Transform Your Path

Taking greater responsibility for your life enhances your personal power and agency. When you own and embrace your process and whatever is occurring, you take back your power and accelerate your growth. Then, obstacles no longer block the path; they become the path.

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Our Services

Lonnie and Shannon

We provide therapeutic counseling and transformational life coaching to individuals and couples. Our clients are empowered to successfully navigate breakdowns and accelerate their personal growth. Every engagement is tailored to meet the individual’s specific goals and needs.

Our teaching draws upon the foundational knowledge, distinctions and practices covered in The Mastery of Integral Emotional Intelligence Program. This program is a distillation of the many life lessons and best practices we have learned over the course of our combined decades of work.

We take a holistic approach to being human. This means that while our focus is on developing emotional intelligence, we also work with our clients to increase their mental, physical, and spiritual intelligence.

Everyone is at a unique place in their path of personal growth and evolution. Wherever you are is the ideal place from which you can grow and evolve.

We have developed a way of working with clients that is a combination of life coaching, counseling, and teaching. While our clients have reported that their work with us has been deeply healing and therapeutic, our approach is more proactive and instructive than traditional talk therapy.

“Shannon has an extraordinary ability to listen to someone’s grievances, disappointments, and upsets (like mine), and be able to process them to see how they relate to one’s own perceptions and beliefs about oneself and the world around them. I had the privilege of spending time with Shannon when my marriage was ending. Through her coaching, I came to see the opportunity of that breakdown as fertile ground for my own growth as a human being and a leader. I am forever grateful for her support and insight.”

—Cheryl

“I am a therapy skeptic, yet I am also a more than enthusiastic champion for Lonnie Green’s work. Several of the people I have referred to her have often spoken to me of her invaluable service in helping them to help themselves and to create a higher ground for their lives. With her down-home, intelligent, one day-at-a-time approach, Lonnie has enabled them to step out of the victim role into greater acceptance and mastery. She has encouraged them in the pursuit of recreating self-identity and emotional maturity—not just to restore normalcy, but to reinvent it.”

—Ross

Areas of Benefit We Typically Work with Clients On

To learn more about a specific topic, click on that heading in the column below.

  • Quality of Life & Fulfillment
  • Reinvention
  • Manifesting Goals

  • Resolving Conflict
  • Deepening Partnership
  • Healing from Betrayal

  • Disciplining with Kindness
  • Creating Workable Agreements
  • Instilling Mutual Respect

  • Cultivating Mindfulness
  • Enhancing Self-Worth
  • Developing Intuition

  • Increasing Self-Care
  • Making Lifestyle Changes
  • Navigating Health Challenges

  • Increasing Happiness
  • Reducing Anxiety & Depression
  • Managing Stress

  • Mastering Fear & Anger
  • Releasing Pain & Suffering
  • Transforming Shame & Guilt

  • Leading from Vision
  • Greater Self-Confidence
  • Increasing Collaboration

  • Navigating Divorce
  • Releasing Grief & Loss
  • Completing the Past

  • Strengthening Authenticity
  • Being Assertive
  • Listening Compassionately
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Areas of Benefit We Typically Work with Clients On

To learn more about a specific topic, click on that heading in the column below.

HGI Mind Map

  • Quality of Life & Fulfillment
  • Reinvention
  • Manifesting Goals

  • Resolving Conflict
  • Deepening Partnership
  • Healing from Betrayal

  • Disciplining with Kindness
  • Creating Workable Agreements
  • Instilling Mutual Respect

  • Cultivating Mindfulness
  • Enhancing Self-Worth
  • Developing Intuition

  • Increasing Self-Care
  • Making Lifestyle Changes
  • Navigating Health Challenges

  • Increasing Happiness
  • Reducing Anxiety & Depression
  • Managing Stress

  • Mastering Fear & Anger
  • Releasing Pain & Suffering
  • Transforming Shame & Guilt

  • Leading from Vision
  • Greater Self-Confidence
  • Increasing Collaboration

  • Navigating Divorce
  • Releasing Grief & Loss
  • Completing the Past

  • Strengthening Authenticity
  • Being Assertive
  • Listening Compassionately

Featured Program

Transformational Intervention Program for Couples

The focus of this 12-session process is reestablishing affinity and creating a framework for greater partnership, so that couples are empowered to create a thriving relationship. The premises and practices in this program are ones that foster mutual respect, stronger bonds, and better communication.

