Level III

Purpose · Tiferet

Return · Self-Worth · The True Self

I Am
For those still searching for meaning and purpose

Self-Leadership from the Centre

Some people reach a point where life works on the outside but still feels empty.

This Level is for that question:

What did I come here for?

Every level of this training serves one capacity: Self-Leadership, the ability to relate consciously to your inner world instead of being run by it.

Level I built the ground: a body you can inhabit and a nervous system that can settle. Level II made your conditioning visible: the strategies, roles and self-images that formed to keep you safe.

With both in place, a different question opens. Not why you became who you are, but who you are once the inherited roles loosen. And what that self is for.

Level III starts from a simple idea. Purpose is not invented, chosen from a list, or found somewhere outside. It is who you are, revealed. Feeling lost about your purpose rarely means you have none. More often you have lost contact with the self it belongs to.

Tiferet: The Heart of the Tree

The level of the Hummingbird

In the Andean map that runs through this training, this Level belongs to the hummingbird. Level II belonged to the jaguar, whose fangs and claws, strong legs and camouflage stand for the ways we learned to survive: fighting, fleeing and hiding. The hummingbird relies on none of them. It is colourful, graceful and visible.

It also gives without setting out to. As it feeds, it pollinates, and life flourishes around it. This is how Level III understands purpose: your own nature, trusted and expressed, is already a contribution.

Tiferet is where that trust is built. Its work rests on five qualities:

Self-honesty: seeing your virtues and your defects without inflating or shrinking either
Self-worth: a sense of value that does not rise and fall with other people’s approval
Balance: kindness and limits held together, toward yourself first
Completeness: feeling whole without needing to be perfect
Purpose: a felt sense of what your life is for, which comes into view as the other four settle

Kabbalah associates Tiferet with the heart and with the sun, the centre the rest moves around. Its key word is shalom, peace, which shares its root with shalem, complete.

The aim is not to become someone new. It is to become your own.

Purpose is not something you find. It is who you are, revealed.

The key concept of this Level

Teshuvá: The Return

The tradition has a word for the movement at the heart of this Level: teshuvá. It is often translated as repentance. Its plainer meaning is return: coming back to what you already are.

Purpose is not reached by adding something new. It is reached by returning. Each time you correct something that looked like you and was not, you come a little closer to who you are.

In the tradition, return and exile belong together: those who return are gathered home. Psychology has its own word for what we send away in order to stay safe: exiles. Often they are the parts of us that were once most alive.

So the return has two movements.

I return to my centre

From the roles and the inherited self, back to the inner self.

What I sent away comes home

From that centre, the parts that were shut out can be welcomed back.

The tradition calls the end of exile redemption. Here it is a redemption with your soul: nothing arrives from outside. What was yours comes home.

See it

Find where you have left your centre: in a role, a reaction, an old loyalty

Accept it

Admit that the imbalance is there, without inflating it or hiding it

Correct it

Adjust what is out of balance, and begin again from the inner self

Teshuvá is not done once. It is practised every day.

Where Purpose Gets Lost

Purpose is rarely missing. More often it is covered by a life built to meet expectations: the family model, the role that earned approval, the safe option. From outside this can look like success. From inside it can feel like living someone else’s life.

The Inherited Self

What you received before you could choose: values, loyalties, a picture of who you should be. We look at what in it is yours, and what you have been carrying for others.

The Role

Every life needs roles. The trouble starts when the role outweighs the person and you become a supporting character in your own story. You learn to notice which role is speaking, and whether it is connected to you.

The Substitute

When inner meaning is missing, something outside is asked to supply it: status, a cause, a relationship, constant activity. We explore what has been standing in for purpose, without judging it.

Leading from the Self

We continue to use Internal Family Systems (IFS) as our main map of the inner world. In Level II the work was to recognise your parts. In Level III the work is to let the Self lead them, and to welcome home the parts that were sent away.

IFS is a widely used, non-pathologising model with a growing but still limited research base. We use it for self-understanding, not as a clinical treatment.

Unblend

Step back from a part far enough to see it

Listen

Meet each part with calm and curiosity, not correction

Trust

Let protective parts learn that the Self can be relied on

Lead

Decide from the centre, with every part heard

The Patterns of Tiferet

When the centre tilts, it tilts in one of two directions. This tradition does not moralise. It reads both as energy out of balance, not as faults, and they are more closely related than they look.

The Inflated Self

Needing to be seen as special. Believing oneself great too quickly. Wanting to improve the world without listening to the people in it.

The Deflated Self

Doubting your own worth. Playing a secondary role in your own life. Withdrawing, and calling it independence.

The balance to grow toward is a self-worth that needs neither applause nor hiding.

Turning inward is not the same as turning away. Self-knowledge that avoids relationship is another way of hiding.

The Body Knows First

Purpose is felt before it is put into words. The body shows where you contract and where you come alive.

This Level continues the somatic work of Levels I and II, using foundational elements of Somatic Experiencing: pacing, resourcing, and tracking sensation. Regulation keeps what you discover steady enough to use.

Tiferet and Yoga

In the yogic map this territory resonates with Anahata, the heart centre.

Morning practices use breath and heart-centred movement to prepare the work of each day.

