The Council · The founding year
A year with Ruben, and a small room of peers.
Twelve months, January 4 to December 17, 2027: two Council sessions and a private Reading every month, in a room of no more than twelve. Seats are offered primarily by invitation, and you may apply.
Eight seats to start. Enrollment closes December 18, 2026.
The shape of the year
Founded in November. Closed in December 2027.
Nov 10, Nov 24, Dec 8, 2026
Founding sessions
You receive the whole map, set your baseline and meet the room.
Jan 4, 2027
The year begins
Twelve principles, one a month, from Temperance to Transmission.
Dec 17, 2027
The close
A threshold, as the year began, and the letter you wrote a year earlier.
Mar 14, 2028
The return
One session, three months on, to read what held.
Each month
Two sessions, and a Reading.
- Two Council sessions of 100 minutes. The first goes deep on the month’s principle. The second puts it under pressure, and hears what happened at home and at work.
- The Reading. An hour alone with me, reading your Ledger through the month’s principle.
- A practice partner each quarter, who supplies the comparison you cannot supply alone.
- The Member Handbook, and everything in Mastery Lessons Guild.
- The Daimon, which I read before each Reading, so I arrive knowing what you have been working through.
- A 60-minute intake before the year begins.
The room
Eight seats to start. Never more than twelve.
Members are chosen for fit, with at least four women in twelve. Seats are never added because demand appears, and the bar for fit never drops to fill one. Every member agrees to the Council’s covenant before the first session.
The limit is real. I set in advance the hours I give this work.
Apply
If you were not invited and should be considered.
Begin with Who Is Holding the Pen?, then book a Debrief. I read your result, and fifteen minutes together are enough for both of us to judge fit. The $250 is credited in full if you join within 60 days.
If you received an invitation, reply to it. Your first conversation is free.
The investment is discussed in that first conversation. Enrollment closes on December 18, 2026. Payment is by invoice from Unbound Education, Inc., a public benefit corporation, with a full refund until the start date and deferral to the next Council after it.
Scope
Coaching, held to a standard.
The Council is coaching and education under Board Certified Coach standards. No sessions are recorded or transcribed by AI without everyone’s consent.
Who is holding the pen? Find out in seven minutes, free.
Prefer to read first? The weekly essay is at masterylessons.com.