RISE ABOVE THE HERD
A 10 Week Psycho-Spiritual Program To Unlock Your Potential & Live More Authentically
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Rise Above
The Herd
Unleash Your Power & Align With Your Highest Potential in 10 Transformative Weeks.
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Rise Above the Herd is a transformative 10-week group coaching program designed to help individuals break free from societal conditioning and rediscover their authentic selves.
Through a blend of psychological, spiritual, and practical tools, participants will gain deeper self-awareness, challenge limiting beliefs, and cultivate the inner strength needed to navigate life with confidence and clarity.
The program emphasizes personal responsibility, self-esteem, and the power of conscious choice, empowering individuals to rise above the noise of external expectations and live in alignment with their true values.
'The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
Myles Munroe
Have you ever felt like you’re living someone else’s life?
You wake up, go through the motions, meet expectations, and check all the boxes, but deep down, something feels... off. It’s like a part of you is locked away, yearning for freedom.
You sense there’s more to life, more to you, but you’re not sure how to access it.
You’re not alone.
Many of us spend our lives trying to fit into molds we were never meant for—absorbing societal conditioning, chasing external validation, and measuring our worth against standards that don't align with our true essence. But it doesn’t have to stay this way.
What if you could rise above all of that?
Rise Above the Herd is a 10-week psycho-spiritual journey designed to help you break free from the shackles holding you back and reclaim the life that’s meant for you.
Through a combination of deep inner work, group coaching, and practical exercises, this program will guide you through a process of self-discovery, healing, and transformation.
Week by Week, You Will:
- Uncover the hidden patterns and beliefs that hold you back.
- Reclaim your inner power and learn how to trust your authentic self.
- Break free from societal conditioning and external pressures.
- Build a foundation of self-esteem, resilience, and personal responsibility.
- Connect with a like-minded community of truth-seekers and trailblazers.
Imagine the feeling of living each day aligned with your true self.
No more masks. No more playing small.
Just you, fully empowered, living life on your terms.
If you’re ready to step into your power, break free from limiting beliefs and rise above, then this program is for you.
Join us for this life-changing journey—and rediscover who you really are.
The life paths of over 100 students have been deeply impacted by this program
The Coaches
Joel Rafidi
Joel Rafidi is committed to awakening truth, freedom, and potential in others by inspiring them to live authentically and embrace their unique journey. His passion lies in fostering creativity and helping individuals reconnect with their innate creative power. With worldwide experience working with clients, Joel believes in balancing logic with intuition to unlock true potential.
Yerasimos
Yerasimos, a truth seeker for over 20 years, helps others committed to growth realize their true potential. He advocates for self-knowledge and conscious action as pathways to discovering one's purpose. With a focus on integrating the psychological, emotional, and biological, Yerasimos has led group retreats and guided hundreds toward deeper self-awareness and empowerment.
Sophie Fletcher
Dr. Sophie Fletcher, PhD, holds advanced degrees in Spiritual and Depth Psychology, with extensive training in Somatic Experiencing and bodywork. She believes the body communicates through symbols and symptoms, guiding us to hidden shadows that may inhibit our true selves. With compassion and resonance, she focuses on being fully present with her clients, attending to what arises from their body's innate wisdom.
Your Mentors for 10 weeks
Joel Rafidi
Joel Rafidi is committed to awakening truth, freedom, and potential in others by inspiring them to live authentically and embrace their unique journey. His passion lies in fostering creativity and helping individuals reconnect with their innate creative power. With worldwide experience working with clients, Joel believes in balancing logic with intuition to unlock true potential.
Focus : Heroism, Individualism, Self-Esteem, Self-Knowledge, Creativity, Financial Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Values, Objectivism
Yerasimos
Yerasimos, a truth seeker for over 20 years, helps others committed to growth realize their true potential. He advocates for self-knowledge and conscious action as pathways to discovering one's purpose. With a focus on integrating the psychological, emotional, and biological, Yerasimos has led group retreats and guided hundreds toward deeper self-awareness and empowerment.
Focus: Shadow Work, Human Design, Psychology, Parts Work, Bio-energetics, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Sophie Fletcher PhD
Dr. Sophie Fletcher, PhD, integrates Spiritual and Depth Psychology with Somatic Experiencing, bodywork, and nervous system expertise. She helps clients uncover hidden shadows through the body's symbols and symptoms, guiding them toward their true selves with compassion and presence.
