The Stoic Vault, by Jon Brooks
Learn to meet overthinking, difficult people and everyday setbacks with a steadier response. Inside the Vault, you’ll find courses and guided meditations, practical tools to save and reuse, and personal replies from me in the community when you get stuck.
USD $19, billed monthly. Cancel before your next renewal. 14-day money-back guarantee: if the Vault is not right for you, email me within 14 days of joining for a full refund.
Begin with the six-minute welcome, then choose a course that interests you or try the current weekly practice.
Find a course you want to begin
You may have one particular thing you want help with. Browse the courses and see what speaks to it. Every course below is included with your membership.
Included with membership
Dichotomy of Control: 10 Stoic Skills To Stop Overthinking & Find Peace
When other people’s choices keep occupying your mind.
Practise separating what is yours to do from what is outside your control, then choose where to put your effort.
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6 Stoic Tactics to Escape Negative Thought Loops
When you keep replaying the same conversation.
Work through six approaches to repetitive thinking and practise returning your attention to useful action.
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10 Stoic Tools For Dealing With Toxic Relationships
When you are unsure what to accept and where to draw a line.
Explore boundaries and responses to difficult behaviour, with exercises for protecting your judgement.
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Unlearning Perfectionism: A Path To Self-Acceptance
When the standards you set make it hard to start.
Work with impossible standards and practise a fairer way to act, learn and keep going.
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Stoic Path To Joy: 6 Days To Calm, Clarity & Resilience
When your attention keeps settling on what is missing.
Try six days of practices for perspective and appreciation, with room for the difficulties that are still there.
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Ataraxia: The 12-Week Stoic Training Programme
When you want a longer course to follow.
Work through a self-paced programme of Stoic judgement and action. Follow the twelve-week structure at a pace that fits your life.
Browse the rest of the included courses
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8 Stoic Therapy Tools For Anxiety, Stress & Overthinking
Use eight practical Stoic tools to interrupt anxious spirals and recover a steadier perspective.
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7 Stoic Practices To Ease Anxiety & Quiet Overthinking
Practise seven ways to loosen anxious thinking and return to the present problem in front of you.
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Seneca's 16 Stoic Strategies To Master Anger
Spot anger earlier, delay the first reaction and choose a response you can respect afterwards.
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Focus On What Matters: Stoic Productivity Challenge
Cut through busywork, choose what matters and direct your attention with more intention.
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12 Mindfulness Practices To Sharpen Focus & Clarity
Train attention through twelve simple practices you can use in work and ordinary life.
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Stoic Morning Practice: 11 Meditations To Start Every Day Calm & Focused
Choose from eleven short meditations to meet the day with more calm, focus and perspective.
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Stoic Morning Routine: Start Calm And Strong
Build a repeatable morning routine that still works when the day begins badly.
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7 Stoic Secrets To Radical Gratitude & Unbreakable Strength
Practise gratitude as a form of strength, especially when circumstances are difficult.
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5 Happiness Habits For Resilience And Equanimity
Build five realistic habits that support steadier wellbeing without pretending life is easy.
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The 7-Day Stoic Power Challenge
Learn the core moves of practical Stoicism through seven short days of action.
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Stoic Affirmations: Reminders, Not Wishes
Turn verified Stoic lines into daily reminders for judgement, action and perspective.
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The Stoic Flinch: Your First Reaction Is Not Your Fault
Explore the first involuntary reaction and the choices that follow it.
Choose the course that interests you and begin with its first lesson. You have access to the whole library while you are subscribed, so there is no need to buy each course separately or finish one before exploring another.
See membership optionsFor a closer look at the library, open the course catalogue.
When a difficult moment arrives, it helps to have the practice in front of you. Alongside the courses, the Vault includes cards, worksheets and guided meditations you can return to as often as you need.
A reset you can keep on your phone
The SPQR Reset card puts the four steps in front of you when you feel yourself reacting. Save the mobile version for a quick reminder, or use the longer practice when you have more time.
A rehearsal before a difficult conversation
Praemeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Premeditation, Annotated breaks down Marcus Aurelius’s morning practice into six moves. The card shows what each part is doing, so you can use the passage to prepare for a difficult encounter.
A journal page with the questions already there
The Gratitude & Growth Cheatsheet gives you a daily worksheet: three wins, one growth area, SPQR and Amor Fati reframes, and one small action for tomorrow. Open it when you want to reflect without deciding what to write about first.
