The TLC Foundation Course is a 25-hour experiential weekend workshop designed to help you uncover the beliefs, patterns, and unresolved experiences that have been quietly holding you back. Through guided, emotionally focused work, you'll gain meaningful insights, experience real breakthroughs, and leave with tools for continued personal growth — all in a safe, supportive, non-judgmental environment.

The TLC Foundation Course is designed for individuals, couples, and families who are ready to do the real work. Whether you're navigating personal challenges, relationship struggles, or simply feel like something is holding you back from living fully — this course was built for you. No prior experience with therapy or personal development is required.

The course runs over a full weekend — Friday through Sunday — totaling 25 hours of guided instruction and experiential work. Courses are offered throughout the year. Seats are limited and fill quickly, so we encourage you to check our current schedule and register early.

Tuition for the TLC Foundation Course is $1,125 per student. We believe transformational growth should be accessible, and we encourage anyone with financial concerns to reach out — we're happy to have that conversation.

Fill out the inquiry form on our Schedule page and a staff member will contact you directly to walk you through the registration process and answer any questions you may have.

Expect to be challenged, supported, and surprised by what's possible in a short amount of time. The work is active and experiential — not lecture-based. You'll engage with instructors and fellow students in ways that feel both personal and deeply human. Many students describe the experience as empowering, enlightening, and transformative. Come open. Leave changed.

The TLC Foundation Course is not therapy and is not a replacement for clinical treatment. It is an experiential personal development workshop led by certified instructors — many of whom have backgrounds in counseling and therapy. If you are currently working with a therapist or counselor, we encourage you to let them know you're attending.

Most programs teach you what to think. REAL Courses go deeper — into the emotional patterns, self-defeating beliefs, and unresolved childhood experiences that are quietly running your adult life. Our instructors don't just teach this work; they've lived it. The result is a guided experience grounded in real accountability, unconditional acceptance, and lasting change.

Yes. What is shared in the room stays in the room. Confidentiality is a foundational part of how we work, and all participants agree to honor it. This is what allows the environment to be genuinely safe and transformative.

Yes. Couples and family members are welcome to attend together. Many students find that sharing the experience deepens their relationships in ways they didn't expect. If you have specific questions about attending as a couple or group, reach out and we'll help you figure out the best approach.

The REAL Course is an experientially based personal development program. The REAL Foundation Course is a 25-hour weekend designed to assist students in identifying, gaining experiential awareness of, and healing events — many from childhood — that impact our adult lives.

The REAL Course is not psychotherapy, although it can serve as a complement to therapy. Our instructors are therapists. Additionally, therapists assist throughout the weekend to support our students.

What is psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy primarily helps you understand, heal, and regulate what is happening psychologically. It focuses on symptoms, emotional suffering, trauma, relationships, habits, and the impact of our past on our present life. Psychotherapy is usually provided within a one-on-one clinical relationship. Through talk therapy, one gains insight into what is driving their beliefs and patterns of behavior. Assignments are often provided to try and practice new ways of being.

What is experiential personal development work?

Experiential personal development also works on helping us see and heal events from the past that are actively playing out in our adult lives. It is group-based and active. Through exercises and activities, students are put directly into experiences that reveal their patterns of behavior, how they communicate, how they lead, how they make choices, and how they handle conflict. Insight is not just obtained through talking; it is achieved through experience, experimentation, and action.

Therapy can help you understand and heal parts of you that are hurting. Experiential development can help you expand the parts of you that are ready to discover, grow, and practice who you want to be.

There are several ways experiential personal development and therapy can reinforce each other:

• Insight > Experience: Therapy helps you recognize. An experiential program can give you a structured opportunity to see yourself in action and practice something new.
• Experience > Insight: You can’t think your way into a new understanding. An intensive interpersonal experience can make a pattern visible in real time. This experience can then be brought back into therapy to be processed.
• Processing > Practice: Therapy provides a place to process difficult emotions and experiences. Personal development work provides a laboratory for trying new behaviors and ways of relating.
• Healing > Possibility: Psychotherapy may reduce suffering and help restore stability. With more capacity, personal development can ask: what do you now want to create?
• Private Reflection > Relational Learning: Therapy is often a one-on-one relationship. Experiential development involves group interaction, exercises, challenges, feedback, role-play, or real-time interpersonal interactions. That social environment can reveal dynamics that are difficult to see in a purely reflective setting.