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The Advanced Course further enquires into BE.ing transformational in one's life. It was a four day course up until 2002, now goes for three days and as per other courses there's an evening session to bring guests.

When I worked for Landmark my spiel was, wow, if you thought the Forum was mindblowing, wait til you get into the Advanced Course, that's the only reason there's a Forum... to get people ready for the technology of the Advanced Course.   It's designed to blow your story apart!

A place where people get to tell their story over and over and over again, until it can be read like a saga... like a mills and boon drama with YOU as the star.   Takes a while. Some people love their story so much that they tell it for hours while the person in front of them almost falls asleep (me). A paired sharing exercise that gets to the source of an act decided by a 3 year old. When the story can be heard as a drama it loses it's power, when it loses it's power another story can be created.... an inspiring, powerful story filled with possibility.

Which is what each person gets to create, a possibilty, a newly created place to step into... one that's created on the spot in front of everyone in the course. Nerve wracking and scary, the moment of declaration in the Advanced Course is one I'll never forget.... the first time I stood up in front of a group and bared my soul. I declared myself the possibility of energy and gave up being 'evil'.... at that time there was a way of being to give up, now there's an act that participants give up.

"BE.ing with" is a powerful exercise where each row of people takes their turn to stand at the front of the room and openly look into the eyes of other participants.   Without normal defence mechanisms people can connect and notice thoughts as thoughts... fascinating exercise. People visibly look different afterwards, defense mechanisms completely disappear along with wrinkles lines of worry.

Life as a conversation is more thoroughly enquired into... why is it that some people 'live on' forever and others disappear.. what gives substance to our existence, and is it possible to alter the conversation of ones life? The curriculum for living says yes, it's simply a matter of getting to the source of the conversation one is participating in, and then writing the story, or being the author of the story one wants to live into.

It was the first time I thought of living to the age of 120... and what I'd be saying about my life. Sometimes I wish I hadn't participated in this Education, better not to think about it... 'cos once I did think about it I started to have big dreams. Excerpts of the film Ghandi were shown during the courses up until 2002. I don't know what happens during the courses offered now, maybe the technology has changed. The intention of the curriculum was, to lead a powerful life and live it powerfully.

Self Expression and Leadership is the place where stories are dismantled in reality. The program goes for 12 classrooms and 3 Saturdays, and participants give life to a project that expresses their self. For a lot of people it's their first experience of having a coach.... although the forum and advanced course is really a 3 day (and one evening) coaching session.