Decode Your Design-ABCs
Level Two Retreat - Nov 20 - 23, 2026 - Four Days
In this level 2 retreat you’ll be supported to:
Decode your Design! You’ll be:
fascinated to learn more about the chemistry moving through the circuits of the BodyGraph
intrigued by the genetic continuity of the 6 lines
challenged by weaving the ‘keynotes’ related to so many aspects of your design
captivated by the concepts of the conscious and unconscious drivers and the harmony, dissonance or resonance within you or with others
All this and more is covered in this retreat. It’s very different to doing ABCs online. Here you get to really experience the embodied version of this! Here’s a chance to feel the energies using the felt experience and behaviours coming from these aspects of your design.
In this four day retreat you get to dive more deeply into the mysteries and mechanics of your Human Design BodyGraph, deepening what you’ve already learned in LYD or ABCs online, and bringing it into the body and into your life.
Decoding your Design - ABCs is facilitated in a unique way
Using the openness of my Reflector design to engage, teach and enliven you within your own true design. We’ll go more deeply into:
Conscious and unconscious aspects of your design
Circuits of the bodygraph - energy dynamics
6 lines of the hexagrams - characteristics and genetic continuity
We’ll explore your wiring - The ABCs of BodyGraph Dynamics
Using your bodygraph as a source of learning, you’ll connect the more detailed mechanics of your energy system, with your lived experience of life.
We’ll explore your wiring and strengthen your relationship with the language of Human Design - the ‘keynotes’ learned at this ABCs level. These ‘codes’ take you further into your own awakening and deconditioning process.
Our focus and method take us deeper into the mechanics of the Bodygraph, so come ready play with how this fits together in your chart and life!
Energy/aura somatic experimentation
Pair and small group work plus individual reflection
Playful animation of the 6 lines and related behaviours
Guided Meditations to access the unconscious
This retreat is for you if you:
already completed LYD in person or online - yes having attended level one you can attend this retreat
already completed LYD in person or online and ABCs in person or online or are intending to complete this before Nov 2026.
Have studied up to or beyond ABCs through another method - let’s discuss
Many have shared a yearning for this more advanced learning in aura on retreat. Or perhaps you’ve never been to one of my retreats, but would love to learn in person, in community?
In 2025 we had a blast unpacking our designs and feeling super empowered by the method - able to apply this to other charts too! Inspiring! Check out the testimonials below.
Intending to study toward Analyst Certification OR attending for personal interest?
ABCs is the second step in International Human Design School Training towards becoming a Certified Human Design Analyst. Decoding your Design - ABCs covers 95% of the ABCs content and adds lots of embodied experiential learning beyond this!
If you are intending to study towards Analyst Certification the purchase of a training manual and a supplementary online session of 1 - 2 hours adding a small amount of theory will be required to qualify for ABC Certification. This is NOT required if you are attending for your personal evolution only. If this is your focus please let me know in the registration form.
Dates - Four Special Days - November 20 - 23, 2026
Arrive from 8:30am for a 9am start. Finish by 4pm on Sunday.
Location : Sharda Centre Tuakau 45 mins - 1 hour South of central Auckland
Set in bush with a stream and quiet garden corners to tuck yourself away and integrate, Sharda Centre provides a relaxing, comfy, homely setting.
Delicious Catering from Tracey Bennett - The Reckless Foodie: High quality nourishing food
Places are limited to just 14.
Please register your interest and secure your place with a registration fee.
Love to come but need a Payment Plan? Yes, you can still secure the Foundation Price!
We can tailor a payment plan to meet your budget.
EG: 42 Weekly payments of $38 starting in February and finishing in November. Or 25 weekly payments of $63.80 starting in late May and finishing before the retreat. Starting payments earlier or later? Please could you let me know what would work for your budget?
What did 2025 participants say about the retreat?
“I’m taking away a lot more clarity about what human design is and how it works. How much more layering there is than I ever fathomed before. I really do appreciate this experience, because I couldn’t have gotten any of this online.
Thank you Christine for and reflecting and being so patient with us. What would I change? Maybe a bit longer - another day?”
“Taking the online ABC course immediately before the live retreat meant that I didn’t have time to get stuck too much my head, because in person ABCs is such a different experience! I mean, online is great for mind knowledge, but this is just the NEXT LEVEL. And I appreciate, as others have said, the thought, creativity and fun of the props from the box of tricks. Just so creative. Thank you I like that.
