The Energy Experiment Program.
Energy is not a substance. It is a capacity.
Expend · Manage · Renew
Physics tells us that energy is not a substance — it is a property that everything possesses. From the quarks inside your cells to the relationships in your life, energy is the common denominator. The Energy Experiment Framework is simply a way of working with that property deliberately.
Every living system runs on energy. Your body. Your relationships. Your professional life. Your home. The way you move through periods of difficulty and the way you recover from them. What The Energy Experiment Program does is give it structure — a practical, evidence-informed framework drawn from three decades of research and practice in performance psychology, that helps you understand how energy actually operates in your life, and what to do with that understanding.
This is not a wellness program. It is not a productivity system. It is a framework for seeing more clearly — and acting more deliberately.
The Core Idea
Three things determine how energy works in your life.
Expend
Energy goes somewhere. Always. The question is whether it is going where you intend it to — or somewhere else entirely. Understanding your expenditure patterns is the first step.
The Books
The intellectual backbone of the program. Each book applies the Energy Experiment framework to one domain of life — grounded in research, written for real people, and designed to be read as a standalone work or as part of the series.
Manage
Between expending and renewing is a space most people ignore. How you manage your energy in real time — across physical, emotional, cognitive and relational demands — determines your capacity, your clarity and your quality of life.
The Topics.
Every topic. One framework.
The Energy Experiment Program recognises that energy does not operate in isolation. What is happening in your financial life affects your relationships. What is happening at work comes home with you. Disruption in one area sends ripples through all the others.
The program is structured around six topics — each explored in depth in its own book, and each addressed in the workshops. Together they form a complete picture of energy as it operates across a whole human life.
01 · Foundation The first experiment — on personal human energy. The core framework, language and principles that underpin the entire program. You must work on your own energy first before you can work effectively with the energy of anything else.
02 · Money Our relationship with money is one of the most energetically loaded areas of human life — shaped by beliefs, behaviours and emotions more than logic. This domain examines what is really driving your financial experience.
03 · Relationships Every relationship involves an energetic exchange. What we bring, what we absorb, what sustains us and what depletes us. This domain gives you a framework for understanding the dynamics of your most significant connections.
04 · Workplace Professional environments have their own energetic logic. Individual energy management, the dynamics of teams, the invisible forces that determine whether an organisation lifts or drains the people within it.
05 · Home Your home is not a neutral space. It holds history, carries atmosphere and shapes mood, relationships and creativity. This domain explores the home as an energetic environment — and what it means to work with it deliberately.
06 · Disruption Life transitions and change test every energy resource we have. Renovation, career shifts, relationship changes, new chapters — this topic is about sustaining yourself through the seasons that demand the most.
The series is ongoing and will grow well beyond six titles. Energy shows up everywhere — and the program continues to follow it.
How the Program Works.
Three ways in. One coherent world.
The Energy Experiment Program is designed so that every element feeds every other. There is no single entry point and no dead end. You might arrive through a book, a workshop, the newsletter or a conversation with someone who has already been in the experiment. Wherever you come in, there is a path forward.
The Workshops
Live sessions for organisations who want to support the energy, wellbeing and productivity of their people. Built around real data and real patterns — not a generic wellness formula.
Renew
Renewal is not rest. It is active, deliberate restoration — matched to the kind of energy you have spent. The Energy Experiment Program treats renewal as a skill, not an accident.
The Platform
A podcast, a newsletter and an ongoing body of writing — conversations about energy across all domains, for everyone who wants to stay connected to the program and to each other.
Who this is for.
You do not need to be in crisis to benefit from this program. You just need to be paying attention.
This program is for you if...
You have a sense that something in your life is off — but you cannot quite put your finger on what.
You are functioning well on the outside and running low on the inside.
You want to understand your patterns, not just manage your symptoms.
You are navigating a significant transition — in work, relationships, finances or home — and you want a framework to help you through it.
You lead a team and you can feel that the energy in the room is not what it could be.
You are simply curious about what becomes possible when you start paying attention to energy deliberately.
Created by Dr Leigh Hodder, PhD.
The Energy Experiment Program was developed over three decades of working with individuals and organisations on the forces that shape how people function, relate and recover
Ready to begin?
The program is designed so you can enter from any door. The Foundation book is where most people start — the first experiment, on your own personal energy. If you are ready to bring the framework to your organisation, the workshops are the place to begin.