Cultivating New Stories for Humanity 2025

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): 

• $495 full tuition for the year
• To request information about a partial scholarship, please contact our Enrollment Consultant, Michele Yasuda, at enroll@hendricks.com, or 800-688-0772.

Dates:

• 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
• January 13 and 27, 2026
• February 10 and 24, 2026

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