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Grand Summer Sequence
A summer vacation… that lasts a lifetime. The five week adventure of your life – or a one week program or a package of summer programs.
Have you ever wished that you could take the time to really figure out what you’re about? To stop everything – even for just a week or two – and sort through who you are and what you want to do with your life? Maybe you’ve already tried, spending time and money to get away from it all, only to return home and find after three days that, well… nothing’s really changed!
Grand Summer Sequence provides the perfect opportunity to both get away from it all, and to totally reconstruct yourself from the inside out, deeply examining and retooling every aspect of your life. The depth of personal discovery and change is without equal, and an uninterrupted sequence provides an intensified and enhanced learning experience. Add to this the beauty and splendor of summer in the Berkshires, and you have a perfect environment for rejuvenation, reflection, growth and friendships that’ll last far beyond the time you spend here.
Grand Summer Sequence offers you choices from an á la carte menu of training courses or the benefit of five weeks of continuous learning. Choose either PowerDialoguesSM or Optimal Self-Trust. In PowerDialogues, you’ll acquire skills to uncover and overcome self-limiting beliefs that fuel discomfort and unhappiness. Or, in Optimal Self-Trust, you’ll develop an amazing capacity to make spot-on choices that are totally in line with what you want from life. In the two-week Inner Strength, you’ll become indestructible from the inside out, developing an infinite capacity to achieve anything you set your mind to. In Radical Authenticity, you’ll learn how to claim, trust and be your real self – without embarrassment or regret. And, in Calm Amid Chaos, you’ll develop a foundational system of interlocking beliefs that make you unshakeable in the face of adversity and challenge.
Grand Summer Sequence offers you personal choices from an á la carte menu of summer programs. But, by choosing more than one program or the complete sequence, you’ll enjoy highly rewarding savings of up to $2,385 on your total tuition fees! Call us for package prices. And the full five week sequence is the perfect prerequisite for advanced trainings such as Mentor Certification, Group Facilitation Training, or Wide Awake.
You may be at a decisive moment, or a crossroad. You may be mid-career, considering changing jobs and lifestyle, or an empty nester seeking inspiration and clarity on your next great adventure. Whatever your personal agenda, come and spend time with us in one of America’s most beautiful, pastoral summer settings redesigning yourself and your life.
Inspiring Stories
The opportunity to work on myself straight through the Grand Summer Sequence has made all the difference in my self-confidence and clarity of purpose. I now know who I am and what I want my life to be about. Wow! I would never have gotten there without immersing myself into these transformative programs, delivered with such love, personal support and extraordinary insightfulness.
Shayu Talbot, Community Service Professional, Canada
"I felt I had lost sense of who I really was when I came to The Option Institute. My whole life had shifted and everything was up for re-evaluation. My previous attempts to escape my situation to "find myself," such as taking vacations to "get away" from my life, were fun for the moment, but nothing ever really changed. I wanted more for myself! Grand Summer Sequence was the most amazing six weeks of my life! It was like summer camp for adults, or maybe more like, boot-camp for the mind. The uninterrupted sequence of programs gave me time to do much more than scratch the surface. I was able to deeply and clearly decide who I was and what I wanted from life. And the changes that I made actually stuck! I stretched myself and lived with complete authenticity in a way I never imagined I could. I am now a profoundly different person than I was before, and I will keep what I’ve learned and accomplished here alive for the rest of my life.
Julia Dougherty, Consultant, California
Grand Summer Sequence has been FANTASTIC, AMAZING, and WONDROUS for me! I arrived battling clinical depression – but no longer. I arrived feeling cut off from my heart – but no longer. I arrived feeling uncomfortable about sex – but no longer. I leave with a bounce in my step, love in my heart, and the tools to maintain both. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Paul Weichselbaum, Management Consultant, Massachusetts
Grand Summer Sequence, was the most incredible experience of my life. Besides days filled with laughter and hugs and love, I have changed myself in so many ways. I came here with rules and restrictions and rights and wrongs - with needing others approval and input. I leave that all behind now. I walk through the world with endless amounts of self trust and acceptance, feeling liberated. With this freedom I am able to be more clear, to go for what I want in life, be empowered, take a stand and create exactly the life I want to have. GSS has facilitated this change and I am forever grateful."
Elena Caffentzis, Speech-Language Pathologist, New York
Prior to Grand Summer Sequence I’d taken some one week programs that helped me make real progress, but I had a sense that I could move faster and make bigger gains if I could take multiple programs back to back. Specifically, I wanted clarity regarding what I really believed and how I functioned to help me achieve my goals of being happier, more at ease, more energized and empowered to not only pursue my dreams, but to also achieve them. GSS had a profound impact on my life. Most significantly I got real clarity about what I believe and how I function. I came to understand I was defensive and resistant to change because I held deep beliefs that I was broken and flawed. During GSS, I was finally able to make peace with the whole of my being by deeply accepting myself. GSS allowed me to really solidify and fortify my new inner wisdom and to learn how to continue to grow that wisdom in powerful new ways for myself. Where before I was not able to be authentic in relationships for fear of the consequences, now I am able to be totally authentic and go for the relationship that I really want—something amazing. From a career standpoint, I used to people-please, always saying ‘yes’, even if it was something I didn’t want or didn’t agree with. No more of that! And it has made an incredible difference. Trusting my inner voice now, I only take jobs I truly want and am much more successful as a result. As a bonus, during GSS I made a handful of life-long friends I talk with regularly. We still reflect back on our programs together and support and encourage each other in the dreams and goals we each established for ourselves during that amazing summer."
Dodge White, Entrepreneur, Washington
