07Field notes
Ideas from the work, examined in public.
Selected essays, research, and notes on adaptive capacity, performance, wellbeing, adversity, and the examined life.
The model behind the work.
Purpose, body, mind, emotion, skill, relationships, and context held as one adaptive system.
Read the model Essay / 02A performance philosophy.
Six principles on excellence, freedom, identity, adversity, and the conditions that make performance sustainable.
Read the essay Research / 03Antifragility and Growth Through Adversity.
Peer-reviewed research from an earlier phase of the work on adaptation and adversity. Holton, Cottin, Wright et al., Psychological Reports, 2026.
View publication04Research and practice
The public work is one way the model stays accountable.
Ideas developed in clinics, organizations, and performance environments should be tested against evidence, examined in conversation, and revised when the material demands it.
Private inquiries