What if you have a choice?At Choose Again, we teach a simple, proven, transformative tool for learning how to manage your emotional response to any situation. Instead of feeling victimised by circumstances, we teach you how to grow through them, better equipping yourself for all future conflict, while also deepening your sense of self.
Through continued training and use of the tool, you will learn to respond rather than react, and to stay calm, clear, open, intelligent, and ultimately loving, in any situation. This tool is called the Six Steps to Freedom. Why Freedom? Through using essential parts of our minds, such as awareness, compassion, and forgiveness, we set ourselves free from the burden of past traumas and negative core beliefs. |
When to use the Six Steps to Freedom flowchart, by Diederik Wolsak
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Introducing the Six Steps to Freedom: a simple, proven self-awareness tool for core belief correction
The Six Steps to Freedom is a simple forgiveness process that I use to find freedom from any upset or conflict I have in my life.
I have introduced this process to many people, and they have found it an effective way to work with their own thoughts; transforming their daily state of mind from one of conflict to one of peace.
If you practice this process just a few times each day, you are bound to change your life in ways you cannot even imagine yet.
- Diederik Wolsak RPC MPCP, Founder and Program Director, Choose Again
What are the Six Steps?
1. Notice: I'm upset. It doesn't matter how tiny the upset. Underneath is a cry for love. It takes great discipline to not react to your upset, to not lash out or cast blame. But rather to stop. Pause. Feel. And transform. Then we can respond with a clear mind in any situation.
2. Take responsibility: It's not about what is happening. This upset is coming from me, from my own interpretation, my own mind. And I can do something about it!
3. Feel the feeling.
4. Remember: when did I feel this way as a child? Find a specific memory.
5. Inquire: what did I believe about myself in that moment? Here is where negative core beliefs are formed: there's something wrong with me, I'm guilty, I'm powerless, I don't belong...
6. Forgive and Realise: Forgive me for believing that I am [negative core belief]; Forgive me for forgetting the truth about me [that I am whole, infinite, powerful, complete].
Now that your mind is clear, return to the original upset and see how you might respond from a clear, open, calm, loving and just mind.
2. Take responsibility: It's not about what is happening. This upset is coming from me, from my own interpretation, my own mind. And I can do something about it!
3. Feel the feeling.
4. Remember: when did I feel this way as a child? Find a specific memory.
5. Inquire: what did I believe about myself in that moment? Here is where negative core beliefs are formed: there's something wrong with me, I'm guilty, I'm powerless, I don't belong...
6. Forgive and Realise: Forgive me for believing that I am [negative core belief]; Forgive me for forgetting the truth about me [that I am whole, infinite, powerful, complete].
Now that your mind is clear, return to the original upset and see how you might respond from a clear, open, calm, loving and just mind.
Recognition for the process...
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"Direct and eloquent… a practical six-step program to self-liberation.”
Gabor Maté
Renowned Speaker & Bestselling Author / Canada
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“It has the power and the potential to truly change your life.”
Jerry Jampolsky
Founder of Attitudinal Healing International & Bestselling Author / USA
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“I discovered this course and immediately sensed the potential. I have experienced a lot of new-found peace that was missing in my life. And, I know this process will be a part of my life and work from now on. Many thanks to Diederik for generously sharing this powerful transformational tool."
David Chard
President, EngagingMinds / USA
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The most effective program I have ever found for increasing happiness, love and peace.
I healed things I’ve been working on for decades!
I healed things I’ve been working on for decades!
Stephen Harper
2023 Workshop Participant / Costa Rica
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I have continued to use the Six Steps process as often as I can remember. I do not feel burned out because I am expressing and experiencing love daily in my medical practice.
Eleanor Piel Womack, MD
MD, Internist / Austin, Texas
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I chose to gift myself a retreat to El Cielo. It was the best birthday present I have ever received or given. I didn't know much about this magical place in Costa Rica or the Choose Again Six Step Process. I was hesitant. Now, after being through the program and coming back to my world and seeing first hand how peace and happiness is attainable, I encourage all other folks reading this review to "Go for it." Pack your bags and transform your life. This really works. Everyone in my group had a life changing experience. You will re-connect and discover through the help of the fantastic staff that all along the key to happiness and peace exists right in you. They will help you navigate how to access that truth. I am forever grateful to myself for choosing to go to Costa Rica, the amazing Team at Choose Again and the people who shared in my journey.
Debbi Levins,
NYC / 2023 participant
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Benefits of working with the Six Steps daily
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By mastering the Choose Again Six-Step process, you can expect to:
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About Diederik Wolsak RPC, MPCPFounder and program director,
Choose Again, Vancouver, Costa Rica |
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Diederik is the founder and program director of Choose Again. Diederik’s journey started in 1942 on the island of Java, Indonesia. He spent the first three years of his life in Japanese concentration camps. Many of his core beliefs were developed during that early, potentially traumatic phase. At age 8 he was sent to a foster home in Holland and by the time he rejoined his parents and brothers two years later he was filled with self-hatred and fear of the world around him. This self-hatred, fear and guilt translated into prolonged alcohol and drug abuse till finally at age 50 he reached that point where he realized that there had to be a better way or there would be no point in continuing. While his self-hatred drove him to be a successful businessman and international athlete, it allowed him little joy
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Following the fork in the road where something had to change, Diederik entered upon a spiritual path of deep healing. This path eventually led to a fulfilling career as counsellor in private practice. He is a masterful therapist. Every client recognizes immediately that they are being trained to become independent of their counsellor, that they are worthy of respect and that they have their own answers. Diederik is there to assist in finding and removing all blocks to happiness and peace in a most gentle and loving way. Clients also sense that Diederik has been in many of the dark places they see in themselves; he has personal knowledge of deep depression and substance abuse. He has personal experience of what they are going through and has largely transformed his life. However, he will be the first to tell you: “I am a work in progress.”
Diederik is the founder and program director of Choose Again Mental Wellness. He is the lead facilitator of both the Vancouver and Costa Rica arms of the organization. He is an international workshop leader, public speaker and relationship counsellor with decades of experience in group facilitation.
In recent years, he works alongside the dedicated team of Choose Again counsellors whom he has trained over many years.
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Following the fork in the road where something had to change, Diederik entered upon a spiritual path of deep healing. This path eventually led to a fulfilling career as counsellor in private practice. He is a masterful therapist. Every client recognizes immediately that they are being trained to become independent of their counsellor, that they are worthy of respect and that they have their own answers. Diederik is there to assist in finding and removing all blocks to happiness and peace in a most gentle and loving way. Clients also sense that Diederik has been in many of the dark places they see in themselves; he has personal knowledge of deep depression and substance abuse. He has personal experience of what they are going through and has largely transformed his life. However, he will be the first to tell you: “I am a work in progress.”
Diederik is the founder and program director of Choose Again Mental Wellness. He is the lead facilitator of both the Vancouver and Costa Rica arms of the organization. He is an international workshop leader, public speaker and relationship counsellor with decades of experience in group facilitation.
In recent years, he works alongside the dedicated team of Choose Again counsellors whom he has trained over many years.
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