Master the Art & Science of Working with Individuals
Mentor Certification
Helping others
Are you a helping professional or teacher looking to enhance your capacity to support your clients or students? As a manager, would you like to help your employees work with greater ease and clarity? Are you seeking a new profession where you determine your own success and work in an environment of your choice while making a lasting difference in the lives of individuals around you?
In Mentor Certification, you値l gain mastery of The Option Processョ Dialogue, a proven, acclaimed technique that offers an unparalleled capacity to help individuals uncover and clarify limiting beliefs that cause undesired emotions and behaviors. You値l experience the exhilaration and delight of helping others become clear, confident and empowered in ways that exceed their expectations. You値l acquire extraordinary skills and techniques that will expand who you are and widen your impact in the world. Best of all, you値l establish a new frame of reference by which you view yourself and the world around - the capabilities used to help others will become invaluable in helping yourself.
In Mentor Certification you値l learn how to:
Employ a highly respectful and effective system of questions specifically designed to transform discomfort, distress and self-limiting behaviors into clarity, serenity and self-empowerment
Master and maintain an accepting, nonjudgmental and nondirective attitude that establishes an ideal context for others to understand, explore and change feelings, behaviors and beliefs
Remain relaxed, poised and comfortable regardless of the attitudes and challenges a client might bring to the table
Help clients, colleagues and friends uncover and change their beliefs, and through doing so, change the way they act and feel
Counseling for Self Help and Self Reliance: What you should expect?

The Mentor Certification Program is a four-week, non-stop, deep plunge into The Option Process Dialogue and into the depth that you are as an individual. You'll eat, drink, breath and even dream The Option Process Dialogue.
During the program you'll experience:
- Daylong and evening sessions, frequently mentoring two or more times per day
- Expert instruction from Option Institute Co-Founders Barry (Bears) Neil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufman, along with our world-class teaching team at The Option Institute
- A senior staff advocate and coach to help you stay motivated and empowered
- A highly skilled peer group dedicated to challenge and support you at every turn
- Private accommodations including all meals and laundry services
- A large group of motivated volunteers for daily mentoring practice
What Can You Do After Certification?
As a certified Option Process Mentor, you can:
- Help others using the same process and philosophy that has helped thousands to transform their lives
- Enhance your career with a wealth of new tools and skills
- Become an entrepreneur and establish a private practice
- Join our elite team of Option Process Teachers here at The Option Institute by pursuing Group Facilitation Training and Option Process Teacher Training
Many helping professionals, teachers, managers and consultants have taken their careers to new levels with the skills and attitudinal techniques acquired in Mentor Certification.Professional areas enhanced by the Option Process Dialogue include:
| Advocacy | Counseling with Juvenile & Adult Offenders | Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Aging / Gerontology | Crisis Intervention | Nursing |
| Assessment and Testing | Executive Coaching | Psychiatric Nursing |
| Athletic Coaching | Family Abuse | Personal Coaching |
| Bereavement Counseling | Guidance Counseling | Physician |
| Career Counseling | Health Counseling | Psychology |
| Case Management | Hospice Care | Psychotherapy |
| Child Abuse | Life Coaching | Physician |
| Children & Adolescents | Managed Care | School Counseling |
| Community & Agency Counseling | Management/Admin | Social Work |
| Conflict Resolution | Marriage & Family Counseling | Special Needs |
| Corporate Integration | Mediation | Substance Abuse Counseling |
| Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians | Medical Professionals | Union Representatives |
Other graduates of the Mentor Certification program choose the entrepreneurial path and establish their own private practice. As a private practitioner, you'll have the ability to work as your own boss in an environment of your choosing.
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