The Four Core Engagement Processes
A 4-Week Live Online Training led by Dylan Newcomb, with Deb Grant
What if the gap between who you know you could be and who you keep actually being isn’t about understanding more — but about having language for something your body already knows?
Tuesdays at 1:00 PM Eastern | March 24 – April 14, 2026
Something You Might Recognize
You’ve done real work on yourself. Therapy, workshops, retreats, meditation, coaching — maybe all of the above. You can name your patterns. You understand your triggers. You’ve accumulated genuine wisdom.
And yet — when the pressure hits, when the conversation turns, when the familiar anxiety rises — all that understanding seems to evaporate. The same reactions run. The same patterns take over.
Again and again, it seems we’re left wondering: If I know so much now about myself, why can’t I actually show up differently when it matters?
Here’s what we’ve learned after years of teaching embodied transformation: that gap between knowing and being isn’t a knowledge problem. It’s a perception problem. You don’t need more insight about your patterns. You need the ability to feel them moving in real time — and to navigate them from inside your own body, not from inside your head.
That’s a different kind of capacity. And it starts with having language for something you’ve always experienced but never had words for.
What Is UZAZU?
The Four Core Engagement Processes
Every moment of your life, you’re showing up somehow at the living edge where your inner world meets the outer world. You’re engaged in one of four fundamental processes — and most of us have strong defaults in one or two while the others remain underdeveloped, unavailable, or hard to access under pressure.
Inner Experience — Receiving into Self
The ground you stand on and rest into, when everything else is moving.
The capacity to sense inward, to absorb your own experience, to check in with what you actually feel, want, and need. This is the process of turning toward yourself — not as self-absorption, but as the necessary foundation for everything else. When you can access Inner Experience, you have ground to stand on. You can feel what's true for you even when the room is pulling you in other directions. When you can't, you're navigating life without knowing what's actually happening inside you — and every other capacity suffers for it.
Self-Agency — Expressing from your Center
Acting authentically from who you are, not who pressure makes you.
The capacity to act from your own ground — to assert your truth, set boundaries, hold your position when the world pushes back. Not reactive aggression, but centered, purposeful action that comes from knowing who you are and what matters. Self-Agency is what gives your inner knowing an outer form — the process of moving from sensing what's true for you to actually living it, speaking it, standing behind it. Without it, your deepest wisdom stays trapped inside. With it, you become someone others can feel and trust.
Connection — Resonant Alignment with Others
Taking in and relating to another person's world without losing your own.
The capacity to take in what's not-you — to listen deeply, to empathize, to sense into another person's experience without dissolving into it. This is how we build real relationship, read the room, and create genuine safety for others. Connection isn't merging — it's the process of opening to another while staying rooted in yourself. When it's available, you can truly meet another human being where they are. When it's not, relationships stay surface-level — or you lose yourself trying to be present for someone else.
You're Not a Type. You're a Collection of Embodied Patterns.
You don't discover which process you "are." You discover how you move through all four — and in each one, you have a pattern. Sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes just right for the moment. Most of us tend to over-rely on one or two of these core engagement processes, while the others become minimalized—especially under pressure. This training develops your capacity to see those tendencies clearly — and to re-pattern how you respond, with more balance, more range, and more conscious choice.
Four Things This Training Develops
You may already invest in practices that develop your inner life — meditation, movement, therapy, coaching. What this training adds is an explicitly embodied, relational dimension: a felt framework for how you engage, practiced together in community. Through these four interactive training sessions and follow-up exercises, you develop:
A felt, embodied way of perceiving yourself and others — and precise language to go with it
Not more information about patterns — a direct capacity to recognize them in real time, in your body, not just your mind. The four processes give you words for something you've felt your whole life but couldn't articulate. That naming, grounded in felt perception, creates a kind of self-understanding that goes far deeper than intellectual insight — and gives you a shared vocabulary for talking about what actually matters with the people in your life. You can't work with what you can't feel, and you can't communicate what you can't name. This training develops both.
The ability to consciously recalibrate under pressure
The capacity to notice, in the moment, when you've collapsed into a habitual pattern — and to shift toward whatever the situation actually needs. Not forcing a different response, but feeling and subtly shifting your way into a more balanced one. This is where awareness, plus skill, translates into real choice.
An embodied pattern language that connects what you already know
If you've studied multiple modalities, practiced meditation, done therapy — this isn't another technique to add. It's a way of sensing, from the inside, how different practices and life experiences relate to each other. Many experienced practitioners say this framework finally makes intuitive sense of years of prior learning — not by explaining it intellectually, but by giving you a felt architecture you can navigate with your body.
A body-mind that learns to respond instead of react
The more you consciously practice recalibrating these patterns, the more your embodied intelligence learns what serves you better — and begins to do it on its own. Over time, what started as conscious effort becomes intuitive capacity. This training is complete in itself, and it's also the foundation of a longer developmental journey. Your investment in this foundation travels with you (more on this below).
