Reference
Every model this practice actually works from, in one place, with nothing invented to fill the page. There is one teaching framework and four operating ones, and they are listed in the order they are met.
Teaching framework
What it answers: where, specifically, is this breaking.
Every act of communication runs through five dimensions. When something fails, it fails in one of them, and the other four are usually fine. This is the whole basis of the practice: the claim is not that you communicate badly, it is that one of five things is off and the rest is working.
What you actually want the moment to do.
Broken Everything downstream is aimed at nothing. You wanted to sound competent, to be liked, to get through it. No amount of polish fixes aim.
Sounds like "I do not know what I was trying to get out of that meeting."
What you chose to say, and what you chose to leave out.
Broken Prepared people ramble, smart people bury the point, and the listener works harder than the speaker did. A message is the smallest thing they need, not everything you know.
Sounds like "They still did not know what I wanted by the end."
How the words leave you. Pace, pause, emphasis, pronunciation, breath.
Broken People hear that something was said without feeling that anything was meant. A good message in a poor vehicle arrives damaged.
Sounds like "I said the right thing and it landed flat."
What you are saying before you speak.
Broken Your words argue with your body, and the body always wins. Posture, stillness, eyes, and the permission you give yourself to take up space.
Sounds like "The room had decided about me before I opened my mouth."
Whether any of it reaches the person in front of you.
Broken Technically excellent speakers wonder why perfect words changed nothing. Communication is not what you send, it is what lands.
Sounds like "It was a good talk and nothing happened afterwards."
The five are not a ranking and not a sequence. They are one thing seen from five sides, which is why the report draws them as a web rather than as a league table.
Operating principle
What it answers: why nothing is prescribed before the break is named.
General improvement is the thing that has already not worked. Almost everybody arriving here has tried it: a course, a book, a coach who made them do more of everything. The premise here is the opposite. Nothing is prescribed until one dimension is named, because a cure aimed at the wrong dimension is indistinguishable from no cure at all, only slower and more expensive.
The consequence, and it is a real cost: there is a step before the work, it is not free of effort, and some people would rather just start. That is the trade being made deliberately.
The signature word across the practice is Curable, and it is the whole argument in one word. A thing that is located can be fixed.
Progression
What it answers: what happens in what order, and why nothing is skippable.
Ten minutes of questions you answer on your own, and a report to keep. Free, and nothing to book. Everything else opens after it.
Fifteen minutes, live, no fee. You talk, I listen, and you find out whether this is work worth doing. It opens after a Signal, because a call after one is a better call.
Ninety minutes, and the dimension gets named. This is the only place it is named. Nothing before it will tell you which of the five is yours.
The Atelier, where the sequence runs with hours in which the work is watched and corrected. Or the same sequence done alone. Which one suits you is a conversation.
A rung that is not open is shown rather than hidden, with the reason on it and the way through it inside. A blank space looks like a broken site.
Instrument
What it answers: where do your own answers point, before anybody has watched you.
Twenty one questions in five acts: the symptoms you recognise, forced choices between pairs, the situation that costs you, the role you play in it, and what it has already cost. Every symptom carries a weight across all five dimensions rather than belonging to one, so no single answer decides the outcome.
It can come back inconclusive, and that is a real result rather than a failure. When no dimension stands far enough above the others, saying so is more honest than naming the highest number.
It is not a diagnosis and does not pretend to be. It is what you can see about yourself, which is worth a great deal and is not the same as what somebody watching you can see.
Practice model
What it answers: what the work is made of, and how anybody knows it is done.
Drill
A ritual. Small, repeated, and it never finishes. It builds the frame of mind everything else lands in. Open to anybody, prescribed to nobody.
Exercise
A single piece of work with an output. A script written, a call recorded, a conversation actually had. Done once. It lives inside a Gym and nowhere else.
Gym
The cure. One dimension, drills and exercises in sequence, assembled for one person after a Diagnosis. It ends.
Quiz
Five questions at the foot of an article, checking the reading landed. Not built yet.
How a Gym opens. The first piece is open. The second opens once the first is properly under way. The third waits until the first is finished. So there are never more than two live at once, because collecting five half started things is the most common way people get nowhere.
How a Gym finishes. By measurement, not by declaration. Two counts have to be satisfied together: minutes actually spent with the work in front of you, and separate days you came back to it. Time only counts while the page is visible and you have touched it recently, so a tab left open earns nothing. There is no button that says done.
What a Gym never has. A deadline. Nothing expires, nothing lapses, nothing is marked late. Leave for three weeks and you return to exactly what you left.
All of it begins in the same place, and it costs nothing.
Or read The Method for the argument behind the five dimensions, the drills for the rituals, or the Gym for what the cure looks like.