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    The Emotional Insourcing Cohort

    Ease & Grow.

    For founders, CEOs, and senior leaders who carry real responsibility — and want to lead and live at full capacity again, without burning themselves as fuel.

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    8 weeks + integration month · max. 8 seats · remote · €2,900 plus VAT

    The promise.

    You learned that growth has to hurt. Here you learn the opposite: when your system stops working against you, the very things you used to burn yourself out for become easy.

    You've long known what would need to change. What's missing is not insight. It is the ability to act differently in the right moment. Lighter, not harder.

    Ease & Grow helps leaders break the pattern of buying performance with pressure, self-pressure, or dysregulation — and instead build a form of leadership and productivity that is calmer, clearer, and sustainable over the long run.

    In week 1 you see for the first time what really steers your inner state — and what costs that pattern is producing in your leadership right now.

    In week 8 you have the ability to read and regulate your emotional triggers on your own. Not because someone tells you how. But because you learned it in your own body.

    And in the third month, two integration calls anchor what you've learned.

    This is not a coaching program. It is the building of an embodied skill.

    Calmer leadership. Clearer decisions. More impact — at less cost to you. So tangible that your team, your partner, your kids notice before you say a word. People who walk this path become the rarest thing in any room: the calmest person in it.

    And if you're currently leading your company through an AI transformation: you can't lead your team through uncertainty while you yourself are led by fear and pressure.

    Marco Pasini, Head Coach of Emotional Insourcing
    Marco Pasini · Head Coach

    Not a fix. A skill.

    Who this is for — and who it isn't.

    This cohort is for you if:

    • you've never quite given yourself permission — because the numbers, the team, the market always came first.
    • you have understood enough, and notice that one more book, one more podcast won't change anything anymore.
    • you are ready to grow in front of others — not alone, not in hiding.
    • you sense that the price of carrying on has long since become higher than the price of change.

    It is not for you if:

    • you are still looking for a framework to work through on your own.
    • you want to repair secretly, without being seen.
    • 'someday' currently feels more right than 'now'.

    Both are okay. But only one leads through these eight weeks.

    If you're unsure

    Not sure which side you're on?

    The Insourcing Check shows you in twelve minutes how connected you currently are with yourself — in health, leadership and relationships. You see your result immediately, with no email required.

    It's the same check you take three times inside the cohort: at the start, at the midpoint, at the close. If you take it now, your before is already on record — regardless of how you decide afterwards.

    Start the Insourcing Check →

    12 minutes · free · no email

    The foundation.

    Scientifically grounded. Personally deepened.

    Across the eight weeks you go through the complete Positive Intelligence® Program (PQ) — the neurobiologically grounded methodology by Shirzad Chamine, researched at Stanford University, used in over 50 countries — with a track record of 1M+ changed lives.

    What makes the cohort unique is how this program arrives here: tailored to the everyday reality of founders and top leaders — and enriched by three layers that go beyond PQ:

    • Nervous-system regulation & somatic practice — intentional breathwork, somatic reset, and more.
    • A pull-instead-of-push system — a personal operating system built on positive pull instead of pressure.
    • Love-Based Leadership Principles — leading from presence instead of fear.

    PQ gives you the foundation. Emotional Insourcing turns it into a skill that holds under real pressure and in real decision scenarios.

    POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE® — WHAT YOU LEARN

    EMOTIONAL INSOURCING — HOW IT LANDS IN YOUR WORLD

    The complete PQ program

    +Nervous-system regulation & somatic practice

    Recognizing saboteurs

    +Pull-instead-of-push system

    Activating Sage powers

    +Love-Based Leadership Principles

    Building mental fitness

    +Tailored to founder & top-leader reality

    Marco Pasini is a certified Positive Intelligence® coach (PQ Pro Coach) and has been translating the program into the reality of founders and leadership teams since 2024.

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    Marco Pasini, Head Coach von Emotional Insourcing

    WHO ACCOMPANIES YOU

    Marco Pasini

    Head Coach von Emotional Insourcing

    For eight weeks, Marco accompanies the cohort personally — as Head Coach, not as a spectator. Afterwards the room stays open: in the Conscious Leaders Circle.

