The Enlightenment Intensive offers a distinct method of personal growth. This is not a religion, a branch of Zen or Yoga, or part of any other system, it does not offer any guarantees or promised results, instead this pure practice offers a place to explore the ultimate questions of existence with practical guidance at each step.
Who Am I? That's the question we start with and more importantly, the answer we need to discover. When we discover who we are we naturally want to live from this place, we make decisions more and more from that one and create a life that’s more fulfilling. Our relationships with the ones we love and others can benefit immensely from this as well.
This time-tested process we offer is world-renowned, over 800,000 people have participated in one or more. We use age old Koans mixed with Dyads, a partner assisted form of meditation to help you directly experience the truth. This exact method has helped many reach full authentic awakenings for decades.
Koans have been used for Centuries and the goal of a Koan is not to arrive at an answer, with some new knowledge, the goal is to experience the truth, a direct knowing through the experience of truth, a suspended moment in time where you merge with who or what you truly are, creating a profound shift in human consciousness, life will never be the same, you will never look at yourself or others or the world through the same lens.
Throughout the process we peel layers of the onion so to speak to get to the core, de-identification from fixed attitudes, states and unconscious behaviors can occur and direct experience is a possibility, from this moment with truth, it will recalibrate you from the inside out.
It’s a self inquiry journey into the depths of your being. We use a unique time tested process to create an opportunity for you to come to a "direct experience of the truth".
Through my years of training and facilitating this program, from seeing many transformations along the way, I know this work can help impact anyone's life in a positive way. Highly recommended, come out and give it a try, or do it from the comfort of your own home, we also offer in home retreats!
Some Koans we use are: Who am I? What am I? What is Life? What is Another? What is Love? Other Koans also available.
This work is a journey though our entire make up, who and what we think we are, it peels each layer until we touch the truth. This work is profound and the space that is held by myself and our staff is warm and welcoming, this is not the ordinary world we are entering here, its where we get naked and let others see our wounds, we bleed together and we grow together and we hold each other through each ones process, nothing quite like it. Its perfection unraveling in each moment, priceless work. Don't take my word for it, come and experience it for yourself.
No Dogma, no Doctrine, just our time tested process, the Enlightenment technique with practical guidance along the way.
Many have noted that knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. When we know who we are, this place of wisdom naturally extends into our personal, and professional life. It's quite possibly the most important question we could ask ourselves and take the time to discover. When we embark on finding our true self, we face the veil that keeps us from experiencing the reality of each moment, this can be at times very challenging, this process can bring up past conditioning and beliefs that may be challenged, find out if this is right for you.
The Enlightenment Intensive technique was developed by Charles Burner, the teachings have been passed down through his lineage of teachers. I was fortunate to learn from Lawrence, who was Charles Berners main teacher at the Dyad School Of Enlightenment , I completed the Masters trainings with Lawrence Noyes in 2008, and still consistently participate in any of his offering. After 22 years of being involved with this work, my goal remains to be able to carry this work forth as it was intended to be. This exact method has helped many reach full authentic awakenings for decades.
*Note, not everyone reaches enlightenment, but most participants feel they have gained substantial insight into themselves, extremely valuable program for your life.
DYAD NIGHTS
Details below, for experienced or new participants, this will give you an opportunity to experience the process we use and give you a chance to see if this is right for you. Contact us today for a Zoom intake interview, connect with us, either by email or schedule a free zoom call and ask any questions you may have.
UPCOMING ONLINE ENLIGHTENMENT INTENSIVES
September 18-22nd, 2025. Online EI, CET Euro Time Zone, English Speaking
October 16TH-20TH, 2025 Online EI, North American Time Zone
November 20th-24th, 2025 Online EI, CET Euro Time Zone, English Speaking
January 29th - Feb 2nd, 2026 Online EI, North American Time Zone
February 26th-March 2nd, 2026 Online EI, CET Euro Time Zone, English Speaking
April 23rd - 27th, 2026 Online EI, North American Time Zone
May 28th-June 1st, 2026, Online EI, CET Euro Time Zone, English Speaking
June 25th-29th, 2026 Online EI, North American Time Zone
September 1721st, 2026 Online EI, CET Euro Time Zone, English Speaking
October 15-19th, 2026 Online EI, North America Time Zone
November 19-23rd, 2026 Online EI, CET Euro time Zone, English Speaking
Zoom Online Enlightenment Intensive Format
3.5 days of total immersion into the Self Inquiry process as created by Charles Berner.
The Intensive Begins Thursday Evening from 7PM-10:00PM The next 3 days we begin daily from 9:50am to 10:50pm with 10 Dyads a day, including breaks and stretch period, ending on the Monday with a half day of integration ending at 2:30pm
From the comfort of your own home.
Suggested Donation 249$ CAD
*North American Time Zone = ET, PT, CT, NT and MTN Time zone.
*Euro Time Zone = CET, GMT, UTC, BT
We will also offer our traditional monastic style in person 3.5 day Intensive in 2026 Live In Person Enlightenment Intensive
Ottawa, Canada Local Retreat Centre, details coming soon. Standard Enlightenment Intensive with 11 Dyads a day.
With meals and accommodation's, including private dorms, shared dorms also available.
Contact us today for early bird pricing, or go to the registration page to sign up.
