Close the gap between your life and the life you want.
A FREE 60-day research study on how people actually do it.
Free to take part. The next group starts in late September.
Two things you take from the study.
You learn how to want something clearly enough to act on it, and how to hold on to that when the weeks get busy. It is the part you keep using long after the 60 days are over.
Your 60 days in the study becomes evidence. It gets written up and shared publicly, so that what is learned here makes the process better for the people who come after you. You get a copy of the findings yourself.
It is free because it is research. Dr. David takes no payment for the study and there is nothing to buy at any stage. Everything you share stays confidential, and your name is removed before anything is analysed or published.
Results depend on your engagement. This is a practice, not a quick fix.
Each of them has worked through this method with Dr. David directly. Swipe across to hear what it was like.
A FREE 60-day research study.
You start by identifying some of the positive qualities, strengths, skills, and experiences you already bring to your life. Then you choose one thing in your life you would like to change, improve, or make progress on. You do not need to know exactly what you want yet.
Over the following 60 days, you will learn to create and use an intention around something that matters to you. Along the way, you will have conversations with an Intention Academy coach, use the Intentionalist, an AI thought partner available whenever you want it, and reflect on what you are learning and experiencing.
What we are trying to learn: how people learn and use intention as a practical life skill over time. We want to understand how people develop and work with an intention, what changes they experience, what helps or gets in the way, and whether they become more able to use intention independently as a life skill.
We are also especially interested in the role of support. What does an AI thought partner contribute? What does a human coach contribute? And what kinds of support help people stay connected to an intention and use it in everyday life? Those are some of the questions the Intention Academy study is designed to explore.
Dr. David has spent 30 years coaching people through change, and has written three books on intention. He runs every session in this study himself.
His view, after 30 years of watching people try, is that the hard part isn't doing the thing. It is getting clear enough about what you want to begin at all.
What the study tests is whether that holds up when someone measures it properly: whether people make the change they came for, whether they end up more satisfied with their lives, and how much of the work an AI guide can usefully take on between sessions.
This is for you if
- Something in your life needs to change, whether or not you can name it yet
- It matters to you personally, rather than being something you feel you ought to do
- You can commit 60 days to the study
- You are willing to use an AI as part of the process, even if you are sceptical about it
- You don't mind your sessions being recorded
This is not for you if
- You are looking for general life advice
- You can't commit 60 days to the study
- You would rather not be recorded
- You need clinical support right now
This is coaching and research. It is not therapy, and it is not medical care.
Recorded, anonymised, never sold.
Your sessions are recorded, and your name is removed before anything is analysed or published. You can leave the study at any time, and have your data taken out of the research when you go.
The full detail
Sessions with Dr. David are recorded as audio and transcript. Your conversations with the AI guide and your questionnaire answers are kept too. Together that is the research data.
Before anything is analysed or shared outside the research team, it is de-identified: your name and identifying details are removed or changed. Nothing you say is published in a way that identifies you without your separate written permission. Your conversations with the AI guide are also stored by the platform that runs it.
We do not sell your data and we do not share it for marketing. You can withdraw at any time, without explaining yourself, and you tell us whether to keep your data in the research or take it out.
This pilot does not require formal institutional review board approval. Later stages will be submitted for review if the design calls for it. Ask us anything: [email protected]
4 questions, about 2 minutes.
After that you book a short call, so you know exactly what you would be taking on before anything is confirmed. Dr. David reads every application himself.
This group is 7 people. It starts in late September.