This fictional account of a student reviewing the first six months at SC-U is meant to help students and parents see what SC-U will look like for them.
SC-U Month 6
It’s now March 2021. I have to admit, I was worried about what would happen during the first six months at SC-U. In hindsight, I am frankly shocked at what we were able to do. When first introduced to the 8-year program, I thought, “Wow, aim for the stars and hit the moon.” But now I understand that the relation between training and choice are not mutually exclusive. I thought that I would be micromanaged, that the structure of the program and expectations would require rigid obedience to what would amount to personal overlords. It turns out that I can accomplish more than I ever thought, and choose it.
The first few days the framework of the whole thing—the way it appeared to be put together—seemed overwhelming. The groups of 4 were the gamechangers. Not just the groups, but the way we approach the groups. I didn’t know four people could do what we do and that it would be so empowering. The regularity of the bread baking work also grounded me in routine as I began to adjust to the new way of working with people. I also thought that I would get really tired of my three “peds” (group members). Turns out that we were working with other students in the end almost as much as the 3 in our groups.
There were just a few rigorous habits that began forming from the start. Each day we were committed and held each other naturally accountable to wake up, eat well, read, write, exercise, and to generally become more excellent. Busting paradigms is tough, but each day we worked to improve on the last, recording and reporting everything.
My peds were just the beginning. We hadn’t ever really had respect for people until we started connecting with all of our personal-relations in an orderly way, allowing them a very clear involvement and pure connection. I know that sounds abstract but wow, who would have known that so many people cared and that I could care for so many. Once our paradigm shifted, our daily writing became so meaningful and the quality started to really matter.
We spend 4 hours each day doing things that we used to think were dusty artifacts from the past. But they are so vibrantly a part of our lives now. We’re not as afraid to share success in change as we were before. Each day had its patterns like the rest but each day was so full and different. It’s the orderly use of the many networks who are so closely connected to others that open up the opportunities, which seem to be infinite both for service, money making, fun and everything.
Early in the year, the 3D-Learning course was introduced, which helped us identify 36 types of personal-relations and then to communicate with them according to type, proximity, frequency, cycles, etc.
New phrases and perspectives
If we didn’t counsel together so much we could never break our plans so much and follow the ‘current of God’ to move with us and ahead of us. Accepting the ‘80/20 rule’ is such a trip. Who would have thought that the 80 was so important and that accepting its lackluster place would liberate so much peace and tolerance. ‘Scenario thinking’ has allowed a new capacity for agreement. We all have learned to accept that when others are awake to the many ‘gifts’ of those around them, there is more than one road and that we can fit in in surprising ways. With ‘sensus plenior’ you see so much more.
Simulations came along and rocked our worlds. We now spend ½ of our time reflecting and preparing. Work (baking) is now just a time when we are together and can move plans along. We’re not sure if the competition should be what it is but the amount of joy that comes from the playfulness of it has added energy and excitement to what might have been an overwhelming amount of work. This again underscores the value of the groups of four. We break into our groups and other groups of four so often because we all want to grow and change and what used to be self-conscious performance has naturally given way to service and real transformation. The most fun aspect of this different “engagement density” is to observe the effect of those relations that either missed the change or are now more a part of it and normally would have been left in the dark.
Everyone has input, everyone feels needed. This is another reason we have to so often break into 4-peds (groups of 4), there is just too much change to involve too many outsiders on that intimate level.
General Daily Schedule:
Morning shift
- Morning swing 4:00
- Work 5-10:00
- Big lunch ‘n’ learn 10:30-2:30
- Read and write 3-7:00
- Evening swing 7-9:00
Evening shift
- Morning swing 4:00
- Read and write 5-10:00
- Big lunch ‘n’ learn 10:30-2:30
- Work 3-7:00
- Evening swing 7-9:00
Calendar
Month 1
- Week 1 (4-8 hours together daily, run/walk ½ mile +/- daily)
- Day 1(+/- 50 pages, write 5 pages)
- Orientation [LDS, entrepreneurship, liberal arts, social change]
- Habits
- Ordinances and change
- Scenario forecasting (introducing 3 scenarios to be tailored)
- Choose between scenarios for the first month
- New Situation Cycle
- Introduce full education (interdisciplinary learning)
- Choose between 1st book scenarios and options
- Work at bakery assignment 2-4 hours (learn the ropes)
- Day 2 (+/- 50 pages, write 5 pages)
- Bakery innovation
- Day 3 (+/- 50 pages, write 5 pages)
- Begin the challenge: 2 weeks to design the first semester within the 8-year construct
- More completely understand the objective of the 24 4-month semesters
- Day 4 (read +/- 50 pages, write 5 pages)
- General perspective of what there is to learn, exploring possibilities and how to innovatively learn it and then put in the time
- Day 5 (+/- 50 pages, write 5 pages)
- Listening skills and discovery
- Day 6 (+/- 50 pages, write 50 pages)
- Transformation of the unlikely
- Write 50 pages from first 300 pages
- Day 7 (+/- 50 pages, write 50 pages)
- Worship 1 of 416
- Write 50 pages from first 350 pages
- Week 2 (2 hours together 6 hours in 4-roles)
- Holacracy
- Receive cohort assignments and fully engage in “training wheels for 4 program”
- Change it. Improve it. What’s the best that can happen?
- Schedule daily, weekly, monthly
- Where to meet?
- When to meet?
- How to meet? “HOTS” method
- Who to meet with?
- What to meet about?
- Goals
- Purpose of meeting
- Trusting rules and laws
- Populate top 100 list for how to budget time and money toward education during first year 3 trimesters
- Week 3
- Simulations 1, 2 and 3 (“The Debrief”)
- Sleep and wake experimentation
- Optimizing life
- Depth of personal discovery
- Interweaving of gifts
- Train, teach, and inspire your relations to give your the right kind of feedback
- Week 4
- Simulations 4, 5 and 6 (“History of the Future”)
Month 2
- Engage in 20 $1500 residual capable projects
Month 3
- Narrow down to 10
Month 4
- Narrow down to 5
Month 5
- Narrow down to 3
Month 6
- Prioritize
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