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 5 to 10 Month Course  in Wellness/Life Coaching with Emphasis
 in  Cognitive Psychology -- BOHI's VCT
 (Video-Classes and Tests) Method
 
 
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 Available Worldwide
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 "If you have  learned to decrease negative thinking  to a minimum, about yourself and  life situations, you are firmly established on the path to happiness." -- Gian Girardi, BOHI Founder
 
 
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 This  course is a practical as well an  advanced form of Wellness and Life Coaching. It teaches the student how to take good care of his/her instruments --  body and  mind -- and how to identify and stop neglecting the agenda of his or her soul. It is not possible or at least extremely difficult, to be happy and  attain  authentic goals while having a sick body,  or an imbalanced mind, or a neglected vocation, soul agenda, or mission.  The course prepares the student  to  also coach and teach  others, how to  free themselves from the suffering that springs from these fundamental issues.
 
 Note: Upon completion of any  course in the "BOHI's Video-Classes and Tests Method"  you will receive a Letter of Completion signed by BOHI's founder. To obtain a  BOHI's Certificate of Completion please consider this program instead: Flip Learning Method
 
 
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 About BOHI's VCT
 (Video-Classes and Tests)
 Educational Method
 BOHI's VCT method offers unparalleled flexibility. The student  attends  his or her classes   anytime, anywhere
 in the world from the comfort of their home!
 
 
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 From One of our Graduate Student About the Teacher of  This Course
 
 
 
   Gian is a  professional teacher. I have found his private sessions, meditations, and classes a work of art. My time with Gian has been life-changing not only from a physical standpoint, but mentally and spiritually as well. I signed up for a brain/body nutritional class with Gian back in 2009; wow! How that improved my life from a physical standpoint. Then I attended some meditation sessions that Gian held on the weekends, and again, what a spiritual revelation! Since then I have continued seeing Gian for private sessions,  again, what insights have come! Gian is not only a wise man, but his teaching style is outstanding and his compassion and intuition are life changers! -- Mark           ------------------------------------------------------- From Our Graduate Students
 About the Course Itself
 
 I have benefited both personally and professionally from the course in Wellness/Life Coaching at BOHI.  The curriculum provides a multi-dimensional framework that addresses the complexities of the human experience, and how to successfully guide clients through all these layers towards healthier, happier lives.  I learned so many useful tools from the video lectures. -- Jennifer Miller ------
 The first time I met Gian and Viviana was at one of their free weekend sessions in Studio City. I immediately loved and deeply connected to their energy. The space was beautifully decorated by Viviana with fresh flowers. There was lots of "love" in the place. Gian led us through a powerful meditation and I remember thinking, as a teacher myself, that he was an excellent teacher. I kept in touch with Gian and always had an interest to become a life coach, so I enrolled for his Certification in Life Coaching.
 It was one of the best choices I have ever made. Gian is one of the wisest and most accepting, non judgmental people I know. What he has taught me has been an invaluable asset in both my personal growth and ability as a life coach/ teacher. I loved attending my personal sessions with him and he was extremely generous with his time and knowledge. He is a brilliant man. In fact he is so highly intelligent that only a certain type of student will be drawn to him -- one that wants to truly go  deeply into the material and into understanding life's complexities and mysteries. 
 I highly recommend both of them -- Gian for any of his programs, and Viviana for
 her yoga retreats and her amazing raw food cooking classes, for which she
 possesses a special gift.
 
 I am thankful to have met them both -- Sirsa Shekim, CLC
 
 
 
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 Certification Program
 
 This Course Leads to Two Certifications,
 Through Letters of Completion.
 
 The first nine (9) Video-Classes with their corresponding tests lead to a Certification in  Wellness Coaching with Emphasis in Self-Caring, through a letter of completion signed by the founder.
 
 After completion of all 21 classes and their corresponding tests, the student earns his/her certification in Life Coaching with Emphasis in Cognitive Psychology, also through a letter of completion signed by the founder.
 
 This  course is  applicable to BOHI's final  Certification in "Holistic Life Coaching" also through a letter of completion signed by the founder.
 
 
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 Access to Information About this Course
 All information needed can be found by  scrolling down  this page.
 
 
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 Learn from the Pioneers that Triggered the Brain Optimization™ Movement.
 
 BOHI has been serving the United States and the
 world at large for 15 years, since 2005, providing cutting edge professional education. The trade mark "Brain Optimization™" today part of our everyday language, was granted to the founder of our Institute back in 2007!
 
 
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        A Vocational Certification Course,   Also Well Suited Attain for Healing and/or Personal-Development
 This course is designed to fulfill the vocational needs of practitioners wanting to work in the fields of Wellness, Life Coaching, Counseling, Teaching and Healing. It is  also designed for those desiring to attain personal healing and/or personal  development.
 The emphasis of the course is in Cognitive Psychology, one of the most powerful scientifically validated, talk therapy ever developed.
 
