Future Proof — Flow Genome Project

The Situation

You've watched smart, sane people come unglued in the last five years.

Friends. Family. Colleagues. People you used to call when you needed a sanity check.

Some went hard left, some went hard right, some retreated into wellness, some into conspiracy, some into denial dressed up as mindfulness. The common thread is that they stopped making sense (and they don't seem to know it).

You've also noticed something quieter, and harder to admit:

The same thing is starting to happen to you.

Your old sense-making tools — news, podcasts, smart people on Twitter, institutions you used to trust — aren't holding. You can feel yourself drifting. You're more reactive than you used to be. You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. And the people who depend on you — your spouse, your kids, your team, your clients, your community — are looking to you for clarity.

You can't tell them. They need you to seem okay.

So who do you go to?

The Diagnosis

What's actually breaking is the operating system underneath.

Not your media diet. Not your productivity. Not your morning routine.

The container our generation was handed — endless growth, institutions that hold, individual self-actualization, the assumption that the future will look roughly like the past — is failing in real time. And the people whose lives are most quietly organized around that container are the ones most vulnerable when it gives.

There's a name for what happens when a person takes a hard hit and their story can't hold it: PTSD. Broken heart plus broken story.

We're watching it happen at scale right now. To people who would have sworn it couldn't happen to them.

The work, before things get harder, is to update the story.

The Window

The work is much easier before you need it.

The 21st century isn't going to look like the 20th. That's not a hot take anymore. It's the working assumption of every serious analyst from Peter Zeihan to Nate Hagens to the Pentagon.

What's still up for grabs is whether you spend the next decade ahead of the curve or behind it. Whether your family's preparedness, your career pivots, your geographic choices, and your inner stance are made with clear eyes… or made in panic, after the fact, with whatever you can scramble together at the time.

The window is open right now. It won't always be.

What You'll Walk Away With

At the end of six weeks, you'll have:

The 20% of actions that protect 80% of you and your family's assets — without quitting your job, leaving the city, or going off-grid.

A working dashboard for monitoring incoming news and developments — so you can course-correct on the things that actually matter, and ignore the rest.

A plan of action across the full spectrum — from a bug-out bag in your car to decades-long planning, including academic theories of collapse and contemplative methods for dealing with large-scale change.

A community of grounded people on Team Human — looking for healthy, productive, creative, reality-based ways through our current transition.

The Shift

What having this actually changes in your life.

The course is six weeks. The capabilities are decades.

You'll make better decisions about location, career, and money.

Not because you have a crystal ball — because you've stopped running on outdated assumptions about what the next decade looks like. Where you live, how exposed your income stream is, what your kids are being trained for, where your capital is sitting — these decisions get sharper when your map matches the territory.

You'll stop fibrillating.

The exhausting mental ping-pong between "everything's fine" and "we're all doomed" — that's what happens when you don't have a coherent stance. The four-step framework gives you one. People around you will feel the difference before you do.

You'll be able to talk to the people who depend on you without destabilizing them.

You'll have the vocabulary, the framing, and the emotional groundedness to lead your spouse, your kids, your team, your clients through what's coming — instead of either pretending it's fine or scaring them silent.

You'll have peers you can actually call.

Not LinkedIn connections. Not a "community" you ghost in week three. A small number of high-trust, high-capacity people working on the same questions, with the same vocabulary, who you can text at 11pm when something cracks and get a real response. For most graduates this is the single highest-value piece of the course. It's also the one you can't replicate by reading the book.

You'll move from pre-tragic hope to post-tragic commitment.

This is the deepest shift, and the hardest to describe. Pre-tragic hope says "it'll all work out." Tragic awareness says "nothing's going to work out." Post-tragic commitment says: it may not work out for me, in my time — and I'm still going to fight for it, build for it, parent toward it, and love through it, because that's what a life is for. That stance is the difference between burning out and burning clean for the next thirty years.

The Curriculum

The Future Proof curriculum.

Three acts. Six weeks. One bonus module. Built to take you from diagnosing what's actually happening, to reckoning with where you stand, to re-anchoring in something that holds.

Diagnose

Weeks 1 — 2

Week 01

Choose Your Own Apocalypse

The story-shape diagnostic. Why we're not in a religious apocalypse, why this one is structurally different, and which civilizational narrative you're running unconsciously. Plus: how to spot your own active/passive, positive/negative orientation toward what's coming — and why it dictates everything you do next.

Week 02

The Top 10 Predictions for 2025–2035

Jamie's working forecast on geopolitics, economics, climate, AI, demographics, and culture. The same content he's presented to thousands of global leaders. Not doom porn. Trajectories of forces already in flight. You'll leave knowing which predictions you're planning around — and which ones you're choosing to ignore.

Reckon

Weeks 3 — 4

Week 03

Assess Your Readiness

The 7-Domain Scorecard. Food, shelter, energy, medicine, financial capital, material capital, social capital. Score yourself. Identify the gaps. Build the plan.

