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How it works

What actually happens across thirty-three days.

Not a feature list. The sequence, in order — including the parts still being built.

For someone already interested, who wants to know how it runs rather than what it promises.

Start at day one What we deliberately don't build

These are the most formative years a chiropractor gets, and they're the least structured.

Passing your classes is the easy part. What this actually requires is personal development and professional skill-building across a range of things nobody sequences for you.

And the students who most need that are the ones in the academic grind with no time and no map. They're curious, and they'd put their effort somewhere useful if anyone told them where. Nobody does.

First question

Where are you right now?

Pick the one that fits. It decides which pod you'd be in and which module you'd run.

Pre-Chiro track

Module 1 — Getting Grounded

What chiropractic actually is, the state of the profession, and whether this is your path. Seven days of real observation, the money conversation with whoever is helping you pay, and a written account of why you're considering this. It ends in a decision rather than a grade.

Your podPre-Chiro
Length33 days
Weekly3–4 hrs
CostFree
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In order

Six things happen, and the first one is a conversation.

Thirty-three days is short enough that the shape matters more than the content. Here's the shape.

At apply
You book the call there and then

Not after you're accepted — when you apply. Four questions, then you pick a time. The call happens whether or not you get a seat, because the conversation is worth having either way, and an application you never hear about is just a form you filled in.

Placement
You're placed by stage, not by date

Five pods run at once — pre-chiro, and each year of the program. Five or six people in yours. Your school has your year; it doesn't have the person two years ahead who remembers being exactly here.

Days 1–33
One module, run properly

Not the whole program. One module, three to four hours a week, done alongside people rather than alone. That's a promise rather than a limitation — one module finished well is worth more than four started.

Weekly
A review for your stage, every week

Ten minutes on what this week is actually for, thirty where everyone in the room speaks, fifteen in pairs and threes, five on the one thing you're carrying forward. Only the first ten minutes are recorded — what's said in the circle stays in the circle.

Throughout
Someone notices when you go quiet

Not when you fall behind — when you disappear. Those are different things, and almost every system only watches the first one.

At the end
A written read of the thirty-three days

What you did, what you made, where you went quiet and what happened next, and what it suggests about where you go from here. Written for you, not scored. That document is the output — not a certificate.

Inside every module

What you actually get.

Same components in every module — different content, different practitioners, same structure. So you learn the shape once.

iVideo lessonsCore module content, on demand. Watch, pause, come back to it. Everything is open from day one — nothing unlocks.
iiA workbook you write inExercises, reflection prompts, planning templates. Substantial — the Pathways workbook runs to a couple of hundred pages.
iiiThe weekly reviewA live session for your pod, every week, on what that week is actually for. Not a webinar — everyone in the room speaks.
ivThe mentor and the libraryA mentor that reads what you hand in, plus the recorded conversations behind the whole thing.

A page from a workbook

The work is written, not watched.

This is what an exercise actually looks like. No multiple choice, no quiz, nothing scored — a question you answer in your own handwriting and keep.

Module 2.5 · Pathways

Career path self-assessment

Exercise 2.5.A

Rank these specialty paths from most to least aligned with your current interests. Note the gut-level reaction, not the strategic answer.

→ continued on the next page

Every module works this way. What you write is yours, private by default, and it goes into your portfolio rather than into a gradebook.

The part that's always on

A mentor that asks rather than waits.

Most things in education are one-way. Lessons deliver, dashboards display, workbooks receive. The mentor is the only thing that starts a conversation — which makes it the only place the program can learn anything it wasn't told when you signed up.

Why are you hereAnd is that still true. It's the thing most likely to have quietly changed, and nobody ever asks it twice.
What's your week actually likeSo exam season reads as exam season rather than as you losing interest.
What's harder than it should beThe question almost no education system asks, and the one that finds the thing in the way.
What are you moving toward nowBecause what you're aiming at legitimately changes, and it should be allowed to.

It's software. We'd rather tell you that plainly than have you work it out.

It's built for this specifically and it does things a person can't at three in the morning. It is not a person, and you should never have to wonder. When it's out of its depth it stops and hands you to a human — built in at the bottom rather than added on top.

What you leave with

Everything you make is yours, filed by what it's for.

By what you'll use it for later — not by which week you made it in.

Why you practiceThe answer you'll be asked for, over and over
How you'd run a practiceBefore anyone hands you one
How you explain thisIn words a person outside chiropractic actually uses
What you builtClubs, screenings, talks, projects — the things you started

You're not doing coursework. You're building the first assets of a practice that doesn't exist yet.

Private by default. Nothing is shared, published or used as an example without you saying so, in writing, afterward — and you leave with all of it whether you finish or not.

