MASTER CLASS DESCRIPTION

Got lots of emails and doing lots of things so I'm going to put a quick and dirty description of the Coaching Certification Master Class right here. This is the right blog for it. I'll be teaching everything I know in the Master Class and some of the important work I do is in the area of Resistance. (You're not going to hear many suggestions about doing positive thinking - but you knew that.)

At present the software and web site for the Master's Program is being installed. Tomorrow I'm leaving on a jet plane. I'll send you the answer to one person's questions and hope it will be enough for a few days (until I get online in France.)

Dear X:

I can tell you this: as a member of the Master Class you'll be part of a private bulletin board forum made up of your fellow students and a handful of very special people (my Brain-Trust) including an author, a radio talk show host, an incredibly gifted and knowledgeable problem solver, and a person who specializes in making people get things done. There might be others. I've got invitations out to some of my favorite Idea Party people.

I've been told to tell you that this is an investment in your career, not a fee. I just hate that language -- too much like marketing lingo. I've also been told by some professionals (fans and experts) that I should charge twice as much. I don't know if that's actually true, but I do know that I won't do that. I want talented, committed people, not necessarily people who can easily spend a lot of money and might not be driven by a need to help people, or make a living doing it. So the entire year-long program will cost $8400.

It's very time-consuming for me to work with payments, so I'm asking must require that the entire tuition be paid before we begin, which means January 15. The program will begin sometime in the last 10 days of January, 2010. However, I'm selecting applicants carefully -- I can't predict if I'll run another program next year -- and I want to make sure I don't leave out someone who I know should be in the program. So talk to me if you think I'd want you in this program. (Please don't ask for swaps or discounts for this program. I'm asking everyone to pay up front so I can forget about promoting anything for a year and get down to work.)

Okay, here's what else we're going to do:

1) Part I - Find the talent and the dreams.
You'll learn how to pinpoint with certainty what you or a client really desires, no matter how difficult that may seem. Before practical issues come up we have to know their gifts and those are only shown to us by determining with care what they love to do. For that I'm planning to use the following materials and techiques:

a) Success Teams materials: your class will work as members of a Success Team for the first 8 sessions so you can be your subjects, and know what they're experiencing on a personal level. (You'll be qualified to become a registered Success Team leader and can own the the full leader's version of the Success Team Kit at a discount later in the class.)

b) The Discover Your Dream workbook/audio kit in addition to special teleclasses dedicated to teaching unusual techniques for finding the real goal in the heart of any client. This will include some new techniques I've developed in the last few years.

2) You'll learn how to make *any* dream, even the most impractical-seeming, into an achievable plan with dates and realistic sub-goals. I'll be using a number of techniques here:

a) A Brain-Trust forum, accessible to members at all times, which includes members and experts who have accepted my invitation to join us.

b) New brain-storming techniques - how to use social media and other internet info gathering and networking methods to get any information you need. How to run your own Idea Parties, in person or on the phone or via live video.

3) Resistance Whispering
Once a plan is in place the real work begins: Resistance is invariably the result of a call to action, especially one that's realistic and has details worked out, contacts, a target date, appointments to make, etc. Reality creates the moment of truth, and that's the point where every dream can founder and die. It's also the area that's least covered by existing techniques that are commonly used. Resistance is where my most important techniques will be taught.

a) Via interactive teleclass lectures

b) Using Skype so you can watch me work with clients and pick up their visual cues as well as the ones you can hear on the phone

c) A CD-set of 3 Resistance Teleclasses will be part of the class, so you can hear the lectures and interactions in which I take people to the source of their resistance and bring them past it. That's what gave me the name of 'Resistance Whisperer,' and that's what I want most to teach you to do.

4) Finally, we'll create a plan for earning money as a coach or career counselor, and as a speaker.

It's very ambitious but I'm only allowing in people whose letters indicate good candidates. All the same, the program is filling up rather quickly.

ADDENDA: Although it wasn't part of my original plan, I've decided to allow all Master Class students to attend (at half tuition price) one Scanner retreat if they choose to. It's not a required part of the program but it will be a way for people to work and watch me work face-to-face on achieving goals with many of the elements above. Since not everyone can find a way to attend a retreat, I'm figuring out how to make a video or transcript available to them. However this material will probably cost the same as attending at 1/2 tuition, about $1100.

We're using new computer technology for much of this, and notes or transcripts or recordings will be available to all members if they miss any scheduled events.

That's the best I can do right now. I'm very eager to begin. I've waited a lot of years to offer this program and it means a lot to me to see my work used to help people even after I stop doing it myself.

Please comment or email questions. I have a hunch I'll find internet connectivity in France. :-)