Continue your Emotional Mastery journey, live with Filipe and the group that transformed with you.
Emotional mastery was never the destination. It was the runway.
You finished the foundations. The Circle is where this work becomes a way of living: an ongoing membership built around The Journey, a six-month program through the emotions themselves, one month at a time.
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A message for you, before you decide.
Join with only a $50 deposit (refundable) · Doors close Thursday, July 23
Five modules ago, you were at war with parts of yourself.
Since then, you befriended your emotions. You reconnected with the safety that was always yours. You learned to feel the hard ones without drowning. You released what was frozen in the exact place you'd been stuck for years. You rewired reactions that used to run you on autopilot. And you began pointing all that freed energy at a life with direction.
That's real transformation.
And if you're like most graduates, you've also noticed something curious: the clearer your inner world gets, the more territory you can see. The work didn't end, it opened.
Which raises the question I've been asked more than any other these past weeks:
"What now? Is there a way to keep going, together?"
Yes. I built it.
What usually happens after a program like this ends
Here's what usually happens after a program like this ends… And I say it with care, because it doesn't happen because you're weak, but because the container ends.
For some, life speeds up again. The practices thin out. Six months later the foundations are still there, but the momentum is gone, and the old patterns begin to return.
For others, the work continues, but without direction. More processing, more preparing, never quite moving. You know this one from the course: emotional mastery without direction stagnates.
You didn't come this far to slide back, and you didn't come this far to circle. What the work needs now is a home with a rhythm, a community that keeps the room open, and a path that keeps going forward.
The home of Emotional Mastery, after the foundations.
The Circle is a membership with three layers. Each one does a different job, and together they carry the work forward for years, at whatever depth you choose.
The Journey
A six-month flagship program through the emotions themselves, one per month, live, in sequence, as one group. It departs every January. Full details below, because it deserves its own section.
Live masterclasses and the growing library
The Circle runs live advanced masterclasses and workshops where the work meets your real life. Every session is recorded and joins a library that compounds year after year. And founding members vote on which topics run first.
The ongoing home
A live Q&A with me every month. The community, always on. Community Practice Dojos for live group practice. The room you built during the foundations stays open, permanently.
Plus…
Every future EMA cohort. Every upgrade.
Included free, for as long as you're a member.
Next planned cohort: October, with enormous upgrades.
You're in, at no extra cost.
The upgraded EMA adds a brand-new sixth module, "Living Your Purpose." Every module now has a full experiential lesson, its own complete manual and workbook, and community built right into the solo work.
In the foundations, you learned the full toolkit. The Journey is where you turn it on your real emotions, one at a time.
The end of the foundations was the start of the work. You have the complete toolkit now. The Journey is where you go out and apply all of it, to your actual emotions, in your actual life, one emotion at a time, in an order I designed so each month builds on the one before.
Each month is a full deep-dive into one emotion: what it's for, how it protects you, where it froze, and what it becomes when it flows again. Live sessions, guided practices, solo work, and the group moving through it together.
Filipe walks you through all six emotions, one at a time.
A short tour of the road ahead: what each emotion is for, and what it becomes when it flows again.
Anger
The fire that protects what you care about.
Underneath it is something you value and a line that was crossed. You learn to hear what it defends, and aim its energy at building rather than burning.
Fear
The guardian mistaken for weakness.
It points to a danger, and more often to a feeling you haven't felt safe to feel. Courage is feeling it and moving anyway.
Disgust & Contempt
The emotions of discernment.
They separate what's toxic from who is still human, including the parts of yourself you were taught to reject.
Shame & Guilt
The core, where the deepest healing lives.
Guilt says "I did wrong." Shame says "I am wrong." Learning to love the shame is what makes you safe to be yourself.
Sadness
The most misunderstood emotion, and the one that heals.
It points to a loss and, when you let it move, does the healing itself. Then the sun comes out.
Joy
What all the other work was making room for.
You allow it first, and it builds the life you love, rather than waiting for the life to arrive before you let yourself feel good.
Each month goes one level deeper than the last.
The sequence is deliberate, the way the foundations built pillar on pillar.
