Power Tools for Practicing Change
Insight matters, but insight alone rarely changes a pattern. Power Tools are practical classes, workbooks, guided meditations, books, media resources, and free tools that help you keep practicing after the first insight.
Choose the support that fits what you are working with today.
Choose your starting point
Six ways in. Pick the one that matches where you are today.
Practice paths
If you already know you want more than one resource, these are the obvious ways to buy.
SkillfullyAware Workbook Trilogy
A three-workbook practice sequence to help you see your patterns, understand what drives them, and respond from a wider, more SkillfullyAware perspective.
Best for: Readers who want to practice the ideas from Built This Way on the page.
Includes: All three workbooks: See Yourself, Understand Yourself, Evolve Yourself.
Comprehensive SkillfullyAware Meditation Program
The full guided meditation library, including Learn to Meditate, the Feel Better Series, and advanced and specialty practices.
Best for: People who want all the benefits offered in one complete audio practice - learn to meditate, specialty meditations, and advanced practices.
Includes: Workbook + 44 audio tracks
Why Did I React That Way?
Bring one real reaction and get a personalised reflection on the pattern underneath. Free, and no account required.
Why Did I React That Way?
A free personalised reflection based on one real reaction.
Best for: Anyone who reacted, shut down, got defensive, or repeated an old pattern and wants to understand it.
Includes: Five questions, a written reflection on screen and by email. No account required.
Book and media
Start here if you want the whole picture before you start practising.
Built This Way
The best starting point for understanding why painful patterns repeat and how real change becomes possible.
Best for: Anyone who has ever thought, “I know better, but I still do it.”
Includes: Out now in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover.
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Dr. Pirtle's documentary on the stories we carry and the toll they can take.
Best for: People who want to see the ideas through real stories rather than read about them.
Includes: Feature documentary, available to stream.
Boundarylessness of Awareness
A companion guided audio for readers of the book.
Best for: Readers of Built This Way working through Chapter 8.
Includes: Guided audio, included with the book rather than sold separately.
Workbooks
Three guided workbooks, designed as a progression: see yourself, understand yourself, evolve yourself. Buy one, or take the trilogy.
Becoming SkillfullyAware — See Yourself
Train attention, expand awareness, and practice seeing your patterns as they happen so you can respond with more care and skill.
Best for: People who want to notice their patterns sooner.
Includes: Workbook (PDF)
Unfinished Business — Understand Yourself
Explore the hidden needs, fears, projections, and protective patterns beneath repeated reactions so you can understand yourself more clearly.
Best for: People working with shadow, projection, resistance, anger, and boundaries.
Includes: Workbook (PDF)
Raising Awareness — Evolve Yourself
Widen your perspective, increase maturity, and practice responding from a larger view with greater wisdom and care.
Best for: People who want to expand perspective, maturity, and compassion.
Includes: Workbook (PDF)
Guided meditation programs
Guided audio for attention, stress, reactivity, and awareness. The Comprehensive Program is the full library and includes the other two.
Learn to Meditate Series
Guidance for what to do with attention, posture, breath, and a wandering mind.
Best for: People who want to meditate but need a clear foundation.
Includes: Workbook + 27 audio tracks
Feel Better Series
Guided support for returning to steadiness when the body is activated.
Best for: People feeling stressed, reactive, or activated in the body.
Includes: Workbook + 10 audio tracks + bonus track
Comprehensive SkillfullyAware Meditation Program
The complete guided practice library, including both other programs.
Best for: People who want all the benefits offered in one complete audio practice - learn to meditate, specialty meditations, and advanced practices.
Includes: Workbook + 44 audio tracks
Online classes
Live classes with Mark, for people who want structure, guidance, and accountability. The next class does not have a date yet.
Project SkillfullyAware
Live, guided practice with attention, emotions, habits, reactions, and daily pattern change.
Best for: People who want live structure applying SkillfullyAware to daily pattern change.
Includes: Live six-week online class.
Mindfully Overcoming Addictive Behaviors
Live support for addictive or compulsive patterns, nervous system responses, and the protective strategies underneath them. Educational support, not treatment.
Best for: People wanting live support with addictive or compulsive patterns.
Includes: Live ten-week online class.
How to choose your next Power Tool
Start with the free tool if you want to look at one reaction right now. Start with the book if you want the full framework. Choose the workbooks if you want to write and reflect. Choose the meditation programs if you want guided audio practice. Choose a class if you want live structure and support.
Not sure what fits?
Tell Mark what you are working with and he will point you to the right starting place.