Each program teaches how you currently create your life, and how you can create your life with more success and greater peace of mind.

For over twenty years, we’ve been hired by large organizations to rapidly assess and train their top executives to be more effective leaders and managers.

These organizations were buying a specific result: Our executives will be more effective leaders and managers, more effective in running their professional and personal lives, and more effective in helping the organization achieve its mission and goals.

About 10 years ago, we made the programs available to everyone, not just those whose organizations sponsored them.

Our programs are the result of two decades of research and practice. We have developed the quickest and most effective ways of teaching people how they can best create the outcomes they want from their personal and professional lives.

1. Take the Personal BluePrint Self Test from this web site. Follow the instructions and change the path of your life. This costs $25.00.
2. Buy the book/workbook, Your Personal BluePrint Creates Your Life. This is a combination text and workbook that teaches you the entire Personal BluePrint approach and walks you through over a hundred personal growth exercises. This costs $25.00.
3. Once you have integrated the information from the self test and the book, or if you are having trouble integrating the information, email Tanya@wolfconsultinggroup.com and tell her that you want to set up a coaching appointment. She will arrange payment and coordinate schedules. This costs $50.00 per 1/2 hour.

Tanya is the contact for all questions related to the web based programs.

Why is this so inexpensive? Because I want everyone to understand that they have a Personal BluePrint and that their Personal BluePrint creates their life. I want to help you, and I don’t want $$$ to stand in the way of the life you want.

1. The first program determines your specific PBP based on your taking the self-test and working with me or a staff Psychologist in a 3-hour interview. A 3 to 5 page letter is prepared for you and sent to your home address. The testing interpretations, the interview and the summarizing report provide answers to why “these things” keep happening to you, and teach you what you can do about it. For many people, this is enough. They get it and move ahead on their own.
2. The second program is for those who want a deeper understanding and very focused coaching and practice. They got it during the Personal BluePrint assessment. They see there is so much more to learn, and they are committed to learning it as quickly and as pointedly as possible. But because of time or monetary constraints they prefer a brief, but intensive program. Hold on to your hat, you’ll love the ride.
3. The third set of programs is focused practice experiences. We design these programs for you specifically based on your Personal Blue Print and what you want to achieve. These are week long programs where you work with me and 3 to 5 other staff members. If you can afford this and have the time, or if your Personal BluePrint patterns have created a life long disastrous and expensive experience, and you really must learn to be different in as short a time as possible, this is the program for you.

Why not traditional 1 hour per week therapy?

Many people take part in the programs when they are not getting what they want from their lives, yet have tried traditional counseling or therapy. It hasn’t given them the results they’ve wanted. They recognize they are part of the problem and that doing something different will be part of the solution. They have tried to do things differently, and it’s not working or not working fast enough. They hope that someone, somewhere, must have really figured all of this out, they are tired of sitting and talking, they look around, and they find us. We’ve found that 1 hour per week prolongs the change process; it’s more for the benefit of the therapist than the client. The research evidence is clear, coach led directed “massed practice” focused on practicing new behaviors with feedback from the coach during practice is superior to client led free floating discussions when creating behavior change. (Also see FAQ's on this site.)

While there are no quick fixes, we pride ourselves in having worked successfully with even the most difficult personal and work-related situations, and in so doing, have helped clients of every conceivable stripe live more productive and joyful lives. Following is a more complete description of our Napa based programs.

You meet with Dr. Wolf or another senior staff member for the morning or afternoon to discover your Personal BluePrint (PBP) and its effect of your relationships with yourself and others. How? You will have already completed a personal information booklet and a Personal BluePrint Self-Test at home or in our office. We will give you a report based on your self-test, and will review it with you and use the information as a springboard into a structured interview. You will be introduced to what we’ve discovered about the PBP. We will teach you how your PBP was formed and how your PBP ultimately came to control the patterns of personal and interpersonal behavior that create your life. We will teach you the specific behavioral patterns that are controlled by your PBP. We will show you how you manage the six interpersonal competencies; and focus on the two competencies that are causing the most problems. We will clarify exactly what to do to better manage these competencies.

