Senda
A companion for the journey. Bring one real difficulty and Senda helps you see how you’re making sense of it, and what might shift if you looked again. It never tells you what to do.
Meet Senda →Life is hard. And you are built to grow through it.
Back to Human is about getting back in touch with the most human thing there is: the way we make sense of what happens to us, and how that evolves, gradually, throughout our lives.
Being human isn’t something you are. It’s something you’re doing, right now.
Every feeling, every decision, every experience. Before you know it’s happened to you, you’ve already made sense of it, organised it, without noticing.
That silent organising is what being human is. And the way you organise is what can change. That’s the whole story of adult development, and it’s the story we tell here.
Adapted from Robert Kegan, The Evolving SelfSome problems can’t be solved. They can only be outgrown.
The argument you keep replaying. The job you can’t leave. The fear that follows you into every new thing. Advice doesn’t touch these, because they aren’t really problems out there in the world. They’re the current shape of how you make sense of it. When that shape changes, the problem looks different, and sometimes it lets go of you, and you let go of it.
That change is what we mean by growing. Not being told what to do. Not fixing yourself. Adapting more deeply to what life is asking of you.
Where the path goes
Live sessions
Small, live, unscripted. Andrés explains how adults actually grow and takes your questions.
Next session: coming soon
Videos and classes
Short, plain explanations of the developmental view, drawn out as he speaks.
This autumn
From Andrés
I’m Andrés. I studied adult development under Robert Kegan at Harvard, and it changed how I understand everything, including the hard and strange turns my own life has taken. I’ve spent the years since trying to find words for this process that anyone can use: not just the professor, but my mother, my brother, the person fixing the lift. Back to Human is where those words live.
I’m not the point of any of this. The path is. But I’ve walked enough of it to tell you, from experience, that it’s real.
Andrés
Say hello
If something here spoke to you, write to me. I read everything.