Learning the Human Design System
With Zen Human Design education you learn
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to read the body graph with fluidity and competence
• to understand your own life experience through the body graph
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to know for yourself and to speak Human Design with your own words
For a solid, quick start, consider taking classes #1 and potentially #2 below, followed by a session with Chaitanyo.
Zen Human Design education has evolved from the original Human Design School and been honed over more than two decades. It follows the chapters of Human Design Revealed and for quick and optimal learning it is recommended that you follow each step in sequence, even if you think you know basic Human Design already. This is particularly important up to step 4.
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The Body Graph
Definition Types, Modes & Bridges
The body graph is the core of a Human Design chart. How its basic mechanics work is the foundation of your entire knowledge of Human Design. Make it a strong foundation!
You’ll learn that centers are either defined or undefined and combine into five variations of definition types. This, together with the prime mechanic of the two modes, doing and waiting, give a broad overview of any chart.
Online video class. 2.5 hours
• corresponds with chapter 1 (pages 11–19) of Human Design Revealed
• includes your free Zen Human Design chart
• includes Course 2.1 edition of this class
• with reference card #02
$40
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Centers, Conditioning & Consciousness
Building a solid foundation.
At the very core of your understanding of a Human Design chart is the central image, the body graph with its centers. A center is either colored or white, defined or undefined, conditioning or conditioned. How centers connect with each other or not determines whether you are designed to do or designed to wait.
These are not abstract concepts, but intrinsic parts of all our lives. You may not be aware of it, but deep down you know very well how your centers operate. They've been with you your entire life. It's just that you couldn't see the mechanics and didn't have an appropriate language, no tool to reflect and decode the intricacies.
Human Design is that tool and this class lays the proper foundation to use it effectively and beneficially by introducing you to the nine centers in such a way that you will actually recognize how you experience them in your life.
• learn to identify the basic strengths and vulnerabilities in a chart by understanding how the centers operate
• see where conditioning likely causes defenses and malfunctions
• discover that consciousness determines how agitations experienced through conditioning are handled
Beginners will benefit especially from this information as it builds a crucial foundation from which to safely explore all the shiny other miracles of the Human Design System. This class is so very powerful that forever more you will be able to look at any chart and understand the underlying forces in a person’s life.
Online video class
• corresponds with chapter 2 (pages 20-31) of Human Design Revealed
• 2013 CCC class (approx. 15 hours)
• 2012 CCC class (approx. 15 hours)
• the CCC e-book
$300
The underlying synthesis elements for the Centers are the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah and the Hindu Chakras. While not necessary to understand Human Design, to add depth and broaden your interpretative basis to recognize the energetics of the centers, you could consider adding the two short classes on the Tree of Life and the Chakras corresponding with chapter 10 of Human Design Revealed.
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Level 1 Diploma |
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You'll be tested on your comprehension of the level 1 material. This is a great opportunity to get valuable feedback. Upon passing you'll be issued a printable diploma plus a batch you can place on your website.
Additional submission (after the initial two).
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Level 1 Bundle B |
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Level 1 Bundle C |
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Gates in Centers
Portals of exchange
Centers exchange information and energy through the channels connecting them. The gates in the centers on either side of a channel are the valves controlling this exchange. Each gate is associated with a hexagram of the I Ching, which means that each channel has the particular flavor of the combination and interaction of two specific hexagrams, which in turn nuances the centers.
A fascinating and instructive introduction to the hexagrams as they are associated to centers and channels. The logical next step after the Centers, Conditioning & Consciousness class to add another dimension to your understanding of the centers.
Online video class, about 14 hours
• corresponds with chapter 3 (pages 32–38) of Human Design Revealed
• with reference cards #07 and #08
• includes Course 2.1 edition of this class (1-hour-45-minutes overview of the material)
$300
Zen Human Design uses Hua-ching Ni's I Ching.
I Ching Basics
The fundamental structure of the I Ching
You will learn the philosophical and mathematical foundation for this powerful and ancient understanding of the nature of change.
Online video class, 25 minutes
• an adjunct to chapter 3 (pages 32–38) of Human Design Revealed
$10
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Channels
The Transforming Connections Between Centers
Once you understand the centers, you'll want to learn how they interact and influence each other's flavors and energies. This class shows you how the 36 channels each connect two centers and accordingly nuance the associated awareness, action or expression.
