The Meridian Cohort
The methodology delivered in community. Eight seats, six weeks, peers navigating the same kind of transition alongside you.
General $3,500 per seat
Who it’s for
- You want the frameworks with peers in the room rather than one to one.
- The 1:1 investment isn't right for this year, but the work is.
- You calibrate best by hearing how others read the same situations.
If your situation needs privacy or depth on its specifics, the 1:1 shapes fit better, and I'll say so on a call.
How it runs
Weeks 1–2 · Fix position, then name it
The dimensions, the Position Map, a read of where each seat stands, and the first layers of the narrative that has to carry it.
Weeks 3–4 · Build the case in parallel
Sponsor maps and evidence plans, with peer calibration. Eight people pressure-testing each other's case beats any mirror.
Weeks 5–6 · Simulate, then plot
Astrolabe pressure-tests the campaign against a live room in Week 5. Week 6 turns what it surfaced into a plotted ninety days.
The simulator
Astrolabe runs in Week 5, once every seat has a campaign on paper: a position, a narrative, a map of sponsors, a plan for evidence.
The name comes from the instrument. An astrolabe does not move the ship. It tells you where you actually are, relative to where you thought you were. The session does the same for a campaign.
You work in groups of four, rotating through three roles. The Navigator makes a real move from their own campaign. Two others play the Room it lands in, the sponsors and blockers and decision makers from that person's actual situation, reacting the way those people would react. The Observer watches, and names afterward what the Navigator was too occupied to see.
Partway through each round, a complication lands. The sponsor takes another job. The decision moves up a quarter. A name you had not considered enters the frame. You do not get to choose which one.
The session is built to surface the one to three ways a campaign breaks that no amount of planning on paper would have shown you. What breaks is the point. The rest of Week 5 is spent writing the repairs into your ninety-day plan.
What’s included
- The core frameworks worked live in a room of eight
- A Position Chart and Position Map of where you stand
- A Narrative Stack, a Sponsor Map, and an Evidence Plan, each calibrated against seven peers
- The Astrolabe simulator, run live in Week 5
- A ninety-day plan you leave the program holding
Common questions
When does the next cohort start?
A cohort runs when six to eight seats are spoken for. Eight is the ceiling, not a target. Subscribers to The Meridian hear the date first.
Why only eight?
Because the room has to be small enough that everyone is known. At eight, the opening round gives each seat real time, the simulator splits cleanly into two groups of four, and I can read every participant's artifacts closely enough to know where their case is thin before the session starts. Past that the program starts behaving like a workshop, and a workshop is not what this is.
Is my situation too specific for a group?
The frameworks are the same ones the 1:1 work uses; the group trades depth on your specifics for calibration against seven peers. If you need the depth, the 1:1 shapes are the right recommendation.
Ways to start.
Cohort dates reach newsletter subscribers first. A chemistry call works for cohort questions too.