 
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 Enrollment all Year Round
 Contact Gian  (BOHI Founder) directly at
 Brain###Optimization**@iCloud.com
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 Two Formats To Choose From
 
 All video courses must be paid  upfront and there is NO satisfaction guaranteed. Because of this, before signing our student agreement, you are invited and encouraged to read the curriculum of the course below beginning to end. What you will learn through the course is explained in great detail.
 
 5-Month  Format: (Recommended for VCT) This format consists of watching a 3-hour video class, divided in  shorter segments of about 45 minutes  to 1 hour each, every week for 21 weeks. BOHI's Video Courses
 are an effective combination of Video Classes and Written Tests.
 10-Month  Format: This format consists of watching a 3-hour video class, divided in  shorter segments of about 45 minutes  to 1 hour each,  every other week for 42 weeks.
 
 Note: Time limit to obtain your letter of completion is three (3) years since your date of enrollment. Beyond that, no letter of completion will be awarded, unless there is a  strong reason to make an exception.
 
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 About Wellness Coaching: "If you have realized  the power of self-caring, most especcially having a good diet, doing physical exercise, thinking positively and pursuing your true vocation, you are on the way to master
 the foundation of happiness.
 
 About Life Coaching: "If you have  learned to decrease negative thinking  to a minimum, about yourself and  life situations, you are firmly
 established on the path to happiness."
 
 Gian  Girardi, founder
 
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 How BOHI's Enrollment Process Works
 
 First: Please contact us via email stating which one of
 BOHI's VCT Courses you would like to pursue. To find our email,
 please continue scrolling down.
 
 Second: We will send you via email, a welcoming letter
 containing  BOHI's Student Agreement.
 
 Third: After reading the Student Agreement you will be ready to follow simple instructions (indicated at the beginning of the Agreement) to sign it and send it back to us. (no printing is necessary)
 
 Fourth: You 
        pay the course at our Student Online Tuition 
        Payment Center
 
 Fifth: You will receive access to the first video-class via email.
 
 
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 How BOHI's VCT Method Works
 
 
 First: After completion of your enrollment process (please read the above section,) you'll get  an email from us containing basic information and recomendations, plus the 1st Written Test and all  links you'll need to access  the 1st Video Class.
 
 Second: 
            As you watch the videos we strongly recommend  you write down  notes, speccially every  new insight you get.
 
 Third: After finishing all video segments, you can answer the written test you got via email -- you just press reply to the email, bold the right answers and send them to the teacher.
 
 Fourth: The teacher will send you an email confirming your homework (the Test) has been received and  containing all the links  to
 the 2nd video-class.
 
 Fifth: Answers to the 1st test will be presented at the beginning
 of the 2nd video-class.
 
 
 And so on...
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 Location
 Online Worldwide. All communication via email...
 
 
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 Time Commitment For  BOHI's
 VCT Courses
 
 
  10-Month Format
 
 Video Classes: Each video class is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours long. In the
 10-month format the student  needs to watch one class every other week.
 
 Answering the Written Test: If you  studied the video-class and wrote down  notes, it should not take  more than 5 to 15 minutes to complete the corresponding Written Test and send it to the teacher.
 
 Extra Homework:  During the video-clases your teacher will recommend you buy and read some books. A commitment of about six extra hours for reading time per month is recommended. Students can do more reading  based on their time availability and enthusiasm.
 
 Total: The aproximate time commitment per month necessary to participate in any of BOHI's Video Courses, in the 10-month format (with video-classes every other week,) is about 13   hours per month (3h 15' per week).
 
 
 5-Month Format  (Recommended for VCT)
 
 This format, with classes and tests every week, requires
 twice as many hours per month, i.e. 25 hours.
 
 
 
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 Commitment to Apply the Knowledge Acquired to One's Own Life
 
 All BOHI students are  encouraged to apply the knowledge acquired to their own lives.  BOHI courses aim primarily at helping the student improve his or her life, so that later they know how to help others  do likewise. Intellectual knowledge has value, but it is  not enough.
 
 
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 Tuition and Fees
 
 The tuition for all BOHI Video-Courses is U$900
 If this price is too steep for you, perhaps because you live in a third world country or any other reason, please contact us via email
 requesting a lower price.
 
 As a non-profit organization our intention is service, so we want to accomodate as many students as possible.
 
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          No upfront or hidden fees of any kind --
 
 Contact Gian (BOHI Founder) at
 Brain###Optimization**@iCloud.com
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 How to Pay Your Tuition You can  safely pay your tuition at ourOnline Student's Tuition Payment Center.
 You can use a credit or
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 Course Curriculum
 
 Disclosure: The curriculum for this course
 as presented below, is a very close approximation to
 the actual material presented class by class,
 however, it is not exact, and some
 unimportant variations may happen.
 
