What a cohort gives you that a video course cannot
Two live sessions a week, recorded within two hours
Sessions run 60 to 75 minutes in the evening, Eastern time. You rewrite real work during the session, and the recording is up before you go to bed.
Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 pm ET
Recordings within two hours
Office hours every Wednesday
Line edits on every draft you hand in
Your instructor marks up each weekly draft sentence by sentence, with the reason next to every change. Most drafts come back within three days.
One short draft a week
Edits back within three days
Word count tracked draft to draft
A group of six that reads your work by Friday
Everyone is placed in a group of six with similar jobs. You read each other’s drafts every week, which is the deadline most students say they actually kept.
Groups matched by role
Read-through every Friday
Same group for all six weeks
Six weeks, one piece of writing you are proud of
Week 1: Know your reader
- Live sessions
- Tuesday 6 pm ET: who reads your work and what they need. Thursday 6 pm ET: live teardown of three real emails.
- Your work
- Collect five pieces you wrote this quarter and mark where a reader would stop.
- You leave with
- A one-page reader profile for the people you write to most.
Getting in takes about a week
Six courses, each one taught live
One membership, a live cohort every term
Library
Every recorded lesson, at your own pace.
- All 6 courses, recorded
- Worksheets and example drafts
- One open workshop a month
- Certificate for each course
Cohort
A live cohort each term, with line edits.
- One live cohort per term, 3 a year
- Two live sessions a week
- Line edits on every draft
- A group of six that reads your work
- Everything in Library
Team
Cohorts for a whole team, one invoice.
- Everything in Cohort, 5 seats or more
- A private cohort from 12 seats
- One invoice, W-9 and PO numbers
- Progress report for the manager
What changed for students
My release notes went from something support forwarded back with questions to something customers actually open.
Release note open rate went from 9 to 23 percent in six weeks.
Maya Okafor
Product manager
Fernway Payments, Atlanta, Georgia
I used to write four pages and still get asked what I wanted. Now the ask is the first line and the answer comes back in a day.
Design doc approvals dropped from about a week to two days.
Jonah Weiss
Engineering manager
Tallgrass Health, Kansas City, Missouri
The group of six mattered more than I expected. Five people reading my draft by Friday is a deadline I actually kept.
Her quarterly update went from 1,340 words to 890, and the whole company read it.
Alma Reyes
Design lead
Northbeam Studio, San Diego, California
Questions people ask before they apply
Something else? Email hello@lyceumcohorts.com and an instructor replies within two business days.
How much time does a cohort take each week?
What if I miss a live session?
Can my employer pay for it?
Is it for my level?
What is the refund policy?
What happens after the six weeks?
The next cohort of Writing that gets read starts October 20
Forty seats, a group of six, line edits on every draft. Applications take five minutes and most students expense it.
Live cohort courses in writing and speaking for people who do it at work. Small groups, line edits, six weeks at a time.
Taught live from Chicago, Austin, Portland and Seattle
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