Guided audio when you want to practise along
Listen to the meditations and follow the guidance as you go. Use the written tools when you want a reminder; return to a recording when you would like me to guide the practice.
A practice card included with membership. Select the image to read it full size.
Choose one for something you are facing today. The courses and tools are included in every membership plan.
INSIDE THE VAULT
A real place to practise
Have a look before you join. Watch the short tour, read a weekly practice and listen to a lesson.
Choose a path on your computer. Return to the weekly practice on your phone.
From the weekly practice archiveKnowing Is Not Doing
A short preview of Week 33, by Jon Brooks.
The practice · one rep a day
Take the thing you know and do not do. Do not fix it.
Shrink it to the smallest version that still counts, one page, one set, one message, five minutes, and do only that, every day this week.
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Courses and guided meditations · Practical cards and worksheets · Personal replies from Jon · A new practice each week
FROM INSIDE THE VAULT
When the practice became useful
Members describe trying the practices in their own lives, including the attempts that did not go to plan. These are individual experiences, shared with permission and initials for privacy.
Staying calm when something goes wrong
“That’s the most calm and relaxed I’ve felt after any mishap.”
E. · Vault member
Pausing before speaking
“It’s helped me pause and recognize if what I’m saying/about to say is a product of emotional embellishment.”
S. · Vault member
Letting go of other people’s choices
“It felt like such a weight had been lifted… there are some days that pause eludes me.”
L. · Vault member
Handling a difficult conversation
“Locking my ego in the brig before a potentially challenging conversation was helpful.”
J. · Vault member
Building new routines
“I’m finding practice doesn’t make perfect it actually makes new routines.”
P. · Vault member
Getting started instead of putting it off
“The act of starting helped, and I ended up figuring it out along the way”
M. · Vault member
Why this works
Spend less time deciding what to do next
When the habit slips
Start with the current weekly practice. Allow about ten minutes to read it and choose where to try it in your day. Come back to the same practice during the week. There is no backlog to clear.
When you don’t know where to begin
The six-minute welcome gives you your bearings. If a course caught your attention, begin there. Guided Paths suggest an order through the library, so you do not have to work out a curriculum for yourself. The current weekly practice gives you another simple place to begin.
When you want help applying it
Bring your question to the community. I reply personally in Questions & Coaching, once or twice a week. There is also a monthly live session, with a recording if you cannot attend. This is support in the community; private one-to-one coaching is separate.
Jon Brooks, alongside a slide from The Passions System workshop in the Vault.
Pricing
One membership. Choose how you pay.
Choose a course for what you want to work on. Every course shown above is included.
Have a practice ready when you need it. Use the cards, worksheets and guided meditations.
Follow a route through the teaching. Choose a Guided Path or the self-paced Ataraxia programme.
Keep returning to the practice. There is a new exercise to try each week.
Ask me about the difficult part. Personal replies in the community once or twice a week, plus monthly live sessions with recordings.
Every plan includes all of this. Choose how you pay.
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You should be able to judge the Vault by using it. Explore a course that interests you, try a tool, or bring a question to the community.
If it is not right for you, email jon@stoichandbook.co within 14 days of joining and I’ll refund your payment in full. You do not have to finish lessons, post in the community or show results to qualify.
This applies to every payment option. Your chosen plan is charged when you join and renews automatically unless you cancel. The refund gives you 14 days from joining to decide for yourself.
jon@stoichandbook.co
Guided Paths
The Guided Paths suggest a route through the library for the problem you want to work on. You can follow a path, browse for yourself or begin with the current weekly practice.
Browse the included courses
Inside the course library
These reviews are of individual courses on Insight Timer. Those courses are included in the Vault.
Your guide
I founded The Stoic Handbook and host its podcast. I came to Stoicism after years of trying different approaches to personal change. I’m interested in what remains useful when ordinary life puts an idea to the test.
I still need the practice myself. In the Vault, I share the exercises I teach and help members think through how to use them in their own situations.
FAQ
Clarity before you join
What is the Stoic Vault?
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I’ve read a lot of Stoicism already. Is this for me?
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Is Stoic Anxiety Mastery included?
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Start with one practice
Listen to the welcome, then begin the course that caught your attention or open the current weekly practice. Try what you learn in a situation that matters to you, and bring your question to the community if you get stuck.
USD $19, billed monthly and renewed automatically. Cancel before renewal. Email me within 14 days of joining for a full refund if it is not right for you.