The class that started it all!

Imagine the essential Big Ideas from PhilosophersNotes distilled into 10 Principles of Optimal Living presented in a 10-week class.

Optimism + Purpose + Self-Awareness + Goals + Action + Energy + Wisdom + Courage + Love + en*theos.

That's Optimal Living 101.
 

Instant streaming audio of 30+ hours of inspirational goodness to help you embody the principles of Optimal Living.

Kick off your Optimal Living 101 curriculum by setting goals that will actually make you happy! :) This is a 3-day course with Brian, archived and ready to listen to on demand.

This course comes with a goals tracking spreadsheet and 5 worksheets based on the exercises Brian presents in the classes.

Did you know the word courage comes from the Latin word for “heart”? Yep. Just as the heart is the organ that pumps blood to all the other organs, courage is the virtue that vitalizes all the other virtues. Fact is, without the courage to fully express ourselves and live our ideals we’re powerless.

In this 90-minute course, you'll learn how to optimize your courage!

This is THE most complete program for women we have on en*theos, the original Rock Your Goddess Life with our Chief Goddess and Co-CEO Alexandra Jaye Johnson.

Get inspired and empowered w/ 20+ hours of recordings from a 12-week virtual class led by Alexandra covering all 10 elements of Rockin’ Your Goddess Life.

Relationships + Nutrition + Spirituality + Movement + Purpose + Beauty + Play + Self-Care + Sensuality + Confidence.

Rock Your Goddess Life includes worksheets + guided Blissitations to go along with each week.

Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson is one of our favorite teachers on the science of motivation and success. With motivational science on your side, you will receive proven tools to help you rock it.

In this 5-week course, you'll learn a research based approach to understand and change your ways.

This course is delivered with weekly documents for you to follow along.

In this course, you'll learn what scientific psychologists have discovered about the true nature of happiness and well-being. We’ll focus on how you can make simple, straightforward changes in how you live your life, and how you think about your goals, to start getting happier right now. This is Happiness with a capital H, and it’s time to get yours.

This 4-week course is delivered with weekly documents for you to follow along.

How can you really break the cycle of self-criticism and dejection? How can you bring yourself to appreciate the moment you are in, when you are so worried about what’s coming down the road?

It turns out (and we’ve got the research to prove it), when we think about what we do in terms of getting better, rather than being good, we see our world and ourselves in a whole new way.

In this 4-week class with Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, you'll learn what science says about how mindsets work, where they come from, and how you can change yours. It comes with weekly documents you can use to follow along.

Your health underlies everything you do in life. Unfortunately for many of us, optimal health is elusive and we find ourselves wanting for more energy, vitality, and zest to go out there and rock it. We've been missing the toolkit to heal ourselves and experience the high level of health we know is available.

In this revolutionary 5-week program, you'll learn to restore your body's natural ability to heal and experience a new zest for life. Taught by Dr. Alejandro Junger, integrative physician and author of both Clean and Clean Gut.

Pilar Gerasimo is the Editor-in-Chief of ExperienceLife Magazine and one of our favorite people. :) In this course she'll introduce you to a practical framework for fine-tuning any part of your life. You’ll tap into valuable life skills you can use forever.

Whether you want to simplify or rebalance your life, reconnect with your sense of purpose, or totally reorganize your priorities, this is a great way to find the focus and direction you need.

This course is 4-weeks and available on demand. It comes with a Workbook, Immunity Map, the "Your Ideal Day" Guided Blissitation + other bonus PDFs.

Thinking creatively, learning faster and staying centered, these abilities are at a premium in a rapidly changing and complex world. What if you could call on history’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, to be your personal mentor in cultivating these highly prized elements of human capital?
 

In this 5-week class you will learn from Michael Gelb to apply da Vinci's 7 principles for thinking like a genius, through a proven series of practical exercises, to your deepest life questions.

In the last 30 years the scientific evidence supporting the notion that your mind can improve through the years has become overwhelming. Clearly, the question is no longer whether your mind can improve with age, but rather how you can optimize your mental powers as you get older.

In this compelling, inspirational and supremely practical 4-week program you’ll be presented with the evidence for this new paradigm and, most importantly, you will learn to incorporate this new way of understanding aging so you can improve your mind every year of your life.

Is the life you are living a full expression of who you are, what you believe, and what you want?  Do your actions in the outer world match your inner truth?

Most people experience a gap between authentic self-expression and accommodating to the expectations and pressure exerted by other people, institutions, or beliefs. This unique course will show you how to close that gap.

