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Advancing

Equipping Your Mediumship for the Public

Welcome to Advancing

The Advancing Course builds on Expansion I and II by taking your mediumship to the next level and preparing you to work with the public. Over this 10-month course, you will deepen your understanding of the professional presentation of a reading, develop a consistent and confident approach to your sittings, and advance the specificity within your evidence and messages. 

Day / Time: Sundays, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

Price: $2,613.60

Price per month (for 10 months): $271.92

Duration : 10 Months

January 12, 2025 - December 14, 2025

*Prerequisite: Completion of Expansion part I and II*

The Advancing Course builds on Expansion I and II by taking your mediumship to the next level and preparing you to work with the public. Over this 10-month course, you will deepen your understanding of the professional presentation of a reading, develop a consistent and confident approach to your sittings, and advance the specificity within your evidence and messages. 

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In the first 5 months, we will focus on one of the following 5 areas: presentation, confident approach, specifics, messages, and troubleshooting public readings

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Students will have lecture and exercises mixed in for the first 3 weeks and the final week will be a monitored public reading

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In the last 5 months, you will be required to do 3 independent public readings weekly, which will be organized by Oakbridge Institute for each student

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These recorded readings will then be discussed, reviewed, and assessed in our weekly sessions based on student questions.  

Advancing - Session 1

Advancing - Session 2

January 12, 2025 - May 25, 2025

August 3, 2025 - December 14, 2025

5 Month Course

5 Month Course

Sundays 1:00 PM-3:00 PM PST

Price: $2,613.60

Price per month (for 10 months): $271.92

Sundays 1:00 PM-3:00 PM PST

Price: $2,613.60

Price per month (for 10 months): $271.92

Modules

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Module 1 - Presentation

In month 1, we will focus on presentation. This month will help you to provide a professional and positive experience for your sitters. We will discuss how to set up your reading for the best results, gauging the need of your sitter and how to respond, and how to keep your readings on track and on time. In this month, we will focus on:

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  • Setting up your readings for success

  • How to word and phrase difficult information

  • Developing a consistent opening spiel 

  • How to adjust the energy of a sitter

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Month 2: Confident Approach

In month 2, we will focus on on developing a consistent and confident approach to your readings. How we enter into a communication with the Spirit World is everything! By developing your own process for connecting to the Spirit World and learning to adjust your frame of mind and energy, you will develop greater consistency and trust in knowing the Spirit World is working with you. In this month, you will:

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  • Discover what process best works for you to connect with the Spirit World

  • Develop greater consistency and trust in your readings

  • Understand to release tension and anxiety at the beginning of your reading

  • Get into a relaxed and receptive state of mind

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Month 3: Specifics

In month 3, we will focus on deepening our specificity in our mediumship. At this point in your development, we can truly push and stretch what kinds of information you receive. We will focus on consistently receive details such as names, dates, street addresses, passing conditions, and more. You will also learn how to answer direct questions from your sitters. In this month, you will learn:

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  • How to access greater specificity 

  • Turning something vague into something evidential

  • How to answer direct questions from your sitter 

  • Stretch what is possible within the evidence you provide

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Month 4: Messages

In month 4, we will focus on evidential messages. Messages can be the most profound part of a reading when they are spirit-led. By learning to connect to the heart of the Spirit Communicator, you will provide meaningful messages that have a healing impact for the Spirit and your sitter. In this month, you will:

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  • Deepen the evidential messages of your readings

  • Learn to connect to the heart of the Spirit Communicator

  • Provide meaningful, healing messages to your sitter

  • Honor Spirit’s voice in the messages that you give

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Month 5: Troubleshooting Working with the Public

In month 5, we will work on troubleshooting your readings. When working with the public, you never know what you’re going to get! This is your opportunity to learn how to be prepared and gracefully handle any issues that may arise. In month 5, you will:

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  • Learn how to handle skeptical, emotional, or ungrounded sitters

  • Discover what to do when nothing comes

  • Create healthy boundaries in your reading

  • Manage any distractions in your reading 

  • Get answers to questions that arise as you work with the public

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Months 6-10: Working with the Public

In months 6-10, we break away from the monthly themed modules and focus on working exclusively with the public. You will be required to do 3, 30-minute public readings per week independently. These sitters will be provided by Oakbridge Institute. Each reading will be recorded so that faculty can support you in any issues or questions that may arise. Through this kind of rigorous reading schedule and constructive feedback, you will advance in your public work as a medium. In the last 5 months, you will:

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  • Gain the practical, hands-on experience of at least 60 public readings

  • Get constructive feedback on your readings

  • Develop greater confidence in your ability to work on your own

  • Begin your work as a public working medium

Advancing : Equipping Your Mediumship for the Public

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Day / Time: Sundays, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

Duration : 10 Months

Price: $2,613.60

Price per month (for 10 months): $271.92

Session I Dates:

January 12, 2025 - May 25, 2025

Session II Dates:

August 3, 2025 - December 14, 2025

About the Instructors

About
Medium 

Michael Mayo

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Michael Mayo is an internationally trained medium, astrologer, and spiritual teacher. He developed his mediumship in the United Kingdom under mediums such as Gordon Smith (School of Intuitive Studies) and Eileen Davies (Arthur Findlay College). While developing his mediumship, Michael graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior and a BA in Drama.

 

Michael brings a practical, grounded, and evidential style to his spiritual work. With his passion for teaching and helping others discover their own unique spiritual connection, he has taught and studied in the US, Europe, and Australia. Michael is also a second-generation astrologer with over 20 years of understanding astrological theory. He teaches and holds workshops throughout the United States and abroad; helping others explore and personally develop through the understanding of astrology.

 

Blending his many spiritual gifts and skills with a practical, grounded results-oriented approach, Michael helps you to discover your strengths, what holds you back and empowers you to discover your own inner strength and grit. He provides a safe, positive, and supportive environment for each person that comes to his workshops, development circles or consultations. Throughout his many years of working with the Spirit World, he has brought messages of love and hope from those on the higher side of life. His greatest mission is to show that life, like love, is eternal.

About
Medium 

Megan Alisa

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Megan Alisa has developed her mediumship under some of the most accurate & well-respected mediums working today, such as Michael Mayo, Eileen Davies, Gordon Smith and travels regularly to study at the world-famous Arthur Findlay College in England to continue her development. Through her mediumship, love, and dedication to serving Spirit, she helps developing mediums understand the part of themselves that is eternal and their true potential for connection to the divine. Megan has a heart-centered, down to earth and easy to understand approach when teaching and also facilitates both private sittings and public demonstrations of mediumship. You can find her on YouTube, Tiktok, and Instagram, as well as schedule readings on her website.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“... [Michael has] levity, joy, respect, and responsibility for the spirit world…”
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I have had the distinct pleasure to work alongside Michael Mayo and attend one of his mediumship trainings. I think he’s one of the finest mediumship instructors and scholars. He draws from a myriad of years of hard and serious discipline, yet through his devotion to the work, has never lost the levity, joy, respect, and responsibility for the spirit world... If you are serious about developing your abilities, I would sign up immediately and initiate your wondrous journey with this earthly angel.

JAMES VAN PRAAGHNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR / TV SHOW HOST / MEDIUMSHIP PIONEER

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