About AQMeets
The people and thinking behind the programme
AQMeets helps you pursue worthwhile goals through connected planning, action and review.
Developed through the Center for Motivation Research and led by John Angheli, the programme applies Fractal Feedback to connect daily experience with decisions about your habits, strategy and longer-term direction.
The purpose is practical: help you make progress, learn from what happens, and take greater responsibility for the decisions that shape your life.
Why this work matters
Help for the work of carrying a goal into practice
A goal can matter deeply to you and still be difficult to carry into practice.
Time is limited. Responsibilities compete. A plan may depend on a skill you have yet to develop, resources you have underestimated, or circumstances that have changed.
AQMeets gives you a recurring practice for working through these difficulties. You choose what to pursue, take action, examine the results and decide what needs attention.
Achieve
Make progress towards worthwhile aims.
Adapt
Use experience to improve your approach.
Integrate
Consider your goals alongside your relationships, responsibilities and wider commitments.
Our organisational home
The Center for Motivation Research
The Center for Motivation Research is an Australian nonprofit research and education organisation concerned with meaning, motivation, will and leadership.
Its work brings together philosophical inquiry, education, counselling and practical application. It examines how people understand their motives, choose their aims and carry those choices into action.
AQMeets is a practical expression of that work. It gives members a structured way to apply these questions to their own goals and responsibilities.
The Center’s website introduces its research themes, publications and other programmes.
Founder and facilitator
Meet John Angheli
John Angheli is the founder of AQMeets and the Center for Motivation Research.
His background includes postgraduate study in business, education and philosophy, work in higher education, and more than fifteen years coaching entrepreneurs and leaders.
These fields inform the programme’s concern with both accomplishment and judgment: what you pursue, how you pursue it, and what you learn along the way.
John leads the programme’s development and brings this perspective to its teaching, facilitation and leadership counselling.
His personal website explains his background, qualifications, writing and the convictions that inform his work.
From the founder
Why AQMeets exists
Hear John explain the purpose behind the programme.
Our practical contribution
What Fractal Feedback contributes
When progress becomes difficult, the useful question is often: what needs to change?
You might need a clearer next action. A recurring difficulty might call for a different habit or a new capability. Experience may reveal that your strategy needs revision, or that your priorities require more time and resources than you have allowed.
Fractal Feedback connects these decisions across five scales: day, week, month, quarter and year. Each has a distinct purpose. Daily experience can inform larger decisions, while those decisions guide what you do next.
Higher Horizons helps you examine the longer-term direction and commitments that orient those plans.
Higher Horizons
Longer-term direction and commitments that orient your plans
- DayAct and observe
- WeekReview execution
- MonthExamine patterns and capabilities
- QuarterReview strategy
- YearChoose priorities and allocate resources
Direction informs action. Experience informs judgment. Address the relevant decision when it needs attention.
AQMeets puts this framework into practice through connected planning tools, recurring reviews and guidance appropriate to your membership. A decision made during review should have a consequence in the work that follows.
For example, repeated delays in a project may reveal a missing skill. Recognising that pattern lets you allocate time to learning, revise the project plan and change the next week’s work.
Our commitments
The commitments behind the programme
Integrity
Review begins with an honest account of what happened. Members are encouraged to distinguish observations from assumptions, recognise changed circumstances and revise decisions when the evidence warrants it.
Self-direction
Your goals and decisions remain yours. The programme provides questions, structure and guidance to help you exercise your judgment and become more capable of directing your own work.
Contribution
Goals affect other people. Planning should account for obligations, relationships and the good your work can serve, alongside your own ambitions.
Membership
What participation involves
You bring a goal or responsibility you want to work on. AQMeets provides a structure for planning, acting and reviewing, with different levels of facilitated support.
Across the programme, progress includes worthwhile accomplishment, stronger capabilities, learning you can use and decisions you can explain. Sometimes experience will support continuing a goal. Sometimes it will support changing or releasing it.
AQMeets Lite
Supports independent practice across daily, weekly and monthly planning and review, with an introduction to the full framework.
AQMeets Pro
Adds facilitated Quarterly Quests, January Annual Aims, the midyear Higher Horizons retreat and Jonah’s Club.
AQMeets Leader
Includes Pro and private leadership counselling.
Begin with your goal
Begin with something that matters to you
You can start with a goal you already have.
Choose the level of support that suits you, then begin putting that goal into practice through action, review and informed decisions.
Want to examine your current approach first?
Take the Execution Scorecard