Ages 12–15 · The Teenagers
Guarded, watching. They can smell an interview from across the room.
Shorter questions. More silence. No lectures dressed as questions.
The six short chapters
Ten to fifteen minutes each. Read one, close the app, try it at Sunday lunch. Come back when you're ready for the next.
- I→
The Posture Before the Question
8 min · written for ages 12–15
- II→
Open vs. Closed
10 min · written for ages 12–15
- III→
The Ladder — Facts, Feelings, Meaning
12 min · written for ages 12–15
- IV→
Meeting Them at Their Age
10 min · written for ages 12–15
- V→
Silence and Listening
8 min · written for ages 12–15
- VI→
The Follow-Up
10 min · written for ages 12–15
The practice gym
The Ladder Builder
Take a flat, closed question — the kind we all fall into with a ages 12–15 grandchild — and add two rungs: a feeling, then a meaning. Five minutes. The movement itself is the lesson.
Open the drill →