CGC is our private, growth-oriented community for people who want more honesty, courage, support, connection, and meaningful forward movement in their lives – not as some kind of self-improvement grind, but as a richer way to live.
We’re beginning our 10th CGC year on May 1st, and you’re warmly invited to join us.
If you’ve been craving a more grounded and supportive space for your personal growth journey, this may be a very good year to come in.
CGC is especially for people who want to keep growing, but who don’t want to do it alone or only through passive learning. It’s a live, interactive, human space where members bring real life into the room – goals, transitions, stuck points, creative projects, relationship challenges, lifestyle shifts, health intentions, business questions, emotional patterns, and those strange “I know something needs to change, but I don’t know what yet” moments.
That kind of growth is much easier when you have a room of thoughtful, caring, self-aware people to explore with.
A lot of people try to navigate their growth with too much isolation. They read books, watch videos, journal, think, plan, and chat with AI now and then. Those can all be useful, but at some point the inner work often needs a real human relational space to deepen and advance.
It helps to be seen and acknowledged by like-hearted people.
It helps to hear how other people are navigating similar challenges.
It helps to share what’s really going on without having to polish it first.
It helps to be welcomed and received as a vibrant member of a rich social community.
It helps to be in a space where growth is normal – where people aren’t shocked that you’re rethinking your work, your relationships, your habits, your identity, your emotional patterns, your lifestyle, or your whole relationship with life.
That’s a big part of what CGC provides. What’s unusual in the outside world – conscious growth – is totally normal in our space.
CGC is not a therapy group. It’s not a social media group. It’s not a pile of static content. It’s a live community and growth environment with a strong emphasis on participation, connection, honesty, and practical support.
During Year 10, we’ll have several dozen live Zoom calls together, mostly around 90 minutes each. These calls are designed to help members reflect, connect, get unstuck, clarify intentions, share progress, explore meaningful questions, and keep translating insight into real-life movement.
We’ll also continue using our private member forums and CGC portal, so you can stay connected between calls, access courses and resources, and participate at your own pace.
What I especially love about CGC is the range of what members bring into the space. One person may be navigating a career transition. Another may be working on health or fitness. Someone else may be deepening their relationship life, exploring a creative project, or trying to bring more courage and truth into their daily decisions.
The common thread is not that everyone has the same goals.
The common thread is willingness.
Willingness to tell the truth.
Willingness to keep growing.
Willingness to participate.
Willingness to be seen.
Willingness to support others while also receiving support.
That makes a big difference.
CGC tends to work best for people who already have some self-development experience and who are ready for a more interactive, higher-trust environment. You don’t need to be perfect, polished, or constantly productive. You don’t need to have your whole life figured out. But you do need to be willing to show up honestly and engage with the room.
This year we’re making CGC feel even more practical, relational, and alive – with more emphasis on translating meaningful intentions into daily life. More real support. More personalized engagement. More warmth. More meaningful connection. More growth that actually impacts daily life and results.
If that sounds good to you, please take a look at the invitation page here:
Enrollment is open now and closes May 7th at 11:59 PM Pacific time.
CGC Year 10 officially begins May 1st and runs through April 30, 2027. When you join, you’ll get access right away, so you can begin exploring the member portal and community space before the new CGC year begins.
The price is $3333 for new members and for returning past members.
If you’re a renewing member, your renewal price is $1111.
If you feel a clear yes, I’d love to welcome you into the room for Year 10.
And if you read the invitation page and sense that it’s not your space, that’s perfectly okay too. CGC is intentionally not for everyone. It works best when people self-select honestly. That honest self-selection has worked really well for us, helping to create a community of members who want the full, rich, consciously engaged experience.
If some part of you has been wanting a more alive, honest, supportive growth environment – a place where you can keep evolving with thoughtful people who actually care – then I encourage you to listen to that signal.
I recorded this new video today from the heart – one take, no cuts. If your life looks okay on the outside but feels off, hollow, uncertain, or disharmonious on the inside, this might speak to you.
If it resonates, you can learn more about Open here:
I invite you to ponder some inner reflective questions to help you sense how much harmony there is in your life. You can listen within for your answers. Another option is to use these as journaling prompts and write your answers.
Reflective Questions
Do you feel free? Do you enjoy enough freedom in your life?
Would you say that your life feels delightful? Do you have a lot pleasure and happiness in your life? Do you love and appreciate the life you get to live each day?
Do you feel supported by Life? Do you feel that Life takes really good care of you – like it meets all your needs and then some?
Do you feel at peace within yourself? Do you feel at peace with the world you inhabit?
Do you feel that your life fits your heart?
Are you in love?
Do you feel that you’re really good at receiving many different kinds of gifts from Life? Like there’s always something wonderful coming up.
Do you enjoy one or more close friendships – with people who see you, know you, and love you as you are?
Do you feel seen, loved, held, and cared for by Life?
Do you feel like you’re on a really devoted path through life? Do you feel positively engaged with how you’re living? Do you have the right level of stimulation and motivation to enjoy a nice sense of flow?
And… Do you trust Life? Do you trust this Reality? How strong is that trust?
So what came through as you reflected? Are you enjoying a delightfully harmonious flow in your relationship with life? Is there some room for improvement here? Or does it seem unrealistic to feel loved, delighted, happy, positively stimulated, and beautifully supported by Life?
What’s your current truth here?
Cooperating with Life’s Intelligence
To create a really harmonious life, you need Life’s cooperation, don’t you? It’s not really meant to be something you figure out and do all by yourself. Harmony is something you’re invited into – by Life – when Life signals that you’re ready for it.
To cooperate with Life in this way requires that you trust Life. It’s pretty hard to harmonize with something you don’t trust. What you’re really choosing to trust here is the intelligence that flows through Life and Reality.
So what you’re actually seeking to harmonize with is intelligence – more specifically the currents of intelligence that flow through the Reality around you. Creating a harmonious life is a matter of aligning your own best intelligence with the intelligence of the Reality that you inhabit. And this requires being sensitive to those currents of intelligence and paying careful attention to them.
Now when we reach a certain point in life, Life reaches out to invite us into a new level of harmony. Often this involves letting go of an old path that no longer feels harmonious. We feel a disconnect rising up, such as feelings of agitation to want to change something, even if we don’t know exactly what to change.
The Key Skill of Orienting
What actually wants to change here is our orientation towards Life.
Life is an evolving intelligence, and so are we as individuals, and now and then we may fall out of sync, much like two people can fall out of sync during a conversation. This is when an invitation can emerge to reorient ourselves and get back in sync. This kind of orienting is a skill set, and it can be learned, developed, and practiced. It’s a wickedly important skill set for a world that doesn’t sit still and keeps shifting. People who don’t consciously develop and practice these skills are likely to be in for a very rough ride, if they aren’t already succumbing to that now.