Online video class, 7.5 hours (5 + 1 lessons)
• corresponds with chapter 4 (pages 38–48) of Human Design Revealed
• replay of a 2013 live webinar (5 lessons)
• plus Course 2.1 edition of this class (90-minute overview)
• with reference card
$220
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Level 2 Diploma |
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You'll be tested on your comprehension of the level 2 material. Upon passing you'll be issued a printable diploma plus a batch you can place on your website.
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Level 2 Bundle B |
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$300 |
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Level 1–2 Bundle A |
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Level 1–2 Bundle B |
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Planets
The archetypes and myths, their flavor and conditioning influence
The next step in your systematic education in Zen Human Design is the understanding of the planetary archetypes, who are the forces activating the gates.
While this material is at the advanced level for students of Human Design, it's also an excellent primer in basic astrology.
Each of these eight lessons is given by a different guest teacher, all gifted astrologers and/or Human Design practitioners.
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Before the planets, the basics |
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Sun, Earth and Moon |
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The Lunar Nodes |
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Mercury, Venus |
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Mars, Jupiter |
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Saturn, Uranus |
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Neptune, Pluto |
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Integrating the Planets into Human Design |
Online video class, 12 hours (8 lessons)
• corresponds with parts of chapter 5 (pages 49–63) of Human Design Revealed and parts of chapter 10 (pages 131-140).
• includes Course 2.1 edition of this class (1-hour-45-minutes overview of the material)
• with reference card
$300
Planetary Archetypes
A beautiful lecture by esteemed astrologer and cultural historian Richard Tarnas at the HDP Symposium in Taos, 2008. Richard brings the planetary archetypes to life with simple and gripping language, music and a lot of feeling.
Online audio lecture, 4 hours, 23 minutes
• corresponds with chapter 5 (pages 52–54) of Human Design Revealed
$40
Chiron in Human Design
Chiron is a mix between an asteroid and a comet, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. It's named after a centaur of Greek mythology, a cross between a horse and a human, the result of a one night stand the god Chronos (Saturn) had with a nymph. Rejected by his mother, Chiron was adopted by Apollo who schooled him well. Chiron grew to be a wise healer and teacher, a bridge between humans and gods. As an astrological archetype, Chiron is said to embody healing, transformation, service, spiritual growth and the process of becoming aware.
Although Chiron doesn't activate gates in a Human Design chart, many Human Design practitioners, along with astrologers, find meaning in the natal position of Chiron and its transits along a life trajectory, particularly its return at about 50.7 years of age.
Online video class, 1 hour 50 minutes
$30
The Chiron Ephemeris 1901-2150
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Conditioning: The Planets
The significance of the ever ongoing program
Your birth chart is just a snapshot of that particular moment, your basic setup, the blueprint of how life is meeting you and what tools you have to respond. Planetary transits change your design continuously throughout your life. You have no choice but to understand and accept.
• You are changing
• Relationships shift
• People you thought you knew act differently
• Whole societies change
You need to understand the power of planetary conditioning to be able to correctly assess an individual or composite chart at any point in time. This class helps you to apply the lessons of the planetary archetypes from step 5 to the dynamics of real life. With many practical examples.
Online video class, 4.5 hours (3 + 1 lessons)
• corresponds with pages 68–69 (chapter 5) and pages72-82 (chapter 6) of Human Design Revealed
• replay of a 2012 live webinar (3 lessons)
• plus Course 2.1 edition of this class (18-minute overview of conditioning by both planets and people)
• with reference card
$150
How to use the Pocket Ephemeris
A Simple Guide To Understanding Planetary Transits
Knowing how to reference planetary transits is a very important tool for you to understand how everything constantly changes. All these influences can be read in an ephemeris, a table of planetary positions through time.
This lesson enables you to locate important conditioning gates for yourself, how to find them on the astrological wheel and when to expect their bi-annual transit of the Sun and Earth and other conditioning forces. This lesson uses the example of Zen Human Design's 2011 Pocket Ephemeris, but works just fine with any other edition.
Online video class, 41 minutes
• corresponds with pages 70–72 (chapter 6) of Human Design Revealed
$10
The current Pocket Ephemeris
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Relationships
How Composite Connections Work
Everyone wants to know how relationships work. Whether it's a new sweetheart, your difficult child or long-term misunderstandings with your partner or a parent, this is usually something everyone wants to figure out!
Human Design is the perfect tool to explore and understand the mutual conditioning happening in relationships. This class presents the basic rules of composite connections.
