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1. Start with clarity
If you want to understand your patterns quickly and personally:
ForwardVision Session
A 90-minute guided session + written Forward Map
We’ll identify:
- the patterns you’re repeating
- what’s actually driving them
- and what needs to change
This is the most direct path.
2. Work through it over time
If you’d rather build clarity gradually and integrate it:
Violet Foundations (8 weeks)
A structured process with:
- guided material
- practical exercises
- and live Q&A support
This is for people who want to do the work consistently.
The deeper issue is that a person’s:
➜ beliefs
➜ desires
➜ identity
➜ story
➜ and direction
are internally conflicted.
When that happens, effort becomes exhausting.
This work is about slowing down long enough to understand what’s actually driving your life—and learning how to move forward more honestly. This is not passive self-help content.
It is a structured formation experience designed to help you:
➜ examine your patterns
➜ strengthen your thinking
➜ build healthier systems
➜ cultivate creative expression
➜ and live more aligned over time
About Derrick
I’ve spent most of my life trying to understand why intelligent people repeatedly move against what they say they want.
Not just academically.
Personally. Professionally. Spiritually. Relationally.
Over time, that question shaped nearly everything I pursued:
➜ philosophy
➜ healthcare leadership
➜ entrepreneurship
➜ writing
➜ art
➜ behavioral systems
➜ and practical human development
Forward Storytelling emerged from the intersection of those worlds.
I worked across several very different environments:
➜ philosophy instruction
➜ healthcare operations and executive leadership
➜ entrepreneurship and business strategy
➜ behavioral and systems-oriented work
➜ writing, music, and visual art
What actually drives human behavior—and why do people struggle to live in alignment with what matters most to them?
Over the years, I became less interested in surface-level motivation and more interested in:
➜ contradictions
➜ hidden assumptions
➜ internal conflict
➜ projection
➜ identity
➜ narrative
➜ and decision-making
Because those deeper patterns shape nearly everything else.
What I do now
Today, my work primarily focuses on two paths:
Guided Work
Including:
➜ business and strategic advisory
➜ ForwardVision Sessions
➜ Violet Academy
Self-Directed Work
Including:
➜ books
➜ lectures
➜ essays
You don’t need to have it all figured out before you start.
