Alex Guru:
Author of The Consciousness Workshop

• I have no medical or psychological qualifications. I am not a doctor, psychologist or psychotherapist.
• Everything I teach, I have first tested on myself.
• The course is for mentally healthy people who want to understand themselves better, handle stress more calmly and live more mindfully. It does not treat depression, anxiety or any other disorder, and it does not replace a doctor.
• If you feel very unwell or have symptoms that frighten you, see a doctor first.

Three events, coming almost one after another, made me look for answers.

• 2006. I began looking for answers: I read everything — psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, religious texts — and tried what I read on myself. The first results came even then.
• 2008. I set myself a goal: two years of honest daily practice, without expecting miracles. Since then I have practised every day and kept notes on what I do, what I notice, and what works and what doesn’t.
• The years that followed. I taught people in person: friends, acquaintances and people who came on someone’s recommendation — more than 70 in total. We practised, talked and argued, and many of them got results of their own.
• A book grew out of my notes. In it I gathered the whole teaching.
• 2025. The book became the course on this website.

The content of the lessons comes from my book. Artificial intelligence helped me turn it into a course:

• splitting the book into courses, levels and lessons and putting them in order;
• coming up with lesson titles and search descriptions;
• coming up with a metaphor at the start of each lesson (which I then edited myself);
• writing the warnings and safety guidelines.

I read and edited all of the content myself. By my estimate, 80–85% of the work on the course is mine, and each lesson is about 85% text from my book.

The English and Spanish versions were translated with the help of AI. How the lessons and articles are written is explained in detail on the How We Create Our Content page.

I’m not asking you to take my word for it. I’m inviting you to try.

I am familiar with the work of these researchers and draw on their ideas. The course is my own experience and my retelling of these ideas, not scientific research, and the authors themselves have no connection to it.

• Robert Sapolsky — how chronic stress affects the body.
• Lisa Feldman Barrett — emotions as the brain’s predictions.
• Aaron Beck — automatic thoughts and cognitive distortions.
• Daniel Kahneman — fast and slow thinking, errors in decisions.
• Albert Bandura — self-efficacy and how it shapes results.
• Edward Deci and Richard Ryan — intrinsic and imposed motivation.
• BJ Fogg — tiny habits instead of willpower.
• Anders Ericsson — deliberate practice.
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — the flow state.
• Martin Seligman — learned helplessness and learned optimism.
• Steven Hayes — looking at your own thoughts from the outside.
• Robert Plutchik — the wheel of emotions.
• Robert Cialdini — how we are influenced and how to notice it.
• Eric Berne — life scripts and roles.
• Carl Gustav Jung — the shadow and working with dreams.
• Viktor Frankl — meaning and the freedom to choose our response.