Balance Learn · The ten-week course
Understand change.
Build what lasts.
Why do you fall back into old habits, even when you know what you want to do? Learn helps you understand the patterns behind your choices and practise a different way forward.
Ten weeks of behaviour-change and neuroscience principles, explained in everyday language through lessons, diagrams and quizzes.
Explore the ten weeksWhat you'll learn
One idea at a time.
Build your understanding.
Begin with brain basics, then explore prediction, experience, energy, habits and food. There are six lessons in Week 1 and four or five in later weeks, with no required practical tasks.
WEEK 1Meet your brain
Meet the researchers, explore how your brain constructs experience, then learn about brain cells, messages, the body and senses. 6 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
WEEK 2How your brain predicts
Understand expectations, past experience and the predictions behind familiar choices. 4 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
Past experience
What you expect
Familiar choices
↳ New experiences help you learn a different pattern.
WEEK 3Experience shapes reality
Follow one gym experience through sensory signals, learned concepts, emotion and context. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
WEEK 4Work with your energy
Understand how sleep, stress and bodily needs influence your choices. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
Sleep
Stress
Recovery
Your energy today
A manageable next step
WEEK 5The prediction-action loop
Explore the free-energy principle: infer what is happening, weigh the evidence and act to learn or meet a need. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
WEEK 6Build a rhythm that sticks
Use small actions and repetition to practise a helpful routine. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
Start small
Repeat it
Build a rhythm
WEEK 7What actually is learning?
Follow the model update: expectation, surprising evidence, confidence weighting and a changed prediction next time. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
WEEK 8Take the fight out of food
Understand cravings and the context around eating without judging yourself. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
Notice the craving
Pause
Check the need
Hunger? Stress? Tiredness? Notice what is happening.
WEEK 9Make progress easier to repeat
Shape routines, surroundings and support around the choices you want to repeat. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
More steps
Find your gear
Then decide what to do
Less friction
Gear ready. Plan ready.
Take the next step
WEEK 10Build your sustainable way forward
Bring energy, protein, carbohydrates and fats together in a flexible meal. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.
Training
Food
Comeback plan
A routine you can return to
How learning becomes change
Read it. Check it. Keep learning.
Learn
Short lessons help you recognise the effects of past experience, energy, surroundings and repetition on everyday choices.
Quiz
Answer the quiz after each lesson to check your understanding. Revisit the explanation and retry when needed.
Continue
Your completed lessons stay saved. Continue through the next topic at your own pace.
About the course.
Is Learn the same as Summer Ready Shred?
No. Learn is the ten-week course included within the ten-week Summer Ready Shred. The challenge brings the learning together with workouts, food support and accountability.
How do I access Learn?
Learn is included with Balance coaching and Summer Ready Shred. It is no longer sold as a separate upfront or weekly purchase. Existing members keep their agreed access.
What is the aim?
To understand your habits and build practical skills for long-term lifestyle change. You apply the lessons to real situations, rather than relying on a perfect week or a rigid plan.
Learning with support
Put Learn to work in Summer Ready Shred.
Bring the course into ten weeks of training, plant-based nutrition support and accountability with Shannon.
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