01 / CUT
Interrupt the pull.
Choose your attention.
Pause what’s carrying you along and choose what you want to give your attention to.
BETWEEN WHAT YOU WANT AND HOW YOU ACTUALLY LIVE,
THERE’S A SCRIPT.
You know
your lines.
Change one.
Most of us run on scripts we learned to get by, not to live by. They kept us safe once. Now they take over where it counts: at work, at home, with the people we love.
Off Script offers guided conversations and practices for these moments, with room to pause, play and try a different move.
Find a practice to start with
A gym for
the human part.
the human part.
POWA Live, Thailand, 2020.
IT STARTED WITH PEOPLE IN A ROOM.
From the live sessions where Off Script began.“It was an amazing time. It’s such a great group.”
Tristan Harris, Bali, 2016
Tristan Harris - co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, called by The Atlantic “the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience” - right after the POWA Live retreat in Bali, 2016: a week of pickpocketing, hypnosis and magic, co-led by James Brown and Danny, to catch our own scripts in the act.
Built by a facilitator who ran these sessions in person for 10 years, with dozens of people.
01 / HOW WE PRACTISE
Three moves.
Room to be human.
Sometimes you need to interrupt what’s pulling you along. Sometimes you need to play. Sometimes you need to make room for someone.
There’s room for all three.
Interrupt the pull.
02 / PLAY
Make things up.
Try them out.
Play, explore and experiment without having to get it right. Some things are worth doing without needing them to go anywhere.
03 / RECONNECT
Make room
for real contact.
Give another person your attention. Ask another question. Leave a little space for an answer you didn’t expect.
02 / ONE LINE. THEN THE NEXT ONE.
Nobody rewrites a script in one go.
You change one line. Then the next one.
Shaking hands are allowed. Getting it wrong is part of it.
Rest counts. Coming back counts.
We’re the ones
who go off script.
03 / SOMETHING TO TRY
A familiar moment.
A place to practise.
You may already know
where you want to start.
Take Two, Actually, No and Unstuck are guided by AI, built on the method from years of live one-to-one sessions.
GUIDED SESSION / TAKE TWO
Not this fight again.
Let’s try the first sentence.
Another take.Illustrative session previewTake Two
The fight you’ve already talked out a dozen times.
Find what’s actually underneath it. Then, when you’re ready, say it out loud - pushback included - before you say it to them.
$15, one time.
Explore Take Two ↗GUIDED SESSION / ACTUALLY, NO
Can you take the kids Saturday?
Actually, no.
Out loud first.Illustrative session previewActually, No
Say no to the person who keeps asking.
Find out why the yes comes out first. Then say the no out loud to an AI stand-in that pushes back with their usual lines, before you say it for real.
$15, one time.
Explore Actually, No ↗GUIDED SESSION / UNSTUCKWHEN I’M READY.A first move.Illustrative session preview
Unstuck
Procrastination isn’t laziness.
One guided session goes under the delay on the thing you keep putting off, then helps you build one move small enough to actually happen.
$15, one time.
Explore Unstuck ↗Inside Backstage, the guide that talks with you is called Soc.
04 / WHERE IT BEGAN
People tried.
People laughed.
People wrote us notes.
Off Script grew out of live sessions in Bali, Thailand and Vancouver.
These videos and handwritten notes come from that beginning. They describe those live experiences, rather than the digital products available today.
Lior, Thailand, 2020. About the live retreat.
“because of the fear of failure here the failure was welcomed”
“It not only blew away my expectations, it was much more personal, profound and touching than I have ever anticipated.”
05 / THE REST HAPPENS OUT THERE
A practice that ends.
A life to return to.
There’s plenty asking you to stay on a screen.
Off Script is built around practices with a beginning and an end. You pause, try something, then take it back into your day.
No streak to protect.
No endless feed.
The next conversation still happens with a person.
The next step still belongs to you.
POWA Live, Thailand, 2020.
06 / SMALL IS A PLACE TO START
Your next move
can be small.
A first sentence. A question you’ve been avoiding.
A little time for something you want to try.
You don’t have to settle the whole story today.
Find a practice to start withWe’re the ones who go off script.