Big thanks to all 46 members who completed our survey. Your responses were extremely helpful, and will help me take Awakening Plus to the next level!
Read on for a summary. For detailed results, including plenty of graphics, view this PDF.
The three prize winners are listed below.
Event Rankings
This is how members ranked our events, based on a five-point rating system. Events with the same rating are listed alphabetically. Most of the highest-rated events also topped the list in our previous annual survey in December 2023.
4.7 – Gentle Group Healing
4.7 – Individual and Group Healing
4.6 – Divinely Directed
4.5 – 5D Immersion
4.5 – Embody Your Highest Divinity
4.5 – New Earth Support Team
4.5 – Shamanic Awakening Ceremony
4.4 – Ecstatic Divine Group Consciousness
4.4 – Music-Guided Journey
4.4 – Unconditional Love Immersion
4.3 – Shamanic Breathwork
4.2 – Astrology Mini-Readings
4.2 – Hollow Reed and Custom Invocations: Guided Practice
4.1 – Divine Love immersion (Laura V)
4.1 – Healing Invocation Variations: Guided Practice
4.1 – Office Hours
4.0 – Abundance Attunement (Laura V)
4.0 – Women’s Healing Circle (Laura V)
3.9 – Ask Us Anything
3.9 – Community Support
3.9 – Experience All 4 Types of Invocations
3.7 – IFS Love Seat Healing
3.6 – Invocation Group Coaching
3.2 – IFS Group Discussion
Changes
The following changes, inspired by member feedback, are SETT-GEFN: “Safe Enough To Try, Good Enough For Now.” Since the biggest room in the world is room for improvement, I’ll always be fine-tuning Awakening Plus!
Invocation Practice: The Three Become One
73% of respondents thought we should combine the three invocation practice events into one event. So “Hollow Reed and Custom Invocations: Guided Practice,” “Healing Invocation Variations: Guided Practice,” and “Experience All 4 Types of Invocations” will become “Invocation Practice.”
Six Events Offered More Often
As one member emphasized in her feedback, the great global awakening needs increased support. So we’ll double our New Earth Support Team events from monthly to twice a month.
Because of their popularity and effectiveness, I’ll strive to schedule these events monthly:
5D Immersion
Divinely Directed
Embody Your Highest Divinity
Gentle Group Healing
Shamanic Awakening Ceremony
Half As Often
“Ask Us Anything” scored low, is lightly attended, and hasn’t attracted any email questions. So I’ll change it from monthly to every other month.
Cut From the Team
I designed “Invocation Group Coaching” as an experiential event, but members have mostly been asking questions instead. It also got the second-lowest rating. So it’s cut from the team, at least for now.
“Internal Family Systems Therapy Group Discussion” placed last, so it’s also off the schedule.
New Sunday Event Time
As always, the 8 pm EST time slots were overwhelmingly preferred. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 8 pm all scored about the same.
But the next most popular time was a new option: Sundays at 3 pm EST. This should be a good time for many members, including international members in and around Europe, who can’t make the 8 pm calls. We’ll try some Sunday events here and see how it goes!
Not a Mystery School
70% of members thought that Awakening Plus is not a mystery school. So I won’t claim that it is.
MP3 Downloads
Since 39% of members download Awakening Plus MP3s, I’ll continue to make course and event downloads available.
Premium Membership Levels
For premium membership levels, members preferred one-on-one session time with me (65%) over deep-dive group events (35%). I’ll reflect this preference when I announce new premium levels, coming soon!
Shorter Events
Members requested more short events in last year’s survey. I’ve usually scheduled one or two each month since then. But our members are busy and want even more short events. Many events really have to clock in at 60 or 90 minutes, but I’ll see what I can to include more short ones.
Women’s Healing Circle
As shown in the comments below, there was overwhelming praise for the Women’s Healing Circle. Most attendees love Laura V’s facilitation, and 68% are also open to additional WHC facilitators. In fact, five women expressed interest in facilitating this event. I’ll be talking with them over the next few weeks!
Suggested New Events
I’m grateful for all the new event suggestions! The top contenders are “Awakening Your Intuition” and “Channeling.” I’ll solicit your feedback on these in my (much shorter) followup survey, coming soon!
Requested Changes
One requested change I’ll make soon is to sort all recordings by category, in addition to the current date-based listing. (“Best Of” events are sorted by category, then by date within each category.) My current idea is to include all a category’s remaining recordings as single-line listings under its best-of events. After doing this, I’ll have another look at the other requested changes!
Recommendable
I’m delighted that 80% of members would recommend Awakening Plus to an appropriate person. I’ll keep striving to make the membership increasingly beneficial to both new and existing members.
Volunteer Facilitators
Four members expressed interest in facilitating events. (This is in addition to those who might want to facilitate the Women’s Healing Circle). I’ll follow up with them soon!
Written Feedback
Here are highlights from the survey feedback. I did minimal editing here and there for grammar, punctuation, and clarity. All bolding was added by me. The survey PDF contains more written feedback.
