Approach

Four plain things, done consistently for a long time

There is no proprietary framework here and no acronym. The method is a written goal, a session every fortnight, commitments carried between sessions, and an honest measure of whether any of it is working. It has not changed much since 2007 because it has not needed to.

Structured goal setting

The first session produces one goal, written down, in language specific enough that someone who does not know you could tell whether you reached it. Not a direction, not a value, not a feeling. A sentence with a measure and a date in it.

This takes longer than people expect. Most goals arrive as a mood and leave as a sentence, and the rewriting is where a lot of the useful thinking happens. There is a short piece on the mechanics of it in write the goal so a stranger could check it.

Fortnightly sessions

Weekly is too often. Real change rarely produces a visible difference in seven days, so weekly sessions fill up with reassurance. Monthly is too far apart. Four weeks is long enough to forget what you agreed and to quietly rewrite it in your head.

Fourteen days is short enough that nothing can be quietly dropped and long enough that the work has to survive a normal fortnight, including the bad one. The group program runs weekly instead, because eight people watching supplies the same pressure on a shorter cycle.

Accountability between sessions

Every session ends with two or three commitments in writing. Not aspirations. Actions small enough to be finished inside a fortnight and specific enough that there is no argument later about whether they happened.

On day seven you send two or three lines saying where things stand. It takes a minute. Its purpose is not reporting, it is that a week which is already slipping gets named while there is still a week left to do something about it.

Honest measurement

Every session opens with the commitments from the last one. Done or not done. No preamble, no reframing of what was agreed, and no credit for having thought about it a great deal.

That question, asked calmly and without judgement every fortnight for six months, is most of what this practice does. It is also why some engagements end early, which is a good outcome and not a failure. See what progress looks like when it is real.

The rhythm

One fortnight, from the inside

This is the whole cycle. It repeats six times in a three month engagement and twelve times in a six month one.

Day one The session
Sixty minutes. Opens with last fortnight's commitments, spends the middle on what the answer to that reveals, and closes with two or three new commitments written down before you leave.
Day seven The note
Two or three lines from you. Where each commitment stands. A reply comes within a working day, usually short, occasionally a single question.
Day fourteen Round again
The cycle restarts. Over six months the commitments get noticeably better, because you learn what you will actually do in a fortnight rather than what you would like to be the sort of person who does.

Boundaries

What this practice does not do

Being clear about this early saves people money.

It is not therapyCoaching works forwards from a functioning position. If what is in the way is grief, depression, addiction, or trauma, it belongs with a clinician, and you will be told so in the first call rather than six sessions in.
It is not consultingYou will not be handed a strategy. If you need someone to tell you what your business should do, that is a different profession and a different invoice.
There is no method to buyNo certification, no licensed framework, no branded model. What is on this page is the whole of it.
Nothing is promisedNo guaranteed outcome, no typical result, no figure about what clients earn afterwards. People who work steadily for six months usually get somewhere. That is the honest version.

If that sounds like the right shape

The next step is a thirty minute call. Bring the thing that has not moved, and you will get a straight view on whether this method suits it. Where it does not, you will be told what would.

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