Humans 2.0

A 6-week practical training integrating vitality, performance and meaning in a fragmented world.

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Starts Feb 9, 2025

Limited spots available.

Are You Tired of Trying to Build a Lifeplan Out of Spare Parts? 

🧪 Biohacking
can get you feeling better physically, but often feels too superficial to speak to the rest of the human experience.
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🛋️ Self help
can be too self indulgent and presumes that giving new names to your old problems somehow changes them forever.
🙏 Organized religion
offers community and surrender to something bigger, but can ask us to check too much healthy skepticism at the door.
But we all want what each of them is promising...

‍Health, peace and purpose!

Or to put it more playfully:

We want to be Swole and Whole, with a touch of Soul.

The only trouble is that each of those domains––physical optimization, psychological integration and ontological revelation (a fancy way of saying Purpose)––don’t really talk to each other. And neither do the “thought leaders” in those spaces.

Talk to your functional medicine doc about your stress and tiredness and they’ll likely grill you on your Oura ring scores and your microbiome.

Talk to your therapist (or workshop facilitator) and they’ll inquire about your attachment style or unprocessed trauma.

Talk to a minister (or guru!) and they’ll encourage you to “let go and let God” take the wheel of your life.

Each will be absolutely certain that their suggestions will fix what’s ailing you–from fatigue and overwhelm, all the way to deep grief or loneliness.

And the rest of us?

We’re left having to sort through all this conflicting confounding advice to stitch together piecemeal solutions.

That takes a lot of time, money and mental bandwidth to figure out by ourselves. And it rarely results in an approach to life that’s truly elegant, evidence based, and functional.

‍A Horse Designed By Committee Ends Up Looking a Lot Like a Camel.

Humans 2.0 is specifically intended to get you over that hump.

It’s an integrated approach for the rational, evidence-based person that shows you how to optimize your body, brain and purpose.

Stripping out the mythologies (of why things supposedly work), but keeping the technologies (of the things that actually do). 

The end result? A life lived large and without apology.

In Humans 2.0 we don’t obsess over supplement stacks or biomarkers… we don’t collapse your entire life into childhood wounds or TherapyTok diagnoses… and we positively don’t require you to accept someone else’s religious doctrine as the cost of entry to belief and belonging.
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Humans 2.0 shows you, in plain English:

– how your body actually works
– how your mind constructs experience
– how your worldview shapes meaning
– and how all three interact under stress, flow, grief, awe, and peak states

AKA it’s a coherent, experiential, experimental framework that lets you chart your own course into a life lived on purpose.

And what if we could get all of that done within a thriving global community of training partners and fellow travelers? 

Introducing
Humans 2.0

A 6-week practical roadmap for pursuing vitality, performance and meaning in a fragmented world.

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Next Cohort Dates:
Feb. 2026

Inside, You'll Learn How To...

✓ Reverse-engineer any state you want
with a laser understanding of your neurophysiology
✓ Direct your attention to generate effortless flow
instead of exhausting grind
✓ Make sense of peak experiences
without sliding into magical thinking
✓ Integrate physiology, psychology, and metaphysics
into one coherent worldview
✓ Build a life that feels meaningful, grounded, and deeply aligned
so you can get back to living it

(And you'll actually do it, not just talk about it)

Each week, Jamie will deliver a live lecture sharing the latest interdisciplinary research and applied findings from neuroscience, performance athletics and neuroanthropology. They’ll be unfiltered briefings that provide a rigorous and tested synthesis of what often gets called “the body, mind, spirit divide.”

Instead, we’ll cover all that ground deploying the Same language. Same frameworks. Same truth claims.

No more patchwork quilts (or camel-looking horses).

Then you’ll meet live for the body-mind training sessions–because ideas, even super cool ones, are cheap. Real change, is what’s priceless.

Plan for weekly Boat Teams and Seminars with Jamie. The rest of the supplemental sessions will be sprinkled throughout the program so you can experience them with the group live and then bring it into your own practice back home.  If you’re tight on time, then concentrate on the Tuesday Boat Teams and the Thursday Seminars and you’ll be good to go! If you wanna suck the marrow out of the whole program, commit to six weeks All In. 100% your call.
Movement–Kickoff the Week Right
‍Range of movement, whole body strength and core mobility — recalibrating the whole system for the week ahead. Think of this as your “Jail Cell Workout” that you can do anywhere, anytime with no equipment.

