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The Great Transition:
Leading the Paradigm Shift
From Separation to Interconnection
From Control to Co-Creation
We stand at the threshold between worlds.
As linear systems collapse and hierarchical models fail, a new form of leadership is emerging
—one that bridges worlds, initiates regenerative patterns, and pioneers pathways of possibility.
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A GAZE for Purpose: A 7-Day Bali Retreat
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Ubud, Bali –November 2-9, 2025
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"A retreat experience with Annie is simply magical. Being in a mystical landscape supported me to access a Fullness within me that expanded and deepened my leadership significantly. Annie coached me and supported me to engage in an exceptional spiritual experience that I took back home with me."
–Cindy Jennings
Become a Bridger of the Great Transition
Imagine being a conscious facilitator of humanity's most significant evolution—the shift from a old paradigm to a new one. While others remain caught in outdated patterns of control and hierarchy, you're facilitating the emergence of new generative world based on interconnection and wholeness.
This is not about adding more strategies to your already full toolkit. This is about becoming the bridger who:
- Translates between old and new paradigms, helping others cross the threshold
- Creates containers where competition transforms into genuine collaboration
- Facilitates emergence rather than forcing predetermined outcomes
- Invites collective wisdom rather than commanding from positional authority
- Weaves networks that distribute power rather than concentrate it
- Nurtures cycles of regeneration rather than linear paths of limitation
- Embodies partnership principles in systems designed for dominance
The world doesn't need more leaders trying to control uncontrollable circumstances. It needs loving guides who can facilitate the transformation of what wants to emerge.
Between Worlds: The Call to Bridge Paradigms
Do you recognize yourself in any of these experiences?
- You see possibilities for regenerative systems while others remain trapped in limited thinking
- You feel called to facilitate transformation but find yourself limited by hierarchical structures
- You intuitively understand the shift from ego to eco but struggle to embody it consistently
- You sense your role as a hidden architect of what's emerging but question how to fulfill it
- You're drawn to co-creative approaches but find yourself defaulting to control under pressure
- You value authentic partnership but operate in systems designed for dominance
- You're trying to build networks within structures optimized for hierarchies
The distance between these tensions and your capacity as a bridger isn't crossed through more information. It requires a fundamental shift in consciousness –through embodied experience.
Accessing Expanded States of Consciousness
The journey to become a catalyst for the Great Transition requires accessing wisdom beyond the rational mind. Through GAZE™️, you'll enter an unordinary state of consciousness that bypasses intellectual defenses and reveals subconscious truths essential for your role as a bridger.
This expanded state allows you to:
- Break free from societal expectations and limiting patterns
- Receive clarity about your specific contribution to the paradigm shift
- Connect with spiritual guidance that illuminates your path as a hidden architect
The physiological shift created through GAZE™️ activates your deepest healing potential and wisdom, empowering you to manifest your purpose as a conscious catalyst with unprecedented clarity.
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"I spend the majority of my time focused on my business, my family and my responsibilities as a leader, mother, wife, grandmother and friend. During a retreat with Annie I am present to myself, my spirit and nature. I can quiet my mind and hear my own inner wisdom. Learning through experiential practices in connection with nature has resulted in deep and lasting change in how I show up in the world. I’ve been on retreat with Annie in Ireland, France, Colorado and Virginia and I am always in awe of her beautiful retreat experiences. These retreats are a priority for my growth and nurturing my soul."Â
– GG Johnston
Why Choose GAZE™️ for Purpose?
Unlock your authentic leadership purpose by transforming personal challenges into your greatest contribution to the collective.
Through GAZE™️, you'll discover how your life experiences have uniquely prepared you to facilitate specific aspects of the Great Transition. By engaging with these experiences in an unordinary state of consciousness, you can access deeper wisdom essential for bridging between paradigms.
The GAZE™️ Journey: From Challenge to Clarity
The most powerful bridgers and catalysts of the Great Transition have one thing in common: they've transformed their personal challenges into profound purpose.
Through the GAZE™️ process, you'll discover how your life experiences contain invaluable wisdom that's precisely needed for these transitional times.
Your personal challenges aren't separate from your calling—they're the raw material for your purpose as a guide between worlds.
In unordinary states of consciousness, what once appeared as limitation reveals itself as preparation. Your experiences become the exact wisdom needed to bridge between paradigms.Â
The Power of Expanded States
GAZE™️ creates an unordinary state of consciousness that bypasses the mind's usual defenses, unlocking transformative healing and clarity. This process sparks 3 life-changing shifts in your journey to purpose:
- Access Subconscious Truths Dive into your core beliefs, desires, and values hidden in the subconscious. Break free from societal expectations and limiting patterns to discover what you truly want, allowing you to fearlessly follow your unique path.
