A 12-week live online program to redesign how you think, create, and engage with the world.
What if the barriers in your life weren’t fixed? What if they could shift, open, and let in new possibilities?
This isn’t mindfulness as you’ve known it. It’s not about emptying your mind or sitting still. It’s about seeing differently, thinking creatively, and making small, intentional shifts that ripple into real change.
Because when you change how you see, you change what’s possible.
With the support of a caring community, we will engage in a creative redesign process, exploring the steps along the path together. Through shared insight, deep reflection, and bold experimentation, you’ll discover clarity, coherence, and a newfound freedom in how you move through life.
Over 12 weeks, you’ll explore:
How to break free from the mental habits that keep you stuck.
The art of asking better questions—ones that open doors instead of closing them.
Practical ways to shift resistance into momentum.
How mindfulness fuels creative breakthroughs and bold decisions.
This is an interactive, experience-driven program - designed for people who are ready to engage, experiment, and see their world in a new way.
Ready to shift what’s possible? Join us. Because after this, the way you see will never be the same.
The content of the experience
Weeks 1-4 / Exploring The Life Of The Creator
The first weeks of our journey focus on the individual—the creator. We start with the foundational inquiry: Who are we? What drives us to create, and where do we feel resistance?
These early explorations ground us in a deeper awareness of our inner world, helping to build the self-awareness needed for creating from a place of authenticity and clarity. Through curiosity, reflection, and mindful practice, we can better understand the inner workings of the creator’s mind and body, preparing ourselves for the work ahead.
Week 1: Who am I?
Week 2: What’s possible here?
Week 3: Where am I stuck?
Week 4: Program pause for practice integration*
*Supported by our private online community
Weeks 5-8 / Exploring Those With Whom We Create
If mindfulness allows us to redesign our individual experience, then what happens when we bring that awareness into our relationships? Weeks 5 through 8 move from the personal to the relational, examining how our interactions shape and are shaped by the people around us.
Mindfulness in the "We" realm isn’t just about interpersonal skills or improving communication - it’s about understanding the deep interconnections that influence creativity, collaboration, and transformation. By exploring relational dynamics with curiosity and presence, we begin to see how our actions ripple through the ecosystems we inhabit, and we can also appreciate the joy of collaboration and co-creating.
Week 5: Exploring the web of life
Week 6: Emergent possibilities in a complex world
Week 7: Who can I be when I’m with you? A warm data experience.
Week 8: Program pause for practice integration*
*Supported by our private online community
Weeks 9-12 / Exploring The Systems Where We Create
This section invites us to explore the systems in which we create. Much like a fish swimming in water, we often don’t notice the very systems that shape us because we’re so deeply immersed in them.
These systems—whether societal, organizational, or even our cluster of personal habits—can be difficult to see and understand from within. The challenge is not only recognizing these systems but understanding where I and we fit into them. How do my individual actions shape the larger system? And how do the systems around us influence the choices we make together? By engaging with these questions and recognizing the unseen forces that influence us, we can begin to notice how they affect our actions and learn how to transform them, often with small, subtle shifts. It's through this process of exploration that we find ways to align our personal and collective efforts with the systems that surround us, creating new possibilities for change.
Week 9: Changing systems
Week 10: The wisdom of polarities
Week 11: Asking more beautiful questions
Week 12: Ongoing practice integration*
*Supported by our private online community
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More about this experience
Mindfulness isn’t just about the practice of breathing or body scans. It’s not about becoming a guru who’s always calm and present. Mindfulness is a way of reimagining the stories and systems that shape our lives. It’s about taking the familiar, the challenging, and the overwhelming, and reshaping it - internally and externally - so it works better for us and those around us. It begins from the simplest and smallest kernel of our attention and it cascades out across our world.
As we enter into the experience of Mindfulness, it blossoms into more than just rote practice - it becomes a tool for transforming environments, systems, and experiences. We mindfully reshape how we interact with our surroundings and how we perceive and engage with challenges, allowing us to act with deliberate and focused intention, creativity, and greater ease.
Mindfulness empowers us to ask with clarity: What is possible here? How am I relating to this moment, this space, this system? Is that relationship in balance or out of balance? From there, small shifts begin to transform both how we feel and interact with the world. This change happens from a place of relaxed and open attention, not from a place of frustration or desperation. We become the quality of change we want to effect in the world - aware, adaptive, creative, and caring - we awaken to previously unseen possibilities.
The process of redesigning through Mindfulness
Every redesign begins with a questioning - an inquiry into the nature of our experience:
What is alive in this moment?
What is out of alignment?
How could I experiment and explore improving it, changing it or allowing it?
Whether you start small or go big, the process is the same: Notice, Reflect, Redesign and Act - bringing the worlds of being and doing into deeper alignment.
Mindfulness enables us to see with greater clarity, think creatively, and make changes that bring vitality back into our lives.
