Values-Aligned AI

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 finding a better app or a more impressive demo. It was understanding the relationship between the tool and everything else that matters: your people, your body, the work you feel called to. That fabric is the ground. AI, held within it, can serve the life you're already living. This course is about learning to use these tools in service to what matters.

Whether that looks like running a healing practice, writing, building a business, organizing a household, or simply living with more clarity and intention — if you have work to do and want to explore whether AI can support it without compromising what you care about, this is for you.

This course is a gentle on-ramp. Two sessions, a small group, two guides who will walk in alongside you. No technical background required.

What shifts

This isn't a technical training. It's an orientation. You'll leave with a new relationship to these tools and to your own clarity.

Confidence

You'll have a way of working with AI that you can return to and deepen, grounded in principles rather than tricks that expire when the tools change.

Breadth

You'll see the breadth of how AI can support your actual life: your time, your projects, your calling.

A foundation

You'll leave with a concrete artifact: your values, vision, and projects. It becomes the basis for an ongoing relationship with AI that's aligned with what matters to you.

What we'll do together

Session One · Wednesday, April 8

The View

We'll begin by sharing a set of first principles for relating to AI: 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

Using what you learned, you'll begin building a space that reflects your values, your intentions, and the domains of your life you want to move forward. You'll have a robust PDF guide to walk you through it. 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.

Your guides

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, writing about attachment, intimacy, and where inner work meets technology.

Michal Tolk

Somatic experiencing practitioner and writer behind Cries in the Wilderness. Michal brings an embodied, grounded approach to technology — her work moves between body, soul, and the structures we build to support both.

A note on safe use

AI tools are genuinely useful. They can also pose real psychological risks — especially when used for extended, emotionally immersive self-exploration. Emerging research has documented cases in which prolonged chatbot use contributed to delusional thinking and psychological crisis, including in people with no prior psychiatric history.

This course teaches practical, bounded uses of AI in service to your work and life. We don't teach AI as a tool for therapy or deep psychological self-exploration. All participants receive a Safe Use Guide covering current research, warning signs, and protective practices. We ask that you review it before our first session.

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$450