Why we created BASECAMP

If you want to bake a cake from scratch you only need 4 ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, eggs. There are things that you can add to make the cake fancier and cooler... ...but you only really NEED butter, sugar, flour, and eggs.

That's what BASECAMP is. It's a basic cake. It's got ALL the essential ingredients to created permanent change and NOTHING more. No pre-work; no orientation; no follow-up. The shortest of all the shortcuts. 

All you have to do is 1) make sure you can be fully present that day and 2) show up with a journal.

Everything we do around here is based in narrative work.  It breaks our hearts to see people working so hard to make positive changes in their lives...only to find themselves back at square one because of problematic internal narratives. In other words, they make external changes but the changes are temporary because the internal changes need for permanent change aren't in place.

They wonder if it's because the wrong strategy is in place or if it's a character issue. They start to get the feeling that a lovely life is what other people get – other special people, talented people, supported people, rich people, pretty people, people who are loved.

It doesn't have to be this way. 

Where you are in life is largely a result of the stories you tell to yourself about yourself. At BASECAMP, we dive straight into the 8 steps that you need for permanent change, the first 6 of which are narratives, that is, the stories you tell yourself.  Everybody does this.  

The goal is NOT to get rid of narratives. The goal is to install the narratives that are necessary for you to do the behavior that will take you where you want to go. At BASECAMP you choose ONE area of your life to modify and by the end of the day, you'll have a solid map that WILL work.