A Virtual 6-Week Cohort
Imaginal Pattern Studies is run as a closed cohort — a small group of participants who commit to a six-week structured program. Over the course of six weeks, you complete five designed exercises and learn a framework for reading your own material. You leave with a body of self-generated evidence and the tools to continue working with it independently.
The observational lenses are introduced in week four, once you have enough material for your patterns to start repeating. By weeks five and six, you are reading your own output in real time and comparing it to your earlier exercises to see what keeps showing up regardless of the scenario.
This is a commitment. The method is cumulative. Each exercise depends on the ones before it, and the reading framework depends on having a body of material to work with. Partial participation does not produce the intended result.
You leave with your own collected outputs, the full set of observational lenses, and the ability to continue using both on your own with any material your mind produces, including the daydreams, fantasies, and recurring scenarios you were already having before you got here.
What This Cohort Involves
This is a six-week structured program for 8–12 participants. Here is what happens each week:
Weeks 1–3
You receive one designed exercise per week. Each exercise gives you a scenario, a set of conditions, and a time constraint. You write your response and submit it to me within a defined window. During these weeks, you are not trying to analyze or interpret anything. You are building a body of raw material.
Week 4
A live group session where I introduce the reading lenses—a set of specific observation tools for reading your own output. I demonstrate these using an anonymized example from the cohort. You then apply the lenses to your own material from weeks 1–3 and write what you notice.
Weeks 5–6
Two more designed exercises. This time, you apply the reading lenses to your own output immediately after writing. You also compare these later exercises to your earlier ones. This is where patterns become self-evident not because I point them out, but because repetition across multiple exercises makes them visible.
After Week 6
A written reflection survey. Optional one-on-one conversation with me for anyone who wants it.
Live Sessions
There are two group sessions held via video call:
Session 1 — Week 1 (Opening): I explain the method, what the exercises are designed to do, what they are not, and what your commitment looks like. This sets the container. The first exercise is issued immediately after.
Session 2 — Week 4 (Reading Lenses): I teach the observational lenses using anonymized cohort material. You practice applying the lenses to your own outputs during and after the session.
What You Leave With
Your own collected outputs—five written pieces produced under conditions designed to reveal how you operate beneath your conscious surface.
The observational lenses for reading your own material, and the ability to continue using both the exercises and the lenses on your own, with any imaginal material—including daydreams, recurring fantasies, and scenarios your mind produces without prompting.
This is not a six-week experience that ends when the cohort ends. It is a set of tools and a body of self-generated evidence that continues to reveal things over time.
What This Is Not
This is not therapy, and I am not a therapist. The exercises are designed to surface material that usually stays beneath awareness, and that process can be uncomfortable. If you are currently in treatment for acute mental health issues, please consult your provider before participating. This is also not a creative writing workshop. The quality of your prose is irrelevant. What matters is what you do with the scenario, not how well you write it.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Your submissions are seen only by me. I may use anonymized material, with all identifying details removed, in future cohorts and in ongoing development of the methodology. All material shared in the current cohort will be from past participants and no one in the current group. You will have the opportunity to opt out of this use in the participant agreement. All participants agree to keep anything shared during live sessions confidential.
Commitment
This is a six-week commitment. The method is cumulative. Each exercise builds on the previous ones, and the reading framework introduced in week 4 depends on having three outputs to work with. Partial participation does not produce the intended result.
The cohort is limited to 8–12 participants. The fee is for the full six weeks, which includes all five exercises, both live sessions, the observational lenses to keep and use beyond the cohort, and the optional one-on-one conversation at the end.
A full refund is available if you withdraw before the first exercise is issued. After that point, no refunds.
You're invited, at any time, to express interest in being part of a cohort. To do so, complete the Interest form and details around the topic and cost for the next available cohort will be sent to you via email when they are available.
About This Work
Imaginal Pattern Studies is a developing methodology. You are not signing up for a finished product. You are participating in the early stage of something that does not yet exist elsewhere—a structured, self-directed method for using designed exercises to surface and recognize your own patterns. Your participation, your outputs, and your feedback will directly shape how this work develops.