Have the conversation. Launch the thing. Make the pivot you’ve always wanted to.
With the expert support, committed allies and proven tools to follow through.
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR
Why Your Habits Don’t Stick — and How to Rewire Yourself So They Do with neuroplasticity expert Amina Zamani · 11 June 19.30 CET. Join Us
WHAT IS THE YEAR OF COURAGE?
This is a program for those ready for something big.
Ready to make the change.
Ready to take the step.
6 MONTHS FROM NOW…
The project is launched.
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The pattern is broken.
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The big leap is behind you.
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You’ll know yourself more authentically. Approach challenges confidently. Have a new circle of committed allies by your side.
HOW WE’LL DO IT
Live “Ask-Me-Anything” sessions with global experts in living bravely, resilience and overcoming adversity.
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Powerful, intimate group coaching sessions.
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Guided practices you can access anytime, anywhere.
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Continuous monthly accountability.
A dedicated circle of Harvest peers (your ‘Pod’).
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GET DIRECT, LIVE, EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO GLOBAL EXPERTS
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A former Jain monk, peace activist, and ecological educator. Best known for his 8,000-mile peace walk to the world’s nuclear capitals, he later founded Schumacher College and edited Resurgence & Ecologist magazine for over 40 years.
His life’s work centers on simplicity, reverence for nature, and moral clarity. Satish offers a rare integration of spiritual depth and activist conviction—a reminder that living with purpose begins with the courage to slow down, listen deeply, and walk one’s values.
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Founder of Commune and co-creator of Wanderlust, Jeff explores personal growth and collective healing through writing, teaching, and conversations on wellness, purpose, and community.
Sandy brings hard-won insight on risk, resilience, and reinvention. Her story reminds us that elevation comes not just from ascent—but from learning to face the descent with clarity, dignity, and unshakable self-trust.
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A master connector and strategist, Sunny brings visionary people and ideas together - advising global leaders, artists, and changemakers to catalyze innovation and social impact.
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A Ugandan-born model, activist, and war survivor who became a global advocate for youth and refugee rights. From fleeing conflict to founding the Lumule Foundation, his journey is a living example of resilience, transformation, and service.
Dennis brings a deeply human perspective to courage—one rooted in survival, dignity, and hope. He shows that healing is possible, and that sharing your story can be one of the most powerful ways to lead.
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A mountaineer, author, and cultural pioneer—one of the first American women to complete the Seven Summits and a survivor of the 1996 Everest disaster. A former Vogue editor, she has long navigated high-stakes environments, both literal and social.
Sandy brings hard-won insight on risk, resilience, and reinvention. Her story reminds us that elevation comes not just from ascent—but from learning to face the descent with clarity, dignity, and unshakable self-trust.
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A global executive coach with over 18 years of experience helping leaders unlock lasting transformation. Drawing on neuroscience, epigenetics and research on neuroplasticity, her work empowers individuals to identify and rewire limiting beliefs at the root.
Amina has coached executives at Meta, LinkedIn, Intuit, Daimler, and Twitter, as well as high-impact individuals across activism, media, and medicine. Her lens is simple but profound: lasting change begins in the brain—and courage begins with how we speak to ourselves.
And more to be announced.
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A Colombian transpersonal psychotherapist and psychedelic facilitator with over 35 years of experience. Blending clinical training with ancestral traditions, his work focuses on trauma integration, shadow exploration, and altered states of consciousness.
José creates profound spaces for personal reckoning and renewal. He helps us see that the parts we fear the most often hold the keys to our freedom—and that true courage requires meeting the dark with honesty, compassion, and ritual.
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An AI scientist turned internationally respected Buddhist teacher. A senior teacher at Spirit Rock and a Stanford-trained instructor in compassion cultivation, her teachings span ethical leadership, mindfulness, and death awareness. She brings a rare blend of intellectual rigor and spiritual insight.
Nikki helps us face the ultimate unknowns with presence and integrity—offering clarity on how mortality, impermanence, and inner stillness can become powerful catalysts for courageous action in everyday life.
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A trauma-informed somatic practitioner specializing in embodied leadership and nervous system regulation. With deep training in somatic psychology, yoga, and integrative movement, her work guides people into right relationship with their bodies, emotions, and truth.
In a world that rewards reactivity, Collette helps us return to internal steadiness—showing that courage isn’t the absence of fear, but a nervous system that can hold it. Her presence invites grounded action and embodied transformation.
Designed by Harvest Series and Courage X, The Year of Courage packs three years of research, design and interdisciplinary practice into one program.
WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR
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People who want to meet their full potential.
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People who’ve been circling the same decision.
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People struggling to sustain momentum.
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People feeling isolated in their big goals.
Change is hard. Uncertainty is paralysing.
You don’t have to do it alone.
The Year of Courage is led by Courage X: Vinay Chaudhri, Sabina De Duonni and Julian Pistone.
We’ve spent the last decade guiding founders, creatives, and impact leaders through key turning points. We’ve worked with people from Google, the Gates Foundation, YPO, McKinsey & Company, Apple and the UN.
