How the course works

The course takes about four weeks if you do a little each day. If you need more time, nobody is rushing you: your access has no time limit.

It has three big themes, one for each of the first three weeks:

1. The Staircase — four lessons. What the invisible order among people is, and what it’s made of.
2. The Body — four lessons. What the body does when it senses who is above and who is below.
3. The Tables — five lessons. The work table, the holiday table and the table for two.

The fourth week is the end: the last lessons, the exit form, your report and your certificate.

The form. Ten short questions, about five minutes. There are no right answers and nobody grades you. Answer with the first thing that comes to mind. The form is your snapshot at the start. At the end of the course you fill in the same form and you will see the difference.

The intro. A short video: what this course is, who it’s for and how it goes. At the end of the intro, Ella is waiting for you.

Every lesson has four parts, one below the other. They go in this order.

1. SPECTA watch — video

A few minutes. This is the main part of the lesson. The video is enough for the quiz. If you only watch the video, you can move on.

Notes. Right below the video there is a closed “Notes” line. Open it and write while you watch: what stuck, what you want to remember. It will help you in the quiz. Your notes are saved with the lesson. The “save to the Dossier” button sends them to your Dossier, where you find them sorted by lesson.

2. TASK write

This is the part where you do the work. There are two kinds of tasks:

• A task for one evening. Ten minutes. You click a few buttons and write a sentence or two. Every task says exactly what you do and why, and has an example of what a filled-in one looks like.
• A notebook for seven evenings. You get it in the first lesson of each theme, so three times in the course. Each evening you spend five minutes filling in one day: where you got squeezed, what the body did, and one sentence. The notebook runs in the background while you move on through the lessons.

What you enter is saved and waits for you. Your report is put together from it at the end, so it is good to fill in as much as you can.

3. QUIZ

Four questions about the video, each with three answers. To pass you need three correct out of four. If you don’t pass, you go back to the lesson and try again, as many times as it takes. The quiz doesn’t tell you the correct answer: look for it in the lesson.

At the end of the quiz there is one question about you, with no correct answer. You write one sentence.

The next lesson opens only when the quiz is passed.

4. GO DEEPER (optional) — AUDI and LEGE

Two closed lines at the bottom of the lesson. Open them when you want more. Neither is required.

AUDI listen — about eight minutes of audio. The same material as the video, but with more story and more examples. You can listen in the car, on a walk, while cooking. You can also download it.

LEGE read — about fifteen hundred words. The same material, written down, with sources: who researched what and where it is written. For those who want to read and come back to it. Open it with “Read”, on the same page.

Each theme has a short check at the entrance and at the exit, so you can see what has shifted:

• The Staircase: at the start the caste quiz, at the end your “My Staircase” map.
• The Body: at the start and at the end, the same body scale. You note signals, not illnesses.
• The Tables: your tool card: what I notice, what it means, what I do.

The page shows you what is waiting for you today: a red dot next to the lesson and a bar at the top, for example “Today, day 3 of your notebook is waiting.” Short emails come too: in the evening while you are keeping the notebook, and if you haven’t stopped by for a while. The sender is OTUUM. You can turn the emails off.

The place where participants write. It has two parts:

• Ella’s question — one question at the top, with the answers below it.
• Conversation — free writing and replies.

You write under a nickname that you choose yourself. If something is really personal, click “Post without a name” and it will appear as “Someone from the house.” The rules and instructions are behind the “Rules and instructions” button. What is said here stays here.

1. The exit form — the same as at the start.
2. Your report — thorough, only for you. What showed at the start and what showed at the end. Where you get squeezed most often, at which table, on which staircase, and what the body does. Suggestions, and a tool to carry on with. You get it on the page and as a PDF by email.
3. A certificate of completion — when the conditions are met.

You get the report and the certificate at the end of the course: in your Dossier, and as a PDF by email.

EXTRA opens after CAPUT V. Three things to close with: a note from the author, personal and direct; the closing lecture in two parts, the whole course condensed for listening; and CODEX [handbook], all the material in one place.

• This is a tool, not therapy. We don’t ask about diagnoses, hard experiences or income. If things are hard, talk to a professional.
• Who sees what. You see your answers in the form, tasks and notebooks. Ella sees how far each person has progressed, so that she can run and improve the course. In the Atrium everyone sees only a nickname.
• Your access has no time limit, even after the end.