The New Quo Learning community delivers engaging and insightful weekly emails, audio content, and monthly live coaching to unlock overlooked cultural insights and self-knowledge. You’ll go on a learning journey through forgotten cultural narratives and your own stories from your life's pivotal moments to achieve meaningful and socially-impactful goals. 


More than a book club, this is a learning journey grounded in neuroscience, narrative intelligence, hidden histories, and psychology. Gain clarity and confidence to lead change, build deeper multicultural relationships, and implement effective strategies for socially impact goals in today's complex moral landscape.


Welcome! Grab a beverage. Relax. Ponder. Meditate. Do a jig. Sing in your head (or maybe out loud). Read on if you're curious for more.

This learning community will help you:

  • Amplify your influence and deepen relationships through powerful personal storytelling

  • Expand your cultural knowledge to connect meaningfully with diverse audiences

  • Develop habits that improve your wellbeing and help you authentically express your values in what you make, say, and do

  • Leverage your unique strengths to drive positive change in your community, work, and more

  • Gain clarity on your purpose, practical frameworks for sharing your wisdom, and meaningful connections with peers

This learning community has all the fun stuff covered, including:

  • Weekly Inspirational Content For Personal Growth

    Inspiring and engaging audio and written content delivered weekly to your inbox of four key under-taught ethical and cultural topics that will expand your thinking, communication, and storytelling skills: overlooked cultural history, social justice books targeted by bans, media analysis with a personal development focus, and original prose and poetry.

  • Online Community Hub

    You'll have access to an online platform to download audio content of the weekly newsletter to engage with anytime is convenient for you.

  • Writing Exercises and Actionable Tactics:

    Each weekly piece of content provides reflection tools, tips, and activities for integrating ethical and cultural wisdom into your communication, storytelling, goal-setting, and relationship practices.

  • Monthly Facilitated Conversations and Coaching (Coaching Tier)

    If you sign up for the coaching tier, you'll have access to live virtual monthly sessions to meet other community members and learn from workshops facilitated by Christina Blacken. These monthly coaching sessions are a space to share ideas and stories, learn tips and communication tools to better connect and inspire, and uncover your unique strengths, and will help you create a communication and goal-setting practice that expresses curiosity, belonging, justice, and innovation in action. Additionally, you'll receive a quarterly customizable roadmap of reflection exercises for creating socially impactful goals that reflect your values and your own unique leadership story.

Meaningful Goals Are Achieved Through Ethical and Cultural Wisdom

Whether your meaningful goal is better relationships with people who are different from you, new daily practices that better express your values and bring you peace and joy, or identifying and using your unique strengths and personal stories to lead a shift in the status-quo at work or in the world, we're here to inspire your transformation.

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What's Covered

A dynamic curriculum that uses self-reflection exercises, discussions, compelling storytelling and more to inspire you to create a new communication and goal-setting practice for achieving socially impactful goals, and won't bore you to death.

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Content Topics Covered in Weekly Content

Each type of content covered provide insightful, actionable information for better decision-making, relationship building, and leadership practices:

Overlooked History

stories of traditional ecological knowledge, moral guidelines, conflict resolution techniques, cultural healing practices, underrepresented historical figures and cultural practices, innovative community and business models, and more.
Read example here: courage is the only antidote to oppression

Social Justice Book Reviews

reviews of books that help with empathy and perspective taking, critical thinking, self-awareness, and practical tools for expanding innovative, inclusive thinking and communication skills.
Read example here: pleasure activism

Let's Get Down to the $

There are various ways to join the community to fit your budget. The Content Tier is $10 monthly and provides access to weekly content and the online hub. The $70 tier offers all content, the online hub, and additional benefits like live training, events, and coaching. If you'd like to sign up for a full year subscription upfront, there's a 10% discount. You can sign up for a group subscription with the year long option and also receive a 10% discount. Details are on the check out page when you click the join now button.

  • $10.00 / month

    Content Tier (includes weekly content and online hub)

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  • $108.00

    1 year content subscription

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  • $70.00 / month

    Coaching Tier (live sessions)

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A unique and fun training model

Our trainings combine a variety of disciplines, making them impactful, memorable, and tactical.

I'm the Founder of The New Quo, nice to meet you!

