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Cohort over content
The lasting thing is the people you read and rehearse with. We work hard on cohort balance, not just curriculum.
Founded in 2017 in a corner of the Old Bond Street book quarter, Myrmekite works with about sixty Fellows a year. We are deliberately small. We believe small is the only honest scale for the work we do.
The professional development industry sells speed. Five-day intensives, three-week sprints, monthly cohorts. None of it is unsuitable; almost all of it is unsuited to the people we work with — senior practitioners revising the shape of their next decade.
A career is not a sprint, and it is not a marathon either. It is a garden — slow, seasonal, dependent on the soil it grows in. We work the way good gardeners work: patiently, with attention, refusing to confuse activity for progress.
The result is a studio that runs six programmes a year, admits about sixty Fellows, and never grows faster than its own attention can carry.
The lasting thing is the people you read and rehearse with. We work hard on cohort balance, not just curriculum.
The seminar room is a small fraction of the work. The rest is rehearsal, correspondence and slow revision in the studio.
Our faculty are senior practitioners writing on the disciplines they ran for twenty years.
Programmes run six to twenty-six weeks for a reason. The disciplines we teach are bodily; they cannot be rushed.
Two rooms above an old printer on Bridge Street, ten minutes from the Roman Baths and the abbey.