 Additional Note: For reasons pertaining
 the organization of the courses, the video-classes in
 Cognitive Psychology have been moved to the
 end of the course.
 
 I- HOW TO BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR HAPPINESS THROUGH
        THE POWER OF SELF-CARING.
 A scientific approach based on research which demonstrated that taking intelligent care of our human needs leads to happiness. 01- The research that lead to the discovery of the model. Why Self Caring is a scientific path to happiness.
 02- Introducing the psychometric instruments -- Self Caring Inventory and Subjective Happiness Scale
 03- Why this is a unifying paradigm for life.
 04- How Self-Caring impacts the realization of our goals.
 05- Why improving Self-Caring is a better model than behavioral modification and the correcting bad habits approach.
 06- Why Self-Caring is the foundation of the Spiritual Life
 07- Self Caring as a path to happiness vs. Self-Caring as neurosis
 08- Needs vs. Wants. Likes and dislikes. Human needs
 09- Why the development of our soul potentialities is a need and what we can do about it.
 10- As long as we believe that there is a separate self suffering is inevitable. However, we can reduce it immensely -- how to do this effectively.
 11- Self-Caring impact on health -- Stockholm's research
 12- Self-Caring impact on money.
 13- Self-Caring impact on love.
 14- The students take the Self Caring Inventory and the Subjective Happiness Scale during the class.
 15- Evaluating the results.
 16- If you are a Wellness or Life Coach, how you can use these instruments to help your clients. Why they provide an invaluable assessment.
 17- Extremely poor results in these tests indicate....
 18- The importance of education is supreme. Adequate knowledge can save us from mountains of suffering. Examples...
 19- Where this invaluable knowledge can be attained and why mainstream education does offer even the minimum knowledge to live a successful life.
 20- Overview of each one of twenty one fundamental human needs, and pointing the path towards mastering them.
 21- Why education today, including higher education, often perpetuates the victim state. How the education available at BOI constitutes a holistic, complete path to happiness, and to the end of suffering.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 II- THE THREE MOST FUNDAMENTAL WELLNESS COACHING MODELS; AND HOW TO DISCERN BETWEEN TRUE AND FALSE PATHWAYS TO HAPPINESS
 01- The three variables that control happiness according to the most popular belief system in the planet
 02- Evaluation of how well the student is doing based on this model
 03- Why not only it does NOT work, but in fact it is a dangerous philosophy of life -- leading to suffering.
 04- The most ancient wellness model -- the yogic approach to happiness. The ancient concept of sadhana
 05- Evaluation of how well the student is doing based on this model
 06- Does it work?
 07- BOI Wellness approach to happiness and success
 08- Evaluation of how well the student is doing based on this model
 09- Why it works, and why it is more practical than all previous models
 10- The three complimentary factors
 11- The role of meditation -- can it help? what for? Could meditation produce suffering?
 12- The immense challenge of attaining wellness and how to win the battle
 13- Old habits are hard to die -- is it true?
 14- The role of self-discipline -- does it play a role really?
 15- The role of a balance life -- is balance really that important?
 16- The role of will power -- is developing will power necessary to attain wellness and happiness? If I want to develop it, how do I do that?
 17- How fear prevents happiness, and how we can attain fearlessness
 18- The anchoring technique to change mental and physical habits -- "tiny changes in direction lead to a completely different port."
 19- The reminders method and the intentional approach to changing hard to die mental and physical habits
 20- Is abstinence necessary to change habits that we know lead to suffering? How to.
 21- How to put under full control the 4 most powerful forces that control your wellness and happiness. The role of education. The old sadhana model revisited.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 III- THE TEN RULES OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND THAT OF YOUR CLIENTS
 
 01- How to attain balance from a nutritional perspective -- the perfect, balanced dish02- The value of pleasure -- why your health depends on it. Culinary pleasure as an art -- pursuing pleasure instead of quantity
 04- Soothing negative feelings with food -- why it works and why it doesn't
 05- The most dangerous addiction affecting the US population is not alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, and it is easy to solve -- education!
 06- The physical energy system of brain and body
 07- The Ten Golden Rules of Nutrition
 08- How to win the battle for good nutrition -- it is easy if you just know "this one trick..."
 09- How many meals a day?
 10- Are you taking away my carbohydrates? are you serious?
 11- What happens when we eat too much?
 12- How much protein I really need? Vegetarians says I do not need much
 13- Is organic, free rage and grass fed worth the extra money?
 14- What type of food you want to have at home for sure
 15- Is food in restaurants healthy for your body and mind?  Does it depend on the restaurant?
 16- What are the best oils for my brain and body?
 17- Rotation, does it help? What for?
 18- Respecting your genes and body
 19- What is more important, physical exercise or a good nutrition? How do they interact?
 20- How you can enjoy pizza everyday without harming yourself (if you know enough.) The Italian paradox brought to the next level.
 21-How to use nutrition to succeed in sports and professionally.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 IV- THE POWER OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
 