In this 8-week course you'll learn with Alan Cohen to understand the process ofletting go of what’s not working, replacing it with what really works, and building on what’s already good to make it better.

Whether you’ve only dreamed of beginning to write, paint or play an instrument or whether you’ve logged in thousands of hours at your craft, Your Best Life in the Arts is the perfect class for you.
 

Taught by America’s leading expert on the challenges of the creative life, Dr. Maisel has worked with thousands of artists in a multitude of settings. Take this opportunity to learn real answers to the challenges that confront you.
 

In this extensive, 14-week class, you will learn with America’s foremost creativity coach, Dr. Eric Maisel, to learn powerful answers that give you the best chance to succeed artistically, emotionally and practically as an artist.
 

This course comes with 14 PDF files + exercises to follow along with week by week.

You can’t find the meaning of life – it never was lost! Meaning never was something to be found in a philosophy, a religion, a belief system, or a way of life. Rather, meaning is a psychological experience. And because it is a psychological experience, you can create it.
 

Natural psychology is the first psychology to describe how to harness our innate capacity to create personal meaning. Learn how to embrace the profound paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning, reduce the meaning crises and meaning leaks in your life and your emotional distress, and face each day more existentially decisive.
 

Through this 8-week class you'll understand how meaning operates in your life—and how you can nurture it, increase it, and sustain it. Each week comes with a PDF + exercises you can follow along with week by week.

Too many people are down on life and down on themselves. They feel defeated by the nature of reality, their past, their personality, and their circumstances. They don’t know what to change and hardly believe that real change is possible.

Real change is possible when you learn how to create meaning. Begin to create value-based meaning today!—learn how in this dynamic and important workshop.

Natural Psychology can change your life. Learn how in this 4-week intensive course.

A class especially for women...

Are you hungry to do something creatively fulfilling that makes a real difference in the world, only it scares you so much, you keep doing what you’ve always done, until you are so bored, exhausted or cynical you no longer believe your “thing” is possible?

Your Shero's Journey is about a quest – the quest to claim your power, trust it, and use it transform the world - while following your truest desires. Your quest requires self-compassion, self-care, and doing what brings you alive – not martyrdom, burn out and proving yourself worthy.

In this 5-week course with Jennifer Louden you will learn to claim your power, trust it, and use it to transform the world; all while having a blast! This course comes with reading assignments + special videos from Jen.

Intimacy is a skill that can be cultivated, practiced, and deepened. “It” can be learned, generated and increased as a capacity. Brought alive through sexuality, intimacy can be an eternal dance of bliss, ecstasy, awakening, and love. A skill that can be cultivated and practiced, then given as an offering, an art, that enlivens your relationship and the lives of those around you.

In this 8-week course you will learn the building blocks, practices and disciplines of creating deeper connections in your life—with yourself, your partner and those around you.

In our rapidly changing culture, claiming and defining who we are as women, as feminine, spiritual and sexual beings, as lovers, mothers, friends and partners has become increasingly difficult and confusing. Reconciling the demands and wants of career, purpose and achievement with the deep yearnings of our innermost wild and tender heart requires a knowing of one’s gift and the tools to cultivate them.

This course will guide you towards defining and reclaiming your unique feminine gifts and capacities. Uncovering the wild, untamed nature of a woman connected to life, the earth, her sexuality and intuition. Defining ways to offer these gifts to yourself, your lover and the world.

In this 5-week class you learn from Michaela Boehm through David Deida Women's Practice to reclaim your feminine gifts.

Regardless if you are starting an intimate relationship, or wanting to deepen passion with your partner, the principles of Sexual Polarity – the spark that keeps passion alive- are always available to deepen your experience.

If you are single, you will discover how to attract a partner with the right polarity. If you are in a relationship, you will learn how to cultivate passion and take your relationship to the next level.

In this 5-week course, you will explore your essence, learn how to cultivate masculine and feminine and how to offer your distinct gifts to your lover as an offering for passion and sexual ecstasy.

When you change your mind and shift your perception, you have the power to change the way you experience life.

This course is for those who want to live a life beyond their wildest dreams, are looking for a guide in overcoming fear, are ready to trade self-doubt for total confidence, and want to wake up psyched about their life!

In this 4-week course, you’ll learn with Gabby as she conducts an exciting training based on the Big Ideas from her best-selling book Spirit Junkie.

This course includes two guided meditations from Gabby!

Through this course, you will learn to how to manage change in the most skillful way possible. Whether its personal changes like relationship or career changes, a change in direction, or a desire to be a more effective change agent in communities, organizations or the world at large, this course will help you tap into your own intuitive wisdom. You will learn the truth of the serenity prayer, discerning what you can change, what you must accept (for now) and  you will gain the wisdom to know the difference. 