Focus:
Nervous System, Inner Child Healing, Shadow-Work, Human Design, Somatic Experiencing, Embodiment
Why Now?
We are in a time of monumental evolutionary shifts.
It has never been more urgent and imperative that each of us expand our capacity for truth and authenticity, cultivate our internal power, learn to embrace the darker aspects of ourselves and connect more deeply with our own sense of self-governance and self-sufficiency in all areas of our lives.
See, you were born into a world where you were taught that to sacrifice your self-interests and personal desires for the sake of your friends, family, community and society made you a good and moral person.
Most people you see around you today are operating under the spell of these unconscious programs which are ensuring they live a life dictated by guilt, inauthenticity, resentment & mediocrity.
The majority of people you know aren’t fulfilled not because they don’t want to be, but because unconsciously they are afraid of what that would actually entail.
What if we told you this is all part of deeper conditioning designed to keep you playing small, to prevent you from ever realizing your true worth and value and to entrain you to a life of un-lived potential.
Now more than ever, in a time where the control systems around us have proven without a doubt that they cannot be relied upon to support our evolution, we must be willing to take a journey of self-excavation to discover the inner riches and potential to truly become our own authorities so we can navigate this world and our lives to not only survive, but to thrive in accordance with our true nature.
Ask yourself?
Do you feel stuck or blocked, unable to break through and reach your full potential, even though you keep trying?
Do you struggle with self-worth and self-love, feeling disconnected from a life that truly inspires you?
Is your nervous system overwhelmed, and are you lacking tools for lasting emotional balance?
Do you want to reclaim parts of yourself that have been disowned and repressed since childhood?
Are you facing blockages in your relationship with money, struggling to create the wealth you genuinely desire?
Do you find it hard to confidently speak your truth, set boundaries, and attract aligned relationships?
Do you want to learn how to authentically integrate your shadow so you can generate greater wholeness and access more of your life-force?
Are you lacking the clarity and discernment to navigate life and make empowered decisions?
Are you ready for a paradigm shift?
What's Included?
9 Teaching Modules
Our teaching modules are carefully crafted to shift the deepest and most subtle programs holding you back, while awakening your true power and potential to navigate reality, thrive, and expand your capacity to live the life that aligns with your genuine desires. Released week by week, these modules give you time to absorb, integrate, and apply each lesson before moving on to the next, ensuring a deeper, more lasting transformation.
10 Integration Sessions
Led by Joel & Yerasimos, these
2-hour weekly Zoom sessions
offer the opportunity to ask questions, receive personal guidance, fortify your values, and ground your vision. You'll be seen and supported by others on a similar journey, creating a deeply connected and intimate space. Profound breakthroughs and personal realizations are common in this container, as you gain inspiration and clarity each week.
5 Nervous System Workshops
Dr. Sophie Fletcher, PhD, will guide you through five Zoom workshops focused on optimizing your nervous system. Held every two weeks, these sessions help you integrate new material, engage in intentional somatic work, and develop greater embodiment and emotional intelligence with a true specialist in the field.
Extensive Resource Library
Lifetime access to our comprehensive resource library, all within an easy-to-use interface that makes navigating your journey effortless. You'll find bonus modules, exclusive Human Design tools, integration and self-esteem exercises, nervous system support, curated articles and videos, and much more—everything designed to propel your growth and enhance your transformation with ease.
Emotional Freedom Technique
Experience weekly, custom-curated EFT tapping exercises that combine potent affirmations with meridian tapping for profound emotional releases and breakthroughs.
Each session is designed to empower you with the transformative tool of EFT, offering lifelong benefits to support your emotional well-being and personal growth.
Private Telegram Container
Gain exclusive access to a private Telegram community, connecting you directly with the coaches—Joel, Yerasimos, and Sophie—and your cohort for the entire duration of the program and beyond.
With 24/7 access, you can ask us anything at any time and receive personal guidance whenever you need it. This space offers a no-judgment zone where you can be fully seen in your process, share your wins, challenges, and breakthroughs week to week, and engage in meaningful conversations that support your growth.
BONUS: Human Design
You'll receive a personalized 1-on-1 Human Design reading with Yerasimos, plus
10 weeks of Human Design support. This allows you to explore and understand yourself on the deepest levels.
