Core Transformation

This is a great place to start learning Core Transformation. You can transform your life just by reading the book and doing the exercises. Many people have done so already and written to us about how this book made a difference for them.

No matter what kind of personal transformation you want, Core Transformation can help. Whether you are looking to change unwanted habits, intrusive thoughts, or painful emotions, Core Transformation provides a gentle way to do so.

The book is available on Amazon and as an ebook on Amazon Kindle. You don’t need a Kindle device to read it electronically, just an app on your computer or smartphone.

If you want to see, hear, and experience the first steps of the Core Transformation process, then you can watch a free intro video with Tamara Andreas. Tamara co-wrote the book with Connirae Andreas, and helped develop the live training. So this is one of the best ways to get started to transform your life.

In the free intro video you’ll see a live demonstration of the process, learn about how it all works, and also get a taste of the experience for yourself.

You can watch the video at your convenience by signing up here.

The next step after taking the Foundation training is to practice the skills you have learned. Going through the exercises once is a great start, but to really get the skills, you need to do the drills. That’s the key to real personal transformation.

Finding people to practice with has never been easier with our  Core Transformation practice group. On Saturdays at 10am Denver time, join a Zoom meeting and pair up with someone to practice both guiding and experiencing. We’ll go through the same techniques as in the live training, so you can review these as many times as you need and want.

If you want to go further with Core Transformation, either for yourself or as someone who facilitates change for a living, the next step is to take the Advanced Core Transformation training.

Here you’ll learn how to modify the basic Core Transformation process to fit a wider variety of clients, as well as learn subtleties that give you more ability to get results. You’ll also get lots more experience being guided through it, which means more opportunity to experience your own personal transformation.

Core Transformation was developed by Connirae Andreas. She had had a profound experience of personal change from a visit with Milton Erickson, the world-famous hypnotherapist. In a group session with Dr. Erickson, she suddenly felt as if she was a completely different person. She was still herself, of course--and yet, her sense of being herself was totally different, in a very positive way.

While this experience was wonderful, and made a major difference in her life, over time the experience began to wane. And she didn’t know how to get it back, because Milton Erickson didn’t have a style of teaching people steps. So Connirae had a mission to discover how to regain the experience that she had had with Milton Erickson, and to help others have a similar experience.

This led to the development of Core Transformation. (For more details about the origin of Core Transformation, here’s an in-depth article.)

Because Connirae was already a leading developer in the field of NLP, she was able to draw on her unique skills to create a process that’s clear and precise. With Core Transformation, anyone can learn the steps to reach a profound sense of wellbeing! Core Transformation is a uniquely effective expression of the most useful aspects of Classical NLP, while going beyond the old models into new territory.

• The experience of doing Core Transformation feels deeply compassionate. It isn’t about inner struggle; instead, it’s an inner kindness.
• It’s a precise, step-by-step process that anyone can learn
• It isn’t about understanding our problems better. Instead, we transform them. Our actual experience changes, instead of just having new mental understandings.
• Instead of forcing ourselves to change, or using will-power, change happens easily, naturally, effortlessly.
• It’s effective with virtually any unwanted feeling, behavior, or thought pattern.
• Not only do we change patterns we don’t like, we also increase our ongoing sense of wellbeing. In other words, we aren’t just removing or cancelling out problems. We’re accessing a profound resource that many people even call “spiritual,” although no spiritual beliefs or goals are necessary.
• Core Transformation has a unique approach to goal-setting (or what’s called “personal outcomes” in NLP.) Instead of setting a goal from a limited conscious-mind perspective, with CT we can choose an outcome or a direction from the whole of our being. Sometimes, the goal ends up being the same. Other times, this “choice from the whole of our being” is even more congruent and satisfying than what we would have chosen from our conscious mind.
• Core Transformation has research that shows it works, not only to change problems, but also to enhance our ongoing sense of wellbeing.

