YRP CERTIFIED FACILITATORS

Find the person you want beside you.

Mary Carns-Bateman
Barbara Tuttle
Yvonne Wdowiak
Viktoria Verkerk
Heather Bedy

Sometimes you know something is happening underneath the surface.

You keep having the same reaction.

The same kind of relationship keeps showing up.

Something someone says hits harder than you think it should.

You know better, but in the moment, you still react the same way.

You may not know what belief is underneath it.

You don't have to.

Your Return Path™ Certified Facilitators are trained to help you recognize what may be operating beneath the reaction and guide you through the YRP methodologies they are specifically certified to facilitate.

They know the process.

You remain the authority on your life.

THE WORK

The trigger is where we begin.

Bagwork™

Bagwork™ was created by Tiffany Walker and became the foundational methodology upon which the work of Your Return Path™ was built.

Bagwork helps you identify and clear the unconscious limiting beliefs that can sit underneath the way you react, feel, and experience what happens in your life.

And one of the most useful places to find those beliefs is inside a trigger.

Someone says something.

Something happens.

You feel rejected, angry, embarrassed, threatened, abandoned, dismissed, or not enough.

It can feel as though the circumstance itself is causing the pain.

Bagwork asks a different question:

What are you afraid this means about you or to you?

That question begins to move underneath the circumstance and toward the meaning your mind has attached to it.

Because the belief underneath a trigger isn't always obvious.

It may have been operating for so long, and so automatically, that you don't consciously recognize it as a belief anymore. You simply experience the reaction as real, immediate, and true.

This is where a Certified Bagwork™ Facilitator is trained to help.

They listen to the trigger, ask questions, and help you follow what is happening beneath the surface until the limiting belief maintaining the reaction can be identified.

From there, they guide you through the Bagwork™ process to work with and clear that belief.

The goal isn't to convince you that the circumstance doesn't matter.

It is to help you recognize what you are making the circumstance mean, so you have greater freedom in how you respond.

The circumstance may be the trigger.

The meaning is where the work begins.

Pattern Breakthrough Method™

Sometimes the belief underneath a reaction is part of a larger pattern.

You may understand what you're doing and still find yourself repeating it.

The same relationship dynamic.

The same response to conflict.

The same way of hiding, overworking, people pleasing, controlling, avoiding, or abandoning what you actually want.

Pattern Breakthrough Method™ was created by Jack Walker to help identify and work with the deeper patterns that can continue operating even when you consciously know better.

A Certified Pattern Breakthrough Method™ Facilitator is trained to help you investigate what may be maintaining the pattern, recognize what has been difficult to see from inside it, and work with you through the PBM process toward greater conscious choice.

Bagwork™ works with the limiting beliefs underneath what you're experiencing.

Pattern Breakthrough Method™ works with the recurring patterns that can keep shaping what you do.

Some YRP facilitators are certified in Bagwork™ only. Others have completed additional certification in Pattern Breakthrough Method™.

Each facilitator's profile clearly identifies the YRP methodologies they are certified to facilitate.

WHAT CERTIFICATION MEANS

Trained in the process. Not appointed as the authority.

Certification means something specific at Your Return Path™.

Our facilitators have completed training and demonstrated their ability to facilitate the YRP methodology identified on their profile.

They may ask questions.

They may notice something you haven't noticed.

They may challenge you to look underneath what initially appears to be the problem.

They may help you recognize a limiting belief or pattern that has become difficult to see from inside your own experience.

But they are not trained to tell you who you are, what your truth is, or what decision you should make.

The facilitator protects the process. You remain the authority.

That distinction matters to us.

CHOOSING A FACILITATOR

Same methodology. Different humans.

Every facilitator brings her own personality, life experience, professional background, perspective, and way of relating to the work.

We believe those differences matter.

  • You may want someone gentle and spacious.
  • Someone direct and practical.
  • Someone highly intuitive.
  • Someone analytical.
  • Someone grounded in the relationship between mind and body.

There isn't one correct personality for this work.

The profiles below are here to help you get a feel for the person you may want sitting beside you while you do it.

Your Return Path™ certification applies specifically to the YRP methodologies identified on each facilitator's profile. Facilitators may have additional training, practices, credentials, or professional offerings outside Your Return Path™ that are independently their own.

MEET OUR CERTIFIED FACILITATORS
Mary Carns-Bateman

Mary Carns-Bateman

  • Certified Bagwork™ Facilitator
  • Certified Pattern Breakthrough Method™ Facilitator

Expansive. Intuitive. Unconventional.

