Beyond
Book Smarts
The kind of topics we cover in The Sense Method have been sandwiched in textbooks and floating around smoke-filled rooms for too long. We're freeing these ideas into our day-to-day.
This isn’t about memorizing old answers, dropping names, or spinning in circles as if they don't have a start/end point. We break down big questions—about self, others, and reality itself—into something we can actually understand, expand on, and grow with. Eleven modules, packed with existential inquiry, explanations, exercises, and real-world application.
Preview lesson 1 of the Welcome Lecture!
FIRST DROP 11-22-2025
Simple: Every drop is a fully recorded lecture presentation, split into four lessons with one interactive video element, PDF worksheets to dig deeper, and a private virtual group for connection and support.
Lectures drop often and you can start any time with the free welcome course. Subscribe monthly for just $10, or grab single drops for $10 each. Sign up for the free video to get notifications to your inbox or follow me, your, instructor at @samthereforiam.
[✓] High schoolers missing out on philosophy class. Get in.
[✓] Seekers craving new perspectives (and less existential dread).
[✓] People wanting their beliefs seen—and everyone else’s, too.
[✓] Curious minds and over thinkers—minds will melt and soothe.
[✓] Anyone doubting if big questions have logical answers.
[✓] Skeptics detaching from jargon, name-dropping, and paywalls.
Back when philosophy felt like an exclusive club, I craved both answers and a sense of belonging. What changed wasn’t debating questions, but daring to answer them—out loud, with others, and beyond concepts of doubt.
I created The Sense Method to share the peace, resilience, and human connection I found through this approach. Here, you’ll get sanity-saving reframes and practical clarity where wellness fads fall short: real tools for self-AND-other understanding.
Because getting ‘deep’ doesn’t mean things need to get ‘dark.’ This isn’t about illuminating every mystery or moving us towards a promising ‘light’—it’s about finding solace in the gentle warmth of understanding and shared experience. throws your way.
COURSE PREVIEW:
Engage in the generative processes of mattering and meaning, learning how sense multiplies and diversifies through volition and reflection across experience.
Reflect on the challenge of consensus, exploring the negotiations between singular and collective reality, theory and practice, and the ongoing work of living sense into the world.
COURSE PREVIEW:
Learn why this exists and what you’ll gain, as we bypass academic roadblocks and frame questioning itself as a communal and deeply personal practice.
Breaks down philosophical branches of logic and epistemology by examining how context and meaning shape everyday understanding.
Interplay between discovery and invention, explore different theories of truth. Grapple with the role of fundamental assumptions (axioms) in knowledge.
Examine how time—memory, anticipation, and doubt—shape experience, and learn to sense the paradox of being anchored yet responsive in paradox.
Investigate feeling, experiencing, and the cause-and-effect patterns that make up our sense impressions, deepening your awareness of how raw data shapes perspective.
Explore the many sides of mind—conscious and unconscious, intuition and psychosis—to understand the shifting grounds from which meaning and agency arise.
Analyze how self, the social self, and society interconnect, and begin to untangle the systems that shape—and sometimes limit—our individual and collective experiences.
Critically examine the process of forming and dismantling constructed meanings, practicing methods of restoration as existential tools for deliberate living.
Discuss the dynamics of value, order, equality, and equity, noticing how habituation, systems, and inherited standards can numb or enliven our ethical and communal sensibilities.
Confront the shedding and renewal of meaning, delving into the creative and existential revelations that emerge through contradiction, identity play, and expression.
Workshop Collaborations
Hold space for a community, team, or project that’s ready to grow from the inside out? I co-create Sense Method workshops for independent coaches, corporate teams, and creative collectives who want to dig deeper, uproot tired habits, and blossom into new paradigms of self-and-other awareness, compassion, and symbiosis.
Let’s blend your group’s brilliance with my framework to nurture real, sustainable growth. Schedule a free discovery call with me and let’s discover what’s possible—together.
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Atlanta, Georgia
United States
* I work on ceded lands of the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee people and pay my respect to Elders both past, present and future.