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Dear Friend,

If you've taken AMP, AWE, or Arete and you've felt the power that deep personal transformation can have on your life - Be prepared to be even more amazed when you hear about what we've got in store for you.

One of the biggest issues with transformational workshops (even ours) is the lack of ongoing growth and support after the workshop. After having such a powerful opening, most people want more. Some want more coaching for themselves, so they can dive even further into their growth and transformation. Others want to learn how to be coaches so they can create these shifts and transformations in others.

   

Who Is Guy Sengstock?

Guy is a Course Leader at the Authentic Man Program, Arete and at Financial Circles. He's a co-owner of Authentic SF, and co-founder of Arete.

Guy is most well known being one of the co-inventors of "circling," the technique of facilitating deep growth and transformation that's used in Arete, AMP, and AWE.

Click play to see what last year's TCLT students have to say about Guy:

"I Can't Help But Open Up in
His Presence"

"Guy Has This Incredible, Powerful Awareness ... And He's Funny Too!"

"I Get to Learn How to Connect With People From My Heart"



 

 

That's what this is all about. As a graduate of AMP, AWE, or Arete, you're invited to participate in an exclusive, invitation-only high-intensity year-long course. The doors to this course are opened only once a year.

Whether you want to be a coach or simply experience the most powerful transformational course I've ever taught - both at Arete and Authentic SF - this course is for you.

You'll learn how to be a phenomenal coach by first experiencing phenomenal coaching yourself. Because you can only facilitate opening in others to the degree which you're open yourself, this course first focuses on your personal transformation. This course is designed to blow your world wide open, so you can truly live the life you want to live.

Then, from this place of openness, you can and help others live the life they want to live, if you're inclined to do so.

You'll be trained by three of the best trainers in the field: Myself (Guy Sengstock,) Alexis Shepperd Alexis, Ph.D., and Rick Snyder. You can learn more about us in the sidebars to the right.

Guy Sengstock is one of the original inventors of "circling," and founder of Arete. Learn more about us in the sidebars on the right.

 

Cook in the Furnace of Your Personal
Transformation for a Year

You'll be "cooking" in your personal transformation furnace for an entire year.

As you progress through your course, the "heat" of your transformation will continue to build. See, personal transformation has a momentum effect. As you add new insights about yourself, your life, other people and the world , you build more and more momentum.

This momentum allows you to break through even higher and higher peaks. It creates the power that can help you smash through any barriers in the way of you getting what you want.

Unlike a weekend transformational course, the changes you experience at TCLT are guaranteed to stick. Why?

In a weekend workshop, you step out of your normal life and into a different "world" where you experience powerful breakthroughs and transformation.

But when you leave, the shock of returning to the "real" world often dampens the effect of the workshop.

TCLT is different. You'll experience several massive breakthroughs in TCLT, but it will always be in the context of your real life. There's no separate world we step into - Instead, the changes we create happen right now, instantly, and have an instant impact on your life and your way of being.

On top of that, you'll also receive ongoing weekly coaching that ensures that you integrate each of these changes into your life.

 

Here's Some of What You'll Learn in TCLT:

Learn several little-known yet highly effective techniques of psychological and spiritual growth

How to complete and resolve issues from your past that are still holding you back in your life

Learn to change the world around you, rather than just live into the world as it is given to you

How to stop looking for approval from the outside, and live from an approval that comes from the inside instead

Be part of a community that truly sees you and loves you for who you are

Peel away layer after layer of emotional blockage, and get to the underlying truth of what's holding you back in your life

How to live with integrity

How to take the actions you want to take, in spite of fear, anxiety or doubt

How to bring joy and passion back into old relationships with friends, family, and partners

How to create and live your ideal vision for your future

Learn how to be a true leader that others are inspired to follow

 

Case Study #1

My Relationships Have Blossomed Now

"I've always felt kind of nervous relating with other people. I'd think "Oh god, did I say the wrong thing?"

Or I want to get deeper with them but I don't know how ... I always felt somewhat uncomfortable.

At TCLT, I learned a way to relate with people that I didn't have before. Even if I start to feel uncomfortable, I've learned to sink in with the other person and get the attention off myself.

Just doing that in itself, I relate far better with people. Basically, my friendships and my relationships have blossomed. I just can get in there with people now, it's just really great.

I would definitely take TCLT, regardless of what you want to get. If you're saying to yourself "I don't want to be a coach!" or "I don't want to be a course leader!" That's not a reason not to take it. The course has changed my life in so many ways, in different ways than a workshop would.

