Optional Features
Beyond the core, the platform includes several optional features you can turn to if and when you want them. None of these are required; each one adds more value for practitioners who want it.
Resources
Compendium — A thorough treatment of key concepts, from a surface definition through to mastery-level application, organized so you can dive as deep as a situation calls for. Go here when you want to move beyond the basic definition and into how a concept actually plays out.
Nuggets — Unlike Readings, the Glossary, and the Compendium, looking up a Nugget doesn't hand you new information, it hands you a mirror. Nuggets aren't tied to any single paper or concept from ATA. They capture the mindsets and behaviors that keep showing up again and again in successful HITA practitioners.
Office Hours — if you need more than the Coach can offer, Daryl's Office Hours give you direct one-on-one time with him. The right move when a situation is complex enough, or the stakes are high enough, that drawing on his experience is warranted.
Take a situation where you started with gaining value from the Coach and Library, but you wanted to further your understanding even more. You might open the Compendium and follow a concept from its surface definition through to how it plays out in practice; recognize a Nugget you've seen before, catching yourself early enough to realign with it rather than letting it pass unaddressed or if the question is complex or the stakes are high enough, bring it directly to Daryl in Office Hours rather than working through it alone.
Engagement Notes
This is where you can keep observations and comments on the work you're actually doing, project by project, if and when you want a running record of it. Each engagement gets its own assignment folder with four parts: a description of the work, the contract with the leaders, current status, and field remarks you add as things unfold.
Engagement Notes isn't only for full HITA endeavors. It’s also useful for Solid Performer work where you're deliberately pulling in select HITA elements. It can also be helpful when you aren't in position to overtly apply anything from the HITA approach but you still want to privately track the HITA-level dynamics you see unfolding in a project.
Wake-Up Calls
As a subscriber to the platform, you receive a prompt every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that either confirms you're on track or helps you recognize when you've drifted from a standard without realizing it. You don't have to go looking for anything, it comes to you, keeping HITA practice in active, conscious view week after week. The platform provides you a space to save any of these prompts you want to keep for easy reference.
My Journey
This is where you can maintain documentation about your own development, if and when you want to track it in a structured way. It has four parts that build on each other: HITA Criteria (the conditions you use to judge whether an opportunity to advise leaders matches with what you believe warrants HITA-level support, revisited as your experience grows), Self-assessments (the Readiness Summary, Proficiency Self-rating, Portfolio of Work, Predisposition Self-assessment, Where Do I Stand, and Practitioner Frustrations, updated after periodic checks), Mastery Development Plan (updated as your self-assessments evolve), and Mastery Journal (a running, informally structured record of questions, insights, challenges, and accomplishments).
Community
Community connects you to the HITA Collective, a space for ATA graduates to stay sharp together, if and when you want this kind of affiliation. The Collective is built around three things: Working as a HITA (application-focused, bringing real situations to each other), Growing as a HITA (mastery-focused, going deeper into character and presence), and Contributing to HITA practice (extending what the field knows). Beyond the Collective, this feature also holds a place for capturing peer reflections and a directory of HITA practitioners on the mastery path.