Self Engineering Intensive | A Small-Group Summer Workshop
Richard Leo Hunt, EdD
Self Engineering Intensive | A Small-Group Summer Workshop
Self Engineering Intensive | A Small-Group Summer Workshop
The Self Engineering Intensive is a 4-day, small-group learning experience designed for students entering grades 8–12. Students will explore how thoughts, emotions, beliefs, habits, communication, and decision-making shape the way they experience themselves and the world.
This is not a lecture-based class. It is an interactive workshop built around discussion, reflection, real-life examples, and practical tools students can use immediately.
The Practice
What Is Self Engineering?
Self Engineering is the practice of understanding how your mind works and learning how to intentionally shape your habits, reactions, communication, and future direction.
Students will learn how to:
- ✓recognize emotional reactions before they take over
- ✓think clearly without becoming cynical
- ✓understand how beliefs and identity shape perception
- ✓detect influence and manipulation online
- ✓communicate with more awareness
- ✓build better habits and response patterns
- ✓become more adaptable under stress
- ✓design a future self with intention
Curriculum
The 8 Workshop Modules
Day 1 — Understanding the Mind
Core Question:
Students explore how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact.
Thoughts, Emotions & Reactions
Why do I react before I think?
Core Question:
Students are introduced to the BITES framework: Belief, Identity, Truth, Epistemology, and Self-Awareness.
Identity, Beliefs & Perception
Why do people see reality differently?
Day 2 — Adaptive Thinking
Core Question:
Students practice nuance, evidence-based thinking, and healthy skepticism.
Critical Thinking Without Cynicism
How do I think clearly without becoming negative?
Core Question:
Students examine social media, peer pressure, emotional persuasion, and influence patterns.
The Psychology of Influence
How are people manipulated online?
Day 3 — Self Engineering
Core Question:
Students learn the SECOND and POISE frameworks for self-awareness, communication, emotional regulation, and intentional response.
Habits, Conditioning & Self-Reprogramming
Can I intentionally change who I become?
Core Question:
Students learn how flexible thinking, resilience, and emotional regulation support real-world problem solving.
Adaptive Intelligence & Problem Solving
What makes some people adaptable?
Day 4 — Building a Life
Core Question:
Students explore listening, assumptions, conflict, empathy, and communication resets.
Relationships & Communication
Why do conversations become defensive?
Core Question:
Students clarify values, goals, habits, and the kind of person they want to become.
Designing Your Future Self
Who am I becoming?
What You Get
Included With the Workshop
Each student receives:
- student handbook and reflection journal
- guided in-class activities
- personal reflection exercises
- course completion certificate
- small-group mentorship
- practical tools for thinking, communication, and self-regulation
Optional included book bundle:
- Get A G.R.I.P.
- Seeing Clearly Without Collapsing
- Self-Engineering
Audience
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is ideal for students who are:
- thoughtful or introspective
- creative or curious
- preparing for high school, college, or adulthood
- interested in leadership or personal growth
- sometimes overwhelmed by emotions, pressure, or uncertainty
- ready to better understand themselves and others
Students do not need to be outgoing. Quiet, reflective students may benefit greatly from the small-group format.
Clarity
What This Workshop Is Not
This is not therapy. This is not political. This is not religious instruction.
This is not about telling students what to believe.
This workshop is about helping students understand how humans think, react, communicate, adapt, and grow.
Format
Why Small Group?
This workshop is limited to 8 students so each participant has space to:
- ask questions
- participate comfortably
- reflect honestly
- engage in meaningful discussion
- receive personal attention
- feel safe while learning
The small-group format allows the course to feel more like mentorship than traditional classroom instruction.
This workshop is about helping students understand how humans think, react, communicate, adapt, and grow.
Details
Course Details
June 22–25 · Monday–Thursday · 2 hours per day · 8 hours · Entering grades 8–12 · Limited to 8 students · Small-group, discussion-based, reflective, interactive
Instructor
About Your Instructor
Richard Leo Hunt, EdD
Educator · Author · Veteran
Richard Leo Hunt, EdD is an educator, author, veteran, and lifelong student of learning, leadership, mindset, and human development. His work explores belief formation, emotional regulation, and the quiet structures that shape understanding.
His writing focuses less on telling people what to think and more on helping them understand how thinking itself unfolds, especially under uncertainty.
His work focuses on helping students and adults think more clearly, regulate emotions, communicate better, and design lives that work with their minds.
Author of The Self-Engineering Series, a three-book framework on emotional regulation, clear thinking, and intentional self-design.
Enrollment
Reserve a Spot
Enrollment is limited to 8 students.
Self Engineering Intensive
Dates
June 22–25 Monday–Thursday
Time
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM · 2 hours per day