Reflection of the week: Something I’ve Been Quietly Creating
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Over the past few years I have been immersed in writing my book, Understanding Our Energetic Architecture – Human Design as Your Inner GPS for Awareness.
While writing it, something unexpected happened.
The book gradually became the beginning of a much larger exploration.
When I first encountered Human Design, I was fascinated by the extraordinary depth and precision of the system. Like many people, I immersed myself in understanding charts, centres, channels, gates, experimenting with Strategy and Inner Authority.
Yet, despite everything I was learning, I repeatedly discovered how easy it was to remain caught in my own mind.
I slowly came to realise that Human Design doesn't ask us to understand ourselves differently. It asks us to be different through awareness. It is our process of awareness that brings about our difference.
Until today, Human Design remains, for me, a living experiment rather than a body of knowledge I have somehow learned to master.
It continues to illuminate the places where I become conditioned, identified with old patterns or disconnected from myself. Again and again it invites me back - not simply to understanding, but to awareness.
Over time I realised that what Human Design calls deconditioning is not merely an intellectual process.
It asks us to meet the habits, defences, emotional wounds and survival strategies that have shaped us throughout our lives.
From my own experience, this has been a profoundly therapeutic journey.
This insight slowly changed the way I look at Human Design.
Rather than seeing it as a fascinating system of knowledge, I experience it as a remarkably rich companion on a journey of awareness that includes psychotherapy.
It seemed to me that these two worlds have much to offer one another.
Psychotherapy provides a language for the inner work of transformation.
Human Design offers an extraordinary map of our energetic individuality and of the many ways conditioning expresses itself.
This dialogue between Human Design and therapy gradually became the foundation of both my book and a training I have spent the last years creating.
Embody Your Design – An Embodied Framework for Integrating Human Design into Therapeutic Practice.
This is not a certification programme.
Nor is it simply another Human Design course.
It is a journey into the lived experience of Human Design through meditation, journaling, therapeutic reflection, embodied practices, ecstatic dance sets I created with a DJ from Ibiza, guided explorations and live group sessions.
My hope is not that participants will simply know more about Human Design.
My hope is that they begin to participate in it and put it as use in their therapy sessions.
That Human Design gradually becomes less of a mental map and more of a lived experience that supports the lifelong process of awareness and deconditioning.
I am hoping to welcome the first cohort this autumn.
Over the coming weeks I’d like to use these newsletters to share some of the ideas that gave birth to this training, along with reflections from my own journey of working with Human Design, psychotherapy and embodiment.
If, while reading this, you find yourself thinking, “This speaks to something I’ve been searching for,” I’d love to hear from you.
Rather than simply opening enrolment, I’d like to have a short conversation with everyone considering joining the first cohort. Not as an assessment or an interview, but as an opportunity for us to explore together whether this journey is the right fit for where you are in your own process.
If that resonates, simply reply to my email (atashdirk@gmail.com).
I’d be delighted to begin the conversation.
Warmly,
Dirk
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