- Receive Purposeful Clarity Experience powerful realizations and inner "callings" that illuminate the next steps in your journey. Gain clarity about the career, cause, or direction that resonates deeply with your purpose.
- Connect with Spiritual Guidance Encounter symbols, archetypes, or universal scenarios that deliver profound messages of purpose. These spiritual insights guide you toward a life aligned with your deepest truth.
Why GAZE™️ Works
GAZE™️ induces an expanded state of consciousness that activates your healing potential. This physiological shift allows you to access deeper wisdom, empowering you to manifest your purpose with clarity and confidence.
Through GAZE, you'll uncover why you're here and what you're meant to do—so you can step boldly into the role of conscious catalyst the world needs now.
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The Great Transition Requires a New Form of Leadership
The shift of linear systems is accelerating. Hierarchical models of leadership are failing in the face of complexity that no single leader can control. As we move from collapse to regeneration, from separation to interconnection, new forms of leadership must emerge.
The Great Transition recognizes a fundamental truth:Â
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.Â
Albert Einstein
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Conscious Bridger Through Unshakable Centering
Learn embodied practices to remain centered at the threshold between paradigms. As systems collapse around you, your grounded presence creates the stable bridge others need to cross into new possibilities.
Picture yourself:
- Holding space for transformation when others retreat into fear
- Translating between old and emerging paradigms with compassionate clarity
- Creating islands of coherence within chaotic transitions
- Embodying both/and thinking when others are trapped in either/or
- Remaining a loving guide amid disorienting change
Courageous Initiator Through Ego Clearing
Release the conditioned patterns of the old paradigm embedded in your leadership style. By clearing ego-based approaches of control, competition and hierarchy, you access the authentic co-creator within and catalyze collective wisdom.
Imagine initiating:
- Decision processes that distribute power rather than concentrate it
- Conversations that invite multiple ways of knowing beyond analytical thinking
- Structures that embody holarchy rather than hierarchy
- Relationships based on partnership rather than dominance
- Cultures where authenticity replaces authority as the source of influence
Hidden Architect Through Calling Clarification
Discover your unique role in architecting the transition from limitation to regeneration. When your leadership emerges from this deeper calling, you naturally create microcosms of the new world.
Envision yourself:
- Recognizing your specific role in the Great Transition
- Designing 'tenemos' or sacred containers where space naturally creates collaboration
- Facilitating cycles of generativity rather than linear processes of depletion
- Weaving networks of interconnection that transcend separateness
- Living your leadership as an expression of love for the whole
"What I found [at the retreat] was a welcoming and receptive space to hold with intention. I felt safe to let down my barriers, shed tears, feel the release and clearing and receive guidance in a way that was there to me."
 –Blakelee M.
The Neuroscience of Bridging Paradigms
Recent research (2019-2025) confirms how neuroscience supports the evolution from extractive to regenerative leadership:
Rewiring Neural Pathways for the Great Transition
- From Separation to Connection: Studies show measurable shifts from default mode network activity (where ego-driven thinking occurs) to increased activation in empathic and integrative brain circuits.
- Whole-Brain Leadership: Bridgers develop enhanced neural connectivity between analytical regions and intuitive processing centers, enabling the integrated intelligence essential for navigating complexity.
- Accelerated Adaptation: Leaders engaging in consciousness-expanding practices develop greater neuroplasticity, making them uniquely equipped to pioneer new possibilities in rapidly changing conditions.
How GAZE™️ Activates Transformative Brain States
- Bypassing Conditioned Responses: Expanded states temporarily suspend the brain's habitual defensive patterns, allowing access to subconscious beliefs that maintain old paradigm thinking.
- Breakthrough Insight Networks: Neurological research shows expanded states activate unique neural pathways that process information differently, facilitating insights unavailable through conventional thinking.
- Deeper Integration: The immersive Bali experience leverages "state-dependent learning"—transformative insights gained in expanded states become more deeply embodied when supported by community and practice.
The Ripple Effect: From Individual to Collective
- Mirror Neuron Activation: Transformed leaders trigger similar states of expanded awareness in others through mirror neuron activation.
- Coherence Fields: Centered leaders create "coherence fields" that synchronize brain activity across groups, enabling collective intelligence to emerge.
