The Five Wisdoms Training

The Five Wisdoms Training is the signature training of the Institute

Intimate Group and One-on-One Sessions on Zoom

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Have you been longing to make a radical change in your life?
Give a powerful boost to your current spritual practice, personal life, or work ?

Have the courage to invest in yourself!
Become a catalyst to move toward
meaningful, connected, authentic change
in all spheres of your life
Come into your natural brilliance!

For decades I have explored the essence of who we are and how to make a difference. 

I bring Tantric Buddhist psycho-spiritual understanding into the everyday: 

        • How everything we think, feel, say, and do reflects our personality 
        • How cultivating emotional awareness is essential 
        • How our relationships can become sources of nurturance and joy 
        • How finding our life purpose is empowering 

So I am passionate about this in-depth training! 

We now have 51 graduates and 14 certified teachers from 9 countries. 

Testimonials

The Five Wisdoms Training is offered online to be accessed internationally.

It has an emphasis on in-depth experiential learning so groups are kept small.

We engage in a variety of ways to bring out the best of who you are:
Mindfulness, awareness, Buddhist psychology, loving kindness, compassion,
and tantric practices of the subtle body.

The training incorporates material from my books:
The Five Wisdom Energies
Natural Brilliance
Unfolding the Mystery of Your Life on the Five Wisdoms Path

 Testimonials from Five Wisdoms Training Graduates

The Five Wisdoms Training has taken me so much more deeply into the basic human teaching of Buddhism. They opened my mind and touched my heart. I have longed for this for a very, very long time, actually never expecting it to ever happen, as I didn’t know it was even possible. These ancient yet up to date teachings transform our life. Experiencing the directness of these teachings from a senior student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche is a true delight. I am forever grateful.––Jean Gunner, Director of Operations in Pediatric Primary Care

Irini Rockwell is one of the most important people in my life, from whom I have been learning continuously for 11 years. The Five Wisdoms gave me clarity about who I am, helped me find my strengths and purpose in life, played a big part healing my relationships, and showed how to best serve the people around me. I met Irini in a Five Wisdoms Training in my early 30’s. I knew this to be my path, so I followed her...and never left.–– Klara Molnar, Health Coach, Nutritionist in TCM, Hungary

Irini is a very warm and inspiring teacher and an excellent, experienced guide. She shares her wisdom and experience in a clear and well-organized way, offering a rich method, full of life-changing exercises, reflections, and meditations. Nothing in your emotional and spiritual landscape is neglected or rejected. The training will become an important support through the rest of my life.–Sabina Steckiewicz, Yoga teacher, English to Polish translator

When a graduate student at Naropa University, the Five Wisdom Energies profoundly changed my life both personally and professionally. Ten years later I jumped at the opportunity to take another deep dive and learn directly from a masterful teacher. My life again has been profoundly changed, and the relationships formed through this online community have nourished my soul. Irini illuminated the Five Wisdoms in such a way that it continues to weave itself into every aspect of my life, coloring my world with brilliance and depth.--Kelly Petrie, Founder, Maitri Center for Mindful Living, LLC

This training is a bridge to get back to myself, my heart and the place where I feel most authentically me.--Joanna Jakubowicz, Zen teacher in training

Working with the Five Wisdoms connects us with the continuous flow of energy that makes up reality. Thanks to the inspiration of great masters and the work of teacher Irini, this living tradition comes to us. May these teachings benefit many beings.--Arthur Souza, Psychologist, Systemic Constellation Therapist

The Five Wisdom Energies has served well as an effective business model at my work. I see that each role in business is associated with a particular energy. Understanding how these energies work and choosing people with necessary skills has helped me to build the right team. The Five Wisdoms have also shown me a new perspective in human dynamics and enabled me to connect with people in a much deeper and more intimate way.--Nem Bajra, President/CEO of an IT consulting company

My training with Irini and the Five Wisdom Energies has helped me develop in my spiritual path and career by helping me understand better my internal experience and how it relates to the external world. I am able to more strategically maneuver through my relationships in a way that promotes loving kindness for both myself and others.--Mike Brown, Program Director, Red Mountain Sedona, a young adult transition program

This material is so incredibly rich. So much to learn and even more to unlearn. I am slowly understanding that everything and everyone is interconnected and interdependent. The world, so many people, so many beings, can benefit from this wealth of wisdom and skillful means.--Søren Julin Frederiksen, Life Coach, Poland

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Training Format

The Five Wisdoms Training 

This 200 hours training is for those interested  in an in-depth understanding of the Five Wisdoms for personal life, spiritual path, and in the work place. 

Five Wisdoms Training Recorded Courses

Discover Your Wisdom Energies and Understanding Your Emotional Life
are now recorded courses. You can take them at your own pace at a much reduced price. 

Training Content

  • Sessions with Irini on Zoom
  • Reflection Circles
  • Coaching with Irini
  • Practice, study and activity, at least 3 to 4 hours per week
  • An onsite weekend or weeklong retreat is highly recommended, paid for seperately.

Technology

You will need access to Zoom

Payment is done when you register for each module. Zenler uses PayPal and Stripe for a credit card.





Training Materials

What is provided

  • All training materials are on the Zenler learning platform. It includes: writings by Irini pertinent to the module's topic, reading assignments from Irini's books, guidelines for experiential learning exercises, photos and instructions for the Five Wisdoms postures and infographics. On the home page, go to the bottom and click the module. It will take you to the module.
  • A Workbook in pdf format of the same material for each module is available on request.
  • Sessions are recorded and sent to you.

