Before you decide

Before you decide

Most people who come to us spend weeks reading before they get in touch. This page collects what we would want you to read first — including the pages where we say plainly that this is the wrong choice.

Some of it may lead you to decide this is not for you. That is a good outcome. The wrong program is worse than no program.

What to check first

What to check first

Three formats, compared on duration, screening, supervision and what happens afterward — including where a retreat is the better and cheaper choice.

One client at a time, every member of staff under a non-disclosure agreement, and consent to be named that remains revocable at any time. Including what we cannot promise.

Nine jurisdictions, each with the legal mechanism that actually applies: never scheduled, prescription only, individual government authorization, or supervised access with no diagnosis at all. Including where our own residencies take place, and why.

Twenty questions, four minutes, no email address. Your answers stay in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. It diagnoses nothing — it shows which of five dimensions is carrying the deficit.

The medical exclusions in full, and the seven reasons a medically eligible person is still declined. Written so you can rule yourself out in four minutes instead of four conversations.

An anonymous survey of senior leaders on isolation, meaning and health, running until October. We publish the full question set, the raw anonymized data and the findings that do not help us — and the analysis plan was written and locked before the first response arrived.

What the evidence says actually helps, and what does not. Including why the one meta-analysis of leader-targeted programs found no significant effect — and what those 25 programs left out.

How the work actually functions

How the work actually functions

Our own term, and we say so. Development across all five dimensions at once — physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual — rather than one at a time.

The part that decides whether anything holds. Why breakthroughs fade, and why month four is where it is settled.

Not our term, and we say that too. What the coaching component consists of, plus the two research findings that argue against our own model.

What we measure and why: DNA, gut health, hormones, metabolic markers and biological age — measured at the start and again at the end. Including a study that made headlines whose subjects were mice.

Where to start

Where to start

If you are early and exploring, read retreat, coaching, or clinical program — it is the fastest way to work out whether the format itself is wrong for you.

If you have already tried something and it did not hold, read integration.

If discretion is your first question rather than your last, read confidentiality.

If you are not yet sure there is anything to solve, take the “Is This It?” assessment — four minutes, and nothing leaves your browser.

“The substance isn’t the therapy. It’s the catalyst.”

“The substance isn’t the therapy. It’s the catalyst.”

Hardi Põder, co-founder