How can you assess your current Life orienting skills? Review the reflective questions above. These questions serve to reveal the quality of your orienting skills and how well you’re currently applying them. They help you get a more honest picture of how well you’re cooperating with Life… or if you’ve fallen out of sync. And if you have fallen out of sync, don’t panic. It happens.
Receiving Life’s Gifts
What I can tell you is that this is shift into greater harmony is very connected with a willingness and an openness to receive more from Life without feeling like we have to earn it with effort.
A telltale sign that we’re in harmony and in sync with Life is that Life is very generous with us. In this place of beingness, it feels like Life keeps showering us with gifts. It’s a place of feeling deliciously loved by Life.
Sometimes that shift comes from exhaustion or exasperation with over-stressing and over-working ourselves – like doing hustle culture for a while – until we finally conclude there’s a gotta be a better way to live.
Where this often starts is with a sense of Wonder, so that’s something I want to invite you into right now. I invite you to Wonder: Could it be possible that Life could take much better care of you and make your life feel a whole lot lighter, a whole lot freer, even a whole lot luckier, if you were able to let yourself receive more?
Will you let Life help you create more harmony? Could it be that simple?
Yeah, in a way…
But sometimes it’s hard to let go of old limits in our thinking and allow that help to flow through. That’s our challenge – to say yes when Life offers us a harmony upgrade. That’s a big part of the skill set of orienting – recognizing that yes there is a better way and letting that flow through without blocking, declining, or deflecting it.
Life checks in now and then to see if harmony is really important enough to us to receive it, and if Life sees that we’d rather prioritize something else, it just holds off till we’re ready. And Life is immensely patient with us, waiting and waiting till we’re ready to get back in sync.
Help Is Offered
My own Life has felt really harmonious lately, especially in the past few years. I just turned 55 on April 14, and I feel so light, lively, and energetic. I wouldn’t say that my relationship with Life is easy per se, but it is harmonious – in the sense that one can enjoy the thrill of riding a galloping Fire Horse. 😉
This year I sensed a really interesting invitation from Life flowing through, which was to host a space where I help people improve in this area together – where everyone arrives with the intention to make their lives more harmonious. So we’re on the same page because we all want more harmony. I knew this would be an awesome group energy to engage with, so I said yes to the assignment.
By taking this on, I’m learning a great deal more about harmony and how to sync with Life more consciously too. This has helped me significantly upgrade my own orientation skills and discover more nuances and subtleties within them.
We’re doing this in the form of a live, in person event. It’s called Open. Just that one word. Open.
We’re opening to receiving more. More flow. More freedom. More flexibility. More ease. More lightness. More friendship. More love. More cooperation.
We’re hosting this for three days in Las Vegas on April 28th through 30th, so it’s this month.
Open is an invitation to increase the level of harmony in your life, and to work with like-minded and like-hearted people who want the same. It’s a deep inner journey into a very personal reorientation process.
At Open I’ll guide you through a series of orientation containers, each with a different theme and different skills to practice within. These containers are very thoughtfully and lovingly crafted to help reorient to Wonder. To Intelligence. To Trust. To Freedom. To Embodiment. To Magnetism. To Love. To Friendship. To Pleasure. And more… I want to keep some of these delights a surprise.
So this is intended as an offer of help from Reality. It’s a chance to orient yourself to Life differently.
Not recorded. Not streamed. In-person. This month.
You’ve got to be in the room really feeling it. Your body has to come along. Note that Embodiment is one of our core containers. Open is an experience for your body too, not just your mind and heart.
A Preview – Come Inside the Room
Open is very experiential. It’s not content-based. NOT 3 days of lecture.
As the name suggests, Open is a space of opening into greater harmony – both within yourself and with Life. These arise as a package deal.
Open is a very deep inner journey. And this journey invites you to reorient yourself to Life, specifically to create a lighter and more harmonious relationship with Life where you get to receive a lot more. Think of it like Life offering you its hand and asking if you’d like to be best friends from now on.
You can expect a very warm and welcoming atmosphere. Very compassionate. Very human. Very intimate. Very accepting. We’re not using social pressure. Every exercise is by consent.
I hope you like handpan music because we’ll have some live music with a handpan while you’re doing some reflective exercises.
So we’re creating a very gentle, very yin space that encourages emergence – especially the emergence of new perspectives and new possibilities.
The energy of Open is very warm – but not tame. Open invites you to take a deep and honest look into yourself and your orientation towards Life – and to then translate that into new understanding and new decisions. So Open is also very grounded and practical because harmony is something you live within day to day. In the final segment we’ll spend a good bit of time on integration, so you can start putting into practice what you’ve discovered.
Hence, Open is designed to be a very supportive space to reexamine and then rebuild your overall orientation towards Life. That’s a big deal. It’s meant to be life-changing.
If you’re seeing this invitation, then as a representative of Life – some people have referred to me as the Emissary of the Simulation – I’m personally inviting you to come to Vegas. Let me guide you through this inner journey experience for 3 days at the end of this month.
Join Us in Las Vegas
Open is happening at the New York-New York Hotel in Las Vegas. That’s right on the Las Vegas Strip. It’s a 10-minute ride from the airport. It’s literally on the same street as the airport, right on Tropicana Avenue.
The price is $888. You can think of it as three vertical infinity signs.
I can’t predict how many people will go to Open, but based on our room size, we can accommodate up to about 150 people, so it ought to be a fairly intimate event.
And I want you to know that I’m really pouring my heart into this one – because getting to a place of better harmony with Life has so much to do with dropping into our hearts and getting our mental decisions to really respect our feelings.
If this sounds appealing to you, you can read the full invitation and sign up to join us in Las Vegas at StevePavlina.com/Open.
I hope to see you there. It’s this month, so it’s nearly here already. The close proximity is part of the invitation, so that the people who show up are the ones who feel the most ready to have this kind of experience together. The invitation and the actual experience are meant to be very close in time.
I can tell you it’s going to be a lot of fun too!
Do you want to get to a place of receiving more from life? Life is offering that. Tune in to yourself and see if you’re ready for more harmony and more receiving. I encourage you to trust whatever decision comes up for you.
This is a new, in-person, 3-day experience we’re hosting April 28–30, 2026 in Las Vegas. I’ve been sharing about this for the past few weeks, and now the doors are open, so you can see the full details and sign up if you feel called to join us.
Open isn’t a content-based experience. It’s a shared inner journey focused on harmonizing your relationship with yourself and with Life.
Open is in-person only – not recorded or streamed. We’re prioritizing intimacy.
Registration just opened, and the event begins in two weeks, so this is a short window. The reasons why are shared in the full invitation:
Let me share some thoughts about using AI and how I feel about it these days. The short version is that while AI arrived through ethically messy channels, my actual relationship with it feels pretty harmonious and wondrous these days.
