Before You Chose Your Goals, You Were Taught What to Want
The life you are working hard to build may be following a map you never consciously chose.
iReawaken is a free three-day live guided experience. Across six hours of deliberately constructed experiential work, you will identify the definition of happiness behind your goals, experience four distinct levels of human motivation from the inside, see where they are already operating in your life and decide what deserves your loyalty now.
Your Life Can Be Working Without Being Properly Directed
These signs do not prove that your life has failed. They may show that you have become increasingly capable of following a map that has never been properly examined.
Every Goal Follows an Inner Map of Happiness
Before someone chooses a career, builds a business, raises a family or sets a goal, an earlier judgment is already at work: an idea of what will make life good.
Happiness may come to mean achievement, security, comfort, approval, pleasure, control, freedom, belonging, contribution or escape. Most people never make a deliberate choice among these definitions. They absorb them through family expectations, cultural stories, education, advertising, disappointment, entertainment, fear and the conduct of people they admire.
Once absorbed, these promises shape what we notice and desire. Desire becomes pursuit. Pursuit becomes habit. Repeated habits become direction.
A person can become highly capable at living within a direction that was never consciously chosen.
Information Is Easy to Find. Six Hours of Guided Work Is Different.
There are thousands of worthwhile videos, lectures, podcasts and books about happiness, motivation and purpose. Many are free and available whenever you want them.
The live format serves a practical purpose. Information is only the first part of the work. Across three consecutive sessions, you will move through a deliberately constructed sequence of exercises that helps you recognise different forms of motivation within your own experience.
You will be shown a map of four levels of happiness and inner motivation. Guided exercises then engage imagination, awareness, reason and will so that the distinctions can be recognised in your own desires, habits and choices.
Six hours are set aside because the work needs continuity. Each session builds on what you noticed, wrote and judged in the session before it.
A video can explain the map. The live sessions give you time, guidance and a sequence in which to test it against your own experience.
Experience the Four Levels of Motivation from the Inside
Across the live sessions, you will enter four distinct levels, or four “mansions”, of happiness and inner motivation. The exercises use four human faculties in a deliberate order.
Imagination
You will enter concrete situations in which a particular form of happiness becomes vivid enough to picture and feel, rather than remaining an abstract definition.
Awareness
You will notice the desires, attractions, fears and promises that arise, then compare them with patterns already present in your own life.
Reason
You will examine what each level can genuinely offer, where its limits lie and what follows when a limited good is asked to carry more weight than it can bear.
Will
You will make a judgment about the place each motivation should occupy in your life and identify a practical consequence for your next decisions.
Two Master’s Degrees Behind the Framework
The maps used in iReawaken grew from sustained postgraduate study of a deceptively simple question: what actually constitutes human happiness?
Philosophical study of happiness
A master’s degree in philosophy examined competing accounts of happiness and the good life through thinkers including Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas, together with Kierkegaard, Kant and Rousseau.
Contemporary happiness research
A Master of Education included a comparative literature review drawing on a ten-year span of research articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
The workshop turns that study into practical working maps. You will use them to examine the evidence of your own goals, habits, relationships and choices.
DeINCEPTION Reveals How the Map Enters a Life
DeINCEPTION: The Great Aha! What Is Happiness? began with a near-fatal accident, a wilderness ordeal and a question that could no longer remain academic: What is happiness?
The film investigates the ideas, promises and inherited assumptions that shape our picture of the good life. It asks whether the desires directing us are truly our own, and whether getting what we want can give us what it appeared to promise.
The film examines how the map enters a life. During iReawaken, you apply the inquiry to your own goals, habits, relationships and responsibilities.
You can register before watching the film. Preparation instructions include details for accessing it.
Define. Delineate. Decide.
The guided exercises through the four levels give you a reference point for examining the structure of the life you are now living. Each day has a distinct task.
What Have I Actually Been Calling Happiness?
Make your present definition visible and encounter the alternatives.