DYAD NIGHTS
For experienced or new participants, this will give you an opportunity to experience the process we use and give you a chance to see if this is right for you. Contact us today for a Zoom intake interview, connect with us, either by email or schedule a free zoom call and ask any questions you may have.
DYAD NIGHTS
Check our Dyad Nights Page for more details.
First Monday of each month. North American and Euro Time Zone Dyad nights.
7-10 PM CET and 7-10PM ET
Open to any English speaking participants who are familiar with the technique or have participated in a "Dyad learning Session".
*Online Enlightenment Dyad Nights are back on Oct, 6th, Nov 3rd, Dec 1st, Jan 5th, Feb 2nd, March 9th(moved to 2nd Monday), April 6th, May the 4th be with you, June 1st is the last one before summer holidays, back on October 5th, Nov 2nd and last Dyad Night for 2026 will be December 7th.
Contact us for more details and the Zoom Link
*Dyad Instruction Session, this is for anyone who is new to Dyads and is done "pre-Dyad night", 1hr or longer with some coaching Dyads
Donation is arbitrary and welcomed for this time
"The Intensive is a real breakthrough in the growth of consciousness and compassion in the world". Rita Wyser, educator, Family Therapist
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I have been looking to reach a place of inner peace for a long time. I came to this Intensive thinking that perhaps I will find the answer to a question that I have been struggling with for quite some time. "Who Am I?" is the question that has been on my mind. The process followed during this intensive didn't only allow me to answer that question but most importantly brought me to the most amazing place. I now not only know who I am, I have reached a state of inner peace, freedom, gratefulness and happiness. It is truly a wonderful place to be. If everyone could reach this place of enlightenment, the world would defiantly be a better place. I recommend this program to everyone. It is a must. Thank you for guiding me to this awakening. My life will never be the same again. To a new beginning. Mae
This Intensive is the most valuable time I have ever given to myself. After searching for answers for so long, I have now realized where the answers are... within me and they always will be. Even after a few challenges this week coming up to the experience that almost prevented me from coming, I kept wanting to come and asking the Universe to send me... and it did. I now see and feel the value of every moment and breath. Its only the beginning but I am able to TRULY begin to see... Who I Am.
Thank you. Dave Sharp
I just completed the Enlightenment Intensive experience led by Attila and must say it was quite a weekend! This particular version was done over Zoom and it was still quite effective. Through the proccess I was able to sort through the stories of my life and the impact they have had on my spirit and self expression, and my freedom to be, and to get in touch with who i actually am. The space that was created by Mr. Kalo and held by other participants was incredibly warm, welcoming and safe, and the results produced are quite visible and yet remarkable. I fully endorse and recommend anyone’s participation in this proccess, or the live in-poerson, version. It is very much well worth your time. My 65th birthday coincided with this event and it really was a great gift that i gave to myself.
-Ian
My view of Intensives now is that they really cant solve interpersonal relationship problems directly, but they can get you in touch with who you really are, with that place that is at your center, and which is your home. And from that place, anything is possible. You can conquer your worst problems. I've seen a lot of people, go through this process, and that is the main thing people get. People who experience their real self can then live from it. They don't have to worry so much about what others think. They can be who they are and go where they want with that. I actually don't know how people can go on without knowing who they are. Knowing who you are is not just a benefit, its essential to the growth process, and to whatever you do in life.
Intensive facilitator. Jeff Love
As someone that has been a dedicated meditator for a decade, I did my fair share of 10-day in person retreats. I had the privilege of attending an online 3-day Enlightenment Intensive with Attila. Words cannot describe the depth, beauty and majesty of the breakthroughs I experienced in just three days under the skillful, generous and open-hearted guidance of Attila. To any seeker of Truth, this is it. What are you waiting for?
- Evi
The Enlightenment Intensive retreat shook me at my core. I was very resistant at first, but as the days unfolded, I started to see the stories I had been living my whole life, The un-truths, they were loops I had been spinning in for years. With Attila's compassionate guidance, I finally faced a childhood wound I had been carrying for decades. The release was overwhelming, and what came after was pure clarity. I realized I am not who I thought I was. Now there is a deep silence within me, a space I can return to in the middle of my daily life, no matter what's happening around me.
~SM
A labour of Love
‘An intense wash’
There’s so much I could write about the enlightenment experience; it was my 7th intensive, and the most profound. The foundations laid; Love and support. I felt completely safe, supported, held, carried and loved beyond measure. This gave me the trust needed to completely let go and give in to the process which was experienced as an intense wash of the mind. I hit a wall, in my mind’s eye I saw a bricked up doorway. I was experiencing resistance. I kept hearing the words “Open to this resistance” . I hesitated as the feeling arose that I would die if I did. I opened anyway. Fear arose like a raging demon; and I was thrown around like I was in a washing machine cycle. Then, I was in a tiny boat at sea in a raging storm. I had been trying to control the experience, trying to ‘keep it together’ what I yearned for, for so long ‘I’ was in the way. Then, suddenly, somehow, I had completely lost all control and there was nothing I could do but go through this. I had no control whatsoever. I experienced being birthed and birthing myself. I howled, screamed and wept ferociously as it all came undone. With the support of the Master, I was led back to the shore. The shore of Truth. The shore of Oneness. Love floods in; Im Home. If you want freedom, this is highly recommended! An incredible Intensive with incredible Others, and an awesome team of Selfless love and support.
Elena
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