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The Open conversation
Start with what’s going on
Not everything arrives with a title on it. If none of the written sessions is the right shape for what you are carrying, the Open Session runs the same method on what you actually brought.
Start an Open conversationDevelop yourself
“What am I unusually good at, and what should I do with it?”
Work on the person before the plan. Strengths with evidence behind them, motivation you can name and a next move you can test rather than agonise over.
88 tools available now
What am I actually good at?
What are you unusually good at, and what is the evidence for it?
What this part of my life is about
Energy versus competence, and what you would keep doing anyway.
Build your story
The red thread through apparently unrelated chapters, and the bios that come out of it.
What do you want to be known for?
The box people put you in, and what the evidence gives you permission to claim.
What do you actually want?
What you say you want versus how you actually live your Tuesdays.
What should I actually do?
A difficult decision, framed properly, including the alternative you haven't considered.
How am I showing up?
Where your time, attention and energy actually go, and who gets what's left.
What does money mean to me?
What you are really buying, what you inherited without examining and what enough looks like.
Your principles
What you steer by when it costs you something.
What am I responsible for?
Who reasonably depends on you, and what you have promised.
What stage am I in?
Your life may have changed before you changed your mind about who you are.
What does not need fixing?
What if this part of your life is already good?
Where does my attention actually go?
What the way you spend your attention says about the life you are living.
Who am I when nobody is watching
What remains when there is nobody to notice, approve or expect anything.
What has more control over me than I would like
What repeatedly changes what you do, whether you intended it or not.
What am I avoiding
The thing you have known for months and not acted on.
Your confidence audit
Whether this is competence, or whether this is fear.
What am I not allowing myself to want
Whose permission you are waiting for.
My digital self
What exists about you online, and whether it is true.
The year, reviewed
What actually happened, and what you are carrying forward.
What do I believe
What you hold true, and where it came from.
Does my life match what I believe
The distance between stated belief and daily conduct.
What is bigger than me
What you locate yourself inside.
What am I doubting
What has changed in what you believe, and what follows.
Is there something I need to apologise for
What you have done that you have not repaired.
Something I am carrying
What you are holding that you need help putting down.
The conversation I keep not having
What you need to say, and what you are afraid of.
Boundaries
Where you are saying yes and meaning no.
What kind of partner am I
How the person closest to you experiences you.
Is this relationship working
What is actually wrong, and whether it is yours to fix.
Who is actually in my life
Who would notice if you disappeared for a week.
Am I lonely
Whether you are under-connected, or under-known.
Rebuilding a circle
How adults make friends again.
Where do I belong
Which rooms you are genuinely part of.
What does my family need from me
What you reasonably owe, and what you are refusing.
Family patterns
What you are repeating that you never chose.
The parent I intend to be
What you are actually transmitting.
Caring for an ageing parent
What is required, what is sustainable and who else must help.
Roles are changing
What happens when the child becomes the carer.
Estrangement
Whether you want contact, and on what terms.
Should I leave
Whether the problem is the job, the role, the people or you.
CV stress test
Your CV read the way a sceptical reader reads it.
Is this just a job?
Whether this work needs to mean more than it does.
What is this job actually costing me
What you are paying in health, time and relationships.
What kind of work fits me now
Whether the right work has changed, even if the job has not.
Returning to work
What you bring back, and what has changed.
Made redundant
What now, in the right order.
Am I a good manager
What it is like to be managed by you.
Under financial pressure
What you can actually control this month.
Money and time
What you are trading, and at what rate.
Now that there is money
What it is for, now that it is not for survival.
Can my body sustain this life
Whether you are building something your health can carry.
Energy, sleep and recovery
Where your energy actually goes.
Ageing
What is changing, and what you are refusing to adjust.
What makes me feel alive
When you last did something purely because you enjoyed it.
Rest
Whether you know how to stop.
What am I still curious about
Where you have stopped growing.
What can I change and what must I carry
Which of this is yours to solve.
Failure, examined
What actually happened, and what you contributed.
Grief
What you are carrying, and what it needs.
What changes when time is finite
What matters enough not to postpone.
Starting again
What survives from the old life, and what does not.
Leaving education
What the first real move is.
Building a life away from home
Where home is now, and what distance costs you.