Whether you want to be a coach or not, it just improves your relationships with people, your life ... I'd absolutely recommend it to anybody."

 

   

Who Is Alexis Shepperd?

Alexis Shepperd, Ph.D. is one of the original founding members of Authentic SF, and is the lead instructor of the Authentic Woman Experience.

Alexis has been facilitating transformation for individuals, couples and groups for over a decade.

She has had extensive training in relationship coaching, integral psychology, leadership, yoga, and meditation.

She is particularly inspired by helping people create profoundly passionate, loving, and authentic relationships that serve as vehicles for personal transformation.

Click play to see what last year's students say about Alexis:

"Phenomenally Perceptive!"

"I feel like I'm really in the hands of an expert."

Who Is Rick Snyder

He also is a mentor and coach for Vive!; a licensed therapist and an experienced life coach.

Rick leads presentations and trainings at many companies in the fields of coaching, facilitation, and psychology.

Rick brings a powerful combination of Gestalt therapy and life coaching skills to create a strong mix of highly effective coaching skills.

"You'll Learn How to Create
Brilliant Experiences On the Fly
"

"He's Been a Great Guide"



 

 

Private Coaching From 6 Different Coaches

In addition to Guy, Alexis & Rick, you'll also get a brand new coach every other month. By experiencing different coaches, you'll have powerful openings and breakthroughs that wouldn't be possible if you were exposed to just one style of coaching.

Each coach (a fellow student) will get to know you and your life issues in intimate detail. Your coach will be responsible for following up with you on a weekly basis to ensure that the changes you made during the workshop stick; and to help you with issues that continue to come up during your everyday life.

Each coach will bring their own flavor of coaching, giving you unique distinctions and insights that can help you get exactly where you want to go in life. And of course, Alexis Rick and I will be coaching you every step of the way through your journey as well.

You'll also get your own client to coach every 2 months. This forms a sort of "coaching circle" where everyone has a coach and a client.

Having your own "private client" serves two purposes. One, it'll help you develop your coaching skills through practice. Two, by teaching what you learn, you'll help integrate the skills and life changes you made in your own life.

7 Bi-Monthly Weekend Intensives

The weekend intensives are the "meat and potatoes" of the TCLT, each consisting of two to three full days (10 - 14 hours per day) of intense course material.

Every two months, you'll get a massive download of new information, skills, techniques, and distinctions. Then you'll have the chance to practice your new skills with the instructors, with your classmates, with your student coach, and with your client.

Like Arete, AMP and AWE, these 7 workshops are very experiential. While there are lectures, the majority of the time will be spent in real coaching . And, like AMP, Arete and AWE, you'll experience massive breakthrough after massive breakthrough throughout the year as we continue to go deeper and deeper into your personal transformation.

Remember: Not only will you have powerful breakthroughs for yourself, you'll also learn how to facilitate and create these breakthroughs for others. If you're interested in being a coach, the skills and experiences you'll get from TCLT are simply invaluable.

16 Thursday Night Circles

One of the most important pieces to transformation is ongoing growth and support. That's why we have an ongoing Thursday night study group that gets together once or twice a month. (Twice on non-workshop months, once on workshop months.)

This is your ongoing training ground to practice all the new skills and distinctions you learned during your workshop experiences. You'll also acquire new skills and techniques in the thursday circles, and be able to put them into practice right away.

The thursday circles are where you and your coach will be able to check in around anything that has you feel stuck. If there's an issue you have difficulty resolving, you'll be able to get support and new perspectives around how to get past your issue.

If you're from out of town, the thursday night circles will be recorded and sent to you via DVD. You'll get all the lectures, plus customized exercises tailored just for you to make sure you get your practice, even if you're from out of town. Our last TCLT had 15 people who were from outside of california.

By getting together twice a month with a close group of people, an intimate community is formed.

Be Part of an Ongoing Community

Many of our students find that the most valuable part of the course is the community of people who're dedicated to personal growth. When you go through an experience like TCLT together, where you and your fellow classmates are exposing your souls and your most tender areas to one another, a lifetime bond is formed.

Ultimately, real connection is what many of us really crave and are missing our lives. This is true with both men and women. The community and genuine, trusting, deep connections that are formed in TCLT can be the "foundation" or blueprint for creating these real connections in the rest of your life.

In other words, being in TCLT with your fellow students can really show you how much trust, connection, and openness is possible - It can "raise the bar" for you, so you'll create nothing less in your everyday life.

 

Case Study #2

I'm Making Things Happen All Over The Place Now

"I'm a much better coach now. I can relate with other people so much more powerfully. I can get really in close with them.

