AI for Conscious Creators
Use AI to extend your thinking without handing your thinking over.
Do you correct AI’s answers more often than you use them? The problem usually isn’t the AI. AI can only be as good as the clarity you bring to it, and that clarity is something you can build.
AI for Conscious Creators is a small, live course for people who want to think with AI, not just get answers from it. It is taught by Maria Galli, PhD, and this is its fifth edition.
Joining with someone else, or as a small group? Write to me first so we can agree dates.
Programme at a glance
Format: one setup session of 60 to 90 minutes, then four live two-hour sessions.
Total live time: about nine hours.
Group size: up to six people.
Delivery: live on Zoom, not recorded, in English or Spanish.
Between sessions: assigned exercises (the longest takes about two hours, the others are shorter), practice on your own work, and a WhatsApp channel for questions. The work between sessions is not optional. It is where most of the value shows up.
Availability: no fixed dates; they’re arranged with each participant or group.
You will need: a computer, a stable connection, real unresolved work to bring, and an active Claude Pro subscription.
How much does AI for Conscious Creators cost?
One person: €900.
Two people: €500 each.
Three to six people: €350 each, for those registering as individuals.
Prices are final and not subject to VAT.
Claude Pro is additional, from $20 a month (the final price and taxes depend on your country), paid directly to Anthropic. You need a paid plan because searching your previous conversations is only available on paid plans, and the course builds on what Claude already knows about you. Free-plan usage limits are also several times lower, which makes the 45 to 90 minute conversation between sessions 1 and 2 impossible to complete.
Cancellation. You have 14 calendar days from purchase to withdraw without giving a reason, and the full amount is refunded. After 14 days, the place is non-refundable but can be transferred to someone else by agreement. If you buy less than 14 days before the start and want to begin within that period, I will ask for your express consent to do so; if you withdraw afterwards, you will pay the proportionate part of what has already been delivered. Full terms are on the Terms page.
What this course is
This is not a prompting course, so you won’t spend four sessions collecting formulas for getting better outputs from AI.
Instead, you’ll use AI to make your own thinking more visible. What you ask for, what you avoid, what you accept too quickly and what you keep circling around all tell you something about how you think. The aim is to notice those patterns, work with them deliberately and develop a way of using AI that supports your judgement rather than replacing it.
Most people give AI almost no real context, stop at the first plausible answer and ask for very little. Part of that, I think, is habit. With other people, we rarely say that an answer missed the point or ask for more. We make do with what we were given and quietly fill in the gap ourselves. We carry those habits into the conversation with AI, where none of them is needed: there are no feelings to protect, no one’s time to save, and you can ask again as many times as it takes. It is a hard habit to break, and a good part of this course is spent on it.
So the course trains something specific: directing an intelligent system from your own judgement, rather than reacting to it or handing over the wheel.
Sessions are live and on your own material. You work on your own screen while I move between participants and sit with your work as it happens. Every session after the setup opens with a look back at what you worked on in between.
What you’ll leave with
A portrait of how you think, built across seven dimensions of self-knowledge from your own answers.
A working protocol, written in your words, that tells Claude how you think, what you expect from a useful answer and how you want to be challenged.
Something you already do, worked through in depth, with a short line to come back to when you drift.
A real question of your own, deliberately left unresolved.
A prompt you designed from scratch, plus the prompt that helps you create more.
Eight long course prompts that are yours to keep and rerun.
Session materials in slide format, and three closing documents: key points on working with Claude, a collection of short everyday prompts, and a guide to all the course prompts.
Almost all of it is made by you, in the sessions, with me beside you.
What previous participants say
From earlier editions. The course has since been substantially redesigned; what these comments describe, how the sessions run, has not changed.
“Maria’s AI course didn’t just teach me to work with artificial intelligence, it taught me to train it to work with me. Thanks to that I was able to adapt my AI assistant to how I think and work, and today I feel it’s a tool that amplifies what I myself can do.”
— Lucía G., engineer · 2026 · translated from Spanish
“After the course I started using AI in a much more useful way, both professionally and personally.”
— Andrés A., engineer · 2026 · translated from Spanish
“I feel like I gained focus, order and speed in execution.”
— Clara D., psychologist, singer and actress, founder of Tejiendo Voces · 2026 · translated from Spanish
“This course exceeded all my expectations. A workshop that took me through real personal exploration, ending with training an AI assistant capable of helping me organise every project without losing sight of my emotions, my particular way of facing challenges, and what makes me resist. Ideal for anyone looking to take action.”
— Paula U., graphic designer · 2025 · translated from Spanish
Who this is for
Your AI results disappoint you. You correct them constantly and they never quite reach your level.
Or AI makes you uneasy and you have been avoiding it. You don’t need prior experience or any understanding of how it works. You need to be able to think, notice and say what matters to you.
You know your own field. You can tell a good answer from a merely plausible one in your domain.
You have real work that is stuck, something you actually care about, not an example invented for the occasion.
