This is the right program for you if you are:

a) committed to improving your performance and effectiveness dramatically while reducing stress,

b) looking for a science-based and trusted system and make it stick,

c) willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that do not serve you anymore.

Some people believe negative emotions are helpful. For example believe that stress gives them edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for their continual improvement and a reflection of how honest and true to themselves they are.

Feeling pain for a split second when your hand touches a hot stive is indeed useful, deliverying an important alert. But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove producing harn to you, i.e. continuing to feel negative emotions harm both performance and happiness.

In this program we learn to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, and them quickly shift towards practicing, with intention, specific exercices which allow our brain to switch its operation from an area entertaining the fligh-or-fight response (i.e. the Saboteurs) into an area predisposing to calm, clarity, objectivity, big picture and creative handling of the challenges (i.e. the Sage).

Shirzad is the author of the New York Times bestselling Positive Intelligence. Shirzad has lectured on Positive Intelligence at Stanford University and has trained faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools.

Shirzad has been the CEO of the largest coach training organization in the world. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. His background includes a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.

You’d never learn to ride a bicycle by only reading its operating manual. It is one thing to intellectually understand how operates, and totally different to be able to ride it.

Riding a bicycle is much more than assembling its parts. You need to experience speed, acceleration, wind, grip, balance. You need to feel physics impacting your body and observe yourself in the process or taking decisions about changing speeds, or moving your body to balance when fiercely going downhill or painstakingly taking the uphill.

You need to experience the border of your confidence and what risk means to you: Are you excited by this risk? Are you scared or frozen by this risk? Are you taking the risk in one gulp? Or are you meticulously approaching "the danger" with one pedal at a time till you cross the hill? How easy do you get discouraged? How easy do you physically and mentally recover after a 5 km bike run? How about after a 30 km one? Or even after a 100 km run?

You’ll be asked to read the first 8 chapters of the book "Positive Intelligence" by Shirzad Chamine, while participating in the program. The book provides the research foundation and introduces the tools. The video sessions guide you through experiential exercises that help you personalize the tools to your own personality and needs. And the app coaches you to practice one tool at a time in the context of your own daily work and life challenges. The concepts which form the basis of the Positive Intelligence© method are simple but in no way simplistic. Their full understanding requires practice with self and leads to a drasting improvement in knowing self.

The weekly coaching sessions with your dedicated coach are a precious resource. There, you will be clarifying for yourself some of your beliefs, assumptions, presumptions you base your life on. Will understand how your current life habits sustain your aspirations and desires. Will see how your own thinking patterns move you forward or keep you in one place. These will be your place to learn also from your group peers. 

The more you contribute in the coaching sessions, the more you learn about yourself.

The way you show up in the coaching sessions is an indicative of the way you show up in life.

The program offered by PositiveIntelligence.com consists in applying in an autonomous manner the lessons drawn from reading the book and from accessing the 6-week PQ Core application, therefore their offer does not contain any group or 1-on1 coaching sessions.

In working with Coach Alina Florea, you have the possibility not only to receive in addition 6 group guided coaching sessions (out of which the last is individual), but in each of these sessions you have the opportunity to deepen your learning in discussing and sharing your observations and insights in a pod of up to 6 like-minded professionals. Moreover, you are provided with a 7th coaching session, which is 1-on-1 with Coach Alina Florea where to discuss your plan to keep alive the PQ practice and embed it as a life habit.

The program offered by Positiveintelligence.com does not offer these 7 coaching sessions outside the 6-week PQ Core application. Coach Alina Florea will share also her lessons in managing her own saboteurs and experiences of faster recovering from the perception of error or failure.

Following the program in a 1-on-1 relationship with the coach is possible but not recommended. Participating in a group guided coaching will bring you the following additional learning:

a) You will be able to share insights with your group mates and understand even better things about yourself or the people around you.

b) You will discover on your own what it means "people are different" and "there is no solution to fit all"

c) You will increase your openness and actively work with your current patterns of defence, avoidance, combat, assertiveness, etc

d) You will have to make split-second decisions about your safety borders and understand what is actually important for you at that border

Still, in case your final decision is to have the program on a 1-on-1 basis, you may also want prior to your final decision to have a direct discussion with your coach. The price to follow the program in a 1:1 relationship with the coach is 1500 EURO (excluding VAT, no VAT to be added).

You’d be committing to participating in 1-hour group coaching conversation once per week with your pod mates and dedicated coach, watching a 1-hour video once per week, and doing a combined total of 15 minutes per day of practice guided by the Positive Intelligence app exclusively designed for this program.

This might sound like a lot of time. In fact, cumulatively, it constitutes less than 3% of your awake time for the duration of the program. Please consider that your Saboteurs are costing you far more than 3% of your time, effort, energy, and productivity spent on worrying, acting with no clarity or efficiency, taking wrong decisions that you will further regret, etc. Consider how much more than 3% of time and productivity this six-weeks investment will save for years to come.

Coach Alina Florea is a certified coach in Positive Intelligence coaching techniques. She is in partnership with Positive Intelligence and offers this program under the guarantee of quality provided by Positive Intelligence company. 

While inner transformation is a slow process depending on the drive and energy invested by each participant, the Positive Intelligence method has been scientifically researched and applied to more than half a million participants so far with outstanding results.

In all fairness, there might be very few cases when a particular participant may purchase the program in good faith without taking into account all circumstances of their life. There is no possibility to deregister from the program once started. Leaving the program after the purchase was made and deciding to not participate in the group coaching is possible, the participant is aware that he or she forfeits the right to receive back the payment. Still, the client will continue to receive new content in his/her PQ App until the formal end of its cohort and to have access to it within the first year since their initial registration.

Payment can be done in 2 alternatives:

1. purchase directly from the website, before the program start

2. as agreed with coach Alina Florea.