Dragonfly: Launch

 

Nothing my friends tell me shocks me anymore. No wild dream or unadvisable plan or moonshot idea. Recently, my friend told me she wants to move to Wyoming to be closer to horses. She tells me horses can hear your heartbeat from 4 feet away. That’s enough for me right there.

Another friend is relocating to Peru. Another to Alaska in search of his true north. Another is adopting a child. Another is turning down a killer job so she can finish the book she’s been trying for years to write. Another is leaving the man of her dreams for a woman.

Look, America is awful and the earth is too hot and the truth of the matter is we’re all up against the clock. It makes everything simple and urgent: there’s only time to turn towards what you truly love. There’s only time to leap.

-Joy Sullivan

Are you too exhausted to leap?

The earth is in a leap, a truth that is evident to many of us. I have yet to talk to anyone who doesn’t know what time it is. The urgency is clear, what’s not clear is how to do anything about it.

More than 90% of even the most brilliant and well-resourced people I’m speaking with are in a Catch-22 that’s keeping you from making the leap personally.

Most of you are so thirsty it *seems like* there’s no time to stop to take a drink.

  • Where do I find the energy to do what have I been building up my whole life to do?

  • What if I leap and become a totally unrecognizable person?

  • How do I leap without destroying my love, friendship, business, and creative partnerships?

We are designing everything about this experience to help you cross the gap in a way that doesn’t take away more of your energy than it gives. I know the prospect of one more Zoom call makes smoke roll out your ears. Well, I won’t rest until Dragonfly is the thing that you most look forward to in your month.

The first thing we’ll do is help you plug the holes in your bucket. No matter how much good food, sleep, and self-care you put in, if it’s running out the bottom like a colander it’s never going to fill you up. We will do some exercises that guide you to shed what’s no longer needed. There’s NO WAY you’re going to be able to make it unless you get close up some energy leaks.

If you think these last two years were fast, wait till you see next year. Believe it or not, that’s wonderful news, but only if you’ve learned to use the chaos as a positive agent for the change happening in your life and relationship. Damn few have these skills yet. That’s what we’re teaching you.

 
 

Cris Beasley

PSYCHEDELIC GUIDE AND ARTIST

You can see her mischief and spark in this photo, no doubt, but don’t mistake that for a lack of gravity or seriousness. Her ability to sense where there’s something worthy of diving deep into gives her an uncanny ability to pierce beyond the bullshit.

Cris formerly worked as a product designer for Sequoia Capital and Mozilla. Check out her profile in Forbes and interviews with High Existence, Future Thinkers, and Curious Humans.

David Swedlow

GROUP SYNTHESIS FACILITATOR

David’s motto is an upgrade on Spiderman’s "With great power comes great responsiveness." He teaches how to move from co-dependence to inter-dependence, the key to stepping into your power while strengthening your relationships.

David studied Integral Theory with Ken Wilber and has been a circling facilitator (a relational meditation practice) for seven years. He’s currently Director of Innovation at a digital security firm in Austin, TX.

 
 

You’re gonna want a crew.

We are not here with a linear, patented system to teach you how to leap. No one else will know the way, your way, you’ll have to find it for yourself. You can, however, have journey mates who support you as you find your way. We are convening such a group for such a time as this.

Join our 100-day journey into what wants to be born in you.

 
 

This is NOT communication skills 101. Everyone here is selected because you’re already ninja level. Most of you are mentors, managers, or coaches for others. We’re talking about bringing together the synthesis of all of you, of all your skillsets, all of your particular perspectives to do something none of us can do alone.


What are you going to get out of this? 

The skills you learn and practice here are essential for all of your powerful relationships. These are skills you can’t just read about. It requires developing a knowing in the muscle. We aren’t just talking about roller skating, we’re putting on the skates and skating. 

Since it’s easier to experiment with new things with strangers, you’ll do these exercises in our monthly sessions and have the opportunity to pair up 1:1 for extra practice sessions at your convenience. We’ll provide workbooks and cheat sheets to support these embodied exercises.

These practices will change your core relationships forever.

  • Vows and commitments that change as life changes and as we change

  • Using uncomfortable discussions as cracking open of the rippling aliveness in your relationships

  • Techniques to alchemize even the most uncomfortable dissonance in core partnerships not as a problem but as the source of massive perspective upshifts

Time commitment

You’re all busy people, so we are making all the offerings a buffet for you to set your own plate. The calls are 2 hours per month. If you can’t make them, there will still be many ways to engage through the side-channel partner exercises and offerings in the workbook. All calls will be recorded and shared only with the other participants.

What about the guys* asterisk? 

Well, I’m inviting some non-binary humans to join us. I’ve learned things I couldn’t have known otherwise from deep conversations with them. We all will benefit from the wide-angle perspective from beings whose incarnations hold lessons quite different from ours.

THE WORKBOOK

It’s a combination of MadLibs and Be Here Now. It asks questions that pierce past the ego structure to take you all the way down to the bedrock of what’s blocking you from sensing and manifesting your most alive and aligned perspective.

THE MYSTERY BOX

I’m not going to tell you what’s in it; that would ruin the surprise of the mystery box. I will tell you it’s the beginning of the toolkit that the patriarchy didn’t give you. One item it will include is a copy of the Becoming Dragon deck created by Cris which we will reference during time together.


Exchange

Regular Admission - Before September 30 – $600 total

Keep in mind that main focus of our work is getting you OUT of overwhelm so that you can stand fully into the boots you’re here on the planet to walk in. It doesn’t take effort to become effortless, but it does take making the decision to start wherever you are.

This is a make-your-own-plate buffet. All options here are just that… optional. Pick and choose what feels abundant and juicy for you and let the rest go.

  • Keep in mind that main focus of our work is getting you OUT of overwhelm so that you can stand fully into the boots you’re here on the planet to walk in. It doesn’t take effort to become effortless, but it does take making the decision to start wherever you are.

    This is a make-your-own-plate buffet. All options here are just that… optional. Pick and choose what feels abundant and juicy for you and let the rest go.

    • Once per month, 2-hour alignment calls where we put into practice the skills you’ll be learning. We’re not here to talk about roller skating, we’re here to roller skate.

      Replays will be available within 24 hours. Don’t stress if you can’t make it.

    • One 1-hour call with Cris or David that’s scheduled at your convenience

    • Weekly neural reprogramming sound meditations

    • Weekly workbook to dive deep into your manifestation of the true desires and requirements of your life

    • Weekly accountability check-in sessions with two of your cohort

    • 10% discount on medicine journeys committed to during the 100 days

    • Direct support from Cris via WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram voice or text messaging to ask questions, give feedback, and get unstuck

    • Connect with your journey mates in the “Dragonfly” WhatsApp group

    • $300 deposit, then $100/mo the 1st of October, November, and December.

    — note — This event is invite-only. If someone referred you to us and you haven’t yet connected with Cris, please send an email to let us know you’re interested.
    crystal@crystalbeasley.com