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Further details about Step 3

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2 or 3 day 
Weekend Intensive

followed by an Integration Plan 

Pros:

  1. Instantaneous relief.
  2. Plenty of breaks, flexible scheduling.
  3. Least total time, most effecive use of time.

Cons:

Benefits can be so dramatic you don’t feel you need your Integration Plan until it’s too late.

"Weekend Intensive" could mean 2 things:

Othewise identical to the 3-Day Weekend Intensive, this method takes 4 days instead of 3. That’s because it’s very important that you take a full day away from all other responsibilities anytime you’ve spent the previous day doing this reality-warping work.

In every other regard, it’s the exact same as the 3-Day Weekend Intensive, but instead of working with me Saturday, Sunday and Monday consecutively (for example), you’d do just Saturday and Sunday, twice.

That first Sunday, we take care of a good chunk of the homework that would otherwise have piled up for the Monday (“Day 3.”) So on both Sundays, I’d see you for 5 short, more spaced out appointments while you staycation at home. It’s really nice.

Just like the 3-day, it’s
followed by the Integration Plan.

This might well be the best way to do it. It depends on many factors, which I would inquire about/sense into in Steps 1 and 2 before making my recommendation and laying out your options.

Otherwise identical to the Double 2-Day Weekend Intensive. You reserve 3 days and 3 nights for this, and I spend about a 9-to-5 work-day of time with you, two-and-a-half days in a row.

In what amounts to an all-day session with breaks every half hour or so, we chip away at the 20 units of work that take about a half-hour each: 10 on day one, 10 on day two. 

Day 3 is five more spaced-out appointments, where you and I start you out on your Integration Plan together.

Day 3 could look like this:

? am                  Pour over the data, make findings
noon                                    Homework assignment
2 pm                                    Homework support call
4 pm         App tutorial, insight culmination + rest
6 pm                                            Closing celebration

Followed by the Integration Plan.

This is the way to do it if you don’t have much patience or trust, or if you simply enjoy deep-dives.

And Steady Pace could actually be

One 2-Day Weekend Intensive followed by

  • 2-3 months of sessions every other week, or
  • 2-3 months of really short sessions, or
  • 4-6 weeks of regular-length sessions,

in tandem with your Integration Plan, a lot like described under Steady Pace, here:

2 or 3 months
at a Steady Pace

in tandem with an Integration Plan

Pros:

  1. Easier & faster than therapy.
  2. Regular (e.g. weekly) sessions.
  3. Built-in Integration Plan.

Cons:

Until you actually do it, it’s hard to believe how beneficial a little downtime after each session will be.

Or
(and I call this “Slow & Steady”)
it could go exactly as described under Steady Pace, 
except only at half-speed
(2 sessions/month),
so as to spread the amount out over more payments,
and make each payment smaller
over the course of more time.

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