If you’re female and have attended the Women’s Healing Circle, did you benefit? If so, what benefits did you receive?
Understanding and healing and beautiful energy upgrades.
Women who attend have similar experiences around being a woman in a society with expectations. It is also a small group so it is easy to open up and talk and share.
Amazing energies, learned different ways of connecting, confection of different insights
Yes, feeling seen, heard, loved, respected and supported and becoming more blissfully awakened and embodied
It’s a very welcoming group and it helps calm me.
A sense of community, most importantly one I sense I can trust, and join in being supported and supporting others. Laura is a superb facilitator in my opinion.
If you’re female and haven’t attended the Women’s Healing Circle, why have you not attended?
Just scheduling issues
Been very busy
It spoke to me recently but my daughter’s volleyball practice was at the same time
There are already enough events and I’d rather focus on “the classics”
Tuesday isn’t a great day for attending
What new events or courses would you like me to add to Awakening Plus?
Awakening your intuition
Have you thought about channeling coursework? I just read “You are a Channel” by Sara Landon and found it fascinating. I would love to hear your thoughts and perspectives on channeling.
More mystery school teaching
Maybe more with mostly your singing and playing instruments.
The Law of Attraction series has been of great interest to me… I would love to know more about other Spiritual/Universal Laws (and the difference between a spiritual and universal law, if one exists) and how they work.
Storytelling about your experiences and journeys.
Some kind of help for people experiencing the dark night of the soul process. Many people waking up are confused and having anxiety emotionally, painfully, daily experiences dealing with their lives and themselves. Holding space for them and helping guide them through their panic feels good but is very demanding. Walking them to the end of their feelings and helping them unravel the depth of what’s surfacing can take a lot of patience, care, and love.
A shamanic drumming journey.
I really enjoy listening to you read in our protected space while using invocations. Please read more books or poems.
Believe it’s critical that we adjust a bit to meet the moment (and the challenges ahead) – so please let’s do an event around anchoring Golden Age energy and consciousness to facilitate the change and Earth’s ascension. This can be in the context of New Earth Support Team or something else, but let’s formalize and put into practice that which the Allies say is our purpose and why we have chosen to be here.
I’d love some drumming and sound therapy with singing bowls it produces theta and delta states.
What one change would you most like to see in Awakening Plus?
I can only use the “best of” because it’s too hard to find specific types of events in the current organization style. While I like the best of recordings, sometimes I would like to try another.
Earlier hours
I prefer shorter sessions
I love the short events and the events that are timed around astrological events. I have found a huge healing benefit around both of these.
I prefer individual attention rather than group settings though I recognize the challenges
More guest presenters
More events with no singing/music
A weekday class in the afternoon or morning . Perhaps more community support sessions
Keep with Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 pm with 60-90 minute sessions.
Sometimes I would like acoustic music. I tend to follow along when you sing. Your voice is so lovely!
More individual and group healing events!!
no more than 3 events per week
More sound therapy
Any other changes you’d like to see in Awakening Plus?
Coaching from you in a group or individual meeting to become a facilitator. Would not like to disappoint the members by being unsure.
I’d love to see a larger variety of songs
I would like a few short meditations in 15-20 minutes that I could use when I don’t have much time. Something to do daily.
Make the sessions shorter – think of it as Kamikaze delivery of goodness (short, potent, very targeted).
Please keep it low cost, as many folks in the US are going to be in for hard times soon.
Please describe the biggest benefit(s) you get as a member of Awakening Plus, using one or more specific examples.
Helps me manage my fibromyalgia pain.
I am experiencing ever-expanding spiritual growth through Instant Access to Higher Self for guidance, support, soul to soul communication, healing and insights. The mix of events, the community courses, and your divine facilitation and leadership creates a beautiful ecosystem that fosters spiritual growth individually and in community.
I love using your recordings to release trapped emotions and connect with my higher self! The guided meditations and invocations make my experiences much deeper & more meaningful.
I literally feel the energy around my auric field activated & reorganized w/ certain invocations & songs. Having worked w/ many fields of consciousness this is top notch Energetics space.
The healing of course! Becoming more aware of my energies inside and outside of myself, relating to others with the same interest. Being able to go back and experience certain events. I also love the diversity of experience shared by others.
I find the recordings to be very helpful. The Shamanic Awakening, Divinely Directed, and Four Types of Healing have caused massive shifts for me in a short amount of time. I also turn to the New Earth Support recordings and Laura V’s recordings on a regular basis. I also enjoy listening to Ask us Anything while I am making dinner or cleaning the house. I love the questions and answers. I have learned a good bit of spiritual hygiene and better practices from the invocation coaching sessions and the Ask Us Anything recordings.
LOVE your astrological insights, best I have ever found since I started in 1984! LOVE the power of your invocations – they bring me peace to deal with chaos until chaos resolves and bring insights when most needed.
I like the sense of community and support. Sometimes I just really appreciate having the time to totally relax such as for the music journeys, etc. Other times it’s great to learn such as the healing invocations. I think it’s nice to have the balance.
