Why does this happen in a group?

Because change is grounded in community, and the group field accelerates learning.

The group is not the source of the change — you are, through the hypnotic process. But the group field we create together provides the shared context in which you engage the process. As Nora Bateson observed, "Context produces possibility."

Many participants are surprised by how strongly the work lands even when listening to recordings. The hypnotic field is designed to include everyone who returns to the rhythm — live or later.

Why does this happen in a monthly rhythm with the New Moon?

Short answer: because rhythm matters.

The Reset Ritual works with the rhythm of the new moon as a timing scaffold — not as a belief system, but as a recurring external marker that your unconscious can anticipate and respond to.

Hypnosis and deep change work are often more effective when they happen within a predictable rhythm. 

As John Overdurf says, "The unconscious mind likes rhythm, repetition, repetition and rhyme."

The monthly rhythm does three critical things:

1. It replaces decision fatigue with anticipation
2. It allows unconscious learning to compound over time
3. It stabilizes change so it doesn’t collapse under stress

The moon doesn’t need to be managed, remembered, or maintained. It arrives, it passes, and it returns — whether we’re paying attention or not. That inevitability is part of what makes this work.

You don’t have to remember to work on yourself. 

You don’t have to believe the moon “does” anything. 

You just let it mark time, like a steady drum or a heartbeat. 

Your system learns: this is the time to reset, transform, and reshape the future.

Ok but why use the moon instead of a calendar date?

The lunar cycle gives us both a behavioral cadence and a living metaphor.

The new moon gives us a visible, external reset point that doesn’t belong to the workweek, productivity culture, or anyone’s ideology. Unlike calendar dates, which are an abstraction, the new moon is an actual recurring phenomenon you can orient to without thinking.

Put simply, this grounds your changework practice in something real.

And when it comes to metaphor, it's hard to beat the moon's range of cultural associations for reprogramming and communicating with the unconscious

The moon reflects our understanding that change is natural and inevitable, a part of life not to fight or to chase but to relate to.

Humans have tracked change, completion, emergence, and release through this cycle for thousands of years — not as superstition, but as pattern recognition.

Every part of us from our DNA to our nervous systems evolved in relationship to these cyclical environmental signals. We don't have to romanticize that fact in order to work with it and benefit from it.

Many cultural associations reveal ways the moon is symbolically relevant to changework:

All of these and more can empower your hypnotic journeys because your unconscious speaks the language of dreams — symbols and metaphors.

New Moon as a Choice Point

One of the cultural associations with the moon is that of authentic choice-making.

Every day we are making choices about staying in what's known and familiar versus exploring new experiences.

Choice has three functions:

1. Creating new experiences
2. Maintaining current experiences
3. Releasing old experiences 

The purpose of The Reset Ritual is to empower your choice-making making by expanding your range of available choices.

In this way, The Reset Ritual offers an opportunity every month to shape experience you want to have in life — in your relationships, your finances, your health, your work, your personal growth, your purpose and meaning making.

FAQ

“The world is on fire. Isn’t it irresponsible to take time for myself right now?”

Short answer: No. What’s irresponsible is staying disregulated and calling it commitment.

When the world is under strain, whether our personal world or the collective world, we don’t need more urgency — we need to be able to respond rather than react. Responsibility depends on your response-ability. 

The Reset Ritual isn’t about turning away from the world. It’s about staying in relationship with it without burning out or hardening. Regulation is not retreat; it’s how human systems stay capable of wise action. The Reset Ritual is about connecting with your own inner wisdom so that you respond to life as effectively as you can.

If you care about justice, healing, culture, or collective futures, then tending your own nervous system and leveraging your inner creative intelligence aren't luxuries, they're a prerequisite part of the work. 

“Shouldn’t I already know how to do this on my own?”

Needing rhythm isn’t a failure, it’s how human beings actually grow.

Needing a skillful changework facilitator isn't a failure, even hypnosis experts have ask each other for help, because it's hard to change what you're not aware of (that's the definition of unconscious.)

This is the point of community: to help each other with the things we struggle to do alone. 

You’re not here because you can’t reflect, regulate, or make changes — you’re here because doing it alone, indefinitely, without structure is quietly exhausting.

