Finding Inner Balance: Journey To Enduring Well-Being - by Beth Kurland, Ph.D.

COURSE

Finding Inner Balance: Journey To Enduring Well-Being

With Beth Kurland, Ph.D.

This 8-day course is for anyone seeking to find greater inner balance amidst the day-to-day turbulence of life and the accompanying uneasiness, stress, overwhelm, anxiety, frustration and other range of emotions that we often encounter. Instead of trying to improve or change yourself, fix your feelings or change your life circumstances, this course will teach you how to shift your vantage point to discover the deep “well” of well-being that is already here. Once you learn how to shift your vantage point, you gain access to this enduring well-being within that is part of your true nature, the essence of who you are. When we learn to work with our more unpleasant feelings and how to meet and greet them from different viewing points – something transformative happens. What we discover is an innate capacity for ease, compassion and self-compassion, presence, perspective, balance, and deep well-being even amidst the ups and downs of our life. This course is based on my newest book You Don’t Have to Change to Change Everything: Six Ways to Shift Your Vantage Point, Stop Striving For Happy, and Find True Well-Being. I hope you’ll join me for this journey to learn and experience for yourself how to find inner balance and an unshakeable core of well-being.

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Meet your Teacher

Beth Kurland, Ph.D.
Norwood, MA, USA

Beth Kurland, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, Tedx and public speaker, mind-body coach, and author of four award winning books. With a passion for and expertise in mindfulness and mind-body strategies, she brings over three decades of clinical experience to help people cultivate whole person health and wellness. Drawing on research and practices from mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology, polyvagal theory, and mindfulness based cognitive therapy she teaches people practical tools to grow the inner resources for resilience and well-being. As a fellow traveler on this journey, she is motivated to teach others what she has found most transformative in her own life. Beth is the creator of the Well-Being Toolkit online program and Six Weeks to Meaningful Change group coaching program. Beth has created four Insight Timer courses to help people reduce stress, awaken to their fullest life, work with difficult emotions to find inner balance and set heartfelt intentions that stick. She offers individual and group coaching and psychotherapy to help people discover their inner toolkit and realize they don’t need to fix or change themselves to awaken the power of inner transformation and find true well-being.

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8 Days

390 students

5.0 stars

15 min / day

Grounded

English

Lesson 1

Introduction/ Shifting Your Vantage Point

This lesson provides a framework for the class, explaining how we can discover inner balance and deep well-being — not by trying to change our circumstances or “fix” ourselves, but by learning to shift our vantage point, to uncover our innate capacities, access our "well" of well-being and experience our true essence. We’ll end with a short meditation on shifting vantage points.

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Lesson 2

The Two Operating Systems

In this lesson, you’ll learn about our survival/protection system and our thriving/connection system, and how each gives us very different resources to face challenges. You’ll learn about how, when we can access our newer operating system, we also unlock a treasure chest of inner resources to help meet our challenges in new ways.

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Lesson 3

The Anchor View

In lesson three, you’ll learn how the anchor view can help you find balance amidst inner turbulence. You’ll have a chance to work with a few experiential exercises to notice what happens when you shift your vantage point and look out from the anchor view.

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Lesson 4

Working With The Anchor View

In this lesson, we take a deeper dive into working with the anchor view. You’ll have an opportunity to experience some practices that will help to bring balance to your nervous system, and ones that you can bring forward into your week.

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Lesson 5

The Mirror View

This lesson introduces our second shift of vantage point: the Mirror View. You’ll learn about why this mirror view can be so transformative, helping us shift from “hole self” to “Whole Self”. We’ll end with a meditation so you can experience this for yourself.

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Lesson 6

A Deeper Dive Into The Mirror View

We’ll continue working with the Mirror View in this lesson. You’ll learn a simple practice that you can bring into your day that will help you start to see yourself in a new way and help counter the negativity bias.

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Lesson 7

The Compassionate Parent View

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the third shift in vantage point, the Compassionate Parent View. You’ll have a chance to experience a short meditation to awaken your inner capacity for compassion and self-compassion and learn how powerful this vantage point can be for transforming difficult emotions.

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Lesson 8

Deepening Your “Well” Of Well-Being

In this final lesson, you’ll have a chance to engage in several practices to deepen your experience of the compassionate parent view. We’ll review the three shifts in vantage point so that you can bring all of these tools and practices into your life, to find inner balance and enduring well-being no matter what you encounter on your path.

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5.0 (32)

Recent Reviews

Barbara

Barbara

October 28, 2025

Lots of helpful perspective here. Highly recommended and worth repeating from time to time. 🙏🏻☯️

Akshay

June 16, 2025

Amazing Course.

Cathy

May 25, 2025

A brilliant, practical course with so many useful tools to take forward into day to day life. Thank you Beth.

C

May 20, 2025

Thank you, Beth, for sharing this wonderful course with its many useful and helpful practical strategies for maintaining well-being through life’s challenges. I appreciate your wisdom and sincerity.

Phil

Phil

December 31, 2024

Thank you for developing this helpful course and sharing your knowledge and experience Beth. You provide a different perspective on the ways we tend to engage with challengeing situations - which is often by regularly relying on our older primitive operating system (which has its role but not suitable for longterm use) rather than our newer thriving operating system (which is more fit for purpose). You provide a useful understanding of difficult emotions and how to manage them (through acknowledgement and compassion rather than oppressing them or allowing them to dominate). Achieving this through using some great strategies to shift our vantage points and, in doing so, provide us with access to inbuilt well-being tools we all have. Loved your car analogies (the stop start one describing the 2 operating systems and the one about the choice of a strength to have as a passenger) and the magic trick example to convey your ideas. I have already shared some of your strategies with my family and one of my friends. I look forward to practising making use of them myself and being more self compassionate and understanding towards myself - all with the aim of supporting my well-being. Thank you again Beth. Kindest regards, Phil.🌞

TMC

TMC

December 19, 2024

Wonderful course—full of great tips.

Bette

Bette

December 18, 2024

When I began this course, I had no idea how much I needed it! But I think it’s going to help immensely with a serious health issue my partner is dealing with.

Veronica

October 5, 2024

Grateful for sharing your healing powers.

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