- Anger sits on the surface
- Fear behind anger, almost always
- Disgust & Contempt the emotions of rejection, of others and of yourself
- Shame & Guilt the root of why emotions became unsafe in the first place
- Sadness heals what was lost there
- Joy available once all of it has been welcomed
That is why the road ends, in June, at Joy.
Because it's a true arc, The Journey departs once a year, in January, as one group. Everyone starts the road at the same place, and the group travels it together.
Year two, same map, different traveler.
You already know this from the foundations: the second time you did an exercise, it went somewhere new, because you were different. The Journey runs every year, upgraded each time, and members travel it as many times as they wish.
As a standalone program, The Journey would be a $1,997 course, and it would be worth it. It isn't sold standalone. It lives inside The Circle, included with your membership at no extra cost, because this work is best done inside an ongoing community with real support around it.
Your road to January
Join now and here is your next few months: a gentle season to integrate, not more work to sprint through. You just crossed a finish line, and this respects that.
Rebound: How to Turn Around Your Worst Emotional Moments
Trauma doesn't happen in the triggering event. It happens afterward, in the post-episode, which is the rest of your life. The post-episode is the difference between post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth. We work it live, on real moments, with hot-seat coaching.
Community and monthly Q&As, plus the new EMA
A season to let the foundations settle. The community stays open, and we meet each month in a live Q&A. Plus, join the new EMA cohort with the upgraded version, for free.
Journey Preparation
Your on-ramp into January: refresh your Resourcing and inner safety before Anger, set your intention for the six months, and name the emotion you've most avoided, which becomes your thread through the whole Journey.
The Journey departs
Your founding member billing begins, at your locked founding rate. You're on the first one.
Shape what's coming: founding members also cast their votes now, ranking the masterclasses they want most. Those run as live masterclasses later, once the membership is in full swing.
What the membership includes
- The Journey, live, every year (a $1,997 program, included)
- Live monthly masterclasses, chosen with member input
- The full library: every masterclass, workshop, and Journey recording, growing every month
- Q&A with me, every month
- The community, always on, plus Community Practice Dojos
- Every future EMA cohort and upgrade, free while you're a member (next cohort: October)
- The Founding Semester: Rebound live, community and monthly Q&As, upgraded EMA, Journey Preparation
- Two live group coaching calls with me, every month: my eyes on your specific situation, all year
- All coaching call recordings
- A bonus private 1:1 session with Dr. Filipe Rocha (founding member bonus)
In their words
Taking this course was one of the best things I've ever done. I went from being completely out of touch with my feelings, to being able to listen to my emotions and appreciate their value.
Where I used to distract myself from sadness and other emotions, I have now learned methods to sit with my emotions and process them. I now feel anxious less often, instead feeling calm, peaceful and ready to deal with whatever comes my way.
I learned how to handle emotions for the first time in my life, started to heal my own emotional wounds, completely changed my professional trajectory, had the most beautiful and joyful epiphany about how lucky I am to be who I am and have the life I have had, was called an avatar of the divine, and realized that my professional goals might be more of a calling than a job.
I can't quite believe how much I've grown in just these few weeks here. My Window of Tolerance is now the widest it has ever been! I'm so grateful to Filipe and to you all. I'll definitely be staying in this amazing community.
What utter joy!!!
After the premium coaching last night I think I have finally got to root of a problem that I have not only been grappling with for 60 odd years, but I feel it goes back to trauma I had in other lifetimes too. I cannot thank you, Filipe, enough for triggering this huge breakthrough in me. I am in tears of joy right now!
How it works (this week only)
Join today with only a $50 refundable deposit. That locks your founding rate and your place in the first Journey, and gives you access to the full Founding Semester until December. Your billing only begins in January, when the Journey departs, at your founding rate. Cancel any time before January and your deposit is refunded in full.
Yes, you read it right: you get to join The Circle all the way through December with just a $50 refundable deposit. A small gift for joining me at EMA.
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Workshops, community, Q&As, + the upgraded EMA
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January: The Journey departs
And billing starts, or cancel and pay nothing
A note on The Circle Premium: coaching calls are immediately available, so if you choose Premium you pay just the $50 deposit for the first month, then billing begins at your founding rate. You get the two monthly group coaching calls with me right away, and a bonus private 1:1 session as a founding member welcome.
