A GOOD LIFE IS AN INSIDE JOB.

Featured Workshop

DRAWING IN: A Creative and Contemplative Approach to Seeing the Light in Dark Times

Wu Wei “effortless, natural” way of drawing.
Art by Sharon Zeugin.

With Sharon Zeugin, Master Calligrapher, International Teacher, and Award-Winning Artist

Description: This workshop—with one of the world’s few female master calligraphers—is about returning to the present moment by awakening our senses.

Through sketching, drawing, and intentional mark-making, we will learn to see, feel, and experience ourselves in relationship with—in communion with—the natural world around us.

Using accessible, contemplative exercises and ordinary tools and materials, we will expand our visual vocabulary while calming our nervous systems and learning to come home to ourselves, despite the noisy news cycles and the quaking all around.

Date and Time: Saturday, December 6 | 9a - 1p U.S. Pacific
Format: Live and Online
Cost: $108 (Venmo and PayPal)


Welcome to The Center for Deep Self Design.

The Center for Deep Self Design (CDSD) is what’s called a third place—a creative and contemplative space that bridges life and work, enhancing and replenishing both.

We are an educational collective that offers live events and workshops teaching road-tested, D.I.Y. tools for collaboration, creativity, courage, and authenticity in uncertain times.

We do our work onsite and online, combining multi-sensory facilitation techniques with established methods of inner science.

CDSD’s core mission is to support learners in stepping into their greatest potential and highest function by becoming familiar with and friendly toward the internal landscape of the heart and mind, ultimately dissolving unnecessary obstacles toward self-actualization, relationship, career fulfillment, and joy.

Growth happens in relationship.

Join our community dedicated to helping you learn, unlearn, and relearn how you relate to yourself and the world so your highest function and greatest gifts can pour courageously forth.

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