You will examine what happiness has meant in practice, where that meaning came from, what it has promised and where the promise already appears in your goals. Guided use of imagination and awareness begins turning the four levels into recognisable experience.
- What have I been treating as happiness?
- Where did that definition come from?
- Which promises exert the strongest pull on me?
- What has this definition produced, and what has it cost?
Where Is This Definition Directing My Life?
Trace the places where the map has become practice.
You will continue through the four levels, using awareness and reason to distinguish what each can genuinely offer. Then you will map the evidence in your calendar, work, attention, spending, loyalties, ambitions, relationships and habits.
- What receives the best of my attention?
- Where do conviction and conduct divide?
- Which level of happiness receives disproportionate loyalty?
- What am I serving without admitting it?
What Deserves to Govern Me Now?
Move from recognition to judgment, then give the judgment a practical consequence.
The final session engages reason and will. You will consider the place each level of motivation should occupy, which promise no longer deserves unquestioned obedience, what deserves greater loyalty and what must first be reordered.
- What must cease directing me?
- What good have I been asking to carry more weight than it can bear?
- What deserves to be served more faithfully?
- What action will make the decision visible?
Something You Can See, Test and Act Upon
Six hours cannot settle every question in a human life. They can produce a completed piece of examined work that you can carry back into ordinary decisions.
A clearer definition
A written account of what you have actually treated as happiness, together with a framework for examining that definition.
A four-level map
A practical way of distinguishing four different forms of happiness and inner motivation through first-hand recognition as well as definition.
A personal map
A closer view of the habits, pressures, loyalties and promises directing your time, attention and decisions.
A recognised pattern
At least one assumption about achievement, comfort, approval, pleasure, contribution or fulfilment that can now be questioned.
A concrete decision
One act of reordering that gives the inquiry a visible consequence in ordinary life.
The value lies in knowing why one goal deserves your effort, why another path should be refused and which kind of happiness you are asking your life to serve.
If someone saw only your calendar, spending and attention, what would they conclude you believe happiness is?
What Does the Present Structure of Your Life Reveal?
Set aside what you say matters and look at the evidence already available.
Your calendar shows what repeatedly receives time. Your spending shows what receives resources. Your attention shows what repeatedly occupies the mind.
iReawaken gives you protected room to answer questions of this kind privately and carefully. Your working pages remain yours. Public disclosure is never required.
For People Carrying Real Responsibility
iReawaken is for the person who senses that activity cannot answer the question of direction.
Parents
You are concerned with more than providing for your children. You are asking what picture of happiness they are learning from the life they watch you live.
Leaders
You influence the aims and behaviour of other people and recognise the need to examine what is influencing you.
Founders and professionals
You have created momentum, yet movement and meaning no longer seem identical.
Teachers and counsellors
Your work helps shape how other people understand themselves, their choices and their future.
People of faith
You can name your convictions, while the actual order of your time, desires and attention does not always reflect them.
Achievers
You have accomplished enough to discover that accomplishment itself cannot carry the full weight of a human life.
A crisis is not required, and worthwhile ambition need not be abandoned. The relevant question is what conception of happiness your ambition serves and whether it deserves the life being spent upon it.
The experience will frustrate anyone seeking background entertainment, a productivity shortcut or a formula that removes the need for personal judgment.
Protect Six Hours for a Question Usually Postponed
There is no fee to attend. The work still asks for six protected hours and your full attention.
Each session combines careful teaching, guided imagination, directed awareness, reasoned examination, private written reflection and deliberate judgment.
The sessions build on one another, so live attendance is strongly recommended. If circumstances prevent you from attending every session, recordings remain available from Saturday until Monday night after the event.
Choose a place where interruption is less likely, bring the supplied working pages and something to write with, and keep the full session free. The quality of your attention is part of the method.
- Receive confirmation and the live-session details.
- Add all three sessions to your calendar.
- Complete a short pre-event reflection.
- Use the supplied instructions to access DeINCEPTION.
- Receive the working pages for the experience.
