Our tested
methodologies

We’ve carefully curated experiences grounded in cutting-edge awareness-based technologies, trauma-informed approaches, and heart-rooted practices—developed by internationally renowned institutions, teachers, and thought leaders—to support you in manifesting your true potential.

Mindfulness

A capacity all human beings possess and can cultivate—to be aware and awake rather than operating unconsciously. Being mindful helps you come off autopilot, bringing wisdom and choice to all areas of your life.​

Created by Prof Otto Scharmer from MIT, it is an awareness-based framework for leadership, innovation and change helping individuals and groups understand current reality and explore emerging future possibilities. Can also be somatic-based through practicing Social Presencing Theater.

Presencing

A transformative psychotherapy model stating that the mind comprises multiple inner parts containing valuable qualities, which our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole.

Internal Family Systems

Heartfulness

A practical, innovative and secular approach that allows us to tune into our hearts and learn to be centered in ourselves. By strengthening that connection, we cultivate an inner knowing that guides us to become who we’re meant to be.

Polyvagal Theory

A neuroscientific and psychological approach to regulating emotions and social connection. It focuses on simple, practical adaptive behaviors that allow us to regulate our nervous system, making us feel adapted, connected and secure.

A psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals levels of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that run our lives—and how to liberate ourselves from them.

Compassionate Inquiry

—Program participant

"An experience that reconnects ​you with your true wisdom, ​essence, and humanity. It's a ​reconnection with your true ​potential."

Our programs

We offer experiential programs to help you be more aware, more aligned with your Essence, and to flourish. Programs can be custom-tailored for a group or organization.

Deep U Retreat

SPT Basics

IFS Labs

Co-Creating Balance

A three or four-day retreat to go deep within yourself, into a transforming experience. You will become more aware, connected and motivated to bring your uniqueness to the world. The retreat is run on several locations, including once per year at the end of January in beautful Kanha Shanti Vanam, in India.

The official Social Presencing Theater (SPT) Basics two-day program. SPT is an embodiment methodology developed by Arawana Hayashi and Otto Scharmer (Presencing Institute). Through simple movements and practices of presence, SPT makes visible the inner dynamics of systems and reveals their sources of innate wisdom and sanity, helping us co-create a more conscious and sustainable reality.

A two-day immersive program inspired by Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry approach. It is an invitation to deeply listen to our inner world, to recognize the various parts that make it up, and to (re)discover our Self — that calm, curious, and compassionate core that resides in all of us.

A half-day to two-day experience designed to support self and co-regulation in times of complexity and change. Blending practices from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Heartfulness, Presencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Compassionate Inquiry, the program invites participants to co-create the session, offering a flexible structure where participants choose from a range of practices based on what feels most supportive in the moment.

IFS Labs

17 e 18 de Maio de 2025
9h00 às 18h00 (com pausas e 1h30 de almoço)

Evento presencial no Centro Upaya, Calçada dos Sete Moinhos 143A, Lisboa

"O trauma não é o que nos aconteceu, mas o que aconteceu dentro de nós como consequência. A cura começa quando temos coragem de olhar para dentro — com curiosidade e compaixão, em vez de julgamento.”— Gabor Maté

IFS Labs é um programa imersivo de dois dias, inspirado no modelo Internal Family Systems (IFS) de Richard Schwartz, e na abordagem Compassionate Inquiry de Gabor Maté.

É um convite à escuta profunda do nosso mundo interior, ao reconhecimento das várias partes que o compõem e à (re)descoberta do nosso Self — esse núcleo calmo, curioso e compassivo que habita em todos nós.

EM PORTUGUÊS

SPT Basics—U Corpo

13 e 14 de Junho de 2025
9h00 às 18h00 (com pausas e 1h30 de almoço)

Evento presencial no Centro Upaya, Calçada dos Sete Moinhos 143A, Lisboa

Um convite à presença e ao futuro que quer emergir — para tornar visíveis os padrões que limitam a nossa evolução e abrir espaço para mais beleza, bondade e soluções possíveis para os desafios que enfrentamos.

O programa oficial de Social Presencing Theater (SPT), desenvolvido pelo Presencing Institute, está de volta a Lisboa. Uma oportunidade única de parar, escutar o corpo e co-criar o futuro a partir da presença plena.

(desconto early bird de -20% termina dia 13 de Maio)

EM PORTUGUÊS

One-on-One Sessions

Private consulting sessions using human flourishing methodologies.

Inner Dives

Heartfulness

A one-on-one session with Vasco, using tools and methodologies that are awareness-based, trauma-informed and heart-rooted, to reconnect with our Essence.

A three-session introduction to the way of the Heart. Heartfulness is a simple and beautiful meditation practice that connects us with our Heart, allowing us to (re)connect with our Essence/Higher Self and to manifest who we truly are in the World.

Recommendations

Some testimonials or recommendations of people we have worked with.

“It is a privilege to know Vasco. His humanity, positivity and sympathy are generators of natural energy in those who interact with him. He is a reference professionally and a model to follow.”

Anabela C.

“Vasco is a very special person. Everything he teaches comes from a very deep experience. He is extremely generous in sharing his knowledge, he has a contagious loving energy and is extremely accessible. I admire immensely his work and him as a person.”

Marina N.

“The serenity Vasco conveys, allied to his technical knowledge, his willingness to contribute to the happiness and well-being of others, his discreet sense of humor and his constant smile, make him a leader in everything he does. It's hard to find someone like Vasco - although he transmits us a lot of calm and serenity, at the same time he transmits an enormous energy and strength.”

Nélia C.

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