Elements of CST
Your Story
Building Your Archive
Working with Memory
You start off with the ideas you currently have and you just talk and write, gradually uncovering different ways of seeing the life you've lived and the world in which you've lived, shifting into a new vision, with implications for how you see and conduct your days.
Working with Memory
Building Your Archive
Working with Memory
Memory is fallible, and it can take work to uncover a more accurate and useful understanding of where you've really come from and who you really are. As more information presents itself, you embark on a journey of discovery to places you never could have imagined at the outset.
Building Your Archive
Building Your Archive
Building Your Archive
The more texts and recordings you amass and go over, the more you start to question what's really significant and worth pursuing. Soon, you become adept at producing content that helps you chart a course to new discoveries, which continue to build up over time.
Personal Essays
Building Your Archive
Building Your Archive
As you amass your archive and make new discoveries, you gather the raw material for more structured expression, and the personal essay is an effective medium for bringing together all the disparate information you've collected into a narrative that makes more sense to you.
Writing & Speaking
Accumulating Skills & Knowledge
Reviewing & Reflecting
All you need to do is write and speak into your phone. It's ultimately that simple, but it's something most of us don't do on our own. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it.
Reviewing & Reflecting
Accumulating Skills & Knowledge
Reviewing & Reflecting
When you craft a piece of work, part of the process is to review and reflect on what you've done. This way, you build a way of working and developing your pieces and yourself that suits you.
Accumulating Skills & Knowledge
Accumulating Skills & Knowledge
Accumulating Skills & Knowledge
You already have the skills you need, but the work will develop and extend these. It's important to play with the mediums of text, audio and video to find what works best for you.
You're the Boss
An Evolving past for a New Time
Accumulating Skills & Knowledge
In no time, you can develop the capability to direct your own work and take it wherever you want to go, without the need for someone else looking over your shoulder, unsettling you.
An Evolving past for a New Time
An Evolving past for a New Time
An Evolving past for a New Time
As you progress and build an archive of material, you can get to the stage where your memories change as you discover new ways of perceiving the past, with implications for the present.
Key Texts & Resources
An Evolving past for a New Time
An Evolving past for a New Time
On the resources pages, you'll find key texts to help you with ways of seeing the world with more breadth and depth, enriching the work as you go along.
Problem Solving
Crafting a New Life
Problem Solving
Something niggling away at you that you can't find a solution to? Write or speak about it, review what you've done, and the answers should come naturally.
Researching
Crafting a New Life
Problem Solving
Once you get into a flow state with CST, you can find where the gaps in your knowledge are and fill them by doing your own research - reading with purpose to extend your work.
Crafting a New Life
Crafting a New Life
Crafting a New Life
You soon work with your muse in ways where it can come to you at will, crafting a new way of being & relating to yourself, other people and the world around you.