Tools for Finding Peace in an Anxious World

A live class with Martha Beck, PhD

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What would your life feel like without anxiety?

There are more anxious people walking the earth right now than ever before. Anxiety has skyrocketed since the beginning of this century… and it’s still rising so fast The New York Times labeled it “the inner pandemic.”

You might feel some anxiety yourself—maybe you’ve gotten so used to it that it’s your normal state.

Imagine this . . .

  • Without anxiety, you’d be breathing easier right now.
  • Without anxiety, you could easily focus on what needs doing.
  • Without anxiety, you’d be a source of stability and security for others.
  • Without anxiety, you wouldn’t waste time and energy stressing about things you can’t control.
  • Without anxiety, you’d feel at home in your skin—and in your life.

Of the many writers and guides I’ve learned from over the years, Martha Beck is, for me, the teacher who best distills and conveys the essential lessons of life. She is brilliant but accessible, energetic and optimistic, practical yet seemingly enlightened (humbly so). And delightfully funny!” Evelyn A.

 

So how do we get there? Can we actually free ourselves from anxiety?

Martha Beck, PhD has spent years studying this question and she says we can—if we approach the problem from the correct angle.

We think we’ll solve anxiety by removing it. But that’s not how the human brain works. Anxiety can’t simply be subtracted, it must be replaced—and in this six-week course, Martha will teach you how.

Here’s the spoiler alert:
The opposite of anxiety isn’t just blank serenity.
The opposite of anxiety is creativity.

Overcoming anxiety requires two steps:
First, we learn to quiet our fears. Then we learn to use our brains in a new way, replacing our fearful thought patterns with what Martha calls a “Creativity Spiral.”

This not only greatly reduces anxiety but leads directly to:

  • Better health
  • Happier relationships
  • Easier, more effective problem solving
  • A bigger, more delicious life

In designing The Art of Calm, Martha Beck has combined psychology, sociology, and neuroscience with her signature blend of open-minded spirituality and laugh-out-loud humor to create an intensive workshop so accessible and fun it feels like magic.

Now she’s ready to teach YOU how to master the process she calls The Art of Calm.

In this brand-new six-week course, Martha will help you not only free yourself from anxiety but actually transform your worry into the creation of a wildly fulfilling life.

Join Martha for this unique opportunity!

Martha is such an insightful, inspirational human who helps create the magic of fresh thought through her stories and colorful descriptions that help us step out of the way we have always thought about things into new possibilities. A true gift of possibility in a time of confusion, conflict, and fear! I love Martha!” Jill B.

The Art of Calm Details

Learn to replace your anxiety with creative inspiration so you can steer your life in the direction you’ve always wanted it to go.

  • 6 weeks of calls with Martha on Mondays: July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31, Aug 7, Aug 14
  • All 90-minute calls begin at 1 pm ET via Zoom
  • Downloadable transcripts and audios available weekly
  • Weekly exercises
  • Interactive community
  • Price: $347 with an option to pay in 2 installments

register now

REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 28
WORKSHOP BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 10
ALL CLASSES ON MONDAYS AT 1 PM ET

PRICE $347
TWO-PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE

A Message from Martha

If you’re like most people, you may be feeling a little anxious right now. Maybe a lot anxious. There is so much to fear in the world these days: health crises, political insanity, climate change, financial upheaval. It’s a genuinely scary time.

That’s why anxiety is the most common mental health problem in the world—and rising fast.

You can always get pills and therapy to help ease your anxiety—I’m glad we have those options. But what if you could feel less anxious and more joyful by learning skills that are easy to master and always available?

This isn’t just possible, it’s how you were meant to function. You can learn skills that replace anxiety with creativity. I’ve been researching, teaching, and testing these skills for years. They work. I hope you’ll come learn them for yourself!

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REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 28
WORKSHOP BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 10
ALL CLASSES ON MONDAYS AT 1 PM ET

PRICE $347
TWO-PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE

Imagine…

  • How would it feel to wake up with zero anxiety?
  • If you had no anxiety, what would you dare to dream?
  • How would you spend your time if anxiety weren’t a factor?
  • Without anxiety, how would you function in relationships?
  • If you had no anxiety, what would you do for work?

Join Martha for The Art of Calm and your wildest imaginings can become your reality!

Martha Beck is quite literally a genius! Her warm, compassionate, yet direct and down-to-earth style made for an educational, transformational, and life-altering experience.” Mandi N.

