Sessions
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each session, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
What happens face to face, week by week: what to prepare beforehand, what you do in the room, and what you take away afterwards. Each session builds on the last — read them in order the first time through, even if you come back to individual weeks later while working on an assessment.
Week 1: Fact, Inference, Unknown
Building a timeline from the Engagement Signal Pilot's dated documents, and learning to say which of three kinds of claim each entry actually is.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Week 2: Who Was Invited, and With What Right
Reading the Steering Committee's invitation list for the meeting Week 1's timeline ends at — who attended, what decision right they held, and what reasons the record gives for excluding everyone else.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Week 3: The Agenda Is an Argument
How an agenda's wording, order and time allocation quietly argue for an outcome before a single word is spoken in the room.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Week 4: The Meeting Before the Meeting
Where a decision may already be forming before the room convenes, and how you would tell that from the record itself, rather than from suspicion alone.
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Week 5: Information Arrives on Someone's Schedule
Timing as a lever that some people in a process control and others don't — and why that is not, by itself, evidence of manipulation.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Week 6: Silence Is a Position — Sometimes
Reading what a record omits, and the several different things an abstention or a missing name can mean.
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Week 7: Power in the Room
Formal authority versus who the room actually defers to, and how you would tell the two apart from a transcript rather than from job titles.
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Week 8: Dissent Without Disappearing
Registering disagreement in a form that survives the meeting it was raised in, instead of dissolving into "discussion was held."
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Week 9: Who Actually Decides
Decision rights and sign-off chains, and the difference between holding a veto and using one.
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Week 10: Minutes Make Memory
How the written record becomes the decision, regardless of what actually happened in the room — and the Alignment Lab's reveal and consequence test, run this week against the record your group already produced.
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Week 11: The Ethics of Alignment
What a fair process owes the people it is run on, examined through your own group's Alignment Lab retrospective.
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Week 12: Redesigning the Decision
Turning a semester of diagnosis into a process someone else could actually run — the course's final move, from reading decisions to redesigning one.
Week 12 · 10 May 2027