"Practicing UZAZU has changed how I energetically interact with everything around me. I have more drive and more passion! And I feel how I can be more authentic now. The most beneficial aspect of working with UZAZU, however, was how my personal relationships have shifted!"
Ben MacIsaac
Who This Training Is For
Whether you'd be training in UZAZU Embodied Intelligence for the first time or returning to deepen your knowledge, skill, and experience, this training will meet you where you're at:
For those new to this work:
If your personal development work hasn't fully translated into different behavior under pressure — this level of embodied state-shifting shifting work helps you bridge that gap, not with more concepts, but with embodied awareness and skill that changes what you can feel and how you can respond.
If you're a helping professional who excels at giving but struggles with sustainable boundaries — this training doesn't ask you to do more. It helps you feel and better navigate, in your body, how giving and receiving work as embodied processes, and how healthy energetic boundaries can change everything.
If you're navigating a significant life transition or especially challenging period and need something that addresses who you're wanting and needing to become rather than optimizing who you've been — thee four processes provide an embodied compass for navigating uncertainty from the inside out.
If you sense there are deeper, embodied patterns and principles beneath the growth and healing approaches you've already learned — UZAZU offers you a highly organizing integrative framework. Simple enough to seem obvious at first, deep enough to reward years of integrative practice and engagement.
For those returning to this work:
If you've already learned and practiced the eight modes of UZAZU, completed a foundations training, or explored an earlier version of the framework — you'll definately recognize the territory here. The four fundamental ways you engage at the living edge where your inner world meets the outer world.
What's different now is how deeply we're going into these foundational aspects of UZAZU. After years of teaching this work, we've come to see that some of our most significant patterning lives right here, at this foundational level — and that dedicated time at this depth gives you something our previous foundations-teaching approach, which moved more quickly into the full eight modes, couldn't fully provide. Really going deeply into the most foundational dimensions of our embodied being and doing in the world brings you more grounding and more immediate applicability in the most simple, direct way possible.
This isn't remedial. It's recognition that the foundation deserves its own dedicated depth. Going forward, this training will be a prerequisite for future modes trainings — if deeper UZAZU work is on your horizon, this is where it begins. And we'll have pricing (discounts) that reflects where you are in your journey with us.
What You Receive: The Complete Foundation:
Your Investment
The Complete Foundation Experience — $347
Everything described above: four live sessions with Dylan, all recordings with 4-year access, practice guides, community access, and your full Earned Advancement Credit.
Early Commitment — $285 (18% off)
Register before [early commitment deadline] and invest $285 for the complete experience. Same everything — an acknowledgment that early commitment benefits everyone.
Returning Student — $225 (35% off)
If you’ve previously engaged with UZAZU’s training — Foundations, the Wisdom of Embodied Values, a practice group, or similar — this rate reflects where you are in your journey with us. You know the territory. This training takes you deeper into it. Same complete experience. Same Earned Advancement Credit. [Register at Returning Student Rate — $225]
Certified UZAZU Practitioners — $173 (50% off)
For certified UZAZU practitioners who've completed one of our earlier 9-month full trainings. You've invested deeply in this work — in your own development and in how you serve others. Having experienced practitioners in the room enriches the training for everyone, and this redesigned foundation will give you new tools for your own client work — and in many cases, a simpler, more streamlined way to introduce new clients to UZAZU. [Register at Practitioner Rate — $173]
Leading Introductory UZAZU Workshops (LIUW) Graduates — $86 (75% off)
For UZAZU practitioners who've also completed the Leading Introductory UZAZU Workshops (LIUW) program. Your depth of engagement with this work puts you in a unique position to help spread the value of embodied intelligence more widely. We'd love for you to experience firsthand how this redesigned foundational content simplifies, deepens, and makes more effective the core material that will define how we teach introductory workshops and foundational trainings for years to come. [Registration opening soon — $86]
Partial Scholarship
We have a limited number of partial scholarships available for those facing genuine financial constraints. If this work speaks to you but the investment is a barrier, we'd like to hear from you. Send us an email at [contact email] and let us know about your situation — we'll work with you to find a level that makes participation possible. We want this work to reach people who are ready for it.
At these investment levels — with your full payment credited forward when you engage fully — the real question becomes: what’s it worth to finally have embodied access to patterns you’ve been trying to think your way through?
Your Guide: Dylan Newcomb
But more importantly for this work: I live these values tensions daily. My own family and circle of friends spans from progressive activists to traditional conservatives. Having spent 20 years living abroad in the Netherlands further exposed me to a wide range of cultural values and the many challenges of living together in diversity. And like many of you, I feel the weight of these times—the call, and challenge, to show up as a responsive member of my local communities and larger society, while maintaining my own wellbeing and direct relationships.