Core Transformation has many keys to its effectiveness. One is that it has a unique approach to what is often called “resistance.”
With Core Transformation, we aren’t imposing anything on ourselves. Instead, we are exploring the deepest yearnings that emerge through the problem itself. Through a precise guided interview, we are able to reliably access profound inner resources that most people don’t even know exist.
In addition, objections to change are included in the process in a deeply compassionate, kind way, that leads to an effortless congruence. In other words, with CT, we never “bulldoze” through our inner objections to change. We don’t need to. Because the aspect of ourselves that’s objecting can be gently included in the process. Surprisingly, every objection has a valuable, profound gift to offer us. It’s a doorway to profound wellbeing. And through reaching this inner wellbeing, change happens easily, because there isn’t any sense of resistance any longer.
(Several other reasons for CT’s effectiveness are explained in our free Introductory training.)

The first step is to take Core Transformation Foundation, now available live online. This course is focused on personal transformation--however, it also teaches a foundation level of skills with Core Transformation. It’s an experiential course, so everyone gets to guide and be guided through the process.

The next training step is the Advanced Core Transformation. This training teaches advanced formats and important ways to modify the “universal script” to meet certain needs. It also teaches options that can increase effectiveness across the board with every client. And it includes practice sessions, of guiding and being guided through the process.

And the final step is the Core Transformation Coach Certification. This is a rigorous, in-depth training that can take skills with CT to a professional level. It includes multiple levels of practice and feedback.

Core Transformation has been used successfully many times, to change habits and addictions. Simple habits, such as nail-biting or over-eating a specific food, are often changed in one session or a small number of sessions.

Serious addictions, such as substance abuse, often requires advanced CT skills that are taught in Advanced Core Transformation and Core Transformation Coach Certification. Other qualifications that go beyond our trainings may also be necessary to address these issues (for legal reasons), in your location.

Our CT Foundation training includes hands-on exercises, so you are guided through the experience of Core Transformation. This training also gives you tools that you can use on your own

We recommend starting with a mild issue, such as an annoyance. Even working with something that seems trivial can reliably lead to a profound inner resource, such as a sense of presence, wellbeing, or oneness!

As you learn the process, you can move on to transforming medium or even very significant issues.

In addition, after doing the CT Foundation, many people participate in our CT Practice Group, to get even more experience with guiding and being guided through CT. And our advanced trainings also include an emphasis on personal transformation.

The book is an easy, inexpensive way to learn about CT. It includes many examples and other information that can be useful for understanding the process.

However, if you want personal transformation, there just isn’t any substitute for being guided through the process. That’s what you get in the live transformational trainings. In addition, skilled assistants are available to help with any challenges you may experience. And you have an opportunity to ask questions, to deepen your learning further.

First, here’s how Core Transformation is like other NLP methods--which we might call “Classical NLP.”

1. It’s effective.
2. It’s precise.
3. It goes beyond understanding problems, to actually changing them.

And here’s how CT is different from other NLP methods:

1. Core Transformation addresses every level of experience. It makes changes in:

1. 1. The “surface level”--behaviors, thoughts, and/or feelings
   2. The “belief level”--limiting beliefs that may have been causing the problem, such as a belief that I have to get other people’s approval in order to feel OK
   3. The “beingness level”--our sense of our very essence is transformed. This doesn’t mean we become somebody else. We’re actually tapping into our very own true inner nature, that’s an even better resource than anything else we could come up with. This allows us to have a greater and greater ongoing sense of wellbeing.
   4. Every other level--with CT, literally every aspect of our experience becomes infused with a profound wellbeing.
2. With Core Transformation, we set up the conditions that allow change to happen naturally, without any conscious imposing or “making things happen.” This may seem like a subtle difference. However, it’s actually a key to Core Transformation being so effective at deep level change.
3. With Core Transformation, we often reach outcomes that are even better than what a person consciously asked for. As an example, a person who wants to transform their anger may think consciously that just being calm would be a good outcome. However, through the CT process, a natural, respectful assertiveness may emerge if that’s the response that’s most congruent with them as a whole person.
4. There are other aspects of CT that are discussed in the free CT Introductory training.

Our certified CT coaches are listed here. They have all been through a rigorous, in-depth program, and have demonstrated effective CT skills. Feel free to contact more than one, or even schedule a session with more than one, to find a coach who resonates with you.

In addition, you could contact Andreas NLP to find out if any of us currently have room for a new client.