I can see myself so much more clearly. I can hold a room, I can stand up and really be seen, and know where I'm coming from, and that feels really good.

And the other thing is, I'm just making stuff happen all over the place. I'm going out and I'm connecting to other people in my community, I'm making more money, and I'm able to really connect to people one on one, and it feels wonderful.

TCLT is this huge commitment. It's this roller coaster ride where you walk in, you have all these preconceptions, and you're thrown into this world where people demand your greatest, and you're having to learn a lot about what's up for you at some point you'll reach this point and - I know I did - where you have to say, this is the most powerful place I can be.

And what I've gotten out of that is a whole new way of living.

 

   

More Stellar Reviews

"Words fail me as I attempt to write what TCLT has meant to me. A life-changing experience for sure.

I've grown considerably and acquired tools which have enhanced my relationship with my man and other close family members and friends.


Guy, Alexis and the Course Leaders who join them during the weekend intensives are amazing. They are skilled, compassionate and completely invested in me getting everything I want (and more!) from this course.

TCLT is challenging, fun, edgy, deep, thought-provoking, confronting, full of love and wonderful!" - Angela Palermo

"I am grateful for the community I have become a part of that "sees" me and loves me even when I can not see or love myself.

This course is a continual practice of peeling away layer after layer to uncover the truth. It is the practice of opening my heart. It is the practice of choosing. The course ROCKS!" - Tamee Cooper

"Working with Guy and Alexis has been a deeply rewarding experience which has continually brought me back into that deep sacred space of which we know Arete for. 

It has provided  me the training to take people through deep profound emotional work.

I love the course, love Guy and Alexis and love the community we are continually and cooperatively creating." - Suzette Hibble

 

 

Learn "Systematized Circling"

Circling was originally invented in a hands on, expire mental fashion. After doing years and years of personal transformation work, something suddenly "clicked" and the process of circling came into being.

However, we didn't know what we were doing, we simply knew that whatever we were doing worked.

I spent years and years practicing and refining circling. But everytime I tried to teach it, I just couldn't put what I was doing into words. It seemed like teaching circling was an impossible task.

It wasn't until after the first few TCLTs that we managed to break down circling into a step by step system.

The original TCLTs were taught in a "learn by modeling" manner. You'd learn by watching myself and other instructors circle students, and try to pick up the skill along the way. We taught this way simply because we didn't know any other way to teach it.

Out of a class of 32 students who learned through the "learn by modeling" method, only about 20 really picked up the skill of learning how to circle. Most of them didn't really become proficient at the skill during the year-long, but several months afterwards.

Then something incredible happened: Through the process of teaching (rather than just doing,) we were gradually able to ...

Break Circling Down into a Step-by-Step Process

Once we finally managed to break circling down into a distinct five step process parts and teach them to our students, nearly everyone in TCLT was able to learn how to coach and circle like a master.

Not only that, they were proficient in circling in just four months - When it used to take students over a year.

Ever since that breakthrough years ago, our students have been consistently amazed at how quickly their ability to coach has skyrocketed.

And this step-by-step, easy to learn system of circling is what you'll learn in TCLT.

Now, don't be fooled by it's simplicity: Every step is full of intricacies and distinctions. But with practice and guidance from experienced instructors, we've found that it's a skill that nearly everybody can learn.

Training From Top Guest Instructors

Part of TCLT includes meeting some of the great "masters" of personal transformation.

The transformational coaching world works a bit like a spider-web. Instructors and personal development companies are all interconnected, and many of us have personal connections with one another.

As courseleaders in three leading transformational workshops - AMP, AWE, and Arete, Alexis Rick and I are connected with some of the most amazing trainers in California and the rest of the U.S.

And as our students, you get the full benefit of our network. We often bring in guest instructors, each of them an expert in their field, to give you new skills, mindsets and distinctions that you won't find anywhere else.

Best of all, you'll get training materials from instructors that normally charge their clients thousands of dollars to learn the same information, and it won't cost you a dime.

Case Study #3

This Isn't Faking Rapport With Mirroring and Matching, This is Real Rapport

"I've been seeing the changes that TCLT has brought into my life. In my personal relationships and in my business life.

I've really seen this showing up everywhere. That deeper level of relatedness and connection is really what's taught here. It's really what's absorbed here into the cells of your body.

It's not just like watching something on a video or looking at it on a blackboard, but actually absorbing it into your being.

It's helped get a lot more genuinely curious about people. And really be able to get into a rapport with them that's real. This isn't faking rapport through mirroring and matching, this is real rapport. This is real connection; which is something that most of us don't even get to experience in our lives.

