Kindness for a Change
Mini courses
These trainings are about transforming yourself and our world from the inside out.
It’s about bringing kindness and effectiveness to yourself, your family, your workplace, and ultimately shaping the culture, politics, and future of our planet.
Choose the mini course that’s right for the transformation you need right now.
Check out the replay of the free live training, Thriving Together (above).
Check out the replay of the free live training, Thriving Together (above).
Kindness for a Change
Mini Courses
These trainings are about transforming yourself and our world from the inside out.
It’s about bringing kindness and effectiveness to yourself, your family, your workplace, and ultimately shaping the culture, politics, and future of our planet.
The Disease is Disconnection.
The Cure is Kindness.
The many simultaneous crises in our society — environmental devastation, social fragmentation, an upsurge in mental health issues — are symptoms of disconnection from each other, ourselves, nature, and reality itself.
This training is about seeing and changing the invisible habits of violence and disconnection and rediscovering what it means to be human in a world that’s often inhumane.
Individual thriving
- Mindfulness training
- Decrease loneliness & isolation
- How does change work?
- Decrease self-criticism
- Increase well-being
- Neuroscience: Your brain & nervous system
- Language Mind Traps
- Recovery from mistakes
- Find meaning & purpose
- Find energy & passion
- Unifying Framework applied to You
Relationship thriving
- Mindfulness training
- Connect with like-minded and like-hearted people
- Compassion & Empathy
- Compassion = Dealing with Reality
- Connect emotionally & deeply with partner & friends
- Neuroscience: Brain & nervous system in relationship
- Skillful boundaries
- Skillful communication, especially disagreement
- Relationship compatibility
- Sex
- Unifying Framework applied to Relationships
A Tour of the Mini Courses: Come on inside!
The following are available in different combinations (see below for more detail).
Training One (Free)
Thriving Together
1.1 – Mindfulness Meditation: Training & Practice
1.2 – Individual Thriving
1.3 – Connected Relationships
Training Two
Integrative Foundation for Individual Thriving
2.1 – Advanced Mindfulness Meditation
2.2 – Loneliness: you’re not alone
2.3 – Free yourself from insidious language traps that are ruining your life (& the planet)
2.4 – Transformative power of integration & integrity
2. 5 – How change actually works
2.6 – Love, spiritual growth, & justice
2.7 – Kindness: science & importance
Training Three
Transforming You
3.1 – Mindfulness deep dive
3.2 – Enlightenment, wisdom, discernment
3.3 – Wellbeing and fundamental needs
Training Four
Transforming Relationships
4.1 – Thriving Strategies in Relationships
4.2 – Repair and next-level communication
4.3 – 4 areas of compatibility & modern sex
4.4 – Scientifically proven best of 4 interpersonal styles
4.5 – Scientifically proven best parenting style
4.6 – 19+ transformative relationship patterns
Training Five (Bonus with Bundle)
Brain and Nervous System
5.1 – Polyvagal Theory: Safety, Fight-Flight
5.2 – Foundations of Safety and Connection
5.3 – Adverse Childhood Events
5.4 – Neurocognitive Reprogramming
"I'm still not sure. What about..."
- Money-wise, there’s never going to be a lower cost to this training than NOW.
- Health-wise, sooner is better even if all this training does is give you the tools to reduce loneliness. The health benefits of reducing loneliness* include reducing your risk of stroke (32%), heart disease (29%), dementia (50%), premature death (26%), anxiety, depression, and more.
- Kindness for a Change is not repeating the same old dressed up mainstream cultural story where we damage someone and then blame them for that damage. KFAC is not presenting a STORY at all…it’s primary mandate is dealing with REALITY.
- Though KFAC does have elements of a course, there are three aspects of the training that are different: (1) It is designed to get you out in the world with ACTION. (2) It’s not primarily about the STUFF you know, it’s about a mental SHIFT that happens as you learn in your bones how to deal with reality by honoring all of who you are. (3) The coaching: 8 weeks of LIVE training with a handful of people means you get YOUR questions answered and what YOU care about discussed.
- And remember the 90-day guarantee. All you have to do is engage sincerely. If KFAC doesn’t blow you away, you’ll get 100% of your money back.
- KFAC is designed to help anyone at whatever level of knowledge you come with
- EVERYONE has a piece of the truth. It’s one of the main ideas behind dealing with reality by honoring all of who we are — that not only means honoring yourself but each other. Everyone has a point of view that gets us closer to reality.
- Whether you have expertise and experience with one aspect of KFAC (Mindfulness, for example) or no experience at all, the power of KFAC comes from the unique integration of all the elements.
- We’re all here to help each other…with kindness…for a change.
- That’s just it, right! We’re so beaten down by a culture that invalidates and silences, it’s no wonder we don’t know what we want! Some of us have never been asked or rewarded for knowing!
- On top of all that silence and violence, we’re taught (under the guise of “personal responsibility”) that the solution to our suffering is to blame ourselves. Enter self-criticism.
- Those are the very habits that KFAC is designed to GRADUALLY reduce, one thought and interaction at a time. In a group whose mission is kindness, you will experience others struggling with and overcoming self-criticism, supporting each other, and recognizing and rewarding the signs of knowing what you want.
- This is an excellent question. We DO need supportive people to make almost any change work. At the very least, we need people who are not DISCOURAGING the changes we’re trying to make.
- There is a bit of a warning though. You will change as you go through this training. Not everyone in your life has signed up for you to be different. So, there may be shifts in your relationships as some people become more distant (or you from them) and other people get closer. This can be painful but is a natural part of the ripple effects of shifting your mindset and showing in the world as all of who you are.
