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The sabbatical school · Twelve weeks

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For people who stayed somewhere a few winters too long. Scroll to let the light in.

Year nine, probably

You didn't choose to stop.

It set around you, a season at a time, until staying put felt like the weather.

Then, a gap

One clear morning.

A question from a friend. A Sunday that felt too short. That is all the opening needs to be.

It gets loud here

The cracking is the good part.

Twelve weeks, fourteen people, and nobody pretending the middle bit is comfortable.

Shake it off

Wings were always there.

We don't teach you to fly. We get the ice out of the way.

Fledge · verb · to grow the feathers you need to leave

Nobody plans to stand still for a decade. We built a school for the moment you notice you have.

12weeks, start to open sky
14people in every cohort
83%changed course within a year
0slide decks, ever
Week one · your letter

Wipe off the frost

Every cohort starts by writing one sentence to themselves. This is one of ours. Rub the ice away to read it.

0%thawed. Keep going, it gives at sixty.
A small brown bird standing on a wet rock with its wings spread, broken ice around its feet
You were never lazy. You were cold. Go and stand somewhere warmer.Written in week one. Read again in week twelve.
Drag across the ice

Twelve weeks, four weathers

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Weeks 1–3A bird sealed inside a clear block of ice on a dark rocky shore under storm cloud
Name the iceWhat is actually holding you? The mortgage, the title, the story you tell at dinner. We write it all down.
Weeks 4–6A shaft of sunlight breaks through the cloud and lands on the block of ice
Find the gapThree small experiments in the life you keep describing. Cheap, fast, reversible.
Weeks 7–9The ice splits and steams in the sunlight while the bird lifts its head inside
Let it crackThe hard conversations: with your boss, your partner, your bank balance. You won't have them alone.
Weeks 10–12The bird in flight against the sun above a silver sea
Leave wellA date, a plan, and thirteen people who will ask you about it in six months.
The Monday count

How long have you been still?

Drag to the number of years you have been meaning to leave. We will count the Mondays, and tell you where to start.

208Mondays spent meaning to. Every one after this is yours.
Fledge, twelve weeksSet hard, but recently. The full programme will do it.
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