Next Bright Future Now course: May/Jun ’24

Start the community-building and self-study
part of the program as soon as you register
Early-Bird registration ends Mar 30
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In the midst of the world’s upheavals, are you looking
for a more effective and positive way forward?

Bright Future Now can help you expand your capacity for love and creativity in the service of humanity and the earth. It can help you

  • See yourself and the world with fresh eyes
  • Increase your capacity to make a difference
  • Connect with like-hearted people worldwide

After 26 cohorts and over 360 people from 34 countries around the world, it’s clear that the course is a unique, practical, transformational and surprisingly nourishing fast-track to a bright future – for you and for the world. To learn more, please look at the Bright Future Now Overview.

The next course runs May 4 to Jun 29, 2024. Pre-course orientation and activities are available as soon as you register.

If you’re interested in the May/Jun ’24 course, now is the time to sign up. Early-Bird registration is $595, through Mar 30, 2024. (Regular registration is then $695 through Apr 13, 2024.) If you take the course with one or more co-workers, housemates or friends the group rate is $550 per person. We have a payment plan that enables you to spread the cost over up to 8 months. All of these options are on the registration form. If you feel you need financial assistance beyond these options, you can apply for financial aid.

We’re confident you will find Bright Future Now to be of real value. We back up that confidence with a money-back guarantee – if at any time up through the third week of the main program you decide this course is not for you, we will happily refund your registration fee in full.

All of us who are involved in these courses are excited to share this experience with you and then welcome you into the Bright Future Network once you complete BFNow. We look forward to hearing from you!

Meet your future self – this weekend

Join us for a special free online event to:

  • Connect with your 2021 future self through a guided visualization
  • Illuminate your inner wisdom for navigating the next year
  • Benefit from the shared sensings and co-creative potentials of a group of like-hearted people from around the world
  • Get an experiential sense of the Bright Future Now culture and energy
  • Gain encouragement and support for finding harmony within, harmony with others and harmony with the natural world

When:  We’re offering two times to enable more people to share in this experience. The format of the two days will be the same. Come to one or the other: Saturday Dec 12, 10 am PST (click here for the time in your timezone) – or – Sunday Dec 13, 3 pm PST (click here for the time in your timezone).  Estimated length is 90 minutes, depending on number of participants. 

Where:  On Zoom. Register here for Saturday. Register here for Sunday. The appropriate zoom link will be sent to you once you register. Parts will be recorded and replays will be available to everyone who registers.

Who: People who want to participate in creating a brighter future. It will be facilitated by FireHawk Hulin, Josie Straka, Lianna Gilman and Robert Gilman of Context Institute.

Why: It’s our gift to you in this time of upheaval. We did an event like this last weekend within the Bright Future Network and got so much out of it that we decided to offer it out to everyone who’s been interested in Context Institute’s work.

Embracing the 3 Harmonies video

Discover how embodying the harmony within, with others and with nature provides a practical, powerful fast-track to a brighter future – for you and the world.

This is the presentation I did in the workshop on May 31. It explores what you need in a time of upheaval and how the vision and practice of embodying the 3 harmonies can be such a great help.

People are describing it as:

  • “so helpful, particularly at this time”
  • “great content!!! it brings many concepts together in a very easy to understand format”
  • “really love the way you have evolved the concept of the three harmonies by adding another dimension to it and also providing the anthesis, the 3 dominations”

In addition to powerful, practical concepts, it includes exercise for moving from anxiety to agency, for celebrating all that you are already doing for a brighter future and for listening to your future-self as you take your next steps.

Accelerate your ability to embody the 3 harmonies

The world needs your gifts now more than ever. Bright Future Now was built for these profoundly transformational times to help you activate and amplify the mindsets, skillsets and community you need to fully manifest your gifts – all in the context of the 3 harmonies. 

“On the surface it’s a course on complex systems
and how they work in human life, culture and business.
At a deeper level it’s an immersion into how real change is really activated.”

If this speaks to you, I invite you to join us in the Jul/Aug Bright Future Now course. 

The Jul/Aug cohort is already 2/3 full. Saturday, June 20, is the last day for registration. The course runs Jul 11 to Aug 30 but we do important pre-course onboarding so it’s good to register as early as possible. If you’d like to join us, this is the time to act – learn more or register here. Payment plans and financial aid are available.

