We’re two humans in the middle of the questions & the practice: raising a preteen and two teenagers between us, teaching vertical development to other people while our own is anything but settled, watching an adult development field fill up with AI posts, and philosophical musings, and content that never once mentions the mess that comes with the hard and deep work.
So, what does it mean to grow humans, when the growing won’t hold still? What does it mean to do the inner work, and then find out you’re not done…that you’re never done? What does it mean to stop trying to save your kids, your clients, your partners, yourself, from the pain that’s actually prompting the growing?
Val and Alis are meeting up for a live, unscripted conversation using our own lives as the instrument—Val’s past re-membered, Alis’ shifting ground, both of us mid-story with no epilogue in sight. Wounds we’re still turning into whatever wisdom is possible from inside them, not after the fact.
Wednesday, September 23 4:00pm PDT / Thursday, September 24 9:00am AEST
Come sit in the chaos with us. We’re not resolving it. We’re just done pretending we’re not in it and that this is not actually “the work” of growing humans.
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In the work right alongside you,
Val + Alis