Why Now: An Invitation Before the Cohort Begins

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Many of us are tired. The news arrives in waves, the polycrisis keeps naming itself, and the people Curtis Ogden works with often tell him the same thing in different words. They are weary. Not without hope, but weary. We want to start there, honestly, before inviting you into anything.

The answer to weariness is rarely more effort. Often it is the opposite. It is learning to read the flows we are already inside of, and to move with them instead of against them.

A Story About Going With the Flow

A friend once told Curtis about swimming in the Connecticut River, down near where it meets the sea. She had been working hard against the water, the way we all do, when she reached a point close to the river's mouth and felt the current take over. It carried her. She did not have to fight it anymore. She just had to let it move her toward where it was already going.

Curtis returns to that story often. So much of regenerative work is learning to sense the current already running underneath our plans, and to trust it enough to stop thrashing.

As Curtis puts it, "There is a pull underneath our efforts that wants to carry us somewhere better. Our work is to feel it, trust it, and stop swimming against it."

This is not passivity. Reading a current and working with it takes real attention and skill. But it asks a different posture than the one most of us were trained into, where every problem is a wall to push harder against. Energy systems work gives you another way to see what is moving, and another way to take part in it.

The Case for a Grounded Hope

The hope at the heart of this course is not abstract. It comes from the work Curtis gets to witness. Tribes across the United States are reclaiming good fire, after a century of being told fire is only ever a danger, and finding that land needs to burn the way a body needs its blood to move. In the Mississippi Delta, a six-year network brings the Choctaw Nation, Vietnamese fisher people, descendants of enslaved people, and poor and working-class white communities to one table, where they write cultural contracts they ask their funders to sign, on their own terms. Farmers build shared soil maps so their data stays theirs.

None of these are utopias. They are people sensing a current and going with it. When Curtis sits with them, he says, the world does not feel like it is ending. It feels like something is being repaired, slowly, in many places at once. That is the hope we want to offer you, grounded in what is actually moving.

What the Seven Weeks Offer

Over seven weeks the cohort meets for six live sessions, Thursdays from 18:00 to 20:00 UTC, two hours at a time. Each one opens with a short embodied practice and a reading, then moves through the science and the four pillars: regenerative flows, balanced and resilient structures, common cause culture, and collective learning. There is real time in small breakout groups, which people tell us, again and again, are the part they remember most.

You do not need a technical background. You need about five hours a week and a willingness to bring your own work into the room. Every session is recorded, so a missed week is not a lost week. Between sessions there is a forum, complementary materials, and lifelong access to all of it. The abundance in this space is made together. It cannot come from the instructor alone.

How to Join, Plainly

Here are the details without any softening, because the timing matters.

• The cohort begins Monday 28 September 2026, with the first live session on Thursday 1 October.
• The course fee is £200, with lifelong access to every recording and resource.
• A limited number of partial scholarships are available. To be considered, apply by 21 September 2026.

If the swimmer's story landed somewhere in you, that may be the current worth trusting. Come and learn to read the flows that carry your community, your work, and your own life. We would be glad to have you in the room.

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