It has been wonderful to have a safe space to work on healing and ascension. I have been able to grow my relationship with my spirit guides and clear blockages quickly and effectively. As a result, my life flows much more smoothly and my relationships are more fulfilling.
It’s the only type of meditation that works for me. I really get a buzz from it sometimes and other times I feel very rested. I haven’t explored many of the other benefits but do enjoy knowing I have office hours if needed for a question.
Time is a big constraint for me; I like having the option to listen later, and I like that you respect people’s time and stick to the timeframe allotted. I also really like the personal interaction that exists live. I love having the support of so many different modalities that you offer, as well as personal time with you (Office Hours, mini astrology readings) if there’s an “emergency” :) All that to say I love the diversity and the depth of the offerings that are available. I ALWAYS feel better after an AW+ event!
Participating in the live events for Awakening Plus is very helpful for me for creating a structured time to do healing, meditative, or invocation work. The live interaction creates more commitment and presence for me than trying to schedule my own time, even to review the videos. I am able to jump on Zoom right after working from home and my partner and even cats come join me in bed. I think we all cherish that time that we create to be present together. I also very much enjoy Benjamin’s facilitation style and find it helpful in focusing my mind and not being too self-critical.
Feeling of contentment, peace, and confidence in the tools I have learned by being a member for several years. I routinely use the recordings to go to sleep. Because of my work, I have some sleep issues and have recently come off some over-the-counter sleep aids I have been using for years. I do believe Awakening Plus has helped me tremendously.
I honestly NEED the recordings to ground back in. What you have created here helps me tremendously when I get too caught up in daily life. This reconnects me and also helps with so many different things I’m experiencing in life. I like having many tools to work with when I just NEED something at the soul level. I feel which recording I need in the moment. They all are helpful and useful.
It helps me to heal and receive new insights and perspectives. It keeps me moving forward and holding me accountable to continue my spiritual path and keep growing spiritually. It keeps me hopeful about the future.
The individual and group healings are by far the most valuable for me personally. I know that if I go in with a burning issue, I will get the support I need. This event has often saved me from serious despair, suicidality, etc.
I have found my inner self and become clearer in accessing my higher self. For many years it had evaded me, as it wasn’t set out as clearly as your teachings have done.
I’m calmer and feel better overall. I had a loss a few months ago and the healings are helping me get through it.
Always uplifting and healing.
Being with others who believe in energy healing, the power of intention, and participating in activities that incorporate those beliefs assists in keeping me close to my soul essence.
Being present with a group and sharing this variety of experiences germinates personal growth and higher connections for me. I am more present. I resonate calmness more often. I have learned how to recalibrate my focus and energy. I enjoy being me.
No exaggeration to say that Awakening Plus and the near daily practice through the events and recordings has been utterly life changing. Benjamin’s work has equipped me with the tools I need to heal and grow, shed fear-based patterns and beliefs, and more clearly understand my true nature and purpose here.
I have experienced so much healing through Awakening Plus…spiritually, emotionally, mentally. Benjamin and the members are genuinely kind and support each other, and it lights up my heart. I consider myself blessed to have found this community and how it’s helped me grow beyond my previously self-limiting, unconscious beliefs and low self worth. Now I can uncover and integrate parts of myself using tools like IFS. Even when I feel challenged, I allow myself hope for a little progress every day without harboring unrealistic expectations. Experiencing the unconditional love of the allies has allowed this and changed my life. I had never felt that before and it’s opening my heart. It’s incredibly validating to know that my dreams for myself and 5D are possible.
The practical advice on opening up to spiritual gifts and the invocations has been life-changing. Ask and you shall receive. I now feel empowered to visualize these beautiful “thoughts/things/emotions” (words lol) that I knew to be true in my heart but never felt personally in my life. Now I realize it’s not selfish to desire and ask for abundance. I was trained to think otherwise and that mental mindset prevented blessings from showing up for me. Hindsight is 20/20 lol. Finding my true expression and visualizing are works in progress but are similar to life, always changing and adapting. I’m now letting go of self doubt and trying to overly control it, choosing to flow instead, and that feels wonderful. The group has also given me the safe container that allows me to be vulnerable and trust… two novel concepts that I’m still adapting to while enjoying immensely. Thank you Benjamin, what you do in Awakening Plus has supported and grounded me as I wake up and change my life completely. Cheers to peeling back the onion layers! P.S. Love your sense of humor, o king of puns!
Knowing others are seekers and there is no judgement. Freedom to express current confusion … nobody’s keeping score.
I receive the healing and love I don’t anywhere else.
Prize Winners
Finally, here are the winners of the survey prize drawings!
1. A two-hour session with me, normally $299.
Margaret S.
2. A one-hour session with me, normally $149.
Pamela J.
3. A one-year standard Awakening Plus membership extension, normally $199.
Jim C.
Congratulations to Margaret, Pamela, and Jim, whom I’ve already notified by email. And thanks again to everyone who helped me so much by completing this survey.
Finally, thank you for helping us make the magic happen by being a member of Awakening Plus. I’m so glad you’re here!
