Natural Intelligence
THE COMPASS COURSE
The world got faster.
Your nervous system didn't.
There's a way back.
You are more capable — and more exhausted — than any previous generation was asked to be.
The tools that were supposed to make life better have made it louder. Your nervous system was designed for stillness, depth, and genuine connection with the living world. The gap between those two things is what most people call stress, or burnout, or the vague sense that something important has gone quiet
It isn't weakness. And it is workable
I built homes from straw and timber. Guided people through wilderness. Found my way through dark seasons of my own — through the heat that changes a person permanently.
THE GUIDE
The intelligence you need is already in you. It was never lost. Only unattended.
Life coach · Ikigai coach · Transpersonal hypnotherapist · Mindfulness instructor · Outdoor educator
Two days of principle-based skills training. Practical, grounded, built for the life you're actually living. Closer in spirit to a wilderness first aid course — you leave with tools that work in real conditions.
F O U R O R I E N T A T I O N S —- T H E I N N E R C O M P A S S
NORTH · SOUL · WINTER
Wisdom & purpose
Ikigai — your daily and lifetime reasons for getting up. What you love before the world told you what to value.
SOUTH · BODY · SUMMER
Natural intelligence
The body as instrument. Nature as the original classroom. The intelligence your body has been carrying all along
EAST · MIND · SPRING
Attention & awareness
Training focus — the capacity to choose where attention lands before it's captured by design.
WEST · HEART · AUTUMN
Openheartedness
Feeling as information. The capacity to be present with what you feel without being swept away by it.
DAY ONE
The outer landscape
The world you live in. Your nervous system. Natural intelligence around and in you. Significant time outdoors.
DAY TWO
The inner landscape
Your emotional life. Your sense of purpose. A personal practice you'll carry forward with 30 and 90-day return prompts
E I G H T M O D U L E S —
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Orientation · compass framework · natural intelligence as central premise
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East · Mind · attention training, eagle vision, breath anchor, the Breathe Button
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East & South · why modern life feels the way it does — structural path through it
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South · Body · outdoors, seasons cycle, sit spot, nature journaling
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South & North · demystifying trance, the interior crew, guided safe space session
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West · Heart · sky and clouds, emotional cascade, RAIN, the six C's
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North · Soul · authentic Ikigai, four-circle inquiry, craftsman ethic, Imagineering
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All orientations · Personal Bearings declaration, small group witnessing, closing ceremony
W H A T ’ S T A U G H T
The live course
L I V E F O R M A T · I N P E R S O N
º Two full days — 8am to 5pm
º small group — 8 to 16 participants
º Significant outdoor time* both days
º Live guided self - hypnosis session
º Sit spot and nature journaling
º Small group closing session
º Student workbook / field guide ( print )
º Online workbook access post - course
*(location and weather dependent)
The online course
O N L I N E F O R M A T · S E L F - P A C E D
º 8 modules — self - paced, no expiration
º Interactive online workbook — responses saved
º Guided audio for self - hypnosis skills and practices
º Seasons circle — downloadable PDF
º Complete practice index and reference library
º Recommended reading by orientation
º Optional 1:1 integration session add-on
º Lifetime access to all materials
C O M M O N Q U E S T I O N S
Do I need experience with meditation or hypnotherapy?
None at all. The course teaches everything it uses. If you have existing practice, it deepens. If you have none, every practice is accessible from the first session.
Is this therapy?
No. The Compass Course is skills training — principle-based and practical. It will likely have a therapeutic effect, because slowing down and paying honest attention tends to do that. But it is not a substitute for clinical mental health support.
Will I lose control during self-hypnosis?
No. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. You remain in full awareness and full control. The state is similar to being deeply absorbed in a film. You will be guided somewhere you are already capable of going
What’s the difference between live and online?
The live course offers the group experience — outdoor sessions, small group witnessing, closing ceremony, and shared presence. The online course delivers all eight modules with interactive workbook and guided audio. Both are complete.
How do I know if I’m ready?
If you felt something when you read "the world got faster and your nervous system didn't" — you're ready. No other qualification required. Come as you are. The compass works from here.
Participants leave with a personal practice built from their own honest attention — not borrowed from someone else's system. Tools that work in real conditions. A compass that points inward as reliably as any compass points north
W H A T B E C O M E S P O S S I B L E
And something harder to name — a quality of ease with themselves that was always available, and is now a little more accessible than it was before.