WHY ETHICS?

To be a practitioner means to know about conduct, ethics with working with peers, with different groups and keeping the ego in check. Ethics are fundamental in healing, multidimensional, and therapeutic work, especially in today’s world where individuals are navigating increasingly complex personal and collective challenges. As practitioners, we hold significant responsibility when working with clients who may be in vulnerable states—physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Ethics serve as a guiding framework to ensure that the care provided is respectful, non-exploitative, and rooted in the best interests of those we support. By maintaining clear boundaries, confidentiality, and integrity, practitioners foster trust and create a safe space for authentic healing to occur.

The Saturnian Goat Brigade
For Ethical Multidimensional Practitioners

A Recorded Training in Practitioner Ethics, Responsibility & Right Relationship

Created for multidimensional practitioners, spiritual practitioners, energy workers, therapists, mentors, teachers and those working across the edges of conventional and metaphysical practice, this training invites us to look beyond gifts, modalities and spiritual identity and into the deeper question: 

What does it actually mean to hold space for another person responsibly?

Again and again, we encounter highly gifted students and practitioners who have invested deeply in developing their skills, yet have had comparatively little opportunity to examine the ethical, relational and professional dimensions of their work.

There can be an assumption that being intuitive, multidimensional or spiritually experienced is enough to enable us to safely hold space for others. It isn't. Authentic practice also requires training, self-reflexivity, boundaries, accountability, discernment, appropriate conduct and the willingness to keep doing the work.

This is where Saturn comes in.

Rather than seeing these qualities as obstacles, this training explores Saturn as an important teacher for anyone wishing to develop greater integrity and professional maturity. 

We cannot bypass the real work of becoming a practitioner. Sometimes the most important development happens through what slows us down, challenges our assumptions, exposes a blind spot or asks us to take greater responsibility.

Saturn reminds us that mastery is not a shortcut.

Four Recorded Workshops

Understanding and Learning to Love Saturn

The Archetypal Strength of the Lord of Time, Karma & Sacrifice

with Padma Khandro Victoria Sinclair

Saturn gets a bad rap and is often misunderstood to the detriment of our higher path. Saturn is known to create delays in things and often when we are a novice we race ahead and create a lot of damage and negative as a result. When people ignore their Saturn they bypass what is ultimately a deep dive into having more responsibility.

In the western world we tend to be overly greedy, pushy and competitive. This does not serve the ethical practitioner and many promising to-be adepts have strong Saturn in their charts to help to NOT make the mistakes that thwarted their growth and Dharma in past lives. Learning to accept and harness Saturn’s energy wisely actually will bring success, material stability and spiritual growth.

In this presentation, you will:

– Learn how to sense Saturn’s rings around you and when there is a gift in being delayed on your path. By gaining understanding of this we no longer feel frustrated but can learn to rewire ourselves to be more prudent and discerning;
– Understand some vital information about Saturn which helps us to benefit from what this powerful planet is leading us to confront or overcome. Learn some basic keys for making friends with your Saturn and remedying negative karma to transmute it into dedication and ethical equipoise;
– Learn about Saturn as the Lord of the Shadow and how a deeper understanding of this can help us grow psychologically;
– Become aware of Saturn as a marker of your debt to a particular part of society. We will also discuss Saturn Return and Sade Sati periods and the gifts they bring;
– We will look at what Saturn is here to teach us about being responsible in life. By looking at Saturn in-depth and gaining respect and alignment with it as a high teacher we will find that this will actually propel us onto a path of authenticity and impeccability;
– Finally, we will teach you a Saturn mantra which we will chant together which will help you to instantly remedy negative karma and to befriend this.

Coming in the 'Right Way'

with Padma Khandro Victoria Sinclair

This term is used in indigenous societies in Australia and refers to a body of ethical and law/lore-based teachings known as ‘protocol’. Western spiritual practitioners seem to be nothing short of allergic to the concept of ethics and natural law. The truth is, though, that we will never become an authentic practitioner if we do not learn to honour fundamental principles.

Everything has a right time and right order (or maybe several) but the western novice often tries to bulldoze into scenarios by asking too many questions, not listening to elders first, not examining the hierarchy or organisation in a particular setting and making it all about themselves.

In the practitioner world there are similar principles that create sacred and professional conduct and right now a lot of people expose their feelings of pride and entitlement by not ‘coming in the right way’.

If we understand Saturn and some principles that can be transposed into community and practitioner settings by the Lord of Time and responsibility, we can become a more mature and respected/full practitioner.

In this 1h satsang Padma will share some often overlooked fundamentals around Natural time, Indigenous Science, Dharma and Sacred order to help you become more aware and aligned. It is hoped that this will open you up to rewiring to have ethical rather than egoic tendencies at your foundation.

Explorations of your Ethical Template & prevalent pitfalls as students and practitioners

with Maaike de Haan

Maaike approaches these themes from a grounded professional perspective, sourcing from her experience as an art psychotherapist, lecturer and multidimensional energy medicine practitioner. We see gifted students and practitioners who seem to not yet have a solid internalised ethical compass, unwittingly perpetuating dubious practices and creating unsafe environments, stepping in all the proverbial pitfalls that are part and parcel of working with people. What does it mean when people haven’t had to study ethics in their practitioner training, where does this show? And what has this meant for us within DharmaSTARS?

Explore the parameters with us as we delve into a range of evocative ethical topics, woven together by anecdotal examples and observations by both Maaike and Padma Khandro:

– From fraternising with your fellow students to the phenomenon of ‘maternal transference’
– Trauma bonding, ego, parts and ‘security blankets’
– The difference and overlap between ‘working therapeutically’ while learning a new modality and ‘being in therapy’, and when to prioritise one over the other.
– The tension between comfort and growth in effective therapeutic or educational spaceholding and the role of self reflexivity therein.

We’ll explore the different roles we inhabit in these spaces, as students, clients, therapists and teachers/ mentors, and the perpetual tantric dance between these at any given time. What happens when the lines get blurred and how easily is this done? Something can be completely valid and appropriate in one context and a great big no-no in another, at times even showing signs of psychopathology lurking in the subconscious shadows.

With this presentation, we aim to shine an inquisitive light on these topics and help you to find the right order and perspective to start creating your own ethical template for impeccable practitionership. 

Who knows, you may even leave today loving ethics as much as we do and join our growing herd of Saturnian Goats!

The Energetics of your Online Presence

with Katie Brockhurst, the Social Media Angel, and Padma Khandro

A 1h live weaving with Katie Brockhurst, the Social Media Angel, and Padma Khandro about Ethical Social Media. Katie assists changemakers and spiritual entrepreneurs to find their ethical groove through coaching in the energetics of social media.

Both Katie and Padma feel strongly that there are deep energetics at play with how we present ourselves to the world and the spaces that are opened up in this specific dimension.

How many people know about energy harvesting, the consciousness and spirit of AI, or have overcome their wounds around the axis of recognition versus invisibility?

We weave with many topics that are exceedingly timely; we look at energetic hijacking, the neuroscience of social media and how this can take us off our true Dharma path, and the deep initiations that social media bring up for us incarnated in human bodies, around ego and soul. Katie will also take us on a journey to meet the virtual world, visiting digital earth and to bring back some understanding and messages from this realm.

We hope that this insightful session will help you to contemplate the important topic of ethical social media and to springboard your online offerings into having full alignment with your Highest Dharma and to true abundance.