A private Magnum Opus Lab · one day · nine people
What if what comes next is already there in the work you have already done?
One day, hosted by Shawna Snow. You leave with a clear read on your next chapter and the decisions it asks of you.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
9:00 AM PDT
until 4:00 PM PDT
Santa Barbara, CA
Groundless
230 Santa Barbara St
9 of 9 spots available
$599
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You have already built a great deal. What if what comes next is not a new idea to find, but a pattern already running through the work you have done?
The Magnum Opus Lab is a private, one-day working session for nine people. Not a seminar, not an assessment, not a workshop about becoming a better version of yourself. It is an excavation of the person who is already there, and the greatest work only you can do.
Who you spend the day with
Shawna Snow
Shawna is a leadership facilitator and organizational learning designer. Her work is building the kind of room where accomplished people stop performing long enough to hear themselves again: for teams in transition, for founders, for groups that have outgrown the story they have been running.
She has lived and worked abroad, across Europe, in different cultures in Africa, and in the United States. She has facilitated inside startups and boardrooms, and designed leadership and social-emotional learning curricula used in schools and youth programs. She is the author of Snow in March, a memoir of loss, grief and resilience. Much of that work has happened in rooms most people never get invited into, doing the quiet, exacting work of helping people tell the truth.
Most of the time Shawna is facilitating on behalf of an organization. Here, for one day, you get her directly: in the room, on your own material, and once more, one-to-one, in the follow-up.
The problem
It isn’t a missing purpose. It’s fragmentation.
You are not short on achievement. What is missing is integration, a way to see how all of it fits together.
The parts don’t talk to each other
Your identity lives in one place, your work in another, your ambition somewhere else again. Each one is clear on its own. The pattern through all of them is not.
Achievement stopped answering the question
You know what you are good at. You have the results to prove it. None of that tells you what the next decade is actually for.
You have data on yourself, not a read
Decades of experience, instinct, feedback, contradiction. It adds up to a lot known about you, and no clear line drawn through you.
Advice keeps arriving. Clarity doesn’t
You are rarely short of input. What is missing is a coherent account of who you have become that you can make decisions from.
“Purpose asks why you are here. Magnum Opus asks what the evidence of your life reveals that you are here to do.”
A map, not a category
What it is
What Magnum Opus actually is
People tend to undersell it as “a purpose exercise.” It is considerably more. Magnum Opus is a patented methodology developed by conxiOS, a way of taking the whole evidence of a person and converging it into one coherent picture.
The foundations
Three Core Drives, six Core Emotions, nine Universal Needs. The primitives everything else is built from.
Fourteen dimensions
Purpose, principle, instinct, passion, potential, polarity and more, mapped, then shown in relation to one another.
The Growth Cycle & Peak Power
Your life in seven-year arcs, converging on a six-word articulation of the force only you bring.
See the fourteen dimensions
Each is a different angle on the same person. Purpose is where the map begins; Peak Power is what they all converge on. You can begin the first three for free in the 3-minute reflection.
P1 · Purposein the free reflection
Why you do what you do, beneath the job title.
P2 · Perceptionin the free reflection
The lens that shapes what you notice first.
P3 · Peoplein the free reflection
Who you're actually building this for.
P4 · Promise
What you deliver, once you strip away the hedging.
P5 · Primal Instinct
What you fall back on when things get hard.
P6 · Passion
Where your energy shows up without being asked.
P7 · Polarity
The tension you're built to hold.
P8 · Principles
The line you won't cross, even when it costs you.
P9 · Potential
What you're capable of that you haven't claimed yet.
P10 · Possibility
What opens up once the old story stops running.
P11 · Probability
What's actually likely, if nothing changes.
P12 · Perspective
The vantage point only you have.
P13 · Pursuits + Prosperity
What you're building next, and what it's worth.
P14 · Peak Power
Who you are at your sharpest.
The day
One day. Nine people. 9:00 to 4:00, with an hour for lunch.
You do not need to memorise a schedule. Understand it in the morning, build it through the day, speak it in the afternoon. Here is what to expect from each part.
Morning session
A plain account of what Magnum Opus is: the foundations, the fourteen dimensions, and how they resolve into a single Peak Power. You leave this part knowing exactly what you are building and why it is worth the day.
