A human-centred thinking practice
Find your footing with AI, on your own terms.
We’re all finding our way through these changes. I offer time to explore your questions, try things out and work out what AI might be useful for in your life, work or creative projects.
You are not too late to the conversation.
Your curiosity and your reservations are both welcome.
What this is
My time, attention and thinking, with AI available as part of the toolkit. Space to be present with what matters to you, and think together about it.
01 / Two ways in
You can arrive with a clear question or only a vague sense that you’d like to talk. Both are welcome.
Maybe you’re new to it. Maybe you use it every day but still wonder what to trust, what it’s doing, or how it is changing the way you think.
We’ll follow your questions, at your pace.
Talk about understanding AIBring an idea, a project, a repetitive task, a pile of information, or something you’ve already tried. It can be creative, practical, personal or communal.
Bring me the thing.
We can think and explore together. If it makes sense to go further, we can talk about what that might look like. Sometimes that may include working on something together, but any further work is agreed separately, case by case.
Talk about your ideaNo technical background required. Curiosity is enough.
02 / The shape of a session
This is one-to-one, session-based work. I bring listening, questions, practical AI experience and a willingness to say “I don’t know.” You bring whatever you want to explore.
See pricing and accessA short note beforehand can help me prepare, but you can also simply turn up. This isn’t homework.
We can talk, question, try something with AI, or change direction if that turns out to be more useful.
That might be a clearer question, an experiment, a practical approach, or the recognition that AI isn’t the right tool here.
No recording or transcription unless you know about it and opt in.
03 / The person across the table
When you work with someone on an unfamiliar technology or a difficult question, you’re also working with the way they pay attention.
I listen for the question behind the question, notice assumptions (including my own), and try to keep the wider human context in view. My person-centred counselling training informs how I listen; years of practical AI use inform what we can test together.
I’m curious, technically adventurous and difficult to impress with hype. I’m comfortable with uncertainty, and willing to say “I don’t know” or “AI isn’t the right tool here” when that’s true.
See some real examplesAI can help you think further or wider.
It needn’t decide in which direction.
05 / Real work
Real examples of the work, rather than promises about your outcome.
Community & creativity
Someone wanted to revive a newsletter for a community he cared about. I listened to what he imagined, helped him shape questions for AI, and showed him how to save useful steps for the next issue. He came away with a process he could use himself, more confidence, and less stress about doing it again.
Perspective & reflection
People bring me very different questions about AI. They might want to understand how it works, what happens to their information, or why an interaction has begun to feel confusing or stressful. I listen to what matters to them, investigate alongside them when useful, and help them make choices with clearer footing.
Values & technology
I’m helping build an online home for an intentional community. The aim is to help busy people find what matters to them, notice what else is happening, and work together. We’re exploring how AI can widen people’s awareness instead of trying to hold their attention, while keeping relationships, privacy and the community’s choices at the centre.
Helping people question AI’s assumptions, explore perspectives and keep their own experience distinct from meanings they may project onto the machine.
Informal discussions about children and human-like AI interaction, making room for both excitement and concern. These are conversations about technology, not child psychology or therapy.
06 / About me
I live in rural Wales, where I spend a lot of time gardening and growing food. I’ve been deeply immersed in AI for roughly four years and use it every day.
My background includes person-centred counselling training and a long involvement with Tibetan Buddhist and Zen practice. These shape my attention and curiosity, rather than define a service I’m selling.
These days, my own work includes agentic systems and human-centred community technology. I’m fascinated by what AI makes possible, and sceptical of the hype around it.
I like curious people, unusual projects, and technology that leaves more room for being human.
07 / Pricing & access
One-to-one, online. For a one-hour appointment, choose the rate that fits your circumstances; the session itself is the same at each rate.
For when £50 would be a genuine financial barrier. A small number of places, chosen in good faith. No financial evidence required.
The price that feels good to me for an hour. Please choose this rate if it is comfortably affordable for you.
If this is comfortably within your means, your choice helps me keep supported appointments available to people with less financial flexibility.
A single, continuous appointment. Two-hour sessions are available at standard or solidarity rates; the £30 supported rate applies only to one-hour sessions.
Two hours together for a question or project that needs more room.
The same two-hour appointment at the solidarity rate, helping keep supported one-hour places available.