Through this journey, you will strengthen your intuition, uncover your unique decision-making process, and learn your personal strategy for navigating life. You'll also unlock your inherent gifts and gain insight into the unique life theme you are meant to embody, empowering you to live with greater alignment and purpose.
Walk Through the Teaching Modules
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Module 1 - A Call to Adventure
Start building the psychological foundation necessary to undergo true positive self-transformation.
Learn what your real values are and gain clarity on your personal vision.
Reclaim awareness of the signposts in your life guiding you towards your highest path.
Learn about the challenges you can expect to face on the pursuit of your hero’s journey.
Have a clear knowing that there is an authentic path available to you, that you alone can walk.
Module 2 - Collectivism, Crowd Psychology & Religious Deprogramming
Deprogram from group-think ideologies that would have you acting against your own values and self-interest.
Develop psychic immunity from the inherent pull of crowd consciousness to hijack your decision making processes.
Deprogram from the ancient conditioning keeping you and many others in a perpetual state of disempowerment.
Module 3 - New Cage Deprogramming & Shadow Work
Understand the distorted intentions behind modern New Age and Eastern Ideologies.
Decondition from personal power siphoning programs disguised as enlightened spiritual teachings.
Learn about spiritual bypassing and how these doctrines can be a gateway for it.
Learn the importance of authentic Shadow Work and how to perform it.
Module 4 - Parts & the Architecture of the Psyche
Understand the architecture of your psyche.
Discover the multitude of different parts that exist within you.
Learn how to reclaim the latent power from integrating disowned parts.
Develop internal harmony and improve your relationships.
Module 5 - Reclaiming the Self
Embody what it truly means to be an individual.
Understand your inherent and inalienable rights.
Learn about objective morality and the laws of nature.
Reclaim what it truly means to act in one's self-interest.
Learn how to maximize the power of your rational faculties.
Free yourself from any feelings of guilt around healthily pursuing your personal desires.
Module 6 - The Importance of Self-Esteem
Develop a true understanding of what authentic Self-Esteem is.
Understand the inherent power of Self-Esteem to radically transform every area of your life.
Get to know the signposts of high and low Self-Esteem and where these patterns are most prevalent in your life.
Module 7 - Developing Authentic Self-Esteem
Cultivate a friendly relationship with the facts of your inner and outer reality.
Bring more psychic power to your day to day decision making processes.
Become more intentional and less habitual.
Set clear boundaries and stop leaking vital life force energy.
Take greater ownership of your life and potential. Become a high value human being.
Module 8 - Money: The Root of All Good
Clear any psychological impediments between you and earning money.
Learn the truth about Capitalism and deprogram from the ideologies that give rise to scarcity consciousness.
Reclaim pride & motivation in the creative and productive processes that lead to greater value in your life.
Activate and understand the intrinsic connection between money, your mind and your life.
Module 9 - Awaken the Hero
Answer the call of the unique potential yearning to unleash from within you.
Awaken the dormant 'Hero Archetype' so it can lead you to unlocking the gifts you alone are here to bring forth.
Step into your true purpose, power and authenticity.
Realise no-one can prevent you from becoming who you were born to be.
The Missing Piece: Your Nervous System
Most self-development programs overlook a critical element—your nervous system. While mindset and emotions are important, true transformation is rooted in understanding how your nervous system impacts everything from stress response to emotional regulation. Without this foundation, real, lasting change can be elusive.
A Holistic Approach
Rise Above the Herd offers a holistic approach that integrates nervous system regulation with personal growth.
Through five dedicated workshops hosted by Sophie Fletcher PhD, you’ll learn to:
- Recognize and manage fight, flight, and freeze responses
- Release stored trauma and tension
- Build resilience and flexibility for long-term change
Understanding your physiology is key to unlocking your potential.
With this approach, transformation becomes a full-body experience, leading to sustainable, embodied growth.
A core focus of this program is on developing authentic Self-Esteem
Most people have no idea of the importance of self-esteem.
However the reality is that there is nothing in your life that is untouched or unaffected by it, including but not limited to the quality of the relationships you enter, the alignment of your career path, and your ability to dream and envision great potential for yourself.
There is no rising, becoming, or individuating without self-esteem.
Self-esteem is the relationship you have with yourself.
It is the reputation you have acquired as the human being you are, through the myriad of choices you have made in your life up to this point.
The quality of that reputation is the primary determining factor in how you show up for yourself, in the world and in every choice you make...it impacts how capable, competent and confident you feel to actualise your highest vision for yourself and become who you were born to be.