The basics of the Mindful Redesign Process:
1. Become clear on what is showing up across your inner and outer experience.
2. Identify the Frustration/Problem: What’s not working? What feels heavy, misaligned, or frustrating? Take the time to observe with curiosity and without judgment.
3. Envision and Redesign: Imagine how things could be different. What might invite ease, alignment, or joy in this space or situation? Explore beyond the current frame.
4. Collaborate: Seek feedback from others who share this space or experience. Incorporate their insights and ideas to refine your redesign. Invite a relational process that draws from the wisdom of being with others.
5. Prototype: Test a small version of your idea. Experiment with changes on a manageable scale to see how they feel and whether they make a difference.
6. Reflect and Adjust: Take stock of the impact your redesign has made. What’s working? What could be improved further? Use this reflection to evolve your design.
This framework transforms mindfulness from an abstract practice into an actionable method for creating meaningful, thoughtful improvements.
Reimagining what we take for granted: An example
Forest bathing, or Shinrin-yoku in Japanese, is a practice that invites individuals to immerse themselves in nature - particularly in forests - focusing on the sensory experience of being surrounded by trees, plants, and natural elements. The term Shinrin-yoku translates directly to "forest bath," but it's not about bathing in the literal sense. Rather, it’s about bathing in the atmosphere of the forest, allowing oneself to be enveloped by the sights, sounds, smells, and textures of the natural world.
Researchers and health professionals sought a way to reconnect people with nature to promote relaxation and healing, especially in a society that was rapidly urbanizing and disconnected from the natural environment. Over time, studies confirmed what many had intuitively felt - that spending time in nature, particularly in forests, had significant health benefits. These include reduced stress, improved mood, enhanced immune function, and even better cognitive performance.
Shinrin-yoku demonstrates how mindful design can transform our relationship with something we may often take for granted. In the case of Shinrin-yoku, it's the forest - reimagining how it can be a space for healing and connection, rather than just a cluster of trees.
Across our lives, we might ask: What is our version of this forest? What is the part of the system we’ve taken for granted? What is seeking our deeper attention and wisdom?
By rethinking how we engage with what is already present - whether it’s the physical environment, the way care is delivered, or the relationships between people - we can cultivate an ecology of care that nurtures holistic well-being.
This shift benefits everyone involved, fostering a deeper connection to the healing process and promoting emotional, mental, and physical vitality and resilience.
Not just another mindfulness program
This People Before Patients experience is not like any other mindfulness experience. It doesn’t just teach techniques or offer daily practices—it invites participants to engage with themselves, each other, and systems in entirely new ways. Using the Mindful Redesign Process, participants will learn to:
Identify overlooked or underutilized resources in their internal and external environments.
Reimagine how these elements can foster connection, healing, and well-being.
Implement practical changes that benefit everyone in the system.
Live inside of the practice of mindfulness moment-to-moment in service to ourselves, each other, and the systems that in-form our world.
Through this process, mindfulness becomes a path for systemic transformation—helping us move beyond transactional models of being with each other to create an ecology of care that prioritizes the human experience and nurtures well-being for all.
The ongoing journey of Mindful Redesign
Mindful Redesign isn’t a one-time project - it’s an ongoing journey. Each redesign, whether it’s a space, a system, or a routine, opens the door to further possibilities for improvement. The beauty of mindfulness lies in its capacity to turn everyday experiences into opportunities for growth, clarity, and meaningful change.
As you explore mindfulness through this process, you’ll begin to notice patterns, both in your personal and professional life, that can be shifted to create more flow, balance, and alignment. Every decision to redesign is an invitation to consciously engage with the world and shape it in ways that reflect one’s deepest values.
Ultimately, the goal of mindfulness in design isn’t perfection - it’s about creating spaces and systems that work better for us, where well-being is prioritized, and where every step, no matter how small, contributes to a larger sense of meaning and purpose.
So, whether you’re redesigning your office, your personal life, or a system, mindfulness doesn’t just change how you see and experience the world, it changes how you show up to it.
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Cost of this 12-Week Experience
We are offering 3 tiers of pricing:
Tier 1 - Affiliated professionals / For those working within an organization.
Total cost for this tier: $720
Tier 2 - Independent professionals or non-professionals / For those who are self-employed or not currently in a professional role.
Total cost for this tier: $540
Tier 3 - Scholarship program / Scholarships are reserved for those who are experiencing financial difficulty.
2 free spaces available for scholarships*.
*Contact us by email at hello@peoplebeforepatients.com to apply for a scholarship.
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Your Experience Guides
About David Frank Gomes
David is a life coach and mindfulness teacher. He helps people discover a life that feels good, inside and out.
About Mark Stolow
Mark is the Founding Director of People Before Patients. His 20+ years of work in health care and human development have been in service to inviting greater meaning and beauty across people’s lives.