Unremarkable done once. Transformational done daily.
Tuesday Boat Teams–Grapple with the Big Ideas
Led by a Flow Genome certified guide. Small-group meaning-making and practice. Deep questions, fun exercises, and the time and trust to really explore and refine your own thinking.

You’ll take the content you learned in the previous week’s seminar and unpack all the implications and applications to your own life.
Hump Day Booster Pack
It’s Hump Day, we get it. But rather than reaching for afternoon coffee or a fistful of candy to get you over it, block out half an hour to learn the best Active Recovery protocol out there: FSDR Flow-state Deep Rest: breath, music, somatic release and recovery.

Think of it as performance napping for the folks who’d never let themselves sleep in the middle of the day! Plus you’ll get a guaranteed second session of Deep Focus out of the second half of your workday.
Thursday Seminars–Deep Dives with Jamie
This here’s the intellectual backbone of the program—where we offer conceptual clarity, developmental models, and high-signal thinking. If you watched Dead Poets Society, but then got sad you never had a class like that. This is your class like that.

We won’t make you memorize poems or hop up on desks, but we will explore wide ranging themes, live and without a net. For your inspiration and edification.
Vital Breathwork
Breathing has become all the rage. But most folks are repping knockoffs of knockoffs of copies of what actually works. Learn the protocol (and the science) beyond the whole spectrum of breathwork practice from the team that literally wrote the book on respiration (actually it was a chapter, because we had other topics to cover too).

A great way to close the week while learning a foundational practice that you can stack a bunch of other more psychoactive elements on top of–later, on your own time ;)
Sunday Gospel Brunch
Here we’ll do our best to invoke Church (not the place with the steeple but the space with the people). Ninety minutes to lay our burdens down and exhale. Three songs of gospel karaoke, interspersed with a twenty minute TED talk on a seasonal verse, followed by a brunchy breakfast and Jefferson style table conversation on the theme of the week. Dead simple. “Communitas” without the Cringe (And it’s a brunch cuz we all gotta eat).
Grief Café
‍Into every life a little (or a lot of) rain must fall. Been there ourselves. But Grief, as Martin Prechtel reminds us, “is Praise, it is the way love honors what it misses.”

Come for an informal Flow Genome version of what’s become an international movement of Grief Cafes. Honest, grounded and heartfelt conversation, without slipping into therapytalk. No advice. No “shrinking.” Just speaking and listening. #problemshareproblemhalved

Humans 2.0 Curriculum: What's Inside?

This course is broken into three phases that integrate the whole human project into one coherent approach–mapping ancient traditions with modern science...

