For the first time, we've decided to open Explorers Course up to people who are not Finders Course alumni. You probably noticed that the EC Mini Course didn't have a way to even find out more about the full Explorers Course program. That's why. In the past EC has only been offered to FC alums.

The reason for trying this change is simple. Fundamental Wellbeing is on the rise, and there's not much out there for people who experience it to use for deepening and integrating it.

While it feels amazing to a Finder no matter what, surprisingly our research has shown time and again that Fundamental Wellbeing can unfold in someone's life in healthy or unhealthy ways. Given how routine motivation, memory, and other issues are for Finders, it's important to get and keep its integration into your life going in the best direction possible.

Almost no one talks about or focuses on this, and in the beginning we didn't either.

The Explorers Course was created because so many people transitioned to Fundamental Wellbeing during our Finders Course experiments, but didn't really have anywhere to turn for information on how to deepen and integrate after it.

Initially, we assumed they could just go to spiritual teachers, but that didn't work for two reasons:

First, because most teachers believe in a "correct" or "ideal" version of Fundamental Wellbeing, and people transitioned during the course into a variety of locations. There was, and still is, no good way for a Finder to tell if most teachers are a fit for where they are at. All too often teachers lead Finders who come to them to believe that there is something wrong with where they are at - when there isn't.

Second, because most teachers have little to no experience with others who are in Fundamental Wellbeing. Few have success in helping people transition, and thus they don't built up expertise in guiding Finders. In terms of in-depth experience, they typically only have their own as an example, which is very limited in what it can match up to in a vast landscape of the potential experiences Finders can have.

An additional issue is that not all Finders are spiritual or religious, some are looking for a secular help in deepening and integrating their Fundamental Wellbeing.

Finders often feel that few people, if any, truly understand them. Although the experience of loneliness drops off massively with Fundamental Wellbeing, a kind of sense of isolation can set in. It's easy to wonder if you're the only one who has ever gone through what you're experiencing. You're not.

Frankly, it can be enormously helpful just to know you're not the only one experiencing what you are.

Regardless of how people enter Fundamental Wellbeing, and what their background and context is for it (i.e. - religious vs. spiritual vs. neither…) living day-to-day with the changes it brings is remarkably similar.

Regardless of who you are, you no doubt found the content in the Explorers Mini-Course relevant to your life.

That's because your background doesn't matter very much. And, how you got to this point in your Fundamental Wellbeing doesn't matter, either. What matters is gaining an understanding of the new field you are now playing your life out on, what choices others like you have made and how they've worked out, and so forth. That's one key aspect of what Explorers Course is here to provide, based on the largest sample we know of. One that is growing every day, precisely because of programs like EC.

Another key thing the program provides is expert guidance in how to optimally deepen and integrate Fundamental Wellbeing.  During the program, you'll gain clarity on which forms of it are the best fit for your life. You'll come to understand the process within you that Fundamental Wellbeing has kicked off, and how it unfolds. And, you'll finally be able to make informed choices about it.

And, of course, it brings you into community with an amazing group of others who are experiencing what you are. That might be its most precious gift.

Session 0
The EC mini-course is the foundational module of the full Explorers Course program. If you haven't gone through it all yet, you should. When we created EC2.0, we added Session 0 to the original program. Everyone who took the original EC was grandfathered into EC2.0, and we got overwhelming feedback that this first section of the course should be made freely available to everyone. So we did just that.

Session 1
This session deals with beginning to get your arms around where you are at with Fundamental Wellbeing, how it is impacting your current life, and how it can optimally impact your life in the future. This important session sets the stage for the both the rest of the course, and the years ahead of you as your deepening in Fundamental Wellbeing continues. It also walks you through the most important things to consider across the major areas of your life, including: relationships, jobs/income, leisure, habitat, and finances.

This session also begins to the process of exploring the psychological deconditioning process that is integral to how Fundamental Wellbeing unfolds over time. It introduces a powerful method to begin the exploration of how this is unfolding in your life. It also helps you to uncover the core triggers that are impacting both your life, and your ability to deepen into Fundamental Wellbeing

Session 2
Introduces you to an important tug of war that is happening inside every Finder. Often it occurs at an unconscious level, and it is important to bring it more into the light so you can truly flourish. This session also builds upon the previous one and explains the underlying psychological mechanism of the deconditioning process in extensive detail. It's exceedingly helpful to know the actual mechanics of the process that is affecting you, independent of your specific content within it, so you can more powerfully understand and optimize it. This session also contains two new "gold-standard" methods to help you deepen into Fundamental Wellbeing.

Session 3
The first three sessions are very powerful from a deconditioning standpoint, and at this point in the course it is important to balance that out. We do that by shifting gears a bit and focusing in directions that leave that behind a bit while powerfully rooting down into your current form of Fundamental Wellbeing. For those who haven't taken the Finders Course, one of its core methods is taught so that you have a foundation for the exercises in this EC session.

Sessions 4 and 5
With the groundwork prepared from the previous session, these two sessions help you to understand one of the most important aspects that you need to realize about your Fundamental Wellbeing. It is unquestionably the thing that affects you the most in terms of your relationships with others, performance, and more. And, no matter how much work you do on yourself, and no matter how much you decondition, this is almost impossible to see.

Session 6
This module is almost entirely practice based. It focuses on what is perhaps the most successful method I know of for transitioning people to Fundamental Wellbeing. For Finders, there are three great things about this method. First, it allows you to directly impact people and transition them. Second, it can be used with other Finders to deepen and progress within Fundamental Wellbeing. Third, the process of doing this method to help others seems to bring significant benefits in your own development within Fundamental Wellbeing.

Session X…
Modules 0 through 6 are the core modules of the program, however, EC is a living course. This is where I continue to add content for Finders. Essentially, the Explorers Course is a course that never ends…

As you can see, this is an incredibly focused and comprehensive program, but it's definitely not for everyone...

Explorers Course is for Finders, only.

Finders are people who experience what we refer to academically as ongoing and persistent forms of non-symbolic experience. Publicly, we call this Fundamental Wellbeing.

If you're not sure if this is you, then this is not the right course for you - no exceptions.

Please do not register if you're uncertain, because this is the first time we are offing it to people who have not completed the Finders Course (http://FindersCourse.com) and we need to get a clean read on what it is like for these Finders to go through the program.

If you're not familiar with our work and these terms, you can learn more at: http://NonSymbolic.org.

The Finders Course is a tightly constructed weekly regimen of practices. The Explorers Course is completely different. One session is released at a time, and sessions are mostly comprised of streaming videos just like the mini-course. The content from a session can be binge watched all at once, or spread out over a period of weeks until the next session is made available. It's a much more relaxed course than FC, and we make it available this way to accommodate a broad array of life and learning styles.

Because this is the first time we're offering the Explorers Course to people who have not gone through the Finders Course, this is a significant departure and test for us. We expect to continue to offer this to all Finders, but cannot be completely certain this will be the case. It depends on how well non-FC Finders integrate with Finders who have taken FC.

Although we will make an electronic copy of the forthcoming book "The Finders" available, you will need to pre-order a copy when that process becomes available so that you get into our automated system that provides other things like the online audio book.

The next Explorers Course starts on January 5th, and registration closes for it very soon. To register, click the button below.