Re-Authoring: Inner Authority

• Modular — 30 minutes to a multi-day intensive
• 6–10 people, in trios — minimum 3 in a circle
• Come as you are

Every format is arranged directly — say how long you have and I will say which one fits.

Every format is arranged directly — tell me how long you have and I will tell you which one fits.

We each build a castle from the blocks of our experience — and some blocks were set so long ago they now wear the face of the walls themselves. This is a workshop in seeing them, and in reclaiming the authority to raise them anew.

Come with one in mind: a rule you live by, a limit you hold, a belief about yourself you set down so long ago it now feels like simple truth. If none arrives beforehand, come instead with the edge you are working on in yourself right now — where you are growing, and what you make of yourself as you go — or with one recent experience that moved you. We find the block together.

There's an old training image, still used with young elephants: stake one leg to the ground with a rope while it's small enough that the rope holds. The claim that follows is folklore: most stop testing the rope once they're grown enough to snap it. The mechanism inside it has a real name in humans, though. Learned helplessness is one of the most replicated results in behavioural psychology. A response gets set by an early circumstance. The circumstance ends. The response outlives it. The rope is gone, and you're still standing exactly where it held you.

Someone free of your rope, or carrying a longer one, can see this plainly: you're holding position against something that already left. As an adult, which circumstance you keep living inside is a choice in front of you.

The shape of it

1. You write the pattern you're here to work on — a page, or even one line. If it's hard to find, you get help finding it.
2. You're sorted into a group of three.
3. One at a time, you share what you wrote, and the other two reflect back what they see in it.
4. Then, alone again, you write a new story — the old one rewritten with a clear intention.
5. A short grief ritual: naming what the old pattern gave you, then letting it go.
6. You carry the new story out, with a concrete way to live it day to day.

The formats

One workshop at five lengths. Each is the same arc, taken as far as the time allows, and each carries its own name so a programme says what it is getting.

One workshop at five lengths. Each is the same thing, taken as far as the time allows, and each has its own name so anyone booking it knows what they are getting.

• 01 30 minutes Re-Authoring: The Block-Find

  Shows a room the shape of the thing. One block found and named, so everyone leaves knowing what the work is.

  the first toola festival slot · a team hour · a taster

• 02 60 minutes Re-Authoring: Inner Authority

  Turns it once with them inside it. A block found, mirrored back by another person, and rewritten.

  the first three toolsa festival programme · a booked workshop slot · minimum 3 people

• 03 90 minutes Re-Authoring: The Full Turn

  The complete arc, unhurried, with room for each trio to take a block all the way through.

  all five toolsa booked session · 6–10 people

• 04 Half a day to a day Re-Authoring: The Long Room

  The arc run more than once, on more than one block, with the circle together long enough that people start speaking plainly.

  all five, repeateda retreat · a camp · an offsite

• 05 Multiple days Re-Authoring: The Molt

  Blocks found, rewritten, then lived with overnight and brought back — because the test of the change is what survives sleep and a day of ordinary life.

  all five, plus naming the shed at the endan intensive · a residency · a small committed group

Say how long you have and I will say which one fits.

The rules the workshop runs on, each told twice, with the papers beside them: the rules of Re-Authoring.

What you carry away

• The block-findSpotting a belief that has taken the face of a wall — stated as a fact about the world rather than a choice you made.
• The relating mirrorYou cannot refuse what you cannot see. Another set of eyes reads back what they heard as a rule.
• Say what is, not what isn'tThe negated image is the planted image. Rewriting a block present-tense and negation-free.
• Control the inputs, release the outcomesConsciousness as doorman, not builder: vet what enters, drop the grip on results.
• Name what you shedThe test that tells you the change was real.

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