Online video class, 1 hour 9 minutes
• corresponds with pages 83–90 (chapter 7)
of Human Design Revealed
• with individual and composite charts
$40
Conditioning: People
A collection of real-life examples
You need to practice to implement the composite rules learned in the Relationship class. In this recording of a live class you'll find many real-live examples examined. This shows you how relationship analysis in Human Design is practically done.
Online video class, 4.5 hours (3 + 1 lessons)
• corresponds with pages 83–90 (chapter 7) of Human Design Revealed
• replay of a 2012 live webinar (3 lessons)
• plus Course 2.1 overview of conditioning by both planets and people
$150
Family Dynamics
Chart constellations resulting in pathology
Everyone knows the one or the other of those family relations that seem cooked up in hell, whether that's between siblings, in-laws, or parents and child. While we can pick our friends, we can't pick our family members and so it is helpful to have such a splendid tool as Human Design to understand what's going on.
In this class, guest Barbara U. Jones, Ph.D., a long-time student of Zeno's, shares charts and experiences from her practice as a Life Coach and discusses with Zeno where the pathologies can be seen in the body graphs. This is a very revealing relationship study.
Online video class, 6 hours (4 lessons)
• complements pages 83–90 (chapter 7) of Human Design Revealed
• replay of a 2013 live webinar (4 lessons)
$180
Kate & William
An Entertaining Composite Chart Case Study
Kate Middleton has captured the hearts of royal watchers everywhere and her relationship with her husband Prince Willliam is under much scrutiny. Is it strong? Will it last?
Find out what Human Design has to say about this, as Zeno walks you through the couple's charts and explains the dynamics these two have together.
An excellent case study for your Relationships lessons.
Online video class, 23 minutes
• an adjunct to chapter 7 (pages 83–90)
of Human Design Revealed
• with individual and composite charts
$10
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Level 3 Diploma |
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You'll be tested on your comprehension of the level 3 material and your ability to integrate the information with the material from levels 1 and 2. Upon passing you'll be issued a printable diploma plus a batch you can place on your website.
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Level 3 Bundle A |
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The Human Design Synthesis Index
The Index aligns the hexagrams of the I Ching with the astrological zodiac and places them in one of the nine centers. The basic structure of the synthesis is a magnificient document.
pdf download, 12 pages
free
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Astrology Primer
One of the four elements synthesized in Human Design
When reading a Human Design chart, it is helpful to remember that a hexagram/gate is activated by a planetary body in a section of the zodiac and that the astrological meaning of this is based on thousands of years of observation and experience.
This class shows you the basic mechanisms of astrology and enables you to keep its meanings in mind when reading a Human Design chart.
You will find that you always know so much more when you remember that a hexagram is in an astrological sign and that its opposition and squares are built-in clues to what it means and how it impacts a person.
While this is an advanced class in relation to Human Design, it's a perfect introduction to astrology for anyone.
Online video class, 1 hour 46 minutes
• corresponds with chapter 10 (pages 131-140)
of Human Design Revealed
• with an excerpt from Human Design Revealed as an e-book
$50
The underlying synthesis elements for the Centers are the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah and the Hindu Chakras. While not necessary to understand Human Design, the following two classes add depth and broaden your interpretative basis to recognize the energetics of the centers.
Kabbalah
From the Tree of Life to the Centers
Online video class. 37 minutes
• corresponds with chapter 10 (pages 114-117)
of Human Design Revealed
• with reference card #03
$10
Chakras
How the Chakras evolved to Centers
Online video class. 13 minutes
• corresponds with chapter 10 (pages 118-120)
of Human Design Revealed
• with reference cards #04 and #05
$10
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Everything Bundle B |
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The Zen Human Design AssociateThis is still just a concept under consideration. While levels 1 to 3 require no commitment, this level would. By invitation, based on our mutual experience through the 3 diploma levels. |
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Client Testimonials
"Just finished listening again to last week's class and [am] so appreciative of your insights and your ability to field questions. It seems you are creating with us a laboratory in which we can learn through our own experience while you provide a framework and insights that guide and with the flexibility that encourages the growth of a great synergism. What a joy! Thank you."
A live webinar participant.
"Just wanted to let you know that I am beyond delighted with the first [class] and will be continuing… I have to say that while I knew this was for me the moment my friend sent me the info on your classes and I had my immediate and unequivocal response to it, this has done sooooo much more for me than I could ever have imagined."
"I'm having a GREAT time learning more about Human Design, thank you so much for providing these courses."
Students of the online classes.