Navigating the Unknown

How much clarity do you wait for before you move? In this recorded session with Samer Hassan, 88 minutes in Arabic, you notice how you meet the unknown in your life, then learn a four-step compass to take one step while the unknown is still unknown. With a full written summary.

Samer led this session live on Zoom on 12 October 2026. This is the full recording as it happened, with the participants' answers, their questions, and his replies. Early on he told the room that they were there to draw the wisdom out from among themselves, and their answers became the material of the session.

What the session contains, in order

• A conscious breath, then two held breaths, showing that presence grows under pressure and does not depend on calm alone.
• One rule for the group, applied to yourself before anyone else: no judgement, and no excuses.
• Eight short prompts the participants answered in writing: what the unknown is for you, how much of your day you actually know, when you start to move, what waiting costs you, and what you noticed about yourself.
• One shift in how you relate to the unknown: from trying to turn it into the known, to learning to sail it.
• The compass for navigating the unknown, with an everyday example for each step: a destination built on identity; one step, not ten; Somatic Thinking, to read what that step revealed; then confirm or adjust the destination, and take the next step.
• About twenty minutes of questions: whether identity is fixed, whether sensory information can be trusted, how excellence offered as devotion differs from perfection, and how to use the compass at home across several roles.

Who it is for

The session looks at the unknown through three lenses, with one compass for all three:

• For yourself: if you put off a decision until everything is clear, or notice yourself weighing every word before you say it, to save face.
• As a coach: if you know that moment in a session when you cannot tell where your client is heading, and you lean toward thinking for them or handing them a solution. You also hear why Samer plants coaching competencies in the roots of our humanity, not in the role.
• As a leader or someone others look to: in a family, an organisation or your own business, when you make decisions that affect others and may assume you know where their interest lies.

No prior knowledge of coaching is needed.

What you get

• The full recording: 88 minutes, in Arabic.
• A complete written summary: the questions in order, what the participants' answers revealed in numbers, and the compass steps in Samer's own words. The summary also comes in a short English version.
• An optional workbook (PDF): answer the same questions Samer asked the room, then keep a daily observation practice for one week.

What the session does not promise

It does not promise that fear of the unknown will disappear. As one participant wrote, it is natural to be afraid. What the session offers is a way to move while the unknown is still unknown, and questions to notice yourself as you move.