Your dispatches, practice circles, readings, and consultations — all in one place. Take what you need, and leave the rest for another week.
Navigating the Portal: Use the tabs above to access all member content — Practice holds activities and signature practices organized by theme; Live Sessions shows the schedule of upcoming practice circles and links to recordings; Library contains long-letters, research summaries, and downloadable resources; and Consultation connects you with ASE-informed guidance for your specific context. Practicum & Internship holds the full intern training program — curriculum, resources, and planning templates. There is no prescribed order — begin wherever the work is calling you.
Summer 2026 · 18-minute read
The spring long-letter reflects on the democratic core of ASE — why the relational turn in education is also, in a quiet way, a political act. Read online, listen to the audio version, or save for offline.
Read in Library →Topic: Introduction to the Three Governors
The Fall 2026 season opens with a practice circle on the Constitutional, Cultural, and Circumstantial governors — mapping them as they appear in your specific setting. Bring a situation; no preparation required.
Join a practice circleTopics specific to ASE theory and practice
The Fall season runs bi-weekly from September 10 through December 18. All sessions are recorded and posted within 24 hours. See the Live Sessions tab for the full schedule.
View scheduleThere is no hierarchy of completion here, and no designation waiting at the end. What you find in the Academy is an ongoing practice — a particular way of paying attention to students, environments, and the people who hold them. Deepening that attention is the whole point.
Each card below links directly to its content. Practicum & Internship has its own dedicated tab above.
Five sequential phases — 40+ hours of structured learning for counselors, educators, and clinical practitioners who want to engage ASE theory at full depth.
Daily Life51 interactive worksheets across three volumes — Core Habits, More Habits, and Not Two. Organized by the 5Cs; responses saved automatically.
5C ActivitiesFive standalone interactive activities — one per 5C — each adapting across six relationship contexts: self, child, educator, partner, community, and workplace.
Curricula20–22 original, manualized lessons per grade band (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12) across academic, SEL, mental health, and college & career domains — ready for small-group and classroom delivery.
FamiliesA year's worth of evidence-based practices for K–12 families. Twelve monthly modules, each with skills, language guides, daily practices, and grade-band notes.
ConsultationFour adult-facing consultation lessons for working with educators and families — grounded in ASE theory, designed for individual or small-group settings.
FormationA complete 30-week school counseling intern training hub — ASE-grounded curriculum, EPM-based resources, supervision logs, consent forms, and program planning guides.
The core practice track has nine modules, each built around one signature activity or one of the 5Cs. Complete them in any order, revisit as often as you like, and bring questions to any live session.
Introduction to the 3Cs ontology — Culture, Constitution, Circumstance.
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations as a private practice.
The Eight Directions and mapping your living network.
"Someone Like Me" and the discipline of slow witness.
Noticing nervous-system state in self and student.
Small acts that matter to a specific community.
Designing a practice plan for your specific setting.
All sessions are held on Zoom, recorded for members who cannot attend live, and posted within 24 hours. Sessions run 90 minutes. No preparation is required for practice circles; reading conversations list the relevant chapter in the session description.
Fall 2026 season: September 10 through December 18. All sessions focus on ASE theory and practice.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · Opening session of the Fall season. We will map the Constitutional, Cultural, and Circumstantial governors as they appear in your specific settings.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · What does it mean to bring genuine curiosity — as opposed to assessment — into a relationship with a student? Case consultation and Wondering Circle practice.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · Co-regulation is not a technique one person applies to another. We examine what it looks like to hold a regulated presence and what the environment must contribute for that to be possible.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · What does ASE theory mean by a "loosely held" self, and why does sapience — the capacity to navigate uncertainty — sit at the center of the framework? Discussion and case practice.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · Using the Eight Directions framework to map what students actually belong to — and what the adults in their lives can do to strengthen those connections.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · Compassion in ASE is not sympathy and not fixing. It is a sustained witnessing of another person's experience without collapsing into it or away from it. Practice and reflection.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · Contribution is the 5C that closes the loop between self and environment. What does it look like in a school, a clinic, a family? Case consultation and design practice.
7:00–8:30 PM ET · Facilitated by Matthew Lemberger-Truelove · Closing session of the Fall 2026 season. Members bring one commitment they are making to their specific setting for the coming year. Collective witness and planning.
All sessions are recorded and posted to the member library within 24 hours. To RSVP, use the contact form or reply to your welcome email with the session date.
The library holds downloadable guides, printable worksheets for classroom and clinic, recorded lectures, and the full archive of quarterly dispatches.
20–22 original lessons per grade band (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12) across academic, SEL, mental health, and college & career topics — ready for small-group and classroom delivery.
Classroom, clinic, and home versions of all signature practices, formatted for easy printing.
Past practice circles, reading calls, and invited lectures from the 2024–2026 seasons.
Long-form quarterly letters, searchable by theme, date, or author.
Curated reading paths for counselors, teachers, parents, and civic leaders.
Teaching materials for counselor-education and teacher-preparation programs.
Guided morning practices keyed to the 5Cs, 8–18 minutes each.
Practitioner-tier and Institutional members may book a 50-minute consultation with Matthew Lemberger-Truelove, up to twice per year. We use these sessions for case consultation, program design, and personal practice review. No preparation is required; bring whatever is most alive in your work.
Founder & Director. More than twenty-five years in school counseling, counselor education, and graduate training. Consultations focus especially on theory-to-practice translation, program design, and writing for a public audience.
Request a sessionConsultations are scheduled via the contact form. A member of our team will follow up with a few time options within one business day.
A complete training program for school counseling interns, practicum students, site supervisors, and university supervisors — grounded in ASE theory and integrated with CACREP standards and the ASCA National Model.
Overview of the program — formation philosophy, audience guides for interns, site supervisors, and university supervisors, and links to all program resources.
30 WeeksSix-phase, 30-week training curriculum covering mental health, SEL, academic, and administrative domains — each week with learning objectives, ASE lens, supervision prompts, activities, and readings.
TemplatesEPM case conceptualization template, CSCP planning guide, program evaluation framework, consent and assent forms, advocacy brief template, supervision logs, student handouts, and group recruitment flyers.
A note on this program: This is not a credentialing program and it does not confer a title or certificate. It is a formation program — a sustained, theoretically grounded engagement with school counseling practice through the ASE lens. Interns bring it to their sites as a way of practicing differently, not as a badge of completion.