Find Peace by Forgiving Everything — Starting With Yourself
Through the ancient Hawaiian practice of Ho'oponopono, you'll learn to release resentment, dissolve guilt, and heal your most painful relationships — not by changing others, but by doing the quiet, powerful work within.
"Peace isn't something you find outside yourself — it's something you clear the path to, one moment of honest forgiveness at a time."— Audra N. Gillis, LCSW-C, LICSW, CBT, CHT
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Practice the four core Ho'oponopono phrases as a daily ritual to dissolve emotional blocks and cultivate lasting inner calm.
- Identify and release long-held resentments, guilt, and grief through structured forgiveness sequences.
- Apply Ho'oponopono to repair and deepen strained relationships — with family, partners, colleagues, or friends.
- Develop a personal forgiveness meditation routine grounded in Hawaiian cultural wisdom and modern mindfulness science.
- Use the 'cleaning' process to clear subconscious limiting beliefs that sabotage self-worth and forward momentum.
- Integrate Ho'oponopono principles into daily life decisions, conflicts, and self-talk for sustained emotional resilience.
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The curriculum
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6 modules · 19 lessons
The Roots of Ho'oponopono — History, Culture & Core Philosophy
Students ground themselves in the authentic Hawaiian origins of Ho'oponopono before touching the practice itself. Understanding where the ritual came from — and why it worked — gives every later technique cultural integrity and personal depth. This module is the essential prerequisite that prevents the practice from becoming a superficial mantra.
- 1.1Ancient Hawaii and the Birth of Ho'oponoponoIncluded
- 1.2From Communal Ritual to Inner Work — Ihaleakalā Hew Len and the Modern MethodIncluded
- 1.3The Worldview Beneath the Words — Memory, Data & the Subconscious MindIncluded
The Four Phrases — Learning, Feeling & Embodying the Core Practice
With cultural and philosophical roots firmly established, students now meet the living heart of the course: the four phrases. This module moves deliberately from intellectual understanding to felt experience to repeatable ritual, ensuring the practice is embodied rather than merely memorized. Sequencing here is critical — meaning before sound, feeling before routine, single session before habit.
- 2.1Meeting the Four Phrases — Meaning, Sequence & IntentionIncluded
- 2.2Your First Ho'oponopono Session — A Guided Full PracticeIncluded
- 2.3Building the Daily Ritual — Consistency, Environment & Personal AnchorsIncluded
Releasing Resentment, Guilt & Grief — The Forgiveness Sequences
With the core practice established and a daily ritual beginning, students now direct the four phrases toward specific, often long-held emotional wounds. This module is structured in deliberate sequence — forgiving others before self, then addressing loss — because resentment toward others is typically the most accessible entry point, while self-forgiveness requires the confidence built from earlier cleaning. Grief is placed last as the most complex and non-linear process.
- 3.1Forgiving Others — Releasing Resentment Without CondoningIncluded
- 3.2Forgiving Yourself — Dissolving Guilt and ShameIncluded
- 3.3Grieving and Releasing — Ho'oponopono for LossIncluded
Healing Relationships — Applying Ho'oponopono to Family, Partners & Colleagues
Students now extend their cleaned inner landscape outward into the most demanding arena: their living relationships. The inside-out model established in Module 1 is applied with practical specificity across three relationship domains — ancestral/family, romantic/intimate, and professional. A critical prerequisite check ensures students have done sufficient personal cleaning before attempting relational cleaning, preventing the bypass of individual emotional work.
- 4.1The Inside-Out Relationship Model — Healing Without the Other Person's AgreementIncluded
- 4.2Family Wounds and Ancestral Patterns — Cleaning Across GenerationsIncluded
- 4.3Romantic and Workplace Relationships — Practical Conflict CleaningIncluded
Cleaning the Subconscious — Dissolving Limiting Beliefs & Reclaiming Self-Worth
With emotional wounds and relational patterns substantially addressed, students now go deeper: to the subconscious programs — limiting beliefs about self-worth, capability, deservingness, and identity — that silently govern behavior and self-talk. This module introduces advanced cleaning tools beyond the four phrases, connecting Ho'oponopono's 'cleaning' concept to modern cognitive and somatic psychology. Self-worth reclamation is sequenced last within the module because it is the cumulative fruit of all the cleaning that has come before.
