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EBT

One decision you can explain

A practical routine for checking a claim and choosing one reasoned next step.

Quick start

One question. Six steps.

The EBT quick start and these course PDFs are currently in English. The separate humanist lectures are available in seven languages.

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Learner course

Eight EBT lessons

Learn, work through a visual example, and practice in each of eight lessons. Feedback follows the practice tasks.

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EBT is an educational prototype and has not yet been evaluated. Research informing it does not establish that this program is effective. This is education, not treatment.

ResourcesHumanist lectures
The full curriculum

Give your beliefs
a fair test.

Twelve lectures. Read them here, work through the examples, and practice the questions. No account required.

This curriculum examines how a source of comfort can become an authority people are afraid to question. Religious claims are a central focus; the same standards apply to secular movements and to this project. It follows that argument through emotion, childhood conditioning, evidence, morality, and the practical work of answering missionary outreach.

Each lecture includes a developed argument, worked examples, an exercise, and a discussion prompt. The last four form the field training. Allow 30–45 minutes per lecture with practice, or work through one each week.

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Part I / Eight foundations

Examine what
owns your certainty.

Comforting certainty shelters a woman while tethering her to a closed door; a friend and an open window offer other sources of care.01 / Foundations

When the cure needs the fear

The relief trap: when a belief supplies the threat, offers reassurance, and counts your relief as proof.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureA woman examines evidence while protecting a small house filled with family connections.02 / Foundations

What is your certainty protecting?

Cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, and the test a belief is allowed to fail.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureAdult hands draw the borders of a child’s choices; the grown child discovers the erased horizon.03 / Foundations

Who got to write your mind?

Childhood indoctrination, forbidden questions, and the practical freedom to leave.

5 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureA woman separates an event, a bodily feeling, and her interpretation into three layers.04 / Foundations

Feel it. Then examine it.

Emotional literacy, regulation, attention, and meditation without surrendering judgment.

5 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureA mechanic traces the claims behind a dazzling story and finds a missing link.05 / Foundations

A convincing story still owes you evidence

Claims, sources, probability, circular arguments, and the difference between a reason and an excuse.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureTwo people compare a fixed account with layers of rock, fossils, samples, and living forms.06 / Foundations

Reality does not owe doctrine an exception

How scientific testing works, what dating actually measures, and how to examine miracles.

5 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureA parent with a rulebook considers the hurt of a child and an offered seat beside them.07 / Foundations

When obedience takes morality’s place

Human consequences, divine commands, accountability, and the machinery of sacred harm.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureTwo women assemble a flexible life map from relationships, learning, memory, and an open horizon.08 / Foundations

A life you can keep revising

Build meaning, community, and a working relationship with uncertainty after inherited certainty.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lecture
Part II / Four field lectures

Take the questions
where the claims go.

Preparation for public conversations, community workshops, and responses to religious missionary claims.

A small community group discusses questions and evidence at a library table with a clear route to leave.09 / Field training

Why humanist missionary work?

Meet religious outreach with education, visible alternatives, and a practical commitment to autonomy.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureTwo adults respectfully isolate one claim from a tangle of arguments during a conversation.10 / Field training

Answer the claim. Keep the person in the room.

Worked conversations about testimony, morality, first causes, fine-tuning, resurrection, and fair standards of evidence.

9 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureA woman’s apparent freedom to leave is constrained by ties to family, food, education, and housing.11 / Field training

Who can actually afford to say no?

Choose outreach priorities, investigate public claims, and protect the people carrying the risk.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lectureWorkshop participants apply inquiry cards themselves while the facilitator steps aside.12 / Field training

Leave people with something they can use

A complete workshop method, facilitator practice, and an honest way to judge the result.

6 minute read · 30–45 minutes with practiceRead the full lecture

Open the missionary prospectus and workshop schedule

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Education. Not therapy.

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Room for Why is for education only: reasoning, beliefs, emotions, and everyday decisions. It does not provide or attempt to provide psychotherapy, counseling, diagnosis, treatment, or personalized medical or mental-health advice.

EBT (Epistemic Behavioral Training) is an educational prototype, not a validated therapy. References to CBT, DBT, or published research do not establish that EBT is an effective treatment. No health outcome is promised.

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