 

 

But Guy, I'm Not Sure I'm Ready To
Commit for a Year ...

The biggest reason students hesitate to take TCLT is a fear of committing for a year. Afterall ...

 

What if my schedule doesn't work out?

What if I wanted to travel?

Won't I feel confined if I wanted to make a drastic change in my life?

What if I wanted to get a new job or a new place?

I'm just not sure if I want to "limit my freedom" by making a yearlong commitment

For most people, the reason they're afraid to commit isn't clear even to themselves; yet the very idea of making a commitment still scares them.

Surprisingly, what most people find is that by committing, they actually experience more freedom than they've ever felt. Why? Let me ask you a question. If you really were to take off and travel, or you really were to get a new job or take on a new hobby - What is it that really has you want to take on these new activities?

See, what people want aren't activities, but what those activities will get them; whether that's fun, excitement, financial freedom or simply feeling fully alive. Unfortunately, most people go about it in a round-about way by trying to find excitement in the outside world and creating short-term changes in their lives.

By taking the TCLT, it's true that you might miss out on those kinds of choices for a year. But by comparison, you'll gain something infinitely more value able. You'll learn to cut a direct path to getting exactly what you want - Whether that's amazing relationships, taking powerful actions, or living life completely in the moment.

Students have repeatedly found that there's massive freedom in giving yourself permission to really go after what you want, on a deeper level. It isn't what you'd expect, but most people find that instead of feeling confined by commitment, they feel much more free and feel like they're ready to dive in and explore.

 

How Much Does it Cost? ...
Note: Early Bird Discount For 10 Days

As an exclusive graduates-only course, we decided we want to make the course as affordable as possible for the people who really want to take this course. That's why TCLT is priced cheaper than any course, workshop, or our private coaching rates.

Take private coaching, for example. My standard rate for my private coaching practice (with a full schedule nearly every month,) is $250 an hour. If you were to pay me $250 an hour for all the time you'll get through this program, learning from me and being coached by me, you'd have to pay ...

 

First Course: $250/hr x 12 Hours x 3 Days
$9000
Course 2-7: $250/hr x 6 Courses x 12 hours x 2 days
$3,6000
Thursday Night Sessions: $250/hr x 3 Hours x 16 Thursday Nights
$13,500
Total
$58,500

And that's not including Alexis and Rick's coaching time or the coaching time you get with your 6 student coaches.

If you take $58,500 and divide it over the year, that's $4875 a month. Four thousand, eight hundred and seventy five dollars a month.

By comparison, TCLT is only $600 a month for 12 months. If you sign up early, you'll also get the "early bird" $500 discount. This discount is only good for ten days after you received the initial email - So sign up quickly if you intend to join.

For $600 a month, you not only get extensive coaching from me, you'll also get extensive coaching from Alexis and Rick. On top of that, you'll get ongoing support throughout the week to ensure that everything you learn truly sticks.

You'll spend 7 full weekends and 16 thursday nights with Alexis Rick and I, plus get ongoing exercises and assignments, plus get your own private coach throughout the program - All of which ensures your growth continues even outside the classroom - for just $550 a month.

If you just looked at the numbers, it's already pretty clear that the value is amazing. But the numbers don't tell the real story.

The real story is in the genuine, lasting changes you'll see in your life. What would it be worth to you to get absolutely everything you want in your life right now? What would it be worth to you to fully become the person you always wanted to be? What would it be worth to you to be able to dramatically impact the lives of others, and help them have what they want in life?

As you can tell, there's no price you can put on this workshop. For $600 a month, this course is a bargain no matter how you look at it, whether you're looking purely at the numbers or value for the impact.

Just a Few Weeks to Sign Up

This is a small, intimate and deeply transformative course. That's why we only take on a limited number of students each year. For the last two years, the course has filled up two months before the start date. The course starts August 8th and we expect to fill up 2 months before that.

If you're serious about your personal growth, this course is a no-brainer. Imagine in six months having the top 3 issues in your life completely resolved. Imagine having your financial and relationship life exactly where you want them to be. What would that be worth to you?

I'm not going to try to "push" you into signing up. In fact, you can't register until I've personally spoken to you by phone to make sure you're a good fit for the class and the community and that this course is really what would benefit you. But spots are limited, so if you're interested, call and speak with me right now.

As I mentioned earlier, the course will fill up quickly, just like it has every year. The remaining spots will likely be gone in just a few weeks.