You want AI to support your thinking, not do it for you.
Who this is not for
You are looking for the latest tips and tricks, or a library of prompts.
You want technical AI training, automation or agents.
You want a system you can copy. You leave with prompts and a protocol, but they work because you built your part of them.
You want a self-paced or recorded programme.
How the programme works
Setup session
We get Claude installed and configured, switch memory on and verify it on your screen rather than assuming it is working. I also show you how the main chat area, projects and the agentic workspace differ.
Then we turn to the project you’re bringing. The choice matters. It should not be a convenient example, but something you genuinely care about and, if it is also stuck, even better. You explain what you want to achieve, where it has stalled and what you have already tried. You leave with your first exercise and an explanation of how to use it.
1. Seeing yourself clearly
We start with what came out of the first exercise. I teach the three levels of working with AI and Danny Iny’s Clarity Cascade.
Between this session and the next, you build a portrait of yourself across seven dimensions of self-knowledge, based on Tasha Eurich’s research, and write your own protocol for collaborating with AI. The protocol is in your words, not Claude’s. It is what moves Claude from a generic tool to a collaborator that already knows who it is talking to.
2. Moving the boundary
We all operate inside limits we cannot see: unspoken rules about what seems reasonable to ask for. The observation is Danny Iny’s: the limit is often not in the tool but in what occurs to us to ask of it.
In this session, we use a live prompt to make those limits visible in a task you already do, and then explore what becomes possible beyond them. AI is central here because some of those limits are much harder to notice on your own. You leave with one question of your own deliberately unresolved.
3. Daring to ask for more
We practise staying in the conversation past the first plausible answer, which is where most people stop. You learn to notice whether what the AI returned really answers what was needed or only looks as though it does, and to ask again when it does not.
We work live on the real questions and projects you bring, not prepared examples.
4. Independence
Up to this point, you’ve worked with prompts I designed. Now you create your own, from scratch, for a task that genuinely matters in your work or in a project of your own. The standard is the prompts you’ve used in the course: not a short request, but a structured instruction with context, role, restrictions and output format that you can reuse whenever the task comes back. You also receive the prompt that guides you through the process, so you can create more on your own.
We close with the rule that runs through the whole course:
If you want to know how to do something with AI, ask the AI itself. Your job is to know how to judge whether the answer holds up or only sounds convincing.
There is no final assignment. The course ends here.
Where the method comes from
This method is not something I invented. I learned it from Danny Iny, who developed it and teaches it in live workshops and in his book AI Curious. The Clarity Cascade is his, and so is the idea that we operate inside invisible limits on what seems reasonable to ask for. I recommend his book without reservation.
What I add is small-group Spanish-language delivery, Tasha Eurich’s seven pillars of self-knowledge, and the perspective I bring from twenty years of research on nonconscious processes. My wider approach is also informed by the 350-hour Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Online Training.
About your teacher
I’m Maria Galli, PhD, a researcher and educator in Barcelona. My PhD is from INSEAD, and I’m an Academic Collaborator at Esade, where I teach The Action Gap. I have spent more than twenty years studying what influences behaviour outside conscious awareness. So far, I have taught this course to individuals and small groups.
AI for Conscious Creators or AI for Leaders?
Both begin from the same method, but they are different kinds of engagement.
Format: a live course with a shared path: setup plus four two-hour sessions.
Best for: anyone, alone or in a small group of up to six.
Focus: learning the method.
Format: one-to-one, a 90-minute session each week for eight weeks.
Best for: people who lead teams or companies.
Focus: applying it to your own decisions and projects, with sustained individual support.
Frequently asked questions
No. The course works for people who are just starting out and for people who already use AI every day. What matters is how you think and how you frame a question, not your technical level.
Yes. Most confident users stop at the first plausible answer, and the first plausible answer is almost never the best one available. You’ll learn to stay in the conversation past that point, give Claude enough real context to be useful about your situation rather than situations in general, and ask for things you may not have realised were available to ask for.
This is the part that surprises people most. When Claude has spent weeks learning how you think and where you get stuck, the precision can be startling. It doesn’t replace a trusted friend. But as something that holds the shape of what you’re working on, remembers what you said weeks ago and pushes back when you’re being vague, it can be remarkably useful to think with.
Not in the usual sense. The focus is the quality of your thinking and your dialogue with the tool. Technical competence develops through using it rather than being the goal.
An active Claude Pro subscription and real work that is stuck. If you don’t have Pro yet, we set it up together in the setup session.
Yes. You can join alone, with one other person or in a group of up to six, with per-person pricing as above.
No. Everything is live because the learning happens in the practice and the exchange. The session materials stay with you, but the live sessions are not recorded. Please block the time so you can take part fully.
Ready to join, or want to ask first?
If the programme sounds like a fit, you can enrol for an individual place, or get in touch to talk through dates and options for a pair or small group.
Or write to me about a pair or small group.