Spring 2026
A Transformational Program for WLC Alumni
From Inner Critic to Inner Wisdom
The Inner Critic shapes far more of our leadership and lived experience than we often realize. It quietly drives reactivity, over-efforting, self-doubt, emotional constriction, and the fear of getting it wrong — even in those of us who have already done deep inner work.
This graduate-level Wholistic Leadership Circles program is designed to support WLC 1.0 alumni in changing their relationship with the Inner Critic in heart-led, embodied, and sustainable ways. Rather than trying to eliminate or overpower the Inner Critic, we learn to understand it as a once-protective structure that has outlived its usefulness — and to unhook from it with compassion, clarity, and presence.
At its core, this program is about expanding leadership capacity from the inside out — cultivating Inner Wisdom as a lived reference point so leaders can meet complexity, vulnerability, and uncertainty with grounded confidence and care.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
From Inner Critic to Inner Wisdom is a yearlong, cohort-based graduate program that meets monthly and supports sustained practice over time.
Together, we will:
- Deepen awareness of how the Inner Critic operates through the Enneagram and the triads
- Explore how perception, conditioning, and nervous system patterns shape lived experience
- Learn how to meet the Inner Critic with compassion rather than compliance or resistance
- Strengthen the capacity to lead from Presence, heart intelligence, and embodied knowing
- Cultivate Inner Wisdom as a trustworthy inner authority beyond fear and self-judgment
The program weaves together:
- The Enneagram, with a specific focus on Inner Critic patterns by type
- Presence-based methodologies from the Deep Coaching Institute
- Somatic and nervous-system-informed practices
- Direct experience, reflection, and dialogue
- The Way of Love as an orienting field — love as intelligence, not sentiment.
Participants receive and work with a newly developed WLC Inner Critic Guidebook, designed specifically for graduate-level exploration and integration.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Recognize how the Inner Critic operates uniquely through their Enneagram structure, triads, and nervous system patterns
- Distinguish clearly between the voice of the Inner Critic and the voice of Inner Wisdom in real time
- Understand the Inner Critic as a protective adaptation rather than a personal flaw
- Interrupt habitual Inner Critic “autopilot” responses with presence, self-compassion, and embodied awareness
- Work skillfully with shame, fear, self-judgment, and self-abandonment as signals rather than threats
- Cultivate a more spacious, accurate, and heart-led relationship with self and others
- Lead with greater authenticity, resilience, and inner freedom — especially under pressure or uncertainty
This program is intentionally designed as a developmental deepening of the Inner Critic work introduced in WLC 1.0.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
The session meeting dates are listed below. All sessions run from 8:00AM to 3:00PM PT:
- Start Date: May
- Duration: Yearlong (meets monthly)
- Session Length: 2.5 hours per month
- Cohort Size: Limited to 8 participants
- Format: Live, facilitated group sessions
- Optional: Individual coaching available for participants who wish to deepen their integration
The small cohort size allows for depth, trust, relational learning, and meaningful practice over time.
WHO THIS PROGRAM IS FOR
This program is a graduate offering exclusively for participants who have completed WLC 1.0.
It is designed for WLC alumni who feel called to deepen their Inner Critic work — moving beyond foundational awareness into sustained, heart-led transformation.
This program is especially well-suited for:
- WLC 1.0 graduates who want to engage the Inner Critic with greater subtlety, compassion, and embodiment
- Leaders and change agents who sense that their next edge is internal rather than strategic
Because this work builds directly on the shared language, practices, and depth established in WLC 1.0, prior completion of that program is required.
WHY THIS WORK MATTERS NOW
The Inner Critic has no chance against the intelligence of the heart — but only when we know how to meet it skillfully.
When left unseen, the Inner Critic distorts perception, narrows possibility, and quietly shapes cultures of over-functioning, self-protection, and disconnection. When met with awareness and compassion, it becomes a doorway — revealing where love, truth, and presence are waiting to lead.
This program supports leaders in making that shift — from fear-driven self-regulation to heart-led inner authority— and in bringing that quality of presence into their relationships, organizations, and lives.
AN INVITATION
If you are a WLC 1.0 graduate who senses that your next evolution as a leader begins within —and if you feel ready to meet the Inner Critic not as an enemy, but as a teacher whose time has passed —you are warmly invited into this circle.
Liberation begins with seeing. Transformation unfolds through presence. Wisdom emerges when love leads.
PROGRAM PRICE:
$3900 per participant
*OPTIONAL – 1:1 Coaching to Accompany Your Journey: $3500 (for 6 sessions)
To learn more about this program please contact:
Ipek Serifsoy: ipek@isconsultingco.com.; +1-415-305-9184