Self Engineering Intensive | A Small-Group Summer Workshop
Richard Leo Hunt, EdD
Self Engineering Intensive | A Small-Group Summer Workshop
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
The 8 Workshop Modules
Day 1 — Understanding the Mind
Module 1: Thoughts, Emotions & Reactions
Core Question: Why do I react before I think?
Students explore how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact.
Module 2: Identity, Beliefs & Perception
Core Question: Why do people see reality differently?
Students are introduced to the BITES framework: Belief, Identity, Truth, Epistemology, and Self-Awareness.
Day 2 — Adaptive Thinking
Module 3: Critical Thinking Without Cynicism
Core Question: How do I think clearly without becoming negative?
Students practice nuance, evidence-based thinking, and healthy skepticism.
Module 4: The Psychology of Influence
Core Question: How are people manipulated online?
Students examine social media, peer pressure, emotional persuasion, and influence patterns.
Day 3 — Self Engineering
Module 5: Habits, Conditioning & Self-Reprogramming
Core Question: Can I intentionally change who I become?
Students learn the SECOND and POISE frameworks for self-awareness, communication, emotional regulation, and intentional response.
Module 6: Adaptive Intelligence & Problem Solving
Core Question: What makes some people adaptable?
Students learn how flexible thinking, resilience, and emotional regulation support real-world problem solving.
Day 4 — Building a Life
Module 7: Relationships & Communication
Core Question: Why do conversations become defensive?
Students explore listening, assumptions, conflict, empathy, and communication resets.
Module 8: Designing Your Future Self
Core Question: Who am I becoming?
Students clarify values, goals, habits, and the kind of person they want to become.
About Your Instructor
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.