What is The Art of Calm?

This all-new live course from Martha Beck offers a step-by-step process for bringing down your anxiety, then gradually replacing it with peace, joy, and above all, creativity.

In The Art of Calm, you’ll learn how to:

  • Understand and stop the mental spin of anxiety.
  • Calm others as well as yourself, forming a circle of peace with you at the center.
  • Use curiosity as a means of transforming fear into inspiration.

After The Art of Calm, you’ll:

  • Be free from the pointless worries that plague you every day.
  • Feel infused with creative ideas.
  • Harness the energy you’ve been wasting on anxiety and use it on the great creative project that is YOUR LIFE!

With concrete practices and techniques you’ll use long after the course has finished, The Art of Calm will teach you to invent a life that’s more original, more abundant, and more YOU than anything you’ve been able to imagine before.

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REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 28
WORKSHOP BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 10
ALL CLASSES ON MONDAYS AT 1 PM ET

PRICE $347
TWO-PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE

Martha is very knowledgeable in her field and provides information in a way that is relatable and loving. You can really tell she cares and teaches with an open heart which in return opens the hearts of those learning.” Elizabeth B.

Why should I sign up for The Art of Calm?




 

The process Martha teaches truly is magic in the most real-world and practical ways imaginable.” Tiffany N.

Are You Ready?

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REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 28
WORKSHOP BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 10
ALL CLASSES ON MONDAYS AT 1 PM ET

PRICE $347
TWO-PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE

There’s a glitch in your brain that can keep anxiety spinning upward without ever coming down. Martha calls it the “anxiety spiral.” It happens when one part of your brain gets nervous and another part begins thinking about danger. The thoughts feed back into the sense of fear, raising the level of anxiety, which feeds back into the fear again.

Welcome to hell.

Fortunately, there’s an alternative to the anxiety spiral. Using her understanding of the very latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Martha Beck has created a method for calming the anxious brain. She calls itthe creativity spiral.

In The Art of Calm, Martha will teach you this original method. With a little training, you can shift all that anxiety into your creative nature. Instead of fearing problems, you’ll be solving them—and loving the process.

This six-week online course gives you:

  • live classes with Martha
  • a vibrant and active community
  • dynamic exercises to teach your brain to move away from anxiety and into creativity

Living in today’s world has trained you to be anxious. The Art of Calm will train you to be creative, curious, uplifted, and CALM.

Martha and her Team has created a personal journey and not a course. Many Wow / Awestruck moments.” Jolette W.

The Art of Calm Community

When you sign up for The Art of Calm, you’ll be instantly welcomed into our vibrant community of like-minded, warm-hearted people.

Through our dedicated, user-friendly online space you can connect with your fellow attendees, discuss the classes in-depth, and practice using Martha’s tools and techniques with each other.

In this course, you are not an individual working alone—you will have the support and camaraderie of an entire collective.

Our brilliant and friendly team will pop in from time to time, too, to offer their expert guidance, answer questions, and keep the conversations bubbling along!

People often tell us that the sense of connection they feel in this community and the friendships they make are among the biggest benefits they receive from Martha’s programs. The Art of Calm will be no exception.

About Martha Beck

Martha Beck is a renowned teacher, speaker, and “the best-known life coach in America.” She received her PhD in sociology from Harvard University and has spent decades studying change at the individual and societal levels.

Martha is the author of several New York Times bestselling books as well as countless magazine articles, all focused on helping people find their purpose and create their ideal lives.

Oprah Winfrey has called her “the smartest woman I know.”

Her most recent book is The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.

Martha Beck has a rare ability to see the world with wisdom and heart. She is a teacher in the truest sense of the word.”
—Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger
and The Dance of Connection

What will I get?

Understand and Calm Your Anxious Self
Knowing how your brain creates anxiety is the first step to being anxiety-free.
Become a Source of Peace for Yourself and Others
As you become calmer, all your relationships will become more relaxed and positive.
Liberate Your Problem-Solving Mind
Once you’ve learned to step away from anxiety, your creative mind will come online.
Get Inspired by Situations You Once Called “Problems”
Your natural creativity loves a puzzle, so you’ll begin to enjoy creative problem-solving.
Connect With Others in Delightful New Ways
Your new focus on creativity will help you connect and “play” with people you enjoy.
Find Stability and Peace in Any Situation
Your new skills will help you stay calm and creative no matter what happens.

