How patterns are installed, how they are dismantled, and how coherence is built.
Courses and assessments drawn from twenty years as a therapist, thirty-three books and over five hundred episodes of The Architect Speaks. Study at your own pace. Start free.
Three stages, taken in order
- Stage IOPEN · FREESTART HERE
The Atlas
The Atlas names the pattern running your life in a single sitting. It is built from twenty years in the chair and the thirty-three books of Michael Lauria, a qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist. It takes about forty-five minutes, costs nothing, and ends in a written Record of that pattern, drawn from your own words. It is not therapy and not for crisis.
- Stage IIAFTER THE ATLASTHE NEXT STEP
The Thread
Locked until you complete the AtlasFive guided sessions, about half an hour each, one a day. The Thread follows the pattern the Atlas names back to where it began, and through every part of your life it touches. It ends in a written report.
Prerequisite: the Atlas. The Thread is $390. When you complete the Atlas, you receive a $260 credit for 7 days, so within those 7 days the Thread is $130.
Everything else in the Codex, free or paid, can be done in any order, before or after the Atlas.
- Stage IIIAFTER THE THREADTHE LAST STEP
The Witness
Locked until you complete the ThreadSix months, thirty minutes a day. A daily practice with the same intelligence that conducted your Thread, for the part of the work that naming cannot reach. It is built to end.
Prerequisite: the Thread. The Witness is $79 a month, or $49 a month if you join within 7 days of finishing the Thread. It runs for six months at most.
Courses
View the full catalogue- Stop Keeping the Peace
- Closing a Door Without a War
- The Lantern Seven
- Seven Mornings, Body First
- The Daily Window
Assessments
The podcast, the pages to keep and a book to begin with
The Architect Speaks
More than five hundred episodes, searchable by what's on your mind, so you never have to start at episode one.
Search the episodesPrintable pages to keep
Ten signs of coherence and ten of drift. The Eight Laws. Boundary scripts for twelve hard conversations. A free book to begin with.
Open the downloadsTen signs you are in coherence, ten signs you are drifting
You can usually feel drift in your body weeks before you can name it. One page, in plain words.
The Eight Laws of Coherence
Eight plain truths about what happens when you start to live as one piece.
Boundary scripts: the exact words for saying no
Twelve everyday moments when you say yes and mean no, with soft, plain and firm words for each.
A free book to begin with
Michael Lauria's free book, to read at your own pace.
Michael Lauria
Qualified therapist since 2006. Thirty-three books. The Codex draws on Jung, attachment theory, the Stoics, classical philosophy, myth and the hermetic tradition.
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Certificates you can check
Finish a course and its written exercises and you receive a numbered Certificate of Completion. Anyone can confirm it at the Codex verification page. A record of study, not an accredited qualification.
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