Care Labs
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each care lab, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Every week from Week 2 to Week 12, a small timetabled group meets to practise the lecture just given against an actual human-cat case. Three tutors — Idris Fenn, Mina Vale, and Rowan Pike — run parallel groups covering identical ground, so which one is yours depends only on your enrolment. Two weeks trade the usual task for a showcase of the assignment just submitted, and Week 12 closes the semester as a recovery and capstone clinic.
Catwatch Calibration
Practising Week 1 — comparing Observed, Inferred and Unknown judgements on the same human-cat case
Week 2 · 3 March 2027
Observation Under Ambiguity
Practising Week 2 — working with an interaction that invites over-interpretation, and learning to delay judgement
Week 3 · 10 March 2027
Catwatch Showcase
No new task — presenting a misjudged signal and a downgraded inference from your finished Catwatch log, and carrying it into The Care Model
Week 4 · 17 March 2027
History Mapping
Practising Week 4 — sorting your own human cat's history into recurring pattern, one-off event, shared convention and uncertain history
Week 5 · 24 March 2027
Memory Triage
Practising Week 5 — sorting your own human cat's memories into KEEP, HOLD LIGHTLY, and LET EXPIRE, and naming what would move each one
Week 6 · 31 March 2027
Care Model Showcase
No new task — presenting how your care model handled change, uncertainty, and the teaching break, as The Care Model closes and Know Your Cat opens
Week 7 · 21 April 2027
Signal Conflict Lab
Practising Week 7 — weighing a human cat's current message against an established preference and their recent behaviour when the three do not agree
Week 8 · 28 April 2027
Boundaries Under Pressure
Practising Week 8 — an interaction where being caring, validating, agreeing and obeying are not all the same response
Week 9 · 5 May 2027
Response Autopsy
Practising Week 9 — dissecting one response that looked supportive but was wrong for your designated human cat
Week 10 · 12 May 2027
Repair Clinic
Practising Week 10 — carrying one genuine failure involving your designated human cat through the complete diagnose, acknowledge, repair, update chain
Week 11 · 19 May 2027
Recovery Lab / Capstone Clinic
The final Care Lab opportunity — a recovery case exercise for anyone who needs it, and an open Know Your Cat capstone clinic for everyone else
Week 12 · 26 May 2027