Peterson Reveals Self Authoring Programs Help People Develop Life Vision Through Structured Writing

What was said

"We wanted to build tools that wouldn't hurt anybody. We wanted to build them so that they were extremely inexpensive and widely distributable and scalable and would require no administrative overhead or intermediation, no supervision. And we wanted to do all that at a profit so that we could continue generating more tools and also generate enough capital to market the resultant programs."

Peterson describes the development of his Self-Authoring Suite with colleagues, designed to help people systematically examine their past and envision their future through structured writing exercises. The program breaks life into seven epochs and seven domains including relationships, family, career, and civic responsibility. He claims the approach helps people develop coherent life narratives and reduce psychological stress.