This Human Shop
Courses and resources to help us understand ourselves, one another,   and the lives we share.
Meet Cindy Butler
In Conversation About Human Development and Everyday Life
Join Cindy Butler, creator of the 12 Petalled Lotus, for a free live Zoom conversation introducing its 12 Pathways of human development.
Explore the ideas at the heart of the 12 Petalled Lotus and how they connect with everyday experiences of relating, communicating, navigating change, and belonging. There will be time for questions and a question to carry into your own life.
Free registration. Personal sharing and cameras are optional.
October 19/26
6-7Â PM MT
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Are Boundaries Making Us Better at Relationships?
A two-part live online course exploring what boundaries are meant to do, where they become complicated and whether they are helping us create healthier relationships. Tuesdays, October 20 and 27, 20267:30–9:00 PM Mountain Time Registration includes both live sessions and limited-time access to the recordings.
$179.00 CAD
How We Adapt to Life Before We Understand It
A two-session live online course exploring how human beings begin adapting to their environments, relationships, and experiences long before they can consciously understand what is happening. Sessions take place Tuesdays, November 3 and 10, 2026, from 7:30–9:00 PM Mountain Time. Includes limited-time access to the recordings.
$179.00 CAD
Maybe Nothing Is Wrong With You
A two-part live online course exploring how natural differences, nervous-system responses and adaptations can become mistaken for personal failings—and what changes when we begin with understanding rather than judgment. Tuesdays, November 17 and 24, 20267:30–9:00 PM Mountain Time Registration includes both live sessions and limited-time access to the recordings.
$179.00 CAD
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Wednesday Webinars Fall 2026Â
Have Boundaries Become the Answer to Everything?
Noon to 1 PM MT/ONLINE/October 14/26
Register for FreeHow Much of Who We Are Began Before We Could Understand It?
Noon to 1 PM MT/ONLINE/October 28/26
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The 12 Pathways | Self Paced Online
Explore what shapes how you see yourself, relate to others, and respond to life. The 12 Pathways invite deeper understanding through twelve human capacities, including clarity, empathy, compassion, and forgiveness. Learn at your own pace, with room to reflect and bring what you discover into everyday life.
$349.00 CAD
The 12 Pathways | Live On-Line
Explore what shapes how you see yourself, relate to others, and respond to life. The 12 Pathways invite deeper understanding through twelve human capacities, including clarity, empathy, compassion, and forgiveness. Join facilitated online sessions where teaching, reflection, and shared conversation bring the learning into everyday life.
$895.00 CAD
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A Handbook for Exploring Who You Are and Who You Are Becoming
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The Pathways Essentials Guide (Digital Version)
Pathway Essentials Guide Your foundation for learning, reflection, and growth. Pathway Essentials introduces the language, rhythm, and practices that carry through the 12 Petalled Lotus Pathways. Short lessons and guiding reflections help you understand the framework, explore emotional literacy and self-regulation, and establish a thoughtful foundation for learning. Keep it close as a personal reference while you move through the Pathways and Signature levels.
$79.99 CAD
The Pathway Essentials Guide (Bound Version)
Pathway Essentials Guide A printed guide to keep close as you explore the 12 Petalled Lotus Pathways. Pathway Essentials introduces the framework, language, and reflective practices that support your learning, with short lessons you can revisit along the way. This purchase includes one bound, printed copy mailed to your address. Shipping within Canada is included in the listed price. The PDF edition is sold separately.
$119.00 CAD
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EBOOKS
Loving, Becoming & BelongingÂ
5 Ebook Series
$89 CAD
Available individually for $24–$29 CAD
Five guides to belonging, love, relationship, and becoming yourself
How do we learn to belong? What do we carry into love? How do relationships change as we grow older — and how do we keep becoming ourselves within them?
These five connected guides explore attachment across the lifespan. Each stands on its own. You can begin with the question that speaks to your life now, or read the collection as a journey.
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Explore the Guides
The Ways We Learn to Belong EBOOK
Our earliest experiences of connection can shape how we seek closeness, respond to distance, and understand belonging. This guide introduces attachment in clear, human terms, with reflections that invite you to recognize familiar patterns and consider what else may become possible.
$24.00 CAD
The Ways We Learn to Love EBOOK
Dating and early adult relationships can bring questions about closeness, trust, independence, and what we hope to find in another person. This guide explores how attachment may appear as we begin to love, with reflections on your needs, choices, and ways of relating.
$29.00 CAD
The Ways Children Learn to Belong EBOOK
Children learn about belonging through everyday experiences of being noticed, supported, and given room to explore. This guide helps parents and caregivers understand how connection develops, with reflections that bring attachment into the ordinary moments of life with children.
$29.00 CAD
When We Begin Again EBOOK
Love later in life brings our histories, hopes, and changing selves into relationship. This guide explores attachment and connection when we begin again, with reflections on what we carry forward, what we may be ready to reconsider, and how love can grow at this stage of life.
$24.00 CAD
Becoming Yourself While Staying Connected EBOOK
We continue to develop within relationships that have known us for years. This guide explores how attachment, familiar roles, and lived experience shape who we become, with reflections on what feels your own and how connection can make room for change.
$24.00 CAD
Loving, Becoming & Belonging Series | 5 EBOOKS
Five guidebooks to belonging, loving and becoming. Explore attachment and relationships across the lifespan in five connected 12 Petalled Lotus guides. From our earliest experiences of belonging through adult love, childhood, later-life relationships, and individuation, the series offers clear teaching and reflection. Read the ebooks in order or begin with the question closest to your life.
$89.00 CAD
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Free Resources
A place to begin exploring the ideas behind 12 Petalled Lotus. Here you’ll find introductions, reflections and selected reading to spend time with in your own way. Start with whatever catches your attention, and return whenever a question stays with you.
The Train and the Legacy We Live
A reflection by Cindy Butler on the people who travel alongside us and the legacy we shape through everyday choices, relationships, and care.
Includes questions to help you explore what matters most and how you want to live it.
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Reading Resources
A thoughtfully selected collection of books exploring human development, attachment, relationships, and life across the lifespan. Follow your curiosity, deepen your understanding, and discover perspectives to carry into everyday life.
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