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Outcomes

• Trace the red thread through your scattered interests
• Become more legible — to yourself first, then to others
• Trade the tidy summary for people who get the whole of you
• A steady rhythm of curiosity and care — no finish line

What's included?

• The speakeasy

  The always-open community: themed rooms for conversation and connection, day or night.

• A live events programme

  Regular community events where grokkists gather to explore ideas and enthusiasms, and meet kindred spirits.

• Courses & journeys

  Cohort courses and the First Sparks journey — including work on legibility and your red thread.

• Red-thread resources

  Guides, prompts and practices for tracing your through-line and making sense of it.

• Grokkist Press

  Essays, reflections and deep groks from across the community — free to read.

• 1:1 Groksmithing

  Hands-on, one-to-one project support for when you want to go deeper.

Courses

Start Here - First Sparks

1 section • 7 lessons

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First Sparks

1.✨ 1 | Reclaiming Curiosity

2.✨ 2 | More Than One Thing

3.✨ 3 | Comfort in Contradiction

4.✨ 4 | Breathing Into Uncertainty

5.✨ 5 | Belonging Beyond Fitting In

6.✨ 6 | Being a Contribution

7.✨ 7 | How to Be Here

Find Your Red Thread

8 sections • 57 lessons

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Before We Begin

1.Welcome to the Course

2.There’s a Thread You Follow

3.🧭 How This Works (and How It Feels)

4.ℹ️ Live Cohorts and Alumni Access

1 - Who am I and what’s my story?

1.Welcome to the Course

2.Why we're here and what we're doing

3.The Commodification of Self

4.Decommodifying the Self

5.Disenchantment and Loss of Meaning

6.The Commodification of Happiness

7.A Crisis of Meaning

8.The Problem with "So, what do you do?"

9.The Overarching Invitation of this Course

10.Happiness vs Flourishing

11.The Journey from Generalist to Grokkist

12.Reclaiming Your Author-ity

13.Your Threadwork Project

14.The Red Thread Concept

15.Setting Intentions

16.ACTIVITY: Check-In Menu

17.ACTIVITY: Beyond 'so, what do you do?'

2 - What do I carry and how does it speak?

1.Introduction to Week 2

2.Danu's Threadwork

3.Threshold Moments and Guardians

4.A Repertoire of Practical Wisdom

5.ACTIVITY: Your Threshold Moments and Guardians

6.ACTIVITY: Naming Your Practical Wisdom

7.ACTIVITY: Storytelling as Experimentation

3 - What do I care about and why?

1.Introduction to Week 3

2.Uncovering What We Care About

3.How Repression Shapes Us

4.Return of the Repressed

5.Living in Truth

6.Addressing the World

7.ACTIVITY: Yellow Crayon Repression Bingo

8.ACTIVITY: Taking Down Your Greengrocer's Signs

9.ACTIVITY: Threadwork Practice

4 - How do I show up and where do I belong?

1.Introduction to Week 4

2.The Crisis of Meaning

3.Magic Circles and Living Traditions of Practice

4.The Sincerity Problem

5.Legibility and Recognition

6.ACTIVITY: Spot the Practice

7.ACTIVITY: Legibility Lab

8.ACTIVITY: Threadwork Practice

5 - What's my Red Thread?

1.Introduction to Week 5

2.Gathering the Threads

3.Emergent Play and the Systemic Game

4.The Spiral Return

5.ACTIVITY: Threadwork Presentation

6.ACTIVITY: Check-Out Menu

Threadwork Presentation Examples

1.Alan R

2.Emily M

3.Andrea R

4.Ember P

5.Drew D

Wrapping Up

1.After You Complete The Course

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Intro to NeuroGraphica

5 sections • 64 lessons

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Getting Prepared

1.Welcome and Introductions

2.About NeuroGraphica

3.Setting up the Practice

4.Art Materials for NeuroGraphica

Understanding the Basics

1.About NeuroGraphica Lines

2.Practice drawing a NeuroGraphica Line

3.What change would you like this drawing to bring you?

4.Nothing is left hanging in your drawing

5.Rounding off

6.QUESTION: Is it helpful to consider the overall composition as it's forming?

Template 1: Removing Limitations

1.Tuning into your drawing's theme

2.Start with a word snapshot

3.Using your word snapshot as a self-diagnostic

4.Making your starting squiggle

5.QUESTION: Is it important to use the same marker pen?

6.QUESTION: Does the starting squiggle always need to be fast?

7.Begin rounding and integrating

8.QUESTION: When is it good to connect lines?

9.Expanding to the edges

10.QUESTION: Is it ok for expanding lines to cross?

11.How multiple lines reflect neural density

12.Your drawing changes with every line

13.Adding in circles

14.Integrating your circles

15.Restoring your breath

16.Checking in (Discussion)

17.Introducing colour

18.Colouring neighbouring cells

19.QUESTION: How to approach choosing colours?