The standard rates
When doors open publicly, membership costs:
| Monthly | Annual | |
|---|---|---|
| The Circle | $95/month | $997/year |
| The Circle Premium | $297/month | $2,997/year |
These are the real rates the public will pay.
The founding rates (this page only, through July 23)
You were the first cohort of the foundations. You shaped this program by walking it. The founding rates are my thank-you, and they are locked for as long as your membership stays active: your price never goes up. Ever.
Half the standard rate, forever.
Comes to $65/month. A third off the standard rate, forever.
- The Journey, live, every year ($1,997 value)
- Live monthly masterclasses, chosen with member input
- The full library, growing every month
- Live Q&A with me, every month
- The community, always on, plus Practice Dojos
- Every future EMA cohort and upgrade, free
- The full Founding Semester, starting with Rebound
$50 refundable deposit today
Save $1,000 every single year, forever.
$100/month below standard, forever.
Everything in The Circle, plus:
- Two live group coaching calls with me, every month: my eyes on your specific situation, all year
- All coaching call recordings
- A bonus private 1:1 session with me (founding member welcome)
First month free, plus the $50 deposit
Prefer monthly for The Circle? Monthly membership exists at the standard $97/month, for anyone, now and always. The founding discount requires the longer commitments.
Join monthly at $97Everything you might be wondering
"I just finished the foundations. I need a breather."
Good, and you should take one. The Founding Semester is a gentle rhythm on purpose: one live workshop a month, plus a Q&A, everything recorded. The Journey itself only departs in January. Joining this week is about securing the founding rate and shaping the semester, rather than sprinting into more work. The fall is deliberately light, and your membership doesn't begin until January.
What if I can't attend live?
Everything is recorded and lands in your library, usually within a day. Live is better, especially for hot-seat work and Dojos, and life is life. You'll never lose a session.
How much time does this take?
The baseline rhythm is one live masterclass or workshop (roughly 90–120 minutes) plus one Q&A per month, with optional Dojos and community in between. During The Journey, expect a deeper monthly rhythm, closer to the foundations' pace. You choose your depth month by month.
Can I join later?
Yes: doors open again in December, at the standard rates ($95/month or $997/year; Premium $297/month or $2,997/year). The founding rates exist this week only, for this cohort only. And since The Journey departs each January, joining in December means starting the road at the same place, at the higher price, without the semester you helped shape.
What exactly is "founding rate locked for life"?
Your price never increases while your membership remains active, on any plan you choose this week. If you cancel and rejoin later, you rejoin at the then-current standard rates.
Why only a deposit now for The Circle?
Because I want you to try The Circle and feel at home before making any decision. Besides, the heart of the membership, the Journey and the live masterclasses, begins in January. The fall is a lighter warm-up, so it wouldn't be right to charge full price for it. The deposit reserves your founding rate and your place, and real billing starts in January 2027. Premium is different: its coaching calls run all fall, so Premium members get value from day one and pay the normal way, with the first month free.
What's the refund policy, and when does billing start?
The Circle: your $50 deposit is fully refundable any time before January. Reserve now, enjoy the Founding Semester, and if it isn't for you, cancel before January and pay nothing. Once your membership begins in January, you can cancel anytime and your access runs through the period you've paid for. The Circle Premium: your first month is free (plus the deposit), so you can join, use the coaching calls, and decide; cancel within the first month and you pay nothing.
Is this therapy?
No. The Circle is education, practice, and community for emotional mastery. It complements professional mental-health care rather than replacing it, and it isn't a substitute for treatment when treatment is what's needed.
I'm in, and finances are genuinely hard right now.
Reply to any of my emails and tell me. We'll find a way.
You didn't do all that work to stop here.
The foundations gave you the map and the tools, and you've felt what happens when you use them. The Circle is where that stops being just a program you took and becomes the way you live: a room that stays open, a path that keeps going somewhere, and a group walking it with you.
The first Journey departs in January. The founding doors close Thursday, July 23 at 11:59pm Pacific, and they won't open at these rates again.
I'd love to keep going with you.
Warmly,
Filipe
Join for $50, fully refundable