What You Develop

By the end of Level III, participants typically develop:

By the end of Level III, participants typically develop

The ability to tell what they inherited from what is their own
A clear view of their main imbalance, inflated or deflated, and one quality to practise
Self-worth that is steadier and less dependent on approval
A clearer sense of which parts of themselves they sent away, and a first welcome back
A first, provisional statement of purpose, and one concrete step that fits their life
A daily practice of return (teshuvá): noticing when they have left their centre, and coming back

In Essence

Level III is where the inner self becomes its own, self-worth settles, and purpose begins to show.

You do not leave with a finished answer.

You leave knowing where to look, and who is looking.

Thursday Afternoon – Sunday Afternoon

Level III: Programme Schedule

Sibiu, Romania 28th to 31st january, 2027

Level III unfolds over four days, following a rhythm that balances psychological inquiry, somatic regulation, and integration.

Thursday Opening & Orientation

Day 1

The Inherited Self

Aim: Establish safety and open the question of what in your life is your own.

16:30–18:00 | Arrival & Settling
Arrival, room allocation, quiet time.

18:00–19:30 | Opening Circle

- Orientation to Level III.
- Review of the arc from Level I to Level III.
- Introduction to Tiferet and the inner self.
- Group welcoming

19:30–20:30 | Dinner

20:30–22:00 | Evening Session — Whose Life Am I Living?

- Guided meditation
- Deep work session

Friday Honesty and Balance

Day 2

Teshuvá, the Return to the Centre

Aim: See your imbalances honestly, and practise kindness with limits.

08:30–09:15 | Somatic Morning Practice
Heart-centred breath and movement with Farah

09:15–10:15 | Breakfast

10:30–12:30 | Integrative Workshop — The Patterns of Tiferet

- The inflated and the deflated self. One quality to practise

12:30–14:00 | Group Integration
Journaling: Which role is speaking right now?

14:00–16:00 | Lunch & Rest

16:00–18:00 | Transcendent Psychology — Tiferet Workshop

- - Teshuvá: the return to essence, and the return of what I sent away.
  - From Jacob to Israel: inherited and chosen identity. Kindness and limits as one stance.

18:00–19:30 | Dinner

20:00–22:00 | Evening Session

Sound immersion session.
Deep work night session.

Saturday The Name

Day 3

I Am

Aim: Meet the Self as leader, and notice where you come alive.

08:30–09:15 | Morning Practice
Breath and heart-centred movement

09:15–10:15 | Breakfast

10:30–12:30 | Yoga Workshop

12:30–14:00 | Group Integration
What I am good at, and what brings me alive.

14:00–16:00 | Lunch & Rest

16:00–18:00 | Tree of Life & IFS Integration

- Tiferet as the Self in the lead. Self-to-part work.
- Introduction to Keter.

18:00–19:30 | Dinner

20:00–22:00 | Evening Session

Deep work session

Sunday Integration and Completion

Day 4

Walking On

Aim: Put first words to your purpose, and plan how it enters daily life.

08:30–09:15 | Integrative Morning Practice
Restorative movement and body scan.

09:15–10:15 | Breakfast

10:30–12:00 | Final Integration

- A provisional statement of purpose.
- One step for the coming weeks.
- Who walks with me.

12:00–13:30 | Closing Circle

- Integration and reflections
- Orientation to Level IV — Keter

13:30–15:00 | Lunch

15:00–16:00 | Conscious Departure

Our Team

Facilitator

Anthony Tatekawa

Founder of the Transcendent Institute. Psychologist specialised in integrative psychotherapy and certified yoga teacher.

Instructor

Farah Diva

MD specialised in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. Facilitator and trainer at the Transcendent Institute.

Instructor

Mauricio Albanés

MD, surgeon, Kabbalah teacher and senior facilitator.

Musician

Sergiu Corbu

Professional musician focused on immersive music for transformative events.

Facilitator

Alex Axinte

Shamanic session facilitator and musician.

Who This Level Is For

Anyone who feels lost about the meaning or direction of their life · people whose life works on the outside and feels empty within · graduates of Level II ready to go further · therapists, psychologists and counsellors · coaches and facilitators · healthcare professionals · anyone on a serious path of self-understanding.

You do not need to arrive with an answer, or even with a clear question. This Level offers orientation, not a finished answer.

This is personal process work, not facilitator training. It is not a substitute for therapy and does not treat clinical conditions. It is developmental work in a carefully held group.

Prerequisites

Completion of Level II, Balance, is recommended. The work of this Level relies on the regulation built in Level I and the self-knowledge built in Level II. Those with equivalent foundational work (advanced IFS, somatic trauma therapy, extended depth psychotherapy) may apply for assessment.

Upcoming Event

January 28-31, 2027
Sibiu, Romania
4-day residential immersive
40 hours
Participation Certificate — Level III
Completion opens Level IV — Keter
LANGUAGES

Full Training — 1.100€

Early Bird Price available until November 30! Standard pricing ($1,100.00 €) will apply starting December 1.

Secure Your Spot Today 500€

A €500 deposit is required to reserve your place.

Includes 40 hours of training, the printed Level III Manual, Certificate of Participation, accommodation, and optional vegetarian meals.

The certificate confirms participation. It does not license clinical practice or the facilitation of ceremonies.