Summer 2026 Cohort: The Invented Person

You've built someone in your mind who may not exist in the way you've constructed them. You've assigned meaning to small gestures, read depth into ambiguity, and called it recognition when it might have been projection. You may already suspect this. What you probably haven't seen is the pattern underneath it — the specific, repeatable way your mind builds a person from fragments and then bonds with what it built.

This cohort uses designed writing exercises to surface how you construct and attach to people who exist more vividly in your imagination than in your actual life.

Over six weeks, you'll produce a body of written material under conditions designed to activate the machinery of idealization and then learn to read that material for the patterns your mind keeps running regardless of the person or the scenario.

This is not about fixing how you love. It is not about attachment styles or healing or learning to choose better. It is about seeing, clearly, what your mind does when it encounters someone it wants to make extraordinary and what that construction is protecting you from having to face.

Five exercises. Six weeks. A set of observational lenses you keep.

Limited to 8–12 participants.

If you are interested in this cohort, reach out to: [email protected] for more information. Tentative start date is Early Summer 2026.