BIPOC Pathwork Group

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Affinity Group

Welcome! The Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Pathwork Affinity Group is a gathering place for those of us from diverse cultural backgrounds who feel drawn to Pathwork. Together, we connect in community to reflect on the lectures, share our lived experiences, and support one another on the path.

If you identify as BIPOC and would like to join us, please complete the contact form and we’ll be in touch with next steps

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*FREE – Virtual Gathering Sunday May 4, 2026 | 10a or 3pm – Correction** #195 Identification And Intentionality: Identification With the Spiritual Self to Overcome Negative Intentionality
(no previous experience required ~ click link for lectures).
Register for May gathering

Upcoming topics

  • September 2026 – #237 Leadership—The Art of Transcending Frustration
  • January 2027 – #84 Love, Power, Serenity as Divine Attribute and as Distortions

Voices From Participants – highlighting the depth, diversity, & vulnerability within the group, members have shared powerful reflections about culture, identity, and spirituality, including:

  • Reclaiming cultural identity
  • Integrating ancestral lineage
  • Navigating intergenerational trauma
  • Cultural norms around emotional expression
  • The longing to not be “the only person of color” in a Pathwork setting
Aspirations of the BIPOC Pathwork Affinity Group
  • Explore identity, culture, and spiritual practices from a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color perspective.
  • Create a spiritually grounded space where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color can share culturally relevant spiritual practices.
  • To study and discuss related Pathwork concepts

‘Thank you for holding this Sacred space, encouraging us all and keeping us connected!🙏🏽✨️💛’ Lashannon A.

Related articles:

The Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Pathwork Affinity Group. July 2024 InConnection International Pathwork Foundation. https://mailchi.mp/pathwork/in-connectionjanuary-919877?e=75c0463394

Diversity and Inclusion. August 2023 InConnection International Pathwork Foundation. https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=149b578a83345b140d3028616&id=ea3bb5c043

Being Black and Traveling the Pathwork Psychospiritual Path. Feb 2023 InConnection International Pathwork Foundation. https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?

‘While on the healing journey sometimes it feels like loss when you are moving through the changes to growth.
Sometimes it feels like that because of resistance but other times you feel like you are losing parts of yourself that have always been there all along and although you observe clearly that they are not serving you anymore you may not welcome the change that present moment.’
Let life flow through you
~Eunice I.

From Pathwork Lecture #204 What Is The Path?*
Pathwork Is Not

• Pathwork is not psychotherapy: While it works with emotions, defenses, and distortions, this is only the first phase. The deeper purpose is awakening the spiritual consciousness within.
• Pathwork is not spiritual bypass: It does not aim for blissful states while avoiding negativity. Any path that tries to “jump over” the lower self creates illusion and instability.

Pathwork Is

A two-phase journey

  1. Facing and transforming negativity—misconceptions, destructive attitudes, fear, pain, and defenses.
  2. Activating the spiritual self—the deeper consciousness already present within.

Basic Concepts:
• The Role of Longing: When genuine it drives self-responsibility; when false if it demands rescue from outside.
• Examining Dualistic Confusion: Moves past either/or thinking to a more integrated truth.
• The Necessity of Feeling: • Pain, fear, and negative emotions must be felt directly, not avoided or acted out. • Feeling them releases energy, dissolves knots, and opens access to pleasure and spiritual flow.
• Responsibility and Creation: • Thoughts, feelings, and attitudes are creative forces shaping life circumstances. • Avoiding inner negativity keeps it active & destructive. • Bringing awareness and positive intentionality transforms distorted energy back into its original essence.

*Pathwork lectures can be found here https://pathwork.org/lecture-categories/pathwork-lectures-1996-ed/