The 10-day Choose Again retreat at El Cielo, Costa Rica was magnificent! Not only was the property beautiful, The insights that the staff led me to realize were profound, It's not an overstatement to say life changing. If you're tired of coping your way through the grind, this is the place for you. This place changes lives. Highly recommended.

-COL(r) Brittian A. Walker, U.S Army, 54. Virginia
Participant, April 2024

Choose again really changed my life. now I have the tools to see things from a different perspective and I can choose again. Discovering that the only truth of my being is Love makes me indescribably happy.

-R.M. 39, Accountant, Netherlands
Participant, Jan-Feb 2024

As a busy, working mom, I felt that I was 'destined' to be stuck in the rat race of life, putting everyone else first and never having the time for myself. Because of this belief I was unhappy and constantly looking to find love and relief in all the wrong places. Making the decision to come to El Cielo, to put myself first was the greatest gift I gave myself & my family. The program is designed to nourish your body and mind. The food is fantastic and the beauty in the silent walks took my breath away. Knowing and believing that I am joy and peace at my core and that it is only my choice to be anything but that has given me trust in myself to go towards love.

-M.Y.
Participant, 2023

A very powerful environment of support and love. The team of volunteers, staff and other participants provided A nurturing environment of healing for all of us. From yoga, daily meditation, holotropic breathwork and a wonderful natural setting in the beauty of Costa Rica this place is awesome! No wonder it's called El Cielo (Heaven)

-K.D.M. 54, M.D., Entrepreneur, Dallas TX
Participant, Feb 2024

I highly recommend this program If you are looking to change your life. The curriculum and the staff are wonderful, patient and caring. I feel I have the tools to rewrite my life and make positive changes for myself and for my loved ones. I have not felt this good about myself for as long as I can remember. Thank you Choose Again! 

​-T.T. 58 Builder & Developer, Costa Rica
​Participant, Feb 2024

This program is worth every penny of it. It can't be other than changing my perspective of all the issues I'm carrying with me. The very diverse program touched me to the core in many different ways. It freed something inside of me. In a very practical way, I can cope with my feelings, and don't have to indulge them. El Cielo is surrounded by Love. 

-T.O. 57,  Musician & Director of Muziek aan Bed, Netherlands, Costa Rica Retreat Participant, Jan-Feb 2024

How does a mother ever get over the loss of a child? Especially a child that takes their own life? When [my son] died I was already practicing Choose Again and I am so incredibly grateful. Sure I took some time with my feelings but was reminded frequently that nothing outside of me can make me happy or sad or take my peace. The 6 Steps to Freedom are a lifesaver and life changing. I have the ability to change my perception anytime I choose to do so.

[...] I forgive myself for ever believing that these things that I believed about myself were true. And I remind myself what IS the Truth about me…I have not lost my innocence, there has never been anything wrong with me. That love doesn’t come from outside of me. That I am a Loving Presence and that is where love IS.
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Every time I would go over the “story” in my head about what I could have, should have, would have done to prevent this event from happening I would use these 6 steps to change my mind. It works.

- Wendy Townsend, Choose Again facilitator

Beloved Diederik, I am so grateful for your wonderful book: Choose again, Six Steps to Freedom. Currently I am reading the book.
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It is so important that we may become aware of our core beliefs,
which determine our live and keep us trapped in separate, dualistic thinking.

The way we respond, look into life, has everything to do with what we believe about ourselves. Life only responds to what we send out.
Every moment we can make the choice between fear or Love.

That is the only choice we have. In order to remember ourselves,God, we will have to bring all beliefs and desires back into the Light. Bless You All!
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- Thecla de Lange, 2019

I recently returned from a second visit to Choose Again's El Cielo Spiritual Center in Costa Rica. Thank you Diederik Wolsak and team for your dedication to seeing the Truth of who we each are so we may remember it ourselves. And, as we remember, heal our selves and our relationships and know peace and happiness.

- Carla Maria Perez Berlioz, 2022 retreat 

Choose Again literally saved and helped me transform my life 8 years ago when I did not believe that I had the strength or inner power left to start my life all over again … Again.

I am deeply grateful to them and DIederik Wolsak for lighting the way back to the Truth … and for these powerful daily messages- which I incorporate into every morning start.
Thank you!

- Suzanne Chapell, 2023

I went to the retreat center in 2018 and returned this year. These last two months in Costa Rica I had the opportunity to work, heal and learn in the Choose Again residency program that I am very grateful I was accepted into. 

In my experience I prayed and worked very hard in a program [AA] that I Love and owe my life to, but I was not able to surrender my character defects (my mistaken beliefs). I really could not fathom how to get rid of them or how to live without them. My “not good enough, fear of loss, my belief that I was a victim, guilty and deserving of rejection and punishment “ showed up and had a party with me, if only in my head. The Six Steps have shown me what the belief was for and how to change the stored belief and return to a state of Joy. This (the six steps) is very similar to the other program (AA) - we work the steps. We make a decision, we decide we will go to any length and most importantly - We are worth it!

- Y.C.S, 2018, 2022 Choose Again retreat participant and resident

For a long time I viewed the world in terms of victims and perpetrators and people in need of my help/fixing.  This work of Choose Again has given words to what I sensed inside but could not articulate. When Dawn said that people are crying out "I've forgotten who I am.  Can you help me?",  the Truth of that pierced me to the core.  I no longer see myself as a victim or a fixer and, if I ever do again, I have the tools to recognize the ego's voice and choose, again, to listen to the Loving Self. I finally understand what Diederik says about the Center being there for him.  Wow. Fantastic!
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-Valerie

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! 

-L. H.

"No words can express what I experienced finding a practical guidance to the knowing, wise, and loving self within me and sharing it with a wonderful group of people in a wonderful surrounding." - South of France Workshop Participant

"The excitement of the course was hearing Truths spoken over and over again. I could then easily face my untrue beliefs that I had created, often, from years ago. The longing for love, to grow in understanding that I AM Love, that that is all there is touches a deep and forever experience in me. I'm so joyful to be offered ways to manifest/just be this truth. It just is and radiates by it's very nature. Despite challenges the whole atmosphere is of acceptance and love." - South of France Workshop Participant

"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

"In this week (at a workshop in the South of France) I experienced so much love, I am deeply grateful for this experience."