“Heal yourself and you can help others heal. Love yourself and you can love the world. Wake up and others will wake up around you.”

— Guthrie Sayen

The Institute for Healing and Awakening

Offering trainings designed to evolve coaches’ well-being so they can confidently support well-being in their clients.

We, Guthrie Sayen and Barti Bourgault, created IHA to bring people like you, healers and seekers, into loving relationship with themselves and with Spirit. You learn how to stabilize in a place that is grounded in mindfulness — calm, clear, and spacious. From here, you can work from your innate confidence. That is what sets our coaches apart.

Our trainings include Coaching with Spirit, a foundational coach training, and Coaching with Internal Family Systems (IFS), a series of advanced trainings. Our programs are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

A message from Guthrie Sayen, co-founder of the Institute for Healing & Awakening.

About Coaching with Spirit, an IVF Level 1 training developed by Guthrie Sayen and co-taught by Guthrie and IHA co-founder, Barti Bourgault.

Join Guthrie and Barti for free webinars.

Information sessions about upcoming programs:

Coaching with IFS 1: Using Internal Family Systems to Co-Create Healing and Awakening

Wednesday, January 22, 6:00 pm Eastern Time (New York) on Zoom

Coaching with Spirit: Co-Creating Healing and Awakening

Wednesday, December 11, 6:00 pm Eastern Time (New York) on Zoom

Public Webinar: IFS for Hard Times

Using IFS to Heal and Awaken in Polarized Political Environments

Tuesday, December 3, 6:00 – 7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

Our deepest desire is to bring wellbeing to our hurting planet, to help end suffering in ourselves and others, and to bring the light of love to all.

We see coaches as lightworkers, uniquely qualified to facilitate healing and awakening.

Our trainings transform those who share our calling so they can help others heal and awaken.

We invite you to join our circle of learning and love.

Our trainings

Coaching with Spirit

Co-Creating Healing and Awakening

A fundamental coach training that provides a map for facilitating deep change as well as pathways to healing and awakening.

An ICF-accredited level 1 coach training (123 hours).

Coaching with IFS

Using Internal Family Systems to Co-Create Healing and Awakening

Two levels of trainings in IFS – basics and advanced — plus a consultation group.

40 ICF CCEs

Meet your instructors

A headshot of Guthrie Sayen, trainer to coaches and practitioners in Internal Family Systems

Guthrie Sayen, PhD, PCC

Creator of the Coaching with Spirit and Coaching with IFS programs, a globally renowned coach and trainer, and co-founder of the Institute for Healing and Awakening. …Read more

A headshot of Barti Bourgault, coach and mindfulness teacher

Barti Bourgault, MA, PCC

Co-founder of the Institute for Healing and Awakening, coach, trainer, mentor, and mindfulness teacher. …Read more