 
 01- Why verbal communication is so fundamental in life and even more so in Life Coaching02- The first and most fundamental principle of good, effective communication*
 03- Effective versus poor communication
 04- "When your client wants to complain endlessly"
 05- The clipboard technique and dealing with extraversion *
 06- When you feel upset with your client. The importance of addressing it. Why it is likely that a boundary has been trespassed.
 07- Healthy boundaries with your client*
 08- Why it is better not to abandon your client
 09- When the client stops coming
 10- The risk of becoming coercive
 11- How to confront your client without damaging the relationship
 12- Patience -- why and how
 13- Carl Roger and his mission *
 14- Empathic listening -- why it works and why it doesn't, and why it is a technique and it is not a technique.
 15- Unconditional regard. What is the core of the practice
 16- On becoming emptiness to overcome judgment. The most powerful counseling technique*
 17- Do you like your client? How this impacts outcome? What to do when you do not like him or her.
 18- Non-Violent Communication. The core of the technique and its two satellites.*
 19- The "Truth Principle." The game of truth: communication based on content vs. communication based on context -- two practical examples: criticism and laughing about others.
 20- The power of non-verbal communication*
 21- Summary:  the seven fundamental tools to attain good communication with the client.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 V- THE SCIENCE OF TYPOLOGY
 01- The Myers-Briggs system
 02- One of Jung's greatest insight is the most neglected by mainstream psychology
 03- The eight Jungian functions of the personality
 04- The long history of the four basic personality types -- more than 2,000 years!
 05- The four types and the four lobes of the brain
 06- What is your type?
 07- Four different instruments for temperament assessment
 08- What percentages of each one of the types are you?
 09- Why it is a must to know your client's personality type
 10- Why the personality should be presented back to the client in a positive light
 11- Development of the eight Jungian Functions is a path towards higher and solid spiritual development; however...
 12- Are you the personality? If you aren't, what are you then?
 13- The 4 main Myer-Briggs types
 14- The 16 Myers Briggs sub-types
 15- Which type will likely be your future clientele?
 16- Application of the Myers-Briggs to marketing your skills as a Life Coach
 17- The idealist confusion
 18- The connection to vocational counseling and selection of personnel
 19- The types are the foundation of civilizations
 20- The Idealist's desire for a more enlightened civilization
 21- Awakening to the personality -- the short route and the never ending slow mainstream approach.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 VI- VOCATIONAL COUNSELING
 
 
 01- Vocation and psychopathology in the US 02- Gaston's case
 03- The Actor that gave up his career
 04- The hair stylist that got scared, and changed her vocation for a "safe" secretarial job. Why safety can be extremely dangerous -- Joes's case
 05- The right and left brain
 06- Authenticity a shortcut to happiness
 07- The use of the Myers-Briggs
 08- The vocations is of the soul
 09- Does an ego psychology have something to offer when it comes to "reconnecting."
 10- The need for more research in soul psychology
 11- Crucial questions to "reconnect" your client with their vocation.
 12- The one million dollar question
 13- Does childhood has anything to do with vocation?
 14- The enjoyment factor
 15- The meditation approach to finding your vocation
 16- The intentional approach to finding your vocation
 17- The vision quest of the native American's
 18- Conscious avocation as a path for growth and transformation
 19- Decreasing resistance to an avocation experience
 20- Interests vs. vocation
 21- integrating our interests in a coherent whole.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 VII- COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY / PART I
 1- The origins of Cognitive Psychology
 2- Research at Pennsylvania University with depressed patients
 3- How CBT became the most popular psychotherapy in the US.
 4- Differentiating thoughts and feelings -- why this is fundamental to attain personal growth
 5- Inner and outer differentiation
 6- The fundamental principle of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
 7- The 4 main thought distortions
 8- Should Statements - the bossy language
 09- Origin in military language and monasticism
 10- Freud's Super Ego conceptualization
 11- Resistance to what is = suffering = should statements
 12- Jumping to conclusions
 13- All-nothing thinking
 14- Labeling
 15- What are you really?
 16- When did the confusion begin?
 17- Additional distortions: emotional reasoning and others
 18- The 3-columns technique
 19- The 4 column technique - why?
 20- The 5 column technique - why?
 21- How to use the column technique to evolve personally and spiritually.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 VIII- COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY / PART II
 
