At Last, help and support for Catholic/Christian Businessmen, Businesswomen, Managers, Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Attorneys, Counselors, Teachers, Tutors, Clergy, Priests, Deacons, Religious Sisters and Brothers, Spiritual Directors, Administrators, Real Estate Brokers, Insurance Sales Personnel, Human Resource Personnel, and YOU.

“You just don’t understand.”
“You never listen to me.”
Ever hear those words before?
Do you ever feel that you’re not listened to?
Do you ever feel misunderstood?
If you sometimes feel that way,

What makes you think your customers or clients or students or patients or counselees don’t?

Give Us Just Three Days in Rockford,Illinois, on
November 16^th, 17^th, and 18^th, and We’ll Teach You How to
Use The Power of Listening and Understanding!

If You Don’t Know What Your Customers, Clients, Patients or Counselees Are Thinking, They’re Probably Thinking Of Leaving You.

You Already Know
that when Your customers/clients feel that
You Are Not Listening to them
They begin to Write You Off.

HERE’S HOW TO:
* Learn to Really Listen to Them
* Help Them Feel Understood
* Understand What’s Going On In Their Heads

Then Use That Understanding to Not Only Re-Ignite their Commitment to Your Product, Business, or Service – But also Create a Deeper Connection Between you that is Lasting.

If you are a professional counselor, a priest, a deacon, a spiritual director, a religious sister or brother, people come to you with their problems and concerns.
They want to be listened to and understood, not judged and given advice.

Everyone wants to be accepted
Everyone is afraid of being judged
That’s why they don’t tell you what they really think or feel

But You need to know what they feel or think if you are to serve them

* You will learn how to reassure them that you do understand them
* You will learn how to let them know that you accept them and are really interested in helping them
* You will learn how to truly know what they are feeling

If you are in business or a service profession you know it is vital to understand your potential and existing customers and clients. If you don’t understand them and their needs, they will go somewhere else.

This Institute is for Catholic/Christian Businessmen, Businesswomen, Managers, Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Attorneys, Counselors, Teachers, Tutors, Clergy, Priests, Deacons, Religious Sisters and Brothers, Spiritual Directors, Administrators, Real Estate Brokers, Insurance Sales Personnel, Human Resource Personnel, and YOU.

In Three Days You Will Learn the Art and Skill of Understanding

You will learn how to listen and understand.
But Be Aware
This Is Not just a “how-to-do-it” course.
It’s Not just the cookbook.
It’s Not just a series of “recipes”

We will take you right into “the kitchen”
and teach you how to cook.
You will practice the skills in small groups and be coached by experienced resource people

Here’s the Schedule for November 16-18, 2008

Sunday	7:00 pm	–	9:00 pm	Session 1 – Presentation
Sunday	8:00 pm			Refreshment Break (included)

Monday	8:30 am			Continental Breakfast in Conference Room
	9:00 am	–	10:30 am	Session 2 - Presentation
	10:30 am	–	11:00 am	Refreshment Break (included)
	11:00 am	–	12:30 pm	Session 3 – Small Group Activity
	12:30 pm	–	1:30 pm	Lunch - Pasta Buffet (included)
	1:30 pm	–	3:00 pm	Session 4 - Presentation
	3:00 pm	–	3:15 pm	Refreshment Break (included)
	3:15 pm	–	4:30 pm	Session 5 – Small Group Activity
	4:45 pm	–	5:45 pm	Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar)
	5:45 pm	–	6:45 pm	Plated Chicken & Beef Dinner (included)
	7:00 pm	–	9:00 pm	Session 6 - Presentation
			8:00 pm	Refreshment Break (included)

Tuesday	8:30 am			Continental Breakfast in Conference Room (included)
	9:00 am	–	10:30 am	Session 7 - Presentation
	10:30 am	–	11:00 am	Refreshment Break (included)
	11:00 am	–	12:30 pm	Session 8 – Small group Activity
	12:30 pm	–	2:00 pm	Buffet Lunch (included) and Break
	2:00 pm	–	3:00 pm	Session 9 – Presentation
	3:00 pm	–	3:30 pm	Refreshment Break (included)
	3:30 pm	–	4:30 pm	Session 10 – Presentation

