TERROIR TRAILSA Third Field practiceBOOKS AND ESSAYS
Each book gives a relationship its own questions: a couple, founding partners, a leadership team, a circle of friends.
When a Council is Director-led, the book becomes part of the practice: your private questionnaire helps the Director choose the exercises for your day, and the book stays with you for the seasons after.
THE BOOKS
THE THINKING BEHIND THE PRACTICE · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 27, 2026
Where apparent agreement becomes real alignment. The space between people: what is heard, what stays unspoken, and what an agreement asks of the people who carry it.
The ideas behind every Council, Map and team programme.
About the book
FOR COUPLES · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 27, 2026
The life you share keeps changing. Make room to change with it. Begin privately, share only what you choose, and try one small change together.
Included with the Union Covenant and guided Couples Councils.
Try selected exercises
FOR FRIENDS AND CHOSEN FAMILY · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 31, 2026
For the friendships that carried you. Remember what you share, recognize what each person has given, and make room for who you are now.
Included with Director-led Long Table gatherings.
Meet the Long Table
FOR FOUNDING PARTNERS · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 27, 2026
Your company will change. Build a partnership that can. Make purpose, contributions, risk and decision rights explicit as the venture grows.
Included with Leadership Councils for founding partners.
About the book
FOR LEADERSHIP TEAMS · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 27, 2026
The meeting ends. The same friction returns. See the decisions, handoffs and working arrangements that shape an ordinary week, and choose a small change to return to.
Included with Leadership Councils for teams.
About the bookESSAYS
FRIENDSHIP
On chosen family, the missing rituals of friendship and making time to recognize each other.
Read the essayLEADERSHIP
On strategic friction, decision rights and the conditions that help leaders speak honestly.
Read the essayLEADERSHIP & JUDGMENT · THE THIRD FIELD
The vote said yes. The team meant different things. The business cost began when those differences disappeared from the record.
Read on thethirdfield.comFROM THE RECORD · THE THIRD FIELD
Seven decisions from the public record, read for what happened between the people who made them.
Read the cases