 
 01- Deep psychology from a cognitive perspective02- Faulty beliefs lead to suffering
 03- The down arrow technique
 04- The down arrow technique applied to motivations reveals the purpose of life
 05- Why a loss of self-esteem is at the root of our suffering and how it can be demonstrated
 06- Seven fundamental vulnerabilities of the ego or personality
 07- How to assess your personal vulnerabilities (DAS)
 08- Freeing oneself from the need for approval
 09- Are you addicted to love?
 10- Your work = your worth?  The achievement trap
 11- Why and how we need to overcome perfectionism
 12- Entitlements, Omnipotence and Autonomy
 13- Dreadful equations that control life in ego consciousness
 14- The roots of workaholism and perfectionism
 15- The root of greed
 16- When self-image begins to rule life
 17- What the mind is really? -- the concentric circles model
 18- The Collective Silent Assumptions -- CSI
 19- Why there is only a partial escape until Awakening and Embodiment happen
 20-What is Awakening really and how to attain it
 21- How to heal through thought:
 - The four paths to healing
 - Removing false beliefs -- mostly coming from our own culture
 - Understanding that thought reigns supreme int he Universe
 - The mind-Body organism has to believe in the power of thought to heal.
 - Commands from Consciousness require Awakening.
 - Impersonal Affirmations
 - Access to the power to create anything does not imply having everything -- 	perfect health or complete abundance.
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        Attachement in relationship is poison
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        I need to complete myself -- He is mine, she is mine
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        Core beliefs about me -- I am "me."
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 IX- FROM VICTIM TO VICTOR
 
 
 01- Metaphysical origins of the Victim to Victor evolutionary model02- Characteristics of the Victim State vs the Victor State
 03- Intermediate levels
 04- How to find out in which level you are in
 05- Parallels of the human evolution and the soul evolution
 06- Independence as the path to victor-hood
 07- The death of the dependent self and the process of building self-confidence
 08- Why the Victor State is a mental state and can affect anyone -- rich and poor, healthy and sick individuals
 09- The importance of mirroring
 10- The value and perils of confronting -- confronting vs criticizing
 11- The most fundamental assumption in metaphysics is the existence of the "me"
 12- Why everyone’s tests are different for the same goal?
 13- Turning failure into success -- making lemonade out of a lemon. Why a good trying is success already
 14- Why and how to define success for oneself, and what is the best general definition
 15- Sharing your success and failures appropriately with the client
 16- The path of action and accomplishments -- will power, courage,  why the hero needs to be brought to the surface
 17- Abraham-Hicks and other metaphysical teachings position about action
 18- The manipulations of the victim vs manipulations of the victor
 19- Action vs Self Caring -- which one is more important
 20- Why helping your client to move from waiting to doing is a great success in Life Coaching
 21- Setting Goals during the Life Coaching process, and checking that they are authentic. Is this necessary.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 X- FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
 
 
 01- The DSM-IV and how it works02- When you suspect a mental disorder
 03- Mood disorders vs. personality disorders
 04- Depression -- motivation and sadness
 05- Mild, moderate, severe depression -- how to asses them
 06- Self report of levels of depression
 07- When to refer your client to a psychotherapist or a holistic psychiatrist
 08- Anxiety -- worries and fear
 09- Normal vs. abnormal anxiety
 10- Mild, moderate, severe and extreme anxiety -- how to asses them
 11- The mockingbird of diseases and the loop between anxiety and its symptoms
 12- Panic Disorder -- an initiation into the mysteries of the mind?
 13- Connections between anxiety and depression -- which one is more painful?
 14- The main personality disorders
 15- Childhood disorders -- ADD / ADHD, ODD...
 16- How to assess for ADD / ADHD and what to do about it. Mainstream, alternative treatments and when to refer the client to a license professional.
 17- Caffeine vs Met-amphetamines. The spiritual aspect of ADD
 18- OCD, Bipolar and other less common disorders
 19- Personality disorders vs mood disorders
 20- How to assess them using the DSMIV-R
 21- Legal considerations?
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XI- COUPLES COACHING
 
