A GOOD LIFE IS AN INSIDE JOB.
Featured Workshops
MIND-READING FOR FACILITATORS (& Other Humans):
Improvisation & Attunement to Read Your Group and the Room
Joyful Leadership Offsite co-facilitated by Shannon Stott and CDSD Founder, Sunni (Sun) Brown
With Shannon Stott, Award-Winning Performer, Founder and Director, Improv | On and Off the Stage, and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin
Description: This workshop—with award-winning performer and internationally-known MVP of Improv—is about learning to notice and respond to subtle communication signals so we can initiate and sustain flows of information, ideas, possibilities and connection—among groups, teams, audiences, and in everyday life.
By becoming more fluent in the nuanced languages of energy and emotion, we develop an embodied awareness of self and others that bridges cultures and transforms how we lead, facilitate, co-create, and collaborate. This is powerful work that aligns us with the living currents of human connection.
Date and Time: Friday, November 7 | 9a - 1p U.S. Pacific
Format: Live and Online
Cost: $108 (Venmo and PayPal)
DRAWING IN: Creative and Contemplative Mark-Making to See 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 wonder in 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 drawing from within, linking our inner experience with the outer world, creating a path to come home to ourselves—despite the noisy news cycles and 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 mission is to support learners in awakening our creative power to lead more liberated lives by becoming familiar with and friendly toward the inner landscapes of the heart and mind—softening obstacles to expression, authenticity, self-compassion, and joy.
Growth happens in relationship.
Join our circle dedicated to helping you learn, unlearn, and relearn how you relate to yourself and the world so your greatest gifts can pour courageously forth.
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Our circle is a high-integrity learning collective that includes 21k+ growth-oriented leaders, facilitators, entrepreneurs, coaches, creatives, wisdom seekers, and inner engineers. Paid Subscribers at Nothing in the Way get early access to + discounts on live events and workshops, and D.I.Y. techniques for collaboration, courage, clarity, and authenticity.
Come as you are.