Creating A Safe World From Within - by Emily Toner

COURSE

Creating A Safe World From Within

With Emily Toner

It is easy to feel scared, overwhelmed, and despondent at present. To feel powerlessness. A worldwide health pandemic, a sixth mass extinction crisis, an extreme inequality of power and privilege - all culminating in a spiritual crisis. This is the overwhelming narrative of our times. But we cannot forget the most important thing: We write the story. Not them. Us. We have the power. We’ve just forgotten it. Drawing on the psychology of human behaviour, behavioural neuroscience, and the philosophy and practice of mindfulness and self-compassion, this course will focus your attention towards creating more inner awareness, stability, and safety. It is designed to remind you of your immense power, to help you understand the inextricable link between your inner and outer world, and to help us all co-write a better next chapter for humanity. Together, let’s create a safe world, starting from within.


Meet your Teacher

Emily is a clinical psychologist, writer, and speaker with a research background in Behavioural Neuroscience and Positive Psychology. She is passionate about helping people transition through fear and overwhelm into states of motivated action for the earth. She lives in the seaside town of Byron Bay, Australia, and when not teaching mindfulness, she writes and produces music. She is the founder of Wye in the Sky Records, an independent, purpose-driven music label that re-wilds the planet via music, giving royalties to local conservation initiatives in her region.

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7 Days

4.6k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Compassion

English


Lesson 1

Creating Perspective: You Are Far Greater Than You Think

If you want to change the outer world, why not start with the inner world first? Today you will be given an introduction to the next seven days and be invited into a meditation designed to connect you to your greater self.

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Lesson 2

Creating Awareness: Acknowledging The Mind

Today, we acknowledge how your inner judgments contribute to the world's story. We will explore the psychology behind why the mind judges and experience a practice in acknowledging and releasing judgement.

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Lesson 3

Self-Compassion: The Ultimate Healer

Want to create a safe inner world? Make self-compassion a non-negotiable daily practice. Today's practice is one of befriending yourself.

Lesson 4

Acceptance: Easing The Suffering Of The World

Ease the pain of the world by easing the pain within. Today's practice is one of healing through active acceptance.

Lesson 5

Love: The Power Of The Feminine

Love with boundaries and explore the tend-and-befriend response. Today's practice is designed to help you to create a safer inner world.

Lesson 6

Meaning Making: Moving Into Planetary Post-Traumatic Growth

Discover the power of finding meaning in suffering. What story for the planet do you choose to create? Today we explore a practice grounded in active hope.

Lesson 7

Creating A Safe World From Within

This is a summary of the past seven days and an invitation to commit to the daily inner practice of self-compassion, acceptance, and love. Today's practice is designed to reconnect you with your immense store of inner power and wisdomand remind you of your truest self.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 84 community questions and 26 audio replies from Emily Toner. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Dilek

Dilek

May 15, 2025

Very helpful 💚

Tatyana

Tatyana

March 18, 2025

Amazing course . Highly recommend to everyone to find peace within and share it with the world around us . Much love and gratitude ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️

Stephen

Stephen

June 26, 2024

This question stood out to me because of a practice of cultivating awareness and self-compassion, finding meaning through a conversation with the feminine, with Love, made possible by the relationships between these massive gravitational bodies, Moon, Sun, and Earth—Luna Solterra. “What does it feel like to be bathed in Love?” Interaction, Immersion, and Transcendence This week, my practice is to be aware of the interaction that grows from my sense of immersion in the possibility of transcendence when I focus on being the interface for navigating metaphysical gravity—being immersed in Love. This intention is the prompt to write my own story. The Book of Soul: for the child in every body A conversation between Gaia and my inner children: Luna Solterra (light feminine, senses, perception, mermaid), Theodore aka Ted (dark masculine, mind, cognition, otter), Nueva (dark feminine, heart, emotion, octopus), and Circ (light masculine, body, action, dolphin). They live in the spheres of light radiating from stars and the waves of gravity holding the universe together, swimming in an ocean of love.

LorieAnn

LorieAnn

May 15, 2024

I feel peace within myself after listening to this course! 🙏

BerryMc

BerryMc

May 10, 2024

One of the best courses I’ve done in this app. Your topics are so clear, examples are great and have such a great voice and pace. Well done. Highly recommend.

Tami

Tami

November 10, 2023

Thank you

Angela

Angela

September 1, 2023

I would have liked to see acknowledgement of the freeze/collapse response when talking about trauma responses as that is my experience. I also felt quite discouraged and felt some self doubt with wondering why I didn't have the friend or tend response despite my gender. My understanding is that this response can be a form of fawning or people pleasing which if not careful can lead to burnout or resentment. Overall I would have liked to see more nuance on the nervous system responses.

Annie

Annie

August 12, 2023

Dear Emily, it was a great journey to the heart space. I love your gentle and honest approach to the human condition. My no. 1 takeaway was that self-compassion is a non-negotiable daily practice. Until I discovered mindfulness, I kind of lived with blinkers on, wanting to be and do good in the world but finding that I could never ‘stack up’ to my own self-set standards. I didn’t really care for myself as I should. This was a great way to explore that. I look forward to taking your other course. The music composition was great too, by the way. Blessings and love, Annie 🙏💕🌸

Molly

July 2, 2023

Incredible ❤️

Sarah

Sarah

June 19, 2023

Transformative

Julie

May 28, 2023

I learned so much. I am so much more enlightened. Thank you Emily. This was a beautiful course.

Jo

Jo

May 16, 2023

Thank you Emily for a truly beautiful and inspiring course!

Nora

Nora

May 6, 2023

Wonderful course, Thank you ❣️

Kenny

Kenny

April 3, 2023

Great class to re-center if you’re feeling unaligned in life.

Cristina

March 19, 2023

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Chryssie

Chryssie

March 11, 2023

Safe world within. Inner peace

Sylvia

March 10, 2023

Loved it. The message, the voice, the background music. Plan to listen to it all again.

Julie

February 9, 2023

What a wonderful course. Thank you! I will listen to the whole thing again soon.

Antonio

Antonio

February 9, 2023

A timely and Excellent course! Thank you for your time to create this. A course I am returning to for my second round. As the expression goes, “ if you want to learn something truly well, learn it like you want to teach it”

Cassandra

Cassandra

January 28, 2023

I was left smiling at the end of each meditation. Absolutely love Emily!

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