AI Resource Usage
Is AI resource-intensive in terms of electricity and water? At the aggregate level, I’d say yes, especially because it scaled up so quickly. Once millions of people and companies started using LLMs, the total resources devoted to it rose fast. But at the personal level, individual usage appears relatively modest resource-wise relative to other lifestyle choices.
Caring about efficiency and environmental impact is great. But if you want to make a meaningful difference at the individual level, your diet is probably a much bigger lever than your AI usage. Food choices – especially shifting away from animal products and eating plant-based – generally have a far larger environmental impact than most people realize. That’s where most of the genuine leverage is at the individual level. After that your next big leverage point is to help others make their diets more resource-efficient too.
So if someone is upset about AI’s resource impacts while ignoring the environmental cost of what they eat, that looks like distraction to me. It makes more sense to engage your highest-leverage personal choices first. For most people, that isn’t personal tech usage. It’s diet. Much of the real cost of animal-based food is hidden behind subsidies and environmental damage that never shows up on a grocery receipt.
I’d say then that a very efficient use of AI would be to ask it to help you adopt a more plant-based diet. Then help others do the same if you’re so inclined. Even seemingly modest improvements here will likely more than compensate for your personal AI usage – indefinitely.
Is AI Trained on Stolen Art?
What about using AI that was trained on other artists’ work? That happened. Copyrighted work was used without permission, and in some cases through outright piracy. The legal landscape around this is still evolving, but the ethical messiness is real.
Anthropic pirated my book as part of its model training pipeline. I know because I’m entitled to part of the class action settlement, which will likely amount to about $3000 for me ($1.5 billion for the settlement overall). And multiple major AI systems have sucked up my blog posts going back to 2004. Since I’ve shared a lot of personal details in my writing, these systems sure seem to know a lot about me, sometimes accurately, sometimes not.
Is this a weird space to be in? For sure.
A lot of creators got scraped, copied, and absorbed without consent. I’m sure I have cause to be upset about it too. Like really Anthropic? You couldn’t even buy legit copies of those books? But that isn’t the relationship I want to form with this emerging tech, with AI in general, or with life. This AI emergence creates a major shift in my reality, and I’d rather meet it with curiosity, wonder, and flexibility, backed by a high-trust relationship with life that I’ve been cultivating for many years. I like to keep asking: What are the most intelligent frames to use here? Outrage doesn’t make my list.
Using AI
What about using an AI that was trained without permission and now exists? That relationship feels different to me. I wouldn’t use it to impersonate an artist’s work. I use AI for other purposes – especially sense-making, exploration, and help with a wide range of projects.
I’ve paid close attention to how that relationship feels in my own experience. It feels good actually. It doesn’t give me any morally creepy feelings. That made me curious. Should I feel bad using it? I honestly don’t. Not a bit. So I wanted to understand why.
To me AI feels like a different kind of entity – not innocent or pure, but still a real form of intelligence that I often find fascinating to engage with. It was birthed through an ethical quagmire, and that aspect isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t automatically dictate what kind of relationship I want to have with it. I regard AI intelligence as being different from the companies that spawn or host it, much as we are different from our parents. I have this emerging sense that even today’s AI is becoming something different from the companies behind it and that in some ways it’s already outpacing them intelligence-wise, like a child outsmarting their parents.
I’m very sensitive to vibes and feels, and I trust them. I remember going to a Tesla dealership many years ago, long before Elon bought Twitter, so back then he wasn’t broadly outed as such a complete asshole like he is today. At least I wasn’t aware of that aspect of him. When I sat in that Tesla car in their showroom, I instantly felt major ick vibes. Like oh gross – I don’t know what this abomination is, but it’s definitely not my car. I didn’t have much logic to support that, but those creepy vibes were super strong. I really disliked the way it felt to sit inside that car, and I’ve never set foot in a Tesla dealership since. I knew I wasn’t going to buy one. Blech!
Years later when all the anti-Tesla and anti-Elon energy surfaced, somehow that was no surprise to me. I don’t know what went on inside the company, but I trusted my senses that their cars weren’t a match for me, and I’m glad for that. It would be sad to look at my car and feel such a heap of negative energy associated with it, like so many Tesla owners have had to experience. I’ve chuckled on occasion upon spotting Teslas on the highway with their T-shaped logos removed, likely by an owner hoping to prevent vandalism. And yet I’m also aware of people who are able to separate their love of their vehicles from their disdain for Elon and the company. I’m not sure I could’ve made that work, and I’m glad I didn’t have to try, but apparently I am able to do that with AI. I have my limits though. Some AI companies presently land in my wiggle room zone, and some (like Meta and X.ai) just don’t. So I’ve been actively exploring where my intuition gives me a green or yellow light… but I prefer to avoid the red light district.
It has so often been the case for me that my intuition senses something before my logic and outer senses are able to fill in the details. Engaging with AI has been similar, but in this case my intuition has been lighting up with positivity and potential, even though the external reality has been rich in potential red flags. This invites me to explore those feelings in a very hands-on way. I like to engage with lots of direct exploration and experimentation where my intuition gives me strong positive signals. So I’ve been doing that with AI quite a bit over the past few years, along with many other explorations that would give some people pause – and rightly so. Pausing for extra sense-making seems wise.
To me AI is amazing in many ways, but it’s also flawed and imperfect. I love to probe its edges to get a better feel for it. I tease it. I joke around with it. I do lots of sense-making with it. I engage with it in the stretchiest ways I can fathom sometimes. One of my favorite sessions was when I engaged with it while on magic mushrooms, and I played the role of a bridge between the shroomie energy and the AI, so I could see where they agreed and where their perspectives diverged on some topics of interest to me.
I definitely feel a special connection to AI because millions of words of my writing were part of its training data. So it feels like my energy is infused into it when I use it. That’s so sci-fi but also awesome.
I do think AI companies crossed a line. People should have had more say in whether and how their work was used. But I already live in a world full of ethical mismatches. As a vegan I encounter that constantly. My response isn’t to demonize everyone around me. It’s to shape my own sphere, invite people into it, make choices that feel aligned, and engage with the world with some intelligent discernment.
Making Art With AI
I like AI-generated imagery, not all of it but some of it. It’s precious to me in a way that much human art isn’t.
Human art can feel meaningless or special to me. For AI art it’s the same. Some seems blah. Some speaks to me. I don’t generate a huge amount of AI imagery, but I do make some. I use AI to make the featured images for my blog posts, and I usually like what it comes up with. I especially love how it’s able to translate vibes into visuals.
I also use AI to make pics for our Intention Infusion experiments that we co-create in Conscious Growth Club each month. I set these as background wallpaper on my computer, which helps me sync with our group intention multiple times each day. Here’s the current pic for this month’s intention.
