In this transformative online workshop, students engage in the essential inner work needed to stay balanced while serving and caring for others. The course provides practical tools for reducing burnout, setting healthy boundaries, and maintaining stability and purpose on the path of service. Participants learn to identify and meet their own needs so they can show up for others with greater clarity, authenticity, and joy.
Through guided teachings and self-reflection, students explore what drives their desire to serve and how to navigate situations that can drain rather than sustain them. The workshop offers insight into the deeper motivations behind caregiving, helping participants recognize patterns that lead to “compassion fatigue” and transform them into sources of empowerment and renewal.
This class is especially beneficial for those in caregiving roles—parents, teachers, healers, nurses, doctors, and counselors—as well as anyone who gives deeply of themselves in service to others. Counseling professionals will also find the material valuable for supporting clients who work in caregiving or service-oriented fields.
What you’ll experience:
• Guidance in developing the inner balance needed to serve others effectively and sustainably
• Tools to recognize and meet your own needs while maintaining your intention to help others
• Practices for reducing burnout and cultivating emotional stability in caregiving and service roles
• Insight into the deeper motivations that drive your desire to serve and how to align them with authenticity and purpose
• Techniques for identifying and transforming draining or unhealthy service dynamics
• Strategies for setting healthy boundaries and preventing compassion fatigue
• A renewed sense of clarity, empowerment, and joy in your path of service
This course consists of:
• 8 recorded video lectures (approx. 4.5 hours total)
• 3 2.5 hour live stream class meetings with Q&A
• Peer sharing and reflection exercises
• Recommended reading and handout materials
What People Are Saying:
“I have been a hospice care nurse for nearly fifteen years. This class saved me from burn out that had been building and helped me release feelings of self-doubt and find my balance with the important work of being in service to others. I’m eternally grateful for Isa and what she offers in this workshop.” – Luis S.
“The Path of Service class is a path to consciousness that deftly revealed to me unknown motivations and intentions that I’d employed in my spiritual life, relationships, and professional life… I have fresh eyes to ensure that the decisions I’m making today are from a place of authenticity, truth, and awakened consciousness. This class has profoundly changed me as a person, and I’m sincerely grateful.” – Karen D.
“Each class at Sacred Stream can be life-changing, and this one was no exception. I understand more deeply what it means to hold power and use it in the service of others.” – Sara G.
The Sacred Stream has provided high quality education for over twenty years. Each course we offer provides easy to use portal pages, support staff, and support materials. Classes are offered with both online and in person options that are expertly managed to offer the best experience possible for students.
Instructor:
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. is a renowned teacher and practitioner whose work bridges ancient wisdom traditions and modern therapeutic practices. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis™, a groundbreaking model that combines elements of shamanism, Buddhism, energy medicine, hypnosis, and transpersonal psychology. Widely respected by clinicians and spiritual counselors alike, Depth Hypnosis offers a powerful path to healing and self-discovery and has helped thousands of people live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Holding advanced degrees in cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology, Isa has spent over thirty years studying and practicing spiritual, meditative, and healing traditions from around the world. A pioneer in bringing shamanic and Buddhist principles into clinical contexts, she also developed Coming to Peace™, an innovative conflict resolution process inspired in part by indigenous peacemaking practices from Hawaii, Africa, and North America.
Dr. Gucciardi is also the creator of Sacred Stream’s Empowered Living program, designed to help individuals develop greater self-awareness, build inner resilience, and create lasting personal transformation through practical, experiential tools.
An accomplished author of three books, Isa speaks six languages and teaches and lectures nationally and internationally.
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
