Frequently Asked Questions

1. The webinars will not be the same as the content available on my YouTube or Instagram accounts as it will go much deeper into specifics that will equip you in developing an integrated self-knowledge. 
   
   
2. My free content only include teaching and sharing to spark awareness. Clarity webinars will include teaching as well as facilitated exercises, guided reflection and sharing.
   
   
3. Unlike my Youtube / Instagram content, Clarity webinars all fit together into a carefully planned and executed curriculum that will facilitate participants to encounter themselves more deeply and with greater clarity.**
   
   **Disclaimer: The webinars and other elements of Clarity are created to be impactful resources to support each pilgrim's journey but it is the individual's actual praxis and engagement in the exercises provided beyond the webinars that will have a greater impact on how much mileage each interior pilgrim reaps from the webinars.

All webinars are delivered live and live attendance for the webinars is needed to fully benefit from them since they are interactive.

However, recordings of every webinar will be made available for review as well as for the times live attendance is not possible.

Webinars take place every 2 weeks on Saturday mornings in Singapore starting at 9AM. (GMT/UTC +08:00).

The duration of each webinar will range from 2-3hrs depending on the topic. 

The main curriculum content takes place during the fortnightly webinars. The webinars equip Clarity pilgrims for the praxis exercises and assignments that need to be done in-between webinars.

Ongoing support for these assignments are provided through:

1. The private community forum which includes a space for questions to be asked and support to be given for more straightforward answers on a day-to-day basis.

2. Clarity pilgrims who need deeper support in a particular part of the journey can sign up for Office Hours which will be available monthly in two timings. These will take place on Thursday nights (8pm-930pm) and Friday mornings (1030am-12pm) Singapore time (GMT/UTC +08:00).

All webinars and office hour coaching sessions will be recorded and made available within the Clarity online learning and community portal.

Clarity interior pilgrims will have ongoing access to everything within the Clarity learning portal (webinars, offices hours, recordings, online community) for the entire duration of Clarity (which is 8 months) plus an additional few months until before the next cycle of Clarity begins. (Total length of access will approximate a year.)

Each Clarity client cohort will not exceed 8 pax. 

In determining the program duration, my key considerations were:

1. Pace & Cadence:
   What length of time would allow us to cover the curriculum without rushing yet with enough frequency of contact and engagement to build momentum and enthusiasm?
2. Depth:
   What length of program would allow participants to go deep enough into the material for it to make a real impact and for them to feel accompanied by one another for a significant amount of time without it becoming arduous or unnecessarily long (for this particular curriculum's learning objective).
3. Rhythm of Life:
   How might Clarity fit into the calendar year (with its different seasons and cycles) so that everyone (myself included) can have a proper break to reset at the end of the year and settle in to new rhythms in the new year?

As it stands now, the sweet spot seems to be 8 months (April - November).

Could this change in the future?  Yes. With every cohort of Clarity I continue to observe, get feedback, review and refine the program so that its form + duration best allows participants to experience its content and value. 

At this time, the online community will only be for the current cohort of Clarity pilgrims.

Part of the reason for an application process is so that there can be discernment and curation of a fellowship of "like-hearted" interior pilgrims who are willing and prepared to contribute to the creation of a mutually supportive, respectful, non-judgmental and confidential peer-learning space where everyone can show up safely.

Questions, reflection prompts and praxis exercises will be provided to facilitate more contemplative introspection, mindful reflection and sharing. 

All Clarity pilgrims are required to sign a coaching agreement stating their willingness to follow certain ground rules of engagement to further ensure transparency and accountability.

Not at all. In fact, Clarity builds on the foundation of attunement and awareness of God and Self that 1-to-1 spiritual direction and counselling/therapy helps you to grow in. 

In fact, one of the requirements for joining Clarity is an ability to demonstrate (through the application process) a certain degree of awareness and attunement with oneself. As such, those who already have a history of regular spiritual direction and/or therapy are more likely to be able to reap greater benefit from Clarity.

