COURSE

Find A Balance Between Being & Doing

Over the next 10 days, you will learn how to experience a greater sense of wholeness and live with your inner and outer world in greater congruence. You will be guided through a warming journey of bringing awareness to any incongruences that exist between what you DO - or would like to do - and the ways you would like to BE - or to feel. You will then explore the relationship between the two and be introduced to a way in which you can balance these two very important aspects of your life. Each day will include a short meditation, content to support and a quick invitation to consider.

Health & Happiness Presence Consciousness Spirituality Mindfulness Mindfulness Meditation Happiness

Meet your Teacher

Al Jeffery

Melbourne, Australia

Al is an integrative psychotherapist, meditation guide, group facilitator, leadership trainer, writer, and storyteller; guided by his ongoing quest to restore a life-affirming culture. Combining his education in Mindfulness-Based Leadership, Integral Facilitation, The Way of Council, Regenerative Practice, and most recently, Integrative Psychotherapy, he creates spaces for individuals and groups to find resilience and agency amidst complexity. He was listed in the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in Australia twice in a row and has since become a trusted guide to several for-purpose teams and leaders. In 2022, he was also awarded the National Award for Clinical and Academic Excellence for Integrative Psychotherapy at IKON Institute. As a queer man, Al’s love for integrating the diverse and transgressive is alive in all he touches. Whether he’s guiding through words or the spaces between them, Al’s deep appreciation for both ancient and emergent ways of knowing shines through in all his ways.

10 Days

5.2k students

4.6 stars

13 min / day

Health & Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Your quest: Exploring the space between

Today we explore the relationship between being and doing. We understand the role both of these energies within us play, the challenges we can face in balancing them in the modern world and start to understand what our personal challenge is here.

Lesson 2

A reflection: Coming to understand this in your own life

We take a moment to look inward, to this present moment in your life. How are you balancing being and doing? Are there things you are doing unconsciously that are leading to undesirable states of being? With compassion and curiosity, we begin to bring this work home to yourself and how the next few days can truly bring more lightness and congruence to your very own experience.

Lesson 3

Conditioning: Strengthening our ability to feel

Today we focus on strengthening your ability to feel, to recognize and relate to your feelings. Before we dive into working with your feelings and this inner-realm of yourself, let’s get familiar with what it means to be aware and embodied in your feelings and sensations.

Lesson 4

Our map: A framework to achieve balance

Today we will start to apply this re-balancing to your dreams, goals and visions. We start to understand what the feelings and desires are beneath your goals, how these influence you and how to work with them.

Lesson 5

A release: Focussing on the virtue not the objective

We explore what it feels like to have become very aware of the feelings and desires beneath your goals and visions. We play with the feeling of detachment and recognizing that this feeling doesn’t have to depend on any external outcome.

Lesson 6

Embed: Tools for everyday re-balancing

It is great to understand the feelings and desires beneath your longer-term goals and visions, but how do you bring this into this moment? Today we explore ways to checkin with your current feeling-state and start to invite in your desired feelings.

Lesson 7

Wholeness: When to re-balance and when to allow

Today we cover a very important topic, when should you allow a feeling to exist and when is it ok to consciously re-direct? We explore the topic of wholeness, acceptance and bring perspective to these questions.

Lesson 8

The challenge: Choosing one virtue to train

Today we set ourselves a challenge to start small, with just one virtue we are going to strengthen and begin to live through. We feel our way to what this virtue might be, understand when we might need to re-balance this the most and find where in the body we can access it easiest.

Lesson 9

Deepening your ability: We practice all that we have learnt

Today is a day to try it all on. Through a guided practice you practice all that we have covered and deepen your ability to become aware of both doing and being simultaneously, course correcting and balancing as you need.

Lesson 10

The return: Recap and Integration

This week we recap what we have covered in this journey so far, any major lessons and reminders that we need to reinforce and discuss how we can best go about integrating this new approach into our daily lives.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 114 community questions and 47 audio replies from Al Jeffery. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Jay

January 19, 2026

Al’s course truly propelled me into a new place in terms of recognizing my “doing” vs “being” thought patterns, and how the instigate my ADHD. Thank you Al for leading this journey!!

Tamara

March 23, 2025

This is exactly what I needed. The 5 Why method was particularly powerful for me. Thank you so much!

Philip

March 14, 2025

Al, bless you! Namaste!

Zach

December 22, 2023

Amazing

Mark

December 12, 2023

This was most helpful for me as I am learning to be more present in aware of my own being. I seem to be awfully busy doing and I now have tools to help me balance the two.

Hillary

December 5, 2023

The course was great, really meaningful concepts, and good application. I’m noticing that I’d like to start back at day one and let it sink in a little bit more. It would be great for the meditative grounding piece at the beginning to be a little longer, just to find that place of calm . Thank you for your insight.

Ian

October 20, 2023

Thank you. The tools, when practiced, work. I will use transmutation of feelings, after sitting with them.

Nate

October 7, 2023

This is something I've needed all my life.

Jill

September 24, 2023

Great course on self reflection

Tracy

September 14, 2023

This course helped me become more aware of being versus doing.

Valerie

September 13, 2023

This really helped me working much better with my emotions and connecting with myself again.

Amina

September 7, 2023

Very helpful reminder

SBanu

July 26, 2023

Excellent!!

Vee

July 19, 2023

This course helped me to achieve emotional balance and acceptance of my vacilating energy. Some days are productive (doing, ruling) and some days are more restful (being, reigning). Either way, I am still Queen!

*+*Ness

July 11, 2023

One of the most useful course I have done. At last I can navigate my feelings and be a lot clearer about my goals!

Boni

July 8, 2023

Loved this course. So much learning and aha! Moments.

Kelly

July 3, 2023

Great insights!

Amy

June 19, 2023

I loved this course. Al’s soothing voice and gentle guidance lovingly ushered me to a greater and deeper understanding of that balance between ease and effort. My key take away was: Doing isn’t a negative…but, Doing with the absence of Being does not serve me.

Laura

June 19, 2023

My first course! Thank you I really enjoyed what I learned.

Gail

June 17, 2023

Wonderful

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