A short map of your life in seven-year arcs, so you are standing in your own story before you go deep.
The guided work itself: individual, unhurried, most of the way through the process before the break.
Before lunch, Shawna names out loud what each person is walking out with and what it is for, with concrete examples of what a finished Magnum Opus lets you decide, say, and stop carrying.
Then an hour for lunch. Lunch is provided.
Afternoon session
Finish the work: the remaining dimensions, the synthesis, and the six-word articulation of your Peak Power.
Name the greatest work only you can do, out loud, to the room. No one there has anything to sell you. No feedback, no advice. You are simply heard.
Close on one question: if this is true, what changes on Monday? One sentence each. Then you set the date for your private follow-up.
Your private follow-up
On a date that suits you, a one-to-one session with Shawna: what your Magnum Opus means in practice, how you bring it into your leadership and your life, and what you might want to keep working on together. Included in the Lab.
The written Magnum Opus is where the work starts, not where it ends. The growth areas it names are worked in sessions afterwards, with Shawna or with another coach trained in the method. Through conxiOS you can also use a private companion built on your Magnum Opus: a mirror that reflects your own values, needs and strengths back to you when a decision is hard, rather than one more thing competing for your attention.
What you leave with
You do not leave with notes. You leave with something you can make decisions from.
Your Magnum Opus
A personal map across the dimensions that have shaped you: purpose, principle, instinct, passion, potential, and the tension you are built to hold, connected into one coherent picture rather than fourteen separate insights.
Your Peak Power
A six-word articulation of the specific force you bring. Not a label for who you are, a read on what you are for.
Your Leadership Translation
One page that turns the map into decisions: how you lead, what to stop doing, where you create the most value, what only you should own, and what your next chapter is asking of you.
A private follow-up with Shawna
A one-to-one session on a later date to work through what your Magnum Opus means for you, how to apply it, and what, if anything, you want to keep working on together.
See it for real
This is what the written output looks like
Not a report you file and forget. One connected document you come back to when a decision is hard. Here is a full example, start to finish.
Peak Power · six words
“I’m finally letting something carry me.”
Fourteen dimensions, mapped and connected. A Root System tracing early needs to present-day patterns. A life in seven-year arcs. A manifesto in your own voice. And a Real Talk section that names the blind spot each strength hides.
Opens in a new tab. A fictional example, and the written output only.
What’s included
One price. Everything in it.
Your Magnum Opus licence
The full conxiOS platform: your complete 14-dimension map, Growth Cycle, Manifesto and Peak Power, yours to return to. A $369 value on its own.
The facilitated day
Six facilitated hours, hosted by Shawna Snow, in a room of nine at Groundless in Santa Barbara.
Your private follow-up
A follow-up session with Shawna, one to one, on a later date. An $83 value.
Booked separately, these three pieces come to about $1,400.
This is the first Santa Barbara cohort. The price is a founders’ rate, a friends-and-family price for the first Lab at Groundless. It will not be offered at this price again.
Voices
From people who have done this
“My Magnum Opus experience was a kickstart for change that has stayed with me.”
Marketing Executive, Canada
“Understanding was the hidden thread running through my life. Magnum Opus made it visible. Now I no longer grow because I feel I have to. I grow because I consciously choose to.”
Development Agency Owner, The Netherlands
“Reading my finished MO was mind blowing. "This knows me better than I know myself" kept running through my mind. The insights and awareness are treasures that not just resonate, but open up choices of how I can be.”
MD, USA
Next steps
If what comes next is already there in what you have built, the next step is to go and read it.
That is what the day is for. Here is what happens once you reserve:
- 1
Reserve your seat below. That holds one of the nine seats.
- 2
You get parking notes for Groundless and a short note on what to bring.
- 3
You arrive for the day. Lunch is provided.
- 4
Before you leave, you set the date for your private follow-up with Shawna.
Your Magnum Opus belongs to you. Nothing shared in the room leaves the room. Nine seats, most filled by invitation through the network, though the door is open to anyone this reaches.
- When
- Sunday, September 20, 2026
- 9:00 AM PDT–4:00 PM PDT
- Where
- Groundless
- 230 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara
- Seats
- 9 of 9 seats open.
- Investment
- $599
- founders’ rate
Held at Groundless, 230 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara (how to get there). Parking notes are also in your confirmation email.