A two-session course

Values-Aligned AI

You sense there's important work you're meant to do in the world. AI can help you do it — not by making you more productive, but by helping you get clear about what actually matters and take the next step.

Daniel Thorson & Michal Tolk 2 Sessions · Wed Evenings Early Bird $350 · Full Price $450

Maybe AI isn't for you.

That's what a lot of people think. That it's for tech people, or productivity obsessives, or people living a very different kind of life.

We thought that too, for a long time.

What changed wasn't a better app or a more impressive demo. It was discovering that if you learn to talk to AI in a particular way, it reflects back your own thinking with a kind of clarity that's hard to find elsewhere. It asks you questions. It helps you see what you actually believe. It takes the calling you feel in your bones and helps you break it down into something you can do today.

For coaches, healers, writers, and people doing meaningful work in the world, that turns out to be remarkably useful. Not for doing more. For doing more of what matters most.

What shifts

This isn't an AI tutorial. It's a reorientation. You'll leave with a new relationship to these systems — and to your own clarity.

1

Empowerment

You'll feel confident and comfortable working with AI — not because you learned the tech, but because you understand the principles underneath it.

2

Expanded Vision

You'll see the breadth of how AI can support your actual life — your time, your projects, your calling — not just narrow tasks.

3

A Living System

You'll leave with a concrete artifact — your values, vision, and projects — that becomes the basis for an ongoing, values-aligned relationship with AI.

The goal isn't to become someone who's "good at AI." It's to find out whether this tool can support the life you're already trying to live.

What we'll do together

Session One · Wednesday, April 8

The View

We'll begin by dropping into the body — a short embodiment practice to ground the conversation in something more than intellect. Then we'll share a set of first principles for relating to AI: not tips and tricks, but a way of being with these systems that stays useful no matter how fast the technology changes.

Then you'll practice. Using your voice (not typing), you'll have a real conversation with AI — one designed to surface what you actually care about, what you're trying to build, and what your next step might be. You'll feel it work. We'll come back together and talk about what happened.

Between Sessions · April 8–15

A simple practice: using what you learned, begin building a space that reflects your values, your intentions, and the domains of your life you want to move forward. This becomes the context that makes AI genuinely useful to you — not generically, but specifically.

Session Two · Wednesday, April 15

What Did You Notice?

We share what we built and what we noticed. The stuck places are where the learning lives — we'll troubleshoot together, model the kind of relationship to these systems that makes them most powerful, and talk about how to keep going from here.

This is for you if

You sense you have important work to do in the world, but you can't quite close the gap between the vision and the next step
You've heard a lot about AI but haven't found a way in that feels like you
You use AI for basic things but suspect there's something much deeper available
You're a coach, healer, writer, or practitioner who wants more support and structure — without sacrificing your values
You're curious but cautious — and you'd rather learn in good company

Your guides

D

Daniel Thorson

Writer, transformational coach, and contemplative practitioner with six years of monastic training and over 20,000 hours of meditation. Creator of The Intimate Mirror on Substack, exploring attachment, intimacy, and the intersection of inner work and technology.

M

Michal Tolk

Somatic experiencing practitioner and writer behind Cries in the Wilderness. Michal brings an embodied, grounded approach to technology — her work lives at the intersection of the body, the soul, and the systems we build to support both.

Join us

Two sessions. A small group. Two guides who will walk in alongside you. No technical background required. No pressure to become an AI person. Just an honest exploration of whether this tool can support the life you're already trying to live.

Full Price
$450

After early bird seats are filled.

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12 seats total · April 8 & 15, 2026 · 7:00–8:30 PM ET · Live on Zoom