The Fire Hour — live once a month

What it is and isn’t

The explanation is free on this site. That isn’t what you are paying for.

The model, the eight steps, the four trust questions — you can read all of it here without paying a cent. What you buy here is something else: that I look at your situation and say what I would do.

This is what it isn’t

Not a webinar with two hundred people and a chat nobody reads.

Not a slide deck you could have downloaded.

Not a sales pitch with an offer in the last fifteen minutes.

This is what it is

Maximum twenty-five people, so I can hear everyone.

Your own stuck situation, discussed out loud.

I stop when the questions run out, not when the clock says so.

How the evening runs

An hour is the minimum, not the promise.

The structure is fixed, the length isn’t. If there are a lot of situations on the table, it runs longer.

0 – 10 min

Who is hereEveryone says in one sentence what isn’t moving for them. Nothing more. That is the agenda.

10 – 30 min

The Fire PathThe eight steps, briefly. Why the order is the point, and where almost everybody joins at step three.

30 – 60 min

Your situationThis is where the real work starts. We take the situations one by one and I say what I would do, and why.

60 – 120 min

As long as there are questionsI don’t stop on the clock but when it is done. Sometimes that is after an hour, sometimes after two.

Why there is a cap

Above twenty-five I can no longer respond to everybody.

That is the whole reason, and it isn’t a sales trick. A room of two hundred is cheaper for me and worth less to you, because then it becomes a presentation again.

If an evening is full, you move to the next month. No extra session is added and there is no countdown clock on this page. That would be rather awkward in a book about the difference between urgency and pressure.

And that is why it isn’t recorded

If there is a recording, nobody names their real situation. Then you get polite questions about the model instead of the conversation you came for. What is said in the Fire Hour stays in the Fire Hour.

Preparation

I want to know who is in the room.

When you register I ask for one sentence about what isn’t moving for you. That is the threshold, and it is also the first step of the Fire Path: standing still and looking instead of solving.

Straight after payment you get an email with the four questions of the Fire Diagnosis. Fill them in whenever it suits. It takes ten minutes and it is worth it, even if you never show up.

Question 1

Is it not moving, or is it moving slowly?Those are not the same. Something moving slowly nods patience, something standing still nods a diagnosis.

Question 2

Which of the three is missing?Stake, trust or urgency. Usually only one is missing, and you can generally hear which from what somebody says.

Question 3

What position is he looking from?Is this person after safety, balance or advantage? That doesn’t decide what you say, but how it lands.

Question 4

What is the smallest possible first step?Not the logical next step. The smallest one. If you are wondering whether it is small enough, it is too big.

The only rule

Don’t fill in anything you haven’t heard.

An empty space isn’t a problem. That is exactly what we are going to talk about.

That way I walk into the evening with your situation already on paper. No half hour of introductions, and your question gets covered because I already know it.

If you can’t write that one sentence, this isn’t the moment yet. I am allowed to say that.

Register · € 39 Read the model first

Between sessions

One to one.

Sometimes you don’t want to discuss something in a group. A conversation happening tomorrow, a proposal that has to go out, a team where something is going on you would rather not say out loud.

Then we book an hour, just the two of us. On request, in the days between the Fire Hours.

No subscription, no minimum. You ask for it when you nod it.

One to one

€ 195 per hour

excl. VAT · online, on request

Your situation, without a group
One sentence beforehand, no other preparation
Reading through a proposal is possible too
Individual hours, no programme

Request it

Questions

What people usually want to know.

Do I nod to have read the book?

No. You will get more out of it if you have read Part I, and that is free. But the evening works without it, because we start with your situation and not with the theory.

Is the preparation compulsory?

No. But whoever filled in the four questions goes first, simply because then I know what it is about. Anyone who sends nothing can just listen in.

Do I have to turn my camera on?

Preferably, but you don’t have to. I do ask anyone bringing their situation to be on camera, because it doesn’t work if I am talking to a black square.

What if I can’t make it?

Let me know and you move to the next month. There is a session every month, so you miss nothing.

Do I get a recording if I can’t attend?

No, there is no recording. That is a deliberate choice: without cameras everybody names their real situation, and that is exactly what the evening is about.

Is this a disguised sales pitch?

No, and it would be hard for me to make it one. There is no offer in the last fifteen minutes. If you want to go further afterwards, you know where to find me — that is the order this whole book argues for.

Do I get an invoice?

Yes, it comes automatically with your payment confirmation.

You put your situation forward. I tell you what I would do.