A possibility worth examining
Clarify what matters about your intention and the assumptions you bring to it.
Give possibility a place
The Intention Workshop
Turn an imagined future into a project you can examine
Bring a meaningful possibility to the table. Explore what it asks of you, rehearse a next step, try a small experiment and read what actually happened.
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Give a possibility something to work with.
For a reader with a meaningful possibility who would rather work through examples and experiments than collect more motivational statements.
This is a workshop for the moment after inspiration. You have an image of something you would like to do or become; now you need to decide what that image asks of you, what is within your influence and what can be tried.
Twelve chapters develop the practice, and five application labs take it into worked situations. Imagination has a place here alongside planning, constraints and feedback. The reading notes examine James Allen critically and distinguish historical belief from modern research and the book’s original exercises.
Inside the pages
Ideas with somewhere to go.
Rehearsal and preparation
Use an imagined scene to explore a next step, including what might make it difficult.
Five application labs
See the ideas developed through worked routes before adapting them to a project of your own.
Records and revision
Keep track of an attempt and use what happened to decide the next experiment.
How to spend time with it
Bring one project rather than a list of ambitions. Work through the teaching chapters, choose a relevant lab and keep the practice records close enough to revisit.
Spend time with the ideas
Read. Reflect.
Make it your own.
What is inside
Twelve chapters, five application labs and practice records. You will find questions to consider and practices you can adapt to your circumstances.
Reading behind the book
A critical reading of James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh, alongside research on planning and future thinking, with original exercises.
Pause with each chapter
Dedicated illustrated reflection pages offer questions to think through. No written answers, drawing or completed task is required. Writing activities are optional.
Your copy
A written digital book for personal reading and printing. Interior illustrations are black and white; the illustrated cover is in color. Read it on a phone, tablet or computer.
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