Founder, Status Quo Shaker Christina Blacken

Reclaiming the wisdom and purpose within my life story became my secret weapon, like finding a cheat code for connecting with and motivating others toward change. I’m an expert in how story rituals and habits shape our beliefs and behaviors within relationships, cultures, and societies. As a performer and storyteller, my trainings, public speaking, and workshops don't just inspire participants - they leave them with actionable insights that change their beliefs, perspectives, and work going forward. I’ve helped 17,000 leaders across 9 industries discover the unconventional wisdom within their own and others stories. Your story is your power to create change, and I’m here to show you how.

Wisdom Within Diverse Stories Changed My Life, It Can Change Yours Too

Guidance and inspiration from overlooked history and underrepresented stories helped me become who I wanted to be. It can do the same for you! In times when transformative ideas are under attack, we need ethical and cultural wisdom and new stories to envision a better future. Plus, it's way more fun than conventional wisdom, which got us into the social and cultural challenges we face today. This is the place for change-makers and potential leaders who want to better express their values in what they create, say, and do.

What people say about The New Quo Approach:

"It was such a pleasure to work with Christina recently, as she led an absolutely fantastic session with our board team on inclusivity, breaking down the traps of affinity bias and changing behaviour at both a personal and leadership level. I've been in many sessions on these topics over the years, and I can say without exaggeration that this was the most effective one I've been part of. From the way Christina blended story telling with hard data and research, open discussion on challenging areas with humour and humility, to the balance of both challenging and supporting the room on these issues, it just worked beautifully. The result was as much about diversity inclusion as it was about leadership and team for this group, really demonstrating a gift from Christina in helping us to become better leaders. I can't recommend Christina enough. Really, really impressive and really down to earth and fun along the way. Thank you!" - Perry, Non-profit CEO

“Christina led me through exercises that not only helped me process and create a finished product, but also helped me uncover elements of my stories and memories I hadn't thought about for years. It was incredible! This whole playful, light-hearted side of me from childhood that I'd forgotten about came rushing back and made its way into my writing. It was such a deepening of the story, of my voice as a writer, and of my confidence in the importance of sharing. I am immensely grateful to Christina and in awe of the deep, subtle, and powerful work she does. I recommend her to the moon and back.” Elissa, Entrepreneur

"Christina held the space throughout the session, working fluidly and ensuring everyone felt safe and heard, as well as taking on important topics head-on - just what we needed as a group. I'll include some quotes from the team they provided via a final evaluation form: “Christina was so open and well prepared for the powerful exercises she took us through. Very non-judgmental and the right amount of humor and authenticity." “Christina is a wonderful facilitator. Thoughtful balance of information and participation.” "Christina has a great voice in presenting, great pace and gets an important message across, particularly about fear, change, and who we are.” - Lorraine, Non-Profit Senior Manager

"The New Quo was a fantastic and beautifully narrated course that included real, actionable steps for thinking about and implementing inclusivity in the workplace. Every organization should have to take this course! Highly recommend." - Alicia, Social Media Supervisor
The New Quo has worked across many types of company sizes and leadership styles from Fortune 500 Companies, VC backed firms, to small local organizations and extending these insights in The New Quo Learning Community.
The New Quo has worked across many types of company sizes and leadership stylesThe New Quo has worked across many types of company sizes and leadership styles

Change is possible.

We change the status-quo and create a better future when we lean into our collective knowledge and wisdom through new stories.

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FAQs

You've Got Questions, We've Got Answers

  • What's the cost of joining?

    The content tier is $10 monthly to access the content and online hub for individuals. The coaching tier is $70 monthly for all content, online hub, and live monthly virtual training and coaching sessions and a chance to meet and learn with other community members during live sessions. The subscription can be cancelled at anytime.

  • When does the this start?

    Enrollment is open on a rolling basis and begins now, and the community officially opened January 13th 2025.

  • I'm not a formal leader, will this program still be a fit for me?

    We're not for the non-sense of believing leadership is solely about title or status. We define leadership as the practice of influencing or inspiring a group towards action. If you do that in any capacity, you're a leader, and this learning community will be a great fit for you.

  • How does the training work, what's the commitment?

    You'll receive the weekly inspiration content directly to your email inbox as well as within the online community hub that will take about 15-20 minutes of your time. If you sign up for the coaching tier, each live session will be on zoom and scheduled ahead of time in monthly 1 hour increments, but also can be accessible through replays you can access anytime.

  • If I can't attend the sessions live, can I still join?

    Yes! Some live sessions will be recorded and can be replayed at anytime for folks who sign up for the coaching tier.