No one questions why athletes train with team schedules and coaches, musicians rehearse with ensembles and conductors, or communities gather ritually with ceremonial leaders. Yet we often expect ourselves to navigate massive personal and collective transitions solo through sheer internal discipline.

Think of the Reset Ritual not just as remediation but as infrastructure — a humane external rhythm that supports deep internal work. The question isn’t “Why do I need this?” It’s “Why have I been trying to do everything without it?”

“What if I don’t know what I want to work on?”

That’s not a problem — it’s often the right starting place.

You don’t need a perfectly defined goal to participate. In fact, trying to force clarity too early can block change rather than support it.

Each session is designed to:

• help you listen beneath surface noise
• release what no longer needs to be carried
• let the next orientation emerge organically

Many people are surprised to find that clarity shows up after the nervous system settles rather than before.

“Do I need to believe in the moon, astrology, or anything spiritual for this to work?”

Nope.

The new moon is used here as a rhythm, not a belief system.

It’s a recurring, external marker that doesn’t belong to productivity culture or linear schedules. Rhythm matters for the unconscious mind — and predictable cycles make change easier to access and sustain.

You don’t have to believe the moon “does” anything. You simply let it mark time differently, like a heartbeat or a drum. That’s enough.

If you believe in magic, there will be plenty of magic. If you don't believe in magic, there will be plenty of experiences that feel "like magic." It doesn't matter how you explain your good outcomes, it matters that you get them and enjoy them.

“What if this works and I have to face changes I’ve been avoiding?”

That fear is a sign that you’re closer to readiness than you might think.

Many people unconsciously stay overwhelmed because overwhelm delays choice. When everything feels impossible, nothing has to be decided. Settling in to yourself can feel threatening because clarity often brings truth, and truth can require movement.

The Reset Ritual doesn’t force decisions or push insight. It creates enough internal safety for the right next step to reveal itself naturally, at the pace your system can integrate.

You won’t be made to leap. But you may find that when you’re resourced, the next step stops feeling catastrophic and starts feeling obvious.

“I don’t trust subtle change. I want real results.”

If you want real results, take every change you can get. 

Rejecting changes because they don't fit our ideas about how our change should look is a major way people stay stuck. 

The change you need is almost always one you couldn't imagine — or could imagine and told yourself wasn't right for you. A wise changeworker taught me that if you knew what your change should look like, you would already have it. 

Change shows up in all sorts of ways, and often the biggest changes require the smallest steps. Loud dramatic breakthroughs are often a sign that either your change wasn't really that big, or your system was finally ready for it, often due to a series of small, subtle changes you didn't even notice along the way. 

The Reset Ritual delivers "big" changes when your system has them teed up for you. You do that through consistently compounding effects: monthly recalibrations, small and big, that accumulate into meaningful shifts in how you relate to self, others, life, time, effort, desire, and choice. 

People often notice changes indirectly. Things that used to take force no longer do; decisions settle faster; energy stops leaking. 

Eventually, many small changes that have been stacking up over time integrate all at once and the "big" visible change happens, seemingly all of a sudden. But the invisible work made it possible.

Bottom line: if you’re only tracking transformation by intensity, you’ll miss the kind that actually reorganizes a life.

“I don’t want to hope again. It hurts too much.”

Hope can feel dangerous when you’ve been disappointed, especially if you’ve carried vision, responsibility, or care for a long time. 

The Reset Ritual doesn’t ask you to believe things will turn out a certain way. It asks only that you stay in relationship with the future, rather than cutting it off entirely.

Planting seeds here isn’t naïve wishing, it’s quiet participation. You don’t need certainty. You don’t need positivity. You just need enough openness to let life respond.

If guarding yourself has kept you safe but also smaller, this is a way to reopen gently, without forcing faith.

“I don’t think I actually have the time or energy for this.”

The Reset Ritual isn't about taking more capacity, it helps to return more capacity than you invest.

Rather than just another demand on your schedule, the Reset Ritual is an interruption in the pattern of constant output. One hour a month, oriented toward settling, listening, and re-aiming, often gives people back more energy than it takes.