Materials to Purchase when you register

  • Wise Eyes (colored glasses)
  • Irini's Books: The Five Wisdom Energies, Natural Brilliance, and Unfolding the Mystery of Your Life on the Five Wisdoms Path

Training Dates

Fees

Modules are $400 each + service charge. Total for the six modules $2400
Enroll here

To offer this to everyone with keen interest, scholarships on a need basis are available.

Series I - Personal Development

Claim Your Inherent Wisdom

Module 1

Discover Your Wisdom Energies

Curious about your personality? From a spiritual perspective? Where you shine and where you get stuck?

In this module, you will be introduced to the Five Wisdom Energies posture practice using colored glasses.

You will gain insights about yourself:

  • Thinking style
  • Emotional landscape
  • Way of engaging with others
  • Action tendencies

You will learn how to align with your best, full of confidence, compassion, and potential.

Module 2

Understanding Your Emotional Life

Do you often feel your life is hijacked by your emotions? Do you find that you want to fight, flee, or crawl into a corner? Do you believe that the emotional intensity of some situations will never be resolved?

 The Five Wisdom Energies offer a radical method to work with your emotions. They are key to emotional transformation.

In this module, you will practice different ways of working with your emotions:

  • Work with the places that scare you, your fears
  • Practice techniques to both calm and embrace your emotions
  • Embrace your energy with unconditional positive regard
  • Use profound Tantric methods to transform ways that you are stuck
  • Understand how you can liberate yourself from your habitual patterns

You will discover the hidden wisdom within your turmoil.

Module 3

The Dynamics of Relationships

Have you noticed that mystery underlies all your relationships? Why are they both predictable and surprising? Why are you awkward or comfortable, tense or friendly, with different people? Why do some people seem aggressive and others engaging? Why do you become triggered by some people and awakened by others?

The Five Wisdoms have great insight into human dynamics.

In this module, you will do the Five Modes interactive practice to:

  • Break down the barrier between self and other
  • Fully enter into someone's world to truly know them
  • See and feel another in both their confusion and intelligence
  • Cultivate unbiased perception
  • Dissolve assumptions, interpretations, and judgements of others
  • Come into heart-felt resonance with everyone

You will discover that relationships are both a challenge and an opportunity.

Series II - Worldly Engagement

Five Wisdoms in Action

All aspects of your life and work are inter-relational.

Some situations bring out your best; in others you can’t get out of our own way. In your interactions with others, you can begin to see a pattern—how you color it and how they do. Once you have discovered your innate natural brilliance, you lead from within and intuitively know what to do. Others will be magnetized by that.

Module 4

Your Life Purpose

Have you been longing to make a change in your life? Do you want to boost your current work, change, or give more meaning to your life?

The Five Wisdom Energies system is designed to cultivate the best within you. The template of who you are can give you a direction as to how to self-actualize and fully manifest your abilities.

In this module, you will use the Five Wisdom Energies to clarify your life purpose:

  • Uncover your strengths and recognize your unique gifts
  • Gain personal integration
  • Learn to lead from within, from your innate, natural brilliance
  • Discover your calling
  • Manifest a life full of creativity and passion

You will discover the Five Wisdom Energies as a path to self-fulfillment.

Module 5

Engaging Effectively

Do you long for more harmonious ways to communicate? Whether in personal or professional relationships?

In this module, you will:

  • Learn skillful communication
  • Practice loving kindness and compassion
  • Cultivate the skillful means of the Five Wisdoms Tantra
  • Hone your interactive skills
  • Facilitate conflict

You will discover the Five Wisdom Energies as an indispensable tool to work with others.

Module 6

The Call to Action

The fruition of the training is to demonstrate a deep, embodied understanding of the Five Wisdoms and be able to manifest your unique style of brilliance, intelligence, and effectiveness.  

In this module, you will:

  • Articulate the basic principles and specific qualities of the Five Wisdoms
  • See that they intuitively inform everything you think, feel, say, and do
  • Understand mandala, the energetic matrix of connectivity
  • Develop the skillful means to take action in the world
  • Create change in ways you interact with the world

A Fieldwork Project brings to fruition your application of the Five Wisdoms in your life and working with others.

Five Wisdoms Professional Certificate

A Five Wisdoms Professional Certificate is awarded to graduates of the Five Wisdoms Training. A graduate is a spokesperson for the Five Wisdoms, manifesting a deep personal understanding and unique brilliance. The energies intuitively inform everything they think, feel, say, and do in their personal and professional life. They engage with the Five Wisdoms in a variety of ways: applying them in their chosen profession: therapy, coaching, social work, health professions, education, martial arts, business, creative projects, and so forth. To teach the Five Wisdoms to others, additional teacher training and coaching is required.

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Post-graduate Development Opportunities

Professional Applications and Teacher Training

Therapy, coaching, social work, health professions...
Education, leadership, business, martial arts, creative projects...

The core teachings of the Five Wisdoms are on personalities, emotions, and relationships.
So they are extremely helpful in all settings when working with people.
They enable you to fully enter another's world
to align with their sanity and use their stuck places as work points.

Join Relational Dynamics group!
Get more supervision in working with people.

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The Five Wisdoms Institute offers trainings internationally.
Inspired by Naropa University, Contemplative Psychotherapy, and Authentic Leadership,
our trainings are proven to enhance self-awareness, communication, and effectiveness.