Seminar Reviews Program Rating

Breakthrough to Success - 

Wealth and Power Weekend

(The Christopher Howard Companies) 

Full Review

For People Who Really Want a Change in Their Lives

     Breakthrough to Success is for people who want to change something in their lives.It's a two and a half day seminar that works on your issues while you're there and gives you easy tools to use once you get home.Just about everybody should be able to come away from this seminar feeling that s/he had changed in some significant way.

A 5 Star Review

     This is going to seem like an overly generous review and may sound more like a sales pitch and not like the objective reviews you have been promised from SeminarReviews.com.  I promise to tell it like it is, and the truth is that I had a great experience at this course. For the weekend that I went to, with the exception of one item (see the last section), I couldn't find anything negative to tell you.  Keep in mind that I went to this seminar for free, just the same as any of our Seminar Insider Newsletter subscribers can.  My purpose is to share what I find and give you my honest opinion.  I'd go to this one even if I had to pay for it.

So How's This One Different?

     And, honestly, I didn't really want to go to this seminar.  I've been to many courses that have made promises about breakthroughs and transforming your life; that have exercises that are designed to push us through barriers that we don't even want to look at - and I've come away without much in the way of results.  They've been like a Chinese meal where you're very satisfied until you get back home and feel hungry again.

And what about Breakthrough to Success?

      What a weekend!!  This time I got results!!  And, a week and a half later, I still notice the changes and I'm still using the techniques.  Amazing!

     Many of the techniques weren't new to me, but for some reason, this time they worked.  From the comments of repeat attendees in the audience, who came back for a "tune-up" in new areas, the weekend has worked for them and continues to do so. 

What You Do Here, You Can Do At Home

     All of the personal transformation workshops I have been to before are a series of processes, activities, or games that are difficult to duplicate away from the group setting.  In Breakthrough to Success, the majority of work is quiet and internal.  The processes are short and easily duplicated at home.

     For this to work, though, you do have to have an open mind and you do have to want to change.  Some of the techniques may seem a bit different, and some of the things people come up with may seem down-right different.  My husband is a down to earth kind of guy, and he, too, was familiar with the techniques.  If I had told him a year ago some of the things he shared with me over the weekend, he would have laughed himself silly and told me I was goofy.  He was so impressed with his results that he plans to attend more of Christopher Howard's seminars.

Christopher Howard

     Christopher Howard is good presenter.  He's very clear, funny, always positive, and really knows his material.  To counter all of the sitting, he regularly had us hop up out of our chairs to stretch and move around.  Although he has opinions about the testing methods of early hypnosis and NLP pioneers, he was never judgmental with anything volunteered by the audience.  He created a great environment for change, and he made it impossible for us in the audience to fail at anything we did. 

 What If I Don't Choose the Right Thing To Work On?

     The course information suggests that we choose an area to work on.  To my surprise, I didn't work on the area I had chosen in advance - business and finance.  I switched over to health.  I found that the breakthroughs in one area really do spill over into another.  Chris gives easy formulas that we can use again and again, so we can work on other areas as we wish.  And he says that we will need to use them as we continue to change.

 The Back of the Room

     One welcome surprise was how the product sales were managed.  Chris told us he would spend a half hour before lunch on Sunday to go over his other courses, and we were welcome either to stay or to leave.  And he held to it.  He did mention his other products and courses in passing, but no hard sales pitch.  This was much different from a couple of seminars I've attended where a good third of the program was directed at sales.

     By late Sunday afternoon, I decided I was going to attend more of Chris' courses.  I did this, not because of marketing or sales pressure, it's because I felt that I had gotten remarkable results.  There was a 5% discount if a couple signs up for courses.

The Exception

     The problem I encountered - a major one if you're traveling from a distance - was trying to get the information about where the seminar was to be held.  I really like to be able to plan my trip in advance. I expected a rapid email response to my email registration.  I had to phone the office for the times and location of the event.  Eventually, just before the event, I got an email response and one in the mail. 

Would I Go Again?

     Knowing what I know now, would I pay the full $895 price for this?  Yes, indeed. 

     But why pay full price when you don't have to.  For those who can go for free - like me and our Seminar Insider subscribers - this is a bargain beyond compare.  Bring friends.  You know you can get extra passes through SeminarReviews.com. 

- By Beth

September 2, 2004