Christine I tell a lot of people that you are the best facilitator I’ve ever experienced!”
“Going through, building up the the keynoting the way that you did with us was so powerful. And just that simplest sentence without getting caught up in trying to understand gates. Just that very simple thing was SO POWERFUL. And honestly, I wouldn’t change anything. Just more of it. I could stay here for ever.”
“When I come in contact with another person, there’s just something that happens in these three days where I feel quite immersed in this body experience of sitting with another person’s aura to understand the design and how we interact, and I carry that out in the world. it’s such a nice window.
The language, the richness of the keynoting means I don’t feel like I have to use a textbook to really demystify a lot. I can now go back to the keynotes and investigate and introspect to have a proper foundational understanding of charts going forward. Thank you for creating this workshop. For me it was like 120%!”
“Having an education background, watching you, guide and lead us, the level of planning and individual curriculum you’ve designed for us, as well as our collective curriculum. It’s really astonishing.
You are a true inspiration. You hold so much knowledge, you hold it with grace, but also with firmness. You hold us to account or hold up the mirror for us when it’s needed. I think that’s really important and at the same time I feel safe to be an individual here.
What I’ve appreciated as being able to bring my slightly more deconditioned self to this retreat and to have that reflected back to me. So thank you. I feel a deep shift that’s happening to me. Next year will be my seventh year in Human Design just in time for 2027!
I’ve learned the inherent structure of the circuitry is very helpful for the way I think. And from the bits I know now, the puzzle pieces I have now have helped me to make sense of my own chart. And the keynoting has been transformational. So that’s incredible to come out with something so tangible, to be able to use. I wouldn’t change anything.
I would love to encourage you to do further retreats, an opportunity to come together to decondition, learn and explore with somebody as skilled as yourself Christine is in and of itself is amazing.”
“Really incredible. The whole keynoting thing has absolutely opened a door that I just couldn’t even see was there... about the BodyGraph and how to use it. And the whole system, that’s absolutely fantastic... that’s such a powerful approach.
In my human design journey so far, I’ve looked at so many people’s Charts and I’m just so grateful that I got the chance to do this course now, at this stage, before I went too much further without doing this course. So that’s just wonderful to realise the level of how much, this retreat has changed my perspective on it is really good. Good for, my knowledge of what I don’t know, because I can only presume with what I learned here at level two, there are another four full levels of stuff that I have no idea about.That’s wonderful. So I’m super grateful to you, Christine.
I echo, what other people have said about your wisdom and the way that you do your teaching, The wonderful firmness and, your ability to challenge in a safe way is really incredibly valuable. And I suppose that’s part of what we’re seeing in you with the empowered sixth line! You’re an incredible role model I appreciate that so much. Nothing to change.”
“Using the breath, I’ve inhaled some of this knowledge, and it’s got into all the little crevices inside me. So it feels like again, I’m filling up some holes in my foundation, and it always just feels wholesome. I’m taking away also this feeling of, massive appreciation for the journey that I’ve been on and that it’s correct. It’s this feeling, a sense of security and safety and just it’s a little bit of a nod to myself to go ‘you’re on the right path’. I feel just proud of the decisions that I’ve been making and choosing to to keep showing up for myself. And, as you said, always being a student.
I immensely appreciate the journey that you’ve been on through all your training and study and the wisdom that you bestow on us and being a magnificent reflector guide and mentor for me and many others. So thank you very much I’m getting emotional - I wouldn’t change anything. ”
“I think the thing that will stay with me most profoundly from this, is the deep insights that came in the keynoting in particular my unconscious. Yeah, that was big. It’s just so surprisingly powerful. And this is after years of attending retreats, so that really blew me away.
I think a lot of that comes down to the way you weave this magic. But it all makes sense, and you’ve somehow managed to weave it together in a way that it seems very natural. It’s a natural progression throughout the days to go from this thing, to that thing, to that experience. The power in understanding the circuits then in combination with the centres is huge, and the lines are equally powerful. And we didn’t even always need to know about the name or the quality of the gate. So surprising how when some of these sentences would really fall into place with help of that cohorts - clunk, Holy shit! Wow! So it’s really amazingly insightful. So thank you for that. It’s a pleasure for me to come on retreat. So I totoko what others have said about continuing these live workshops because they are a really important space. The magic of the dynamic of us all coming together in this sacred container and the way you can facilitate - long may it continue.”
