Surviving and Thriving with Heightened Perception and Empathy
Two payment plan: two payments, one month apart!
The price rises each day until the course starts – lock in your savings sooner rather than later!
Create new understandings and ingrain powerful new habits in this eight week live online course, with recordings.
- You will learn to:
- Reduce hypervigilance and overwhelm
- Differentiate your own feelings from those of others
- Understand the role of limbic resonance in your empathy and empathetic overwhelm
- Understand how to use awareness and resonance eq. to maintain social connection while diminishing co-dependence and empathetic overwhelm
- Without losing your intuition, pick up less unwanted stuff from others, hold onto less during interactions, and rapidly discharge unpleasant or overwhelming interactions
- Manage transitions between activities and spaces more comfortably and gracefully
- Recognize and reduce the interplay between trauma dynamics (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) and empathetic overwhelm.
- Recognize the roles of neurodivergence, childhood attachment trauma, relationship and authority trauma, metaphysical trauma, dissociation, exogenous energy, and more in disregulation and overwhelm
- Recognize maladaptive patterns of empathy acquired from trying to manage others who were/are emotionally immature, unboundaried, disregulated, dismissive, addicted, mentally ill, sadistic, or manipulative, and re-habituate healthier patterns
- Re-distribute your spatial and embodied awareness to improve autoregulation and sensory-emotional agency
- Clear and re-set your system between interactions with simple physiological and energetic techniques
- Create and maintain boundaries that benefit both you and your relationships
- Dissolve, process, and express somatized emotions and belief patterns that increase empathetic overwhelm
- Recalibrate how your limbic system responds to perceived threats
- Better protect your feelings from intrusive projections
- Be more creative and proactive, and less adaptive/reactive
- Solutions from:
- Physiology and Sociology
- Somatic Psychology
- Extraordinary Vessel Qigong
- Applied Metaphysics and Shamanism
This is a course in developing new and helpful habits that grant greater agency to those with heightened perception or empathetic overwhelm.
Nothing in this course is intended as medical or psychiatric advice, nor to diagnose, treat, nor cure any illness.
- Course Composition:
- Four live Zoom guided practice sessions, every other Monday at 2pm NYC time
(recordings will be provided for all registrants, including those who cannot attend live) - Four dedicated clinic and Q&A sessions on the alternate Mondays between learning sessions
(no recordings for clinic Q&A to allow students to speak frankly).
Tao will observe and coach you on the practices from the previous week. - Tao’s weekly Wednesday Group Zoom Q&A is also available for questions,
except on Holidays (Christmas, New Years). - A tabbed evergreen course on TaoSemko.com with highlighted principles and habits to build
from the guided sessions and the clinics
Live classes (90 minutes with up to 30 minutes additional for questions):
Monday December 1, 15, 29, 2025, and January 12, 2026 at 2pm NYC time / 11am US Pacific
Dedicated Clinic and Q&A (90+ minutes):
Monday December 8, 22, 2025, and January 5, 19, 2026 at 2pm NYC time / 11am US Pacific
Additional Q&A available on Tao’s normal Wednesday Open Q&A Schedule
The starting price of the course on 16 November 2025: two payments of US $125, one month apart (for single upfront payment, please go here).
Each day at 8am NYC time, the price rises by 5%, compounded, for those who have not yet registered.
| If you register after 8am NYC time on this date: | your tuition will be two payments, one month apart, of | |
| Sunday, Nov 16 | $125.00 each | |
| Monday, Nov 17 | $131.25 each | |
| Tuesday, Nov 1 | $137.81 each | |
| Wednesday, Nov 19 | $144.70 each | |
| Thursday, Nov 20 | $151.94 each | |
| Friday, Nov 21 | $159.54 each | |
| Saturday, Nov 22 | $167.51 each | |
| Sunday, Nov 23 | $175.89 each | |
| Monday, Nov 24 | $184.68 each | |
| Tuesday, Nov 25 | $193.92 each | |
| Wednesday, Nov 26 | $203.61 each | |
| Thursday, Nov 27 | $213.79 each | |
| Friday, Nov 28 | $224.48 each | |
| Saturday, Nov 29 | $235.71 each | |
| Sunday, Nov 30 | $247.49 each | |
| Monday, Dec 1 | $259.86 each |