Earlier today we had our first new Synchronize call for Conscious Growth Club Year 10.
Synchronize is our monthly orienting call where we check in with the current pulse of the group. What are people moving through? What kind of support would help this month?
Today’s call also gave me a clearer sense of what wants to happen in CGC this year – not as a rigid plan, but as an evolving direction.
Some of the words and themes that came up were:
connection
belonging
intimacy
action
momentum
relationship
ease
rest
integration
calm
openness
experimentation
wonder
surprise
courage
trust
devotion
creative flow
sharing the half-baked stuff
sharing more of our real journeys
That provides some nice clarity about how the CGC Year 10 energy is opening for us.
It also helped clarify the kinds of people we’d love to invite into CGC this year.
Not everyone. CGC has never been meant for everyone.
But if this kind of space would genuinely support you, I’d love for you to recognize yourself more clearly in the invitation.
A Year of Connection and Belonging
One of the strongest intentions for CGC Year 10 is to help the group become an even stronger space for real connection and belonging.
A lot of people are doing plenty of inner work these days.
They’re reading. Journaling. Watching videos. Listening to podcasts. Thinking about their patterns. Trying to improve their habits. Trying to understand themselves.
That can all be useful.
But there’s a certain kind of growth that doesn’t really activate until you bring your actual self into relationship with other self-aware, growth-oriented, action-taking people.
Not your polished self.
Not your “here’s my impressive update” self.
Not your “I’ve already figured this out” self.
Your real self – the part of you that is still experimenting.
Still sensing what wants to change.
Still learning how to trust your own deeper signals.
That’s one of the things we want CGC to support more strongly this year: people being able to show up in a real way, while they’re still in motion.
You don’t have to arrive fully formed – it’s actually better if you don’t.
Fully formed people are usually either done growing or pretending.
More Action, Less Solo Circling
Another strong theme from today’s Synchronize call was action.
Not frantic action.
Not grinding.
Not chasing.
Not hustling harder until your heart feels like it’s trapped in a cage.
More like: let’s stop circling the same things alone.
Let’s bring the stuck points into the room.
The decision you keep postponing.
The relationship pattern that needs attention.
The creative project that keeps almost becoming real.
The part of life that feels cluttered, heavy, vague, or unfinished.
The invitation you keep not sending.
The body signal you keep ignoring.
The truth you keep nibbling instead of claiming.
CGC works best when people bring what’s actually happening.
A decision.
A desire.
A transition.
A stuck place.
A longing.
A half-baked idea.
A request for support.
Then we can work with it together.
One intention for Year 10 is to help the club become a better bridge from insight to lived movement.
Not just more self-awareness.
More like:
I had the conversation.
I made the request.
I cleared the old thing.
I rested to replenish my energy.
I reached out.
I started the project.
I stopped pretending that old path still fits.
I let myself be seen.
I let life help me more.
I completed.
I cleared.
I released.
That’s the kind of progress I love seeing in CGC.
Sometimes it’s big and dramatic. Sometimes it’s beautifully simple. Both count.
Creative, Open-Hearted, Relational People
We’d especially love to welcome more people this year who are creative, open-hearted, socially warm, and willing to experiment with life.
By creative, I don’t necessarily mean professional artists, although we always have some of those in CGC each year.
I mean people who relate to life as something they’re actively shaping.
Writers, artists, entrepreneurs, coaches, weirdly brilliant nerds, intuitive explorers, relationship builders, community-minded people, project starters, experience designers, sensitive humans with unusual inner worlds – yes, please… more of these people.
People who have ideas they haven’t fully landed yet.
People who want to publish something, build something, host something, heal something, explore something, simplify something, or open a new doorway in life.
People who are willing to say:
“This isn’t finished yet, but here’s where I am.”
That kind of honesty is powerful in our group, and the group energy is especially good at helping such people move into meaningful next steps.
This gives other people permission to be real too. One person’s progress often inspires others to move into action.
I’d rather be in a room with sincere half-baked liveliness than polished pretense. CGC is a club where energy loves to move into action, not just circulate in possibility space. And given the recent Spirit Airlines news, there’s a timely reminder here: spirit is wonderful, but the quality of the journey matters too – and eventually, the plane needs to land.
A Healthier Relationship With Support
A lot of thoughtful people are oddly bad at receiving support.
They can be very good at helping others.
Very good at thinking.
Very good at coping.
Very good at being self-sufficient.
