How To Stay Grounded During Change

Periods of paradigm shift don’t announce themselves politely.
They arrive as confusion, fatigue, grief, overwork, and the quiet sense that the old rules no longer apply.

How To Stay Grounded During Change is a guided course for people who feel between worlds—professionally, culturally, technologically, or personally—and want to move through change with clarity instead of panic.

This course isn’t about optimization, reinvention, or hustling your way into the future. It’s about learning how to think, choose, and act when certainty is unavailable—and when rushing toward answers often makes things worse.

Drawing on anthropology, paradigm shift research, and real-world case studies, this course helps you:

• Name what kind of transition you’re actually in
• Reclaim agency without pretending you control everything
• Discern signal from noise in moments of hype and pressure
• Design your next way of working and living without forcing false clarity

If you’ve been feeling unmoored, overwhelmed, or quietly resistant to the dominant narratives about “keeping up,” this course offers orientation—not answers, but a compass.

The Five Modules (with video, exercises, and homework)

• What A Paradigm Shift Actually Is (and why it feels so bad)
• Quicksand — Identity in the Liminal Space
• Agency Without Control
• Discernment in Times of Hype (AI, Work, Culture)
• Designing Your Next Personal Paradigm (Lightly)

Note: I plan to expand this course in the near term. You receive lifetime access when you sign up. Please leave your requests in the comments for future modules!

Veronica Zora Kirin is an anthropologist studying paradigm shifts—the messy, unscripted way our lives change. She is the author of “Stories of Elders,” documenting the high-tech revolution as lived by the last analogue generation, which received the National Indie Excellence Award and was finalist for the International Book Award. She applies her research to everyday life to help others navigate through change.