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Nine Centered

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by James Alexander and Teresa Brenneman

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16 episodes

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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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June 13, 2026

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:<ul><li>[00:31] Caroline's origin story — a 6-year documentary, a big fallout, and stumbling onto Human Design</li><li>[07:07] The Manifestor feeling of being removed — loneliness and what reframed it</li><li>[09:18] The urge as superpower — what it feels like when Caroline gets out of her own way</li><li>[13:00] Mental initiation vs. a true urge — how to tell the difference</li><li>[21:20] The two Manifestor archetypes: the rebel and the beached whale</li><li>[24:49] Informing — why doing it as a question defeats the whole purpose</li><li>[44:30] Manifestor impact — and why Manifestors often can't see their own</li><li>[01:01:07] Caroline's offering: helping people find their own words</li><li>[01:17:42] One thing you don't often hear about Manifestors — they love being impacted too</li></ul>Resources mentioned:<ul><li>The New School of Human Design Analyst Training Program https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/analyst-training-2025-2026/</li><li>Rave Mandala course with James — https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/product/rave-mandala-360-pre-recorded/</li><li>Caroline's website — https://www.carolinebinsmedia.com/human-design-sessions</li></ul> Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign

May 29, 2026

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:<ul><li>Mike's origin story with Human Design and the role of aura in deepening the experiment</li><li>What projector recognition actually feels like from the inside — and why it has nothing to do with the words someone is saying</li><li>The not-self trap of trying to make things happen as a projector</li><li>What waiting really means — and what it definitely isn't</li><li>Attention hygiene and why doom-scrolling hits Projectors differently</li><li>Triple split mechanics: why variety, movement, and different locations matter</li><li>The Generator's experience of Projector recognition — James tracks the mechanics from his own side</li><li>Sacral response beyond the grunt: how to read genuine generator alignment</li><li>Why Human Design stays an intellectual system for so many people and what it takes to move past that</li><li>The somatic piece of the experiment</li><li>HD-informed therapy and where Mike's practice is heading</li><li>Living the experiment long enough that the system just comes with you</li></ul>Connect with Mike:https://www.attunement.info

May 9, 2026

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 COVEREDTeresa'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 INSTAGRAMThe New School of Human Design on IG // <a href="https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign">⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/newschoolofhumandesign</a>James Alexander on IG // <a href="https://www.instagram.com/james_alexander_coaching">⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/james_alexander_coaching</a>Teresa Brenneman on IG // <a href="https://www.instagram.com/teresaabrenneman/">⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/teresaabrenneman</a>

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What is Nine Centered?: 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.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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