Deliberately absent

Everything that would have been easy to add.

All of these are trivial to build. Every one was left out on purpose, and for the same reason each time.

No streaksMiss Tuesday and Tuesday is just a day you missed. A broken chain shouldn't exist here.
No leaderboardsYour pod isn't a ranking, and you can't see anyone's position because there isn't one.
No points, badges or levelsNothing accumulates. Nothing is collectible. Nothing tells you that you are a Level Three anything.
No progress shamingNothing turns red, nothing says you're behind, and nothing opens with "you've completed 4 of 40 lessons" — which is the platform measuring itself and calling it your dashboard.
The line all four come from Acknowledge what someone actually did. Never install a mechanic designed to change what they do. The first notices a person; the second manages one — and a system that punishes a bad week loses exactly the students it was built for.

The framework underneath

Five things a chiropractor develops, and they're not taught together anywhere.

Every module maps to one or more of them. Same lens from the year before you apply through the year after you graduate — which is what makes it possible to see whether you're developing or just passing.

SScientistEvidence, research literacy, clinical reasoning, and knowing what you actually know.
TThinkerPhilosophy at depth, ethical reasoning, and the habit of reflecting rather than reacting.
AArtistTouch, technique, adjusting — the part that only develops through repetition.
TTeacherExplaining this to a patient, to a skeptic, and eventually to someone behind you.
EEntrepreneurPractice management, money, leadership — the half nobody covers until it's urgent.

The curriculum

Twelve modules, and which dimensions each one builds.

Eight before you enroll, four once you're in. You run one of them in the founding cohort — the one that matches where you are. The rest are shown so you can see where this goes.

Pre-Chiro · eight modules

M1
Getting Grounded

What chiropractic is, the state of the profession, and whether this is your path. Ends in a decision.

S · T
M2
Inner S.T.A.T.E.

The five dimensions themselves — self-assessment across all of them, and a development plan that's yours.

S·T·A·T·E
M2.5
Pathways Hub

Fifteen named ways to practice. You visit about five before choosing any.

T · E
M3
Apprenticeship

Structured observation in a real practice. Logged hours, and a framework for what to notice.

S · A
M4
Club Startup

Fourteen weeks founding and running a pre-chiro club, built as a business simulator.

T · E
M5
Capstone

An independent project. Open format. Something real gets made and presented.

S · T
M6
Admissions

The application, the statement, letters, financial planning, campus visits.

T · E
M6.5
Transition

Housing, budgeting, study strategy, asking for help. The module nobody writes.

T · A

Chiro Student · four modules

M7
Year One

First-year planning, network, academic mapping, preparing your body, identity shift, boards from day one.

S · A · T
M8
Clinical Skill

Anatomy, palpation, adjusting positions, technique awareness. Cervical, thoracic, lumbar.

S · A
M9
Clinic

Clinical identity, self-care, scheduling, patient flow, communication. The realities of student clinic.

A · T
M10
Practice Readiness

The year before graduation. Practice observation, business planning, financial projection, launch.

E · A

Who built this

Built by a practicing DC, not a tech founder.

Dr. Ben Glass

Thirteen years in private practice in Oakland, and approximately 336 recorded conversations with people across this profession — practitioners, faculty, students — asking one question: what actually prepared you for this work.

The workbooks, the modules, what the mentor was trained on. All of it sits on clinical and educational experience inside the profession rather than outside it. This isn't a software company that decided to make a course.

Dr. Ben Glass, DC · Life West Class of 2013 · Oakland, California

The two things people ask first

Fair questions.

Is this a replacement for chiropractic school?

No, and it never will be. It runs parallel to your institution's curriculum and replaces none of it. What it adds is the part nobody sequences for you — the personal development and professional skill-building that sits alongside the academics, at the points where people usually lose the thread.

Which philosophy or technique does this favor?

The intent is exposure across the profession rather than picking a side for you. The Pathways module and the interview library deliberately cover the spectrum — diversified, tonal, instrument-assisted, upper cervical, posture-focused, pediatric, sports, geriatric, animal, research. You're choosing what kind of chiropractor to become, and that's a choice that has to be yours.

Where this actually is

Second run. Some of it is still being built.

I ran a version of this last summer. Conversations with students, video lessons, and no way at all to see what anyone made of it. This is the second run, and the first one built to notice.

The mentor is real and it's early. It does what's described above. It doesn't yet do everything we want it to.

Some of it will be rough, and we'll be fixing things while you're using them.

Thirty-three people is small enough that we'll know your name and notice if you disappear.

Now you know how it runs.

Four questions, about three minutes, and you book the call in the same sitting. Applications open in the new year.

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