Nonduality Sweden Nondualistiska Föreningen

Non-profit association · Stockholm

You learned who you are.
You can examine what you learned.

Thirty sessions of structured self-inquiry, in plain secular language. No belief is required, and nothing has to be given up to begin. You only have to be willing to look.

Everything is offered free of charge — donations fund the work

Where people usually start

Some of this may sound familiar

  • You are curious about non-duality, but unsure where to begin.
  • You are looking for meaning, or for a different way of seeing how things hang together.
  • You are successful by most external measures, and quietly exhausted by it.
  • Something feels wrong, and you cannot name it — and naming it would mean admitting it.
  • You have been searching for years and are no longer sure you are getting anywhere.
  • You are at home in philosophy or consciousness research, and want to connect that to lived experience.
  • You have practised meditation for some time, and want help making sense of what you have met.

None of this is a motivation problem, and none of it requires you to surrender anything. It is a question about what you have been taking yourself to be — and that can simply be examined.

The method

Three levels of the same conversation

Conversations about meaning, identity and suffering go wrong for a predictable reason: one person is describing an experience, a second is asking for measurable data, and a third is arguing about the ultimate nature of reality. All three may be careful, and all three talk past each other. Keeping the levels apart is the first thing we do.

LEVEL 1

Operational & scientific

What can be observed, measured, compared and tested?

Behaviour · self-report · health outcomes · interventions · statistical association

LEVEL 2

Phenomenological

How does experience appear to the person living it?

Bodily sense · self-experience · meaning · relationship · presence · suffering

LEVEL 3

Ontological & philosophical

What are consciousness, matter and reality ultimately?

Physicalism · idealism · dualism · panpsychism · neutral monism · religious worldviews

You do not have to settle the third level to work on the first two. A physicalist, an idealist, a Christian, a Buddhist, an agnostic and an atheist can run the same inquiry and interpret it differently. The exercise comes first. The interpretation comes second.

Read more about the method →

Before you go further

What this is, and what it is not

We would rather be clear now than be believed for the wrong reasons.

What it is

  • A structured inquiry: thirty sessions across six phases
  • Secular language, open to any worldview
  • Careful about safety, and explicit about who it does not suit
  • Grounded in the same literature as established psychological work
  • Run by a non-profit association, free of charge

What it is not

  • Not therapy, and not a substitute for care
  • Not a validated treatment — no health claim here is established
  • Not a religion, a teaching lineage, or a community to join
  • Not a promise of transformation, awakening or relief
  • Not something you have to believe anything to try

The programme

Thirty sessions, six phases, one repeating form

The shape is deliberately plain. Every session is built the same way, so that after the first one you always know what you are walking into.

01Problem

The pattern being examined, described without drama.

02Exercise

What you actually do. Usually ten minutes.

03Misunderstandings

The predictable wrong turns, named in advance.

04Observation

What tends to become noticeable — never what must.

I

The learned self-image

How roles, comparison and judgement build the story of “I”.

II

Noticing what is happening

Thoughts and feelings as changing events rather than verdicts.

III

The observer examined

What actually appears when you look for the one who is looking.

IV

Less striving for control

How action, rest and relationship change day to day.

V

Compassion and openness

What becomes possible when less energy goes into self-defence.

VI

Integration into everyday life

The inquiry becoming ordinary, and less interested in special states.

See the full programme and the first session →

Ways to begin

Four ways to work with us

All of them are free. This is a non-profit association, and nobody takes a fee for this work.

Start here

Introductory seminar

A single session covering the three levels, what the inquiry is, and what it asks of you. Enough to decide whether to go further — and no obligation to.

Group · Online or Stockholm
In depth

Workshop

A longer session working through the early exercises together, with time for questions and for what comes up while doing them.

Group · Half or full day
One to one

Individual conversation

For working at your own pace, or with something specific. Conversation and phenomenological exercises rather than instruction.

Individual · Online or in person
The full path

The thirty sessions

The complete inquiry, worked through in order with guidance and a group. The material is written; the sequence is what matters.

Group · By arrangement

Book any of these

Groups are deliberately kept small, so places are limited. If one is full we will say so and offer you the next.

For professionals

Where this sits in the ecosystem

This is not a new treatment model, and we do not present it as one. Almost every process it uses is already described somewhere in the clinical or contemplative literature. Being explicit about that is more useful than claiming novelty.

Phases of the programme and the established frameworks each is adjacent to
PhaseAdjacent frameworksShared processesWhere we stop
I — Self-imageCBT, ACT, CFTDefusion, reappraisal, self-compassionNo abolition of roles or responsibility
II — AttentionMBCT, MCT, MBSR, yogaDecentring, presence, observationNo conclusions about the ontology of consciousness
III — The observerPhenomenology, ACT, Advaita, ZenInvestigation of self-experienceParticular care where there is fragility or dissociation
IV — ControlACT, DBT, flow researchAcceptance, experienced agency, relational presenceFunctional responsibility and boundaries remain
V — CompassionCFT, SDT, positive psychologyCare, social connectedness, engaged actionProsociality is a possibility, not a guarantee
VI — IntegrationExistential therapy, mindfulness, palliative existential careEveryday meaning, reflection on finitudeDoes not replace care, grief support or crisis management

The full comparison, including MBSR and the Three Principles →

Research

What we do not know

The thirty sessions are not a validated intervention and should not be presented as one. Saying that clearly is, we think, the precondition for being taken seriously about anything else.

One line of work is already underway: the integration of nondual experience. Experiences in which the ordinary sense of a separate observer weakens can arise in contemplative practice, in stillness, spontaneously, or within clinical care. What seems to determine whether such an experience becomes useful is how it is integrated afterwards — and integration is the step that has been studied least.

Our open questions, and what a real study would need →