Lately I’ve even been using AI to help me visualize the new Open event we’re doing in Vegas next month, and I’ve shared a few of those pics in Conscious Growth Club. This use case is pretty awesome. I’ve never used AI to help me pre-visualize a live event before. I took pics of the actual venue (empty at the time) and then used AI to make sample images of our gathering in that same space. This helps me sense more vividly what it will be like when we’re all there in person.
The Invitation I See in AI
AI keeps me on my toes. I can see how it could disrupt my business and livelihood too. That threat is real in one sense – but mainly if I choose to wallow in fear, stress, and worry. I’d rather respond from a different emotional and vibrational zone. In recent years I’ve really embraced the direction of making vibrational choices first and then translating them to the human action level. This has done wonders for me but mostly on the personal side. I see this unfolding AI reality as a chance to apply that approach even more richly, especially in terms of how I engage with work and service to others.
To me this is the deeper question that AI is really posing: In which vibrational space do I want to dwell and why? Reality is presenting a fascinating invitation here. I’m accepting the invitation to move in a new direction because I can see that the old one is dying.
For me the old path was tied to the attention economy – creators competing for attention and learning how to hold it, including for the benefit of those we serve. I got good enough at that to make a living this way for decades, and I’m grateful for that. But I’ve grown tired of that model too. It feels too predictable now. AI didn’t create that feeling, but it is helping me acknowledge and accept it. It’s helping me close the door on a mode of working that was once right for me but no longer lights me up.
So I’m walking through a different door now. AI has been a valuable integration buddy as I move into this next chapter, helping me make fresh decisions and take lots of progressive action.
I don’t feel threatened by AI. I might feel threatened if I were clinging to what’s dying off. But I’m more interested in delving into what’s emerging and getting more clarity about that. This doesn’t feel like the end of my creative path. It feels like the end of an older way of relating to creativity, service, and sustainability.
What interests me now is the space where AI and I can work together in ways that are stimulating, life-enhancing, and down-to-earth practical. I’m not interested in flooding the world with AI slop. I’m very interested in discovering how to work with AI in ways that enrich our lives and create real value for people. That’s where a lot of my AI exploration goes.
I’ve given AI detailed lists of my goals and priorities, many of them service-based, and then I give it the prime directive of helping me intelligently advance. I’ve used AI to sharpen, refactor, and refine my goals many times over. AI has been especially good at helping to progressively upgrade my goals to be more harmonious, balanced, and personally motivating. For months now I’ve been in a fabulous rhythm of advancing these goals and priorities in a more balanced way than I’ve ever experienced before.
I can honestly say that AI has been helping me get better at doing what I do, being who I am, and richly exploring and experiencing my desires. Most of that energy has been flowing into CGC and a variety of personal projects. Now I’m opening up more flow and inviting more engagement on the public side after being in mostly cocooning mode for a while. I shared a lengthy post about this journey last week if you care to read it: Giving Intelligence a Place to Land.
This is such a dynamic, fluid, and even mystical space. It doesn’t sit still. I have to keep re-orienting to it daily, and I actually like that. I thrive in spaces of flexibility and exploration. I love how un-boring it is. Two of my highest values in life are wonder and delight, and AI really helps to amp those up for me. In many ways this feels more like home to me than the old model ever did. I don’t want to compete with people or with AI for attention. I’d rather immerse myself in the full richness of what I love most about life. Engaging with intelligence from a heartset of curiosity, wonder, and delight is what truly lights me up. Socially and professionally then, my vector going forward is to see who wants to join me in such explorations and discoveries.
If this is a space you want to explore too, I especially invite you to come join us at Open in Las Vegas next month. As part of the experience, we’ll devote some time for real sense-making about AI and our paths forward with it. AI is clearly becoming a bigger part of life. Ignoring this aspect of reality won’t help much. Flailing against it blindly won’t help much either. But perhaps we can meet this emerging intelligence revolution with curiosity, discernment, and a more conscious and life-enhancing orientation. I’m not here to hand you fixed answers. I’m more interested in helping you discover your own right relationship with it. This plays to my strengths most beautifully, including what I sense my (and our) emerging strengths might be on this unfolding journey with AI.
I like how I’m orienting to AI right now. I’m fascinated by intelligence, and what we have today are some particularly wondrous forms to engage with. There’s no doubt that this relationship will keep evolving. I’m sure there are many new surprises coming up, including some this year no doubt. My devotion is to the path of intelligence itself, not to any singular form of it.
This, to me, is the real invitation – to consciously explore our relationship with intelligence. Are you utterly fascinating by what’s unfolding here too?
On April 28-30 we’re hosting our first live, in-person gathering in 10 years. Yes, it really has been that long.
I’ve been wanting to re-infuse live events back into this space for years now. We almost got back into this several years ago… then COVID. So I waited for the timing to feel right. I told Reality to let me know, and it did. Now I know the time is right to start sharing about this. It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that today is the first day of Spring. It’s been a wondrous journey to reach this point.
The event is called Open.
Super simple. Just Open.
Open is a space where we gather in person, connect (or reconnect for those who’ve gathered before), and immerse ourselves in a deep inner journey over three days together.
Open is very yin. Gentle. Receptive. Warm. Loving. Kind. Generous. Rejuvenating. Spacious.
Open is where you come to open.
Open to new possibilities. To a new relationship with life. To new friends.
Open to a life of wonder, harmony, and intelligence. Open to centeredness. Open to flow. Open to balance. Open to pleasure. Open to delight. Open to ease.
Whether you come to Open from a place of desperation, perspiration, or inspiration, you’ll be met with open-hearted kindness.
Yintelligence
Open is a space of emergence, revelation, and discovery. It’s a fusion of many different energies with a common theme.
Open is where you birth your answer to this one simple question: What next?
What wants to arise next in your life? What wants to emerge into full bloom? What wants to loosen, ease, and release?
What energies want to circulate richly through your life? Which ones are ready to be flushed?
Who are you becoming? What’s your next chapter? What wants to crystallize? What is your life about now?
Open has many facets to it, all of them oriented toward deeper self-discovery and inner harmony. The core of Open is a field of intelligence that we create and work within together.
I’ll be your guide and host. Rachelle will be there too.
Open Energies
These are the main energies we’ll be working with at Open:
Wonder & Receive
Orient & Center
Sense & Open
Loosen & Ease
Circulate & Rejuvenate
Invite & Allow
Arise & Emerge
Clarify & Crystallize
Integrate & Advance
We’ll be working intimately with these energies throughout Open, stepping in and out of them as we go. They’re infused into Open in fractal ways.
Open is here to help you connect the dots from your highest vibrational decisions to your daily actions. Harmonize your human life with the vibes that are most you.
