About this program

Location: Good Medicine Collective, 231 York St, Portland, ME 04102

Time: 5:30 – 7:00pm; last Thursday of each month (except Nov & Dec)

Seats are limited.

This highly interactive, facilitator-led series of discussions is designed to develop new levels of systems awareness, sense-making, and mind/body/nature alignment, to restore hope, vitality, creativity, and courage in the face of change, and to learn and practice life-affirming skills that are needed to create conditions for greater wellness, healthier relationships, meaningful impact, and a future where ALL of life can thrive.

Brad designed and curates each session for deep learning, insights and connection. Each session offers frameworks, tools and resources, and experiential learning methodologies that include both large and small group discussions as well as opportunities to put learning into practice so that it can be applied at home and work. .

The greatest voyage of our lifetimes is not in the seeking of new landscapes but in the seeing with new eyes.

~ Marcel Proust

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

~ Albert Einstein

4 Seasons / 12 Sessions

This workshop series follows the rhythms and cycles of the seasons.

For 2025, I'm starting the 'Autumn' season in January. This may seem counterintuitive, but there is a developmental arc to it all; starting with letting go / unlearning / shifting out of old patterns that no longer serve us individually, collectively, and for all of life on Earth.

The next full seasonal cycle of workshops will begin in September, 2025 with the 'Autumn Season' to more closely match the seasons we are experiencing.

Each session is designed to offer its own independent learning outcomes and value. Participants are welcome to attend any sessions that appeal to them, independent of any others.

For a deeper and richer experience, come join us for a Season. For the most powerfully transformative experience, join us for the full year. ***The full year option includes recordings of each session and materials.

Autumn: Navigating Today's Meta-Crisis

Season Description:

You are not lost, crazy, nor alone. We are living in a time between worlds; faced with environmental, economic, and social challenges that can feel overwhelming, insurmountable, and even scary. What worked for us in the past no longer seems to work nor make sense anymore. Our future is uncertain.

Join us for this 'Autumn Season' to reorient ourselves amidst change, complexity and chaos, to better understand how we got into this mess, to re-imagine what's possible, and to chart a new path for creating a world where ALL of life can thrive.

• Session 1 – Jan 30: Re-Orienting In Liminal Times

In this 90-min workshop, we will take a brief walk through time to look at how human history has shaped our inner landscapes (worldviews, thoughts, and patterns) that have contributed to many of the challenges we face today. We will explore where we are today and how to shift our mindsets about the Meta-Crisis and V.U.C.A. (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) in which we live. We will dive into the 3 Horizons Model and other models to uncover new ways of thinking and relating to ourselves, each other, and the world for a more thrivable future.

• Session 2 – Feb 27: Looking Through Life's Lens

Humans have successfully coexisted with nature for millions of years. In fact, we have forgotten that we ARE nature and the realities in which we live are determined by the conditions of both our inner and our outer nature. What might be possible if we were to realign how we think, act, relate, communicate, and design the world around us with nature's time-tested (billions of years) evolutionary wisdom?

In this 90-minute session, we will learn about nature's highly intelligent and yet elegantly simple living systems principles, and how to tap into and apply them for greater health and vitality, clarity and purpose, courage and creativity in the face of change. Regeneration is not some future green utopia - it is available to us all, here and now.

• Session 3 – Mar 27: Charting A New Path