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About

Klia Bassing

MBA, MPP

Klia Bassing on NBC news

Talk given February 2025 on Untapped Inner Wisdom: The Key to Healing

Klia Bassing, on the stage, rings a bell to end a meditation for World Bank staff. 2017. Photo credit: World Bank Group

 
 
 
I teach facilitators, therapists, coaches, and spiritual teachers a way of working I call Inner Wisdom Facilitation — helping people access the wisdom they already have.​​​​

​In 2000, debilitating shame around emotional eating and body image sent me on a long physical, emotional, and spiritual search. What I slowly discovered was that the urges I was fighting were simply scared parts of me that had never had a loving, wise presence to turn to — and that this presence had been here all along, within me and beyond me. When those scared parts finally felt its warmth, they no longer had to carry their burdens alone.

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That discovery changed the course of my life. I left my career in international development at the World Bank to share these practices, and over the next fifteen years I taught in multinational banks, U.S. government agencies, law firms, and corporations — working with thousands of people through their own healing. My work has been featured by Agence France-Presse, NBC, ABC, NPR, The Washington Post, and TEDx.​

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​​Today I facilitate individuals and international groups in emotional healing, intuition, and awakening. (To see my work with clients, you can access these short videos.) I also train the next circle of facilitators to do the same. Inner Wisdom Facilitator Training is where I pass on this way of working: how to create the safety and belonging that let wisdom come forward, and how to trust it, in your clients and in yourself.

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Inner Wisdom Facilitation isn't another system to adopt in place of the one you love. It's modality-agnostic — it asks nothing about where the wisdom comes from, so it weaves into what you already practice. Facilitators who arrive trained in modalities such as IFS, Inner Relationship Focusing, nondual inquiry, or mindfulness tend to find it deepens their existing work.

Partial list of corporate clients:

  • World Bank Group/IMF/IFC

  • United Bank of Switzerland

  • Organization of American States

  • Overseas Private Investment Corp.

  • Internal Revenue Service

  • U.S. Department of Justice

  • Library of Congress

  • ​Fannie Mae

  • Whole Foods

  • ​Kaiser Permanente

  • American Psychological Association

  • ​The National Academies (of Science)

  • Discovery (Channel) Communications

  • America's Health Insurance Plans

  • ​​The Washington Post

  • Crowell & Moring, LLP

  • Van Ness Feldman, LLP

  • Jackson & Campbell, P.C.

  • Georgetown Law School

  • American University

  • University of Maryland

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