Analyst Training and Deconditioning Support Program 2027
Semester 1 Starts February 1st 2027
This is a practical and comprehensive Analyst Training that aims to empower you with the ability to identify and clearly convey the most important narratives in the chart for several different types of readings. Our goal is to train you to deliver readings where your client feels deeply seen and able, if they’re ready, to enter the Human Design experiment and relate to self and others with more
acceptance. We accomplish this with an extremely comprehensive, multifaceted, program that seeks to empower you with precise knowledge, a safe container for your own deconditioning, and complimentary skills to succeed and set yourself apart professionally. Please read the syllabus to answer all of your questions about the program.
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Respecting your uniqueness
A Human Design reading is an art and a science. I will help you find your confidence and comfort in providing a clear analysis in your own way. Through my example, lightbulbs can go off that will unlock your potential as an analyst. Along the way, I will be mindful not to interfere with or undermine your natural approach, while at the same time helping you understand where you may be deviating into an interpretation that is no longer accurate. My approach to teaching design is nuanced and rigorous, but with an emphasis on what practically matters. So while I will guide you to be precise with your keynoting, my approach isn’t pedantic.
Clarifying common misunderstandings
As a heretic with guilt motivation, I have endeavored to fix a lot of things that I felt were unclear, missing, or occasionally incorrect. I have invested extensive time in clarifying overly sweeping statements, vague direction, and gray areas that just confuse people and disempower people.
One of the greatest gifts of my design is to be an extremely thorough investigator. So if you’re tired of people saying the same basic things about design, this is an opportunity to go much deeper and learn from someone who has truly digested the system over 12 years, has the personal experience, eye opening examples, and new insights to enrich your understanding of the system.
I’ve never felt comfortable with Ra’s penchant for hyperbole and black/white statements, leading me to flesh out gray areas and add more nuance to our understanding of the system. It’s not uncommon for Ra to make grandiose and definitive statements about how a mechanic operates at one point in his career, and later contradict himself as his understanding shifted.
As a general rule, Ra’s last word on the subject is his most accurate. I see myself as refining and expanding Ra’s understanding of the system, not contradicting it or taking the field in a fundamentally new direction.
Incorporating key elements of the substructure
I am also including additional information that I feel deserves to be shared early in the experiment, such as Cognition, Sense, the Motivation, View, and their respective Transference and Distraction. We live in a strange time when all of the information Ra taught is available at once, and people one week into the experiment are already talking about their Base. While this strikes me as information overload, I also feel it makes sense to bring in a few practical elements from the substructure, without going so far as to overwhelm the client. Projectors and Reflectors, in particular, need to be told about their Motivation and View at the outset in order to really enter the experiment and start the deconditioning process.
Respecting Rightness
Right minded people have a radically different learning style and needs from an educational program. It doesn’t make sense to ask the right minded person to follow a pre-determined structure or sequence for conducting a reading as that requires a focused and strategic effort. The Right minded person’s reading is more akin to a conversation. I find it odd that legacy professional training programs just teach you to deliver a specific product, i.e., a Foundation Reading and to do it in an extremely specific way. They seem to focus too much on the style and the structure of the reading, rather than the content. Whereas, I feel it’s more useful to empower everyone, whether Left or Right minded, with a deep understanding of each design element that can be turned into multiple readings of your own design.
How we offer deconditioning support
1. The private group
This is a place to ask questions about topics from class as well as share your experience living with or observing a design element. We carefully vet who attends this program to make sure they’re not only someone we respond to supporting, but that they fit into the culture of the program. There’s a good balance of head and heart in the NSHD fractal so you can trust it will be a safe space. This is in contrast to the excessive headiness in the public online spaces.
2. Contemplations
Throughout each semester contemplations are offered that will not only help you understand the concept intellectually but will get you better acquainted with your own chart. These contemplations ask you to not only deeply think through how that aspect of Design works, but to vulnerably explore the implications of that in your own life, when relevant. While completing them is not a requirement, students who complete them usually have a better grasp of the knowledge, and of how their Design operates.
Regardless of what your prior experience level is with Design, everyone we’ve trained so far has told us they were shocked at how much they didn’t know about Human Design, and were stretched not just intellectually, but they also discovered many new dimensions of both their True and Not Self. This included people who had previously completed the entire IHDS analyst training.
3. Somatic support sessions facilitated by Teresa Brenneman
As we step into the role of an Analyst, it’s not just our minds that are learning — it’s our bodies, too. These weekly sessions are designed to support the somatic integration of what you’re taking in intellectually. Human Design touches deep layers of identity, perception, and history, and these sessions offer a space to slow down, notice how the material is landing in your system, and process any activations that may arise.