Presentations:

Session 1.	Understanding: An Entering-in Process
Session 2.	We’ve Been Influenced by the Scientific Model of Problem Solving
Session 4.	Understanding: A Translation Process from Feeling toClarification to Insight to Choice
Session 6.	Demonstrations of Understanding
Session 7.	Conscious Decision Making
Session 9.	Christianity: Power Versus Community
Session 10.	Summary and Conclusion

Don’t Forget Institute Tuition Includes:
* All refreshment Breaks
* Continental Breakfast Monday and Tuesday
* Buffet Lunch Monday and Tuesday
* Plated Sit Down Dinner Monday Evening

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Let Me Introduce To You Our
Institute’s Speakers and some of our staff

Rev. Daniel D. Tranel, Ph.D.

Rev. Daniel D. Tranel, Ph.D.
(Main Presenter)

Fr. Daniel D. Tranel received a B.A. in Classical Languages (1953) from LorasCollege in Dubuque, Iowa; an S.T.B. in Theology (1957) from GregorianUniversity in Rome, Italy; an M.A. in Classical Languages (1960) from LoyolaUniversity in Chicago, Illinois; and a Ph.D. in Counselor-Education (1970), also from Loyola.

Fr. Tranel has been a teacher for 30 years at both the high school and college levels in the areas of psychology, philosophy, and education. He is a co-founder of the Counseling-Learning Institute, a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to teach and disseminate the holistic ideas developed by the Institute. He currently serves on the Institute’s Board of Directors.

Fr. Tranel has published several articles and books. He has given this Institute on Listening and Understanding at over 100 Universities and Seminaries throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, as well as to the U.S. Military.

Fr. Tranel is a retired priest of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois.

Rev. Msgr. Thomas C. Brady, Ph.D

Rev. Msgr. Thomas C. Brady, Ph.D
(Presenter)

Msgr. Thomas C. Brady was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois on May 27, 1954. He retired on July 1, 2004. He continues to serve the diocese as one of its Vicar Generals and serves as a member of two diocesan investment boards and the board of Saint Anthony College of Nursing.

Msgr. Brady received his M.A. in School Administration from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana in 1959; a Masters Degree in Religious Education from LoyolaUniversity, Chicago, Illinois in 1969; and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from WaldenUniversity, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1975.

Msgr. Brady has held consultant advisory positions with the U.S.A.F. Chaplains and with the NCCB Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry. He has authored various articles and contributed to books on counseling and psychology. In 2008, he published his revised edition of The Power of Listening: a Practical Guide to Listening and Understanding.

He has presented Listening-Understanding workshops at 23 U.S. Air Force Bases throughout the world, at many Universities and Colleges; and in several countries including Japan, Azores Islands, Germany, England, Turkey, and Spain.

“This is life-changing” has been the comment most heard after his seminars and from readers of his book The Power of Listening: a Practical Guide to Listening and Understanding.

Paula Sentovich

Paula Sentovich
(Resource Coach)

For the past 28 years Paula Sentovich has served in a number of ways with the Counseling Learning Institutes--from assisting as a small group facilitator to presenting to groups large and small. Paula was mentored over her many years of involvement by Monsignor Thomas Brady and Reverend Dan Tranel.

From Montana to Minnesota to her native Illinois, Paula has presented to priests, deacons, seminarians, doctors, principals, teachers, lay ministry formation programs, women’s groups as well as parish-based classes.

She is convinced and confident that the skills of listening and understanding are not only life-giving, but can also be a vehicle to help form lasting relationships with people in all walks of life.

Paula and her husband, John, have three children. She is also a song writer and has performed her Christian music for many groups in the United States.

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Jennifer Ambrose
(Resource Coach)

Jennifer was born in 1946, the 9th of 12 children. She graduated from BoylanCentralCatholicHigh School, Rockford, Illinois in 1964. Jennifer was a “nanny” in North Boston for a year and spent a summer in the hills of Virginia serving in the Vista Program - a division of the Peace Corps.