Mary brings a deeply intuitive and expansive presence to the work.

She has spent years exploring personal growth, spirituality, and the many ways human beings make meaning of their lives. Her approach is highly individualized, and she has a natural ability to make room for both the deeply practical and the deeply mysterious.

Mary doesn't need someone to leave their spiritual or intuitive way of experiencing the world at the door in order to do meaningful breakthrough work.

She brings curiosity, depth, imagination, and a willingness to go somewhere unexpected when the work asks for it.

Connect with Mary if: You are drawn to personal growth that leaves room for intuition, spirituality, curiosity, and a larger sense of meaning.

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Barbara Tuttle

Barbara Tuttle

  • Certified Bagwork™ Facilitator

Gentle. Steady. Spacious.

Barbara brings a gentle, steady presence to the work, shaped in part by her understanding of what it means to move through difficult seasons of life and find your way to the other side.

She is thoughtful and subtle. She doesn't need to overpower the room to help someone go somewhere meaningful.

Barbara creates room for things to emerge at their own pace and understands that meaningful change doesn't always have to be loud.

There can be enormous strength in being met quietly, without pressure to perform your growth.

Connect with Barbara if: You appreciate a softer presence and want space to explore what is underneath your experience without feeling pushed or rushed.

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Yvonne Wdowiak

Yvonne Wdowiak

  • Certified Bagwork™ Facilitator

Grounded. Warm. Embodied.

Yvonne brings a grounded, body-aware presence to her work.

Her years of working closely with people through a body-based professional practice have given her a particular sensitivity to the ways stress, emotion, and old patterns can become part of our lived experience.

She brings warmth, attentiveness, and an embodied way of listening to the work, creating space for people to slow down enough to notice what may actually be happening underneath a reaction.

Yvonne understands that sometimes we experience something long before we have language for it.

Connect with Yvonne if: You appreciate a warm, grounded approach and tend to experience what is happening in your life as much through your body and emotions as through your thoughts.

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Viktoria Verkerk

Viktoria Verkerk

  • Certified Bagwork™ Facilitator

Direct. Practical. Capable.

Viktoria brings strong, grounded leadership to the work.

She understands responsibility, decision-making, professional environments, and what it means to keep moving when life asks a lot of you.

She's smart, practical, and brings the kind of insight that comes not only from what you've learned, but from what you've actually lived.

Viktoria isn't interested in making personal growth unnecessarily complicated. She brings clarity, personal responsibility, and a willingness to lean into what is actually happening.

Connect with Viktoria if: You carry a lot of responsibility, appreciate directness, and want someone grounded and practical who is willing to get into the work with you.

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Heather Bedy

Heather Bedy

  • Certified Bagwork™ Facilitator
  • Certified Pattern Breakthrough Method™ Facilitator

Thoughtful. Analytical. Sharp.

Heather brings a sharp mind and an intellectually curious approach to the work.

With a strong academic and corporate background, she understands the experience of being highly capable, analytical, and accustomed to figuring things out.

And she also understands an important distinction at the heart of Your Return Path™: Understanding something doesn't necessarily stop the pattern.

Heather brings thoughtfulness, curiosity, personal responsibility, and a strong interest in how the choices we make affect both our own lives and the world around us.

She is especially skilled at meeting complexity without needing to oversimplify it.

Connect with Heather if: You are analytical, professionally capable, intellectually curious, or accustomed to understanding things with your mind and want to explore what may still be operating underneath what you already know.

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WHAT CAN I BRING TO A SESSION?

Start with what's happening now.

You don't need the perfect issue.

You don't need to understand why you're doing what you're doing.

And you don't need to know which belief is underneath it.

Bring the thing that's alive.

The conversation you can't stop replaying.

The reaction that surprised you.

The choice you keep avoiding.

The same relationship dynamic happening again.

The fear that doesn't seem to make logical sense.

The place where you know something needs to change but can't seem to move it.

Start there.

Your facilitator will help you investigate what may be underneath it.

THE WORK IS YOURS

A good facilitator doesn't hand you your truth.

They help create the conditions in which you can hear it.

That principle sits underneath Your Return Path™, our methodologies, and the way our facilitators are trained.

Ask. Listen. Discern. Choose.

What you discover belongs to you.

What you decide belongs to you.

What you do next belongs to you.

Your Life. Your Way.