The Human Design Channel of Surrender ("The Power Broker")
There are 36 channels in Human Design. We call them your superpowers because they are always on. They're either supporting you or sabotaging you, depending on your awareness of their energy dynamics, which is why you really want to know yours.
One of the reasons I love Human Design and incorporate into my work with my storytelling clients at humanifesto studios, is that it helps me and Tara create dream teams with every project we undertake.
When we understand the native talent of our business partners, we can be more conscious in choosing our intentions and the actions that will support our client in alignment with their true nature.
Why I love the Channels
I'm a 1-line in Human Design, which means I am always gathering data about the stuff I love, and boy do I love Human Design.
When I first started living in alignment with my design three years ago, one of the first epiphanies I had was that some of my own channels were in conflict. I often felt like I had one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake at the same time.
When I met my Human Design and saw that I had been operating out of alignment with my aura's natural mechanics and inner authority, it became apparent why I felt like I was always at war with myself — my head, my heart, and my soul were competing to be in the driver's seat and Human Design gave me the tools to help them work in harmony in a way that is not only good for me, but for the good of all.
What to know about The Power Broker
In Human Design speak this channel is called the Channel of Surrender, a Design of a Transmitter. It connects the instincts of the Spleen to the material drive and will of the Ego through gates 44 (Alertness) and 26 (The Egoist), respectively. It is part of the Tribal circuitry which is all about support, materialism, the quid pro quo, loyalty, and agreements.
The Power Broker has been showing up in my life a lot lately: our client sponsor in our last two narrative projects, one of my current Human Design coaching clients, and even my business partner, Tara.
What I've observed about The Power Broker
I find the energy of the Power Broker very seductive — it's an energy I do not have and one that is highly useful in business. It's an energy that's about expanding the reach and abilities of the tribe, often by introducing outsiders who bring new ideas, new skills, and new relationships. It's a channel that's essential to the Tribe's ability to evolve into the future — if the Tribe remains stuck in its ways, cut off from individuals and the collective, it will eventually meet its own existential end.
The energy of the Power Broker is vital to remaining competitive, instead of going the way of a Kodak or a Blockbuster. The Power Broker recognizes that being at the top of the hierarchy isn't a given for long-term leadership. Even the best have to be willing to continuously reinvent themselves if they want to survive.
Here are three common patterns I see in the way this channel is expressed in the world when the person who has it is living in alignment with their Strategy and Authority:
They're super calm and rational in their negotiations
There's no hard-sell, no "buy now" mentality. If they have a quota to make, you'll never feel it because that's not what's driving them. What drives them is an underlying purpose that's so much bigger than the transaction or the moment. They're building something to last and they are deliberate in finding the right talent, partners, and collaborators to do it right.
They value the material world, but they're also detached from it
They realize that we live in a material world and that material resources are the way to facilitate agreements, action, and growth. Money is a means to an end, not a proxy for power. It doesn't define them or their worth, so they don't lord it over others. They have an acute sense of fairness for the other — they're building trusted bonds and relationships and know that transactional "I win, you lose" thinking is self-defeating in the long run.
They are masterful diplomats
I am flat out in awe of the people in my life who have this channel. As someone with an undefined Solar Plexus center, I am highly conflict-avoidant and, as a result, became a people pleaser and abdicator to protect the feelings of others (which I'm consciously deconditioning now). These people are the opposite of that. They step right up to conflict, right into the arena, and their only armour is clarity of what needs to happen and why for all parties to get what they need. They seem invulnerable and don't take anything personally.
Their ability to work with any and every personality — no matter how difficult or disgruntled or ornery — and every character who has skin in the game is unmatched. They calmly, patiently, and painstakingly bring even the most distant points of view to a common ground where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and everyone feels valued and seen.
Do you have the Power Broker channel?
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Note: Every Human Design chart is more than the sum of its parts, and every element of a chart affects — and is affected by — every other element. Human Design is a deeply layered, complex system that integrates eastern and western traditions and wisdom. When I share discrete elements of a chart, I am simply sharing glimpses into the mechanics of Human Design (and the Gene Keys) to show others how they, too, can discern practical insights from their own charts into their uniqueness and the patterns of thought, behavior, conditioning, emotions, and psychology that keep them from achieving their highest potential or living their best life.
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