- Attend live where possible, with the limited replay window available if needed.
Led by John Angheli
John Angheli is the founder of the Center for Motivation Research and creator of DeINCEPTION: The Great Aha! What Is Happiness?
The question at the centre of iReawaken has occupied much of his academic and professional work: what actually motivates a human being, and which conception of happiness should be permitted to direct a life?
His postgraduate study approached that question through two different disciplines. A master’s degree in philosophy examined competing accounts of happiness through Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Kant and Rousseau. A Master of Education included a comparative literature review drawing on a ten-year span of articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Across nearly two decades in education, leadership counselling and work with leaders, founders, students and people carrying substantial responsibility, the same practical difficulty has appeared repeatedly. People can explain what matters while continuing to live under the influence of competing desires, pressures and inherited assumptions.
Performance can improve without any examination of what the performance serves. Success can be pursued without a judgment about which kind of success is worthy.
iReawaken brings those philosophical, research and practical strands into one guided inquiry: is the life receiving your effort being built according to a truthful map of happiness?
What You Live By Does Not End With You
The map directing your life influences what your children learn to admire, what your colleagues see rewarded, what you are willing to sacrifice and what you teach others to call success.
These judgments become visible in conduct, so other people can inherit them even when they are never spoken aloud.
Once the map is visible, responsibility follows. The question becomes what you will continue to serve and what you will pass on.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is iReawaken really free?
Yes. There is no charge to register for the three-day, six-hour experience. At the conclusion, you may be shown optional ways to continue through related Center for Motivation Research and AQMeets pathways. No further purchase is required.
Why is it free?
iReawaken lets you experience the work directly before deciding whether any related program is relevant to you. Come through the experience first and judge its value for yourself.
Why attend live when I can watch videos about this online?
The six hours are structured as a guided sequence. You will move through exercises involving imagination, awareness, reason and will, experience the four levels of happiness and motivation in distinct ways, complete private written work and use each day’s results in the following session. A recorded lecture can explain the framework. The live sequence gives you protected time and guidance to work through it.
When does it take place?
The announced iReawaken Experience runs across three live sessions. In Sydney and Melbourne, the sessions are held Wednesday to Friday, 10:00 am–12:00 pm, on the dates shown above. In US Pacific Time, the same sessions take place one calendar day earlier, Tuesday to Thursday, at the corresponding Pacific time, on the corresponding US dates. The displayed times account for daylight saving.
Must I attend live?
Live attendance is strongly recommended because each day builds on the work already completed. Recordings are available for a limited period from Saturday until Monday night after the event.
Must I watch DeINCEPTION first?
No. You can register before seeing the film. Access instructions arrive during preparation, and viewing it before Day One will provide useful context.
Will I have to share private information?
No. Honest reflection is central to the experience, but your written answers remain yours. Public disclosure is never required.
Is this counselling or therapy?
No. iReawaken is an educational and formation-based experience. It does not provide medical, psychological or therapeutic treatment.
Is this another goal-setting event?
Goals matter because they reveal what a person values and expects to produce happiness. iReawaken examines the map from which those goals arise, including the promises and motives that made a goal worth wanting in the first place.
What should I bring?
Bring the supplied working pages, something to write with and a willingness to protect your attention for the full session. A quiet setting will help.
The Map Directing Your Life Should Not Remain Invisible
Before you chose many of your goals, you inherited ideas about what would make achievement, work, relationships and life itself worthwhile. Some of those ideas may be sound. Others may be incomplete or may ask a limited good to provide something it cannot give.
Across three consecutive live sessions and six hours of guided experiential work, iReawaken gives you time to bring that map into view. You will experience four levels of happiness and motivation, engage imagination, awareness, reason and will, examine what you have been pursuing and make one concrete decision about what deserves your loyalty now.
There is no charge to attend. The experience asks you to reserve six hours, protect your attention and complete the work.
Registration includes preparation instructions, guided working materials, DeINCEPTION access details and limited-time recordings.
