Questions.

Nobody you don’t tell. There’s no public member directory, no badges, no certificates, nothing built to be shared. We don’t publish members’ names, and we never ask anyone for a testimonial. (Sometimes people offer one anyway. When they do, we use a first name and last initial, and never a photo.)

The program runs on private Zoom calls. The links live behind your login and change regularly, so one can’t be forwarded or stumbled on.

A facilitator — one of the people who lead the program — reads it. That’s it.

It’s stored encrypted, and only admins can get to it. We never use it for advertising, never put it in a URL or an email subject line, and never send it to an analytics tool. Ask us to delete it and we will.

No. None of our Zoom calls are recorded, so there’s no file of you saying any of it, and nothing that could leak later.

The trade-off is that if you miss a call, you’ve missed it. Showing up matters.

We’ll ask you to be on camera as much as possible, and to be willing to share. If you’re at a point where that isn’t something you can do yet, this probably isn’t the right place for you right now — and that’s okay.

What makes it safe to do: every member signs an NDA, so what happens on the Zoom calls stays there. And first names are all anyone uses.

No. We’re not a clinical provider, we don’t create medical records, and there’s nothing we report to anyone.

You’re buying a place in a private group. On paper, that’s all that exists.

ALCHEMISTONE. Nothing about the program, the category, or anything else.

The Program is designed to build a life where gambling no longer feels necessary or attractive. Abstinence is the goal, and we want to be straight about that.

But recovery isn’t a straight line. Slips happen, and if one happens to you, there’s no judgment anywhere on our calls. You don’t start over and you don’t lose your place. We use the experience to learn something about ourselves, refocus, and move forward.

We don’t measure anyone by day counts. What matters is showing up — for yourself and for each other — in each moment, whatever that looks like.

Not for gambling, no. A slip doesn’t cost you your place, and there’s no way to fail this.

The one thing that does: disrespecting another member. The calls only work if everyone on them feels safe to be honest, so if you treat the people around you badly, or just act like a jerk, we’ll ask you to leave.

Ultimately, the only person who can keep you out is you. If you’re genuine about building a better, gamble-free life for yourself and the people around you, you’ll fit right in.

One of the facilitators follows up with you, privately. It’s not a telling-off. Missing a call usually means something, and it’s the kind of something worth getting to quickly.

Honestly, that follow-up is a big part of what you’re paying for. Nothing self-guided you’ve tried has ever noticed you were gone.

No. There are no twelve steps, no sponsors, and nobody asks you to call yourself powerless.

It’s also a different shape. A GA or AA meeting is open to anyone who walks in, and it’s whatever size it is that night. Our calls are led by facilitators and capped at twelve people, so everyone has room to speak and nobody gets lost in the crowd.

Now, that’s a difference, not a criticism. Twelve-step meetings have kept an enormous number of people alive. They’re free. Our founder goes to them. The Program is, again, just different.

No. Nobody will ask you to believe anything, follow a framework, or accept a higher power.

What we will do is ask you to practice mindfulness. We’ll ask you to look a little deeper at your own experience and see what you find there. Gambling runs on noise in the mind — the overthinking, the what-ifs, the urge, the next bet. Turn that noise down, and underneath it there’s a quiet that makes gambling look a bit ridiculous.

Here’s the strange part: life doesn’t get smaller when the mind goes quiet. It gets bigger. People who find that space end up living more interesting, more exciting lives than gambling ever gave them, because they’re actually there for them.

No, and it’s not a replacement for it. Nobody here diagnoses or prescribes anything. None of us are clinicians. What we are is people who stopped gambling when it seemed impossible, and you’ll spend a lot of time talking with us. People find that pretty therapeutic in its own right.

Plenty of members see a therapist at the same time, and the two tend to work well together.

That’s common, and not a problem. The program is currently built for gambling specifically, however it is our belief that a gambling addiction, like any other, is a symptom of a deeper unrest. An unrest that can lead to many habits that aren’t healthy for us.

If a substance is the main thing, or if stopping would be medically unsafe, that needs handling first, by people qualified to do it. We’re not the people for that, though, and we’ll tell you plainly in an intake call before we accept your enrollment.

Almost everyone asks some version of this. Most people who apply are still working, still paying the bills, and still fairly sure nobody’s noticed.

If you’re doing the math on whether it’s bad enough yet, the math is the answer.

You join when you’re ready — there’s no waiting for a start date. For ninety days, you’ll be on private Zoom calls three evenings a week with up to twelve other people, led by facilitators who’ve stopped gambling themselves.

Everyone on the call is on the same road, but at different points along it. Someone in their first week is sitting next to someone in their last. That’s what makes it special: you can see where you’re headed, and before long you’re the one showing someone else.

Between calls there’s work to do on your own, and the same people to reach when a night gets hard. You won’t be doing any of it alone.

This isn’t the part where we promise you’ll come out a different person. We don’t believe that. What we are confident of is that the blurred lens you’ve been looking at life through will come back into focus, gambling will stop being a priority, and you’ll have new tools to use.

Never more than twelve, plus the facilitators. Small enough that you’re always a focal point, but large enough that you’re never on your own.

Three fixed evenings a week. You’ll know the evenings and the time zone before you commit.

If you can’t make three 90-minute Zoom calls each week work, The Program won’t be a fit. True foundational change will require making this chapter of your story a priority.

A phone, tablet or computer with a camera, a reliable internet connection, and somewhere you won’t be overheard for about 90 minutes. And, above all, an open-minded willingness to accept that you deserve peace and happiness.

Prices are fixed in USD, CAD and EUR, and can be found above. You pay that once.

Nothing is charged until you’ve spoken to a facilitator. Applying is free, and that conversation — about half an hour — is where you ask us anything you like, and where we’ll tell you honestly if this isn’t the right fit.