People who have participated in our programs have reported:

A greater sense of:
  • Happiness
  • Acceptance
  • Peace
  • Serenity
  • Growth
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding
That the Choose Again Six Steps Process:
  • Has changed their lives
  • Is incredibly powerful
  • Is "practical, simple, and effective"
  • Gets you 'un-stuck'
  • Fosters a sense of togetherness
  • Brings success where other methods have failed
  • Provides a tool for ongoing maintenance
Choose Again is Different Because:
  • They see clients as whole, not 'broken'
  • They get straight to the root cause of the problem
  • They won't just tell you what you want to hear
  • There is no Teacher/Student division, we are all in it together
Schedule a free consultation to ask questions, or find out which of our services is the best fit for you.

Your Highest Potential — Total Accountability​

You are the author of your entire experience and that experience is the result of your choices.
​You make those choices based on a self image you made up when you were very young.
At Choose Again we help clients to become aware of the core beliefs that are running their lives, and then teach them to question their validity. When a client starts to see that their beliefs about themselves are not the absolute truth, they begin to experience steadily increasing joy and a new sense of freedom. They begin to accept the empowering idea that they can experience anything they’d like to in the world, and that their mind is free to perceive events from a positive, constructive, and joyful perspective.
​There is always more room for joy in life – no matter how ‘successful’ it appears on the surface. Choose Again has helped thousands to tap into that joy, and provides tools to sustain it.
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Choose Again provides a safe and accepting environment in which you will learn to reach your highest potential. Universal spiritual teachings serve to guide each client to a vibrant awareness of their true worth.
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​It is never too late to Choose Again — and to choose the extraordinary.

 Retreat Centre in Costa Rica
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Our retreat centre in Costa Rica provides a space where you can wholly devote yourself to you, without distraction.

The centre is open 365 days a year. Stay as long as you need to; the  minimum stay is one week. 

We are happy to answer any questions you may have. Feel free to call us toll free on (1) 888 832 5959. Alternatively, you can read more or email us for availability.
Schedule a free consultation to ask questions or find out which of our services is best for you.


​Get In Touch


Our Services
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In addition to ongoing in-person services, Choose Again is now offering a wide range of online options from circles to intensive retreats.
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Workshops & Events


​We offer a range of workshops both online and in person. Every one of our events offers you a life-changing experience, and a set of tools that you can continue to use for the rest of your life.
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Healing Circles


​Offered daily! Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned practitioner, online circles allow you to deepen your practice of the Six Steps to Freedom in an intimate, small-group setting.
​All circles are led by senior Choose Again counsellors.
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Private Counselling


​We provide private individual and group or family therapy, both online and in person. 
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Healing Circles


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Find A Program

Start Right Away at our Intensive Retreat in Costa Rica

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Our Intensive Retreat in Costa Rica provides a space where you can wholly devote yourself to you, without distraction.
The Retreat is open 365 days a year, with a new cycle starting every Sunday. Minimum stay is one week. 
We would be happy to chat with you about availability, and answer any questions you may have. 
Feel free to call us toll free on (1) 888 832 5959. 
Alternatively, you can read more or email us for availability.

Check our Calendar for full Workshop & Circle Schedule
Schedule a free consultation to ask questions, or find out which of our services is the best fit for you.

What You Can Expect

A Choose Again workshop is an opportunity to delve deep into who you think you are, and become who you want to be.
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On a typical workshop you can expect to:
  • Uncover your unexamined, self-limiting beliefs that hold your happiness and contentment at bay;
  • Develop the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to overcome the stresses that are part and parcel of life;
  • Explore what gives heart and meaning to your life;
  • Identify the regrets, sufferings, and negative self-concepts that keep you from more fully appreciating yourself and your life;
  • Learn how our Six Step process allows you to take control of your own happiness and sense of peace;
  • Transform fears through the power of surrender and acceptance; and
  • Establish a new way of being in the world by deepening your spiritual life and learning to make each moment matter.

