, the work is carried by the European chapter, a recognised regional home for training and community, working from the same method.

What participants describe as the structure loosens.

These are reported experiences, not promised outcomes, and not treatments for medical conditions. They are downstream of the work, effects that follow from it.

Resourcefulness where there was difficult emotion.
Less reactivity under pressure.
Sleep becoming more restful.
Relationships improve, intimacy and connection flow.
Inner conflict resolving.
A felt sense of natural wellbeing that doesn’t require external conditions to hold.

They are many, and they are real. They are also, precisely, side effects of the deep structural shift the method reliably produces.

How is this different?

vs. meditation

Meditation cultivates attention over time and waits for the shift; the Wholeness Work invites it directly, by repeatable steps anyone can follow.

vs. therapy / coaching

Therapy works with the content of a personal history. The Wholeness Work works with the structure of the self underneath it. No need to re-live, no narrative necessary, yet changes reliably happen. But, of course, Wholeness Work is not a substitute for clinical care.

vs. spiritual practice

Most traditions point and wait for grace; the Wholeness Work gives a procedure, without taking grace or mystery away from anyone who values them. It still feels like mystery, and like grace, that unfolds easily and predictably. Paradoxically now we each can hold the key to access the mystery and the grace.

The training pathway.

The Wholeness Work is taught as a five-level pathway, from a first encounter with the core process through to certified practice, plus a separate Coach Training. Live online, with self-paced video courses available for those who prefer their own pace.

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Method FAQ.

Is the Wholeness Work a religion or belief system?

No. The method is structural and experiential, it does not require belief in any tradition, doctrine, or worldview. Yet it aligns with spiritual traditions and it’s easy to do alongside your chosen spiritual path. People come to it from many backgrounds, including those with no spiritual interest at all.

Is it safe? Do I have to re-live anything?

The Wholeness Work is gentle by design and it feels like kindness happening within. There is no requirement to recall, narrate, or re-live difficult material. Yet because we’re working at a structural level deeper than content, people experience that difficult material does heal and transform. Participants set the pace; the work meets you where you are. (In the event something does not feel safe to process, we usually shift to Core Transformation.)

How is this different from Core Transformation?

Both methods were founded by Connirae Andreas. Core Transformation is parts work: it meets the parts of you that hold unwanted patterns, and uncovers the deepest desired state underneath them, reliably reaching what could be called a spiritual, transformative core each time. The Wholeness Work is not parts work. It goes one layer deeper, to the felt sense of the self that holds every part. Different categories of method, complementary practices, often used by the same people. If you begin with CT, you’ll likely come to a natural readiness for the Wholeness Work. If you begin with WW, you’ll likely encounter places within that are most lovingly met and transformed using CT.

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