The Whole-Self Pre-Birth Matrix Training Programme – A Three-Stage Pathway for Personal Transformation and Practitioner Development with Howard G. Charing
Many people live with emotional patterns that feel older than their own memories. These may appear as persistent sensitivities, fears, relational dynamics, or inner pressures that do not seem to arise from personal life experience alone. The Whole-Self Pre-Birth Matrix Training Programme offers a clear, compassionate, and spiritually grounded pathway for understanding these deeper patterns and gently bringing them into awareness and integration.
The programme unfolds in three supportive stages, each building naturally on the last. It guides participants from personal insight and embodied understanding, through supervised practice, and finally into confident practitioner-level skill. The pace is steady and intentional, allowing the work to settle deeply, integrate naturally, and become lived experience rather than theory.
Whole-Self Psychology, originally developed by the American psychotherapist and consciousness researcher Jon RG Turner, offers a profound insight into the nature of emotional experience. It recognises that many of our deepest and most persistent emotional patterns may have their origins in very early developmental stages, including the pre-birth period, while our developing consciousness was shaped within the early relational and developmental environment.
These early impressions, which Turner described as feeling memories, are not held as stories or thoughts, but as embodied emotional knowing. Over time, they may influence how we relate, how we experience safety, how we respond to others, and how we understand ourselves. Because they predate conscious memory, they often feel confusing or inexplicable when approached through personal history alone.
The Whole-Self approach teaches that transformation does not require reliving emotional pain. Instead, it rests on recognition, differentiation, and integration. When we recognise that an emotional pattern may not originate solely from personal life experience, identification softens. Space opens. What was once carried unconsciously can be seen clearly and gently brought into awareness, allowing greater space, clarity, and ease in experience.
Shamanic and spiritual traditions have long understood that consciousness extends beyond linear time. They recognise that emotional and energetic imprints can be understood or experienced as being inherited through family lines, ancestral fields, and early formative environments. From this perspective, the work is not about fixing what is broken, but about supporting a deeper sense of connection and coherence.
Whole-Self Psychology provides a clear and structured map of one of these key territories: the pre-birth emotional field. When combined with grounded shamanic practice, the work becomes both spiritually deep and practically accessible. The practitioner acts not as an interpreter or healer, but as a guide who helps the individual see clearly and return to their own innate wholeness.
I trained extensively with Jon RG Turner and am recognised as an authorised practitioner and teacher of the Whole-Self Pre-Birth and Past-Life systems. The training offered here is founded on Turner’s original work and transmitted through direct lineage, honouring the clarity, integrity, and intention of the Whole-Self tradition.
My teaching weaves the Whole-Self perspective with shamanic practice, experiential psychotherapy, and insights from the emerging field of epigenetics. Together, these strands offer a compassionate and spiritually grounded way of exploring the deeper origins of emotional experience and supporting a more connected relationship with one’s essential nature.
Although this programme builds on foundational Whole-Self principles, attendance at the introductory workshop is not required. The full Pre-Birth Matrix, including the 22 Pre-Birth Encoding Moments, will be taught experientially within this training. Participants are guided step by step through the complete framework, ensuring that everyone develops a clear and embodied understanding regardless of prior experience.
This work is awareness-based and does not involve regression or the recovery of literal memory.
This programme is suited to those who feel called to explore the deeper origins of emotional experience, whether for personal growth, spiritual development, or professional practice.
If you are an experienced practitioner seeking a gentle, non-regressive way to work with the roots of emotional patterning, this programme offers a clear, lineage-based approach that can enrich and deepen your existing practice.
Stage One is a deep personal immersion into the architecture of consciousness and the formation of the pre-birth emotional blueprint. Over five days, participants are introduced to the 22 Pre-Birth Encoding Moments, the full Pre-Birth Analysis Matrix, and the foundations of the 21 Day Emotional DNA Programme.
This module offers both personal insight and the beginnings of practitioner understanding. You are guided to explore how emotional patterns may form during gestation and early development and how they may continue to influence life, relationships, and identity.
During Module One, participants will explore the full gestational timeline, learn to recognise patterns that may be inherited or early-formed, experience Whole-Self and shamanic integration practices, and begin developing the skills needed to hold space with clarity and care. Guidance is also given on beginning supervised practice with volunteer clients following the retreat.
Following the deep personal immersion of Module One, participants move into a six-month period of practice and integration. This stage offers time and space for the work to settle, as understanding gently shifts from insight into lived experience. Participants begin working with volunteer clients, exploring how the Pre-Birth Matrix comes alive in real encounters. The focus is on presence, listening, and kindness towards pace, allowing confidence to grow naturally through familiarity and trust.
Stage Two is supported by three live online reflection and mentoring sessions, each lasting three hours. These gatherings offer continuity, reassurance, and connection as the work takes root, and provide a shared space for questions, reflection, and gentle guidance as practice deepens. Each online mentoring session is offered at a cost of 100 euro per session.
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Stage Two is a gentle threshold where the work becomes familiar, embodied, and quietly trustworthy, preparing the ground for the final stage of training.
Module Two focuses on deepening practitioner skill, confidence, and ethical clarity. Participants learn how to guide others safely and effectively through the full Whole-Self Pre-Birth Matrix.
Participants learn to facilitate full client sessions, maintain clear emotional and energetic boundaries, and work with sensitivity and discernment. Ethical considerations, scope of practice, and contraindications are explored in depth. Personal feedback and mentoring are offered, informed by the six months of practice.
Certification is awarded to those who complete both residential modules and demonstrate competence in applying the Whole-Self Pre-Birth Matrix with clarity, safety, and respect.
Certified practitioners are able to work with the framework of the 22 Pre-Birth Encoding Moments, support clients in exploring inherited or early-formed emotional patterns, guide clients through the full Pre-Birth Analysis Matrix, facilitate awareness-based integration processes, and hold a grounded practitioner space. This work can be integrated into a wide range of healing, therapeutic, and spiritual practices.
Module One: 11th – 15th September 2026 Residential (700 euro)
Module Two: 12th – 16th March 2027 Residential (700 euro)
Important Information
This training is educational and experiential in nature and does not replace medical or psychological care. It is not intended to diagnose or treat any condition, but to support reflective and experiential exploration within a safe and responsibly held environment.
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