Back in Rockford she worked for Rockford Newspapers and as a dental assistant before marrying her husband Stephen (Stu) Ambrose in 1968. Forty years later they have four married children and 15 grandchildren.

Since 1970 Jennifer and Stu have served in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and in the Ecumenical Covenant Community since 1979. Currently they are both leaders in the People of Praise Community. Jennifer is the main decorator and buyer for their son’s Christmas Specialty Store which she and her husband opened in 1970.

Jennifer was a participant in Msgr. Brady’s first Rockford class on Listening and Understanding. Since then she has been mentored by him and has used the skills in her business and in raising her children. She says: “I find these skills pivotal and beneficial in all aspects of my life - from being an employee to being an employer - in hiring and in firing - and, even closer to home, in marriage and raising children.”

Socorro Vasquez de Velasco

Socorro Vasquez de Velasco received her Bachelor’s Degree from Illinois Benedictine, Lisle, Illinois in 1973, and her Master’s Degree in Education from Loyola University, Chicago in 1978. She has taught at the Primary level at St. Roman’s Parish, Chicago; at St. John’s Parish, Johnsburg, Illinois; and at St. James Parish, Rockford, Illinois. She was Coordinator at St. Elizabeth Center, Rockford, Illinois. Ms. Socorro is currently Pastoral Assistant at St. Mary Parish, Galena, Illinois where she is also the official interpreter of Spanish for JoDaviess County.

As you can see, we’ve got quality, knowledgeable people!
We will add to this list as more of our coaches come on board.

Psst... I’ll Let You In On A SECRET...

Networking is one of the most important benefits of attending a workshop/seminar

Here’s a few tips for networking

Tip #1: Make some new friends. Keep in mind that other people in your same business or profession or ministry can give you insights you may never have thought of. Be interested and listen to them in order to understand their take on things.

Tip #2: Meet people in other businesses or professions. Sometimes you can use an idea or process from an unrelated business or profession and adapt it to your own business, profession or ministry.

Tip #3: During meals, sit next to people you don’t know. You never know...they may end up having just the resource you need to tap a dormant opportunity!

Tip #4: When meeting someone new, try to think of ways you can help them. You may find out later they are the perfect person to help you with a marketing problem or promotion effort.

Tip #5: Bring business cards and promotional material and give it to people you meet one-on-one. Don’t leave flyers or blanket marketing collateral lying around. You don’t want to be perceived as a blatant advertiser or “spammer.”

As a Catholic Priest/Pastor I’ve attended many business seminars and discovered techniques and strategies that worked well to help grow my parish church. By the same token I’ve taught businessmen and women about the connectivity of the communion of saints and the power of morality and integrity in running a business. We can all learn from one another.

After attending a business seminar on strategic planning I implemented a planning council in the parish. Within one year we grew from 86 families to 146 families. At that seminar the presenter asked me to explain the altruism of saints like Mother Teresa. These were not Catholic businessmen and women but they wanted to learn what altruism could do for their companies. They learned that by giving back to their communities their businesses grew. It’s all about forming relationships.

I encourage you to network at this Institute because

That’s What It’s All About!
That’s The Power Of Listening and Understanding

And here’s one last tip: Most people are more likely to form strategic alliances with others they have met in person, as opposed to people they have only met “online.”

You Are Fully Protected By Our
100% Money-Back Guarantee!

I really want you to be 100% satisfied with the Institute on The Art and Skill of Understanding, and I’m completely confident you will. So let me remove any doubt ...

Register today and join us at the Institute. And if you are not convinced that this Institute/Seminar/Workshop is worth every single penny of the tuition you paid, just let me know at the end of the Seminar and I will write you a check for 100% of your tuition right on the spot!

And for your trouble, let me do this... your participant workbook and all bonuses are yours to keep, no matter what, just as my way to thank you for giving the Institute on The Art and Skill of Understanding a chance. I can’t be any fairer than that!

What’s It Worth To Have OVER 91+ Years Of
Listening-Understanding Experience in One Room at One Time?