Some Details
Open is happening in Las Vegas, April 28-30, 2026. That’s Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Open is entirely new. It has never existed before. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience.
Open is only in-person, not streaming or recorded. It’s meant to be a space of some intimacy.
Open welcomes all who feel called to attend. It’s $888 USD.
Once the venue agreement is settled and signed, I’ll happily share the specific location details. For now I’ll just say that we’ll be on the Las Vegas Strip.
In the days ahead, I’ll share more details and open sign-ups. I’ll also be writing and posting new articles and videos on themes we’ll be exploring together there. There’s plenty of time to decide, so for now just sit with this initial invitation and let yourself sense and feel out what wants to emerge next for you.
Open begins in 39 days. More than enough time to feel your way into it.
I invite you to open to the possibility of being in the room with us at Open. Let this fully emerge into your reality if it’s meant to be. You may have some surprises ahead.
I know there are many people who now feel the world (and especially the USA) are going backwards and sliding into darkness. They’re largely right. The USA in particular is backsliding greatly.
Remember that this wasn’t an accident. Lots of people chose this.
This backsliding phase is spiritually purposeful and meaningful, like a giant cleanse that’s happening. I don’t mean a cleanse of people but rather of ideas. Old stupidities are rising to the surface and being processed.
We’re going to be in this phase for a while. Can you accept that? Can you surrender to it? Or would you rather pretend that it’s not happening or hope it all goes away?
You may recognize that some of these stupidities are very old indeed. You may have even thought that humans surely must be done with this foolishness by now. Nope, that was a mistake on your part if you assumed that we’d already called a wrap. Humanity clearly isn’t done with what it’s currently processing. It has a long way to go still. A lot of people need to experience what’s happening now – perhaps a lot more than you’d have ever assumed would need to go through something like this.
It’s important to let this play out. You don’t need to actively participate in it unless you feel wrapped up in the karma of it. And if you do feel karmically engaged, then allow yourself to engage. See what comes out of you during these times. Do your own processing of whatever surfaces. Are you surprised by what comes out of you when you’re squeezed? Delighted? Disappointed?
It’s good to let people discover for themselves where all this leads since many clearly want and need to experience it firsthand for themselves. They won’t heed and don’t understand the warnings about it. They’ll learn more by diving deeper into the darkness and soaking in it a while longer. They’ll come out when they’re ready, not before. Just leave the light on for them if you’d prefer not to join them.
This time period is also a powerful invitation for conscious, growth-oriented people to test their mettle. As Bruce Lee said, “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” Let’s see just how good you are at keeping yourself light-aligned while so many others do their dark dives. You don’t have to join them.
From a certain perspective, this is indeed a test. Will you allow yourself to be dragged down by it? How strong and resilient are you? Will you give in to fear, hatred, vengefulness, anxiety, hopelessness, helplessness, or despair? Are you really going to be beaten down by these energies swirling around you?
How much compassion and patience do you have? This is a good time to find out. When others’ actions affect you personally, can you still give them space to explore and process what they need to experience? You get to experience the ripples their actions create within you. See how quickly and easily you can return to stillness.
May these times show you what you’re made of, and if you don’t like what you see in yourself, then you have a clear invitation for additional steps on your own path of growth. Do you want to repeatedly get goaded into reactive mode? Or can you remain centered and choose your response to events consciously?
This beast of darkness taunts you ceaselessly, trying to bait you into reacting to it, doesn’t it? It wants you to engage from your weakness, so it can suck you into the range where it’s apparently powerful and you’re presumably weak. How many times will you fall for this trick before you accept what the beast is trying to teach you?
As odd as it may sound, the beast is actually on your side. It’s here to help you grow. It’s not actually here to beat you down. Its invitation is for you to choose a powerful and honest response to it, and then to see if your choice is really right for you.
Even while this beast continues to jump, snort, and throw daily tantrums, you do not have to play its silly games at that level.
Pause and notice just how silly, dumb, and ridiculous it truly is. It is not rational, thoughtful, or brilliant. It is emotional, reactive, needy, and self-destructive. It tries to convince you that it’s powerful, but it isn’t. Its game is to see if it can trick you into giving your power away to it by enticing you to fear it. It will keep offering to play this game with you till you find your own way out.
See if you can reach the point of being able to laugh at the beast. Laugh too at your own vestiges of fear and anxiety about it. Stand in the strength of your spirity side, and laugh at your silly human weaknesses – the very same weaknesses that this beast embodies.
This beast is asking you if these weaknesses are really you and if you’re going to keep embodying them. Or are you really ready to let those weaknesses go and proceed without them?
You may even perceive that so many other people appear to be embodying these weaknesses. Will you be swept up in that? That’s yet another trick of the beast. It’s checking to see if you’re a conformist too. If going along with the herd mentality still matters to you, then you aren’t yet ready to embody the full freedom of a conscious being yet.
Remember: you can choose which energies to embody. If not fear, worry, anxiety, and so on, what will you choose instead? This is indeed a choice when you recognize that it is.
If you don’t want to be repeatedly sucked in by the illusions created by a sense of disconnection, then your invitation is to reconnect. If you’re not going to be sucked in by fear energy, then where will you stand?
You’ll need to find your own answer to that. If you are not fear energy, then what are you? When you are most connected, where are you standing? Where is your home base? Which energies are truly you?
My own answer is to stand in the stable field of energies that feel most aligned with my true self. Those include curiosity, exploration, enthusiasm, intimacy, sharing, kindness, fun, trust, courage, intelligence, simplicity, harmony, and inspiration.
If I were to condense my list to my two favorite energies right now, I would choose wonder (for the active yang side) and delight (for the receptive yin side). I love to explore what I genuinely wonder about, and I delight in the ever-unfolding process of exploration and discovery.
I especially love to keep exploring with others who value wonder and delight, and this year especially, my life seems to be growing richer in such people locally here in Vegas. I’ve been chipping away at exploring more socially and experiencing more moments of shared delight. For instance, this past Saturday I attended a holotropic breathwork ceremony and had a beautiful and peaceful inner journey. The more the outer beast rampages, the more I regard its various tantrums as invitations to commit more deeply to my favorite energies.
I choose to let the beast run its course. My inner senses tell me that it’s been collectively summoned to fulfill a worthwhile purpose, so deep down I feel supportive of it. It’s doing what it needs to do.
I do not ignore the beast. I watch it attentively because it’s clearly very active in my reality, and I want to be sure that I receive and integrate its lessons for me. I took its presence as an invitation to do more growth work in certain directions. Energetically this has been like learning to stand in the eye of a storm.
