Darketypes™

- a 3.5 hour live Zoom mini-intensive just for alumni of the Light Dark Institute -

Using Darketypes™ to Expand Your Personal Development, Leadership, and Relationships

Saturday, February 21, 2026

From 2pm-5:30pm PST

A 3.5 hour live Zoom with Tani & Leslie

Plus full access to Darketypes™: The Workbook — our 200-page epic manual to understanding what drives each of the 10 Core Darketypes™ and how to work with them!

$145 - early bird price till Feb 14th; $195 after that

Whether you worked with us months ago or a decade ago, this mini-intensive is an invitation to step back into the living edge of this work — to reawaken your felt relationship with the Darketypes™ and update your understanding with all our newest materials.

The map you once knew has evolved. The insights have deepened. And the doorways into freedom, creativity, power, and connection are wider than ever before. This is a chance to meet the work again with fresh eyes — and to experience how much more deeply it can land now.

Whether you’re looking to strengthen your leadership, deepen your relationships, support your personal wellness, or expand your self-awareness, this mini-intensive offers a powerful new lens for understanding yourself and the world – along with tools you can continue to use long after the class ends.

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The Darketypes™ have evolved. . . and so has the Map.

The Darketypes™ are a living transmission that deepens with every cycle of work. In recent years, the Darketypes Map has evolved and refined significantly as we’ve gained clearer insight into the forces that shape and drive these archetypal forces. In particular, we have come into a much more precise and powerful understanding of what we now call the Three Currents — the Light Energy (core desire or deepest yearning), the Dark Energy (core fear / need to avoid), and the Strategy (core shadow behavior) that drives each Darketype or pair of Darketypes. When we understand the nuances of how these Three Currents operate within each Darketype, it opens profound possibilities for deeper self-love and self-understanding, as well as delivering potent tools for how to work with the Darketypes when they arise in ourselves or in others.

Even if you’ve done work with us in the very recent past, there are new updates. The Darketypes™ Map and the Three Currents continued to change and evolve until they finally landed in what feels like their permanent form within the last six months, which is why we’re sharing this class now. Only the most recent cohort of our 8-week online course Playing with Darketypes™ (Fall 2025) have gotten the full current transmission. If you did our work in any form before that time, there’s new information we’re excited to share with you.


Want the BOOK with our deepest understandings of all time?

For years, people have asked when we’d be writing a book – this is it!

Darketypes™: The Workbook is our most complete and up-to-date guide to the Darketypes Map and the Three Currents, drawing together years of teaching, refinement, and lived exploration into a single cohesive resource. For some of you, this will be your first encounter with the workbook. For others who received an earlier version through Playing with Darketypes™, this edition reflects the many ways the work has continued to evolve and clarify since then.

Developed through years of real-world practice and the insights revealed along the way, this 200-page virtual workbook weaves together core teachings, guided reflections, and practical exercises designed to help you recognize the Darketypes in real time — within yourself, your relationships, and the wider world. It offers a living companion for ongoing practice, supporting deeper self-understanding, greater freedom of choice, and a more playful, compassionate relationship with shadow.

This is the first time the fully updated workbook is being shared outside of our full 9-week online course, and we’re excited to place it directly in your hands.

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Why take this class if I’ve already learned about the Darketypes™?

Even if you’ve worked with us around the Darketypes™ before, this class will take you further into shadow work by revealing how those hidden parts operate in real time – as strategies, energies, and drives influencing your choices. They’re potent inner forces, parts of you (and others) that know how to get their needs met. While they can be misunderstood or judged, when you look closer, you’ll find they’re driven by wisdom, depth, and profoundly human desires. If you choose to meet them more deeply, you’re likely to:

  • Powerfully expand your self-approval, and feel more whole and integrated within yourself

  • Show up in relationships with clearer boundaries, deeper play, and richer connection.

  • Approach your work or business with greater creativity and confidence.

  • Stand more fully in your power and step into greater leadership in a way that feels meaningful and aligned.

What do I get with this class?

  • You get a fun and lively 3.5-hour Zoom session facilitated live by Tani & Leslie, with powerful guided activities plus Q&A

  • You get the updated Darketypes™ Map with all the updated names for the specific Darketypes and the forces that drive them

  • You get the most up-to-date version of Darketypes™: The Workbook — our 200-page virtual workbook packed with insights, information, and activities to deepen your understanding

  • You get to connect with other alumni of Light Dark courses

  • You get to refresh and expand your shadow work learnings so you can find deeper self-love, more flow in your relationships, greater confidence in leadership, and powerful tools for meeting the darkness in yourself and in the world.

What’s in the workbook?

The workbook speaks to both your mind and your heart, revealing the depth of each of the 10 Core Darketypes™ and offering supportive practices to engage with them in playful, connected ways.

Here is a sample of what you will find in each chapter:

  • Darketype™ Profiles for each of the 10 Core Darketypes™, explaining the various ways each plays out

  • In-depth explanations of the “Light Energy” (core desire), “Dark Energy” (core fear), and “Strategy” (core behavior) for each Darketype™ or pair of Darketypes™

  • Real-world examples for each Darketype™ — how they show up both at the individual level and the societal level

  • Tips and tools for how to work with each Darketype™ when it arises so you can explore it in ways that are intentional and consensual

  • “Why should I like this Darketype™??” - An understanding of how each Darketype™ supports and watches out for us, and when it can serve as a particularly useful ally in our lives

  • Gifts of the Darketype™ - Some of the many amazing capacities and forms of wisdom hiding in the shadows

  • Contemplation Questions – Ways to reflect, through journaling, conversation, or personal reflection

  • Playful Engagements – Embodied activities to play with the different energies we are exploring

In addition, there are separate sections on the following potent themes:

  • How to work with Darketypes™ in other people when they’re coming out you

  • “Integrated Power”: How to get out of the trap of either abandoning yourself or pushing away the other person, and come into a place where you can hold power and connection simultaneously

  • Deep understandings of the important role of the Needy Wretch as the driver of all other Darketypes, and extra attention on how to work with this part to radically change your life and relationships

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes, it is worth taking this class, even if you’ve already taken the Playing With Darketypes™ course! So much has been updated/expounded upon recently, including the Darketypes™ Map and the workbook. Tani and Leslie have had many new downloads come through in recent months regarding the “Three Currents”: the “Light Energy” (core desire), “Dark Energy” (core fear), and “Strategy” (core behavior) for each Darketype™ or pair of Darketypes™. Even if you took PWD as recently as Spring 2025, some of the Light Energies and Dark Energies have changed from what we taught in your course, and we’re excited to share the new updates with you.

    There is one exception - those of you who took the most recent round of Playing With Darketypes™ (Fall 2025) have received the most updated versions of these resources, so this class would be mostly a repeat for you.

  • We set the price for this class low to keep it accessible for our alumni. That being said, if cost is still a barrier to your participation, we are open to offering scholarships. Please reach out to info@lightdarkinstitute.com to discuss.

  • You must have already attended any of our in-person workshops (2 days or longer, not just a short class) or taken our 8-week online course, Playing With Darketypes™.

  • We would strongly encourage you to take our Playing With Darketypes™ 9-week online course or attend an in-person group workshop to get the full embodied experience of playing with these different Darketypes™ in a deeper way than a 3-hour class can offer. However, if this class is really calling to you, we are happy to have you join us.

  • Yes, we will share the recording with you. However, we strongly encourage everyone to attend live, as the live embodied interaction will help you get the most from the experience.