One of the greatest tragedies—or perhaps opportunities—in modern life and commerce is the obsession with outcomes. We are sold outcomes, we sell outcomes, and we celebrate outcomes.
Outcomes aren’t inherently bad, but when treated as the only thing, they can quickly become a prison.
That imbalance can be restored through a living relationship with process and practice.
As I’ve continually turned toward them, my relationship to my work began to change. A few years ago, the way I experienced my work palpably shifted from striving toward outcomes to include tending and enjoying what already was. Not surprisingly, the last few years of my work have been the most powerful. Not *just* in the realm of tangible outcomes but in my dharma. To put it simply, I have felt more able to honestly and consistently be of service to the whole.
This season, I want to walk the spectrum of process and practice with you and, hopefully, create space for us all to come into a more profound and fresh relationship with them for the benefit of our whole lives.
The months will be organized like any good process or practice—the beginning, the middle, the end.
And then—back to the beginning again.
The gold we seek?
To stop missing the precious Life before our eyes in search of an outcome that, from this state, could never wholly satiate us. And paradoxically, to become better at being wholly satiated by outcomes—in whatever form they might take.
how immersions work
Throughout three months, walk through beautifully paced:
* monthly learning, practice, and working workshops with corresponding exercises
* monthly business circles or office hours (intimate 1:1 mentorship in your business)
* monthly community playdates or writing circles
* monthly guest workshops with Vaness Heny, Ambi Kavanagh, and Jonathan Koe
the
flow
the beginning
✶ PROCESS x OUTCOME ORIENTATION –– restoring the relationship between the two as the bridge to being wholly satiated by every success and failure in your work
✶ MOMENTUM AT THE BEGINNING –– how to reap the intelligence from all of your stopped starts and become better at choosing wisely
✶ DIFFICULTY AT THE BEGINNING –– I Ching Hexagram 3: collaborating with creative chaos and straddling the edge of the known to unknown cliff
the middle
✶ ALL OF LIFE IS CLEANING — enter the generative field of practice to become a master of the middle
✶ MAKING SMALLER CIRCLES — experiencing the truth that the quality of how you learn is vastly more important than the quantity of what is learned
✶ MONOTONY BEFORE CHANGE — reverse engineering the mechanics of a breakthrough, allowing you to stay the course
the end
(and, back to the beginning again)
✶ PIERCING THE PARADOX OF OUTCOMES — how to bring a new level of consciousness to the point in the sequence where most go unconscious—be it a perceived success or failure
✶ ONE TO TEN AND TEN TO ONE — the relationship between releasing hierarchy, childlike learning, and wisdom
✶ LEARNING BECOMES UNLEARNING — the necessity of cultivating diligence and releasing dogma in discovering endless fields of exceptions
