The Threshold Self-Design Guide: Time (A Four Week Guide to Temporal Transformation)
Book Two in the Threshold Self-Design Series
Time is more than chronology. It’s a field; an atmosphere through which perception, choice, and change unfold.
This second volume of the Threshold Self-Design series invites you to move beyond the clock into deeper temporal intelligence: to notice rhythm instead of schedule, momentum instead of pressure, duration instead of delay.
Through philosophical framing, reflective practice, and somatic attunement, you’ll learn to work with time rather than against it in your professional, personal, and creative life.
What You’ll Explore
- Kairos Expanded - Distinguish between measured time and lived time, discovering how each shapes your perception of opportunity and flow.
- Durée - Enter Henri Bergson’s concept of duration to experience time as continuous, elastic, and qualitative rather than segmented.
- Derridean Trace - Learn how patterns repeat across scales and moments, revealing cycles of growth, return, and transformation.
- Temporal Correlation - Develop practices that help you align action, reflection, and rest, so your sense of time becomes a partner in design, not a constraint.
Why It Matters
Our lives unfold across invisible temporal architectures. When we move unconsciously through them, we experience fatigue, urgency, and fragmentation.
When we design with time, we experience coherence, momentum, and trust.
This guide offers practical frameworks and meditative exercises to help you recalibrate your inner clock, integrating design theory, phenomenology, and personal reflection into a single lived practice.
About the Series
Threshold Self-Design is a five-volume series exploring the architectures of transformation:
Base Concepts (foundations), Time, Space, Bridges, and Spirals.
Each text stands alone yet contributes to a complete curriculum for living and designing through change with awareness, creativity, and integrity.
About the Author
Michelle D. Burk, Ph.D. is an award-winning writer, educator, and design theorist whose work bridges philosophy, cognition, and creative transformation. Her guides are used by coaches, educators, and reflective practitioners seeking to align personal evolution with aesthetic and structural clarity.