Do you want to learn to be happier?
Are you afraid of being hurt in relationships?
Are you concerned about current or future health issues?
Are finances and money a plaguing concern?
Do you have issues regarding sexuality or gender identity?
If you answered yes to any of the above, it’s time to consider your options.
The Option Process Dialogue, used for more than four decades, is a highly respectful and effective system of questions asked with a non-judgmental and non-directive attitude. This process builds on the legacy of the Greek philosopher Socrates, who used probing questions to challenge his students to discover their own answers. Today, our counselors work with participants worldwide to help them uncover and eliminate self-defeating beliefs and attitudes that fuel their discomfort, distress and self-limiting behaviors. The dialogue puts you, the explorer, in the directorial position to guide your own journey and determine your own destination. In effect, it allows us to change the way we think and, thereby, change the way we feel and act. This inevitably results in increased self-trust, self-empowerment, happiness and clarity as well as a creating a renewed sense of purpose (living our lives on our own terms), passion, and optimism. This truly is the ultimate tool for personal change.
No matter where you are located, all of these sessions can be done via Zoom and other video platforms or over the phone, from the intimacy and comfort of your own home or office. In addition to having your own individual private session, dialogues can also be scheduled for couples, family members, co-workers, or others participating in a continuing relationship.
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Getting Started
You can schedule an individual session or packages with Option Institute Certified Mentors (packages of four and more are offered at a 10% reduction). Individual dialogues can also be scheduled with the institute’s founders. If this process is new to you, there are a number of resources available for you to learn about the Option Process (in advance of doing dialogues if you want). These resources will also explain just how impactful dialogues can be to help you dramatically improve your outlook, and life experiences. | PowerDialogues:PowerDialogues is the most readable, useful, and comprehensive guidebook to date on the Option Process® Dialogue. As a landmark book for thousands of people around the world, it offers a unique, simple, and effective tool for personal growth. It is now being used, as well, by helping professionals as a cutting-edge adjunct to many educational, therapeutic, and spiritual traditions. |
 | Giant Steps:This book illustrates the powerful, life-changing Option Process® Dialogue in action. With a caring and loving hand, Barry Neil Kaufman takes us on a very intimate journey with the young people he has helped during critical challenges in their lives (a dying parent, divorce, abortion, sexuality issues, learning disabilities, addiction et al.). |
 | To Love Is To Be Happy With:This best-selling book, which details the principles and applications of The Option Process® and how dialogues can be used to understand and unscramble life’s major issues. |
Read Reviews
I love the Option Process Dialogue! I’ve come to understand myself and why I do the things I do. My very first Dialogue with an Option Process Mentor saved my marriage! Today, I’m so much happier and more relaxed. Every part of my personal and professional life has been improved through the Dialogue.
Ronda F.
Movie Theater Owner, PA
I feel so blessed to have found the Option Process Dialogue. To achieve such miraculous and lifelong changes from such a subtle and gentle process, has been a wonderful revelation to me. The love and acceptance l felt taught me that there is an easy and wondrous way to grow comfortably, I now feel such a profound sense of peace, safety and security within myself thanks to the dialogues.
Guy B.
Company Director, Kenya
I just finished doing a dialogue and, as so often happens, I felt a sense of gratitude towards you and the great work that you and the Institute have done sharing The Option Process with the world. I often think of you, Bears, and Samahria with deep gratitude. This time I am glad to actually express it to you. Thank you, thank you! My whole life has been change tremendously because of your work and these dialogues.
Isis Maria C.
Human Services, New York
The private dialogue session was the most wonderful and meaningful experience of my life. I feel different, happy, as though a tremendous weight has been lifted from my shoulders. What a pleasure!
Eric S.
Businessman, New Jersey
I came to the Option Institute feeling I was a failure, and that I hadn’t succeeded in so many areas in my life. I would literally shake at the thought of speaking in public and used to talk myself out of jobs before I’d even gone for the interview – a classic case of self-sabotage. Oh, how I have blossomed! I have never in my whole life felt so sure of myself and I believe I can be anything I want to be. I now know I am a fantastic mother/daughter and using the Option Process Dialogues I really love myself and who I’ve become.
Vicki M.
Registered Nurse, Scotland
I have been doing Option Process Dialogues regularly for a year now, and today I can say that I am confident and depression free! It did not matter how much of a mess I was, how morbid I felt, or how dark my thoughts were, my mentor invariably listened to me, and I felt accepted and understood. I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to do dialogues and get really sharp and helpful questions that are a real gift to me.
Charlotte S.
Singer, Switzerland
For the first time, I now feel in control of my emotions. With the Option Process Mentor/ Counselor asking me gentle questions, I was able to unravel my feelings concerning the past and move forward with a new freedom I’d never before experienced! I continue to use the dialogue with myself and have adopted the attitude of a Mentor in my work as a dyslexia consultant. It allows clients, and particularly their parents, to resolve the negative feelings they sometimes have about their dyslexia – and move forward in a more positive way.
Joe B.
Dyslexia Consultant, United Kingdom
It never ceases to amaze me how much I discover about how I operate in my life. Each time I come closer and closer to being who I really want to be in my life by truly getting to know myself on a cellular level. By giving myself the gift of these unique dialogues, I now know how to address the discomforts in my life, no matter what the stimulus.
Denise D.
Lawyer, Ireland
A dialogue is like taking a deep breath into making my life more oxygenated, free and happy. During each session, I am asked non-directive questions and my role is to decide, step-by-step, which door inside myself I wanted to open. With each answer, a thousand other possibilities appear to me, where, previously, there had been many dead-ends.
Ana Karine B.
Government Advisor Brazil
Through carefully chosen exercises, both experiential and thought-provoking, I allowed myself to discover the roots of dozens of issues that have burdened me for years. The dialogue puts in place a mechanism (tool) that makes my therapy sessions back home look quite ridiculous. I am challenging old beliefs so rapidly now that I often notice I’m walking around smiling a broad smile while even alone.
Nancy H.
Artist, Pennsylvania
A journey to a different mind-set, so reachable it’s mind-boggling. To think peace of mind is so possible is exhilarating.
Dorothy G.
Psychiatrist, Massachusetts
This is the first time I have been given a practical down-to-earth method, through dialogues, to get what I’ve always wanted – a fully present, highly functioning, centered and genuinely happy me. I strongly believe there is no greater gift you can give yourself, than the gift of an Option Institute experience and an Option Process Dialogue.
Rosanne N.
Realtor, Connecticut