Workshop stories

Pages that left the room with pencil still on them.

These notes come from people who sat the workshop, the Saturday clinic, or a Wednesday sitting. They are printed here with first name and initial, and with the reservation each person actually made.

I arrived wanting a method I could apply the same night. Malai spent the first Tuesday refusing every line. By the third week I could point at a swing without apologising for it. I still think eight evenings is a lot of Phaya Thai traffic for someone coming from Bang Na.

Nicha S. · Chart Reading Workshop, February 2026

I brought eight pages and she ignored six of them. The page she kept had a swing I had drawn through a single wick because it made the story neat. She erased it and asked me to find the swing a stranger could touch. I left annoyed and, a week later, glad the neat line was gone.

Arun W. · Marked-Page Sitting, June 2026

I had been staring at charts for a year and still mixed up the close with the low when someone asked quickly. Kittisak made us say the four prices until it was dull. Dull was the point. The room was smaller than I pictured, and the street noise came through the window during the second sheet.

Ploy K. · Saturday Bar Clinic, May 2026

A longer account from February 2026

Nicha came from Bang Na with a notebook of phone screenshots. Malai asked her to leave the notebook in the bag for the first Tuesday and to work only from the printed window. Nicha later said the first evening felt like a delay. She had expected to leave with a rule she could use on the train home.

On the second Thursday the pack showed a swing that failed and returned. Nicha marked the failure and, against the prompt, wrote a reason in the margin about a rate decision she remembered from that month. Malai crossed the reason out and wrote “returned” underneath the circle. Nicha kept both marks. She told us the crossed-out sentence was the useful one, because she could see the habit.

By the last Thursday she read a 2018 page without mentioning the year. The neighbour found her swing in the ten seconds allowed. She still drives, and she still thinks the room should offer one weekday morning for people who finish work late. The morning has not been added; the table stays an evening table because Malai marks her own bar in the afternoon.