Nine Centered: The New School of Human Design Podcast

James Alexander and Teresa Brenneman
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Welcome to Nine Centered, the New School of Human Design Podcast: Where James Alexander and Teresa Brenneman have grounded conversations on Design, Deconditioning, and life through a 9-centered lens. This is a space for conversations that bring clarity, practicality, and embodiment. We dive deep into the real experiment of living your design, asking critical questions, challenging 7 centered narratives, and exploring new insights in the system that have emerged from years of lived experience. This isn’t pop HD, and it’s not the pedantic legacy approach—it’s The New School of Human Design.

  1. 30 Oct

    The Reflector Experiment Part 1: A Conversation with Hanifa Aadil

    James and Teresa sit down with Hanifa Aadil, a 2/4 Reflector on the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx and a Certified Analyst with the New School of Human Design. Hanifa talks about what reflecting actually looks like from the inside, why environment is everything for a Reflector, and how waiting a lunar cycle has changed the way she makes decisions and shows up in relationships. They also get into surprise and disappointment, the role of humor, and why Reflectors are often stronger and more connected than people assume. The conversation closes with forgiveness and justice, the problem with using AI as outer authority, and what the shift toward 2027 might bring. In this episode: What Reflectors actually reflect, and why it isn’t just other peopleEnvironmental authority and why context matters so muchThe somatic side of waiting a lunar cycleSurprise, disappointment, and humorSolo travel, astrocartography, and a birthday in JapanClearing energy and coming back to yourselfForgiveness, justice, and holding grudgesCommon misunderstandings about ReflectorsAI, outer authority, and why lived experience still mattersThe 40/37 nodal transit and the move toward the Sleeping Phoenix The next round of Analyst Training begins on February 1, 2027 Hanifa is a graduate of our analyst training. This is a practical and comprehensive Analyst Training that aims to empower you with the ability to identify and clearly convey the most important narratives in the chart for several different types of readings. Our goal is to train you to deliver readings where your client feels deeply seen and able, if they’re ready, to enter the Human Design experiment and relate to self and others with more acceptance. We accomplish this with an extremely comprehensive, multifaceted, program that seeks to empower you with precise knowledge, a safe container for your own deconditioning, and complimentary skills to succeed and set yourself apart professionally *Learn more about analyst training at https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/analyst-training-and-deconditioning-support-program-2027/ FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign⁠ James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/james_alexander_coaching⁠ Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/teresaabrenneman⁠

  2. 26 Aug

    The Manifestor Experiment Part 2: A Conversation with Singh

    Singh, a 5/1 Emotional Manifestor and NSHD certified analyst, joins James and Teresa to unpack what it's like to live in a closed and repelling aura. Singh discovered Human Design in the summer of 2015 while camping, and says the mechanics of his own chart explained the arc of his life more precisely than anything he'd encountered before. He describes the system as the most validating and confronting information available, reaching down into the chemistry, biology, and psychology beneath a person's experience. As a tribal being with a closed and repelling aura, Singh works from the lens of power view, helping others navigate the built-in misunderstandings of that aura type in their friendships, relationships, and family. Booking: humandesignheretic@gmail.comTime zone: PacificLanguage: English only The 2026-2027 Analyst Training begins this November.  Click here⁠ to find out more information and access the course syllabus Follow us on Instagram! The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign⁠ James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/james_alexander_coaching⁠ Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/teresaabrenneman⁠

  3. 14 Aug

    New Insights About Manifestors

    In this episode, Teresa and James unpack what they've learned about Manifestors, from the past year of events and years of experience in the field. The 2026-2027 Analyst Training begins in November ⁠Click here⁠ to find out more information and access the course syllabus FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign⁠ James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/james_alexander_coaching⁠ Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/teresaabrenneman⁠

  4. 18 Jul

    Addressing a smear campaign and providing education around public manipulation tactics

    This week we're stepping outside our usual programming to address a public post from Jessica Rein, founder of the Holistic Human Design Conference, that mischaracterized James and the New School of Human Design. We walk through the full history behind it: James and Jessica's years-long relationship as teacher and student, the Fall 2025 Oslo conference, the 4% film project, and the harassment James received from the film's creative director, Selen Parmen, after he set boundaries. We also break down DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), a manipulation pattern named by psychologist Jennifer Freyd, and share a professional statement from clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Lalitha Pieri on why this situation fits that pattern. We don't take airing this publicly lightly. We sat with it for three weeks before deciding to speak, and we're sharing full documentation so you don't have to take our word for it. Check out the Dropbox folder with the receipts here. The files are numbered in order chronologically. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jt6cuhyrx8qpl50yrgy8d/AKrB54C2FQsToGO_ky7QEf8?rlkey=9eir012xvvtelugocu587ifib&st=6b25irja&dl=0

  5. 13 Jun

    The Manifestor Experiment Part 1: A Conversation with Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins

    Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins joins James and Teresa to get into what it means to live life as a Manifestor. The anger, the loneliness, the beached whale conditioning, and what it's taken to stop hiding behind other people's words. Caroline is a 4/6 Splenic Ego Manifester, certified Human Design analyst with The New School of Human Design, and a journalist based in Amsterdam. She works with people through what she calls "In Your Own Words" sessions — a process of helping people find their own language for who they are and what they do, drawing on her journalism background and HD knowledge. In this episode: [00:31] Caroline's origin story — a 6-year documentary, a big fallout, and stumbling onto Human Design[07:07] The Manifestor feeling of being removed — loneliness and what reframed it[09:18] The urge as superpower — what it feels like when Caroline gets out of her own way[13:00] Mental initiation vs. a true urge — how to tell the difference[21:20] The two Manifestor archetypes: the rebel and the beached whale[24:49] Informing — why doing it as a question defeats the whole purpose[44:30] Manifestor impact — and why Manifestors often can't see their own[01:01:07] Caroline's offering: helping people find their own words[01:17:42] One thing you don't often hear about Manifestors — they love being impacted tooResources mentioned: The New School of Human Design Analyst Training Program https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/analyst-training-2025-2026/Rave Mandala course with James — https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/product/rave-mandala-360-pre-recorded/Caroline's website — https://www.carolinebinsmedia.com/human-design-sessions Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign

  6. 29 May

    The Projector Experiment Part 2: A Conversation with Mike Litven

    In this episode, James sits down with Human Design analyst Mike Litvin for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to live your design as a somatic, embodied practice. Mike is a 6/2 emotional Projector with power view. He's on the Left Angle Cross of Alpha. In addition to his Human Design work, he is a writer, cartoonist, publisher, and mystic. He lives in Santa Fe, NM. He and James met at the first High Desert Human Design Conference in 2021 and spent years as neighbors in Santa Fe, logging countless hours of conversation that probably should have been recorded. This is their first time doing exactly that. Topics covered: Mike's origin story with Human Design and the role of aura in deepening the experimentWhat projector recognition actually feels like from the inside — and why it has nothing to do with the words someone is sayingThe not-self trap of trying to make things happen as a projectorWhat waiting really means — and what it definitely isn'tAttention hygiene and why doom-scrolling hits Projectors differentlyTriple split mechanics: why variety, movement, and different locations matterThe Generator's experience of Projector recognition — James tracks the mechanics from his own sideSacral response beyond the grunt: how to read genuine generator alignmentWhy Human Design stays an intellectual system for so many people and what it takes to move past thatThe somatic piece of the experimentHD-informed therapy and where Mike's practice is headingLiving the experiment long enough that the system just comes with youConnect with Mike:https://www.attunement.info

  7. 9 May

    Going Deep on Emotional Authority

    James and Teresa take a break from the guest series to dig into one of their favorite topics: emotional authority. Both are emotional, both have lived it for years, and this episode reflects that depth. They cover what it actually means to wait through your wave, what clarity feels like in the body, and why the way emotional authority has been taught in the field leaves a lot out. The conversation moves through the three wave phenomena Ra identified, why none of them are actually part of the decision-making process, what emotional intensity has to do with clarity, and how the mind gets emotionally defined people stuck in ways they often don't recognize. They also get into what it's like to navigate the world as an emotional person alongside splenic people, what non-emotionals get wrong about emotional maturity, and how somatic awareness changes the whole experience of living with a defined solar plexus. TOPICS COVERED Teresa's first introduction to Human Design and why emotional authority landed immediatelyWhat Ra got right and where his teaching stopped shortThe difference between wave phenomena and the actual clarity processWhat emotional clarity feels like somaticallyThe three wave types: spike and lock, crash wave, and ratchet wave, and why none of them are decision-making toolsHow the mind amplifies and distorts the emotional processRaw emotional data vs. feeling as interpretationThe splenic/emotional divide and different relationships to time, depth, and informationCo-regulation, emotional empathy, and when you need a splenic person to cut through the fogIntegrating splenic awareness and emotional authority when you have bothWhat non-emotionals misunderstand about emotional maturity FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/james_alexander_coaching Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/teresaabrenneman

  8. 20 Apr

    The Projector Experiment Part 1: A Conversation with Nils Kunisch

    For the next episode of our series focusing on Type, James sits down with Nils Kunisch, a 3/5 Self-Projected Projector, certified NSHD analyst, and seven-year Human Design experimenter based in Germany. Nils works alongside his partner — a trauma therapist with over 15 years of experience — combining Human Design with somatic practice. This is a rare and honest look at what the Projector experiment actually feels like from the inside. Nils and James cover self-projected authority and how to somatically tell the difference between the mind speaking and the G-Center, the sternum sensation as an Inner Authority marker, and what recognition really feels like versus being projected onto. Nils shares about Desire motivation and its transference to Innocence, Projector energy and what success actually looks like without motors, the Generator-Projector dynamic from both sides of the aura, and why presence is a Projector's most underestimated gift. They also get into the no-choice conversation, nervous system work as the real foundation of deconditioning, and the traps that even experienced HD students fall into — including forcing Human Design as an explanatory lens onto everything. Nils is a certified analyst with the New School of Human Design. To learn more about his work or book a session, visit his site https://paths.to/nils.kunisch Follow Nils on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nils.humandesign/

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Welcome to Nine Centered, the New School of Human Design Podcast: Where James Alexander and Teresa Brenneman have grounded conversations on Design, Deconditioning, and life through a 9-centered lens. This is a space for conversations that bring clarity, practicality, and embodiment. We dive deep into the real experiment of living your design, asking critical questions, challenging 7 centered narratives, and exploring new insights in the system that have emerged from years of lived experience. This isn’t pop HD, and it’s not the pedantic legacy approach—it’s The New School of Human Design.

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