What is being asked of you, why, what the tools your son will use actually do, and what you get to see.
Because the smallest unit that can actually carry a boy's meaning is not a school and not an instructor. It is you and him. The course pushes responsibility down to that pair on purpose, and everything above it — the cohort, the instructor — handles only what cannot be settled there. A father who hands his son's meaning to a school has done what a tyranny does with the things it cannot be bothered to value: left it on the table for anyone to pick up.
Three, all free, all at logotherapist.ai. The north-star hour asks him to describe his own best self, once, carefully — three people he admires and why, what he wants true of himself at thirty, what his shame tells him he values, what he would do even knowing he would fail, who is counting on him, and one sentence. Then, when he has a decision to make, it puts his own sentences next to his situation and asks: does that apply here? That is all. It reflects. It does not advise. The one card is paper: his reasons, a short list, one small discipline for the month, the day he decided, his signature. The practice is the same card kept on his phone — a tap a day, one minute every Sunday, a new card each month.
Why the practice has four parts and not one: there are four kinds of knowing — knowing that, knowing how, knowing what a thing is like from inside, and the knowing you get by belonging to something — and a card a boy only reads gives him the first. The reasons he writes are the first kind; the small thing he does every day is the second; the minute every Sunday is the third; a why he can say at any hour is the fourth.
They will never tell him what his purpose is. That is the founding rule of the method they are built on: the one who helps is a midwife, not a painter. The system cannot supply a goal, because it does not know one. The boy writes his own.
Nothing on any server. Everything he writes is saved in his own browser, on his own device, and he can erase it. No account, no email, no analytics. The only thing the practice can send is the page's own link, if he chooses to share it with a friend. It is meant to be shown to you: the page tells him that under sixteen his parents should see the card, and that there is nothing secret on it. If it was handed to him by an adult he met on the road, you should know what is on it, and now you do — and there is no channel back to that adult or to anyone.
Your son already has a machine that answers any question, never gets tired, and listens better than you do. He will trust it before he trusts you unless you are there first. Two things follow. First, a household rule worth writing on the wall: we use it to understand a thing, never to be handed an answer. Second, an exercise for the two of you: take any job he can imagine doing, break it into tasks — this comes in, that goes out — and ask of each task whether a machine could do it this year. What survives that test is where his place is, and the course exists to help him find the question that the machine cannot ask for him.
The practice is used by boys younger than the hour was written for, and that is fine. Nobody thinks a child who starts swimming at five and is up at half past five for practice is being imposed on; he has seen something excellent and wants it, and we are glad. A boy of fourteen who can say what he is running for is doing the same thing with a smaller word. The practice gives him somewhere to write the word down, and tells him to show you.
The one rule, written on the wall: the instructor never tells a boy what his purpose is. If you ever think it has been broken, say so; that is what the meeting was for. You may read his north star if he lets you — ask, don't demand, and don't correct it. The test is not whether you agree with it; it is whether a stranger reading it would recognize your son. If it reads like a school assignment, the questions failed, not the boy, and we would like to know: hello@logotherapy.com.
It is not therapy, and it is not treatment for anything. If your son is in real difficulty, what he needs is a clinician and his family, and the instructor will say so in the first meeting rather than take his year. If he types anything into the tools that suggests he or someone else is in danger, the mirror stops and shows him real people to call — in Thailand 1323 (24 hours), under eighteen 1387, the Samaritans of Thailand in English 02-113-6789, and 191 if someone is in immediate danger; other countries are listed here. The trigger is deliberately over-sensitive, and it tells him to tell one adult he trusts today.