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Gaining Support and Encouragement

When breakdowns occur, couples need support and encouragement to address unworkable patterns in how they relate to each other. At the same time, each individual needs support in discovering and working through any issues they might have that are contributing to these challenging, often entrenched ways of operating.

Releasing Old Patterns and Habits

Most of us bring our childhood wounds, attachment issues and ego-defensive patterns from previous relationships into our current one. It requires internal house cleaning, becoming more internally emancipated, and building new skills to be able to choose different ways to engage with our beloved.

Evolving Within the Relationship

This step-by-step process supports both individuals in the relationship in letting go of the past and strengthening their bonds with each other. From the first session, this program encourages them to begin evolving in how they relate to one another. This results in a co-created, mutually beneficial relationship that both individuals feel good about.

The Mastery of Integral Emotional Intelligence Program

The work of The Highest Ground Institute is based upon the foundational knowledge and practices contained within this three-volume curriculum. These books are an owner’s manual for being human and a resource and reference guide for anyone who is interested in accelerating their personal growth or in enhancing their ability to effectively empower others.

This material is presented as a series of concise and readable textbooks that include both theory and practice. Although only Volume I has been published to date, the material contained in all three volumes is currently available through our therapeutic counseling and transformational life coaching programs.

Click below to learn more about the three volumes that make up the complete curriculum of The Mastery of Integral Emotional Intelligence Program.

Keep Calm Stay Above the Line

Cultivating emotional intelligence is essential to being happy and experiencing fulfillment. Quality of life and satisfaction are not achieved solely through knowledge and action, which is referred to as thinking and doing.

Lasting happiness requires an understanding of who you’re being and how you’re approaching all aspects of your life. It is understanding how to access and express heart, wisdom, and depth of character in your daily interactions.

Growth, Mastery & Transformation

Gaining emotional literacy and practicing the principles of integral emotional intelligence in a thoughtful and committed way creates the opportunity to achieve positive outcomes across all areas of your life.

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Grow

  • Discover and cultivate your inner emancipated adult.

  • Accelerate your personal growth, build a stronger foundation for your life, and increase your sense of agency and ability to manifest the life you want.

  • Understand healthy ego development and relax the hold of your negative ego and inner critic.

  • Enhance your ability to heal and integrate emotional wounds and fulfill unmet needs by learning self-therapy processes and techniques.

  • Navigate relationships with greater success and increase the amount of love flowing in your life.

  • Increase your ability to work with challenging emotions in ways that have positive impacts, such as creating greater freedom from fear and anxiety; expressing anger more constructively; and reducing pain, suffering, guilt, and shame.

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Master

  • Lower your overall level of emotional reactivity, increase your resilience, and become more at ease with the discomfort of vulnerability in a way that allows for greater well-being, peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

  • Master the ability to consistently turn problems, challenges, and breakdowns into breakthroughs and opportunities for growth.

  • Achieve greater self-mastery and freedom from old, unhelpful beliefs and habitual modes of operating that no longer serve you.

  • Be more present to what is occurring in your life while cultivating an expanded sense of equilibrium, also known as unshakable presence, in the face of life’s challenges.

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Transform

  • Cultivate the art of everyday transformation by choosing to own your reactions and author your responses in ways that shift dysfunctional, reactive, and adversarial dynamics to functional, respectful, and mutually beneficial ones.

  • Enhance the experience of emotional safety, trust, intimacy, love, and enjoyment in your significant relationships.

  • Create greater freedom from the influence of your past and have your present experience be shaped by your future and who you are becoming.

  • Empower yourself to be a resource and support for others on their journey of personal growth and inner emancipation.

  • Increase your ability to make positive impacts in your work by cultivating transformative leadership and communications skills, and by developing your ability to generate partnership dynamics.

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Living Above the Line:
An Introduction to Self-Mastery