The More To Life Weekend is made up of three kinds of activity: learning to use the tools and skills of the course, practicing them in your course journal, and learning from experiences shared by your fellow participants. The course is designed to build over time, each step taking you forward to a deeper level of understanding. You have time to talk, time to reflect, time to share with others, and time to listen. Above all, you have time to learn from what happens.

The theory of the course is based on the observation that when we are able to creatively choose our response to what is happening, we see life in a different way compared with our state of mind when we are stressed, driven, or struggling to get things under control. This way of being is more common than you might think: EEG measurements of brain patterns show we are typically in a driven state for most of our waking day. The main skill taught in the training is the ability to shift your state whenever you choose, and encounter the vision of life this gives rise to.

The first exercise of the course involves a set of agreements which you use as disciplines throughout the weekend. Some of these are designed to help with practical matters like communicating during the course though all have value as a practice of personal discipline. The exercise allows you to start noticing your unconscious habits of thinking, and develops your ability to align your everyday actions with your deeper purposes. Further exercises show you how to bring forward your personal authority in a new way, clarify repetitive thoughts and assumptions, challenge limiting beliefs about yourself, and practice forgiveness toward yourself and others.

During the course you will have a chance to think thoughts and feel feelings you may not have felt for years, and an opportunity to explore your life experiences in a safe, non-judgmental and supportive atmosphere. You will explore new qualities in yourself, and may find new trust in others. You will learn ways to let go of old beliefs and old hurts that may have been bothering you for years. You will identify habitual ways of seeing that were formed in childhood, and learn to shift into a different way of being, based on your ability to objectively verify interpretations of any situation and connect with your most creative response at the time.

Each of the exercises of the course offers you the chance to experience this shift for yourself, and you will be able to recreate it again and again after the course is over, whenever you choose to put the tools into practice. The course is complete in itself and follow-up formats are provided for those who want to use them, with a free set of audio tapes that summarize all the tools and skills you have learned.