From Attunement to Alignment:
Integrated Practices for Health, Depth, and Growth
What’s harder — changing the world, or yourself?
Because only one of them really works.
You’re not burned out. You’re hungry for meaning.
We live in a culture that mistakes noise for truth, performance for presence, and attention for love.
A world that celebrates motion but forgets direction.
You’ve read the books. You’ve listened to the podcasts.
You’ve tried the mindfulness apps, the vision boards, the self-optimizing routines.
And still, something’s missing.
You’re not broken. You’re just misaligned.
This isn’t about fixing yourself — it’s about remembering what alignment feels like.
Pause and consider…
Where do you go for information? (your phone, the news?)
For knowledge? (AI, podcasts)?
And for wisdom?
My teacher, Junpo Denis Kelly Roshi
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
— Dōgen Zenji
Attainment vs. Attunement
We were raised inside Attainment Culture — where worth is measured in output, where attention is currency, and where “more” is the only acceptable direction.
It’s a system that rewards achievement but starves character.
That praises productivity yet punishes stillness.
That values recognition more than realization.
But there’s no dignity in that game.
Because dignity — unlike status or success — can’t be earned or lost. It’s something you recognize, in yourself and in others.
Attunement Culture begins there.
It asks a different question:
Not What can I get?
But Who am I becoming?
Attunement is about quality over quantity.
It’s the practice of coherence — aligning your thoughts, words, and actions so they move in the same direction.
It’s learning to listen deeply enough that your very presence becomes a form of influence.
This course is an invitation into that shift — from attainment to attunement, from self-improvement to self-alignment.
January 13 - March 3;
Tuesdays
11:30 a.m. MT,
75 minutes a class.