Embracing the Three Harmonies – free online workshop on May 31

Have you ever felt anxious, frustrated or helpless as you watch events unfold in the world around you? You’re not alone. Yet we have much more potential agency than we think we do.

In this time of deep change, I’ve been discovering new strengths in an old friend, strengths that expand your capacity to accelerate the shift to a brighter future. I’m excited to share those strengths with you through a free online workshop this coming Sunday, May 31, at 10am PDT (click here for the time in your timezone). Please use this link to register.

Embracing the Three Harmonies: a practical, powerful fast-track from anxiety to agency

For the past 20 years, I’ve been living into the vision of “Embody the three harmonies: within, with others, with nature.” These three harmonies are at the heart of what we do in the Bright Future Network.

Yet in the last couple of months we’ve been discovering new ways to use the three harmonies as a fast-track from anxiety to agency. I’d love to share these with you.

The three harmonies provide a framework and a toolkit that expands your possibilities, that enables you to always find a meaningful way to make a difference – for yourself and for the world – regardless of your situation. They celebrates inner, interpersonal and broader outer work as mutually supportive and co-equal. In every moment, there’s always something you can do, at some scale, that brings us closer to a brighter future.

The workshop include a brief introductory presentation, experiential exercises with tools for moving out of anxiety and expanding your sense of agency, small-group co-learning breakouts plus Q&A time. I expect it to run about 90 minutes.

Register now for the workshop via this link.

The workshop stands on its own and it’s also part of our Taste of Bright Future Now series. A number of the participants will be graduates from the Bright Future Now course, so if you’re curious about or interested in this life-changing course, the event will provide a wonderful way to get a feel for the people and culture within the Bright Future program.

A Taste of Bright Future Now – free online workshop 2/8 @ 1pm PST

Are you curious about the Bright Future Now online course?

Then join us for this free, experientially-oriented, online workshop to get a taste of the ideas and skills that can enable you to find your own bright future now while contributing to a bright future for the world!

The event is Saturday, Feb 8 at 1pm PST (click here for the time in your zone).
 
Even if you aren’t interested in doing the course (yet 😉), you’ll come away with useful experiences.

Find out why course graduates are saying:

“Out of the many programs I’ve been involved in over the last three decades, nothing has been as helpful and comprehensive.”

“The best experience I’ve had in self-development and in seeing the world with different eyes.”

“If you are at all interested in a deeper understanding of the world and what’s going on in it, consider checking this out.”


We’ll start with a brief overview of the course. Then we’ll explore high-resolution perception and collaborative leadership so that you can get a taste of two of the six territories we cover in the course. We’ll answer whatever questions you have and you’ll meet some of the graduates of the course.

“Among the most integrative, comprehensive, inspiring, and useful things I’ve ever participated in.”

Register for this free event here and invite your friends to join you. Even if you or they can’t make that time, register anyway to get access to the recording.

I hope to see you there!

A Taste of Bright Future Now – free webinar 12/15 @ noon PST

Are you curious about the Bright Future Now course? Then join us this coming Sunday, Dec 15 at noon PST for a free experientially-based webinar. (Click here to get the time in your time zone.)

Find out why course graduates are saying:

Out of the many programs I’ve been involved in over the last three decades, nothing has been as helpful and comprehensive.

The best experience I’ve had in self-development and in seeing the world with different eyes.

If you are at all interested in a deeper understanding of the world and what’s going on in it, consider checking this out.

You’ll get to experience two quite different parts of the course – mapping our inner complexity and collaborative leadership. We’ll answer whatever questions you have and you’ll get to meet some of the graduates of the course.

“Among the most integrative, comprehensive, inspiring, and useful things I’ve ever participated in.”

Register for this free event here. Even if you can’t make that time, register anyway so that you can get access to the recording.

I hope to see you there!

Talk with a Bright Future Network Member

If you’re interested in the Bright Future Now course but still have questions, we invite you to talk with a Bright Future Network member to see if the course is for you.

You can expect a spacious conversation where you’ll have plenty of opportunity to ask your questions and hear about the experiences of a network member.

The course isn’t for everyone but if you’re

  • more interested in building the new culture than fighting the old
  • ready to combine personal, interpersonal and project-oriented skill-building
  • interested in connecting and collaborating with others from all kinds of backgrounds who also look toward the future with a positive sense of possibilities

you’ll likely be delighted to discover what the course and the network can offer you.

As a bonus, the “talk with” page gives you a window into the diversity of people in the network. Take a look.