​Workshop Program

The program schedule changes with each workshop, depending on the length and location, but there are core qualities that you can expect to see at all of them. 
Every workshop has a Circle (group therapy) at the heart of the work. A Circle is a safe place to bring up any challenges you are having in your life and we use the Six Steps to get to the root of the issue. Participants find that by addressing the root they experience positive changes in many areas of their lives (the branches). When our perception shifts, the whole world appears to change. (See below for more)

Another core component of a Choose Again workshop is Holotropic Breathwork. The purpose of the breathing is to potentially release past traumas that a client may hold and to access feelings which may have remained buried for many years. 

Our workshops change and adapt to what the participants bring, and each facilitator will introduce techniques they feel would be most beneficial to the person and their needs.  
Among the possibilities are: various meditation techniques, EFT (Tapping), calming breath, bodywork, journaling etc. 

Facilitators 

Diederik Wolsak RPC MPCP 
Diederik is the founder and program director of the Choose Again Attitudinal Healing Centre. He is the lead facilitator of both the Vancouver and Costa Rica arms of the organization. 

Diederik's remarkable journey of freeing himself from decades of deep depression and substance abuse make him an inspiration and a guiding light to all who work with him. He is a living proof that what we teach, works. However, he will be the first to tell you: “I am a work in progress.”

A masterful healer and therapist Diederik is an international workshop leader, public speaker and relationship counsellor with years of experience in group facilitation. ​

Fred Wilberts

​Fred is one of our senior staff at the Choose Again Intensive Retreat in Costa Rica. He says: "To me, it makes sense that "what I give, I receive" or "Your healing is my healing".
I am so grateful I can continue this healing journey with you within a clear Choose Again framework with the Six Steps Process at our disposal. Very simple, very practical, very efficient.
And let it be a happy journey! Yes, let's be brutally honest and courageous in the process, for sure, but let's not forget to laugh at ourselves because, in the end, laughter is all my insanity deserves."

Gad Sprukt

Gad is a senior counsellor with Choose Again. He leads the healing and training program at the Choose Again residential centre in Costa Rica.

Born in Israel, Gad has been initiated into and has trained in several transformative modalities, including  insight meditation (Vipassana), and non-dual inquiry (Advaita Vedanta). He spent several years in a monastic setting studying the great wisdom traditions as well as the insights of the great minds of modern depth-psychology.  He is a deeply committed student and teacher of the Choose Again approach. He is passionate about uncovering what is essential in himself and in whomever he works with.

Saskia Wolsak

Saskia has been a senior counselor with Choose Again since 2006.  She has a life-long interest in the transformative power of honesty and awareness. 

Born in Canada, her early training begun with the creative arts - poetry, writing and painting. This passion for self-awareness continued to her training in Aikido, the culinary arts, and wilderness survival skills, in particular traditional plant knowledge. In addition to working as a counselor at the Choose Again residential center in Costa Rica, she is a researcher and educator in the field of ethnobiology.

Her goal as a counselor is to help those she works with gain access to their inner knowing through cultivating awareness of old patterns and habits; learning to question the stories that drive us.
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Claudia Mosele

Claudia is a counselor at Choose Again residential center in Costa Rica.

She says: “ What brought me to Choose Again was my strong desire to deepen in my spiritual journey. Before I came to the Healing Centre in Costa Rica I had been studying the Course in Miracles for many years and I had lived in a residential community dedicated to this teaching. But at Choose Again I immediately recognised that I had found an important piece of my healing puzzle and an effective tool that helped me to truly question my beliefs. I got to see how powerful I am and that I can choose in every moment how to experience myself and the world around me. Now the choice is simple: "Do I want to suffer or do I want Peace?"
Supporting others in this work gives me a purpose that I have long been searching for. To share and feel the changes in someone who opens up to seeing themselves differently is truly beautiful. This moment of clarity connects myself and "the client" at a very deep level. We both recognise our inherent Truth and it becomes clear that your healing is also my healing. I look forward to connecting with You!
"I am so thankful that there is a circle I can take part in to keep myself focused on examining the beliefs I hold about myself that limit me and are just not true. I know I am a work in progress but I’m excited for the first time in a long time!" - Helen S., Vancouver

A Gateway to Freedom 


Choose Again offers a proven way to heal – really heal – anxiety, depression, addictive behaviour, dysfunctional relationships and other painful dynamics.