- The Neuroscience of Psychological Safety: Leaders who embody partnership principles create the neural conditions for innovation, with measurable increases in creativity and collaboration.
Based on research from Leadership Science Institute, IMD, Forbes Coaches Council, and peer-reviewed studies (2019-2025).
"My experience [at the retreat] was eye opening. I met many wonderful, kind and courageous like minded people. You will have to attend to get the full effect of what will transpire for you. It was enlightening! It was mystical!
–N. M.
Annie L. Browning, MDiv, LCSW, Doctoral Student
Integrating Systems, Science and Consciousness for Soul-Reflecting Change
Annie L. Browning brings a distinctive integration of academic rigor, spiritual depth, and practical wisdom to her work as the creator of GAZE. With over two decades of experience in consciousness exploration and transpersonal approaches to navigating complexity and uncertainty, Annie helps bridge scientific understanding and spiritual insight with clarity and compassion.
Annie's innovative research on Conscious Futuring, time distortion, and intolerance of uncertainty provides the foundation for GAZE's evidence-informed methodology. Her academic background in transpersonal psychology, combined with extensive training in altered states facilitation, enables her to design transformative experiences that honor both empirical research and experiential wisdom.
As a facilitator and speaker, Annie shares approaches that foster both practical resilience and meaningful transformation. Her warm, inclusive facilitation creates containers for genuine exploration, while her commitment to research supports observable outcomes that matter in real-world contexts.
Annie's personal journey through grief and uncertainty following the loss of her son deeply informs her compassionate approach. Having experienced firsthand how expanded awareness practices can transform our relationship with life's most challenging circumstances, she brings authentic understanding to her work, meeting participants with genuine presence.
When not facilitating GAZE sessions, Annie finds renewal through hiking, biking, tending her farm, reading, and connecting with family. She approaches her work with the conviction that by transforming our relationship with time and uncertainty, we can access greater collective intelligence, creativity, and regenerative capacity during this pivotal moment of systems change.
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 The Retreat Venue
Enchanted Garden Resort
Enchanted Garden Resort is a stunning retreat centre designed and built exclusively for the retreats. It is a uniquely traditional retreat center immersed in the rice fields and lush landscape of Bali with a modern interpretation of the traditional Indonesian round house. This intimate venue is specifically designed as a retreat center, focusing on traditional therapies, spa treatments, cuisine, yoga and meditation.Â
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Your Transformational Journey in Sacred Bali
Immerse Yourself in the Heart of Paradigm Shifting
Your 7-day journey to becoming a conscious catalyst includes far more than typical retreat offerings. Every element has been carefully designed to support your evolution as a bridger between worlds.
Sacred Space for Deep Transformation
- Balinese Sanctuary: 7 nights in private/twin air-conditioned accommodations with en-suite baths
- Facilitated Transfers: Airport transfers in air-conditioned vehicles
- Local Cuisine: All breakfasts plus 11 carefully crafted meals throughout your stay
- Ritual Welcome: Traditional Balinese blessing ceremony to mark your threshold crossing
- Creative Toolkit: Custom welcome gift supporting your journey
Consciousness-Expanding Experiences
- [6] Paradigm-Shifting Sessions: 120-minute immersions including:
- Evolutionary leadership training
- GAZE™️ method in expanded states
- Integration circles
- Embodied reflection practices
- Ancient Wisdom at Besakih Temple: Connect with centuries of spiritual tradition at Bali's most sacred site
- Water Purification Ceremony: Experience profound symbolic cleansing of old paradigm patterns
- Fire Dance & Royal Balinese Dinner: Witness the power of ritual and community
- Taksu Spa & Raw Cuisine: Cellular renewal to support neurological transformation
- Virgin Beach Excursion: Connect with the regenerative rhythms of nature
Beyond-the-Retreat Support
- [2] 90-Minute Integration Sessions: Pre-retreat preparation and post-retreat application
- Comprehensive Materials: All tools and resources for your transformation
- Integration Bonuses: Exclusive resources to sustain your evolution as a bridger
Air travel is booked separately at participant discretion
My Transformation Guarantee
I stand behind the transformative power of this journey with confidence. Your evolution is my deepest commitment.
If after fully participating in the retreat experience you don't feel equipped to facilitate aspects of the Great Transition, I'll refund the facilitation portion of your investment (excluding accommodations, food, and travel expenses).
This guarantee reflects my unwavering belief in your capacity to emerge as a bridger between worlds.
“Going forward seems like a retreat”
–Lao Tzu
Tom O.