15 years designing self-development programs.
1000+ hours working with founders, creatives, and executives.
Team backgrounds span venture capital, psychotherapy, and systems change.
WHO IS COURAGE X?
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A poet, experience designer, and creative director. He shaped BACKED VC, one of Europe’s most iconic early-stage venture capital brands, leading their global events and community strategy for the past five years. Prior to that he developed campaigns for Guinness, BBC, ASICS and others. As a spoken word artist, he’s performed at Harvest, Future Horizon, Per Anhalter and House of Beautiful Business.
Vinay designs and guides experiences that help people connect more deeply—with themselves, each other, and what matters most. He is the founder of Courage X.
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A mental health educator, facilitator and practitioner who has led hundreds of transformative workshops, programs and integration journeys. Blending therapeutic practices such as Somatic Experiencing®️, phenomenology and design thinking, she offers an integrative approach to well-being rooted in neuroscience, body intelligence and philosophy.
Sabina is the co-founder of cor:age, a global community uniting visionaries from McKinsey, Google, MIT, UN, and the Gates Foundation to catalyze courageous change. She also works as a Tech Ethicist, developing key content and product policies to humanize evolving artificial intelligence.
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A courageous leadership expert and keynote speaker who draws on 20 years of corporate experience—including a decade at Google—to help leaders turn risk and uncertainty into bold, strategic action. A co-founder of cor:age, Julian brings together changemakers from McKinsey, Google, MIT, UN, and the Gates Foundation to catalyze courageous change.
Host of Cor:age, a docu-series produced with award-winning filmmakers from Netflix, National Geographic, BBC, VICE, and MTV 4REAL with Joaquin Phoenix.
Our work has led people to achieve incredible real-world results:
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Protecting over a thousand hectares of Colombian rainforest.
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Launching a powerful documentary film.
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Founding a high-impact investment fund.
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Moving through grief, divorce, and major life transitions — held by a committed community of allies.
“ If you want the lightbulb of metamorphosis to turn on, work with Julian.”
Shankar Desai, Managing Director, Google
“ Vinay operates at a rare level. Strategic, precise, and deeply human.”
Ben Hack, Apple & Expedia Group
“ Sabina's support — wow, how present and professional. Every single point she makes.”
Camilo Duque, alumni of Courage X programs
WHAT WE’LL WORK ON TOGETHER:
We help you identify and name the courageous moves that matter most to you.
We place you in a high-trust Pod, with expert facilitation and a personal accountability partner.
Every two weeks you meet live to explore and resolve personal challenges, clarify desired outcomes, meet your growth edges, and commit to act.
Each month, you learn directly from world-class changemakers—people who’ve done extremely hard things and want to share their insights with you.
Between sessions guided tools help you reflect, reset, and stay in motion.
“I was blown away by how deep, practical and immediate it was. It was far more powerful than I expected it to be”
The Year of Courage Pilot Participant
WHAT YOU GET
6 months of guided group coaching
12 facilitated live sessions (every two weeks)
6 Private ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ sessions with global experts
6 guided courage-building practices
1 monthly accountability partner
Lifetime access to TYOC private digital resource library
All live. All online. All designed for breakthroughs.
YOUR INVESTMENT
€3,390
Due on Acceptance.
Apply via our short form
Book your 1:1 conversation with The Year of Courage team
Receive confirmation and join your Pod
Attend the welcome session and get matched with your Accountability Partner
Begin the program with your Pod and Facilitator on June 18th
NEXT STEPS
“ I've approached life with a newfound sense of bravery, and I'm eternally grateful.”
Nico Poveromo, alumni of previous Courage X programs
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Each group is held by a highly skilled Courage X master facilitator, who ensures depth, structure, safety, and follow-through, guiding you throughout the six month journey. Our facilitators are all ICF-certified coaches.
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To make the most of the programme you should factor in 4–5 hours per month.
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While all Courage X facilitators are ICF certified coaches and therapists, this program is not a substitute for professional therapy. It is complementary to the work done in those spaces.
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No. To minimise friction and maximise flexibility this program is fully digital.
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You can choose from the following options. We’ll do our best to accommodate your request.
Day:
Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday
Time:
9:00 AM GMT (PST: 1:00 AM · ET: 4:00 AM · CET: 10:00 AM)
5:00 PM GMT (PST: 9:00 AM · ET: 12:00 PM · CET: 6:00 PM)
7:00 PM GMT (PST: 11:00 AM · ET: 2:00 PM · CET: 8:00 PM)
Please note: Your Pod meets once every two weeks - either on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.
FAQs
Please check the FAQs and the Terms & Conditions.
Applications close: June 15th 2025.
Program starts: June 18th 2025.
Program ends: WK 3 January 2026.
No sessions held in August and WK 3 & WK 4 December.
KEY DATES
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR
Why Your Habits Don’t Stick — and How to Rewire Yourself So They Do with neuroplasticity expert Amina Zamani · 11 June 19.30 CET. Join Us