In this 9-week course you will learn to master personal change management 
in an ever changing world.

Feeling in need of a faith-lift? Looking for a safe space to talk about God?

This class will explore different ideas of God in light hearted and easy to grasp ways. We will apply the KISS principle to all the classic “isms”, from polytheism to panentheism and atheism. It will be informative, fun and above all, transformative. To paraphrase a Sufi proverb, the more you look for God, the better you come to know yourself.

In this 7-week course, you will learn to explore different ideas of God in light hearted and easy to grasp ways

This program is full of practical, get-going insights and tactics so that you’ll have an action plan to do more Great Work.

Here’s a taste - you’ll:
 

• -Find clues to your own Great Work—they’re all around you
• -Locate the sweet spot between what you want to do and what others need you to do
• -Generate new ideas and possibilities quickly
• -Best manage your overwhelming workload
• -Double the likelihood that you’ll do what you want to do
   
• In this 4-week course you''ll gain practical, get-going insights and tactics to do more Great Work this year!

It’s time for The New Man to show up. The man who navigates relationships and work with brains, balls and heart. The New Man does not hide behind an archetype of the past.

In this course we explore the philosophies and practices that transcend and include the best of what our previous role models had to offer without the limitations that led to their demise.

In this 8-week class you will learn how to become the 21st century man who moves beyond the macho jerk and the new age wimp.

In this course, Shawn Phillips shares his revolutionary approach to mindful training and nutrition in this course based on this best-selling book, Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Best of Your Life.

If you’re in your twenties or thirties, Strength for Life will show you how to achieve peak levels of fitness year after year. For those forty and beyond, you can look forward to recapturing the energy and vitality you thought you had lost.

In this 7-week class you will learn from Shawn Phillips how to shape your body, sharpen your mind and energize your life.

This course comes with chapters from the book + models to help you understand F.I.T.

Business is a human endeavor and can be a path for individual and collective learning, growth and development. By cultivating Conscious Awareness, and other essential skills at work, we can create more human, resilient and life-enhancing businesses.

In this 6-week class Jeff Klein brings the emerging Conscious Capitalism movement to life with stories of pioneering companies and their cultures, outlining principles and best practices, and providing inspiration and information to support you to embark on or deepen your own journey of Working for Good.

Designed and facilitated by Jeff Klein, activator, author, producer & process facilitator of Working for Good, this 4-week course will engage you with the essential skills of Working for Good in a community of practice to support your ongoing learning, growth and development.

Join Jeff Klein in this 4-week, 12 session course to cultivate skills for becoming the change you want to see in the world.

This course comes with a free copy of It's Just Good Business by Jeff Klein.

Whatever your current relationship with food looks like, Raw Emotions has something to offer you. Combining inspiring 'self-help' techniques with a lifestyle rich in fresh raw foods, this course offers guidance for the ultimate holistic transformation.

Participants are guided to explore their own relationship with food and their optimal vision for life, then offered solid suggestions for supporting their transformation, focusing especially on handling cravings/overeating patterns.

In this 8-week class you learn from how to merge raw foods with self-inquiry for the ultimate holistic transformation.

This class is a reboot of the original Optimal Living 101. This class presents the best of what Brian has learned over the last 3 years. If you're committed to creating more happiness, meaning and mojo in your life and you know there's more to it than the latest "Secret"/get-it-quick trick, then this class is for you.

In this 5-day immersion course with Brian Johnson, Philosopher + CEO of en*theos and creator of PhilosophersNotes, you'll learn the 10 principles of optimal living and the keys to living with more happiness, meaning and mojo while getting a running start on making 2013 the greatest year of your life.

All the theory behind Optimal Living 101 is nice, but if we don’t actually live these ideas—and go from theory to practice—we’ve pretty much wasted our time. In this class we’ll explore the absolute best stuff I know *and* practice.

If you're committed to creating more happiness, meaning and mojo in your life and you know there's more to it than the latest "Secret"/get-it-quick trick, then this class is for you.

In this 3-day immersion course with Brian Johnson, Philosopher + CEO of en*theos and creator of PhilosophersNotes, you'll learn how to take consistent, impeccable action.

What's THE most important thing we can do for our happiness?

Science says: We need to gain more control of our attention. We need to cultivate our ability to put our attention where we want, when we want.

Helping you do that is what this class is all about.

In this 3-day course with Brian Johnson, Philosopher + CEO of en*theos and creator of PhilosophersNotes, you'll learn how to optimize your optimism.