Six-week independent and paired inquiry · starts 8 March 2027
What the Hell Is This?
Carry the looking into everyday life across six weeks, working in your own time and regularly with a partner. No live group meetings.
Workshop details
Four-week live investigation
Learning to Look
Four live meetings devoted to looking together at what is actually here.
Next workshop21 January – 11 February 2027
FormatFour weekly 90-minute meetings on Zoom
Time (Thursdays)18:00 Spain · 17:00 UK
12:00 Eastern (New York) · 09:00 Pacific (Los Angeles)
Workshop fee€120. VAT will be added for participants in the EU where required.
The workshop
An investigation we undertake together
We spend much of our lives relating to experience through what we already think we know about it. But what happens when we actually look?
Learning to Look is a four-week live workshop devoted to that question. We meet to investigate what is here, together, rather than to study a set of ideas or receive someone else's conclusions.
Things seem so familiar, so obvious. Yet when we examine them, the name and the explanation don't quite reach the actuality. There is something extraordinary about that.
The invitation is to look for yourself, with others who are equally curious about what this is.
What is this?
The inquiry
Does the name reach this?
Something seems to be the case. We look. An explanation arrives, perhaps immediately. But does it actually tell us what is here?
We are not trying to think our way to a more convincing account, or replace one set of spiritual ideas with another. We can question the account without denying what appears.
Sometimes the familiar certainty gives way to a strange openness. Sometimes the answer still seems perfectly convincing. Either way, that is where the looking continues.
How it works
Four live meetings. Real looking.
We meet on Zoom for 90 minutes each week. Most of our time is spent actually investigating, rather than listening to explanations.
I facilitate the looking as it happens. We may explore a question together as a group, or I might look directly with a volunteer while everyone else follows the investigation for themselves.
There will also be opportunities for short paired inquiries, followed by time together to explore what happened, where we got caught in an explanation, or where something unexpected opened up.
There is no rigid weekly syllabus. We follow the inquiry with care and curiosity, responding to what arises in the meetings.
Between meetings
The question comes with you
Looking does not have to stay inside a Zoom meeting.
Between sessions, there will be simple invitations to explore the inquiry in ordinary life. Whatever is happening can become an opportunity to ask again: what is this, actually?
There is no special state to attain, no right answer to bring back and nothing to perform for the group. The point is to become familiar with looking wherever you find yourself.
Who it is for
No previous experience required
You may be completely new to inquiry, or you may have spent years exploring meditation, non-duality or Peter Brown's work.
This is not a beginners' course with more advanced workshops waiting at the end. It is an opportunity for anyone willing to investigate experience directly, without needing to arrive at a prescribed conclusion.
Curiosity matters more than what you know. What counts is the willingness to look.
The background
The Yoga of Radiant Presence
This workshop draws on the Yoga of Radiant Presence developed by Peter Brown.
Here, yoga means investigating the actuality of experience rather than settling for the ideas we have about it. It is not a physical practice, and it is not a method for producing a better or more spiritual condition.
There is no need to know Peter's work beforehand. We'll start with what is here, and look.
Other workshops
Other ways to investigate
These are different formats for the same open inquiry, not a sequence you have to complete.
Six live group meetings · starts 6 May 2027
This Radiant Space
Explore familiar assumptions about body, world, space, time and self through guided inquiry and live group investigation.
Workshop detailsNext workshop
21 January – 11 February 2027
- Length
- Four weeks
- Meetings
- Four live 90-minute Zoom sessions
- Format
- Facilitated group looking, possible live individual inquiries and short paired work
- Between meetings
- Simple invitations to investigate in ordinary life
- Dates
- 21 and 28 January, 4 and 11 February 2027
- Time
- Thursdays: 18:00 Spain · 17:00 UK · 12:00 Eastern (New York) · 09:00 Pacific (Los Angeles)
- Workshop fee
- €120. VAT will be added for participants in the EU where required.
- Places
- Limited to allow genuine participation
Registering your interest does not commit you to joining. I will send you the full registration and payment details when booking opens.
Register your interestPractical questions
Before you register your interest
Do I need previous experience?
No. Beginners and people already familiar with direct inquiry are equally welcome. The emphasis is on looking, not on what you know.
Will I need to work in pairs?
There will be some short paired exercises, but the heart of the workshop is live investigation together as a group.
Is this a prerequisite for What the Hell Is This?
No. Each workshop stands on its own. What the Hell Is This? is a six-week inquiry pursued independently and with a partner, without live group meetings.
When will registration open?
I will contact everyone on the interest list when booking opens.
Learning to Look
Join us from 21 January 2027
Four live meetings to investigate what is here, together. No explanations to accept and no special state to reach.
Thursdays: 18:00 Spain · 17:00 UK · 12:00 Eastern (New York) · 09:00 Pacific (Los Angeles). The fee is €120, with VAT added for participants in the EU where required. Register your interest and I'll be in touch when booking opens.
Register your interest