Clarity's curriculum harnesses your ability to "listen to your inner self" with openness and honesty and through targeted questions and exercises guide you to a more granular, concrete and specific knowledge of your life-scripts, motivation design, cognitive preferences as well as where you may struggle to embrace what you discover about yourself.

This process complements and adds new dimension and depth to the kind of 1-to-1 "free form" accompaniment and healing we experience in spiritual direction and therapy.

Participants are strongly encouraged to continue their regular spiritual direction / therapy sessions while going through Clarity as this can allow for deeper processing and emotional support, which in turn can lead to greater integration, clarity and insight about themselves.

Clarity is effective because of:

1) A systematic and well-designed curriculum;

2) Effective teaching of key concepts and principles;

3) Strategically created exercises, reflection prompts and questions that guide each person into doing the specific work they need to do to grow in clarity in self-knowledge;

4) In-depth and expert Q&A topic based coaching in applying what is being taught and practiced; and

5) A non-judgmental, emotionally safe space for each individual's self-discovery and self-disclosure.

Past experiences have shown that even when Clarity was done as a 1-to-1 coaching program, it was the combination of these five attributes of Clarity with the client's own engagement and praxis in-between coaching sessions that yielded the most impressive learning outcomes.

Office Hours (instead of 1-to-1  private coaching sessions) makes it possible for each participant to receive additional support only when they need it in the Clarity journey, thus saving cost, resources and each person's valuable time.

**Participants are however strongly encouraged to continue their regular outside 1-to-1 spiritual direction / therapy sessions while going through Clarity as this can allow for deeper processing and emotional support, which in turn can lead to greater integration, clarity and insight about themselves.

1. The "quiz" portion is not the only necessary part of MBTI® assessment

When I was going through MBTI® practitioner certification training, it was repeatedly stressed to us that it would be an unethical use of the MBTI® instrument for us to give a client their report without either an individual debrief session or having them attend an MBTI® group workshop.

This is because a proper MBTI® assessment includes a guided self-assessment on top of the official online instrument (the "quiz"). A coaching session or workshop then further helps the client clarify or reconcile any differences between their self-assessment and their report.

We cover all these essential aspects for a proper implementation of MBTI®  in Clarity.

2) In Clarity, both the MCODE™ and MBTI® instruments are only applied after you have grown in awareness of your life-scripts.

This is important because people's responses to the questions in the MCODE™ and MBTI® instruments are often influenced by their trauma responses (contained in life-scripts) which will render the data from these instruments much less helpful.

By learning to be more aware of the pattern of your life-scripts before undertaking these assessments, you will be more able to differentiate your natural (and more healthy) motivational and temperament design from your trauma responses.

3) In Clarity we make use of the in-depth MBTI® Step II instrument which goes beyond the 4-letter type that most people are familiar with.

The Step II instrument takes into consideration individual nuances within each cognitive preference (E-I, S-N, T-F, J-P). For example, you may be an introvert that is enthusiastic and gregarious, or an extrovert that is contained and prefer quiet. 

Step II allows for a much more tailored and specific understanding of your cognitive preferences which is important when the objective is to grow in concrete self-knowledge.

There are both individual and group aspects to these kinds of assessments because it's actually often in a group that we can see more clearly how we are distinct and different from others - and that helps us to appreciate our distinctiveness more.

It's also helpful when we can hear from others what they may sense/see of us (sometimes it's a perspective we can't see ourselves). Solely individually done MCODE /MBTI coaching sessions lack this interesting (and fun) dimension!

At the same time, there are individual reports for both MCODE and MBTI and the webinars and additional resources will guide Clarity pilgrims in how to work out their own understanding of these reports, which key aspects to pay most attention to etc.

The point is to coach the individual into a basic understanding of how to use and apply these instruments to deepen self-knowledge more independently so that it can be developed even beyond their time in Clarity.

Experience with past Clarity pilgrims have shown that individuals vary greatly in terms of the kind and amount of individual support they need for MCODE and MBTI. The new Clarity format allows for greater support when it is necessary (through Office Hours) while having the benefit of learning about/experiencing Motivation Code and MBTI in a group.