"For over three years Promises Treatment Centers incorporated the Balancing Life Project into its core and extended programs. Clients in the Promises Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program, Malibu, and at Malibu Vista, a women's psychiatric inpatient treatment program, benefitted from BLP's holistic platform which reinforces the link between continuous sobriety, healthy lifestyle choices and a joyful, balanced way of living. BLP's highly adaptive methodology was effective with individuals across a wide range of ages, educational needs and life challenges and client acceptance was high." David Sack, CEO, Elements Behavioral Health
"Career Transitions for Dancers engaged the Balancing Life Project for an eight-week introductory program for dancers who, due to aging or injury, were facing the painful transition from their careers in dance to other vocations and ways of life. The dancers found it to be very helpful in understanding the structure of transitions, and discovered ways to tackle the emotional concerns that are created by change in ones' life and career. They obtained methods and tools to deal with their difficult transitional experience along with building a supportive group culture. At the end of the eight weeks some of the dancers requested an extension of the BLP experience for another several months." Joanne Divito, Director, Career Transitions for Dancers
"The BLP satisfaction wheels place the participant at the center of her universe, which is an empowering position, and encourages her to judge which habits and relationships are working well and which need adjusted. I saw what I was doing that was counter-productive, and I have taken those things out of my schedule. I also reinforced some of the positive habits and relationships that the BLP identified. The BLP underscored the fact that my new career must be satisfying to me today - not satisfying to the person I was ten years ago, or to my colleagues who are still performing and might consider my job outside performing to be a failure. The BLP illuminated the fact that I love my current situation. If one or both of my jobs evaporate or stagnate, or if one demands my full attention, the BLP has given me tools to help me reassess the situation and decide what I might want at that future date." Joy / Ballet Dancer
"It seems appropriate to me that the Balancing Life Project (BLP), developed around three anchors, has become one of the primary anchors in my life. It has helped me achieve an outstanding level of personal and professional clarity, focus and purpose. The BLP is the best framework/program in which I have participated for clearly defining goals and needs on a very manageable scale. Through visualizing each of the three anchors and their respective components I am comforted by the sense that I am addressing all areas of my life and that one isn't going to slip away...BLP is something that will be part of my life forever and I recommend it for everyone!" Erika | Finance
“The BLP is a zoom lens that helps you focus on what is really meaningful in your life. I’m amazed how my priorities changed. The BLP is for anyone who wants to get to know themselves.” Gary Tallman | Pacific Bell Operator
“Doing any single page of the workbook will change a person’s life. Just close your eyes and point. What you have put together here is a path to reach deep into the hearts and souls of humankind.” Ilene Segalove | National guest lecturer for Multimedia and Communication Arts (Harvard University, Otis College of Art and Design, University of California at Santa Barbara) | Author | Artist
“I was amazed how just four workshops could produce such stunning internal emotional shifts that resulted in changes in the way I looked at myself, my job, and my relationships. The group discussions and exercises were interesting and surprisingly effective in producing altering in my approach to my life. I am very grateful I participated and would highly recommend this course.” Mary Ann Murphy | Social Worker
“When I saw my life through the Weekly Life Frame I realized there wasn’t a moment for me to pursue my dreams. But through the process of the BLP I found first one bit of time here, then one bit of time there, and suddenly my life opened to release me to dreams I had never imagined!” Carol Asman | Massage Therapist
“This has got it’s act together. The BLP is buttoned down!” David Ryal | Director: Small Business Development Center, SBA
“Thank you for coming to me for help. It isn’t often a person has the opportunity to help humanity. I think everyone in America, and that includes everyone in my own family, needs the BLP.” Harry Dictor | Director of Seminars for SCORE
“The BLP is a way of seeing what “is” and what “isn’t”. It takes the “real” and brings it to clear. Like you finally got the road map, the blue prints, the sailor’s “charts.” It’s suddenly all there, from the simple, to the unfathomable, to the sublime.” David Janz | Artist, Writer
“Don’t underestimate the potency of this. It astounded me from beginning to end, as I watched it dig in and change the lives of the people I was teaching. The BLP is overwhelmingly powerful.” Ian, Doctor of Naturopathy | Air Force Search & Rescue.