    The journey.

    In short: five phases across three months — an eight-week core plus an Integration Month. Knowledge becomes embodied skill.

    Five phases across three months. An intensive eight-week core. Plus two integration calls in the third month, so that what you've learned doesn't vanish under the next wave of everyday pressure.

    What happens here is not knowledge transfer. It is a reorganization of the way you lead — emotionally, energetically, in your identity.

    "For the first time I see that my state comes before any strategy — and that I have tools to steer it in real time."

    You understand why you don't have a discipline problem — but a state problem. You learn the basics of your nervous system, the interplay of sensation, feeling, and emotion. You practice reading signals earlier — before tightness tips into reactivity. And you begin to feel how your own state co-organizes the people around you.

    "I have language for what steers me — and I stop judging myself for it."

    Now it gets concrete. Which pattern is driving you right now? Judge, Hyper-Achiever, Restless, Pleaser, Avoider, control logic? You recognize your saboteur chains — and see that they are strengths in overdrive, not defects. You learn to tell push from pull. You understand when a strategy problem is actually a dysregulation problem — and vice versa.

    "I achieve more — with less inner war, fewer hidden costs, clearer decisions."

    Performance itself shifts. Not harder, more, faster — but more present, clearer, more economical. You practice Performance through Presence, felt outcomes instead of hard goals, standards instead of target numbers, progress instead of achievement. You learn to recognize your own 'consciousness ceiling' — the unconscious limit your leadership is currently hitting.

    "I have a system that carries me — even when nobody is watching and the pressure returns."

    Now what you've learned becomes embodied. You build your personal practice architecture: Power Hour, focus block, Minimum Viable Routine, the Big Reset, 'What's needed now?' as the engine. You learn not only to recognize patterns, but to use them — and finally to create new patterns deliberately. Identity is no longer understood. It is rebuilt.

    Phase 05

    Integration Month

    Month 3 · 2 sessionsLAYER 5 · INTEGRATION & EMBODIMENT

    Most programs end too early. Three weeks after the finish, the insight is there — and everyday life pushes it back.

    That's why Ease & Grow doesn't stop after eight weeks. In the third month we meet for two 90-minute integration calls:

    Session 1 — Reality check + pattern drift. What has truly held under real everyday pressure? Which old patterns have subtly returned? Where does something want to be recalibrated before old protective patterns take over again?

    Session 2 — Embodiment + forward lock-in. What is embodied practice now — and what does your leadership reality look like over the next 12 months, beyond the cohort?

    "I don't fall back. The skill is mine — under pressure too, without the group too."

    One honest note up front: you won't take everything with you. Nobody does. If you finish with the two or three practices that actually rewire your system, this program has delivered — the abundance is by design, not a demand.

    Three times along the way — at the start, at the midpoint, and at the end of the integration month — the Insourcing Check shows you what's changed. No percentage promises. A before and after that belongs to you.

    Format & group.

    Format & rhythm

    • 8-week core with weekly 90-minute group sessions (phases 1–4: Awareness · Patterns · Reorientation · Daily Practice)
    • 2 integration calls (90 min each) in the third month (phase 5: Integration & Embodiment — the transfer into your leadership reality)
    • max. 8 participants, hand-picked
    • daily micro-practices via the PQ app (membership included, 1 year)
    • WhatsApp group for the stretch between sessions
    • Fundamentals booklet at the end of the program (markdown-ready for your own LLMs)
    • access to the Conscious Leaders Circle (free, unlimited)

    The group is not the add-on. It is the multiplier.

    "When you hear for the first time that the person next to you has the same inner critic, shame dissolves. 'I'm not broken — I'm human.' That is the precondition for everything else."

    A maximum of eight people, hand-picked.
    In the group, something happens that doesn't happen alone. You show up because the others show up — and you stay with it when it gets uncomfortable. You are seen, and what is seen changes faster. Seven people becoming calm with you pull your nervous system with them. And what one person speaks out loud opens the door for everyone.
    The group is the format. Transformation in community goes deeper — and it stays.

