Sorgenfrei
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A Whole Human Intensive

Table for
Twelve

For founders scaling the company
and trying not to lose themselves in the process.
Twelve founders.Three months.One table.
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Twelve seats. Reviewed personally.
The Room You Are In

You built this company. Now the company is running you.

The room got quieter as the stakes got serious.

You stopped asking for help around the same time you stopped sleeping properly. Your team can feel that something has shifted. They do not have the words for it. Neither do you.

The version of you who shows up for the board barely recognises the one who walks through the front door at night.

This is the part of the job nobody warned you about.

You already have systems. You have read the books, hired the coach, and built the leadership team. Something else is going on, and it is the founder problem nobody talks about until they have walked through it themselves.

Table for Twelve is where you do the work no board meeting, investor call, or leadership offsite will ever touch.

The Program

Six sessions. Twelve founders. Three months.

A structured arc, not a syllabus. Some sessions teach. Some go deep. None of them feel like a webinar.

Every other week for twelve weeks, the twelve of you meet on Zoom for ninety minutes. Between sessions you work in pairs with one other founder at the table, and inside a private channel where the hardest questions get worked through in real time.

The arc moves from the inside out, built on the Whole Human framework. Session one is about you. Session six is about what you carry into the next ninety days. The four in between cover the team you need, the decisions only you can make, the people above you, and the person who walks through your front door at night.

I

Who Are You Becoming?

The founder you were last year cannot run the company you have today. The first session names the gap.

At the table

I walk you through the Whole Human framework and the fragmentation concept that sits underneath it. We then run a structured peer mapping exercise. By the end of ninety minutes everyone at the table has been seen by everyone else.

What you carry into the next two weeks

A self-audit: where are you still doing work someone else should own, and where are you performing a role instead of inhabiting it.

II

Building the Team You Need

Most founders try to scale their company before they have built the team to do it without them.

At the table

Hot seat format. Two or three founders bring a real, current issue they are wrestling with on the team: a hire they have been delaying, a person they should have moved off, a layer that does not exist yet. The table pressure-tests. I add framing on trust, delegation, and where founders mistake loyalty for the right hire.

What you carry into the next two weeks

Map your team today against where the company needs to be in twelve months. Identify the gaps you have been avoiding naming.

III

The Decision Filter

If every decision still comes back to you, the company is not actually scaling. You are just working harder.

At the table

I teach the decision filter, a tool you can use on Monday morning. Then each founder applies it live to one actual decision sitting on their desk this week. Breakout pairs, then group debrief. You leave with a different relationship to your own calendar.

What you carry into the next two weeks

Track every decision you make for seven days. Categorise them. How many should never have reached you in the first place.

IV

The People Above You

The board, the investors, the chair, the people who only see you on your worst day in a quarterly room.

At the table

By now the trust in the group is high enough that the lid comes off. Peer discussion, lightly facilitated. I pose the question and the table goes deep. Minimal teaching. This is the session founders tell me afterwards they have never been able to have anywhere else.

What you carry into the next two weeks

Write the conversation you have been avoiding with the person above you. Do not send it. Bring it to Session V.

V

The Person Who Goes Home

You can run a Series A company with a marriage on autopilot. You cannot run yourself that way for long.

At the table

Careful facilitation. I share my own story from 2019 first. Then structured sharing across the group. Everyone speaks. No one goes deeper than they choose. We talk about partners, children, parents, the body, the part of you the company never sees.

What you carry into the next two weeks

Have one honest conversation at home about what is working and what is not. Bring what you learned, not what happened.

VI

Integration

Three months ago you sat down at a table of strangers. You walk away with eleven witnesses to who you are becoming.

At the table

Each founder presents to the group: who I was when I arrived, what shifted, what I am committing to for the next ninety days. The table responds. I close.

What you carry forward

A written ninety-day intention and eleven other founders who already know what you are working on.

What happens between sessions
A peer pair

After Session I you are matched with one other founder, chosen for complementary challenges rather than similar ones. You meet for thirty minutes every other week.

