The Power of Surrender

Where surrender becomes a partnership with life

Beginning January 22, 2026

What if every disturbance is a doorway?

Are you ready to step into a greater freedom?

This transformational five-session course introduces participatory surrender, releasing the illusion of control while fully embracing your capacity to meet life with presence, choice, and trust. It’s a practice that supports you in living with more ease and openness, even amid uncertainty.

Leslie will guide you through a living map — from Yes, to Thank You, to Even Greater — showing how adversities, life’s everyday irritations and surprises can become blessings. Through story, reflection, and shared participation, you’ll explore how surrender becomes a partnership with life — not passive, not resigned, but empowered.

Each week builds on simple, grounded practices drawn from lived experience, supporting you in meeting life as it unfolds, allowing gratitude to reveal blessings. These tools are practical, effective, and immediately applicable.

Say Yes and let your journey to Even Greater begin.

Reactivity → Creativity

Everyone reacts. That’s biology. Reactivity happens.
The practice begins the moment you find yourself arguing with reality.

In this course, you’ll learn practical methods for catching that argument and shifting toward what else is possible.

What if this moment is for you? What if this moment isn’t a problem; it is a blessing waiting to be uncovered.

Participatory surrender is not collapsing, not giving up, instead letting go of the fight and cooperating with the design already in motion.

As the fight drops, expansion becomes possible. You begin to experience the blessing inherent in what’s unfolding — the intelligence behind your challenges and the Greater that has been waiting for you.

We use your life — the places you tighten, resist, get irritated — as the material. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clear, repeatable way to work with life happening — meeting what shows up from partnership, shifting from reactor to co-creator.

The Flow

Yes
Opening to what is. Meeting life without resistance and recognizing the doorway hidden inside every disturbance.

Thank You
Using gratitude as an orientation that softens the ego’s contraction and opens the heart to partnership with life.

Even Greater
Exploring expansion, trust, and how life responds when you allow more than the mind can predict or manage.

Participatory Surrender
Practices for engaging with life’s movement consciously instead of collapsing into control or avoidance.

Living Now
Integrating the process into your daily rhythm, bringing presence, clarity, and ease into whatever shows up.

Surrender is your power — the way you teach it changed how I see my life.

~ Kim Rager

Details

Format: Online via Zoom
Dates: Every other Thursday:
January 22, Feb 5, 19, March 5, 19
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 Central Time
Recordings: Provided for all participants

Investment in You

Tuition: $345

Zelle: 312-409-0686
Email confirmation to: leslie@living-bydesign.com

There is a $10 service charge to use PayPal

Due to the nature of the event, there are no refunds or transfers.

This workshop was inspired by the response to this 90-minute presentation. If you’d like to see the material that sparked this series, you can watch the video here.
The handouts can be found here.