8. Deconditioning through Motivation, View, and our Open Centers

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Nine Centered: The New School of Human Design Podcast

James Alexander and Teresa Brenneman

9 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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8. Deconditioning through Motivation, View, and our Open Centers

Nine Centered: The New School of Human Design Podcast

1 hour 35 minutes 18 seconds

2 months ago

8. Deconditioning through Motivation, View, and our Open Centers

Mercury retrograde may have thrown delays, mishaps, and communication snags, yet we're finally back with another episode!

In this episode, we continue our conversation from the previous episode to dive into our personal deconditioning stories. We explore the subtle yet powerful ways the mind pulls us off track—whether through distraction in view, transference in motivation, or the conditioned patterns stored in open centers.

Teresa shares how her Desire motivation and Personal view can focus her like a “heat-seeking missile” when aligned, but lead to apathy or political overdrive when in distraction. James unpacks how his Guilt motivation and Survival view serve him when correct, but can also keep him stuck in “shoulds,” overgiving, or false hope.

We also dig into the lived experience of our open centers—Teresa’s completely open Ego and Head, James’s undefined Spleen and Root—and how these areas have shaped self-worth, information processing, sense of safety, and relationship patterns. Our stories illuminate how deconditioning is not about erasing these patterns, but revisiting them with greater awareness each time they resurface.

The next cohort of Analyst Training begins September 29, 2025.

We will begin with Semester 1: Building the Story of the Conditioned Self, where students will learn how to excavate conditioning patterns with objectivity and compassion—preparing to spot them in themselves and others.

To check out the full syllabus, click here.

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