What Are You Made Of

Life isn’t a series of problems to be solved, it’s a set of encounters to be experienced.

You grew up wide-eyed and full of curiosity, optimism, and possibility. It gave you the shiny can-do attitude that once got you gold stars, but now makes you want to quietly tear your hair out. But you keep pushing, because that’s what it means to be a responsible adult. Eventually, you become responsible to everyone except...who you actually are.

To ‘fix’ that impossible feeling you...try harder. You isolate every category of life and make tiny tweaks sold to you by a society that loves to see you optimize. And yet the endless cycle of working and ‘doing the work’ hasn’t made you feel any better. Meanwhile, the world continues to be a dumpster fire. So what gives?

As we grow, who we truly are gets met with all kinds of friction. The very normal part of ourselves that fears or grips gets reinforced constantly and systemically. Cognitively, this keeps our focus on what’s missing rather than the brilliance that’s right in front of us. We build lives, businesses, and systems that attempt to solve problems and instead, perpetuate them.

The big cosmic joke is that energetically reaching for things from lack, actually just creates...more of it.

We think we are ‘solving a problem’ but in reality, we perpetuate the state the problem came from, which leads to their always being another problem to solve.

Hidden underneath every problem we attempt to solve is a desire to feel whole.
To be free from that internal tug of tension. To be present and connected.
To feel so alive that our sense of self dissolves. ‍

This class is an exploration of what wholeness is, why we’ve systemically lost access to it, and how acceptance - not relief or escape or optimization - is key to restoring it and remembering who we really are.

Life is experienced through contrast. In the way you can’t understand light without dark, or salt without sweet - you can’t fully understand wholeness without lack. But we aren’t meant to get stuck in the dark. The discomfort or void we feel is a sharpening tool, not a life sentence or a personal indictment of our worth. It’s a way to help us see who we are - our true essence - more clearly.

This is the goal for our time together.

Living from wholeness changes the entire algorithm around you.

You begin to see and move from your own internal value and authority. Every encounter becomes a ticket to a ride designed to show you what you are made of and unlock what you are made for.

Along the way, ambition becomes about delighting in the mystery and magic of what it means to be alive at all.

The class structure

"What Are You Made Of?" is a four-week call to adventure disguised as a class. Rooting in the principles of nature, consciousness, psychology, and creativity, we’ll explore what it means to be whole by getting to know the components that live within it and shape how we show up. You’ll leave inspired to discover what living from wholeness means to you. A shift that makes your decisions, your relationships, your creativity, and your work begin to make a different kind of sense, leading you to a life of greater alignment and aliveness.

Each gathering has teaching components and exercises for self-remembrance.
There’s an optional 5th session for shared reflection.

$300

4 Live Sessions + Replays + Bonus Call for Reflection

If you want to attend but the cost is prohibitive send us an note and we’ll find a way. If you are interested in group pricing (for 5 or more) or want to become a generous patron of this work in another way, please get in touch at hello@abigidea.com.

This class is everything we wish we were taught in school and what we wish society reinforced in every sphere - from education and workplaces, to innovation and creativity, to healthcare and politics.

Our hope is that each person who attends not only benefits personally, but carries this work with them into every walk of life, so we can radically shift our system from reinforcing scarcity to fostering nourishment - giving way to collective joy and vitality.

Meet your guide

Hi! I’m Lori - I wish I could shout from the rooftops about the material in this class. If our society was designed with the principles you’ll learn in mind, we’d all be lighter, freer, less precious about everything and more connected to one another.

As a strategist and facilitator, my journey into this work came from a desire to understand how we could create the conditions for flourishing within a society enamored by heedless growth. I learned all the traditional rules of capitalism, business, and marketing, only to discover how to break and remake them so we can reorient how we live and work in accordance with the laws of nature. This class is an entry point to our vision and work.

-Lori Abichandani

Founder & Chief Experience Officer

is an academy for collective vitality.

The first ever academy was created by Plato in 387 BC (amidst political turmoil) as a space for inquiry into what it means to live a fulfilling life. Today, a big idea creates a similar space - via tools, experiences, and systems - designed for us all to come alive, together.