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Living the Dream
Have you ever wished you could take a "time out" - just stop everything to sort through who you are and what you want out of your life? Maybe you're facing retirement but aren't quite sure what you'll do or how to find and live the life you've dreamed of and worked hard for. Perhaps you're in between jobs not feeling confident that you even want to go back to your same career. Imagine finding your own answers in a summer of self study in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
With all of the challenges that life throws our way, the idea of Living The Dream – your dream – can seem distant.
Living The Dream Experience means deeply examining and retooling every aspect of your life so that you can wring every drop of personal happiness and accomplishment from the time you have on this earth. It doesn't have to be distant, and it doesn't have to remain a wish.
This is something you can do for yourself now – to take one meaningful summer and make changes that serve you for the rest of your life. The Living The Dream summer program package is the ultimate get-away, get centered opportunity. The depth of personal discovery and change is without equal.
The uninterrupted sequence of 4 programs over the course of 5 weeks results in an intensified, enhanced learning experience that is far in excess of taking 4 programs individually. The consecutive weeks work synergistically to provide you with the opportunity to make the kind of leaps experienced by those who take 10 programs. Why? Imagine being able to continuously peel away the layers of an onion (that’s you!) without distraction and without starting over. Think about it: Every Monday, you will be picking up from where you left off on the Friday before, so that your journey continues unabated.
Each program builds upon the one before, moving from the fundamentals of The Option Process® Dialogue or self-trust to building deep inner strength to answering life's crucial questions to going for (and getting) what you want.
For those of you with the dream of becoming a Certified Option Process Mentor/Counselor, the Living The Dream Experience is composed of key pre-requisites for the Mentor Certification program held each January.
Add to this the splendor of summer in the Berkshires, and you have the perfect environment for rejuvenation, reflection, growth and lasting friendships.
When you take our Living The Dream Experience summer program package, your 5 weeks of continuous learning includes:
- Week 1: Optimal Self-Trust, PowerDialoguesSM
- Week 2 and 3: Inner Strength
- Week 4: Who Are You & What is Your Purpose?
- Week 5: Empower Yourself
Note: You may choose the benefit of the entire Living The Dream Experience sequence or you may choose any one or more of the above programs on an á la carte basis.
By choosing more than one program or the complete sequence of programs as a package, you can secure financial assistance to reduce the combined tuition fees! Call one of our Program Counselors to discuss your program selections and package prices.
Inspiring Stories
I took Living the Dream summer sequence in 2001 and changed myself so dramatically that people who knew me from my past didn't even recognize me. If you change the way you think (especially about yourself) by changing beliefs that are limiting, then you change how you walk through the world. make your dream a reality...
Nancy Barnes Haas, Pennsylvania
The opportunity to work on myself straight through the Living the Dream 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! Living the Dream 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
Living the Dream 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
Living the Dream, 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. Living the Dream has facilitated this change and I am forever grateful."
Elena Caffentzis, Speech-Language Pathologist, New York
Prior to Living the Dream 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. Living the Dream 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 Living the Dream, I was finally able to make peace with the whole of my being by deeply accepting myself. Living the Dream 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 Living the Dream 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