Your destiny is the sum of your choices.
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PROGRAM BONUS: HUMAN DESIGN
As a special bonus, each participant in Rise Above the Herd receives a
1-on-1, 60-minute Human Design reading tailored to their unique chart.
This personal session will give you deep insights into your true nature, helping you better understand your strengths, challenges, and life purpose.
But it doesn’t stop there. Throughout the 10-week program, you’ll have
ongoing Human Design support, with the opportunity to ask unlimited questions about your chart.
This ensures you can fully integrate the wisdom of Human Design into your journey.
Self-knowledge is the foundation of true growth. Understanding your unique design will empower you to make decisions that align with your true self, creating a clearer path to living authentically.
Ready to change your life?
Rise Above The Herd
Rise Above The Herd
October 16 to December 23
Here's what you get:
Lifetime Access to the Signature Program (9 x Weekly Teaching Modules) - Valued at $1200
10 x Weekly Live and Recorded Integration Calls
with Joel & Yerasimos - Valued at $2500
5 x Nervous System Healing Workshops with Sophie Fletcher PhD - Valued at $1750
10 weeks of Private Telegram voice and text support with Joel, Yerasimos & Sophie - Valued at $3000
10 weeks Personal Human Design Consulting
Lifetime Access to our extensive Resource Library
- Valued at $1000
9 x Custom Curated EFT Integration Exercises
COURSE BONUS: 1 on 1 60 minute
Human Design Reading with Yerasimos
Total value: $12350
Normal Investment: $2350
- $650 Limited Time Discount (Never this low again)
Join for $1700!
"I have such a deep, deep reverence for what you 3 have put together. Absolutely life-changing stuff - IMO you could easily get away with charging double what we paid for this as a sustainable, fair exchange."
Stephen Kantola -RATH Co-hort 8
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How is this program different from other self-development courses?
This program is a one-of-a-kind approach to personal growth, addressing the mind, body, and spirit in ways that have never been done before. By uniquely integrating psychological work with building nervous system capacity, Human Design and deep integration practices, we offer tools for real, lasting transformation unlike any other program available.
It's essentially a deep cleanse and reset for the psyche, leading to a complete paradigm shift and a new way of seeing yourself and your place in the world. The seeds planted during this journey are intended to continue offering you profound value long after the program ends, equipping you with insights that will serve you for a lifetime.
2. What is Human Design, and why is it included in the program?
Human Design is a system based on your birth information that helps you understand your unique energy, decision-making process, and life purpose. It provides deep self-awareness and practical strategies for living more authentically. Each participant receives a personalized 1-on-1 Human Design reading, along with 10 weeks of dedicated support to fully integrate this knowledge into your journey, ensuring a deeper connection with your true self and lasting transformation.
3. When are the live sessions?
Weekly Group Integration Sessions with Joel and Yerasimos will take place on Zoom Tuesdays (USA) and Wednesdays (Australia), lasting 120 minutes. Bi-weekly Nervous System Workshops with Sophie will be held on Zoom Fridays (USA) and Saturdays (Australia) lasting 75-90 minutes. Use a time zone converter to calculate the timing for your location. All sessions are recorded for later access.
4. What if I can’t make the live sessions?
All sessions are recorded and made available in your course portal. You can review them at your own pace.
5. How much time will I need to commit each week?
On average, you'll need to commit 2 hours for the live weekly Zoom session, plus 45-60 minutes to watch each week’s module. Every other week includes a 90-minute nervous system workshop hosted on Zoom. For the weekly exercises, contemplations, and actions to fully integrate the teachings, set aside another 2-3 hours per week.
6. What kind of support will I receive during the program?
In addition to the weekly integration sessions and nervous system workshops, you'll have 24/7 access to a private Telegram group where you can ask questions, share experiences, and receive guidance from the coaches and your peers. This ongoing support ensures you're never alone in your journey.
7. What happens after this 10 weeks?
Upon completion of the program, you’ll have lifetime access to all the recorded materials, resources, and exercises. Additionally, the private Telegram group with your cohort will remain open, allowing you to stay connected and continue supporting each other long after the program ends.
8. Is there a refund policy?
Signing up for this program is a commitment to yourself and your future. We encourage you to fully invest in the process, as transformation requires dedication. This is a no-refund program—commit fully or don’t.