For schools.

What it needs

• A cohort of roughly ten young men, sixteen to eighteen, each with a father or approved male mentor who has signed and met the instructor.
• A room, weekly, for twelve sessions across a year; a structure for a short residential silence; and, for the last session, a trip to Surin.
• A school's existing framework for short-term or visiting teaching projects. The first cohort runs inside exactly such a framework at an international school in Bangkok.

What it will not do

• It will not tell a boy what his purpose is, and it will not let the school do so through it.
• It will not collect or grade the written work. It is private to the boy, and where he chooses, to his father.
• It will not name the school, any pupil or any family publicly without written consent. This site does not.
• It will not claim results it does not have. Before-and-after purpose scores will be published here, whether or not they move.

What it gives back

A published curriculum — sequence, teacher's guide, assessments — that other teachers can run without the author in the room. That is the point of the whole project: nobody has yet moved logotherapy out of the clinic and into a timetable. The first school to run it is the reference for the second.

The secular guarantee

Frankl left the ultimate open on purpose, so that the method could be used by a person of any tradition or none. The course keeps that door open: no metaphysical claim is made, no faith is taught, and the one definition of faith it uses — a willingness to abide by what your conscience tells you — needs no religion to hold it. The version with the religious traditions arguing openly exists, for families that want it, on a different site, and is not what a school runs.

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