Each session will include:
- Space to name what’s coming up in your process — emotionally, energetically, and somatically
- Opportunities for peer dialogue and shared reflection, with light facilitation
- Tools to support your personal deconditioning journey as you grow into your own authority as an Analyst
- These sessions are not about “fixing” anything, but about resourcing ourselves to meet what arises as we study, reflect, and more deeply understand our own and others’ designs.
- Expect a gentle space where your body is welcome and where your capacity can grow over time to be with what is arising.
Semester 1 Includes:
- Distortions of the definition
- The hierarchy of conditioning
- Splits and bridging gates
- The core wound of each Aura Type
- Finding the story by connecting elements
- Each line’s challenges, distressed voice, coping strategy, physical correlates, interpersonal needs, and mature expression
- How we somaticize stress
- How we get triggered and defend ourselves interpersonally
- Identifying if your client has a Prime or Epsilon issue and understanding the respective deconditioning journey relative to each
- Implications of missing circuitry
- Using recurring themes and/or tensions in the chart to build a narrative
- Exploring the psychological tension within each profile
- Personal and transpersonal harmonic influencers
- Understanding gates in the not self expression
- Motivation and Transference
- View and Distraction
- Synthesizing the Motivation and View, and the Transference and Distraction
- Tying together the substructure and the surface
- Working with Neptune
- Keynoting the Not Self practicum
See syllabus for details on Semesters 2-4
Semester 1 begins February 1st, 2027. See the syllabus for live class times each week.
This is an intensive 12 month program for both your mind and body. We approximately align each semester with a quarter of the wheel. Sometimes we’ll start a week or two earlier than a quarter begins, and sometimes we’ll start a week or two later. However, we want to align with the themes of each quarter which are generally supportive of the subject matter.
Quarter of Initiation: Semester 1, Building the Story of the Conditioned Self
Quarter of Civilization: Semester 2, Building the Story of the Differentiated Self
Quarter of Duality: Semester 3, Relationship Analysis
Quarter of Mutation: Semester 4, Life Cycles
Learn How to Provide the Following Readings for Both Beginners and Advanced Clients:
1. Foundation reading
2. Not self reading
3. Relationship reading
4. Life Cycle readings
5. Various specialized readings delving into one of the many topics from the course
Why our schedule is radically different from legacy schools
There is a presumption in IHDS that they are justified in staggering the program out across 3-4 years to ensure the analyst has sufficiently deconditioned before giving readings. This process made sense decades ago for the first generation of students, many of whom were trained before they had begun experimenting with S&A. However, today, there is no correlation between the number of years someone is in their experiment and when they start the Analyst Training. Then, after the very long, challenging, and expensive process of becoming an analyst, IHDS restricts what you can do with the knowledge. For example, they prohibit you from combining it with other therapeutic modalities under the blanket assumption that all other modalities are 7 centered which is definitely not the case. I don’t know anyone happy with this arrangement.
A no strings attached program
A lot of training programs are structured in a way that locks you into a long term investment. I don’t think this respects your authority or life’s ever changing circumstances. However, if you know you’re on board for the whole experience, you can pay in full upfront or commit to a 12 month subscription in exchange for extensive bonus content that can radically enhance your education. More detail on that in the pricing section. Therefore, this isn’t an all-or-nothing program — you can stop after any semester. However, you can’t participate in semester 2 without first doing semester 1, or semester 3 without doing 1 and 2. This is for your own sake as the knowledge builds from prior semesters.
The Analyst Training Program is designed to teach you how to identify both major and subtle themes of the chart and assemble the different elements into an accurate, coherent, and compelling story. Along the way, I will add dimension to your understanding of the elements of the chart so that your story can be that much richer. However, in order to comprehend the course it’s necessary for you to already have a solid grasp of the basics. Remember, if you’re Right minded, you won’t know if you do or not until you see your knowledge get pulled out socially, or pulled out through a creative project. I’m also not holding 1st line standards to everyone, and yet there is such a thing as readiness or not for all designs. But how you get ready and how you know you’re ready are different per design.
If you’ve been in the experiment for several years and have completed Rave ABCs and Rave Cartography, and you have a reasonably solid grasp of most gates and channels, you probably have enough knowledge for this training. If you haven’t completed these foundation courses but have dedicated yourself to learning the system on your own, you also may have enough knowledge for the training, but you are required to set up a meeting with James to discuss.
If you have any questions or concerns about your readiness for the training, please contact James to set up a 1-1 Zoom meeting to discuss. In any case, if James hasn’t worked with you previously he will need to have an introductory meeting to ensure it’s a good fit.
Please complete this brief questionnaire to apply for the program.
We will be in touch within 48 hours of receiving your questionnaire to let you know if we would like to move forward with a 1-1 Zoom conversation to determine if the program is a mutually good fit.
A response to working with you means James is committed to supporting your understanding through the duration of the program. A meeting with Teresa is not necessary but can be arranged at your request. James discusses these meetings with Teresa and we have so far always been aligned about who feels correct for the program.
