You already know how this feels
You’ve crossed thresholds before without meaning to. The moment you knew, before a word was spoken, that something had shifted. The read on a person that turned out to be exactly right. The decision that arrived whole, before the reasons caught up.
You felt it. And then the world told you to be reasonable — and you stepped back from the door.
Some of us are only beginning to notice these moments. Some of us have trusted them for years and are ready to go further. Either way, a threshold stands in front of you. Cross your first — or cross your next. The step is the same.
Why now
We were trained to lead with analysis — to trust what can be measured, argued, and proven. It has carried us far. But it is only one kind of intelligence, and the others have gone underdeveloped — even dismissed: the knowing that arrives before the evidence, the sense of what a moment holds, the perception that needs no explanation to be accurate.
Now that machines can out-reason us at the analysis we once prized most, the question is no longer how sharp our logic is. It is how awake our perception is.
These capacities are not rare gifts handed to a few. They are human. They can be developed further — on purpose, with practice, in good company.
Crossing the Threshold is where that begins.
What it means to cross
There is always a doorway. Whether it’s the first doorway or the fourth, many of us stand near it for years without crossing. Something holds us back — doubt, busyness, the quiet sense that this isn’t for me. More often, we simply never noticed the next door was there.
A threshold is two things at once: the barrier that keeps us out, and the opening that lets us in.
If you have never crossed, you are not behind. You are not missing something other people were born with. You are standing exactly where everyone starts: at the door.
Crossing the Threshold is the decision to step through — and the six months of practice that begin the moment you do.
Who this is for
You’ll recognize yourself here:
- People who sense more than they say — and are ready to stop second-guessing it.
- People who already trust what they sense and want to develop it further.
- Those ready for a sustained practice, not a single experience.
- Those who want to develop a capacity, not chase an outcome.
- Those who know that practicing in community is far more powerful than alone.
What you’ll experience
Opening the Door
Before the cohort begins, you’ll have a private hour with one of us. Together we read your Enneagram profile (our in-depth proprietary Enneagram assessment, including your instinctual patterning) and look at what it means for how you’ll practice; we may shape practices specific to your type. Then we name, out loud, what you’re here for. It’s the first step across the threshold, taken with company.
Six months of live practice
Once a month, for six months, we gather live to practice. Each session builds the foundations, the skills, and — just as important — the discernment to use them: the rigor that keeps this work honest rather than merely reassuring.
A practicing community
You don’t step through alone. This work deepens and expands in the field of community. Between sessions, you’ll have a private cohort space — for shared resources, and for staying connected with one another.
Practices to carry
Each session sends you out with practices to live with until the next. The work happens between the gatherings as much as within them.
The capacities we practice
What looks like magic is simply accuracy — the knowing turns out to be right.
This work develops perception you may already have — and it may introduce you to capacities you didn’t know were yours. You’ll resonate with some and not with others. The point isn’t to declare you “certified” in intuition; it’s to give you a community of fellow explorers, real guidance, and practices that can carry you to the next level of your journey — whatever that turns out to be.
In this first-level program, we’ll practice with these capacities:
- Intuition and inner knowing
- Empathic attunement
- Energy healing
- A sense of what’s coming
You don’t need to be fluent in any of these to begin — only willing to practice. Some you’ll deepen; others you’ll meet for the first time.
The six sessions
Six gatherings, each a deeper exploration.
- Foundations of Practice — we prepare the ground: body, mind, and heart made ready for the work. You leave with your first month of practice.
- Intuition & Knowing — trusting the signal that arrives before thought, including the sense of what’s coming, and learning to tell true knowing from wishful noise.
- Attunement & Sensing — reading the field of yourself and others through felt sense.
- Expanded Perception — perceiving beyond the immediate senses.
- Energy Healing — presence as the active ingredient; non-touch, frequency-based work.
- Settling In, Setting Out — settling into the capacities you’ve developed and now own, and launching into what comes next.
How it works
- Format — live and virtual; six monthly 90-minute sessions across six months.
- Recordings — every session is recorded and posted to your cohort’s private community, available until one month after your cohort’s final session.
- Intimate by design — kept small on purpose, so everyone is known.
This is a real commitment. We begin together and practice as one cohort for six months — your presence is part of what makes the field. Come fully, from the first session.
Go deeper, in private
Add six one-to-one sessions with Alex, woven through your six months — where this work meets your actual life. In the cohort, you practice in the field of the group; in private, you bring your own edges, your own patterns, the questions only you can ask. It’s where what you’re developing takes root in how you live, lead, and relate — with someone who knows how to hold you steady through real change.
Optional add-on: +$2,500.
Investment
Pay in full — $3,500
Paid at registration.
Optional: 1:1 coaching with Alex +$2,500
Installments — $3,750
At registration: $1,500
30 days after deposit: $1,125
$1,125 — 30 days later, or two weeks before we begin (whichever comes first)
All payments complete at least two weeks before our start date.
Optional: 1:1 coaching with Alex +$2,500
Includes
- Enneagram assessments and profile
- Opening the Door 1:1 call
- Six live, monthly 90-minute virtual sessions
- Online cohort community area
- All practice resources, kept in your cohort community
How to join
Crossing the Threshold is by application. In the application, you’ll tell us more about yourself — we’re listening for who is genuinely ready to practice and develop. Once we receive your application, we’ll be in touch about the next cohort.
Your guides
Andrea Bednar did not so much choose this work as inherit it. Her grandmother was the woman her small Wisconsin town came to — for healing, for guidance, for things they could never quite explain. What kept Andrea from simply believing her grandmother had supernatural powers was what came next: years inside a tradition that named all of it as dangerous. She learned discernment — the discipline of asking is this real? rather than merely is this interesting? — and that question has never left her.
It has guided 35 years of practice, including more than two decades in the Diamond Approach Path, one of the most rigorous contemplative schools there is. In her work as a master executive coach, she uses these capacities every day — not as something kept behind a door, but as the instrument of the work itself. Crossing the Threshold is where she walks you to the door, and helps you cross.
Drawing on 15 years of leadership in Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Alex brings a rare combination of high-stakes leadership experience and transformative coaching to his Crossing the Threshold work. He’ll hold any and all of your transitions and growth so your life stays minimally disrupted — helping you cultivate adaptive, emotionally intelligent ways of being, and build resilience and clarity as you expand your capacities.
Our commitment to you
This is a partnership. You bring your willingness; we bring ours.
What you can expect from us
- We’ll come prepared and fully present, every session.
- We’ll bring rigor and honesty, not just reassurance.
- We’ll meet you with care, wherever you are in the work.
- We’ll hold this space, and what you share in it, with respect and discretion.
What we ask of you
- Come willing to practice, and to be honest with yourself.
- Show up fully, and take responsibility for your own wellbeing along the way.
Please read before you apply
Crossing the Threshold is an educational and developmental practice program designed to cultivate awareness, perception, discernment, and related capacities. We provide practices and learning experiences, not therapy, counseling, medical or psychological treatment, and we do not guarantee any particular outcome or result.
Any insights, perceptions, visions, or intuitive experiences that arise during the program are yours to interpret and should not be treated as objective fact or as medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
You are responsible for your own physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing throughout the program and for any decisions you make based on your experiences. We encourage you to continue any professional care you are receiving and to seek appropriate support whenever needed.
By applying, you acknowledge that you are voluntarily choosing to participate in this educational program and accept responsibility for your own wellbeing, interpretation, and decisions.
