Nine Centered: The New School of Human Design Podcast

James and Teresa sit down with Hanifa Adil, a 2/4 Reflector on the Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx and a Certified Analyst with the New School of Human Design. Hanifa talks about what reflecting actually looks like from the inside, why environment is everything for a Reflector, and how waiting a lunar cycle has changed the way she makes decisions and shows up in relationships.
They also get into surprise and disappointment, the role of humor, and why Reflectors are often stronger and more connected than people assume. The conversation closes with forgiveness and justice, the problem with using AI as outer authority, and what the shift toward 2027 might bring.
In this episode:
What Reflectors actually reflect, and why it isn’t just other people
Environmental authority and why context matters so much
The somatic side of waiting a lunar cycle
Surprise, disappointment, and humor
Solo travel, astrocartography, and a birthday in Japan
Clearing energy and coming back to yourself
Forgiveness, justice, and holding grudges
Common misunderstandings about Reflectors
AI, outer authority, and why lived experience still matters
The 40/37 nodal transit and the move toward the Sleeping Phoenix

The next round of Analyst Training begins on February 1, 2027
Hanifa is a graduate of our analyst training.
This is a practical and comprehensive Analyst Training that aims to empower you with the ability to identify and clearly convey the most important narratives in the chart for several different types of readings. Our goal is to train you to deliver readings where your client feels deeply seen and able, if they’re ready, to enter the Human Design experiment and relate to self and others with more acceptance. We accomplish this with an extremely comprehensive, multifaceted, program that seeks to empower you with precise knowledge, a safe container for your own deconditioning, and complimentary skills to succeed and set yourself apart professionally

*Learn more about analyst training at https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/analyst-training-and-deconditioning-support-program-2027/

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Singh, a 5/1 Emotional Manifestor and NSHD certified analyst, joins James and Teresa to unpack what it's like to live in a closed and repelling aura.

Singh discovered Human Design in the summer of 2015 while camping, and says the mechanics of his own chart explained the arc of his life more precisely than anything he'd encountered before. He describes the system as the most validating and confronting information available, reaching down into the chemistry, biology, and psychology beneath a person's experience. As a tribal being with a closed and repelling aura, Singh works from the lens of power view, helping others navigate the built-in misunderstandings of that aura type in their friendships, relationships, and family.
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The 2026-2027 Analyst Training begins this November. 
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In this episode, Teresa and James unpack what they've learned about Manifestors, from the past year of events and years of experience in the field.

The 2026-2027 Analyst Training begins in November
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This week we're stepping outside our usual programming to address a public post from Jessica Rein, founder of the Holistic Human Design Conference, that mischaracterized James and the New School of Human Design. We walk through the full history behind it: James and Jessica's years-long relationship as teacher and student, the Fall 2025 Oslo conference, the 4% film project, and the harassment James received from the film's creative director, Selen Parmen, after he set boundaries.
We also break down DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), a manipulation pattern named by psychologist Jennifer Freyd, and share a professional statement from clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Lalitha Pieri on why this situation fits that pattern.

We don't take airing this publicly lightly. We sat with it for three weeks before deciding to speak, and we're sharing full documentation so you don't have to take our word for it.

Check out the Dropbox folder with the receipts here. The files are numbered in order chronologically.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jt6cuhyrx8qpl50yrgy8d/AKrB54C2FQsToGO_ky7QEf8?rlkey=9eir012xvvtelugocu587ifib&st=6b25irja&dl=0

Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins joins James and Teresa to get into what it means to live life as a Manifestor. The anger, the loneliness, the beached whale conditioning, and what it's taken to stop hiding behind other people's words.
Caroline is a 4/6 Splenic Ego Manifester, certified Human Design analyst with The New School of Human Design, and a journalist based in Amsterdam. She works with people through what she calls "In Your Own Words" sessions — a process of helping people find their own language for who they are and what they do, drawing on her journalism background and HD knowledge.
In this episode:
[00:31] Caroline's origin story — a 6-year documentary, a big fallout, and stumbling onto Human Design
[07:07] The Manifestor feeling of being removed — loneliness and what reframed it
[09:18] The urge as superpower — what it feels like when Caroline gets out of her own way
[13:00] Mental initiation vs. a true urge — how to tell the difference
[21:20] The two Manifestor archetypes: the rebel and the beached whale
[24:49] Informing — why doing it as a question defeats the whole purpose
[44:30] Manifestor impact — and why Manifestors often can't see their own
[01:01:07] Caroline's offering: helping people find their own words
[01:17:42] One thing you don't often hear about Manifestors — they love being impacted too
Resources mentioned:
The New School of Human Design Analyst Training Program https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/analyst-training-2025-2026/
Rave Mandala course with James — https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/product/rave-mandala-360-pre-recorded/
Caroline's website — https://www.carolinebinsmedia.com/human-design-sessions

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