“Many of the habits you have relied on were optimised for certainty and steady growth. They are now being stress-tested by disruption and uncertainty. And are found wanting.”
MASTERY COMPARED TO UNMASTERY
Mastery Sessions are about optimisation. Getting much better at who you already are, and what you already do. More of the same. But better.
This session is about UnMastery. UnMastery is the meta-skill of consciously retiring ways of thinking, acting, or operating. That once worked very well. But no longer fit your world, as it is now.
WHY ATTEND?
The behavioural data is clear. We have entered a period where, around the world, individuals with similar intelligence, experience, and resources are. We are getting very different outcomes.
Some individuals and SMEs feel energised, adaptive, and strategically alive. At the same time, others feel reactive, overloaded, and increasingly stuck.
The difference is not effort or knowledge. It is behavioural alignment, or misalignment, with our world as it now is. [The iz-ness factors!]. Rather than how it has been. [The waz-ness factors!]
This session is for Uncommon-ers. Who sense that aspects of what once made you successful… Is it now slowing you down? Or worse. Doing you wrong! So, you seek a practical way to adapt. And even transform. Without burning everything down.
WHAT WILL YOU DISCOVER?
You will discover how to identify and consciously retire at least one of your outdated “success patterns.” A pattern that no longer fits your current environment. And how you replace it with futures-fit ways of thinking and operating.
During this UnMastery Class, you will be asked questions and given examples that actively work you through a guided process. And you will have pauses to reflect – even if you’re driving. Or to type or scribble if you are at a desk.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS YOU WILL GAIN?
· Greater clarity about what to stop doing. And what now to do.
· Reduced friction, overthinking, and energy drain
· A practical way to respond to rapid change without panic or denial
· Increased confidence in navigating uncertainty
· A clearer sense of personal agency in a shifting world
WHAT WILL YOU WALK AWAY WITH?
By the end of this UnMastery session, you will have:
· Identified one personal or professional behaviour that no longer serves you well
· Clearly articulated why it worked before. And why it no longer does
· Defined a new, futures-fit operating identity to test immediately
· Chosen one concrete behaviour to stop, one to start, and one to strengthen in the next 7 days.
Choose one
There are seven key areas from which to choose your first un-mastery adventure. Each of these aids you in becoming futures-fit. Or keep you locked in what is increasingly becoming a dead-end:
1. Your values, belief systems and life credo
2. The psychological models you adhere to, of who you are – your identity – and who you have the potential to become
3. The past, present, futures and gap stories you tell yourself and others
4. Your intimate relationship with money and all other 16+ forms of wealth
5. The nature, vitality, and purposes of your Dream Team, tribe, and community
6. The rules and key imperatives you follow to be in, and stay in, business
7. Your processes and tools, for unlearning, rejigging, and relearning.
HOW WILL YOU FEEL AFTER (THE 1%-ER)?
· Grounded rather than overwhelmed.
· Clear rather than reactive.
· Calm, focused, and quietly confident that you are adapting intentionally. Not accidentally.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? AND WHY?
This UnMastery session is for:
· Business owners, leaders, and professionals navigating rapid, ongoing disruption
· You if you feel capable but sense growing friction, fatigue, or even ‘hopelessness’
· You, if you want practical adaptation tools, not motivation, or hype
· You, if you know your and our futures will be different. And want to meet and shape these futures consciously.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: NEVILLE CHRISTIE
Notorious
One of the first foundation members of Uncommon. At 84, Neville D. Christie is officially the co-founder of STEEP Renaissance Pty Ltd. His latest global, shared adventure. And our youngest older member.
Notorious for many things. Most visibly his outrageous shirts and tops. For declaring, he intends to live vitally until 103. Leave specially. And for using this annoying, truncated form of language. Science says changes perceptions.
His core life and business theme. Is simple: Holistic Aliveness.
Precocious entrepreneur
At age 12. While still full-time at school. After unexpectedly becoming the head of the household. Neville founded his first three micro-businesses. Soon, he was earning 5-7 times the basic wage.
Born with the so-called restless gene (DRD4-7R). Which scientists are associated with novelty-seeking, risk tolerance, and exploratory behaviour? And a healthy impatience with the status quo. Neville has reinvented himself roughly every three years ever since. Including right now. Today.
Learning from Merlin
At a very early age. Perhaps four or five. Neville intuitively stepped into the Merlin archetype. The shape-changer. The mentor to kings, leaders, and knights – and days!. The mystic. The multiple-persona traveller between worlds.
From that moment on. His life has unfolded. As a series of deliberate transformations.
Across these many chapters, Neville’s lived roles have included:
· Serial innovator and entrepreneur. Futurist. CEO. Company chairman and director of private and public companies.
· Third-World aid volunteer and executive. Musician and conductor. Urban shaman. Depth psychologist. Author. Publisher. Venture capitalist and venture manager.
· Personal and business mentor. Psychotherapist. Explorer of inner and outer worlds. Documenter of what works and transforms.
Creating and building
Through his many twists, turns, failures, wounds, breakthroughs, and reinventions, Neville has accumulated an unusually large body of transformative wisdom. And intellectual property. Practical. Psychological. Strategic. Deeply human. And strikingly appropriate to us all right now. As we act to become Futures Fit.
His life legacy is now clear.
Over the next ten years, starting now. Neville commits to sharing this body of work. Through: Platforms. Products. Processes. Programs. Person-to-person encounters. Not alone. But with apprentices, partners, colleagues, tribes, peers, existing SMEs, corporations, and communities.
And, especially through joint ventures. Structured so that others ultimately gain and retain 100% equity and ownership.
Core focus
Neville’s focus, now, is on enlivening and rejigging the STEEP Renaissance, emerging at the big end of town. Making it more shared and equitable. And, on 15 ‘gold collar’ industries, evolving upwards. To create a new meta-industry: Transformation as a Service [TaaS].
For Neville, legacy is about the whole person, whole system transmission. About staying fully, mischievously, vitally alive. And super wealthy – in 14 different dimensions – including monetary.
Making it happen
Following Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Neville adopts his catchphrase: “Make it so.”