"I have been on a journey to discover my true self. Annie has been instrumental in helping me get to the core of who I am and how I show up in my life. She is not only a gifted transformational leader but also an incredible intuitive guide. She has helped me to understand that I am so much more than just my reflection in the mirror. Through the methods she teaches and the retreats she offers, I have discovered how to be comfortable with who I am and how I show up in all aspects of my life."
Ann S.
"The retreat with Annie was a wonderful way to reconnect with myself. My experience was not the same as the others, but during the experience I was able to connect with myself, my beliefs, and remember a lot of things I had forgotten from life. I met wonderful people, different points of view, and more specially, visit sites that I would have never even known they existed if it wasn’t for this trip. It gave me a reset in my daily routine, and it fed my soul with Annie’s guidance, kindness, and love. I can’t wait for my next retreat to keep on growing not only personally but most importantly, spiritually."
Marty L.
"The quiet and beauty of the venue was a perfect backdrop for a powerful and magical retreat. Annie masterfully wove the magic and history of the area into the experience. The time and space we had each day to learn and reflect – whether alone or connecting with others – was important. The things I learned, and the insights I gained, are still with me. Annie has a special way and is an exceptional teacher. I look forward to the next retreat and to continuing this work."
The Call of Our Time:
Will You Answer?
Your Essential Role in the Great Transition
In this unprecedented moment of systemic transformation, the world doesn't need more leaders trying to preserve failing structures—it needs conscious bridgers who can facilitate what's trying to emerge.
As broken systems reach their limits and regenerative possibilities beckon, the most crucial role belongs to those who can stand at the threshold between worlds, fluent in both languages, committed to facilitating the birth of something new.
Why This Matters Now
Many feel called to this work but hesitate to step forward. Yet history shows that in times of great transition, it's those who consciously develop their capacity as bridgers who become the architects of what follows.
The greatest risk isn't in answering the call—it's in ignoring it.
Beyond Transformation: What You'll Bring Home
The Bali immersion isn't just a powerful experience—it's the beginning of your journey as a conscious bridger. You'll return with tangible capacities that transform how you show up in your organization and the world:
- Embodied Bridging Practices — Shift from separation to interconnection in real time, even in environments still operating from old paradigms
- Pattern Recognition Clarity — Instantly identify how limitation, hierarchy, and control manifest in systems and relationships, seeing opportunities for transformation where others see only problems
- Your Unique Contribution Map — Clarity about your specific role in facilitating the transition from ego to eco systems based on your particular gifts and experiences
- Practical Transformation Frameworks — Tools and approaches for shifting competition into collaboration, hierarchy into networks, and extraction into regeneration—even in resistant environments
- A Bridger Network — Lifetime connection to fellow leaders who understand the unique challenges of standing between paradigms
- 90-Day Integration Support — Structured guidance as you initiate new patterns within existing systems
- Expanded Consciousness Access — Ability to tap into states that bypass rational limitations and reveal deeper truths whenever needed
- Purpose Clarity Through GAZE™️ — Deep understanding of why you're here and what you're meant to contribute at this pivotal moment
Addressing Your Hesitations
"This sounds powerful, but..."
- "I can't justify the investment right now" — Consider this: What's the cost of remaining stuck between paradigms, feeling called to something greater but unable to embody it? Participants consistently report that this investment creates returns—in impact, wellbeing, and opportunity—that far exceed the financial commitment. Payment plans are available.
- "My context isn't ready for this kind of thinking" — This is precisely why bridgers are so essential. You'll develop the specific capacities to translate between paradigms, creating microcosms of the new within existing structures.Â
- "I'm not sure I have what it takes to be this kind of leader" — The very fact that you resonate with this work suggests you're already sensing your role. The most powerful bridgers often begin with the most doubts about their capacity. What they discover is that this isn't about acquiring new skills—it's about removing the barriers to who you already are.
- "The timing isn't right with everything else happening" — When is transformation ever convenient? The nature of paradigm shifts is that they don't wait for perfect timing. Those who make the most impact are those who respond to the call when it comes, not when all external conditions align.
The Transformation That Awaits
The bridger who returns from Bali sees breakdown as the necessary precursor to breakthrough. Where others perceive only crisis, you'll recognize the pangs of a new paradigm.
You'll move through uncertainty with grace, create islands of coherence amid chaos, and facilitate the emergence of what wants to be born—not through force of will, but through the authentic embodiment of a new way of being.
Through the GAZE™️ process and the immersive container of Bali, you'll access a clarity of purpose and path that allows you to step boldly into your role as a conscious catalyst in humanity's Great Transition.