5-Star Reviews From Alumni
Healthcare professionals love us
The science is with us
Kindness for a Change is based on years of experience in science, including principles of design and healing. It is based on everything I learned co-inventing an 8-week training program with proven results in several randomized controlled trials conducted in cooperation with Dr. Richard Davidson, named by Time Magazine as a 100 Most Influential Person. The primary article on the wellbeing program I co-invented has been cited 122 times by other scientific publications!
Hundreds of patients thriving
My patients' stories are all confidential so I can't share a single testimonial from them. And, the Kindness for a Change training is NOT psychotherapy and cannot substitute for it. However, I can tell you that these are some of the results my patients have achieved using the same principles I'm sharing in this training:
- Decreased loneliness
- Better sense of fit in the world
- Understanding of how their suffering is part of their wisdom
- Increased number and quality of friends
- Better communication
- Better relationships with their kids
- Healthier and closer relationship with romantic partner
- Increased wellbeing
- Decreased depression and anxiety
- Increased meaning and purpose
- Increased energy and passion
- More confidence and joy in life
- Better boundaries
- Less reactive anger
- Better self-awareness
- More organized and efficient
Let's talk investment...and the great news about price.
I’ve had patients in their late 70s tell me they wish they had known this stuff when they were younger. It’s never too late to develop the habits you need for thriving and connection, but earlier is better, don’t you think? How much is your life worth? How much is it worth to have the benefits of this training? If it improves every day of your life only 5%, how much would that be worth?
We both know you could try to piece all of this together by looking at free youtube videos, reading books, and listening to podcasts. All the information is out there somewhere! I should know — it’s taken me 20 years to find it, in some cases invent it, and integrate it all into a coherent framework that makes sense to people and benefits them! I’m a DIY-er myself. I respect it. I say, go for it! More power to you!
Or, you could just take advantage of all the work I’ve done and all the experience I’ve packaged for you — already integrated, already coherent, and with me there to guide you step-by-step through the whole process answering whatever questions you have about how the training connects to YOUR real day-to-day life.
We also both know that you can hire a therapist or life coach. Add up the amount of time you get with me in your mini course, multiply that by $300, and you’ve got one estimate of the value: $1350 -$2400 or more. And, I can guarantee you that whoever you found for whatever amount of money would not be presenting what I am and very likely couldn’t!
On top of all that, I offer scholarships* for those who really need it because everyone should have a chance for training like this!
Plus, I have a 90-day 100% money back CONDITIONAL guarantee. The condition? You agree to do the work: Show up and engage. If you’ve made a sincere effort to do the work, and you are not satisfied, you’ll get 100% of your money back. Just email us at support@oneplanetthriving.com along with a description of what work you’ve done.
So, what are you waiting for? Choose the mini course that works for you, and I’ll see you inside!
* Scholarships: I’m committed to making this training available for a limited number of people who need an even lower price through a scholarship. The price will not be zero. If you need a lower price than what I’m offering AND you’re fully committed to engaging in the work, email support@oneplanetthriving.com with the subject line: “Scholarship.” And tell me what you can afford, why you need a lower price, and what you think KFAC will do for your life. But, please, if you need the scholarship, email us. We have to change our planet from the inside out by working together.
Choose Your Mini Course
Transforming You
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Welcome
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Integrative Foundation
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Transforming You
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Instant access to over 4 hours of video training
Transforming Relationships
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Welcome
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Integrative Foundation
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Transforming Relationships
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Instant access to over 6 hours of video training
Transforming Us
Bundle + Free Bonus Training-
All of Transforming You
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All of Transforming Relationships
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Bonus: Brain & Nervous System (a $49 value)
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Instant access to 8+ hours of video training
About Dr. Donal MacCoon
Integrated Expertise
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the best national program in his field
- Therapist for 20 years, helping hundreds of individuals, couples, and groups learn to thrive
- Published 20+ scientific articles related to sustainable well-being, anxiety, depression, and dysregulated behavior
- Survived 13 years of personal suffering (3 years of child’s cancer, family implosion, and 7 years of wife’s disabling pain)
- Member of cohousing community for 16 years
- Studied with world experts in ecology, sustainable agriculture, and permaculture
- Ran several political campaigns (back in the day)
Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People
As a scientist, Donal worked closely with Dr. Richard Davidson, named a Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Person and known for his neuroscience work with the Dalai Lama.
Co-inventor of Proven Wellbeing Program
Donal co-invented and scientifically validated a group-based program that helped hundreds of people thrive and increase their sustainable wellbeing.
About Dr. Donal MacCoon
Integrated Expertise
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the best national program in his field
- Therapist for 20 years, helping hundreds of individuals, couples, and groups learn to thrive
- Published 20+ scientific articles related to sustainable well-being, anxiety, depression, and dysregulated behavior
- Survived 13 years of personal suffering (3 years of child’s cancer, family implosion, and 7 years of wife’s disabling pain)
- Member of cohousing community for 16 years
- Studied with world experts in ecology, sustainable agriculture, and permaculture
- Ran several political campaigns (back in the day)
Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People
As a scientist, Donal worked closely with Dr. Richard Davidson, named a Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Person and known for his neuroscience work with the Dalai Lama.
Co-inventor of Proven Wellbeing Program
Donal co-invented and scientifically validated a group-based program that helped hundreds of people thrive and increase their sustainable wellbeing.