Ask ten people what well-being is. You'll get eleven answers.
Every human wants the same thing: to flourish. Most of us confuse well-being with chasing satisfaction, hustling for success, or optimizing ourselves like machines.
The question isn't complicated, we've just forgotten who we are.
Humans. One species with the same fundamental needs. This course gives you a universal language to understand your human needs as well as your place in the wider world.
When we start with what we have in common, we understand our uniqueness better too.
Every Tuesday, 8:15 PM Eastern, live. The first 20–30 minutes is teaching with Rachel, followed by 20–30 minutes of Q+A and open discussion.
| The course runs ongoing, with no fixed start date — enroll and join whenever you're ready.
Instant access to the hub gives you the complete curriculum, including the course materials, audio, slides, downloadable workbook, additional resources, and recordings of every past live study session.
When you’ve completed the course content, take the short Course 1 Integration Check. This helps ensure you understand the ideas enough to move forward.
| Complete it, and Course 2: Your Big Story becomes accessible.
Each concept creates a shift in how you see yourself, and your place in the world.
Concept 1: We All Want the Same Thing
Well-being isn't found in achievement, acquisition, the right relationship, or contentment. Well-being is what happens when your true needs are met consistently.
Shift: From chasing highs to finding rhythm.
Concept 2: Humans Are [Super]Nature
You are both nature — a body with biological needs — and supernature — a conscious being capable of observing, creating, and reorienting. Flourishing requires looking after both.
Shift: From treating yourself like a machine to understanding yourself as a living system.
Concept 3: Human Purpose Is Universal
Your purpose isn't hidden. It's universal: to become who you could be. Potential unfolds through tending, not striving.
Shift: From a complicated quest to a steady, daily practice.
Concept 4: There Is a Map to Your Purpose
The Hero's Journey isn't just for myths — it's the universal map of human development. Your struggles aren't detours. They're the path.
Shift: From seeing struggle as failure to recognizing it as growth.
Concept 5: There Is a Method to Undo Madness
Anxiety, anger, and apathy aren't character flaws. They're natural signals of neglected needs. The madness clears when needs are met.
Shift: From confusion and noise to agency and influence.
Concept 6: The Goal of the Individual Is the Goal of the Collective
Self-care isn't indulgence — it's the only reasonable place to begin. A healthy society can't be built by unwell individuals.
Shift: From fighting outward battles to cultivating inner vitality.
Concept 7: The Way to Make the World a Better Place, Is to Be a Better Part of It
Agency is the new activism. Tending builds agency. Agency creates influence. Influence creates change.
Shift: From guilt about self-care to understanding it as social responsibility.
The Study Sessions bring the course material to life. Rachel teaches from a particular part of the curriculum each week, adding the personal stories, experiences, questions, and discoveries that shaped the project along the way. Then the conversation opens up.
Ask questions. Share what you’re thinking. Hear how other people are understanding and applying the ideas. The discussion can move anywhere within the course material, regardless of what Rachel is teaching that week.
| There is no cohort to keep up with, and no start date or end date.
Begin whenever you’re ready and join the weekly Study Sessions wherever you happen to be in the curriculum. The teaching moves through the courses continuously, while the discussion remains open to the whole learning journey.
| When you can’t attend live, the session recording will be waiting for you in the Learning Hub.
The Learning Hub is designed for returning to the same ideas in different ways until they become familiar enough to change how you understand your life.
| You won’t find a long sequence of modules asking you to watch a video, click Next, and take a quiz.
There is no single prescribed route through the material. The course gives you multiple ways to engage the same framework over time, at your own pace, with the live Study Sessions providing a steady rhythm of teaching, conversation, and connection each week.
Use the online Course Reader, or download the EPUB and take the content with you on an e-reader.
Explore the curriculum through illustrated, graphic-novel-style decks.
The full course is available in audio, so you can keep learning while you walk, drive, wash dishes, or simply close your eyes and listen.
The workbook comes as a printable download or an editable online version.
Inside each lesson:
| STEP 1 Summary: The core idea, plainly stated.
| STEP 2 Impact: Why it matters in a real life.
| STEP 3 Danger: What happens when it's ignored.
| STEP 4 Reflection: Making it personal.
The full path: three courses, weekly live study sessions with Rachel, and the WellBeing Personal Inventory.
Start Course One immediately. Course Two and Course Three are included automatically as you progress.