Over the course of a month and half, we’ll break down these topics into distinct modules. They’ll all build on each other to lead to the potential conclusion––You upgraded to Human 2.0.
Phase One: Train Your Brain to Find Your Mind
Hedonic Engineering: Neurophysiology of Vital Living
Week 1: Unlock Vitality and Attention‍
Learn the architecture of energy, attention, and recovery. Build baseline protocols for shifting your state. Hedonic Engineering is the name of the practice. Hedonic Calendaring is the implementation plan. Transitioning from 21st Century Normal (tired, wired and stressed) to a more awake and aware human is the name of the game!
Week 2: Design Your Optimal Life‍
Designing your weeks, months, and years for deep work, deep rest, and deep play. Breath, movement, interoception. If we leave our lives to chance, then we get erratic results. If we bake in novelty, adventure, passion, recovery and consistency? (plus gut-check abstinence so we don’t overcook it?) Well that’s a much tastier cake!
Phase Two: Erase Your Face
Neuropsychology: The Operating System of an Upgraded Self
Week 3: Reverse Engineer Your State of Mind
We’ve all been trained to locate our sense of self and how we feel right behind our eyes–in the Storytelling Monkey section of our brains. And then we spend a chunk of our time wondering about, obsessing over and trying to change those stories from Anxious, Stressed, Scared to Calm, Happy, Brave (or some other sunnier location). But the reality is we can now reverse engineer our states of being by tinkering with basic body-brain inputs. Learn the knobs and levers that make you tick. Try a few experiments that light you up.
Week 4: Upgrade Your Human OS
We’re all finding that 20th century models of self and identity aren’t a match for our extremely online, AI modulated, Late Stage Everything lives. But they don’t even match the science anymore. Get a fresh update on what it means to be a person, and what it means to be human. Updated maps don’t replace the territory we still have to cover. But they absolutely help us from staying lost. Reconceive of yourself in entirely new ways that take the load off our monkey minds and give us access to more expansive and resilient ways of being.
Phase Three: Leave Space for Grace
Religion 2.0: Comparative Mythology of Faith and Hope
Week 5: Die Before You Die
Before we formally published this research we took it to two top Stanford neuroscientists, a famed Harvard anthropologist, and Columbia’s top Tibetan scholar and asked them “does this seem to capture the science underneath Death/Rebirth initiation rituals across cultures?” Their answers amounted to a resounding “holy shit!” and “hell yes!” (we’re paraphrasing, but the gist was overwhelmingly positive). Learn how to take the notion of “dying before you die” from mystical metaphor to practical protocol. It’s a key step in alleviating stress, metabolizing trauma, and activating awe–all on the way to becoming a Twice Born Human. AKA, Human 2.0.
Week 6: Demystify the Mysto‍
To bring it all Home–we’re going to lasso starlight and wrastle it down to solid ground. For too long glimpses of the non-ordinary veer quickly into the whacky. Here we’ll provide an update on some of the more credible working theories of information and consciousness, and (crucially) show how to navigate the Mysto without getting lost. Think of it as a Rational Mysticism– orienteering instructions for navigating in four dimensions.  
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Why us?

We've dedicated our entire careers to answering the questions: Where Do We Come From, What's Going On and What Do We Do Now?

That inquiry led to 25 years of academic study, adventure guiding, and tracking civilizational trends. Along the way we’ve advised everyone from Fortune 100 CEOs, to three letter government agencies, to royal families and major media companies. 

That led us to the center of the human performance movement. Training Google, SEAL Teams, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, and other elite orgs on how to maximize focus, performance and flow.

It’s been a wild and interesting adventure, to say the least (and none of it has ended up on Instagram).

But our real passion is and has always been growing better humans. We designed and built a Montessori school for our own children, and have advised educators from around the world, from kindergartens to top ranked business schools.

We’ve led college students to Camp Three on the North Face of Mount Everest, and taken Young Presidents’ Organization CEOs into the Grand Canyon to play war games.

From students aged 3 to age 70, we’ve dedicated our careers to learning and teaching, training and growing.

‍Humans 2.0 is the distillation of that entire journey. 

‍It’s a dojo and a lighthouse––a place to train our games, and a beacon to help navigate stormy seas.

After all, who doesn't want to be more capable, courageous, creative and reliable?

Who hasn't wondered who we'd really be if the hour was late and the stakes were high?

This is your chance to train your brain to find your mind.

And to learn to keep your head, while all around you are losing theirs.

What Others Are Saying About Our Trainings

"This has been one of the most educational classes I've ever been in, including college.

‍I wish they had something like this in college. I think it should be mandatory. The amount I learned about myself, the brain hijacks that I have let cripple my life at times, just simply everything was phenomenal."

–– Ben Herrick
"Thank you for designing this course. To be honest, it is perhaps the only endeavor I've concluded successfully in maybe a decade, aside of college. It is beautifully structured. The results are very powerful, even if in retrospect the techniques seem easy, but it would have been difficult to put two and two together on my own."

‍–– Renato Vargas
“The biggest impact this training has had on me has been being a part of a community of like-minded people. Learning and sharing alongside them has felt genuine and authentic.  It’s given me encouragement to keep seeking a better life.  It’s great knowing I’m not alone in seeking flow and wanting to hack it for my daily life!”

– Shebbie J.
"Grateful for completing flow fundamentals in the path of mastering the concepts. I feel this journey as a game changer in my life. Very happy to feel the force you mentioned in week one! That increase in satisfaction, enjoyment and positive impacts in the world are fuels to my journey that has just started. Thank you @jamiewheal and this fantastic group!"