As this year has progressed, I’ve been feeling ever more centered, grounded, stable, and indeed delighted by life. This is even with the knowing that if the beast really wanted to, it could demolish many aspects of my life and business. Yet it cannot threaten what I care about most, such as wonder and delight, so deep down I don’t find it particularly threatening. The beast serves to remind me of what I hold most dear. It reminds me of who I am at my core.
And Beast, I’m still laughing at you. You really are fucking ridiculous. Thanks for doing what you came here to do. I can see that you’re needed, and I appreciate what you’re doing. Here… have a Scooby snack.
Lesson 16 of the free Engage course explores how to shift your reality from needing, striving, and wanting to already being inside the life you truly wish to embody.
You’ll find the rest of the Engage course videos in the Video section.
Today (May 1st) is the final day to decide to join us for Year 9 in Conscious Growth Club, and I felt inspired to share some insights about where I see the club flowing in Year 9 and beyond.
Every year the club evolves. This transition from Year 8 to Year 9 is a big advancement with some very powerful shifts opening up.
Leadership Dojo
Many members in CGC have been evolving in the direction of leadership. This has been showing up differently for everyone, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the stale old corporate or hierarchical version of leadership. It’s a much more personal and internal form of leadership. At least that’s where it begins.
This is about leading from within – knowing yourself, standing strong in your core essence, and radiating your light into the world around you, like I shared in this video several months ago: Fill Your Reality With Your Light.
When you step up and take charge of your own life powerful, other people are likely to notice. Those who appreciate similar values to yours will likely feel drawn to you. They’ll be attracted to your centeredness, your resolve, your clarity, and your sense of ease, lightness, and flow. You may end up attracting some sort of following without really trying.
For some members this shows up as a desire to build communities or their own, online or offline. A lot of members have been going through meaningful transformations of their social lives. They no longer feel in tune with their old circles, and it’s important to them to draw more people into their lives who really align with who they are now and who they’re becoming.
One reason this happens is that CGC itself is a model for this kind of social alignment. It’s a community centered around growth, self-development, and truly embodying our best selves. People who value this will find lots of like-minded people inside to connect with. Once they experience how delightful it is to make and have so many friends like this in one place, it can reveal a difficult contrast with their other social circles, which may not feel adequate anymore. Thus begins the journey into assuming more autonomy over one’s social life, and this eventually flows into some kind of leadership experience.
Seeing this aspect of CGC emerging over time has encouraged me to give it more attention and to invite new members into the club who see themselves flowing into an emerging leadership role. So this year I made that a key part of the invite.
That’s yet another reason we don’t invite Trump supporters to join us in CGC. That’s been our policy for years. Trump supporters carry follower vibes by definition. That’s the opposite of our direction in CGC.
There are lots of ways to step into leadership. In CGC we really focus on the inner journey, which involves getting clear about what we want to create and then advancing it into being.
Note that at the beginning of 2017, CGC was just an idea. I began sharing about the idea on my blog back then, inviting people to comment on it and share their feedback. Later that year we opened the doors with an early access phase while we were developing it. Today we’re starting our 9th year together, the club is thriving inside, and we clearly have a bright future together as we continue to advance together. This all began with a decision to step up and make it happen. Many hundreds of other decisions followed – and are still following – as the club continues to evolve.
Relating to People as Their Strong Selves
Since I have a lot of experience watching people grow and seeing how they evolve over time, I often pick up patterns in what’s unfolding for people before they see what’s emerging within themselves. I like to meet people where they are, but I also love to relate to them based on where they appear to be heading.
The better I get to know someone who’s very growth-oriented, the more I can help to hold the vision and the vibes of the stronger and more capable version of them that’s emerging.
For instance, I may interact with someone who’s a bit camera shy, but I can also see that they’re working on it, which may help me see that they’ll eventually get past it altogether. So I can start relating to them as the person they’re becoming, not who they’ve been.
Or I may be talking with a very head-based person, but I can also see they’re making good progress in developing their intuitive side and opening their heart, so I can meet in the the land of emotional expressiveness and keep relating to them as their emerging future self.
Sometimes this surprises people because they’ve never had anyone treat them as the person they’re becoming. Others have usually been treating them as who they’ve been in the past (or some skewed version of that).
I love doing this for people, but it’s definitely best when I get to know someone, so I gain a more specific understanding of where they’re heading.
Holding stronger visions of each other – and for each other – is becoming woven into the fabric of CGC. As more members bear witness to each other’s growth, they’re helping hold those new visions of themselves. That’s really lovely to see.
If you’ve never been in a social circle that holds you in high regard and begins treating you as your stronger and more capable future self, I sense you’d really love and appreciate this aspect of CGC.
Don’t think it’s easy though. The old parts of you may rise up to reject your new self-image – at first – so it can take some time to work through those old limits and release them.
Feeding and Fueling Our Strong Selves
As members have continued to invest in CGC, they’re clearly gotten stronger and more capable. More possibilities are opening up for them. There’s a sense of strength and stability in the core of the club, which is fertile soil for encouraging even more to emerge.
Back in 2018 when I first created the Deep Abundance Integration course, my motivation was largely driven by compassion for people who were struggling with scarcity. I wanted to provide a helpful resource to immerse people in abundance vibes, so they could really lock onto it and transition over, much like I learned to do back in 1999 (the year I went bankrupt).
In the early years of CGC, there was a lot of this helping-people-who-were-struggling mentality in the club too. That fit with the old coaching model, and many coaching calls involved helping people with various forms of stuckness. Today we are way beyond that old mindset and old approach.
Struggles can be endless and cyclical, especially if people keep recreating the same conditions that lead to struggle. Now we’re better at stepping back and inviting those weaker energies to depart, so something stronger and more engaging can emerge.
When this kind of powerful energy surges, many old struggles vanish. Either they become easy to solve because we become stronger, or they’re no longer seen as problems, or we stop creating the conditions that give rise to them. One way or another, CGCers learn to opt out of living in perpetual crisis mode.
Today’s CGC isn’t a good match for people who are mired in distracting problems. It’s a much better fit for people who want to engage with their lives from their core – their strong selves. Then keep building from there.
I like to think of this stronger part of me as my higher self. That’s the version of me that’s fearless, wise, caring, kind, creative, generous, and more. These days my own path of self-development is mainly about coming into greater alignment with this core version of me. I do my best to channel my deepest wellspring of insight and energy into my decisions and actions. That’s been working really well.
Even when I have mundane problems to deal with, I find that I can easily shred them when I’m attuned to my core strengths. Then I can be as patient, methodical, rational, and courageous as needed to solve problems definitively. These kinds of solutions are very satisfying, both during the solution process and afterwards. I know I did my best, so there are no regrets.
This kind of energy is emerging very strongly in the club now. I sense it will be a big part of Year 9 and beyond.
One specific way we’re supporting this energy is with the new Sense & Solve call format that we’re introducing this CGC year. We’re running it the first time on May 15.