This interactive process ends when you state your PBP in your own words and experience the emotion of knowing that you understand it - why it’s true, how it affects your life, and what you can do about it.

Within a week, you will receive a written summary of the entire assessment process. This summary will re-state your PBP and catalog the major emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal patterns that are controlled by your PBP and that, in turn, support the continuance of your PBP. The report will be part of a booklet that you can use to continue exploring the patterns and implications of your PBP.

Introduction Program fee is $1,320.

Please refer to the Case Studies page for an example of a letter sent to a client and the case study of their Personal BluePrint.

Dr. Wolf or a senior staff member will coach you in this one-and-a-half-day program (plus additional follow up, two weeks later). When you first arrive, you will be given additional information to include in your booklet to use as a guide and reminder.

We will lead you in a coaching process that focuses on assessing your internal processes and external behaviors as they relate to the 2 Core Interpersonal Competencies you want to better manage. We will coach you through activities that help you change patterns of behavior that do not serve you, and coach you in putting new behaviors into practice. A focus of the program is to teach you exactly what drives you into self-defeating behavior, and how to stop the self-defeating behavior. We then help you replace the self-defeating behaviors with behaviors that will create more success and peace of mind.

By the end of the program, you should be able to completely understand how your PBP controls the 6 Core Interpersonal Competencies and especially the problem 2 Core Competencies, how they control your relationship to yourself and others, and how your relationships create stress and self defeating behavior or success and contentment. The booklet you received at the beginning of the day, and on which you have taken additional notes, will help remind you what to do and track your success.

After several weeks, you will return for a review and “tune up.” We will answer the questions you’ve developed, re-clarify issues which remain unclear, and provide more coaching and training as needed to make mid-course corrections.

Introductory Program fee is $2,700.

About twenty years ago, we started developing week-long intensive programs at the request of several large organizational clients. They wanted us to teach key employees and managers how to function more effectively and productively at work, when their behaviors were putting their jobs on the line or increasing organizational risk exposure. These organizations needed to make quick decisions about retaining these employees. We concluded that traditional long-term psychotherapy was neither effective nor practical, and discovered instead that education and coaching worked best, an approach we still follow today.

These programs of rapid behavioral change led to specific coaching techniques, especially the use of multiple coaches and intensive behavioral practicing; rehearsing for life. We also uncovered a “gating” mechanism that controls specific emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal patterns. This mechanism can keep clients stuck in doing the same old things over and over, even when they tell themselves that they want to be different. Uncovering and reworking this gating process is a key part of every program we develop.

In Direct Coaching, we conduct personal growth programs for individuals and couples (you can only fall in love with someone who has a complimentary Personal BluePrint to yours). We also conduct leadership and management development programs (your Personal BluePrint creates the culture of the work group you lead), as well as a program that specifically helps police officers and fire fighters return to work following critical events, which created debilitating post-traumatic stress disorders.

Introductory Program fees start at $2,000 per day for most programs. All programs are individual/couple, not group based.

A deposit to ensure you have a program date:
A 20 percent deposit is required to confirm your appointment; the remaining monies are due at the time of the program. If you cancel less than 48 hours prior to your program date, the deposit is not refundable, but can be used to hold another date. If you cancel twice (this has never happened, but our attorneys tell us we need to say this) the deposit is kept to compensate for the hours we’ve lost. We accept checks, major credit cards, and purchase orders from listed corporations and governmental organizations.

Your satisfaction with our training programs is guaranteed. If after 1/2 the program is completed and we are not delivering what we promised, speak to Dr. Wolf. If we have not delivered what we promised, he will refund your fees.

Visiting the Napa Valley:
Most of our clients travel from outside the really beautiful Napa Valley (California) area, and so we are happy to make local transportation and hotel arrangements and recommendations as needed. Please advise our office of your needs when you arrange for your program.