Overcoming Fear with Curiosity in the Age of AI
AI feels exciting — until your nervous system says otherwise.
You sit down to learn a new AI tool. Ten minutes later, you have fifteen tabs open, LinkedIn says you’re already behind, and another video insists everything changed overnight. You close your laptop feeling more overwhelmed than when you started.
If that sounds familiar, you are not behind — and you are not bad at technology.
Often, what looks like a learning problem is actually a fear response. The body tightens, the mind races, and curiosity disappears. You may find yourself agitated, frozen, exhausted, distracted, or suddenly doing anything except the thing you meant to learn.
In this first virtual Dreamaker Dialogue, Somatic & Big Leap Coach Alana Robinson leads a live, 45-minute practice grounded in the work of Dr. Gay Hendricks, bestselling author of The Big Leap, and Dr. Katie Hendricks, pioneering teacher of body intelligence and conscious relationship.
The work of Gay and Katie Hendricks has helped thousands of people recognize fear more quickly, return to presence, and reclaim the creativity and energy that stress can shut down. In this session, Alana brings those principles into a timely, practical space for people who want to learn and use AI with more ease, confidence, and clarity.
In this session, you’ll:
Identify your personal fear pattern — whether you tend to fight, flee, freeze, or faint — using distinctions drawn from the work of Gay and Katie Hendricks, so you can recognize overwhelm sooner
Understand what’s happening in your body and mind when fear narrows your focus and makes learning feel harder than it needs to be
Practice simple somatic “Fear Melters” from the Hendricks approach to help shift out of stress and return to a more grounded, open, creative state
Reconnect with your real reason for learning AI so this stops being about pressure and starts being about possibility
This is for you if:
You’re curious about AI but haven’t known where to start
You’ve tried to learn and ended up overwhelmed, avoidant, or discouraged
You feel like everyone else got the memo and you’re somehow behind
You want a kinder, more effective way to work with fear than just pushing through it
This is not a technical training or another webinar packed with information.
It’s a live guided practice for working with the inner state that makes learning feel harder than it needs to be. No prior AI experience is needed.
What you’ll leave with:
Simple somatic practices to use when overwhelm appears
A Fear Signature + Fear Melter guide
More awareness of how fear shows up for you when you try something new
A clearer sense of why learning AI matters to you
One next step you can take from a more grounded state
The option to connect with an accountability partner from the room
An invitation to a private 30-minute integration session with Coach Alana focused on your specific fear pattern, goal, and next step
Think of it as a fitness class for your mindset: a place to notice your pattern, interrupt the spiral, and practice responding differently in a small, supportive, open-minded group.
Cameras on if you’re willing. Conversation encouraged. Perfection not required. Come solo or bring a friend and become each other’s accountability partners.
This experience is grounded in the body-centered transformational teachings of Gay and Katie Hendricks and woven together with Alana Robinson’s coaching for learning AI with more clarity, confidence, and creativity.
Learn more about the work of Drs. Gay & Katie Hendricks: hendricks.com
Learn more about Coach Alana: mydearlittleself.com
Learn more about Dreamaker: dreamaker.ai
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