If everything already feels like too much, that may or may not be a reason to wait, but it is information. You may not need to “make time” so much as change how time is being metabolized in your system.

That's why The Reset Ritual is not about doing more. It’s about accomplishing more while doing less, more intelligently.

“What if I miss a live session?”

You’ll have access to the recording every month, and I promise it works just as well. 

This group has been designed so that people working with the recordings are still connected to and included in the work's field. Participants are often genuinely surprised by how present and included they feel, even when listening later.

You're not losing anything when you take care of your schedule and return to The Reset Ritual when you can. 

You’re never falling behind. The rhythm is always there to return to.

“How is this different from a one-off hypnosis session or workshop?”

One-off experiences can be powerful — but some kinds of experiences can fade when life isn’t organized to support integration, and even "permanent" revisions benefit from being part of an intentional arc of changework rather than isolated incidents.

The Reset Ritual is not about amy single outcome. It’s about your ongoing relationship with yourself and your future.

Change stabilizes and humans learn & grow through safety, repetition, and rhythm. This group gives you a place to revisit alignment instead of demanding permanence. That’s what allows things to quietly compound over time.

You come back not because you do or don't succeed at getting the change you want — but because returning to the rhythm is how it works. 

“Will this fix a specific problem in my life?”

You’re welcome to bring any specific issue you’d like into The Reset Ritual — and in fact, specificity helps.

Clear outcomes give your unconscious mind something concrete to organize around. The more precisely you can name what you’d like to change, release, or create, the easier it is for your system to move in that direction.

What this group doesn’t offer is a guarantee that something external will "fix" you or solve your problems.

What it does offer is a reliable process for engaging your own change capacity — month by month — so that real change happens, because you made change more possible, more sustainable, and more integrated into your actual life.

You remain responsible for your outcomes because that’s the source of your power.

When responsibility lives where it belongs, change stops being something you wait for or react to and starts being something you actively participate in. This group is here to empower that participation, not replace it.

Along the way, The Reset Ritual can make your life easier to navigate by reducing internal friction, increasing coherence, and helping you respond differently to familiar stressors and patterns.

And an underlying outcome we're always aiming for is that you’re no longer fighting or struggling to move in the right direction, instead moving toward your desired outcomes with exactly the level of ease and enjoyment you would like.

“Is this a replacement for therapy?”

The Reset Ritual is not psychotherapy, and it’s not meant to replace psychotherapeutic care if that’s what you need. It doesn’t involve diagnosis, treatment planning, or crisis support.

What it is is a powerful adjunct to therapy for many people.

Because The Reset Ritual focuses on nervous-system regulation, unconscious alignment, and rhythm-based integration, participants often find that insights from therapy land more deeply and translate more easily into lived change.

For some people, one of the changes they’re actively working toward is becoming more self-regulating, more internally resourced, and less dependent on external support. If your therapist agrees that you’re moving toward graduation or reduced therapy frequency, this group can be an excellent way to support that transition — without abruptly removing structure or support.

So while this isn’t a substitute for therapy, it is a way of strengthening your capacity to relate to yourself and others more skillfully over time.

“How will I know if this is working for me?”

You may not notice fireworks, even as you  notice steady changes and improvements in your goals and challenges. 

Also keep an eye out for:

• less inner resistance
• clearer orientation without rigid plans
• more ease making choices
• less self-blame when patterns reappear
• a growing sense of trust in yourself and the process of change

You’ll know it’s working because you keep coming back — not out of obligation, but because it helps.

“What if I’m not consistent?”

You don’t need to be perfect.

You just need a place to return.

There’s no falling behind, no catching up, no “you missed it” energy. The rhythm keeps moving whether you attend live, listen later, or miss a month entirely.

What matters is not perfect participation, but having a place to return to. Because when you miss, you learn. And when you come back, you learn again. 

Consistency grows naturally when the process is supportive rather than demanding. That’s the entire point of the rhythm.

Many people join precisely because they don’t trust themselves to self-manage yet another practice. The irony is that once pressure is removed, participation becomes easier. Not because you try harder, but because your system stops bracing against expectation.

If consistency has been your sticking point everywhere else, know that The Reset Ritual is designed for that reality, not against it.

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