The Sonder Institute is creating experiences that uncover the mythological story creating mechanism of our psychological selves.
Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology, wrote that the most important question anyone can ask is:
“What myth am I living?”
What’s really shifting the world these days is the mini-mythologies that we all prescribe to that hold us hostage. We all make up stories about ourselves and the world. These stories influence the choices we make.
The Sonder Institute facilitates experiences to help you you become aware of your personal story creating mechanism that’s shaping your life.
— Quote Source
Our Services
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The importance of talking to Strangers
Talking to strangers workshops help empower you to overcome yourself. Small shifts can produce big results. Get into th habit of openness. Openness towards others facilitates openness towards oneself.
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Shadow Mask workshop
Instead of only showing and interacting with your socialized self, learn o play and have fun with the self that we usually tend to hide.
Lets cozy up to our inner dragon and learn to be compassionate towards ourselves and others!
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Comfort Zone Expansion Tours
Comfort Zone Expansion Tours takes you on a mysterious walk in search of the magical symbolism and the story structure of fairy tales. There will be riddles to be solved, thresholds to be crossed, strange creatures will be encountered. Participants will be challenged in a multitude of ways and Comfort Zones will be expanded to the delight of all!
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The Power of Negotiation
You don’t get the life you deserve, you get the life you negotiate. (Dr. Chester L. Karrass)
Learn the art of negotiation in a fun and playful group environment where you can start planting the seeds of the life you’re dreaming of.
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Personal Research Project Coaching
The benefits of the pursuit of personal research projects for each individual, to really discover one’s own true passions, talents an sensibilities are undeniable. We all want to feel like we are making a unique contribution to society. But where to start?
No one can tell you. But just the right skilled listener who has the ability to mirror back the crucial kernels of individual wisdom many of us tend to dismiss, can be that powerful catalyst that makes all the difference.
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Rent an experience for your next conference or event
A Sonder Institute Experience could be just the right choice for your next conference or event to inspire meaningful and productive conversations among your guests.
Don’t Watch one example of the experiences offered by the Sonder Institute consists of a repurposed vanity that harbors a multitude of mysterious archetypal objects in its underbelly. This table with oracle powers has the capability of mirroring the phenomenon of personal mythology back to each participant. With that newly gained consciousness each participant discovers how life is a sequence of decisions which influence our path. Moving forward with increased consciousness empowers each of us to learn how to curate our lives in ways that are more in alignment with one’s dreams.
Life is a Sequence of Decisions. 👁️
Life is a Sequence of Decisions. 👁️
Don’t Watch! An interactive sculpture that’s placed in the public realm of New York City.
Here the participants are encouraged to sit down and look into the magical mirror. interactive sculpture that’s placed in the public realm of New York City. Here the participants are encouraged to sit down and look into the magical mirror.
Meet Gloria,
the shadow side of the things you want most.
When confronted with a shadow creature, there are two paths to choose from: JUDGEMENT or CURIOSITY
The birth of the Sonder Institute
We are committed to Comfort Zone Expansion to facilitate personal growth and more magic.
How are you going to take that next step in life,
to have that powerful conversation with your boss or a loved one?
Or to finally jump and make your lingering idea a full fledged reality?
Modern life has given us physical convenience and comfort,
But at a cost!
Where we become sedentary and psychologically stagnant.
Big Tech has programmed us to consume more content
and be less interested in real life experiences.
Life is real in the real world!
The Sonder Institute is now organizing Comfort Zone Expansion rallies
in various New York City locations to give people opportunities
to practice the art of taking chances.
Are you game?
Why Pattern Interruption?
Translation from Swiss German text:
”If there is an absence of joy in your life,
then you might be DEEPLY entrenched
in a predictable behavioral pattern.
What is needed?
A behavioral pattern INTERRUPTION!
A pattern interruption is a gap where a new growth opportunity can arise.
What you do with this opportunity is up to you!”
Definition of the word Sonder
"Sonder — noun. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own."
- From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
