Inner Circle Cohort

"The clearing doesn't open through force or willpower. It opens through sustained presence, meditative questioning, and the courage to dwell with complexity."

What You're Applying For

The Inner Circle Cohort is an intensive 8-week program where you work personally with David Michael Boje and a small group (maximum 8 participants) to transform stuck family or organizational systems using TogetherStorying Decision Tree Software Version 5.0.

This is not the open weekly circle. This is sustained, rigorous work for people ready to:

• Map their family or organizational system's complete story architecture
• Identify and dismantle echo chambers at their roots
• Navigate quantum entanglements between personal, family, and organizational narratives
• Develop sustained restorying practices that last beyond the cohort
• Build their own enthinkment circle facilitation skills

What We'll Do Together

Weeks 1-2: Mapping Your Story Architecture

We begin by revealing the hidden story structures in your system. You'll learn to identify which of the seven antenarrative patterns (linear, cyclical, spiral, rhizome, network, chaos, fractal) dominates your family or organizational storytelling.

Weeks 3-4: Echo Chamber Detection & Tamaraland Navigation

We map where your system has fragmented into simultaneous, contradictory realities—what Boje calls "Tamaraland." You'll see how multiple stories unfold at once, with no single voice able to see the whole.

Weeks 5-6: Quantum Entanglement & Polyphony

We examine how your personal stories, family stories, and organizational stories are entangled in ways you haven't recognized. We practice Bakhtinian polyphony—learning to hold multiple voices without collapsing them into monologue.

Weeks 7-8: Restorying & Integration

We develop your unique restorying pathway and build sustainable practices. You'll leave with a clear map of how to continue the work and, if appropriate, how to facilitate enthinkment circles yourself.

Investment

Sliding Scale: $500-$1200

We use a sliding scale based on your ability to pay. Choose the amount that feels right for your circumstances:

• $1200: Standard rate if you have financial stability
• $800-1000: If finances are tight but manageable
• $500: If money is genuinely a hardship right now

Selection Process

1. Submit application below (we read every one carefully)
2. Review within 3 business days - David personally reviews all applications
3. Acceptance email with payment/scholarship information
4. Payment or scholarship arrangement via secure link
5. Private Zoom link sent one week before cohort begins

We select for readiness, not credentials. What matters is whether you're genuinely prepared to question your own thinking and sit with the discomfort that emerges when echo chambers break open.