    Voices.

    Real voices from the founding cohort.

    The first voices come from the founding cohort.

    Sven Zuschlag, Entrepreneur

    Sven Zuschlag

    Entrepreneur

    “Before, I was often tired and felt remote-controlled — so many things drained my energy, and I didn't even understand why. Today I am lighter, clearer, more alive, and I sense a way forward again. My biggest mind-blow: anything can mean anything. Things carry no meaning in themselves — I am the one who gives it to them. Today I can laugh about myself and even celebrate that. My family, my kids, my team, my friends — many of them feel the change in me. If you're a founder looking for someone who won't bury you in methods, but helps you think more clearly, become calmer, and arrive back at yourself — you should talk to Marco.”

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    Michael Lützenkirchen, Entrepreneur

    Michael Lützenkirchen

    Entrepreneur

    “I came in with ten years of therapy behind me and a lot of curiosity — today I'm simply thrilled. EASE & GROW showed me that I'm allowed to love myself and to forgive myself. It reaches all the way into my closest relationships. Marco wants you to grow, and he builds a space where exactly that becomes possible. Of everything I know, this was deeper, more complex and better — and it held more than it promised.”

    Christian Chaléat, Entrepreneur

    Christian Chaléat

    Entrepreneur

    “I went in expecting more loose theory with no workable concept — and I was proven wrong. EASE & GROW is deeply pragmatic, with a remarkable learning curve: you discover things about yourself and finally understand behaviors that had always been a puzzle to you. Today I have hands-on techniques at my fingertips, a more reflective mindset and more composure under pressure — even my children say I've become gentler, with myself and with others. What carries it is the mix of substance and real connection: connection before content. It's the best program I've experienced in 25 years of personal development.”

    Markus Junge, Entrepreneur

    Markus Junge

    Entrepreneur

    “I came in under a lot of pressure. Today I'm noticeably calmer. What changed most is how I see the inner conversations we're constantly having with ourselves — they've become steadier and clearer. My two saboteurs, Hyper-Achiever and People-Pleaser, I now see coming before they have me. I use the PQ app every day. And the best part: my wife and I apply this together, in dialogue. Marco is a very considered, calm, highly developed conversation partner — someone I'd happily spend hours with any time. Having him at your side is an asset.”

    Quotes translated from German.

    More voices from the founding cohort will follow over the coming days.

    Investment.

    €2,900 (excl. VAT) — a fraction of what the pieces would cost on their own. No sales math. Just transparency:

    The 8-week program + integration month

    weekly live session, max. 8 participants, 2 integration calls

    €4,900

    1 year of PQ app membership

    daily micro-practices, seconds to minutes

    €900

    Fundamentals booklet incl. LLM version

    your reflection companion, far beyond the program

    €500

    Insourcing Check measurement (start · midpoint · close)

    with a personal read

    €300

    Module “Leading from the new state”

    the transfer into your leadership role

    €500

    In-person half-day with a shared dinner

    optional, for everyone who wants to come. We cook.

    €500

    Conscious Leaders Circle

    lifetime access (otherwise by application only)

    not sold separately

    Ease & Grow — the Emotional Insourcing cohort

    €2,900

    plus VAT

    All in: around €7,600. Your investment: €2,900 excl. VAT. Installments available — just ask.

    Start your application
    A long table for eight, candlelight, hands passing bowls — the in-person half-day with a shared dinner
    The in-person half-day: one evening, one table. We cook.
    Marco Pasini, Head Coach of Emotional Insourcing
    Marco Pasini · Head Coach

    The risk is ours, not yours.

    The Arrival Guarantee. Walk the first four weeks with us — Empathize week included. If you then feel Ease & Grow isn't your path, tell us: full refund. No reasons required, no forms, no awkward conversation.

    The Second-Round Guarantee. If, at the end, you can't say “this changed something in me” — you join the next cohort again. As our guest. We keep working with you until the shift is real.

    No fine print on either.

    How the application works.

    01

    Fill in the application

    5 MINUTES

    A short form. No CV — a few honest questions.