Where should I live
Choose the life first, then the postcode.
What replaces work
Retirement is not simply having more free time.
The future I am preparing for
Everybody is preparing for something. Most people have not said what.
What do I want to leave behind
Legacy is not a monument. It is what continues.
Am I happy
A life can work and still be flat. That is worth knowing.
What am I afraid of
Some fear is accurate. Most of it is unexamined.
Do I trust myself
Self trust is not general. It depends on what you're trusting yourself with.
What do I actually need right now
Start with sleep, money and time before anything deeper.
Am I being honest with myself
Every account is doing a job. The question is what.
What are we actually arguing about
The recurring argument is rarely about the stated subject.
Are we asking for different things
Two requests, side by side, before anybody compromises.
Can this be repaired
Repair has conditions. It is worth knowing whether they exist.
How do I help without taking over
Help that does things for someone is still costly, however kindly meant.
I'm worried about someone
Separate what you have seen from what you are concluding.
After trust has been broken
No verdict, and no view on staying or leaving. What was broken, and what you need now.
I broke the trust
You did it. What rebuilding would actually require, and whether you are willing to do it.
The damage I caused
Money, property, work, reputation. What can be put back, and what has to be told.
Why I keep doing it
The same thing, again, after you meant it the last time. What actually interrupts it.
What does success mean to me?
What you currently count as evidence that you are doing well, and what you believe it proves.
What did I inherit without choosing?
The rules, expectations and definitions that arrived before you had a say.
What am I protecting?
Keeping part of your life exactly as it is may be loving, rational or simply old.
What have I made unthinkable?
The option you have already ruled out, looked at properly before you rule it out again.
Whose definition am I using?
Success, love, work, family, money. Somebody defined these before you did.
What does being there for my family mean?
Everyone says it. Almost nobody has said what it actually means.
Develop your business
“Is this idea real, and where is the value actually going to come from?”
Pressure-test the thing you are building. Proposition, economics, constraint, partners and customers.
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Develop your mission
“What do I care about enough to keep going when it gets hard?”
For people building something that is not primarily about them. Purpose, coalition and whether anybody other than you actually cares.
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Who benefits from my life besides me
Your contribution, honestly measured.
What do I owe strangers
The responsibility you have beyond the people you know.
Who do you need around you
Coalition, partners and the first ten people.
Does anybody else care
Whether this is a mission, or a preference.
Generosity
Where your money goes beyond you and yours.
The wider library
There is more behind this than the titles above. TAIU is being built out slowly across the whole of a life, and the ones that are ready arrive here when they are actually finished. The value is the right exercise at the right moment, not the size of the library.
Or enter by area of life
Tracks are how TAIU is organised today. Underneath, every exercise belongs to an area of life, and the map is deliberately wider than what exists so far.
Me
Who am I, and what am I unusually good at?
- What am I actually good at?
- Build your story
- What am I responsible for?
- What does not need fixing?
- Where does my attention actually go?
- Who am I when nobody is watching
- What has more control over me than I would like
- What am I avoiding
- Your confidence audit
- What am I not allowing myself to want
- The year, reviewed
- What makes me feel alive
- What am I still curious about
- What can I change and what must I carry
- Failure, examined
- Grief
- Building a life away from home
- Am I happy
- What am I afraid of
- Do I trust myself
- What do I actually need right now
- Am I being honest with myself
- Why I keep doing it
- What does success mean to me?
- What did I inherit without choosing?
- What am I protecting?
- Whose definition am I using?
Work & career
Is the work I'm doing the work I should be doing?
Purpose & values
What am I actually for?
Future
What do I actually want next?
Major life decisions
What should I do about this specific thing?
Relationships
How do I show up to the people around me?
- How am I showing up?
- Is there something I need to apologise for
- Something I am carrying
- The conversation I keep not having
- Boundaries
- What kind of partner am I
- Is this relationship working
- What are we actually arguing about
- Are we asking for different things
- Can this be repaired
- After trust has been broken
- I broke the trust
Family
What am I building, and who is it for?
Money
What is money actually for, in my life?
Health
Am I building a life my body and mind can sustain?
Business
Is this idea real, and where does the value come from?
People
Who is around me, and who should be?