Ferguson Signature Courses

Based on his 20-plus years of teaching and working privately with clients, Gary has designed a series of courses to enhance the soul’s creative potential and guide others through the evolutionary journey of fulfilling their sacred calling. The courses are organized within four streams of instruction. The first stream utilizes the Mythic Path Profile framework as a backdrop to exploring personal development, unlocking creative potential, and navigating the challenging moments of life. The second stream is devoted to health & wellness programs. The third stream is focused on musical artistry and performance programs, and the last stream of courses offers tools and techniques for accessing inner wisdom as the foundation for personal empowerment. All four streams focus on reclaiming one’s creative authenticity and sharing one’s unique gifts as foundations for creating a more beautiful life for self and others.

Reclaiming Your Authentic Self

The Path to Unlocking Your Creative Potential

The first program in the Mythic Path series focuses on guiding you to recognize the core subconscious strategies you unconsciously used to bond with your family of upbringing and to create a persona in the outer world; both of which have prevented the Authentic Self—your true potential and light—to be shared with the world. These two dynamics in the psyche hide the Authentic Self and perpetuate living from a place of separation and lack. Reclaiming the Authentic Self becomes a process of bringing to light how your core conditioning is experienced within each of the five life arenas and how that conditioning has fueled painful and un-preferred life events. As you transcend the roles and strategies related to your Need Fulfillment Blueprint (NFB)—the internal blueprint used to bond with your family, and to your Persona—the way in which the psyche found its external relationship to the world beyond your family, it becomes possible to reclaim the Authentic Self.

Navigating Your Mythic Path

Utilizing Your Soul Map to Guide Your Life

The second program in the Mythic Path series focuses on clarifying the mythic story you are living. Through examining your biography and the deeper material underneath your life experiences (versus the narrative your mind tells about them), you begin to recognize the themes that make up your mythic story. Identifying those themes illuminates the limiting and inauthentic patterns that live within the four soul functions of thinking, feeling, willing (how you take action), and relating (social dynamics and patterns). By using aesthetic perception, embodied awareness, and enlivened thinking, you will learn to lift the veil of illusion that hides the true causative forces behind painful and limiting patterns and events. What emerges is a soul map containing the core destinations in your life journey that relate to your evolutionary and self-growth process. Seeing your journey on a soul map removes the blame, shame, and judgement that often becomes projected onto the self when you are working through challenging inner and outer patterns and dynamics.

The Grail Quest

Drink from the Cup of Your Unlimited Self

The third program in the Mythic Path series utilizes the Grail myth as a backdrop to discovering your vision for humanity and the core values that stand behind your beliefs and actions. Through individual and group processes you will imaginatively build your Camelot and understand what is most alive in you on a creative level. You will also pinpoint the patterns you use to deny your most expanded self. The question, “Whom does the Grail serve?” will guide you through the program to an understanding of the ancestral and familial patterns you are perpetuating (most likely on an unconscious level), and which are interfering with you making the choices that most appropriately align your life to your creative authenticity. This program is a deep journey into the archetypal world, the mythic realm, and your heart—where the world you want to create and be a part of resides.

Answering the Sacred Call

The Alchemical Process of Sharing Your Gifts with the World

The final program in the Mythic Path series focuses on bringing to light the way in which you respond to the challenging moments of life. It is not what happens in the beautiful moments of your life that determines your destiny, but rather how you handle setbacks, disappointments, pain, un-preferred relational dynamics, and the unknown. As you recognize your modus operandi around discomfort, you empower yourself to distill the gold out of the challenging moments of life—alchemically transforming your pain in order to discover your future self on the other side of that which you are experiencing. This process of becoming is your sacred calling—the sharing of your unique gifts for the betterment of humanity.