In this seminar, We bring you the best information, the best training, and the most useful techniques from the most knowledgeable experts in the country all in one room for 3 power-packed days.

Calculate it this way. Let’s be conservative... say, on average, each speaker charges a very nominal $100 an hour for their time — that’s a bare bones minimum, as most speakers charge upwards from $200 to $500 an hour. Now, multiply that by 2 speakers, and multiply that by 3 days (minimum of 15 hours).

The value of the time alone is worth over an estimated $3,000!

And that doesn’t account for all the networking opportunities, the individual access to the staff and speakers, the breakfasts, the refreshments, the buffet lunches, the sit down dinner, the exclusive hotel discount, and the free bonuses.

But it doesn’t stop here... read this!

Here’s What You’re Going To Receive
When You Register For The
Institute on The Art and Skill of Understanding

As you can see, this event is not only loaded with information, opportunities and bonuses, but you also get tons more. Since we’ve covered so much ground, let’s do a quick recap.

3 Days of Intensive Listening-Understanding Training by the top two experts in the world today. These 3 days are not filled with long breaks and filler. They’re “wall-to-wall” information, and lab sessions so that you really learn how and when to use the listening skills
.

$906.44 in FREE Bonus Gifts. You get all the bonuses free just for attending the Institute.
All Workshop Materials

	Professional DVD Collection of all Presentations ($497.00 value)
		(This will be mailed to you in January)
	Copy of Fr. Tranel’s Book - The Cognitive Client ($14.97 value)
	Copy of Msgr. Brady’s Book - The Power of Listening ($14.97 value)
	Four (4) Month Subscription to the Coaching Program
		($148.00 value - $37 per month)
	Four (4) Month Membership in the Master Mind Group
		($108.00 value - $27 per month)
	50% Discount on the Refresher Day (May 2009) ($123.50 value)

Unlimited Powerful Content not only during the seminar itself but also with the many opportunities you get to meet and speak with the Speakers and Staff.
Opportunities for Top-Caliber Networking Contacts where you can mingle and rub shoulders with other attendees, giving you ample opportunity to create strong friendships, and potentially useful alliances.
2 Buffet Lunches Included with awesome food in an adjacent room within the hotel (no need to leave the hotel at all!) where you can chat with our Speakers and Staff, as you sit down and eat
2 Continental Breakfasts Included in the conference room
All refreshment breaks with coffee, tea, soda and snacks.
1 Monday Night Dinner included where you can simply relax and have fun!
A Certificate of Completion.

We Want To Be Fair With Your Pocketbook...

Think about this for a minute.

How much would you expect to pay for such a powerful seminar? How much would you have to pay out to be able to gain access to not only life-changing content, but also star speakers who are recognized experts with proven track records? How about all the amazing bonuses and extras?

$5,000? Maybe $3,000? Well, I am not going to use some slick sales gimmick and tell you we have priced the seminar at some ridiculously overly inflated price, and then lower it down to next to nothing. I am sure you are smart enough to realize that is just a marketing ploy.

What we offer at the Institute on the Art and Skill of Understanding is real-world value And really, it’s priceless. It can change your life and your relationships both professional and personal.

Lives have been changed from the content and skills taught in this seminar. Each and every minute will give you new insights. Fr. Tranel and Msgr. Brady have had rave reviews all over the world. Over 150 Colleges and Universities and more than 25 Military bases in at least 10 countries. Their acceptance by even the toughest Air Force Personnel is proof positive that this event is a real steal. No other event of this caliber comes close!

But First I Want to WARN You:

This Event Is NOT For Everyone

Here are the 4 qualifications you must meet in order to attend...

You must be committed to understanding the presenter and learning the skills.
You must agree to put aside your natural resistance to learning. Most adults have a natural resistance to learning. We are anxious to show that we have knowledge and many times this gets in the way of understanding the teacher.
You must be willing to participate and not anticipate. In order for you to be proficient in using the skills you will learn, you must be willing to practice them. No one is born knowing these skills so you will be coached and helped to get them correct. It is not always easy to take correction no matter how friendly, but this is necessary to hone your skills.
You must be willing to invest in yourself. The Rockford 2008 Institute on the Art and Skill of Understanding costs only $777.52 to attend. Considering the value it represents, I can’t imagine anyone who is really serious about success not jumping on this opportunity.

