The Havruta
The ongoing team programme that turns reasoning with AI from a one-off workshop into the way your team works, on a steady biweekly rhythm.
The Havruta, the programme, is an ongoing engagement that installs the Havruta Methodology (formerly the Think Partner Methodology) into a team's operating rhythm rather than a single event. On a steady biweekly cadence, the team practises reasoning with AI on its own real work, with support between sessions and a shared brain that accumulates as it goes. A workshop opens the door; the programme is what makes the change a habit, across the whole team, and leaves behind a substrate the organisation owns.
Why a programme, not an event
A workshop can change how a team sees AI in an afternoon. It cannot, on its own, change how the team works for good. New habits fade without reinforcement, and a single leader's enthusiasm rarely survives a busy quarter. The Eye-Opener Workshop is where a team first sees the shift; the Havruta programme is what embeds it, so reasoning with AI becomes the team's default rather than one person's interest. It is the difference between seeing the idea and living it.
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How the programme works
The programme runs on a steady biweekly rhythm, and it has three parts that work together.
- The session
Locker Room
The facilitated team session that anchors each fortnight, run on the Havruta Mental Gym Protocol.
- Between sessions
Practice in the field
The team applies the methodology to its own real work.
- Between sessions
Hot Line
Async support, so a leader stuck mid-fortnight has somewhere to turn.
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The cycle repeats, fortnight after fortnight
The shared brain accumulates underneath the rhythm, compounding over months.
The cycle turns every fortnight; the red mark is the Data Room, the shared brain that compounds underneath rather than resetting each session.
The Locker Room is the facilitated team session that anchors each fortnight. It runs on the Havruta Mental Gym Protocol, a four-move structure the team works through together on its own live challenges:
- 01
Confession
Where AI use is going wrong
- 02
Intervention
Working a real case through the methodology
- 03
Elevation
Raising the standard of what good looks like
- 04
Assignment
What each leader will practise before the next session
Opening the dialogue uses the 4-Lines and the Flip; the team supplies the substance.
The Hot Line is the support between sessions, so a leader stuck on a real piece of work mid-fortnight has somewhere to turn rather than slipping back into old habits.
The Data Room is the shared brain. The workflows, prompts, and decision artefacts the team produces accumulate in one place, so the practice compounds rather than resetting each session. Over months, that becomes a substrate the team reasons from, not just a record.
What it builds
The programme builds two things that a workshop cannot. The first is an operating rhythm: a team for whom reasoning with AI, rather than instructing it, is simply how the work is done, reinforced often enough to survive a busy quarter and a change of personnel. The second is a shared, compounding brain, the Data Room, which is the Brain Pillar of the methodology at team scale. It belongs to the organisation and keeps paying out long after any single session.
A workshop changes a day. A rhythm changes how the team works.
Frequently asked questions
How does the Havruta team programme work?
It is an ongoing engagement on a steady biweekly rhythm with three parts. The Locker Room is the facilitated team session each fortnight, run on the Havruta Mental Gym Protocol (Confession, Intervention, Elevation, Assignment) on the team's own live work. The Hot Line is async support between sessions. The Data Room is a shared brain where the team's workflows and decision artefacts accumulate, so the practice compounds. Together they install the Havruta Methodology into how the team operates, rather than delivering a one-off event.
What is the Havruta Mental Gym Protocol?
It is the four-move structure the team works through in each Locker Room session: Confession (naming where AI use is going wrong), Intervention (working a real case through the methodology), Elevation (raising the standard of what good reasoning looks like), and Assignment (what each leader practises before the next session). It is how the methodology becomes muscle memory rather than a concept.
How is it different from a workshop?
A workshop is an event that shows a team the shift. The Havruta programme is the ongoing rhythm that makes the shift stick. Habits fade without reinforcement, so the programme keeps the practice alive on a biweekly cadence and leaves the team a shared brain that compounds. Most teams do the Eye-Opener Workshop first, then run the programme to embed it.
Who is it for?
A leadership team that wants reasoning with AI to become the way it works, not a one-time experience. It is for the group, not a single leader; if the goal is to take one individual deep on their own decisions, the Executive 1-1 Coaching Programme is the better fit, and many organisations run both.
Do we need to do the Eye-Opener Workshop first?
Usually, yes. The Eye-Opener is the gateway: it is where the team first sees the shift the programme then embeds. A Strategic Briefing is the way to map the right entry point and cadence for your team.