The Beginning of Wisdom: Know Thyself

In our community we’ve worked hard to understand and update those ancient practices that develop self-awareness. We’ve deconstructed and reconstructed the ancient practice of confession. It’s not about being forgiven for our bad days. It’s about understanding them, and why they happen.

What we call “doing a worksheet” is one of the more transformative spiritual practices we know. Download and read the worksheet. It’s a guide to help us see and understand the thing under the thing—under why we do the things we do. 

The Worksheet

• The Worksheet (Fillable PDF)
• Listener Guide (Fillable PDF)
  Formerly known as Facilitator Guide

See what a completed worksheet looks like

• Case Study: Selling the Family Home
• Case Study: The Neighbor’s Animals
• Case Study: Post-Election Fear
• Case Study: Maligned at Work

Additional Materials to Help with the Worksheet

• Feeling Words
• Sample Patterns
• Confession, Self-Awareness, Self-Disclosure Lessons (Audio)

Workshop & Group Formation

A couple times a year we do workshops on self-awareness, and conflict resolution. After the workshops we form six-week groups to practice the skills we learn together. It’s a fun way to integrate essential spiritual learning into our daily lives. We become friends, as we’re getting better at the arts of storytelling, and listening, and discerning the thing under the thing—the unconscious drivers of our words, thoughts, and actions.