–– Guilherme Ferraioli
"Since I've begun to get serious about recovery it's made a huge difference in my performance and sense of wellbeing. Thanks, Jamie."

–– Leonardo Radomile
"Thank you @jamiewheal and everyone in the cohort for supporting, inspiring and holding me accountable these past 6 weeks. I'm extremely grateful & wish you all the best in your Flow journeys moving forward!!I think this course would be great way to strengthen friendships, relationships & overall team dynamics (especially at a time when most people are working remotely)."

–– Tanner Byers
"I've done many crazy and out-of-the-norm things in my life and so far these six weeks have been truly the most sustained and prolonged proactive vital civilian learning experience program that I've ever experienced."

–– Claudi Valls i Lillo
“Everyone should learn this. I will have my children learn these tenets of flow before I give them a cell phone. This is fundamental to human well being. Thank you for showing us the way.”

– Christopher C.D.
"For those that are hungry for more self awareness, more growth, more flow, and more abundance in their life. This course is awesome and I would highly recommend it without reservation. The cost is pennies for the value it will deliver."

–– Joanette Weisse
“The entire program is an educational experience of flow. As I was learning, I was tapping into "my flow" and learning how to recreate it on demand. I became more aware of myself, what was holding me back and how to address and change it.

‍It allowed me to step into my most authentic self. I feel like a superhero.”

– Taylor G.
"Thanks, and I got a lot of value out of the course."

–– Matt Hedman
"Jamie and team have done a great job compiling what it means to get started at flow. I highly recommend anyone getting a introduction to Flow to take this course. It's a great way of getting connected to the wider feedback of your life, as well as learning more about what it means to be human."

–– Justin Meritt
"There really are no words to describe the benefits I have received from this course, and with the tools you have provided it never has to end. It truly is the course that keeps on giving."

–– Debra Lucas
"In pretty much every area of my life, I feel more satisfied since I've increased the amount of flow in my life. I'm firing on all cylinders and I can't wait to apply what I've learned to more fully humanizing myself and others.”

– Jeremy Gordon
“This has been the single most impactful and memorable learning experience of my life...It played a direct role in increasing my productivity by orders of magnitude AND my enjoyment of life significantly. I'm in awe looking back how much I've accomplished in a short 6 weeks."

– Alexandru P.
"This course was full of meaningful content that is helping me progress through some stuck areas in my life. Thank you to all the course members and mentors/coaches!"

– Jake Atchley
"This has been an amazing and life changing journey for me. Thank you!"

– Matt Mecham
"This course has been brilliant. Guiding me towards things I want, but haven’t been doing, socially, meeting amazing people and interacting with them in discussion and been a great social trigger for me. Realizing I need to get back into more physical things, and then creating the space to do it."

– Elvin Ko
It's easy to get that dopamine-rush of learning something new, but then not doing anything with it. That hasn't been the case here. I've changed. My team notices it, my clients notice it, and my family notices it... in positive ways.

–– Susan Britton
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Humans 2.0?
A 6-week developmental training that integrates body, mind, and meaning into one coherent operating system. 
How is this different from other FGP trainings?
Unlike some of our courses over the past five years, this program isn’t about the state of the world or even the organization you lead. It’s all about You. How to feel better, live better and serve better. It synthesizes actionable content from our bestselling books Stealing Fire and Recapture the Rapture, draws from our global community of Homegrown Humans, and unpacks Hedonic Engineering into a single, practical curriculum.
Why do you interview participants?
To ensure the right cultural fit, psychological readiness, and group coherence. We discourage fundamentalists of any stripe (from diets to workouts to politics to faith) and strongly encourage curious, humble, decent folks looking to find the same.
When does it start?
Next cohort begins in February —perfectly timed to let the New Year’s dust settle and gear up for a rocking Spring. Apply to secure your spot.
Are there prerequisites?
Only curiosity, competence, and willingness to engage sincerely... We try to design all our courses for motivated “Never Evers” and give you the tools and training you need from there! That said, the academic content is targeted for a smart 11th grader. Most of what we get on our social feeds these days is barely middle school level. So if you haven’t put on your thinking cap in a while, it might feel like a slight stretch–but the good kind!

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Questions? Email us at hello@flowgenomeproject.com