Illness as a Path of Healing

The Art of Following Your Body’s Wisdom

This program is designed to support anyone facing a life-challenging illness. It offers a unique framework that highlights both the visible and hidden components of your life that are perpetuating stress and dis-ease—impeding your receptivity to treatment and separating you from experiencing a life that fully nourishes your soul. Once you access your own inner wisdom and latent healing ability, symptoms and experiences become road signs guiding you through your healing process. By distilling the gold out of your illness, a picture comes into focus around what is needed to create a foundation for health and wellness, and how to step more fully into the creative gifts and expressions that bring beauty to your life and to the lives of others.

The Cancer Transcendence Program

A Mythic Journey of Self-Reclamation

The Cancer Transcendence® Program offers an innovative framework that utilizes the cancer experience as a springboard to discovering and reclaiming your authentic self and to creating a life that fully nourishes your soul. The program offers tools and techniques sourced in ancient wisdom and 21st Century science, which will empower you to pinpoint the roles, patterns, situations, and dynamics in your life, even those that you may not be conscious of, that are impacting your overall health and wellness, and inhibiting your body’s ability to respond to treatment—whether conventional or alternative. Through this program you will learn how your cancer can guide you to your BECOMING—a version of yourself where cancer has no home.

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Making Music with the Gods and Goddesses®

The Path of the Musician and the Soul’s Journey

This special program for musicians expands upon the Pathways to Performance Mastery (PTPM) program and focuses on using what arises in a musician’s career as a platform for personal growth and transformation. The program uses the Twelve Mythic Paths® framework to identify how a musician’s temperament, life experiences, and psychological conditioning play a part in molding one’s strengths and weaknesses as a player. As a musician notices what they bring into the music-making process, especially the patterns and behaviors that limit their potential and impede performance, core dynamics and life lessons are illuminated that are essential to address in order to produce long-term health and wellness. It is impossible to separate one’s life from their creative process, yet that is often the mindset of a musician. This program offers tools and techniques that enhance one’s playing and enrich one’s life.

Pathways to Performance Mastery

The Art of Performing Your Best When It Matters Most

The PTPM program provides simple tools and techniques based on breakthroughs in neuroscience, somatic psychology, and mind-body medicine, to empower musicians of all ages to approach their musical life with an embodied, emotional connection to their creative voice and to the music they are playing. Utilizing this approach effects change at the most critical level—in the brain—rewiring the neural pathways associated with the creative process, thereby reducing performance anxiety, and enhancing musical artistry. In this program musicians learn how to apply this approach in all facets of their musical life—practicing, rehearsing, performing, and auditioning—helping them to display their musical gifts when it matters most.

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Archetypal Mediation®

A Framework for Navigating the Inner Self

This program offers an innovative and safe approach to utilizing inner dialogue work to transcend patterns of inner resistance and limiting behaviors. This technique not only brings to light the core conditioning and programming from your childhood, but also creates an understanding of how to reclaim your creative authenticity. By recognizing your instinctual programming (via the Mythic Path Profile) and using Gary’s framework for identifying archetypal expressions, you will experience great freedom and safety in navigating the inner self. You will learn to stay at the wheel of your life’s ship by honoring the autonomous archetypal energies of your psyche without giving away your power to those parts of your psyche that are aligned with instinctual patterns of adaptation and bonding. As you demystify your inner self, entanglements and life experiences in the outer world become clear, and you are able to transcend the patterns that deny your creative truth.

A Soul Gesture® Practice

The Art of Embodied Awareness

Perceiving and listening to the wisdom that arises through the body is a powerful way to keep inner work practical and applicable to real life issues and experiences. Insights gained through spiritual practices can often seem esoteric and challenging to make sense of and apply in your everyday life. The Soul Gesture® practice can be used to further illuminate what surfaces through a meditation or contemplative practice, the messages from your dreams, the hidden dynamics in social situations, and reoccurring limiting behaviors and patterns.

