The struggle with addictions may well be one of the foremost defining health challenges of our age. It most certainly is one of the core power challenges for every individual. Every person has at least three core addictions that govern their life. These addictions may not be those generally associated with the addicted personality; namely: drugs, alcohol, food, and sex. But make no mistake, there is a secondary ring of addictions and even a third ring that is even more subtle that people would not even consider as addictions, yet they are exactly that. Among these more subtle additions are: power, glamour, fantasy literature, attention, money, shopping, negativity, propaganda, complaining, relationship crises, and a computer social life. What exactly are addictions and what is it about human nature that makes us so prone to being addicts? One way to understand addictions is that they are a means through which we lock into patterns of choice that allow us to maintain a given structure of behaviors. And though we may dislike or even loathe those behaviors and the consequences of them, such as obesity or debt, we nonetheless know our way around and through the world such patterns create. We know the language in that world. We know the right excuses and we know how to manage the pain in that world, even when the pain overwhelms us. The paradox of addiction is that even the pain and crisis caused by the pain of the addiction becomes something we find a way to adapt to in order to maintain our addiction. Thus, even this complex of this paradox is a thread that most addicts can, in some way, relate to. But beyond these behavioral patterns, however, are yet other contributing elements of the psyche – archetypes. Archetypes form the language system of the soul, patterns of power that influence every aspect of who we are and how and why we make the choices we do in our life. The addictions we have are very much tied to our archetypal patterns and our deeper struggle with self-empowerment and embracing the power of choice and personal transformation. The highlight of this workshop is your inner Pandora, an ego that is more than the ordinary survival ego with which we are familiar. Like the myth of Pandora, every person’s inner Pandora is formed from a complex of personal wounds, inner secrets, hidden fears, and unmet needs that find expression through addictive behavioral patterns. The nature of the Pandora ego is that it is rooted in our Inner Self but it is incomplete. The phenomenon of the Pandora ego is a product of this intuitive age that we now live in, an age in which we as a society have made the discovery of the Inner Self our new frontier. No other society in any other time in history has ever made their Inner Self their main area of research. Think about that one game changing fact about who we are and how we have structured our values. It’s absolutely astonishing. Pandora is the ego of our “half-way Inner Self”: half healed, half whole, still fragmented, and still unsure if we want to heal. Your Pandora is also your deeply intuitive Self, highly attuned to your inner needs as well as your emerging inner senses. In this workshop, then, addiction will be explored as journey of personal awakening to your inner Pandora, an aspect of yourself that, once indentified, becomes a key power center for confronting addictions as well as understanding with greater precision what it truly means to become a “whole” person. Finally, methods and practices for moving out of the addictive cycle will be introduced. This workshop in an “intensive” as it will be a combination of lecture and personal exercises aimed at doing personal work. I invite every person who is looking for a new perspective on addiction to attend this workshop. Please join me on this most extraordinary workshop. I assure you that once you meet your inner Pandora, your life will never be the same.