 
 1- Need for harmonious, meaningful relationships, inlcuding romance is a human need 2- Soul mates -- does it exist? What is it really?
 3- Soul contracts
 4- Why the end of a relationship is not necessarily a failure
 5- Assessing the quality of a couples relationship
 6- Why the Myers Briggs is a powerful tool for couples coaching
 7- When you should suspect serious incompatibility. How to use the system to find your life partner.
 8- Personality disorders and their role in dysfunctional couple relationships
 9- Four destructive communication styles and how to uncover them
 10- Resolving conflicts through Non-Violent Communication
 11- Sexuality a source of harmony or inharmony in the couple relationship
 12- Sex as a weapon
 13- Being faithful -- is it important?
 14- The victim and perpetrator cycle. How to counsel when there is domestic violence.
 15- Satisfaction with each other's role in the relationship. Is it fair?
 16- The search for intimacy
 17- Poor vs. rich verbal communication
 18- The relationship between verbal intimacy and sexual intimacy
 19- Common interests and how they can become a source of closeness or of competition and aggression.
 20- Expressions of affection and how to help the couple leave the coach's office in harmony
 21- Summary -- the six powerful tools of the couples coach and how to become skillful at them.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XII- HEALTHY ENJOYMENT OF THE SENSES VS SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY
 01- One of the most exciting areas to work? -- it depends
 02- Cooperating with evolution
 03- The nurse and neurofeedback
 04- Substance abuse as a spiritual accelerator
 05- The value of sensory pleasures to experience a healthy life
 06- Assessing for substance abuse and chemical dependency -- how much and how long.
 07- The holistic/wellness model -- four basic factors and the Psychology of Consciousness
 08- Attaining the first milestone -- letting go of denial and attaining sobriety.
 09- Substance abuse impact on the Life/Wellness Coaching process
 10- Low rate remission; an indication of serious failure in mainstream approaches to substance abuse
 11- Every client should be in the 12 step program?
 12- Substance abuse and nutritional deficiencies
 13- Nutritional interventions to correct deficiencies -- Mv Mm, D3, B12, Omega-3, Muti aminoacid, B1, B3, Vit C
 14- Niacin and Bill Wilson
 15- The power of company
 16- Impact on relationships
 17- The twelve step programs -- value and limitations
 18- Psychedelics in the treatment of substance abuse
 19- The addictive personality or the addictive brain? Balancing the neurotransmitters
 20- Is the addict a seeker?  Why Psychology of Consciousness can help immensely.
 21- Who should work in this field? How the call to work in this field, and in other fields manifests? Creating a recovery center?
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XIII- THE NEED FOR HEALING -- BRINGING BODY, BRAIN AND MIND BACK INTO BALANCE
 1- Healing and the four pillars of Wellness Coaching
 2- The nine fundamental rules of nutrition -- is your client  violating them?
 3- When the foundation is solid what can we do to trigger healing through natural substances
 4- Where we can find the best information online to heal every known and unknown disease
 5- Where to buy the best holistic manual to heal every known disease with natural substances
 6- How to buy an affordable health insurance, or how to feel safe without health insurance
 7- How to create a powerful affordable healing system at home based on nutritional medicine
 8- Where to buy the best nutritional supplements at a very reasonable cost and create a profitable business to help oneself at consolidating a Life Coaching practice.
 9- How to have access to excellent medical tests for little money
 10- Winning the battle of keeping body and brain free of contaminants, like heavy metals.
 11- The two best antibiotic created by nature - how to produce them at home and how to use them.
 12- Using effectively the power of suggestion to heal, and why it is so fundamental to never misuse it.
 13- How to practice preventive medicine at home
 14- Intentional Medicine -- the use of non-linear substances to attain healing at home
 15- How to get the best non-linear substances available today
 16- How to produce intentional substances
 17- Use of non-linear substances to free oneself from the root of all diseases -- spiritual ignorance
 18- Healing your pets -- preventing disease in your pets and healing them with natural, inexpensive, safe methods.
 19- The power of prayer to heal and how to use it
 20- Projecting energy through your hands
 21- Healing vs. teaching to take care of the body/mind organism.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XIV- IMPROVING SELF-CONCEPT A SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS
 
 
 01- What is the self-concept about -- just a basket of ideas about me?02- The impact of self-concept on happiness
 03- How psychotherapy helps at improving self-concept
 04- How Life Coaching does the job better and more efficiently. Affirmations while exercising
 05- Where is the self-concept located?
 06- What is the nature of the self-concept?
 07- If I am not what I think I am then what I am really?
 08- How the self-concept is created, how it evolves and when will it end?
 09- The self-concept inventory
 10- How to use it for oneself and clients
 11- Low, average and high self-concept
 12- Self concept versus self-esteem
 13- Self-concept vs. self-acceptance
 14- Controversial research on self esteem
 15- Accomplishments and self-esteem. The "I can't" is the greatest impediment
 16- Powerful impact of self-concept on our everyday life and in our level of success
 17- Is narcissim a good personality trait?
 18- Loving oneself unconditionally -- the Awakening of the heart center. The difference between compassion towards oneself and self-pity. Liking oneself with detachment (wisdom)
 19- How to improve the self-concept of your client in one session and with one intervention
 20- How to improve the self-concept of your client through a period of many sessions
 21- The power of the "I am this" affirmations.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XV- THE METAPHYSICAL PATH TO SUCCESS, THE MYSTICAL PATH TO SUCCESS AND THE WELLNESS PATH TO SUCCESS
 