But self-sufficiency can quietly become isolation.
One of my intentions for CGC Year 10 is to normalize receiving more support.
Bring the thing you need help with.
Bring the part that feels unclear.
Bring the place where you’d love perspective, encouragement, mirroring, truth, warmth, or a nudge.
This doesn’t mean we turn CGC into a therapy space. It isn’t that.
It’s a growth club. A live, relational, participatory space. A place for adults who are willing to engage with honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and care.
But it does mean you don’t have to keep pretending that your life is a solo engineering project.
Humans need supportive rooms.
Humans need honest mirrors.
Humans need other humans who can say, “Yes, I get that,” or “Have you considered this?” or “That sounds like the old pattern talking,” or “I think you already know what you want here.”
That kind of support can change the direction of a whole month – and sometimes a whole life. People often become bolder and braver when they have a rock-solid base of social support. They take more action. They hesitate less. They trust themselves more.
Stretch, But Don’t Strain
Another intention for this year is to keep CGC stretchy but humane.
I want people to grow.
I want people to experiment.
I want people to become braver, warmer, more expressive, more honest, and more alive.
But I don’t want the group field to feel like pressure.
A good growth space should help people breathe.
This year I want CGC to hold a healthy range:
- Support when life feels messy and you don’t want to sort through it alone.
- Flow when your energy is scattered and you want to turn insight into forward motion.
- Release when something is complete, stale, heavy, or ready to leave your life.
- Embody when you’ve been too much in your head and your body wants a vote.
- Touch when relationships, friendship, trust, or real human contact need more care.
- Wonder when the world feels too narrow and possibility wants to open again.
- Play when life has become too serious and delight needs a place to land.
- Connect when you want warmth, belonging, laughter, and deeper connection with your fellow CGCers.
- Synchronize when we want to sense the month together and choose a shared direction.
That’s the new rhythm of CGC Year 10.
It’s not a rigid curriculum. It’s a living structure.
We’ll keep listening to what people are actually moving through, and we’ll shape the flow accordingly.
Who Will Probably Feel at Home Here
You may be a strong match for CGC Year 10 if you want more connection, support, honesty, and aliveness in your life.
You’ll probably feel at home if you’re willing to show up live, be on camera, and participate in good faith.
You’ll probably fit well if you like thoughtful people, warm conversation, personal growth, experimentation, emotional honesty, practical movement, curiosity, and a bit of wonder.
You don’t have to be extroverted.
You don’t have to be perfectly confident.
You don’t have to have your life neatly arranged and color-coded.
But you do need to be willing to bring your real self into the room.
CGC is probably not a fit if you mainly want private content to consume in the background, if you prefer hiding, if you don’t want live interaction, or if you want a rigid step-by-step formula where someone else tells you exactly what to do with your life.
It’s also not a good match for cynical, contemptuous, cruel, or dehumanizing energy.
We’re creating a warm room together.
That means the quality of the people matters.
My Deeper Intention
My deeper intention for CGC Year 10 is simple:
I want CGC to help people stop growing alone and start living more fully – in motion, in connection, and in real life.
More honest conversations.
More invitations.
More warmth.
More courage.
More grounded action.
More creative experiments.
More relational aliveness.
More support that actually fits what people are moving through now.
I want CGC to be a place where people can bring their lives into the room and feel something shift because they did.
Not every call needs to be profound.
Some calls may be playful. Some may be practical. Some may be tender. Some may be surprising. Some may be clarifying in a way that seems small at the time but creates powerful ripples.
That’s real growth.
Not always fireworks. Sometimes it’s a door finally opening because someone had the courage to touch the handle and ponder, “What if?”
Join Us for CGC Year 10
Enrollment for Conscious Growth Club Year 10 is open now, and it closes Thursday, May 7 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
This is our only opening for new members this year, so if CGC feels aligned, this is the window to join us. After enrollment closes, the next planned opening won’t be until April 2027.
This new CGC year runs from May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027, and your membership begins as soon as you join.
If this feels like the kind of space you’ve been wanting – more honest, more alive, more connected, more supportive, and more worth showing up for – you’re warmly invited to join us.
If you’ve been craving a place where growth feels more relational, honest, and alive, this may be your year to join us inside.
Here’s the full invite page:
If you read the invitation and feel a clean yes, trust that.
We’d love to welcome more creative, open-hearted, growth-oriented people into the room this year.
Especially if you’re ready to bring more of your real life with you.
