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Living Connection
Attention is light. People should be nearby.
Attention practices are sold like an app these days: play the recording, breathe, close the tab. Here are eight steps of real practice: short theory with its sources named, one sitting session, and a conversation about what happened in it — with an AI interlocutor between sessions and with living people at the end of the road.
Presented by Synergify Institute for AI
A recording plays. A circle hears.
An audio meditation and a living circle look like the same practice. The difference shows at the moment the practice works — and brings up what had been put away.
The voice in your headphones will not notice you flinched
Living people nearby see it and can hold it together with you
A question about the method goes into a feedback form
A question gets an answer in substance — or an honest "I don’t know"
Your diary is read by an unfamiliar reviewer
Experience is spoken out loud and heard without evaluation
The uncomfortable is declared your personal defect
The difficult has a place — it is part of the work, not a malfunction
This course is for you if...
You practice alone — and something is off
The app counts your streak, the breath is obedient, and yet something quietly piles up inside with nowhere to go. That is not your failure and not a "lack of discipline": the solitary format is simply missing a load-bearing part — other people.
You are choosing a course or a school
There are many offers, the packaging is beautiful, and from a description alone a living format is indistinguishable from a dead one. This course gives you a short list of questions to ask any school before giving it your time.
A marketplace "mindfulness" burned you once
You went through a program where questions fell into a void and everything difficult was declared your personal defect. That you felt uneasy there is data, not a diagnosis. Here the anatomy of that packaging is taken apart.
You lead groups and want to check the structure
You assemble circles, classes, or meetings yourself. The rules of a circle and the seven marks of a dishonest format from step eight are a handy ruler for checking your own practice for a vertical of power and a frightening exit.
The course does not call anyone onto a "transformation journey". It offers distinctions — the decision always stays yours.
One practice — two packagings
Thousands of participants, but no one gets the floor: sessions are a broadcast.
The group is small — everyone gets the floor within one meeting.
Facilitators rotate weekly; questions return a polite emptiness.
There is a person who answers in substance and names where the method comes from.
Comfort is promised; the difficult is sent off to "deal with on your own".
The difficult is expected and shared; the boundary with therapy is said out loud.
The course promises no state and no outcome. It gives a map of distinctions — whether to use it is up to you.
What surrounds the course at a glance
Read
- Course (8 lessons)
- Pocket list & course map
- The academy manifesto
Connect
- Your practice circle (IGI) (soon)
- Chat "Мастерская Перехода", topic «Тишина»
- S.A.S.H.A community (soon)
- AMA office-hours (soon)
Mark
- Completion certificate
- Academy admission ticket (soon)
What surrounds the course at a glance
A circle can gather anywhere
Colleagues
Half an hour of silence and the floor around the circle once a week — no bosses, no minutes.
Parents
A circle of people whose kids are the same age: practice, and a place to say what is actually hard.
Readers
A book club where, after reading, people do not argue interpretations but listen to each other’s experience.
Neighbors
Four people from one courtyard, a kettle, and a meeting calendar known in advance.
Distant friends
A scheduled video call: the same circle structure works across distance.
A study group
The synergema IGI ritual: category cards, four steps, everyone gets the floor.
Not techniques and not levels — four load-bearing parts of the format. Each is checked with a simple question.
Alexander Mamaev
I am assembling the Synergema School. This course is an answer to a close reading of one online mindfulness course: eight steps of practice where benefit and risk are named before the first session.
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Is this a meditation course?
It is a course of attention practice: breath, a shortened body pass, naming thoughts — described in secular terms with their sources named. It draws on approaches studied in mindfulness-based stress reduction programmes, but it is not any of them and does not carry their name.
Does this replace psychotherapy?
No, and it does not try to. There are states with which the right move is to see a psychotherapist and a doctor — no practice cancels that visit. The course repeats this boundary more than once.
How much time does it take?
Eight steps: short theory and one session of 10–20 minutes in each. No deadlines and no reviewers; a missed day is normal behaviour, not a failure.
What if I have no one to form a circle with?
That is normal, and nothing hurries you. The practice of the first seven steps works alone — and step eight will stay right here until three to seven living people are found. You can also look for them in the academy's Telegram chat "Мастерская Перехода" (t.me/kundaliniRUs/7823), topic «Тишина».
Do I need practice experience?
No. The course is built to start from zero — and it is useful to someone who has practiced alone for years and wants to see what has been missing.
Why free? What’s the catch?
No catch: the course is fully free, with no "next levels" and no tiers of access. An honest school builds its own unnecessity — this course tries to do the same.