Clarity Catalyst™
Discover who you really are
An intimate 8-week experience grounded in neuroscience and Stanford's creativity research — for anyone choosing to navigate life with more joy and clarity.
12 people · 8 weeks · Couples welcome
Upcoming Cohorts
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Oct 20 (Tuesdays)
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Oct 22 (Thursdays)
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Upcoming Cohorts 〰️ Oct 20 (Tuesdays) 〰️ Oct 22 (Thursdays) ·
Join an Upcoming Cohort
Two start dates, with a morning and an evening option — same 8-week journey. Pick the day and hour that fit your life
Tuesday Cohorts — begin October 20
Afternoon cohort: 7:00 PM Eastern · 6:00 PM Central · 4:00 PM Pacific
Limited to 12 participants
Thursday Cohorts — begin October 22
Morning cohort: 11:00 AM Eastern · 10:00 AM Central · 8:00 AM Pacific
Limited to 12 participants
We value and appreciate diverse backrgounds and persectives and have made accessability pricing availbale to anyone who needs it - no questions asked.
You don't need more advice. You need more clarity.
Life's biggest transitions don't come with a playbook. A new degree doesn't tell you what to build with it. A career shift doesn't tell you who you're becoming. Closing one chapter doesn't automatically open the next.
Clarity Catalyst™ meets you in that in-between space. It's a powerful 8-week small-group experience — originally developed at Stanford by Dr. Michael Ray and adapted through IMPOWERU's embodied leadership approach — designed for people standing at a threshold. Guided live by IMPOWERU founder Jerry Thompson, whether you're beginning something new, closing a chapter, or simply asking what do I actually want?, this program gives you science-backed tools, daily practices, and an intimate group container to navigate your own path.
The Journey
Clarity Catalyst™ is a guided inner journey through eight dimensions of personal clarity. Each week builds on the last, creating an inner architecture that changes how you make decisions, how you listen to yourself, and how you move forward when the path isn't obvious.
This is the curriculum behind IMPOWERU's Alignment → Focus → Flow framework, delivered in a small-group cohort where real breakthroughs happen through shared experience.
ALIGNMENT
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Before you can see the path, you have to quiet the noise. Alignment begins with Intention — the deliberate act of choosing how you want to show up for yourself, before the opinions, expectations, and "shoulds" take over.
In Weeks 1–3, you set your intention by releasing the pressure to have answers (Week 1: Trust the Process), silencing the inner voice that says you're behind or broken (Week 2: No Judgment), and arriving fully in the present moment instead of living in the anxiety of "what's next" (Week 3: Mindfulness). These aren't abstract ideas — they're daily practices: sticky notes that say "No Expectations," a 15-minute morning meditation, naming your inner critic out loud so it loses its grip.
Alignment is the foundation. Without it, every decision you make is driven by fear, comparison, or someone else's definition of success. With it, you operate from a center that holds — even when life doesn't hand you a plan.
FOCUS
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Once you're aligned, the question becomes: what actually matters to me? Focus is the practice of Attention — training your mind to cut through distraction, overthinking, and the paralysis of too many options to land on what's genuinely yours.
In Weeks 4–6, you sharpen that lens. You learn to make decisions from your body, not just your head — asking "Is it a Yes or a No?" and trusting the answer (Week 4: Yes or No). You reconnect with your deepest values and test your life against them (Week 5: Vision — the EEE Test: does this Excite, Energize, and Enliven me?). You confront your relationship with time and stress — not by planning harder, but by finally doing the things you've been avoiding (Week 6: Time & Stress).
Focus is where intention becomes direction. You stop spinning through possibilities and start choosing — with precision, courage, and your own values as the compass.
FLOW
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Alignment gives you the center. Focus gives you the direction. Flow is what happens when you bring both into Action — not frantic productivity, but the kind of grounded, purposeful movement that comes from knowing who you are and what you want.
In Weeks 7–8, you bring the work into your most important relationships. You learn to communicate from the heart, have the conversations you've been avoiding, and ask for what you need (Week 7: Relationships & Communication). You integrate everything into a sustainable way of being — honoring your worth, your wholeness, and the clarity you've earned (Week 8: Balance & Self-Worth).
Flow is where clarity becomes real life. You stop waiting for permission and start building — your next chapter, your next move, your next version of a life that actually fits.
The Eight Core Capacities - Week by Week
Clarity Catalyst builds an inner operating system for navigating life's pivotal moments — one capacity at a time:
What You'll Experience
This is not a lecture series or a self-help seminar. The Clarity Catalyst™ method follows a 40/40/20 design
40% Information — Neuroscience, psychology, and Stanford creativity research that gives your mind a framework for what you're feeling.
40% Experience — Breathwork, guided meditation, somatic exercises, peer coaching, and reflective writing that lands in the mind and body.
20% Integration — SoulWork (weekly real-life practices), journaling prompts, peer coaching calls, and sticky-note mantras that weave the work into your daily rhythm.