20.Overlaying colours

21.Adding transpersonal lines

22.Adding your seal of approval

23.Conclude with another word snapshot

24.Final thoughts (Discussion)

Template 2: Drawing Into Possibility

1.Setting up for Today's Drawing and Revisiting the Basics of NeuroGraphica

2.Warm-up Practice: Creating a Rose

3.Theme V1: Word Snapshot/Download (Before)

4.Composition

5.Add Neurographica Lines

6.What to do with the corners?

7.DISCUSSION: Addressing Emotional Reactions

8.Line texture reflects your state

9.Coloured pencils vs coloured markers

10.Thoughts and options for adding colour

11.Transpersonal Lines

12.DISCUSSION: Colour or Transpersonal Lines first

13.Add your Seal of Approval (aka Affxing Shape)

14.Other Examples

15.Theme V2: Word Snapshot/Download (After)

16.DISCUSSION: How was the experience?

Template 3: Colour and Coherence

1.About the Template

2.Warm-up Practice 1: Using Colour

3.Warm-up Practice 2: Regulating towards Restfulness

4.Theme V1: Word Snapshot/Download (Before)

5.Choose a colour and a place to begin

6.Rounding off

7.Integration and adding extra lines

8.Add shapes: What do I want to emerge here?

9.Use areas of colour to regulate

10.Add transpersonal lines

11.Add your Seal of Approval (aka Affixing Shape)

12.DISCUSSION: How do you know when it's finished?

13.Theme V2: Word Snapshot/Download (After)

14.An invitation to stay connected

Comparative Meditation

12 sections • 48 lessons

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Welcome to the Course

1.Introduction to the Course

2.Course Outline

3.Live Sessions and Alumni Access

1a. Shamatha (Calm Abiding) Lecture

1.Shamatha (Calm Abiding) Lecture

1b. Shamatha (Calm Abiding) Practices

1.Introduction and Setting up for Meditation

2.Breath Counting Technique

3.HRV Breathing Technique

4.Going for Jhanas

5.Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation

6.The Six Rs of TWIM

7.Fire Kasina

8.Shamatha (Calm Abiding) Practice Resources

2a. Vipassana (Insight Meditation) Lecture

1.Vipassana Lecture

2b. Vipassana (Insight Meditation) Practices

1.Introduction to Vipassana

2.Practising Visual Awareness

3.Goenka Body Scan

4.Shinzen Noting

5.Rest and Flow (Discussion)

6.Thoughts in a Room

7.Social Noting

8.Vipassana Practice Resources

3a. Tantra Lecture

1.Tantra Lecture

3b. Tantra Practices

1.Introduction to Tantra

2.I Am Mantra

3.Yantras

4.Spinal Breathing

5.Build Your Own Tantra Practice

6.Build Your Own Tantra Practice (Discussion)

7.Tantra Practice Resources

4a. Non-Duality (Direct Path) Lecture

1.Non-Duality Lecture

4b. Non-Duality (Direct Path) Practices

1.Introduction to Non-Duality

2.Dropping the Ball

3.Heart-Opener

4.Inquiry

5.Loch Kelly Practices

6.Judith Blackstone's Realization Process

7.Collapsing Subject/Object Duality

8.2 Part Formula - Body Scan and Self-Inquiry

9.Thoughts in a Room

10.Awakening the Great Heart

11.Non-Duality Practice Resources

5a. Integration Lecture

1.Integration Lecture

5b. Integration Practices

1.Parts Work

2.Parts Work (Discussion)

3.Dream Re-entry Technique

4.Lovingkindness Practice

5.Integration Practice Resources

Wrapping Up

1.After you complete the course

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Ecosophy Course

7 sections • 20 lessons

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Welcome

1.👋 Welcome from Nathan

2.Ecosophy Glossary

Section 1: Intro

1.1 | LECTURE: The Intro to the Intro to Philosophy for Ecological Action

2.1 | Readings

3.1 | Cohort Workshop Replay

4.1 | Invitation to Engage

Section 2: Early Greek Philosophy - Presocratics and Plato

1.2 | LECTURE: Early Greek Philosophy - Presocratics and Plato

2.2 | Readings

3.2 | Cohort Workshop Replay

4.2 | Invitation to Engage

Section 3: Stoics, Epicureans and Their Philosophical Descendants

1.3 | LECTURE: Stoics, Epicureans and Their Philosophical Descendants

2.3 | Readings

3.3 | Cohort Workshop Replay

4.3 | Invitation to Engage

Section 4: Critiques of Eco-Philosophy & Problems of Praxis

1.4 | LECTURE: Critiques of Eco-Philosophy & Problems of Praxis

2.4 | Readings

3.4 | Cohort Workshop Replay

Section 5: My Ecosophy

1.FINAL PROJECT DETAILS: "My Ecosophy"

2.5 | Cohort Workshop Replay

Where to from here?

1.🙏 Thanks and what's next

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Who is this for?

• Curious, multidimensional people who refuse to be just one thing
• Anyone standing at a threshold — a transition, a rethink, a new chapter
• The "too much and not enough" folks who never fit the box
• Recovering high-achievers tired of performing a single self