Keep your group practicing after the workshop.
Send your participants their practices every day, at set times. They do each practice out loud on their phone. The whole group hears each other, and you see who is practicing.
Most of what people practice at a workshop fades within weeks.
At the workshop, people practice every day, together. At home, the schedule is gone, the group is gone, and nobody notices whether they practice. Fewer people come back, and the ones who do start over.
Course packets hold information. Practice needs a simple process.
Learning management systems, Google Docs, PDFs, and course packets are good for documentation. For daily practice they add friction: people have to log in, find the right module or file, open it, and work out what to do today.
Five places to look, and no clear next step.
One practice, on the phone, at its time. Open it, do it, done. The same steps every day.
A daily practice, sent by you, done together.
- 1Prescribed practiceYou choose the practice and when it arrives.
- 2Deliberate practiceThey do it on purpose, and a little better each day.
- 3Practice in communityThe group keeps practicing together.
Every participant is on their own solo journey. SOLOS puts many of those journeys side by side.
Prescribed practice.
You choose the practice, and you choose when it arrives.
You turn the practices you teach into short cards. SOLOS sends each card to your whole group at its hour, like a coach's training plan.
Deliberate practice.
They do it on purpose, with attention, again and again.
Each day starts with a little resistance and moves into flow. Every practice is recorded, so people can listen back and do it a little better the next day. Over time the resistance shrinks and the flow grows.
Practice in community.
The group keeps practicing together.
Each recording goes to your group's own radio. People tune in when they choose, hear the others, and answer them, so the group that formed at the workshop keeps practicing together.
Set it up once. It runs every day.
Write your practices
Turn each practice from your workshop into a card.
Set the times
Each card arrives at its hour and in each person's calendar.
They record it
Participants read the card and press record.
The group listens
Recordings play on your cohort radio. You see who practiced.
Change it on the fly
Edit a card, move a time, or send an announcement. It reaches every phone right away.
Life moves around. The practice stays put.
Habits form when you do something at the same time every day. In a well-known study at University College London, a new daily habit took 66 days on average to become automatic. Meetings and errands come and go. The practice times stay the same, week after week, and the practices change a little with the season.
One card at a time, all day.
A card arrives at its hour. Tap record, do the practice, and hear who else in your group did it too. Then the next card arrives at the next practice time.
It works like a calendar, not a feed. Your practices arrive at set times, and the people you practice with are on the other end.
Each participant's day of practice, through the seasons.
SOLOS lays each day out as a clock of practice times. Daylight grows and shrinks with the seasons, and practice times move with sunrise and sunset. Practices can change from day to day, differ for each person, or rotate between people in the group.
Many kinds of practice. Each one a simple process to repeat.
Read aloud, speak, listen, respond to a prompt, walk, tell a story, repeat a groupmate's exercise, or speak their words in your own voice. Each has a few clear steps, and going through them again and again is the practice.
Your group, on the air.
Recordings stay inside your cohort and play on its own station. The station chooses what fits the day's practice and what was just recorded, so tuning in brings people back into the flow of the sessions, in the voices of the people they practiced with.
Show new people what you do.
Pick highlights from your cohorts, with their permission, for a public station you can share anywhere. People who are curious hear your practices in the voices of the people who did them, and they can join your next workshop.
Watch people go deeper, month after month.
Every recording is kept, and a group of twenty makes hundreds of them a week. One hour of your own practice comes with many more hours of hearing your peers practice.
The habit stays. The app can go.
SOLOS helps a practice take root until people keep it on their own. The reminders matter most in the first weeks and a little less each month after. The practice becomes part of the day, the group stays close, and someday it gathers again in person and stays together.
The bottom line
Your group stays together.
They call on each other.
They support each other.
They stay in touch with you.
And they keep practicing.
You already did the teaching at the workshop, so staying connected takes little extra work. As people practice, they record what they are learning and how their lives are changing, in SOLOS and wherever else your group talks. You get steady feedback, and you decide what to do with what emerges.
FAQ
Why is it called SOLOS?
Everyone practices on their own solo journey. SOLOS brings many solo journeys together, so a whole group practices side by side.
How long does a practice take?
You decide. Most practices take between two and ten minutes.
What do participants need?
A phone. Participants install the SOLOS app and join your group.
Does it work with my calendar?
Yes. Practice times appear in Google Calendar and in phone reminders.
Are recordings written out?
Yes. Every recording is transcribed, so others in the group can read it and speak it in their own voice.
Can SOLOS connect to my AI tools? I already use AI to set things up.
Yes. SOLOS connects through MCP, so the assistant you already use can write your practices, set their times, and build the schedule for your group.
Who can hear the recordings?
Only the people in your cohort and you, the facilitator.
What kinds of practice work?
Anything that can be spoken or listened to: reading aloud, speaking, listening, prompts, walks, and telling stories.
Can I use it now?
SOLOS is still in development. Leave your email and I will get in touch to hear about your work and what you need.
Have this problem? Let's talk.
SOLOS is still in development, and I am shaping it with the people who need it. If practice fades after your workshop, or you want your group to stay together, leave your email. I would like to hear how you work.
- Your practices keep working after the workshop.
- You see who is practicing and hear how they are doing.
- More people come back to your next workshop.
- Your practices arrive every day, at set times.
- You keep hearing the people you practiced with.
- Your recordings show how your practice deepens.