Practicum
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each practicum, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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Cold shock
The orientation practicum — a cold-water induction and the first attempt to separate a sensation from your reaction to it
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Uncontrollable laughter
A practicum in losing control on purpose — chasing the point where laughing stops being a choice
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
The earned ache
Closing unit 1 — real physical labor, and the particular calm that only shows up after it
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Unstructured boredom
Opening unit 2 — forty minutes with nothing to do, no phone, and no task, and whatever the mind does when nothing is pinning it down
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
The drift into sleep
Catching the threshold where conscious logic dissolves and the mind hands itself over to dreams
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
The spark of intuition
Closing unit 2 — setting up a problem, stepping away from it, and catching the answer arriving before the reasoning does
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Nostalgia by scent
Opening unit 3 — using smell, the sense with the shortest route to memory, to unearth a chapter you weren't trying to reach
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Comfortable silence
A practicum with someone you trust and nothing to say — where the absence of talking feels grounding rather than empty
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Relief of a resolved worry
Closing unit 3 — the sudden physical lightness when a lingering dread actually evaporates, caught in real time rather than recalled afterwards
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Awe under a dark sky
Opening unit 4 — the dizzying vertigo of looking into deep space, and feeling impossibly small while intensely alive to witness it
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Grief
The hollow ache of an absence, where the space someone or something used to fill carries its own heavy, enduring gravity
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
The peace of letting go
The capstone practicum — the conscious release of tension when you stop trying to control an outcome and just breathe into the uncertainty
Week 12 · 10 May 2027