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A six-month school for adults at a crossroads.

Twenty-four Tuesday evenings in Aventura. You write one page describing who you intend to be in two years — then spend six months proving it, with five people who know exactly what you committed to.

Cohort 01 · 12 January to 6 July 2027 · Eighteen places

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How it works

Four things, and nothing else to keep track of.

The page
One page, present tense, two years out, across six areas of your life — health, relationships, money, work, growth and what you give back. It opens with what you have already been given. It stays private.
The project
From one line of that page you carve a single thing you can finish in thirteen weeks. About thirty hours. It has to exist on the table at graduation — not a tally of attempts.
The team
Three teams of six. Each one is commissioned to build something the school actually uses, with a written brief, a real deadline and a budget.
The mentors
Six mentors, three students each, for six months. They know your work and your hours. They never read your page.

The evening

Two and a half hours, the same shape every week.

The lecture45
Reset5
Continued45
Break10
The technique40
Close5

Doors at 7:00, the session runs 7:30 to 10:00. The forty minutes at the end are yours — a method practised in the room, on your own material, never on a worked example. From session eleven the lecture halves and the last forty-five minutes belong to your team.

Why it works

Every evening is built on something measured.

Twenty-four sessions, twenty-four cited studies — each with its design, its real numbers and its caveat. Where the research undercuts what we teach, we say so in the room.

24% → 66%

Same programme, same city. People who enrolled alone still held their result six months later at 24 percent. Those who came with three others, and were trained to support each other, 66.

0.65

How far goal attainment moved when people wrote a single if-then sentence. Ninety-four studies. The goal was not the variable. The sentence was.

64–72%

Completion in cohort courses, against 5–15 percent for self-paced online. Half of all dropouts happen in the first two weeks, which is where we spend the most design.

The six months

The order is the design.

Nothing is asked of you before the instrument exists. By the night you commit, you have already written the page, practised the reading and measured your own interference.

1–4

Where you stand

The beliefs you did not choose, the purpose sentence, the cost of waiting, and the plan for the day motivation is gone.

5–6

The instrument

What you have been telling yourself, and then the page itself — written, not discussed.

7–10

Why it works

Attention, obstacles, emotion, interference. The mechanics behind the page, before anyone relies on it.

11–14

The work begins

You draft your own project, your team takes its commission, and everything gets broken into pieces with dates on them.

15–22

Execution

Starting, ideas, money, hours, sequence, tools, specialisation. Eight weeks of doing it rather than planning it.

23–24

Sending you out

The ask, and the version of the page you keep — written by hand, dated June 2029.

What you leave with

On the table

  • One finished thing, with thirteen weeks of recorded evidence behind it.
  • A page you actually believe, because you wrote it three times and cut whatever you were only saying.
  • Twenty-four methods you have each used once, on your own material.

And after

  • Five people who know exactly what you committed to, and noticed when you went quiet.
  • A mentor who watched you do it, not a certificate that says you attended.
  • A bound book with your final page written into it in your own hand.

The practical part

What it asks of you.

Twenty-four Tuesday eveningsIntroduction evening 5 January, first session 12 January, graduation 6 July7:30–10:00
WhereOne room, the same one every weekAventura, FL
Who it is forAny adult at a crossroads who has decided to do something about it18 and up
PlacesSix mentors, three students each. The number is the design, not a scarcity tactic18
Tuition$250 deposit and four monthly payments of $250, or $1,150 paid in full$1,250

Applying

It starts with a conversation, not a form.

Tell us how to reach you. Every applicant has a thirty-minute conversation with one of the mentors before anyone talks about a place or a payment.