Understanding how the mind works is the beginning of peaceful success.
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You've built something real. The responsibilities are significant. The decisions matter.
And yet — the mind keeps spinning. Pressure doesn't clear. The clarity you know you're capable of isn't reliably there when it counts most.
This isn't a capability problem. It's a brain state problem. And it's precisely solvable.
WHAT THIS WORKSHOP IS
The Kominka Method™ Workshop is a 7-week online program that runs alongside the Positive Intelligence® (PQ®) App — combining neuroscience-based brain training with Kiyomi's unique integration of Zen wisdom, the Tea Ritual, and the Kominka Method™ to give you reliable access to calm, clear thinking. On demand. Under pressure. Every day.
This is not another leadership course. It is the operating system upgrade your mind has been waiting for.
HOW IT WORKS
Each week, the PQ App and your workshop session work together as two complementary layers of the same training:
The PQ App builds the neural muscle. The workshop teaches you exactly what to do with it — in your leadership, your decisions, and your life.
Weekly time investment
≈60 min of workshop + coaching content + 15 min/day of PQ App reps
Designed for leaders who are serious — and who have no time to waste.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
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7 workshop sessions (20–30 min each), released weekly — the interpretive and leadership-specific layer that makes the PQ® practice immediately applicable to your real decisions, relationships, and challenges
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12-month PQ App access — the neuroscience-based daily brain training platform (15 min/day) that physically builds the neural pathway from Survival state to Sage state
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3 private 1:1 sessions with Kiyomi — at Week 1, Week 4, and Week 7 — where the framework is applied directly to what is most alive in your leadership right now
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The guided Tea Ritual audio practice — your daily sensory anchor for shifting brain state, available anywhere, in any moment
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The Kominka Method™ Integration Workbook — one focused reflection prompt per week, designed to be completed over morning tea in under 10 minutes
THE THREE PRIVATE
1:1 SESSIONS IN DETAIL
These sessions are not check-ins. They are not progress reviews. They are the precision instrument of this program — the place where the framework stops being something you understand and becomes something you live.
Session 1 — Week 1: Your Baseline Kiyomi meets you exactly where you are. Together, you map your specific Survival brain patterns, identify your top Saboteurs from your personal PQ Assessment, and establish the two or three areas of your leadership where the Kominka Method will have the highest immediate impact. This session sets the personal direction for everything that follows.
Session 2 — Week 4: Deep Application By Week 4, you have four weeks of daily practice behind you. This session goes into your most persistent or challenging leadership situation — the one that has not shifted yet, or the one where the Survival brain has its deepest grip — and works through it in real time using the full Kominka Method. NOTICE the exact thought. ALLOW the biological reaction. DISCERN fact from Saboteur construction. ALIGN from the Sage's Five Cs. This is private coaching at its most precise.
Session 3 — Week 7: Your North Star The closing session is a forward-mapping conversation. Where has the practice taken you? What has shifted in how you make decisions, hold pressure, and experience your leadership? And from the clarity of the Sage state you have now trained for seven weeks — what does your Compass point toward next? This session closes the program and opens the next chapter.
All sessions are conducted privately on Zoom, recorded for your personal use only, and held in complete confidence.
THE WEEKLY ARC
THE THREE PILLARS OF THIS PROGRAM
The Kominka Method™ Four precise steps — Notice, Allow, Discern, Align — that form the internal architecture of a mind that stays coherent under pressure. Named after the 200-year-old Japanese farmhouse Kiyomi brought from Japan to Oregon: simple, flexible, and built to last.
The PQ App Six weeks of neuroscience-based brain training, with daily 15-minute sessions that measurably strengthen the neural pathway from reactive Survival state to calm Sage state. Research shows 100 reps per day for six weeks produces visible changes in brain activity — this is not mindfulness. It is brain training.
The Tea Ritual A daily sensory anchor — drawn from centuries of Japanese tea practice — that shifts the brain from Beta to Alpha wave state without requiring the cooperation of the very mind you are trying to reset. Used as the morning baseline, the midday reset, the evening completion practice, and the weekly navigation ritual.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
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You are a CEO, founder, or senior leader who has already succeeded — and wants success to feel the way you thought it would
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You recognize the gap between what you know and what you reliably access under pressure
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You are ready to stop understanding this framework intellectually and start living it as your operating system
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You want a structured, science-grounded practice — not inspiration, not motivation, not another strategy
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF
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You are looking for a quick fix or a set of techniques to layer onto your current approach
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You are not willing to invest 15 minutes per day in daily practice
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You want someone to tell you what to do rather than to understand how your own mind works
YOUR INVESTEMENT
Investment begins at $1,997 for the founding cohort. The founding rate is available to the first cohort only — a deliberately small group of leaders who are ready to go first, in exchange for candid feedback and a testimonial if the experience earns it.
Full Rate (from Cohort 2) = $3,500
Every seat includes: 7-week private workshop · 12-month PQ App access · 3 completely private 1:1 sessions with Kiyomi · Tea Ritual guided audio · Kominka Method™ Integration Workbook
5 seats available at the founding rate. When they are filled, this rate closes permanently.
To explore whether this is the right fit for where you are, begin with a private conversation.
Kiyomi Koike is a Tea Master, entrepreneur, and the creator of the Kominka Method™. She built and exited a tea company across more than two decades — she understands pressure, high-stakes decision-making, and the real texture of leadership responsibility. She brought a 200-year-old Kominka farmhouse from Japan to northeastern Oregon — the first authentic Kominka built for residential use in the United States — and named her framework after its architecture: durable, flexible, and quietly extraordinary.
She is a certified PQ Coach, trained in the neuroscience-based Positive Intelligence framework developed at Stanford. Her work sits at the precise intersection of neuroscience, Zen wisdom, and real leadership — and it is delivered entirely one on one, with the full attention and confidentiality that genuine transformation requires.
Kiyomi works with a small number of leaders at any given time. This is by design.
YOUR GUIDE
I thought I had to choose between success and peace. Now I have both.
Jane, Oregon
I had such a transformational experience.
Matt, Oregon
Kiyomi has been an uncommon source of wisdom and guidance to me.
Vim, Washington
The program gave me the perspective I hadn't delved into before.
Lori, Oregon
Begin with a Private Conversation
Private. No obligation. Kiyomi will tell you honestly whether this program is right for where you are — and if it isn't, she will tell you that too.
Or, write directly: kiyomi@kiyomikoike.com