Week 04

Prepstering: The 80/20 of Real Preparedness

What every government in Europe is now telling its citizens to do — minus the paranoid prepper packaging. Go bags, communications, family plans, local resilience. The 20% of moves that cover 80% of the downside. The teach-this-to-your-tweens version.

III

Re-Anchor

Weeks 5 — 6

Week 05

Digesting Our Grief, Feeding the Holy

The hardest week, and the most important. Why we're choking on undigested grief and what it's costing us. How to metabolize loss in small regular doses so it doesn't ambush you. Tonglen, reconciliation, forgiveness, mortality work. Not therapy. Initiation.

Week 06

The Four-Step Framework

Die Before You Die. Live Seven-Generationally. Seek Refuge in Ritual. Leave Space for Grace. The synthesis. The operating system. The thing you walk away with.

Bonus Module

Media Literacy for Grownups

A built-in bullshit filter for the algorithmic slopfest. Source vetting, argument tracking, fallacy spotting — pulled from Jamie's academic training in history and anthropology and adapted for the current information environment.

Logistics

What you're committing to.

Starts
Monday, July 6, 2026
Six weeks plus a bonus module.

Live Sessions

90 min weekly · Zoom

[Day], [Time] [Timezone] — recordings provided.

Weekly Commitment

3–5 hours

Includes readings and boat-team calls.

Cohort Size

40 seats maximum

High-trust group, built by selection.

Boat Teams

Small peer groups · 5–7 people

Meet between sessions all six weeks.

Community

Private Skool space

Ongoing dialogue, reading list, supplementary videos.

Format

Live · Online · Application required

Short interview before acceptance.

Tuition
$2,495
50% matching-fund scholarships available. Full-pay tuition $4,990 funds Fellows.

Is This For You

Honest expectations, both directions.

This is for you if

You're someone other people lean on for clarity and steadiness.

You're a leader, coach, therapist, facilitator, founder, parent, or elder — and people are looking to you for direction
You've been following Jamie's work (the books, the Substack, podcasts) and you're ready to do the harder, more direct work
You can feel your old sense-making tools failing and you want to update them before they break
You want a small, high-trust cohort of peers you can actually call when things crack — not another Slack channel that goes quiet
You're willing to do the grief work, not just the analysis

This is NOT for you if

If you're looking for any of these, this isn't the program.

You're looking for someone to tell you it's all going to be fine
You want a survivalist course with razor wire and MRE reviews
You're not willing to look at your own story and update it
You can't commit to 3–5 hours per week for six weeks
You're hoping for a magic crystal that lets you Visualize Whirled Peas

Why Us

A dojo and a lighthouse.

We've dedicated our careers to answering the questions: Where do we come from? What's going on? And what do we do now?

That inquiry led to 30 years of academic study, tracking civilizational trends and speaking to them years ahead of others. We're trained to think in terms of decades and centuries, so spotting what's next is less crystal-ball guesswork and more connect-the-dots pattern recognition. We've been early more often than we've been wrong.

Combine this historical perspective with a career in wilderness medicine and mountain guiding — leading people to have the time of their lives in conditions that others would consider nightmares.

And advising Tier One forces from SEAL Team 6 to Britain's SAS, the US Naval War College and Sandhurst Military Academy — and training YPO/EO business leaders on leading through VUCA conditions.

The result is we've been a dojo and a lighthouse for hundreds of thousands of people — a place to train our games, and a beacon to help navigate stormy seas.

After all, who doesn't want to be capable, courageous, creative and reliable? Who hasn't wondered who we'd really be if the hour was late and the stakes were high?

This is your chance to train your brain to find your mind. To keep your head, while all around you are losing theirs.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Why is there an application and interview?

Two reasons. First, this material moves people. We want to make sure it's the right course at the right time for you, and that you'll be a contributor to the cohort. Second, the cohort itself is part of the offer — a high-trust group is built by selection, not by who clicks "buy."

What's the tuition?

$2,495. Our leadership trainings typically run $5,000–$15,000, but this one is different — it doesn't feel optional, for any of us. So we're offering 50% matching-fund scholarships to everyone willing to step up. If you can cover the full $4,990 tuition, the balance funds our Fellows Program supporting NGO workers, social impact leaders, and recently-displaced federal employees. Cost shouldn't be the barrier. Commitment is.

How much time should I block?

3–5 hours per week. One 90-minute live session, one boat-team call with your small group, and reading or video material in between.

What if I can't make a live session?

All sessions are recorded. But you'll get the most out of this if you attend live — the cohort dynamic is half the value.

Is there overlap with Jamie's other courses or books?

This builds on themes from Stealing Fire, Recapture the Rapture, the HomeGrown Humans Substack, Camp Omega, and our backcountry trainings — but it's the first time the material has been pulled into a focused 6-week training and updated for 2026.

Who is this NOT for?

This isn't a survivalist course. It won't teach you to make six figures in your pajamas. It won't end with a secret-island bunker invite. It won't include a magic crystal that lets you Visualize Whirled Peas. It will guide you through rigorous frameworks, exercises, and a cohort of peers — and what you do with all that is yours to decide.