Expected Outcomes
By the end of eight weeks, you will experience:
A quieter mind — tools to get off the mental hamster wheel of "what should I do?" and into the present moment, where real answers live
Clarity on what matters — not someone else's answer, but yours — reconnected to values that are actually alive in you, not inherited or assumed
Confidence in decisions — the ability to feel a Yes or a No in your body and trust it, even without a perfect plan
A vision for what's next — not a rigid five-year plan, but a clear, felt sense of direction grounded in who you're becoming
Deeper relationships — the courage to have honest conversations, ask for what you need, and build your next chapter in connection, not isolation
A daily practice — meditation, reflective writing, and embodied tools that stay with you long after the cohort ends — a personal operating system for navigating whatever comes next
Meet Your Guide
Jerry Thompson — founder of IMPOWERU, host of the Purpose @ Work podcast, author, and father.
Jerry spent more than 25 years inside organizations of every size — from entrepreneurial ventures to the Fortune 500, including leadership roles at Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Ingram Micro, and KPMG. Along the way, he kept running into the same truth: no company, team, or career truly changes unless the people inside it grow too.
That truth became his life's work. He founded IMPOWERU on a simple belief: work can be one of the most powerful places in our lives to discover who we are, express our gifts, create with others, and contribute to something meaningful. The Alignment → Focus → Flow journey at the heart of Clarity Catalyst is the same framework he brings to leaders and organizations — here, applied at the most personal level: your own life, your own decisions, your own next chapter.
He teaches it the way he lives it — as a daily practice, not a theory. Expect honesty, warmth, real stories from three decades in the working world, and a guide who has sat in the same uncertainty you might be sitting in right now.
Who This Is For
Clarity Catalyst™ is for anyone choosing to know themselves more clearly and live with greater intention.
Just beginning — starting your adult life or career and wanting to build from a clearer sense of who you are
Creating more space — wanting to slow down, think more, write more, reflect more, and be more present in your life
Finding your voice — ready to trust yourself, express who you really are, and share your gifts more fully
Building something meaningful — creating a career, venture, relationship, body of work, community, or life that feels genuinely yours
At a transition — changing roles, relationships, direction, or circumstances and wanting to move forward with intention
Designing your next chapter — recently retired, stepping away from a long-held role, or simply curious about what you want to create next
Exploring with someone you care about — doing the work alongside a spouse, partner, friend, sibling, or colleague
This is a place to slow down, listen more deeply, and remember who you really are.
The Commitment
Clarity Catalyst™ asks for real presence — because breakthroughs don't happen in theory:
8 weekly live sessions (90 minutes each, virtual or in-person) with a maximum of 12 participants
Daily practice — 20 minutes/day: 15-minute guided meditation + 5 minute reflective writing
Weekly SoulWork — practical, real-world assignments (sticky notes, journaling, one brave conversation, one thing you've been avoiding)
Optional peer coaching — 20-minute weekly calls with a cohort partner
Confidentiality and trust — what's shared in the group stays in the group
An open mind — willingness to try practices that may feel unfamiliar at first
Pricing
Clarity Catalyst™ — 8-Week Small-Group Experience
Individual Enrollment - $2,500
Couples / Partner Enrollment - $4,000
Save $1,000 when enrolling together. Come with a spouse, partner, friend, or sibling. Some of life's most meaningful transitions are navigated best alongside someone who is also willing to do the work.Making Clarity Accessible
At IMPOWERU, we believe transformational work should be accessible across all socioeconomic backgrounds. That's why every cohort includes:
Two seats completely free of charge — for participants for whom cost would otherwise be a barrier.
Reduced-rate scholarship seats at $500 — for those who can contribute something, just not the full enrollment.
If either of these is you, mention it on your Alignment Call — no lengthy application, just a conversation.
Private group experiences are also available for book clubs, friend groups, and community organizations. Contact us for details.
What's Included
8 live facilitated sessions in an intimate group setting of no more than 12
Complete SoulWork™ and peer coaching materials
Guided Clarity Catalyst meditation library access
Curated Transformational Reading List
Complimentary 30-minute 1:1 coaching session post-program
One complimentary seat in a future Clarity Catalyst™ Pod experience (a shorter alumni deep-dive experience)
Ready to Get Clear?
You don't need to know what's next. You just need to be willing to find out. Clarity Catalyst™ gives you the tools, the practices, and the small-group container to stop spinning — and start hearing what's been there all along.
Two October cohorts — pick the start and day that work for you:
Tuesday Cohorts — begin October 20
Thursday Cohorts — begin October 22
Clarity Catalyst™ is part of IMPOWERU's Transformation Catalyst suite — a family of programs grounded in neuroscience, somatic intelligence, and the Alignment → Focus → Flow framework. Originally developed at Stanford. Adapted for people navigating life's most important transitions.