    02

    Fit call

    15 MINUTES

    A short conversation with Marco.

    03

    Decision

    48 HOURS

    You decide.

    Honest in both directions: if it doesn't fit, we'll tell you. You decide afterwards, in peace — no negotiation, no pressure.

    The next cohort starts in autumn 2026 — we set the exact start date once the group is complete. No fixed deadline: we review applications on a rolling basis. Eight seats, hand-picked.

    THE INNER CONTRACT

    What you're saying yes to.

    These eight weeks need no prior knowledge and no perfection. They need a stance — and a conscious decision.

    Come curious. Stay open to the possibility that what you think you know about yourself is only half the story. And go as deep as you can — not a little, but fully, for eight weeks. Because what you take with you grows in exact proportion to how fully you let yourself in.

    And most importantly: your response always belongs to you. Not as a burden — as freedom. That is the ground everything else grows on.

    Application

    You will hear back within 48 hours, possibly with an invitation to the 15-minute fit call.

    Honest answers.

    The questions people actually ask us — and the answers we'd give you on the phone.

    I don't have time for this.

    90 minutes a week, fixed in your calendar. The daily practice takes seconds to a few minutes and runs inside your day, not next to it. Most people win back more time through clearer focus than the program costs.

    Will this make me soft? I need my edge.

    You lose none of your sharpness. You just stop paying for it with wear and tear. Calm is not the opposite of performance — it's the state in which performance stops hurting. The calmest people in the room are rarely the weakest in it.

    Isn't this just another coaching thing?

    This isn't about insight. It's about training. The foundation is neurobiological, the practice is daily, the change is measurable. No incense, no platitudes.

    I've tried books, apps, and meditation.

    Knowledge without training changes nothing: the mind understands, the system doesn't learn along. What's different here: daily reps instead of reading, a group instead of going it alone, and a rhythm long enough to make it stick.

    I never keep routines longer than two weeks.

    That's why we don't work with discipline but with momentum: state first, then action. Plus practices that take seconds, an app that holds the rhythm, and a pod that carries you when you don't.

    I'm not a group person.

    The group isn't the compromise — it's the active ingredient. Eight people with real leadership responsibility, curated, confidential. If a group still isn't right for you, there are more honest paths — say so in the fit call.

    How deep does this go? I'm not looking for therapy.

    As deep as you want — you set the pace. Ease & Grow is training, not a substitute for therapy; if something else is needed, we'll say so honestly in the fit call.

    What's the ROI of €2,900?

    The honest answer isn't in euros. It's a counter-question: how many decisions do you make each year from a depleted, driven state — and what do those cost?

    How will I know it's working?

    Three Insourcing Checks: start, midpoint, close. And something no check can measure: the people around you notice first.

    I need relief now — not in three months. And what happens after?

    Week one delivers your first saboteur insight, and with it the first tangible relief. And afterwards you're not alone: Conscious Leaders Circle for life, your booklet, your companion. The program ends — the companionship doesn't.

    What happens to what I say in the group?

    It stays in the group. Confidentiality is the first rule everyone commits to — without it the format doesn't work. A maximum of eight people, hand-picked, carrying comparable responsibility. Nobody is there to assess you.

    What if I miss a session?

    It happens — you run a company. You get the session's content and practice, and we catch up on the essentials in the next session. If you miss more than two sessions, we'll talk openly about whether this is the right moment for you.

    When does the next cohort start?

    In autumn 2026. We work with rolling applications: we begin as soon as the hand-picked group of up to eight people is complete. There's no deadline and no countdown — who is in the room matters more than a date.

    How do I know this is right for me?

    You'll only know for sure after the fit call. But you can get closer before that: the Insourcing Check shows you in twelve minutes where you stand in health, leadership and relationships — visible immediately, no email required. If the result doesn't surprise you, that's an answer too.

    What if my application isn't accepted?

    Then we'll tell you directly and explain why. Usually it isn't about you but about fit: timing, group composition, what you're bringing. We'll then point you to the path that actually fits — often the Conscious Leaders Circle or a later cohort.

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