 
 01- What is success really? Three healthy definitions, and how an unhealthy definition leads to disease, inauthenticity and failure
 02- The Wellness Path to Success -- four fundamental variables leading to health,  success and happiness.
 03- How to become a Wellness Coach
 04- The controversial Metaphysical Path to Success -- an ego centered approach.
 05- The Law of Attraction - thoughts, emotions & expectations control our energy field
 06- Point of attraction. How to raise our point of attraction
 07- Focusing our attention in the positive aspect of life
 08- Creating positive expectations
 09- The entitlement principle - "the couple that had different philosophies."  The limits of "her success."  An ego centered success is usually at the expense of others.
 10- How the quality of our thoughts create our own reality
 11- Scripting Technique - "an RV trip to Northern, CA and a visit to the court room"
 12- Pivoting technique
 13- The power of affirmations - "Divine protection." I am centered affirmations vs. "I-less" affirmations
 14- The power of "a simple reminder"
 15- Enjoying life by balancing the two lowest centers of Consciousness
 16- Becoming playful and how to attain it from a chemical perspective
 17- The "power of will power" -- action is indispensable and why not everyone has enough will power to attain success. What can be done about it?
 18- A friend in troubles -- when metaphysics becomes fanaticism
 19- Take the grains of sugar and leave the grains of sand.
 20- If you are really determined to move to the vehicle state you may consider stopping ALL manipulation. However, strengthening the ego has its place in the soul and personal development.
 21- Why for a Life Coach metaphysical tools are valuable and even necessary.
 
 i- Required homework
 ii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XVI- THE MYSTICAL PATH TO SUCCESS
 
 
 01- If you are really determined to move to the vehicle state you may consider stopping manipulation.02- Revisiting the characteristics of the Vehicle State - do you want it? Are you ready for it?
 03- Not leaving the metaphysical path on time leads to suffering. Vice-versa?
 04- Where can you get the proper training? Why is it difficult to get it?
 05- Success by becoming a philosopher -- "Bob's case."  How to avoid taking life too seriously, and how this attracts success
 06- Positive expectations versus no expectations
 07- The power of detached intention
 08- The Market Place Path vs. the Mountain Top Path
 09- Work vs. service and creativity
 10- Surrendering the fruit of our actions -- Why? How?  Is this your world?
 11- So what is success in the Mystical Path?  Surrender
 12- Why surrender is such a challenge?
 13- Surrender to what?
 14- From "God knows my needs" to "'That' knows the needs of this MBO."
 15- Making plans, establishing priorities, creating a rational schedule, doing our best, and then?
 16- What's the result of failing at the practical level?
 17- But, how will I survive?
 18- Dealing effectively with fear of scarcity from the Mystical Path to Success
 19- The mystical path does not deny the law of attraction. Does it make use of it? How?
 20- The value of a serviceful attitude and how it helps to attract success
 21- Balancing the 5th and 1st Centers of Consciousness.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XVII- HEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY
 
 
 01- What money is really
 02- What if I run out of money. How our relationship with money is controlled by fear. Can we picture a different relationship?
 03- Distorted beliefs about money promote fear, greed, violence, and abuse of the environment. All we need to do is to become aware of our subconscious beliefs and change them. Why this is the highest path instead of the path of "the secret on how to become millionaire?
 04- The money I make in life depends on my efforts to make money
 05- My money = my worth?
 06- Money is not success, but... Defining success for yourself
 07- Should I really charge for my services if I am a spiritual person?
 08- Do I need money to be happy? How much?
 09- There are seven types of success -- can you have them all?
 10- Why the ego can't succeed really at becoming a millionaire. The amount of money you will make in life is predetermined?
 11- What would be the implications of "the I an illusion?"
 12- Demands vs requests to the universe. The Universe knows the needs of this MBO. Then, is your survival guaranteed? Humbling the Ego vs. strengthening the ego
 13- Dealing successfully with a stressful financial situation -- a passage to the victor state
 14- Consciousness knows my needs, or, it is just taking care of itself?
 15- What do I do with my wants. Being a loving parent to your body and inner child.
 16- Authentic desires are an expression of the Divine
 17- Healing our relationship with money, requires us looking into the programs of our family of origin.
 18- Money as "not my business." Money as a "non-issue."  Can I "forget money."
 19- Wise use of money vs. reckless use of money
 20- Do you still need to deal with negative thoughts about your future income?
 21- Risking money in a business adventure -- pros and cons.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XVIII - THE POWER OF OPEN ATTENTION. THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER IN HEALING AND PURSUE OF HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS. AN INTRODUCTION TO  PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 01- Healing takes place in the Tree of Life -- The Seven Centers of Consciousness
 02- Molecular approach, energy approach, psychological approach and spiritual approach to healing.
 03- Paying attention and concentration
 04- Concentration and success
 05- The fortunate experiment that lead to an extraordinary scientific discovery
 06- Narrow focus vs. open focus -- "walking in the jungle."
 07- Flexible Focus
 08- Why narrow focus can produce chronic stress. Why worrying is so destructive to the organism?
 09- How our society is coping with narrow focus
 10- Is it working?
 11- What happens when we get stuck in narrow focus -- how this can happen as a result of thinking about duties all the time
 12- How even the spiritual path can lock the seeker in narrow focus
 13- Do we need narrow focus at all?
 14- Substances that narrow the focus and substances that open the focus. Is it legitimate to use them? Why substances that open the focus are persecuted by the establishment.
 15- Why to attain a balance of narrow and open focus every day is fundamental and how to do it. Why learning to move from narrow focus to open focus in an instant may be the ultimate skill.
 16- Left and right brain types and their respective attention styles
 17- How to attain and cope with narrow focus when you are a right brain type.
 18- Is it possible to attain material and vocational success without narrow focus?
 19- Narrow Focus Meditation
 20- Open Focus Meditation
 21- What Open Focus teaches us about "what we really are." Moving from the conceptual, memory based "I" to your real Self.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XIX- FIRST CLASS ON HOW TO CREATE A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN LIFE/WELLNESS COACHING
 