Register For The Institute on
The Art and Skill of Understanding
Right Now for $777.52

Bring a Friend And each save $50.00

Two people on one registration $727.52 each

“OK, I Don’t Want To Miss
The Institute In Rockford 2008
Please Tell Me How Much,
And Where I Need To Be...”

First, mark your calendar right now. (November 16-18, 2008)

The Institute on The Art and Skill of Understanding is going to be held in the Radisson Hotel in Rockford, Illinois on: November 16th, 17th,18th, 2008.

We have made arrangements with the Radisson Hotel in Rockford, Illinois to host our Institute. It’s a great hotel and it’s also the perfect location for the Institute.

The hotel is pleasant, the service impeccable and the atmosphere optimized for your learning experience.

Not only that... you also get Special Hotel Rates!

We have arranged to get an exclusive discount for staying at the hotel during the event for everyone attending at $109. + tax. (Only if you order immediately before our room block sells out!)

This is only for the Institute attendees.

Click Here, Register Your Seat and I will IMMEDIATELY send you our
Hotel Discount Code so that you can get the special price at the Radisson.

There are other hotels nearby, some within walking distance, and I will include that list and contact information as soon as you register.

You will also receive information on the bus service from Chicago O’Hare and Midway Airports to Rockford.

I Want To Meet YOU In Rockford!

There you have it. All the information you need to know to make an educated decision about attending this Life-changing Seminar has been presented to you. The next step is for you to take action. Right now. Today.

Why? Because if you wait, you may lose out...

Seating Is Limited

... If you are a businessman or woman and want to build your business by better understanding your customer’s desires, then CLICK HERE

... If you are a professional and want to help your clients feel understood and listened to, then you need to immediately CLICK HERE

... If you are a priest, deacon, or minister who wants to use redemptive listening and understanding to free the people who come to you for help from their own fears, then CLICK HERE

Let Me Leave You With A Closing Thought...

”If You Continue To Relate To Your Customers/Clients Like You’ve Always Done, You’ll Continue To Get
What You’ve Always Got — It’s Time To Learn a Better Way”

You Agree...
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Please reserve my seat for me. I want to spend 3 days learning from the world’s Top Listening Experts in Rockford, IL November 16th, 17th, and 18th 2008.
I understand that, once my order is authorized, you will process my order promptly and reserve my seat(s) to the Institute in Rockford, Illinois, USA.
I understand I may bring ONE (1) guest at a $50 each discount of the current price of the seminar at the time of ordering.
I understand I will learn listening-understanding skills from the Faculty you have put together to teach me during the 3 days and you nor anyone else has made any relationship promises as my relationships are dependent on my own efforts and that of my business/profession.
I understand that seating is limited and I am not guaranteed a seat until my reservation is accepted and paid in full.

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I hope you will grab this opportunity so we can meet in Rockford.

God’s Blessings
Fr. Michael
FrMichael@BuildMySpirit.com

P.S. - You may be able write this off of your taxes as a business expense! Ask your accountant if you can get Uncle Sam to foot the bill for you at the end of the year.

“You just don’t understand.” “You never listen to me.” Ever hear those words before? Do you ever feel that you’re not listened to? Do you ever feel misunderstood? If you sometimes feel that way,

What makes you think your customers or clients or students or patients or counselees don’t?

Give Us Just Three Days in Rockford,Illinois, on November 16th, 17th, and 18th, and We’ll Teach You How to Use The Power of Listening and Understanding!

If You Don’t Know What Your Customers, Clients, Patients or Counselees Are Thinking, They’re Probably Thinking Of Leaving You.

You Already Know that when Your customers/clients feel that You Are Not Listening to them They begin to Write You Off.

HERE’S HOW TO: * Learn to Really Listen to Them * Help Them Feel Understood * Understand What’s Going On In Their Heads