Interview Questions & Answers
Interviewer, Marcia Yudkins, Creative Ways

Why do you recommend that mastermind groups meet in person?  (Or do you?)  Is this more beneficial than "meeting" online?

It is beneficial the instant you join with another in harmony and agreement to speak about your desired goal, result & preferences.

The benefit of weekly meetings in person is the ritual of showing up and learning through this process how to be in your power and hear, hear, hear your inner voice and urgings

The benefit of meeting online, is to deal with instant need and fear ... and people can meet on line weekly and follow the guidelines as they would in a setting, take turns and state requests/goals for the upcoming week.

If someone is going to start a mastermind group, can they sign up for your course and then use it to set ground rules and a curriculum for the whole group, or is everyone in the group that forms supposed to sign up for your course?

When a person purchases the course, they have immediate access to our message board for MasterMind who want to show up there.  So far, I have not done much to encourage people to use the board as is true with the Stay Married board... where we have thousands of entries....

It is our preference, and what I teach ... it is vital that anyone who is committing to a new mastermind start up most certainly should invest in their own course.  .... and they don't have to... we don't have online course police running about!  ((~.~)) 

My reasoning is this: purchasing the course and learning exactly how to think and do things differently in the context of the MasterMinding guidelines I have set up... is your personal commitment to the process and new knowledge... i.e.  I'm teaching people new methods of living and work and loving... easier than they've known or considered possible... mind expanding work... without it, the likelihood is great that they will take a run at MM the same why they are currently trying to run at their dreams and goals.  Over efforting... of myself I will force myself to do this, etc., etc., etc....

(another way to ask the same question) Is this course really for an individual or for a group

It begins with each individual.  Individual desire to create a powerful MM group therefore attracts others wanting/preferring/desiring the same... vibrating at the same frequency.

The individual has everything to gain from learning new ways of thinking, setting goals and initiating requests to and with inner spirit guidance & direction... it's all learning unfolding.

Can you give me an example of what you mean by "fielding questions on problematic areas that move the participant into 'receiving mode'"?

Yes..  you have a problem... something that has been very problematic for you. You simply let the group know what it is.  No judgment and no advice from group members is welcome at this point.  (All advice is to be offered after the MM session and not before--- this is where a lot gets lost and MM groups fail to go forward.... the advice is generally what everybody believes they should be doing to do, do, do their way to success... so I have been very clear in the directives that my system is different.  No one person in this group is to be your authority or your mentor.  The purpose of MM with my system is to practice hearing your own inner guidance and learn how to not limit what the universe is trying to get you to receive.  What you want, wants you.  We tend to vastly limit God, we tend to only establish goals that we have decided the Universe will give to us... rather than really listening to what our hearts/minds/souls are urging us to go ahead and want!  So, there is no room for authoritarianism here... it's all about 1) the problem... 2) no judgment and no advice and 3) what you prefer instead.

1 - State the problem
2 - No Judgment no advice
3 - What do you prefer instead... really prefer... now you write that in the form of a goal and a request... tons of examples in the course.

The request goes:

I request and accept ______________

This puts you in receiving mode... so does:

See for me that__________