The course gives you the ability to access a new and creative perspective on things at any moment, no matter what is actually happening at the time. It also teaches you the skills to repeat this shift again and again in daily life, long after the course is over.



The course teaches you a series of process skills with specific applications, and each one gives you an opportunity to experience a shift of perspective on everyday life whenever it is used. They include the following:

• Strengthening the will - an exercise of personal discipline in which you give your word to do (or not do) a variety of things during the course. Allows you to see the pattern of your unconscious thinking, and step through it to create what you really want.
• Expanding your personal authority - a process that allows you to take a stand on your true 'yes' or your true 'no' at key moments in your life, without disconnecting from yourself or others.
• Truth-telling - the process of verifying your interpretations of events and clarifying the truth of what is happening, as it happens.
• Choosing - the practice of taking your stand on the way you personally want to be in your life, whatever the circumstances around you.
• Challenging old beliefs - a biodynamic physical exercise that enables you to break free of limiting beliefs you may have been holding about yourself and life.
• Practicing forgiveness - demonstrates why resentment affects us more than those we resent, and teaches you an effective way to let go of it.
• Forgiving ourselves - a way to access accusations and demands you may be holding against yourself, and experience the freedom of letting them go.

The More To Life course teaches a unique set of tools and skills that help you access a creative vision that is beyond the everyday, yet is grounded in everyday reality.

It is an interactive training that works simultaneously on intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical levels, so you not only experience the tools but can continue to use them yourself over time after the course is over.

The course is non-doctrinal and does not teach a belief system. It is intended to help you see and understand guiding beliefs you already unconsciously hold, and either choose to let these go, or stand more solidly for them as you truly wish to do.



The course was created by its two co-founders to teach the skills and practices they had developed through their own work in pastoral counseling and psychotherapy. The result is a uniquely practical blend of psychological tools and traditional teachings.

Each More To Life Trainer brings their own personal learning to the course, and because the work is interactive, the participants themselves also make a significant contribution to the experience of each group.

The course is sponsored by a non-profit organization constituted for the public good. The constitution prohibits any private individual from benefiting from its income or its assets.



The More To Life course is self-contained and you do not have to do anything further to follow it up. However support is available to those who want it after the weekend as are a set of audio-tapes that summarize the tools and skills you have learned.

There is also an advanced program which supports those who want to become more skilled with the tools of the course. They are based on the same basic practices taught in the More To Life course, but focus on specific areas of our lives.



Most of the basic learnings of this course are also taught in small classes over six separate three-hour sessions. The benefit of an intensive weekend format is that you experience more continuity and can thus work at greater depth.

Each person who takes the course gets something different out of it and the course is designed to allow you to get this in your own way and at your own pace. The atmosphere is safe, supportive, intimate and often great fun.

Participants frequently say that no one who has not yet done the course can imagine just how much they can get out of it. The skills you acquire can be used every day for the rest of your life.



We all have something to learn from our experience of life, and this course helps to deepen and accelerate the process.

You don’t have to lack anything to want to enhance the quality of your life. It is when we are learning and growing that we find ourselves most fully creative and alive.



The More To Life course may help enhance your spiritual understanding of life but is designed to do so without being religious.

People of many different faiths as well as people without particular faith consistently find its practices are congruent with their beliefs.



Course fees are subsidized by donations from sponsors. As a result this course costs less than any comparable business training, and most leading personal development courses.

No financial commitment is required other than the course fee, although participants are invited to contribute toward the sponsorship of future participants if they choose.



This is a different way of being with others than most people have ever experienced. It can be a treat to discover just how sensitive and loving people really are.

No one has to say anything at any time, and you only speak if and when you want to. Some people never speak themselves, but get a great deal out of their experience. In part this is because others often come up with the very thing you have been experiencing or are needing to hear about.

Having a range of different kinds of experiences in the group helps verity the truth of what is being said. Having a range of different experiences also helps ground the process in the reality of our social lives. People often make very good friends on the More To Life course.

Remember it is OK to feel anxious. You can still benefit from the experience, including overcoming some of your fears.



Most of us have lots to do which means we don't often spend time on our own self development, even though it can greatly benefit those we relate to and care for.

There may always seem to be a better time to do it just around the corner. A good question to ask is: can you remember what you were doing this weekend, a year ago?

Time invested in the More To Life course can continue to pay dividends for years. Participants often describe it as the being most valuable single weekend of their lives.