The Self-Empowerment Academy

The Mother of all Problems is a schooled ignorance of our true interconnected nature as spiritual beings, ignorance of how our mind, body, soul and the web of life work. We don’t know who or what we are. All pain, conflict and suffering we experience arise from this ignorance.

The Root Cause is a gigantic misunderstanding that we are all separate beings. We therefore feel disconnected from our roots, from each other and, especially, from our own self. This means our inner vibration is one of conflict, not harmony. That means almost perpetual stress, which manifests in negative feelings and negative self-talk that can overwhelm or cripple us.

The Solution is to remove this ignorance! We must learn how to educate and empower ourselves to reconnect with our true nature, to release the tremendous, but society-suppressed, power of our innate intelligence, human essence and inner beauty to do good for ourselves and the whole world.

So we adults need a second education to unlearn the ignorance and harmful ways pushed onto us by the school systems. Only by first liberating ourselves can we truly help and guide our children to a beautiful new world.

We are talking a radically different kind of education to the school version. A heart-centred, skills-focused education.

We are talking A Spiritual Revolution.

1. The learning experience is one of self-inquiry with guided discovery, in collaboration with a small group of like-minded souls. The learning environment supports you emotionally, challenges you cognitive and uplifts you spiritually.

2. You are an adult: you don’t get the answers, you get the questions to discover your own answers. You will be amazed just how much you already know… you just need a facilitator to tease it out of you, and that is Philip!

3. You become skilled in the four stages of the most powerful learning experience on the planet: input >> intake >> output >> reflection. You become a lifelong learner.

4. You learn who you really are, and become aligned with your true nature.

5. You take away the Toolkit for Lifelong Learners & Spiritual Revolutionaries to continue the progress you make with Philip at the Self-Empowerment Academy. Forevermore!

And, we can say, the teacher of everything here. Philip.

He is me! You need not take my word for it - see what my past students (new and experienced teachers) thought about learning with me.

However, I do say a few words just below this, but before that, in what specific ways will you benefit from being a student with Philip at The Self-Empowerment Academy?

You foundationally reset your life. You practise using a range of learning tools, enabling you to align yourself with your true nature. You become a pioneer for building the better world we all want.

You empower yourself to take charge of your own life, health and destiny by practising and mastering your learning and communication skills with like-minded classmates, and by building up crucial self-knowledge and self-belief.

You will take away The Lifelong Learner’s Toolkit enabling you to increasingly live, work and play consciously with confidence, courage and compassion. You will find your life’s purpose, and know how to live holistically with inner peace and in harmony with others.

NO MORE SEPARATION, DIVISION AND CONFLICT! Philip’s facilitative teaching guides you into being the intelligent, integrated, interconnected individual you were born to be.

SKILLS: integrated learning, interactive listening, articulating yourself, social interaction, team work, self-awareness, reflective thinking, discernment, action research, reading, personal development, self-leadership and many other skills of the mind

KNOWLEDGE: self-knowledge of your mind, body and soul; the web of life; the interconnected nature of everything; insights into the human condition, behaviour and potential

SELF-BELIEF: ‘Mindset reset’ to create the conditions for replacing self-doubt and negative self-talk with self-confidence, self-esteem and self-belief. Without this mindset reset, no change of lasting value is possible.

Unless an education empowers and inspires you to grow in this way, it is not a true education in our turbulent troubled times.

Some of the words to describe the learning experience with Philip are: uplifting, motivating, engaging, empowering, inspiring, stimulating and heart-friendly. At all times you will be developing a full array of learning and communication skills while acquiring the knowledge in the course syllabus.

Mastering the learning and communication skills is mastering the Mother and Father of all other skills, and they have many siblings! One of multiple desirable outcomes from learning these skills is an infusion of self-belief. This is priceless.

The accent on knowledge to be learned, understandings and insights to be gleaned, relates to holistic health. Without vital physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, we will struggle to do anything beyond just survive.

And we don’t want that, we are about thriving and flourishing by nourishing our inner world at all times.

Philip has a Master of Arts in English Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics from King’s College London. His dissertation was on Learner Motivation, and his specialist subject Teacher Training. He also has a Diploma and Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults from University of Cambridge.

He has taught over 4000 students, mostly adults, from about 35 countries, over three decades. This is about 3500 language students, about 400 language teachers, and 250 leaders (online teaching).

Philip’s educational methodology is Task-Based Learning, a student-centred approach which focuses on encouraging, empowering and enabling all his students to become autonomous learners, the prerequisite for becoming a sovereign individual. He does this by facilitating them in developing and mastering their learning, communication, and leadership skills while acquiring whatever the course knowledge.

He knows well that we only learn properly with mind AND heart, and he creates harmonious classroom environments which are emotionally supportive and cognitively stimulating, leading to high levels of self-confidence, self-esteem and self-belief for all his students.

The nature of Task-Based Learning is that all the skills, knowledge and self-belief you acquire you will then be able to teach others in kind. Bearing in mind that by ‘teaching’ we mean enabling, facilitating. The true educator of adults is getting you to do the work, meaning you will know exactly how to pass it on in kind.

Philip accidentally emigrated to Thailand after failing to return back to England after his travel adventure money had run out. He became a teacher to extend his stay, and had now found a vocation in life and a country he loved.

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