What the heck is a “revelation workshop”?

Per Mirriam-Webster:

revelation noun

rev· e· la· tion - re-və-ˈlā-shən 

1: an act of revealing or communicating divine truth

2a: an act of revealing to view or making known

b: something that is revealed especially : an enlightening or astonishing disclosure

shocking revelations

c: a pleasant often enlightening surprise

her talent was a revelation

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We spend our entire lifetime becoming ourselves. In the process we universally find challenges in this pursuit because life is f$#@in’ hard.

When we successfully overcome difficult challenges; especially emotional & interpersonal challenges we are often given a special gift … a revelation.

Processing pain and trauma are crucial victories in becoming ourselves. When we can connect the dots; reveal the patterns; and get to the root of our troubles …that is when we transcend (skip the green to get to the point).

Here is a personal example :

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Fifteen years into my 20 year career as an alcoholic I would have told you I was a just a fun-loving person who was lucky enough to carry on a collegiate lifestyle because I was a late bloomer and was free to not grow up.

The last five years of drinking I would have told you I was self-medicating my depression stemming from the death of my mother and the uncertainty of trying to sustain a living as a freelancer.

It took me four and a half years of sobriety before I finally had a revelation. I began to connect the dots. I drank because I had a crushing inferiority complex stemming from growing up broke; being put through private school (poor me, right?!); and then choosing a college in a wealthy town.

Digging in the dirt of my past I identified every last heartbreak going back into my early childhood that led me to believe the only way I could succeed in my inequitable position in life was to outwork, outthink, and most notably out-party everyone else.

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It took me decades to learn how to find my work; process even the slightest of traumas; and transcend them to become myself.

I look back at all of my suffering and confusion through all the years with deep gratitude. Thinking back through my journey what really took the longest time in the my evolution was simply finding the tools dig my way out of the darkness and the teachers to point toward the sky.

Revelation Workshop is a “place” where the tools are arranged neatly and the teachers are waiting. What worked for me will not necessarily work for most people but there is a way for everyone and Revelation Workshop is the place to start.

Now let’s get to work.

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“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”

- Michelangelo