Working with me between sessions

An always-on Slack for the twelve of you, with me active in it. I am there to help you prep for what is coming and implement what we worked on. When you need me on a specific call before a board meeting or a hard conversation, we book it.

A resource library

A Notion workspace with the frameworks, session recordings, templates and reading we use along the way. Yours to keep.

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Why the table

Fragmentation is a relationship problem.

Some of the work happens in private. Some of it needs more than one voice at the table.

A coach can walk with you through the whole framework. What a coach cannot be is eleven other founders holding the same standard you are. That is what the table is for.

You hear your own story on someone else's tongue, and you finally recognise it.

You watch eleven other founders handle what has been eating you privately, and the private thing loses some of its power.

You leave with witnesses. Eleven people who know exactly who you were the day you sat down, and who you are becoming.

Who This Is For

This is built for one specific founder.

You are the CEO of a company with twenty to two hundred people. You have raised a Series A or you are profitable. You built this thing yourself and now you need to become the leader the company requires.

You are not looking for tactics. You have tactics.
You are not looking for a network. You have a network.
You are looking for a table where you do not have to perform.

Yes, if you are

  • A founder-CEO of a 20 to 200 person company
  • Series A funded or genuinely profitable
  • Three or more years into building this
  • Ready to be seen, not impressed

Not for you if

  • You are a hired CEO who joined later
  • You are solo or pre-Series A
  • You coach, consult, or want to run a group like this
  • You are shopping for validation
Who Is At The Table

I started six companies. The sixth one almost killed me.

In 2019 I had built a seventy-person business across Europe and I could not get out of bed.

What I built over the eighteen months after became the Whole Human framework. I did not invent it at a desk. I built it to come back.

The framework rests on one idea: you cannot scale a company past the parts of yourself you have left fragmented. The role of CEO, partner, parent, friend, body. The work is to stop running them as separate operating systems and bring them back into the same room.

Since then I have coached founder-CEOs in thirteen countries. What I learned in those conversations sits underneath this table.

The longer I did the 1:1 work, the more one pattern kept surfacing. Founders show me one version of themselves in private. A different version to the board. A third they take home. That triangle is the actual problem. In 1:1 a founder learns to see it and name it. A table of other founders is where they practise showing up as one person. Both are the framework. This table is where the practice happens.

I am building Table for Twelve because the room I needed in 2019 did not exist. So I am building it now, for the founders who do not have eighteen months to figure it out alone.

Peter Sorgenfrei
Founder of Sorgenfrei. Six-time founder. Coach.
How It Works

The vetting is the value.

The quality of the table depends on who is at it.

Request your seat. Five questions. Ten minutes.

I read every application personally. No assistant filter, no algorithm.

If there is a fit, we talk for fifteen minutes. One conversation, both sides choosing.

If we both move forward, you get the invitation with the full program details and the investment.

What comes with your seat

The full picture.

Six live sessions

Ninety minutes each on Zoom, every other week for twelve weeks. Eleven other founders with you at every one.

A peer pair for the whole arc

Matched after session one for complementary challenges. Thirty minutes together every other week. Yours to keep meeting after the twelve weeks end, if you choose.

Direct access to me between sessions

An always-on Slack for the twelve of you, with me active in it. I am there to help you prep for what is coming and implement what we worked on. When you need me on a specific call before a board meeting, a hard conversation, or a decision you cannot make alone, we book it. This is where the framework becomes yours.

The Whole Human framework, applied

Not a template. Not a workbook. The framework brought into your actual company and your actual life over ninety days.

A resource library, yours to keep

A Notion workspace with the frameworks, session recordings, templates and reading. Yours after the program ends, whether you keep working with me or not.

Twelve seats. When the table is full, applications close until the next one opens later in the year, at a different price.

Twelve seats.
One of them is yours, or it isn't.

If you have read this far, you already know.

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Applications reviewed weekly. When the table is full, applications close.