Twenty quiet minutes with a daily chart
The last evening of the Chart Structure Workshop begins in silence. This is the sitting we want people to steal and take home to the kitchen table.
The rules of the sitting
One printed daily chart. A pencil, an eraser, a ruler. A kitchen timer set to twenty minutes. No phone, no headline, no overlay. You may mark swings, hatch a range, and write one sentence in the margin. You may not write a plan to buy or sell.
If you finish in seven minutes you have gone too fast. Sit with the unmarked right-hand edge. Ask whether the last completed swing is obvious or whether you invented it because the timer made you lonely.
Why twenty, not five and not sixty
Five minutes is a glance. Sixty minutes is a chance to decorate. Twenty is long enough to change your mind about a swing and short enough that you will actually do it on a weeknight. The Practice Evening in Farnham is built from the same block, only with other people breathing in the same room.
What to do when you are bored
Boredom on a quiet chart is information. It often means you are looking at a range and hoping it will confess. Hatch the congestion and stop. Tomorrow's sitting can be a different page. The skill is not stamina; it is refusing to invent a story so the time feels productive.
If you want the version with an eraser at your elbow, the Chart Structure Workshop is the six-evening series, and the enquiry form is how a chair is reserved.