Most of what drives you, your reactions, your moods, your decisions, runs without your involvement. You find out what happened after it already has.

This is the starting point. The work is learning to observe that process while it is happening, rather than reconstructing it afterwards.

The methods come from the Fourth Way tradition of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, Maurice Nicoll and R.A. Smith: a practical school concerned with attention, self-observation, and the development of inner unity. The approach is systematic. Nothing requires belief. Every principle can be tested in ordinary life, in real time.

Three things are worked on directly: the automatic patterns that govern behaviour; the quality and direction of attention; and the gap between stimulus and response, which is where any real choice lives.

No prior knowledge is required. The only qualification is a genuine interest in what is actually running you.