Stop Negotiating
With Yourself.
You left the office and took your skills with you. The structure didn't follow. Weekly facilitated sessions with a fixed cohort of freelancers and consultants give you the external framework your work actually needs.
What does a Tuesday morning actually look like when no one's watching?
The Slow Start
You open the laptop at nine. By eleven you've read three newsletters, reorganised your desktop and made a second coffee. The work is still waiting.
The Internal Negotiation
You tell yourself you'll start properly after lunch. After lunch becomes after a walk. The walk becomes the most productive part of the day.
The Invisible Deadline
Without a manager or a team around you, deadlines feel abstract until they don't. The pressure arrives all at once, late, and with interest.
The Missing Peer Layer
In an office, colleagues are a quiet accountability system. You see them working. They see you. That ambient pressure vanishes completely when you go remote.
A programme built around how independent work actually functions
Each element of the programme addresses a specific gap that opens up when you leave the office environment and try to maintain professional momentum alone.
Weekly Facilitated Sessions
Every week, your cohort meets with a facilitator who keeps the session structured and purposeful. This is not a casual check-in. There is an agenda, a format and a clear purpose for every minute spent together.
Sessions run at a consistent day and time so they anchor your week rather than float around it. Consistency is the point.
Explore the session format
Goal Setting and Progress Reviews
At the start of each cycle, you set specific goals with your cohort present. At the end, you review what happened. Both parts matter equally — the setting creates commitment, the review creates learning.
Goals are yours. The structure for holding them is shared. That distinction is what makes the difference between a to-do list and a working plan.
How we approach goals
Blocker Troubleshooting
When something stops you — a difficult client, a project you can't start, a decision you keep deferring — you bring it to the group. The facilitator guides a structured conversation that often moves things in twenty minutes that have been stuck for weeks.
Working alone means blockers can sit unexamined for a very long time. A cohort changes that.
See the full session structureWhy does it matter who you do this with?
A fixed cohort means you work with the same group of people across the full programme. You are not dropped into a random session each week with strangers. You build context, trust and genuine accountability with a consistent set of peers.
When the same person asks you next week how the proposal went that you mentioned this week, something shifts. That continuity is deliberate. It is the mechanism that makes the peer pressure honest rather than performative.
Cohorts are kept small enough that everyone has a voice and large enough that perspectives are genuinely varied. Members come from across Ireland — freelancers, independent consultants, remote employees and self-employed professionals.
Find Your Cohort
Is this for you?
Nova Imperium programmes are designed for a specific kind of professional situation. Not every freelancer needs this. But many do.
Freelancers
Designers, developers, writers, marketers and other independent practitioners who work from home and find the absence of external structure genuinely difficult to compensate for.
Independent Consultants
Strategy, HR, finance, operations and other consultants who left employed roles and now find that client work and self-management are two very different skills.
Remote Employees
Permanently remote workers whose companies provide no structured accountability and who need something external to replace what the office environment used to provide automatically.
What happens inside each session?
Every weekly session follows a structure that balances individual focus with group engagement.
Ready to join a cohort?
Get in touch and we'll talk through which cohort timing and format suits your working pattern. No commitment required at that stage.
Start the ConversationWant to understand the thinking first?
Read about the principles behind the programme — why fixed cohorts work, how facilitation differs from coaching, and what the research on accountability tells us.
Read Our Thinking
Why does location matter for a remote programme?
Shared context makes accountability more meaningful. When your cohort members understand the Irish freelance market, the specific pressures of working from home in a climate that doesn't always cooperate, and the particular isolation of independent work in a culture still adjusting to remote norms — conversations go deeper faster.
Sessions are held online, so members join from Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and everywhere between. The shared Irish context is the connective tissue. The online format removes every geographic barrier.
Our office is based at Baggot Street Lower in Dublin 2. In-person introductory conversations are available by arrangement.
71 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 P593