Our mission is to remove all the inner barriers to the natural experience of peace and joy in life. 

Featured Programs

Choose Again's
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Six Steps to Freedom

A simple, pragmatic, and hugely effective process to find and heal deeply rooted limiting beliefs.

Step 1 -  "I'm Upset"
Step 2 - "Me, it's about me"
Step 3 - "Focus on the feeling"
Step 4 - "Remember the feeling"
Step 5 - "Establish the judgment"
Step 6 - "Embrace the Truth"
Inspired and developed by Choose Again founder, Diederik Wolsak, RPC MCPP.

Heal with Us
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From online healing circles to intensive retreats in Costa Rica, Choose Again offers a variety of ways to engage with this powerful work.

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Workshops & Events


​We offer a range of workshops both online and in person. Every one of our events offers you a life-changing experience, and a set of tools that you can continue to use for the rest of your life.
​

​

Healing Circles


​Offered daily! Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned practitioner, online circles allow you to deepen your practice of the Six Steps to Freedom in an intimate, small-group setting.
​All circles are led by senior Choose Again counsellors.
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Private Counselling


​We provide private individual and group or family therapy, both online and in person. 
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Intensive Retreat, Costa Rica
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El Cielo, our center in Costa Rica provides a space where you can wholly devote yourself to healing, without distraction.

Engage in our intensive healing program, including daily circles, yoga, breathwork, gratitude, and delicious meals; all while soaking in the breathtaking natural beauty of a deeply magical place.


Schedule a free consultation to ask questions, or find out which of our services is the best fit for you.
Happiness, acceptance, peace, serenity, growth, wisdom & understanding are your natural inheritance.
The Benefits of this Work

​Thousands of people are now living more joyful and fulfilled lives because of what they have learned with Choose Again.

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My heart is filled with gratitude for what you and your team and Diederik are giving the world.  My daughter attended a workshop last year in France. I have no words to express the gratitude I feel as she was way down the rabbit hole of victimhood. She is stepping up into her power using the Six Steps all the time now. She came out of an extremely painful situation with flying colours, without attacking and blaming, using the Six Steps relentlessly on the situation. I get a mouthful all the time now and I love it, because as "you teach you learn". The things she says to me are my reminders which I surely need too. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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This work employs ideas that may not be new to some, but the Six Step process is an extremely effective way at tackling your 'upsets' in a powerful & useful way. I find the work liberating because the power is completely mine. What I like About Choose Again in comparison to other work in this genre is that it allows for love to flow through. Some types of processes are all cerebral, however we are multi-faceted beings and ignoring Spirit/Self/Love/Source/God means the work is incomplete.
Another bonus is that Choose Again starts right where you are. You have an upset about getting stuck in traffic, we can talk about that and go from there. We share together, in a circle, and there is better place to start where you are. The facilitators also share because everything is a gift to all who participate. It is extremely inclusive! 

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"I leave Choose Again with the tools that if followed/worked will make a huge difference in my life and those of my extended family. 
No greater gift can someone give to themselves than to better understand what thier purpose in life might be." - P

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I was just blown away with the kindness, in a place of profound beauty, I felt safe and welcomed and at ease.  I am so grateful.
The process has become an important part of my life.  I also bought the ACIM text book and am reading that too.  Thanks for all that you guys do."

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 Painful Relationships? Anxiety? Depression? 
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Go to the root. Your life will change for the better.


At a very early age you made up a few beliefs about yourselves.

At the time, these beliefs made sense to you. You chose them, believing they will protect you. But now they no longer serve you. 

Depression, chronic stress, anxiety, unhappy relationships are all rooted in early beliefs about yourself.  The cause of all unhappiness is found under the surface of the mind.

Which is why trying to fix your life at the surface level has never worked.
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Change is possible only at the root level. 
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Heal the root and your life will naturally become better. 
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Choose Again.