Once a month
Expert Hour
A sleep scientist, a psychologist, a Vipassana teacher, or someone who beat an addiction. Phones locked throughout.
- Monthly
- Live
- Phones locked
45 mineach session- When
- Once a month
- How long
- 45 min
- Format
- Monthly · Live · Phones locked
- Cost
- Free for members
Most advice about phones is written by people who never had the problem. Expert Hour brings in people who know it from the inside: the science of sleep, the psychology of habit, the discipline of attention, or the experience of getting out of an addiction.
It runs once a month, live, with every phone in the room locked — which is the only fitting way to listen to someone talk about attention.
How it runs
Forty-five minutes, mostly yours
Every phone in the room is locked with the Spark key, the guest's included.
- 01
0–15 min
Talk
Everyone locks their phone first. Then fifteen minutes from the guest on the one thing they know best about attention, sleep or habit — short enough that nobody drifts off.
- 02
15–45 min
Your questions
The rest of the hour is yours. Members ask, the guest answers, and the conversation goes wherever the room needs it to. Twice as long as the talk, on purpose.
Who it's for
Made for people who…
People who want the why
The sessions and the challenge give you the how. Expert Hour is where you hear what is actually going on in a distracted brain, and why the key works.
Anyone with a specific question
Thirty of the forty-five minutes are questions. Bring the one about your sleep, your kid, or your concentration that no article has answered.
Members who have tried everything
Sometimes the useful thing is hearing from someone who was further in than you are and came back out.
Before you join
What you need
- Your Spark key and the paired Spark app, to lock before the talk
- One question you actually want answered
- Forty-five minutes and a laptop or second device
- Something to write on — the useful lines go quickly
In the room
The rules
- Phones locked for the whole hour, guests included.
- Questions over speeches.
- What members share in the questions stays in the room.
Questions
About the Expert Hour
Who are the guests?
A different one each month, from four kinds of experience: sleep science, psychology, meditation teaching such as Vipassana, and people who have overcome an addiction themselves.
Is it recorded?
It is live, and the questions are the point, so come if you can. Members hear about each month's guest with the calendar.
Can I suggest a guest or a topic?
Yes. Write to us — the calendar is built from what members want to hear about.
Is it free?
Yes, like everything in the community. The only thing anyone buys is the Spark key, once.
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The Expert Hour is free with a Spark.
Buy a Spark, pair it with the free app, and the calendar and join links come to you. The key is the membership.