Invitation to Change
Over the past 35 years, the Option Institute® has helped thousands of people live their very best life – heightening day-to-day happiness, deepening their closest relationships, increasing inner strength and personal effectiveness, and overcoming life’s biggest challenges. Our unique workshops and individual support services have helped people to master issues that have plagued them for years.
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The Option Institute employs more than seventy full-time staff members. Our staff bring together diverse backgrounds and broad reaching experience within the fields of education, health, human behavior, applied science, the arts, and corporate and entrepreneurial business. Their unique knowledge and expertise help drive our initiatives forward.
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Upcoming Featured Program
Inner Strength Boot Camp
Ultimate Training for Unshakable
Emotional Well-Being
March 8 – 17, 2020
Welcome to the fitness program for your heart, mind, and
emotional well-being. We’re all familiar with the term “boot camp.” An intensive, no-holds-barred, all-out, 8-cylinder experience where participants walk through the fires of deep personal challenge. And, in the end, they have rebuilt themselves into something – someone – vastly stronger and more powerful.
Inner Strength Boot Camp takes this concept deeper. In truth, we can go through an “outer” strength boot camp, but no amount of physical exercise prepares us for the heavy lifting we face in our lives – financially, with our health, in our relationships, and within our careers
Upcoming Featured Program
Fearless
Move Past Your Fears
April 13 – 17, 2020
Most discomfort can be traced back to fear, whether it’s fear of pain, rejection, failure, punishment, or loss. Perhaps you have daily, crippling fear and the world seems like a scary and dangerous place. Or perhaps, like many of us, fear only crops up in certain situations. No matter your level of fear, the bottom line is this: fear gets in the way of you being happy and healthy, and undermines your ability to be effective in your relationships, at work, and more.
People may tell you that fear is inevitable or even necessary in order to take care of yourself. In this course, we’ll show you that while fear is, indeed, a way you take care of yourself, it’s neither inevitable nor necessary, and certainly not the most effective way to do so! We’ll teach you tools and techniques that enable you to easily dissolve your fears and keep from having them in the first place! You’ll approach life with comfort and confidence, and experience a sense of personal empowerment and ease.
If there were a Nobel Prize for love, I’d want the Kaufmans to be the first to receive one.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Author, Excuses Begone!
Barry Neil Kaufman’s work is the science of love, compassion, and insight which will transform the world.
Deepak Chopra
Author, Quantum Healing
The Option Institute programs are life changers. The Option Institute provides a warm, safe place to dive in, explore, and learn to understand who you are, why you do what you do, how to make changes happen in your life, how to love. Everyone can benefit from the universal and timeless messages taught here.
Noreen C.
Nutritionist, Ireland
Coming to Optimal Self-Trust I was at a point in my life where I had some serious decisions to make and a great degree of difficulty in sorting out the best choices to make for myself. Three days into the program, every issue was resolved. I emerged feeling empowered, grounded and filled with energy and love. This program enabled me to sort out some key beliefs for myself, leaving me with a joyful sense of utter happiness and absolute confidence that I will embark on the rest of my life’s wondrous journey, with Optimal Self-Trust, optimal self love, and to really take personal responsibility for all I am and all I do.
Bente Spissoy
Senior Analyst, Norway
I had been depressed for 20 years, with only some minor relief using medications. I was at rock bottom, my marriage had broken up, and I thought and wished that my life was over. I decided to attend an Option Institute weeklong program and did four Option Process® Dialogues right before the program — my depression was already lifting. By the third day of the program when asked about my depression, I calmly exclaimed, ‘What depression!’ This has been the best week of my life.
Tom Cunningham
C.P.A., Virginia
I came to the Option Institute dragging my past and wanting someone to fix me. Each course that I have taken has helped me get in touch with a piece of myself. I am now waving my arms in the air and so happy to be alive knowing that my “fix-it kit” is right inside me! I can take this knowledge with me everywhere I go. Deep, deep gratitude to all the spectacular teachers.
Gerty Handelman
Retired, Canada