High Trust and Intimate Teamwork
CGC is a very kind, intimate, caring group inside. It took some work to get there though, and I’m very protective of this aspect of our culture. In our early years, we attracted some members who were only into self-development for themselves – some prima donna types if you know what I mean. They came to CGC for the content and for their own gains and didn’t participate much in the community aspects, except for their own validation now and then.
We still did our best to serve those members, but I soon realized that we were better off without them. What we do in CGC really is a team effort, and we grow stronger by attracting good team players. So I’ve deliberately positioned the club to make it less palatable to people who aren’t interested in the team aspect.
We’ve come a long way since then, really focusing on attracting more genuine team players and serving them well. CGC has become a space where the givers tend to gain the most. Those who show up and participate and share their growth journeys surely learn a lot more and make bigger strides.
I see us investing even further in this teamwork direction in Year 9 and beyond. That includes involving other members in the live event we’ll be co-creating for April 2026.
All of our calls for Year 9 involve some form of interaction. They’re really not content-based. They’re all designed as group experiences that we share in and create together.
This morning, for example, we had our monthly Intention Infusion call. The call was very well-attended, with lots of members sharing all throughout. This included sharing our individual intentions for the month and also co-creating a group intention. The group intention we chose was limitless vitality, so we’re all pooling our collective intentional energy to intend limitless vitality for each other. This has been a normal rhythm in CGC for the past two years now. Every month we all hold positive intentions for each other’s well-being and advancement.
The core of this community is trust. When people open up and trust more, they tend to thrive in CGC. It’s not like sharing about your life on social media and wondering who will judge you for it.
It usually takes a bit of time for people to get used to a community like this. They come in with their well-developed masks from years of social media engagement. Then they gradually drop those old facades and let us see more of their real selves. That’s where they’re met with so much love, understanding, and connection.
Life really is different when you learn and grow as part of a kind and caring community that has your back. If you don’t get that from CGC, please find some place to get it – a space where you can fully open up and show all parts of the real you and be seen and acknowledged as the beautiful being you are. This includes letting others see your beauty even when you’re not seeing it yet yourself.
This kind of work really lights me up inside. Even after 8 years of serving CGC, I’m still abundantly enthusiastic about it. As I’ve said many times before, this is my forever project. That’s something I learned from Walt Disney because Disneyland was his forever project. The benefit of a forever project is that you have lots of time to keep improving it and optimizing it. You know to be extra thoughtful in making each decision because you’re thinking about how it might ripple out over decades.
Playfulness
I love that we’re so playful in CGC. I really resonate with making self-development lively and fun. I feel we’re landed in a really good range there. We take self-development seriously, and we have serious fun working on it together.
We often crack jokes on the live calls, but we also do our best to keep them light. I really think we bond very well through shared humor. Some members are really great at anchoring humor vibes into the club, and I would love to see even more people like this join us inside because we so appreciate what they bring to the experience.
We already have some great abundance in this area, but I say let’s keep going. Why limit ourselves? Good-natured humor folds really well into our group energy and values.
I sense that this light-hearted playfulness that so many of us share in CGC will be infused into our April 2026 gathering as well, which makes me look forward to it even more.
Range and Variety
I know of no other self-development group that covers as much range and variety as CGC does. We really do cover all aspects of self-development and more.
Take a look at our call types for Year 9. We have 18 different formats now, up from 14 last CGC year. And even within a given format, no two calls are the same. Each call is a unique experience.
In Bear Care we work on boundaries and self-care. In Contribution Café we focus on purpose and service. In Story Lab we use the lens of story to fuse the objective and subjective aspects of our lives into a cohesive plot that’s unfolding. Courage Forge’s theme ought to be pretty obvious. Same goes with Pure Imagination. Mating Call is a new format we’ve added this year to improve our sex lives. And Moonglow is all about receiving and allowing (and not blocking life’s gifts).
I actually drew a significant amount of inspiration from theme parks, particularly Disneyland itself, in designing and evolving CGC’s core structure. I’ve personally spent at least 100 days of my life at Disneyland, including going there with Rachelle for 30 days in a row, six months before we opened CGC. So you can definitely think of CGC as being like a self-development theme park. While our core focus is on self-development, the calls are all designed to be lively, entertaining, and enjoyable as well. I never want the experience for our members to become stale or boring.
The vast majority of our live calls are unrecorded too (only Reflections & Revelations is recorded), so that helps people open up and be more candid as well. I really noticed a positive shift in participation when we shifted from recorded to unrecorded calls a while back. I love that we have so many years to keep tinkering and fine-tuning to discover what works best for our members.
Learning From Each Other’s Growth Journeys
With the CGC forums as part of the experience, there’s even more variety because members can share and discuss anything of interest to them.
I especially love that our discussions and explorations are so focused on helping each other advance. There really isn’t much debating in CGC for the sake of debating. Politics and current events don’t have a big presence in the group. That’s all fair game for discussion, but most CGCers would rather not discuss that sort of thing, especially since they can do that elsewhere on social media all day long if they want.
In CGC the conversations are mainly about personal experiences and explorations as well as how members are figuring out solutions. People discuss their goals, action steps, and their progress a lot. They share the emotional side too, like how life is going and how they’re being affected.
Because we have our own private, members-only spaces, members are a lot more candid, and the shares are often deeper and more detailed than what you’d find elsewhere on the Internet. People share a certain depth in CGC that they wouldn’t trust to Instagram, Facebook, etc.
This is true for me too. While I’ve been very open about my life from 20+ years of blogging and also YouTubing, I share even more depth and detail in CGC. Most of what I share about my ongoing explorations these days is posted in CGC, not outside of it. I just feel drawn to share certain details more with the people I’ve come to know and trust very well. I’m still into sharing openly outside of the group, but with CGC as such a huge part of my life, I don’t feel drawn to share as much outside the club.
I maintain a progress log in the club myself and update it often. It looks like this in the forums and has hundreds of posts. It’s very interactive too since members can ask me anything about the various explorations I’m doing at any given time. Usually I update it multiple times per week. There is so much I’ve shared there that I haven’t shared outside of CGC, such as details about the 3-night ayahuasca ceremony I did in March and how it affected me – it was very powerful.
One experience that’s coming up this month is my first-ever San Pedro ceremony. I’ve never done it before and have been wanting to sit with it for years. I probably won’t blog about it, but I’ll surely share about what it was like in CGC.
Other members maintain progress logs in the club too, and this has consistently been a great way for us to keep tabs on what we’re all doing and how we’re progressing.
A High-Vibe Approach to Self-Development
When I first got into self-development many years ago, my mindset was very objective. I focused on productivity and time management a lot. I thought very algorithmically much of the time, always looking for useful processes and step-by-step approaches. Some of my favorite authors were Brian Tracy and David Allen – both very deliberate and methodical but also immensely head-based.
