About That Empowerment Seminar...

Spotting the b.s.

Haven’t we all been tempted by advertisements for seminars promising to improve our leadership skills, or life balance, or glowing skin? Of course we have. In separating the dreck from the durable, there is a list of questions you can ask.

A System of Evaluation

Not Good

Do you need to keep coming to more seminars to keep the effect?

Are you asked to recruit friends and family?

Are you in a windowless room with no clocks?

Do you leave with a feeling, but no action steps?

Are you NOT told how their system works?

Good

Regular breaks for bathroom and snacks and phone calls.

Concrete, repeatable steps to reproduce what you’ve learned.

Your level of commitment can vary.

If you never come back, you keep what you’ve learned.

There’s no problem with your friends and family that means you need to disconnect with them.

The people have activities and friends outside of the seminar/wellness/yoga/self-help group.