My February course—“Ritual of Transformation”—has ended.
Wow. I'm speechless. It was… something. For me, definitely.
Why?
A circle formed of participants who made me want to create. Their hunger for change was mature, serious, real. Even in the hard parts of the ritual, they stayed open, curious, brave.
I could not have dreamed of a better audience for my first course. Because it turned out the participants were not the only ones changing. I changed too.
To make the course a real catalyst, lectures, exercises, and handouts were not enough. I had to step into my deepest vulnerability right in front of everyone.
For me that meant letting go of control—the control I once thought essential—and trusting the Process. I dropped slides, scripts, templates, rehearsals, structures. In short, every familiar preparation.
The right words came on their own. My job was simple: don’t block them.
This was not a lecture. It felt more like improvisation, stand-up, dance, rap.
Of course my mind fought the “madness” hard. Before every session my brain fried. It felt like jumping from a plane and weaving a parachute on the way down.
Panic faded when three truths hit me:
I rest on 30 years of experience that lives inside me, quiet but always there.
Topics are cards in the deck. You don’t need to play them all.
Someone has to go first and drop the old armor.
I would never have believed it could feel so exhilarating. We all slipped into the Flow. It spun the best script possible, unpredictable and perfect. That rare thing — favorable uncertainty.
Gratitude floods me—for you who joined the course, and for those who inspired it by showing up to sessions, reading the newsletter, asking questions.
I always sensed a “circle of my people.” The course gave them bodies. Now I know real faces. So different. Yet alike in the one thing that matters.
What the course becomes next, I don’t know. But I feel the anticipation already.
I want what will come.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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