Find Your Way in Uncertain Times
Wayfinding for Modern Life
A 6-month live program for people who want to meet uncertainty with greater clarity, steadiness, and self-trust.
Next cohort begins September 4th, PDT
As the world grows louder and more complex, it’s easy to feel lost and unsure how to proceed.
For millennia, we’ve moved through unknowns
We’ve done so by engaging our felt sense and orienting beyond the edges of our identity.
We’ve learned how to adapt and respond practically to what is arising, when no clear path was given.
Over the course of 6-months and 18 hours of live sessions, this program brings those ancient principles and tacit forms of know-how into modern life as practices you can embody and carry into moments of transition, choice, and change.
This program is for people who:
Are moving through transitions or uncertainty, and want a way of engaging that feels alive and sustainable.
Feel fragmented or disconnected, and are longing for a deeper sense of coherence.
Feel that their way of living and being in the world does not fit into dominant norms and are seeking a sense of direction that feels in integrity with who they are and are becoming.
Want tools for orienting and engaging in complexity that are simple, embodied, and embedded in their own experience.
Are in a liminal space between one role, or phase of their life and another, and are seeking to actively shape the next stretch of their path.
What We Cover:
Over the course of our time together, you'll have the opportunity to focus on a project you're wanting to develop, a practice you're looking to cultivate, or an idea that's still taking form — or simply to connect more deeply to your way of living and moving in the world, and what it means to inhabit that more fully.
Orienting as Seeing Beyond Vision
Recognize where you are, surface intentions of where you’d like to focus.
Gain practices for sensing your next steps even in moments when you feel stuck or doubtful.
Understand how you can work with uncertainty rather than feel inhibited by it.
Noticing the layers of information in current moment and beginning to sense how to draw upon them.
We will focus on orientation as a capacity & seeing in the fog as a practice.
Place, Gaps, & Engaging Liminal Space
Learn to engage the places around you as sources you can be in conversation with that can offer support and information.
Explore gaps, missing information and experiences of something being “off” as vital aspects of seeing and sensing your way.
We will focus on negative capability as a capacity & engaging with what hasn’t quite taken form as a practice
Resistance & Spark
Understanding ways of meeting and working with tension and uncertainty, effectively.
Learn to perceive from the edges of what you know rationally.
Develop your ability to read beneath the surface of a situation, attending to what is felt and implied as much as what is visible and stated.
We will focus on cultivating inner congruence as a capacity and finding your ground to meet difficulty and resistance as they arise.
Sensemaking, Time, & Rhythm
Understand how your energy moves and what sustains your capacity to engage over time.
Learn to distinguish what is relevant and generative from what distracts or diminishes your clarity and presence.
Cultivate the ability to get beneath mood and emotion to surface information for aligned decision making.
We will focus on cultivating discernment as a capacity & emotional fluidity as a practice for aligned decision making.
Enaction – Knowing as You Go
Iterating your practice and adapting according to what arises.
Noticing the particulars of a situation and what’s being invited of you.
Tightening the feedback loops between reflection and response.
We will focus on cultivating reflexivity as a capacity & calibration as a practice.
Arcs & Valleys
Recognizing your next steps while tracking the larger context.
Listening to the moment to sense how to respond.
Honing your wayfinding practice.
We will focus on cultivating metacognition as a capacity & the conversational nature of wayfinding as a praxis.
Strengthen your capacity to engage complexity without losing yourself, recover meaning in real time, and move forward with a steadiness rooted in lived authority.
Through this work, you will:
Gain confidence in your capacity to meet the uncertainty.
Instead of feeling lost, you’ll develop resilience in the face of the inherent uncertainty of modern life, helping you feel less anxiety and more agency as things unfold.
Learn to engage complexity without losing yourself.
Instead of outsourcing your authority, you'll cultivate your discernment and ability to find your way through all manner of situations and challenges.
Connect with a sense of continuity and meaning in your daily life.
Instead of feeling pulled apart by competing demands, you’ll learn to notice how different pieces fit together giving rise to a subtle continuity in your life that’s always present beneath the surface.
Reduce overwhelm by knowing where to focus your attention.
Instead of ending the day drained, you’ll notice a natural vitality emerging from the way you engage. You’ll feel more: connected to yourself, present in your relationships, and in touch with the world around you.
See things more fully and notice more of what is present.
Recognize and learn from your own biases and habitual ways of engaging, explore practices for widening your perspective when your perception narrows.
Elsa Henderson, PhD.
Elsa moves between the roles of facilitator, coach, and educator. Drawing on her background in process-oriented psychology, embodied cognition, and systems thinking, she helps people meet uncertainty and find their way in all kinds of inner and outer terrain.
Structure
Main Sessions & Integration Sessions: Each cohort includes 2-hour main sessions and 1.5-hour integration sessions after every two main sessions, to explore questions and cases arising in your wayfinding practice. Sessions are scheduled 1 or 2 times per month (see below).
Additional: Bi-weekly practices, audio recordings, PDFs and readings to support your wayfinding practice, plus a WhatsApp group to share reflections and remain in conversation with each other between sessions.
Total live session time: 18 hours
Cohort Call Times
COHORT A - North America / Europe
Starts September 3rd PDT & CET 4 month session, 18 hours
Main Sessions (2 hrs): 1 or 2 Thursdays per month, 9:00 AM PDT / 6:00 PM CET
Integration Sessions (1.5 hrs): 1 Thursday per month, 9:00 AM PDT / 6:00 PM CET
COHORT B - North America / Australia
Starts February 7th AEDT & PST, 4 month session, 18 hours
Main Sessions (2 hrs): 2 Saturdays per month, 9:00 AM AEDT / Fri 2:00 PM PST
Integration Sessions (1.5 hrs): 1 Saturday per month, 9:00 AM AEDT / Fri 2:00 PM PST
Investment
$1200.oo for 6 months
($500 non-refundable deposit required with application)
Scholarships are available
Additional Customized Support
Four 1:1 Sessions - $750.00 USD
Receive additional support in working with your questions, integration and weaving the practices of wayfinding into your day-to-day experience and immediate context. These sessions focus on deepening your practice and getting customized support as you engage in wayfinding in your life and the specific areas you’ve chosen to focus on in the series. I will work with you to meet and navigate whatever is coming up in your reality.
How It Works: Four sessions over 2 months | 75 minutes each
Each session builds on the previous one, creating a coherent journey. Through our work together, you will leave with:
• A clearer understanding of the innate capabilities that have been born out of your lived experience
• How these capabilities get activated and how you can intentionally engage them
• What to focus your attention on to find your way and get unstuck
• Practices for engaging in unpredictable and conflictual terrain
• How to cultivate your attention so vital insights can grow and enhance your work
• A personal wayfinding arc that serves as an ongoing resource for navigation when there is no map
Coaching as Wayfinding is a relational practice of depth and discernment. Because this work is personalized and integrative, your investment reflects not just our time together, but the preparation, attunement, and integration support that surrounds it.
Investment: Four sessions (75 minutes each) - $750.00 USD
If this resonates with you, I invite you to reach out. This work is for those who want to feel more alive in their personal and professional life while honouring the complexity of who they are.
There are three spots available.
I reserve a limited number of sliding scale spaces for early-career leaders, community stewards, and aligned practitioners. If this applies to you, please reach out.