- 5.1Identifying Your Limiting Programs — The Beliefs Running in the BackgroundIncluded
- 5.2Advanced Cleaning Tools — Beyond the Four PhrasesIncluded
- 5.3Self-Worth and Forgiveness — Reclaiming Your Innate 'I Am'Included
Living Ho'oponopono — Integration, Resilience & a Lifelong Practice
The final module weaves everything learned into the fabric of daily life. Students move from scheduled practice sessions to spontaneous real-time cleaning, from processed past wounds to present-moment decision-making, and from a course-length routine to a personally designed lifelong meditation practice. The module closes with a formal integration ceremony — echoing the pani (closing prayer) of the original Hawaiian ritual — honoring both the journey completed and the one ahead.
- 6.1Real-Time Cleaning — Using Ho'oponopono in the Heat of the MomentIncluded
- 6.2Ho'oponopono and Decision-Making — Cleaning Before You ChooseIncluded
- 6.3Your Personal Forgiveness Meditation Routine — Designing for LifeIncluded
- 6.4Integration Ceremony and the Ho'oponopono Way ForwardIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Grief Carrier
You've experienced a loss — a person, a relationship, a version of yourself — and you're ready to find a gentle, structured way to grieve and release, not just endure.
The Estranged Family Member
There are fractures in your family that feel too old or too deep to fix, and you need a path to inner peace that doesn't depend on anyone else making the first move.
The Recovering Perfectionist
You've spent years holding yourself to impossible standards and are ready to dissolve the guilt and shame quietly eroding your self-worth.
The Mindfulness Seeker
You already meditate or explore holistic wellness, and you're drawn to a practice with genuine cultural roots and a deeper emotional-healing dimension.
The Burned-Out Caregiver
You give so much to others that resentment has quietly built up, and you're looking for a daily ritual that restores your own inner calm and compassion.
The Workplace Peacemaker
Conflict with colleagues or leadership is draining you, and you want tools to clean those tensions internally — without waiting for anyone else to change.
Questions
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Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Audra N. Gillis, LCSW-C, LICSW, CBT, CHT
If you're here, I imagine something has been weighing on you for a while. Maybe it's a relationship that never quite healed — words said or unsaid, distance that grew where closeness used to live. Maybe it's something you carry toward yourself: a quiet, persistent sense that you should have done better, been better. Or maybe it's grief, shapeless and stubborn, that no amount of time has fully eased.
I know that weight. And I also know how frustrating it is to want to forgive — to understand intellectually that letting go would free you — and still feel completely stuck. That gap between knowing and feeling is exactly what Ho'oponopono was made to bridge.
I came to this practice not as a scholar first, but as someone seeking. What I found was something older and more patient than any modern self-help framework: a tradition rooted in the Hawaiian understanding that peace is our natural state, and that the emotional turbulence we carry is not who we are — it is data we have the power to clear. That insight changed how I see everything: my relationships, my own inner voice, even how I make decisions. I built this school because I wanted to share that shift — carefully, honestly, and with full respect for the culture it comes from.
This curriculum doesn't ask you to be spiritual in any particular way, or to bypass your pain with positive thinking. It walks you, step by step, through the real history and philosophy of Ho'oponopono, through the practice of the four phrases until they live in your body and not just your mind, through forgiveness sequences for releasing resentment toward others and — perhaps harder — toward yourself. It takes you into the subconscious patterns that keep you looping through the same emotional struggles, and it gives you real tools to clean them. And then it helps you put it all together into a practice you can actually sustain for life.
You don't have to have it all figured out to begin. You just have to be willing to look inward with a little more gentleness. I'll be right here to guide you the whole way. Come as you are — the practice meets you exactly where you are.
— Audra N. Gillis, LCSW-C, LICSW, CBT, CHT
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