I-Rebalancing®

A Technique for Becoming Your Own Master Healer

This program presents a powerful self-healing technique which combines Jin Shin Jyutsu finger holds (utilizing an expanded understanding of the neurological systems associated with each finger) with the nine eye-modes, representing psychological dynamics and patterns within the soul. Learning this technique will allow you to recognize the hidden patterns and energetics that are impacting your life, to understand the relationship between your inner life and the outer world, and to identify the specific corrections and healing movements that enhance mind-body healing, decrease emotional pain and discomfort, and produce feelings of safety and wellness.

Malady to Myth®

The Art of Imaginative Healing

This program expands on the mythic framework offered by the Twelve Mythic Paths® process by connecting the limiting patterns and trials associated with your mythic path to resonant mythology and folk or fairy tales. Through this connection you will not only tap into archetypal wisdom from your unconscious, but also have at your disposal powerful images and symbols to use in an art, meditation, movement, or sacred sleep practice. By following in the footsteps of mythic figures who have walked a similar path, you will access both ancient and inner wisdom for navigating life’s challenges and trials.

The Alchemical Laboratory Called Life®

Keys to Restoring Inner Wholeness and Outer Harmony

This program utilizes the above formula in conjunction with the Alchemical Barometer as a pioneering framework for recognizing the deeper meaning beneath your emotional responses to life. Hidden within your emotions are unmet needs, potential healing movements for your life, and aspects of the self that are asking to be reclaimed. Embracing your pain and discomfort instead of pushing it away or numbing it enables you to distill the gold out of your challenging life events and to become the master of your life—experiencing true personal empowerment.

The Charting Process®

Mapping the Inner Landscape of Your Life’s Journey

The Charting Process® is a modern, active-imagination process that utilizes embodied awareness as a gateway to unlocking inner wisdom and creative insights. It is a powerful, fun technique that can help you resolve challenging life events, expand your vision of the options and opportunities in your life, and pinpoint the limiting patterns that are holding you back. Active-imagination techniques can often be challenging for non-visual learners, but the Charting Process® combines kinesthetic, auditory, and visual processes thus making it one of the most powerful and easy tools available for personal empowerment.

Taming Test Anxiety

Mind-Body Interventions for Enhancing Performance

This program supports anyone desiring to perform better under pressure, especially when taking tests or making presentations. The Taming Test Anxiety system breaks down the learning process and identifies where stress enters into the processes of absorbing, processing, organizing, retaining, and recalling information. Deepening your understanding of how you learn unlocks your ability to excel at anything you decide to do in your life. Learning how to tap into the felt sense in your body during the learning process will empower you to recognize exactly what you need to support how your brain works, to keep your mind more focused, and to control your nerves, so you can demonstrate your fullest potential when it matters most.

Crisis to Clarity®

Discovering Your Sacred Calling in the Challenging Moments of Life

Crisis to Clarity® is a 4-week online program that combines live seminars, educational videos, and an online community platform to support people in distilling the gold out of their challenging life events. The program offers a unique framework and set of tools that empowers participants to understand the deeper meaning behind their life struggles and to use that clarity to manifest a life where they are sharing their creative authenticity and experiencing a life with more purpose, passion, and meaning.

Soul Dynamics®

The Keys to Creating a Personal Practice that Transforms the Soul

This program focuses on utilizing the limiting and painful patterns within your soul life (your soul dynamics) as material for engaging a personal practice. Nearly all spiritual traditions and inner practices have some transformative value. However, the trap or addiction can be to engage in a practice without utilizing or focusing on the material that is most pertinent to transcending the conditioning that is holding you back. By translating the events, experiences, and dynamics within your soul life into inner pictures and images, you have at your disposal the substances needed for true transformation. Working with inner pictures and images in a meditation or contemplative practice, a sacred sleep practice, or an art or movement practice, peels away the veils of illusion perpetuated by the mind. Your individualized practice then becomes a true alchemical and transformative process. To know thyself is a lifelong pursuit, but no matter where you are on your journey up the spiritual mountain, you will benefit from creating a personalized practice that rewires the limiting dynamics in your soul life that are denying your ability to create the life you want.