Programs  /  Self-paced

The First Ten Minutes

Open a live session so the room decides to stay.

When you are done: You will open a session with a question that gets answers instead of an icebreaker that gets compliance.

Self-paced

$95

5 lessons, about 52 minutes. Yours to keep, including updates.

For: anyone who has watched a session lose people before the agenda slide.

You walk out able to

  • Open without the roll call that kills the first five minutes
  • Give the room a reason to keep the tab in front
  • Set a participation contract people can actually meet
Buy the course, $95

How is this different from the live programs?

The live programs put you in a small room with other facilitators and a real session of your own to rebuild. This is the same material without the room.

If you want the room, the live programs start at $450. If you buy this first and move up within 90 days, the $95 comes off.

A learner taking an online session at a laptop
Photo by Aspen on Nappy. About the photos

What do I get?

5 lessons, about 52 minutes of video, the worksheets from the live version, and the one page plan.

No forum, no drip schedule, no certificate. You get the material and the tools, and you keep them.


Read first, free

How to open a virtual session

Free to read on the site.

What to do instead of icebreakers

Free to read on the site.

Not sure which one?

Twenty minutes, bring the session you are stuck on and I will tell you which of these actually helps.

Book a free consult

Look inside

One lesson, in full

Lesson three of The First Ten Minutes: the question that beats an icebreaker. The page gives the situation it fits, the exact question and callback sentence to say, why a one word answer sets a low floor for the room, three things not to do, and an exercise to run before the next lesson.
One complete lesson page, exactly as it reads in the course. Open it full size