Cultivating New Stories for Humanity 2025

An online program that meets twice a month (Tuesday mornings, 9–10:30 am Pacific Time) for A YEAR to share discoveries, practices and applications for the practices. Katie will introduce the month’s focus, and the cultivating team will guide the second meeting. 

Dates: January 14 and 28, 2025, February 11 and 25, 2025, March 11 and 25, 2025, April 8 and 22, 2025, May 13 and 27, 2025, June 10 and 24, 2025, July 8 and 22, 2025, August 12 and 26, 2025, September 9 and 23, 2025, October 14 and 28, 2025, November 4 and 11, 2025, December 9 and 16, 2025.

 

Humans love stories, whether they appear on the walls of caves or on YouTube. Stories can transmit generations of treasured learning or generations of fear-laced danger signs and completely contradictory messages. Our old collective stories are bankrupting our connections to each other and our world, old stories like:

• Us vs. them
• Me better than you
• Speed and adrenaline rule
• The rugged individual triumphs

 

 

What old stories have you noticed draining your aliveness and choice? Humans forget that they made up these stories and believe they are real. Here’s the deal — if we made them up, we can make up new ones. When we consider the stories that drove the last decade or so in our communities, what emerges is, and this is my loud voice, WE NEED NEW STORIES.

 

Our community has been exploring innovative ways to weave presence, connection and collaboration for several years now. We have gathered materials and practices that can generate new ways of being together and amplify a collective shift in how we live these new stories individually and in community.

 

What if you could build a new framework at the center of your life that created brand new stories about:

≈Aligning rather than dividing

≈Fueling from creativity rather than adrenaline/fear

≈Collaborating from connection and resonance rather than power over

≈Navigating from your intuitive GPS

≈Initiating from curiosity and play rather than force and control

≈Experiencing yourself and others as evolving works of art

 

We’ll actively play with recognizing and shifting the context of old stories that often remain invisible. For example, did you ever think you’d see The Emperor’s New Clothes living outside a storybook? Why does contextual intelligence matter? When you change the context you change the game. Contextual moves have the most leverage, the highest impact for energy expended. One of the most common interactional contexts in our culture is the Drama Triangle, where people occupy either the Villain (blaming), Victim (complaining) or Hero (jumping in to rescue or fix without being asked) role. If you look anywhere in society you’ll see this context operating, and it’s based in and powered by fear. Buckminster Fuller pointed clearly to the deeper problem of our obsession with content:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality (running around the triangle from victim to villain to hero). To change something, build a new model (changing the context and the story) that makes the existing model obsolete.”

I want to live in a world where presence, caring and connection generate the economy, support the emergence of genius and living our lives as works of art. If you would, too, please read on.

 

The Outline  

You can make these practices as choiceless as brushing your teeth every day and as pleasurable as enjoying your favorite dessert. They can live in your cells and all your interactions and guide you toward more and more freedom and connection with life.

 

Harnessing Fear Juice to Create New Stories

We’ll be exploring how to release the energy of fear to fuel our creative and connected lives.

• The bullish intransigence of fight/fear can liberate the ability to challenge and to forge new alliances to disrupt ancient patterns.
• The vanishing energy of flee/fear can morph into readiness,the active poise that top tennis players use as they seem able to pivot in any direction.
  • The deer-in-the-headlights hard stop of freeze/fear can convert to pausing and locating, a doorway to presence and new choice.
  • The overwhelm or drained sinking of faint/fear can transform into nourishing and connecting with your inner landscape and the outer world of new collaborators.

 

 New Stories About States of Consciousness

We’ll be reviewing our exploration of what we call Mass (Newtonian), Energy (Einsteinian) and Space (Quantum) states of consciousness and manifestation that weave new possibilities with the practices we’ll explore.

 

Each month we’ll dive into a particular context with practices, reading, handouts and experiments you can take into your day-to-day experience to give life to new stories. Here are the twelve hubs we’ll explore over the year:

Freeing and Expressing Your Essential self

Opening to Contact and Being Affected

Discerning What Happened from the Story

Living in the Deep Power of Integrity

Choosing from a Clear Experience of “Yes” and “No”

Transforming Fear to Presence, Protection to Connection, Work to Play

Getting Relentlessly, Radically Real

Listening with Generous Appreciation

Knowing How to Reliably Get Things Done

Giving Attention with Flexibility and Focus

Dancing with Contexts

Changing Thoughts and Internal States by Choice

 

Is This Seminar for You?

Some of the Benefits that People Are Enjoying from These Practices:

≈Increases self-awareness and self-love

≈Enhances empathy and compassion for self and others

≈Facilitates authentic expression and connection

≈Liberates essence and boosts aliveness

≈Encourages humor and lightness in life

≈Expands creative possibilities and learning

≈Reduces drama and projections, aligning with reality

≈Enhances personal responsibility and creative power

≈Develops decision-making and alignment

≈Fosters integrity and satisfaction with commitments

≈Embodies genuine connections and invites others to be real

≈Creates a relaxing and open space for discovery and expression

≈Prevents burnout and conserves energy

≈Transforms daily tasks into joyful and satisfying play

≈Shifts old patterns and beliefs

≈Supports personal authenticity in any situation

≈Enhances emotional and energetic agency

 

The Practical Scoop

• One-year program
• Online gatherings twice a month (Tuesday mornings, 9–10:30 am Pacific Time) for A YEAR to share discoveries, practices and applications for the practices. Katie will introduce the month’s focus in the first meeting, and the cultivating team will guide the second meeting.
• Practice circles and partners (optional) to share your journey
• Ways to use the Impeccable Integrity Deck to support your daily practice at home, in relationship and at work
• Guest visitors and other surprises to share the further reaches of inside-out living
• Recorded calls for later review
• Private discussion group on Mighty Networks

 

TUITION (per person): 

• $1,495 full tuition for the year
• $900 for Military (Active Duty or Veterans), Active/Enrolled Students, First Responders (Firefighters, EMTs/Paramedics, Police Officers). To receive this rate, you must meet the designation and communicate directly with our Enrollment Consultant, Michele Yasuda, at [email protected], or 800-688-0772.

Dates:

January 14 and 28

February 11 and 25

March 11 and 25

April 8 and 22

May 13 and 27

June 10 and 24

July 8 and 22

August 12 and 26

September 9 and 23

October 14 and 28

November 4 and 11

December 9 and 16

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