Hi. I thought this was worth documenting. This weekend just gone by, I attended a seminar with Melee. It was a 3 day course.
I attended 2/3 days of the Break Through to Success seminar. Work got in the way of day 1, so my first day at the seminar was Saturday, but Melee started on Friday afternoon and left the same time as I did on Sunday. The seminar was hosted by Universal Events.
The main speaker was Chris Howard. He struck me as well researched and well trained as a speaker in motivational, financial and personal growth areas. He told lots of life experiences and a bit of name dropping here and there. eg. Hanging out with Richard Branson, quoting The Secret, 7 Habbits, that Jewish Concentration Camp survivor book (ill remember the name later), Warren Buffet (spelling?) and provided lots and lots of testimonials.
During the seminar he works through a number of activities, looking at what you want in life, your life values, looking at your goals, techniques for goal setting, limitations you have set in your mind etc. Then he looks at ways to reprogram your brain to overcome the mental limitations, touches on rapport building techniques and ways to change your attitudes into positive ones. There are a bundle of topics but I just listed a few. As well as these techniques, his topics also provide a means to plug all his additional material and courses which, unlike this free seminar, cost money.
The focus visibly shifts to techniques in neurology midway through the course. Topics include NLP, imprinting, breaking through negative emotions, visualising your past present and future self in new constructive ways. After completing the tool of 'Anchoring' and applying this to ourselves, we are taken back to our goals and values again to see how these have changed as a result of the neurological tools we learned.
The style of presentation was high energy and typically 'American'. It reminded me of the modern day charismatic church style of content delivery. There was a clearly evident degree of hype that seemed to infect some of the audience who rushed to buy extra courses, cds and dvds whenever Chris mentioned the products and special deals.
I am definitely glad I went. It was very interesting. I had never been to anything like this before but having heard of Anthony Robbins, I had always wanted to go to something like this. I will document a review of sorts on my experience. My approach to the course was skeptical yet open minded I hope and my approach to writing the review is slightly cynical but fair I hope.
This is my summary. More to come...
