The episode starts it. The group makes it stick.

A cohort is a small group that watches one episode a week on their own time, then meets online for one hour to work on it together.

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Walt, the convener in The Goal Book, gestures to the table.

Three programs

6 weeks

The Art of Connection

Analytical teams: engineers, analysts, finance and operations.

Six participant workbooks and a syllabus.

10 weeks

The Goal Book

Anyone who wants something and hasn't turned it into a goal.

The Goal Book workbook and a guide sheet per week.

10 weeks

The Script

People who keep ending up in the same scene with the same people.

A guide per episode.

The same hour, every week.

Sessions never replay the episode or read the chapter aloud. People come having watched it, and the hour goes to their own work.

  1. Check-in 10 min

    How last week's practice actually went. Stumbles are reported, not hidden.

  2. Teach 20 min

    The idea behind the episode, told in the first person, with real examples.

  3. Live work 22 min

    Volunteers bring a real page or a real situation, and it gets worked on out loud while everyone else answers in chat.

  4. This week 6 min

    The three practices for the coming week.

  5. Close 2 min

    One line each, and what's next.

Nate and Dot behind the counter at Frank's, from The Script.

House rules for the room

Read aloud in week one, and repeated the moment one is needed.

  • Name only your own patterns. Nobody diagnoses a spouse, a boss, a parent or a coworker.
  • Labels sit next to a behavior, never on a person.
  • Numbers and personal details stay private unless the person chooses to show them.
  • Cameras are a request, not a rule. Chat is for everyone; the mic is for volunteers.
  • If something heavy comes up, it is acknowledged warmly and followed up privately with a referral.

Cohorts are education, not therapy, and the guides say so on every page.

Run a cohort for your team.

Tell us the group, the size and when you'd like to start. Cohorts run online, so a team can be spread across offices.

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