I keep two £30 one-hour places available each week whether or not anyone subsidises them. More can open as solidarity-rate time is booked, including two-hour solidarity appointments, subject to the time still available that week.
You can book a supported one-hour session again whenever a supported place is available. No financial evidence is required.
This is a solidarity model, not a ladder of service. Appointments will be offered up to four weeks ahead, with at least 48 hours' notice. If the usual times do not fit, you can email Jonathan.
08 / Questions worth asking
Information can be freely shared. What a session adds is attention to your particular question, experience and way of understanding.
A language model works with patterns learned from large amounts of data and the words in our conversation to produce a response. That can be remarkably useful. It is not direct access to truth, and it cannot see the whole of your life or situation unless you tell it.
It can follow language and context well enough for a conversation to feel responsive. Whether that amounts to understanding in a human sense is a different question. I find it useful to notice both what the system actually said and what I may have supplied in my own interpretation.
Sometimes. It can help you explore or draft an idea, but it can also be mistaken. For anything consequential, look for original sources, check the reasoning and ask what would count as evidence against the answer. Your judgement is still needed.
Fluent wording is part of what these systems produce; it is not a reliable measure of accuracy. A confident sentence may be supported, guessed or simply false. I treat confidence in the wording as a reason to check, not a reason to stop checking.
We don’t have a settled test that resolves this. Fluent conversation is interesting, but it does not by itself establish inner experience. I take the question seriously and would rather explore the evidence and assumptions than offer a quick verdict.
That depends on the service and its current settings and policies. Before sharing personal details, check what the provider says about storage and use of conversations. Often you can ask the useful question without including names or identifying information. In my sessions, any recording or AI-assisted summary would be discussed and opt-in.
It can shape habits of attention and judgement. I notice a difference between asking for a perspective I can question and accepting an answer as a decision. It is worth asking, from time to time: what is coming from me, and what have I handed over?
Ask for possibilities, drafts and objections. Check claims against sources where the stakes matter. Then put the result back into your own words and decide what fits your values. Treat what AI offers as something to consider. The judgement stays with you.
Sometimes it can help you sort out what you want to say or notice another perspective. It is not the relationship. If the issue is between two humans, eventually you have to go and relate to the human.
Start with a real conversation about what your child enjoys, trusts or finds unsettling about AI. Human-like replies can feel personal, and answers can be wrong. Staying curious and involved matters more than pretending to have every answer. These are questions about technology and family life, not child psychology advice.
It can help organise information, make first drafts, explore options and try practical experiments. It can struggle with reliable facts, missing context and the values you have not told it about. The fit depends on the task and the tool; usefulness is something to test, not assume.
When the question calls for a human relationship, direct professional expertise, or privacy you cannot confidently protect. Sometimes a simpler method is clearer. I am happy to reach that conclusion in a session if it is the honest one.
09 / The practical bits
About the session itself, what to bring, and what stays in your hands.
No. We can start with the basics, or with something you have already been doing. You don’t need the right vocabulary or a polished question.
Then I’ll say so. Sometimes a simpler tool, a conversation with a person, or no tool at all is the better next step.
The one-hour session is for thinking and exploring together. If we both want to go further, we can discuss that separately. Further work isn’t assumed: it depends on capacity, fit, values and ethics, and we’d agree the scope before anything begins.
No bot, recording or transcription is part of the session by default. If an AI-assisted note or recording would be useful, I would explain the tool and ask for your agreement first.
No. My counselling training informs how I listen, but these are sessions about understanding and using AI. I don’t provide therapy, crisis support, or medical, legal or financial advice.
Choose one or two hours, a rate and an available time, then pay. A payment alone does not mean the appointment is confirmed. You will see a clear confirmation once the appointment is secured, or a clear failure and refund status if it cannot be secured.
You can cancel the whole appointment online at least 24 hours ahead for a full refund under my policy, subject to your statutory rights. Under 24 hours, please contact me for a personal review; statutory rights still apply. To reschedule, contact me and I will check another time.
10 / Begin a conversation
It can be a question, a half-formed idea or a very specific thing. A few sentences are plenty.
For enquiries, rescheduling, short-notice cancellation requests or booking problems, email jonathan@tachyharmonic.ai.
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