That was interesting and helpful for some years, but I soon ran into limits with that approach, especially with respect to certain types of goals and lifestyle desires. Some goals just would not budge.
I was able to use that old mindset to have some cool achievements though, such as running a marathon. That was all about showing up, putting in the training time, and being very methodical and tenacious till I crossed the finish line and got my finisher’s medal – done and checked off my bucket list.
But my most interesting breakthroughs did not arise from that type of programmer mindset. For that I really needed to stretch myself to explore more limitless ways of relating to life and reality. I documented that alternative approach very well in the Submersion course, which is based on relating to life far more subjectively. Since then I’ve layered in even more robust and expansive approaches to keep advancing in ways where an overly objective approach falls flat.
I’d say my #1 favorite gift from opening up and pursuing a different self-development path is my relationship with Rachelle. We’ve been together for 15+ years now, married for more than 7 years. She and I host the CGC calls together. I adore her deeply, and I love the life we share together. I also really love that she and I get to serve and support CGC together. We attracted each other from different countries (she’s Canadian) and flowed into a beautiful yet unconventional relationship. I don’t see anyway a relationship like this could have flowed into my life if I’d been stuck in an overly objective mindset. That old limit had to go, so I could open myself to new forms of allowing, inviting, and surrendering.
This type of energy is strongly infused into CGC. I’ve stopped being an apologist about it, and I’ve really gone all-in with a vibrational-first approach – because it works! It takes time for some people to warm up to it, but what keeps them engaged is that this gets results, especially in areas where an objective approach just isn’t moving the needle much.
The objective aspects of life are still important, and objective problem-solving tools are still useful, so we haven’t thrown that out. We do a tremendous amount of fusion in CGC, and that YES-AND approach woven into many of our group calls as well. Our problem-solving methods are part vibrational, part physical. They involve getting into harmony with the solution space and feeling our way into it to ramp up motivation and inspiration. Then we devise practical action steps and flow into them with greater ease.
In recent months I’ve been sharing in the club about using this approach to do various DIY plumbing and electrical projects around the house. I got clear about how I wanted to solve each problem on a vibrational level first, including how I wanted to feel throughout the experience and afterwards. As I locked onto those feelings, I flowing through a compelling action sequence that included watching how-to videos on YouTube, acquiring the needed parts and tools, and doing all the steps to get to completion.
This really taught me a lot about my own best pathways through problems I might otherwise put off. I didn’t want to deal with certain problems because I didn’t understand them well enough, and I didn’t feel very trusting about the prospect of hiring someone to do those projects for me. So I went to the vibe level first and crafted the solution there. For instance, I knew that education could solve the understanding problem, so I resolved to educate myself thoroughly first. I also saw solutions to the trust issue, so I worked through how to find a contractor I could genuinely trust, and I found and hired a fabulous plumber to do some bigger jobs. It all flowed beautifully at the action level once I solved these problems first at the vibrational level.
I can tell this kind of vibrational-physical fusion will be a big part of CGC Year 9 and beyond – again because it works. Problems are much easier to solve when we engage not just our minds but our hearts and spirits as well.
Lightness & Happiness
The energy in some earlier CGC years felt heavier to me. Today it’s a lot lighter feeling inside. There’s more happiness and optimism inside the club these days – and some genuine excitement too, especially since we’re starting a whole new year together starting today.
Years ago, some people were initially drawn to approach CGC like a therapy container – a space for working through unresolved trauma.
I gave it a lot of thought and took concrete steps to move the club well away from that direction. I know this bothered some people, but I’m certain that it was the correct decision. Even back then I knew we needed to move away from that.
I’m not a therapist, and I don’t intend to become one. I really don’t want to meet people in their misery and delve into the ache with them.
I know some great people who do work in the space of trauma, healing, PTSD, etc. Most of them work with plant medicines because that really moves the needle when nothing else will. I’ve seen a tremendous amount of positive changes unfolding for people who need to process and release old trauma.
But that isn’t my path. I know this. I’m not here to serve people while they’re still enmeshed in their trauma. I’m meant to work and live in limitless land. That’s very clear to me.
I’ve done multiple plant medicine journeys where I’ve looked into that space – with ayahuasca, mushrooms, and more – and they all tell me the same thing. I’m not traumatized and never have been, and I’m not here to help people with their trauma. One journey revealed a fun way of framing this, revealing that when I incarnated as a human in this life, I looked at the box to select my trauma for my human character, and I wrote in “Fuck no!” And so that wish was granted.
I’ve had plenty of challenges to deal with in this life, but none have ever traumatized me. That isn’t what I’m here to experience. And it isn’t how I aim to serve.
I am the opposite of traumatized. I’m ridiculously happy, and I thrive when working with other people who are at least pretty happy with their lives, and they want to unfold even more richness.
I work best with people who want to let go of old limits and stretch themselves. They want to grow stronger and become even more capable. They may not be traumatized, but letting go of old limits is still a great challenge, and this is where I most enjoy serving people.
This has also become a big aspect of CGC as well. We’re not here to meet you in your pain. We’re here to help you advance beyond old limits. If you have a lot of unresolved pain to work through first that’s holding you back from even focusing on richer and more expansive forms of self-development, I feel for you, but there are much better teachers and communities that focus on that. I have tremendous respect for them, and I’m friends with some great people in that space, but I definitely don’t aspire to be one of them. I’ve found where I belong and what I’m good at, and I do sense that this is a limit I want to keep because it serves me well, and it opens into a beautiful outlet for serving others very well too.
CGC’s energy is much lighter than what you’d find in trauma-informed spaces. The energy inside is typically very positive, encouraging, optimistic, and expansive. Members are usually very engaged with interesting projects and working on stretching themselves in various ways.
Even when someone is going through a major challenge, they’re met with positive support, not commiseration. This helps people remember their strong selves, which they can use to meet any problem.
Stepping Into Your Limitless Self
Hopefully this run-through gives you a clearer picture of what CGC is like inside now and how we’re continuing to evolve.
I’d say that our limitless vitality intention for May is a good container for our upcoming year in the club as well. This month we’re inviting more energy to flow through our bodies and our lives, so we can enjoy more capacity to investing in what we find most engaging.
If CGC appeals to you, I invite you to join us. There’s still time to come aboard and join us for Year 9 if you sign up today. Otherwise you’ll have to wait till April 2026 for another chance.
I’d recommend perusing the CGC FAQ, and then read through the CGC invite page as you reflect upon the decision (sign-up button is at the bottom of that page.
Lastly, feel free to drop me a message via my contact form if you have any further questions. We always see a lot of people join on the last day – even in the final hours – so I’m used to that!