If you're interested in taking the course, contact me now at:

Guy@AreteCenter.com

(415) 290 - 8385

 

Lets Wrap This Up

To sum it up, TCLT is a year-long deeply transformation workshop, where you'll experience powerful changes for yourself and learn how to coach other people to have the same experiences.

We only open the doors to this course once a year and we expect the every spot to be filled in the next few days.

If you're serious about your personal transformation, or if you want to be a coach, you owe it to yourself to get yourself in this course. As many of our past students have said, TCLT is one of the most powerful, most influential experiences of their lives.

To apply, send me an email or give me a call.

Best of luck in your transformation,

- Guy Sengstock

 

 

 

To learn more or to apply for the course, contact me at:

Guy@AreteCenter.com

(415) 290 - 8385

 

 

What Do Past Students Say About The Course?

 

More Comments From Past Students

"There are probably many people who, like me, can sit happily for hours and listen to Guy Sengstock talk about perspectives on and techniques of psychospiritual growth.  And there are probably many people who, like me, wanted more depth and personal transformation after their Arete Experience - like for example a year full of it. 

In the TCLT, I got plenty of both of these fantastic things.  If you throw in the real-life skill-building experience of working with people (for example, giving and receiving weekly personal coaching calls) and the emotionally-deep community that formed among all of us students, the result is that the TCLT is a course that I would recommend to anyone looking to deepen their skills as a personal growth professional (or just deepen their experience of being alive)." - Adam Coutts




"TCLT continues to enhance my life.  On a professional level:  I learned and continue to develop the art of deep listening, where people feel appreciated enough to let down their defenses.  I learned structures for supporting life coaching clients.  I practice leading people to a greater knowledge of themselves and their edges, facilitate completion of issues from their past, and create a vision for their future.

On a personal level, I created a new relationship with myself, received all of the work above, offering a more fulfilling relationship with my wife, my kids, my students, my family and friends.  

I am grateful for the course and what it brings to my life and the people I interact with.  Much love to Guy and Alexis and the amazing community we've built that creates this mutually transformational cauldron." - David Schlussel

 



"The TCLC is a symphonic transformational and personal expression experience.  Guy Sengstock and Alexis Shepard conduct the course, calling on various philosophical distinctions, from a number of traditions, they  guide personal experiential exercises, coaching and circling training, and all while keeping an improvisational eye on the unique music emanating from the beings (course participants) who make up the orchestra.  The result is unique symphony of authentic, creative musicians, who are informed by the whole experience of life and who play their truth in relationship to a world that is perfect just the way that it is, while also being open to the limitless possibilities that are ours for choosing. 

 Plus, Guy and Alexis get a little help from their friends in the leadership community… who of course contribute community, truth, love, compassion and fierce authenticity. 

 The overall experience of the course… tenaciously powerful, a whole lot of fun and a whole lotta love! " - Dave Allison




"I'm loving TCLT because:

1)  I'm a heady dude and the academic approach the course takes at times to teaching coaching framework, technique and theory gives me a vivid picture of what coaching and leadership is conceptually
2)  I'm a hearty dude and the expanding spaciousness that's arising through coaching practice with and support from my classmates is deepening the joy I'm experiencing when I'm with others.
3)  I'm a curious dude and after 5 years since my Arete Experience, I'm finally beginning to understand that Vodoo Magic that is Arete Leadership
4)  I'm a responsible dude and I'm finding myself showing up more fully for my employees and peers at work, my girlfriend, my family, my dog and all the other beings, big and little.  Being of service rocks!
5)  I'm a wildly irresponsible bastard and I'm finding myself allowing me to be that when it shows up and being able to have fun with it...or not...and having that be okay too
6)  I'm a gluttonous dude, and with every weekend intensive, coaching practice and reading, I'm finding that there's always MORE

For me, TCLT is the platform which supports the deepening of whatever that light was that I experienced through Arete several years ago." - David Freedman

 


 

"The Transformational Coaching and Leadership Training Course is one of the most powerful trainings in which I have participated.  For me what is remarkable about the course is that in addition to learning very transferable and usable coaching skills, I am also participating in and creating my own personal transformational. 

 In this course I learned something about how I have seen the world that had previously limited me in a profound way. This awareness has helped me to transform my life and my relationships. And I had thought that I was only going to learn coaching skills!!! - Margo


To learn more or to apply for the course, contact me at:

Guy@AreteCenter.com

(415) 290 - 8385

 

P.S. Remember, the doors to this course only open once a year, and there's only a few spots available. To apply for your spot, contact me via email or call me at the phone number above.