 
 01- Do you feel entitled to success? -- from I am not entitled to I am entitled, to unconcerned. 02- Do you have the patience?
 03- Why are you willing to go through all these troubles? Managing your time? Potential for big money?, Choose the work you do? Work from home? Do you feel a call?
 04- Competing with the mainstream -- is it possible?
 05- Do I have the computer skills necessary to succeed? If I don't what can I do?
 06- Do I have the computer system necessary to succeed -- why the investment is relatively insignificant
 07- Selecting your computer system wisely
 08- Why two computers
 09- Back up system -- the importance of protecting your data
 10- The paramount importance of your internet network -- how this determines where you will live.
 11- Defining your services and products is key to success
 12- How to present your self-improvement products in the best light and where
 13- Why a website is fundamental
 14- Creating vs. maintaining your web-site
 15- Where does your website lead?
 16- A business is basically a list of customers?
 17- Creating your email list
 18- Online e-mail list managing programs - MailChimp and others
 19- How many will open your mail?
 20- Using mailing lists from online newsletters
 21- The mail client program -- your most powerful marketing and administrative tool?
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XX- 2ND CLASS ON HOW TO CREATE A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN LIFE/WELLNESS COACHING
 
 
 01- Using the customers of other companies, then your business must be based on solid products. 02- Monetizing your web-site -- how to do it
 03- Defining the level of success you want to attain, will determine your marketing strategy.
 04- Defining your calendar of activities -- workshops, classes, counseling sessions, etc
 05- Defining your marketing plan -- what you must include if you want to succeed today
 06- Determining your fees for services - the law of demand and supply vs the snob effect.
 07- What is there for me?
 08- Online marketing and the social networks
 09- Why non-regulated professions like Life Coaching need to reclaim the market.
 10- Testimonials
 11- Administration -- basic principles to be effective at managing you business
 12- The systems approach to efficiency and growth
 13- Making good use of your computer guy -- is fundamental for your business
 14- Emails efficiency vs. phone efficiency
 15- Voice mail efficiency and protecting your time
 16- The paramount importance of logistics
 17- How to write an email that sells
 18- Branding
 19- Paypal, credit card terminal vs. a virtual terminal.
 20- Creating a contract -- always work in progress
 21- Renting an office vs. working from home -- other alternatives.
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 
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 XXI- THE LIFE TRANSFORMING POWER OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE IS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE
 
 
 01- An explosion of enthusiasm
 02- What happens in the brain when you do physical exercise?
 03- Your neurotramitters and physical exercise
 04- Depression, anxiety, Alzheimer's and physical exercise -- as prevention and treatment
 05- Being in shape vs out of shape -- enlightening research and how to apply it to our life
 06- Sports Psychology and Sports Psychology Principles -- one of the most effective and practical psychologies available today
 07- The fundamental principle of sport psychology - Trash the "I can'ts"
 08- The pivoting approach to the thinking process and the use of affirmations
 09- Nutrition and physical exercise
 10- How to be a leader and the power of example
 11- Overcome your fears and notice how you feel when you finally overcome a fear - fear of heights, water, animals, confrontation, public speaking,
 12- Work out your negative emotions. Set backs - discouragement vs. a new action plan
 13- Self-image: feeling proud of oneself and feeling that you are beautiful
 14- Include adventure in your life
 15- Self-discipline and happiness. Finishing what we started
 16- The psychology of the victim. Dealing with excuses. The role of the trainer
 17- The psychology of injuries and how to deal with them. The psychology of pain -- recommended literature and TV show.
 18- The sitting position and disease. Why going to the gym at the end of the day does not work in this case. What can be done that really works.
 19- Simple exercises that can save our ife -- benefits to different systems in the body
 20- What about yoga? What about walking? What about stretching? What about throat and tongue exercises? What about biking? How many times a week?
 21- Weight loss without physical exercise?
 i- Required homeworkii- Recommended homework
 iii- Recommended literature
 Other topics -- related to these subjects -- may be covered during the classes. 
 Course Length: 42 weeks or 21 weeks in the accelerated format
 
 
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