I am looking at Helix and the docs as an absolute beginner - It looks great but I am thinking I could use a nice hand holding intro or perhaps and fairly simple demo project — Any suggestions?

There is the todo mvc demo project here. https://github.com/lilactown/helix-todo-mvc That project is a little involved. But you can try getting it running, delete code you don’t care about and maybe make a simpler demo. Beginners are actually usually the best at making this sort of material. I am sure there are a ton of people who would benefit if you documented some of your learning process or made a simple demo project and shared it.