One: The Call to Wonder​​

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• Goal: Cultivate openness to possibility.

• Question: What am I curious about?

• Understanding: A life oriented toward "storytelling about aliveness" can counter despair and self-destruction.

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Two: The Compass

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• Goal: Develop an orientation without certainty.

• Question: How does my character know where to turn?

• Understanding: Storytelling can function as a compass when fixed answers fail.

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Three: CAT the Coddiwompler

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• Goal: To introduce a curiosity-based self-assessment, not an evaluation.

• Question: What will your answers be? 

• Understanding: Not all meaningful questions require correct answers to be useful.​

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Four: Captain Brooke​​

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• Goal: Reframe humans as dynamic, adaptive systems.

• Question: How am I assembled and how do I move?

• Understanding: Humans are not broken; they are complex, moving systems responding to conditions.

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Five: Alfie the Prisoner​​

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• Goal: Explore the cost of choosing against the grain.

• Question: What do I want to do that may create friction or confrontation?

• Understanding: Acting from curiosity disrupts existing ecosystems and relationships.

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Six: No Questions Asked​​

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• Goal: Question the limits of assumption.

• Question: How do people decide if they already know?

• Understanding: Premature certainty often blocks new stories from being told.

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Seven: Two Columns of Shit

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• Goal: Reveal the mechanics of good storytelling.

• Question: What pressures generate the simple and obvious?

• Understanding: Humans often require significant friction before becoming meaningfully open.

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Eight: CAT the Artist​​

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• Goal: Practice observing curiosity in action.

• Question: What do I notice about her responses?

• Understanding: Certain questions generate energy, engagement, and aliveness.

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Nine: The Captain’s Quarters

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• Goal: Reframe the mundane through attention.

• Question: How are ordinary stories built, piece by piece?

• Understanding: Daily life becomes meaningful when noticed with care.

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Ten: The Captain’s Vow​​

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• Goal: Confront self-betrayal and responsibility.

• Question: Where do I need to stand up to myself?

• Understanding: There is a relationship between circumstances and conviction.

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Eleven: Simple and Obvious​​

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• Goal: Clarify experience through consequence.

• Question: Am I willing to feel the pain of Column Two?

• Understanding: Much of our decision-making relies on outdated or inaccurate internal data.

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Twelve: CAT the Storyteller​​

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• Goal: Continue observing curiosity patterns.

• Question: What do I notice about her responses now?

• Understanding: Curiosity reveals itself through moments of vitality and resonance.

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Thirteen: The Captain’s Vessel

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• Goal: Explore movement as alignment.

• Question: How can humans move in rhythm with natural cycles?

• Understanding: Human beings move according to prioritized internal and external rhythms.

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Fourteen: Full of Light

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• Goal: Examine redemption without erasure.

• Question: How do we move forward from past behavior?

• Understanding: Redemption is possible, and it requires sustained effort.

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Fifteen: A Witness

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• Goal: Practice presence in devastation.

• Question: What does it mean to hold suffering without fixing it?

• Understanding: Not all problems are solved through action; some require witness.

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Sixteen: An Academic’s Shit List​​

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• Goal: Re-enchant storytelling through risk.

• Question: What surprised me when I had something new to say?

• Understanding: When risk and reward align, learning can be transformational.

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Seventeen: CAT the Strategist

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• Goal: Observe curiosity as a planning force.

• Question: What do her responses reveal about direction and desire?

• Understanding: Curiosity can guide strategy when answers are unclear.

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Eighteen: The Captain’s Daemons​​

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• Goal: Name distractions and inner antagonists.

• Question: What pulls me away from the present moment?

• Understanding: Presence often requires deliberate practice.

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Nineteen: Alfie the Wolfhound​​

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• Goal: Explore rebuilding after harm.

• Question: What obstacles stand between me and repair?

• Understanding: Harm is not the only possible outcome.

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Twenty: A Forgiveness Map​​

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• Goal: Reframe forgiveness as orientation.

• Question: What is forgiveness, really?

• Understanding: Forgiveness can sound and feel like gratitude.

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Twenty-One: CAT the Seeker​​

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• Goal: Observe curiosity as longing.

• Question: What do her responses suggest she is seeking?

• Understanding: Curiosity points to awesome stories.

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Twenty-Two: The Captain’s Otherwise

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• Goal: Establish practice through repetition.

• Question: What story am I willing to live and tell repeatedly?

• Understanding: The life we want emerges from repeated habits.

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Twenty-Three: The Socratic Cat

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• Goal: Demonstrate storytelling's transformative power.

• Question: What stories can I tell now?

• Understanding: Learning is a fundamental ingredient to good storytelling.

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Twenty-Four: Preview of Season Two​​

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• Goal: Set the stage for storytellers. 

• Question: What am I curious about?

• Understanding: Great storytelling is ultimately self-directed.

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