Martha’s generosity and clever use of imagination deliver a way of finding answers to whatever is bugging you. It feels like she is sharing a cuppa tea whilst looking right through to your deepest emotions.” J.Watson

The Art of Calm Details

Learn to replace your anxiety with creative inspiration so you can steer your life in the direction you’ve always wanted it to go.

  • 6 weeks of calls with Martha on Mondays: July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31, Aug 7, Aug 14
  • All 90-minute calls begin at 1 pm ET via Zoom
  • Downloadable transcripts and audios available weekly
  • Weekly exercises
  • Interactive community
  • Price: $347 with an option to pay in 2 installments

register now

REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 28
WORKSHOP BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 10
ALL CLASSES ON MONDAYS AT 1 PM ET

PRICE $347
TWO-PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE

FAQs

Classes will be held on the following dates* and times. All calls will be 90 minutes long and take place at 1 pm ET on Mondays. All calls will be held via Zoom and will be recorded.

July 10
July 17
July 24
July 31
Aug 7
Aug 14

Remember: If you can’t make it live, you’ll be able to access the recording on your choice of video or audio-only within 48 hours. Closed captions and transcripts will be provided.

*While we fully intend to keep these times, call dates are subject to change based on Martha’s availability and the changing circumstances.

There will be a Q&A call with Martha on June 21, 2023 at 3 pm ET

Zoom Details
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82558808144

Meeting ID: 825 5880 8144
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcfAyB8BxC

All calls will be recorded and will be available on your online learning site within 48 hours.

All course materials are available online. And for the first time this year, the class materials AND our course community forum will be available in ONE unified location—within the Martha Beck Community powered by Mighty Networks.

You’ll love the ease of navigating around The Art of Calm’s dedicated, inclusive online home and connecting with your classmates in the community space—on your phone or computer!

This space is wholly separate from Facebook, and we think you’ll be thrilled with the creative freedom and privacy it offers.

You’ll be able to access the community and download the call recordings and transcripts for three months after the completion of the course.

All The Art of Calm Course participants may request a refund until Thursday, July 13, 2023. To request a refund, email [email protected]. We will refund whatever you have paid, less a $75 USD service fee. The service fee will not be applied to any future training or events. We will not offer refunds after the refund window closes.

While Martha loves to offer a live course every summer, one of her guiding values is Perpetual Creative Response, which means that her mind and her work are continuously evolving. Her summer courses are based on her latest research and tools, so each course is unique. If The Art of Calm course is offered again, it will be a different version.

The Art of Calm is a course designed to work specifically with your anxiety and creativity. It is Martha’s current passion project and the product of all her most recent research.

Anyone who is currently enrolled in Wayfinder Life Coach Training (or who has taken it in the past) will benefit enormously from The Art of Calm, both for your own personal growth and for the ways that you bring your coaching tools to the world.

We accommodate a variety of learning styles and capabilities to make our program more accessible.

Some of the accommodations we currently offer are closed captioning on all videos, an accessibility plug-in installed on marthabeck. com, transcripts, and video and audio recordings of live calls. In addition, our community app works well with VoiceOver and Test-to-Speech (TTS).

Our goal is to create a learning environment that meets the needs of each individual student and to maximize access to their personal success.

Please contact [email protected] before enrolling to determine if your needs can be met.

Anxious? You’re not alone.

Anxiety has skyrocketed through these first decades of the 21st century. Today it’s the most common mental health problem in the world.

Over 40 million adults in the United States (almost one person in five) have an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety can contribute to physical illness, destroy relationships, cause failure at work or school, and lead to addiction.

In one study, nearly half (47%) of people surveyed said they experienced regular bouts of the soul-draining, health-destroying, life-ruining condition.

Anxiety may be a part of the world we live in, but it’s a cycle you can break. I know this for a fact.

Because the creative part of your brain is not prone to fear, as you learn to enter a creative mindset, you’re able to feel happier, stronger, and more at peace in your life.

And when you master The Art of Calm, you’ll soon find yourself creating a whole new world.

Let’s do that together.

In just 6 weeks, I transformed not just my thinking but my practices in order to navigate my days differently in order to build the life I want. I also expanded my tribe and connected with other Wayfinders who aren’t just helping me on my journey- they’re changing the world!” Nicole L.

Are You Ready?

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REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 28
WORKSHOP BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 10
ALL CLASSES ON MONDAYS AT 1 PM ET

PRICE $347
TWO-PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE

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