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Master Your Inner Journey in this 9-Month Deep Dive

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Join an immersive 9-month journey designed to create lasting transformation in your life - working directly with Dr Alex Howard and becoming part of an inspiring, supportive community.

This program moves beyond ideas and theories to focus on creating real, lasting change - ensuring you have the accountability, support and guidance to follow through with the tools you learn.

What is it and why is it so powerful?

What is it and why is it so powerful?

Mastery is a groundbreaking program taught by Dr Alex Howard - and the only way to work directly with him in a cohort-based training.

It brings together the best of self-led learning and skilfully facilitated group work in one life-changing program: a rare opportunity to be genuinely supported in making the changes you've always wanted to make.

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Who Mastery is for
Mastery is for you if...
You've already done some personal or therapeutic work, and you're ready to go further - not just collect more insight
You want to actually change your patterns, not simply understand them
You know that insight alone hasn't been enough, and you want structure, accountability and real support around you
You're willing to be honest with yourself and do the experiential work, not just the thinking
You're new to Dr Alex Howard's work, or you've done the RESET Program or worked with the Optimum Health Clinic and want to go deeper
It's probably not the right fit if...
You're looking for a quick fix or a single-weekend breakthrough
You're not able to commit to a regular daily practice across the nine months
You're currently in acute crisis and need urgent clinical or medical support - that care needs to come first
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3 core tools at the heart of the program
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Therapeutic Coaching
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Therapeutic Inquiry
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Therapeutic Meditation

Therapeutic Meditation

Includes powerful meditation, visualization and self-hypnosis techniques designed to create lasting nervous system changes.

Therapeutic Inquiry

A series of self-led and group practices to support building deeper awareness and deepen your connection to yourself and others.

Therapeutic Coaching

An integrative methodology of frameworks and tools for creating lasting change in your inner and outer world.

What you'll walk away with:

Mastery is about who you become, not just what you learn. Over nine months you'll develop:

The ability to settle your own nervous system - to bring yourself back to calm rather than being run by anxiety or overwhelm
A different relationship with your inner critic, so shame and self-attack no longer run the show
The capacity to feel your emotions rather than manage, numb, or outrun them
Clearer boundaries - knowing where you need more 'yes' and more 'no', and being able to hold them without guilt
A toolkit for inner work you'll use for the rest of your life
The ability to become your own best coach and support - the holding many of us never received in childhood

This isn't a quick fix. It's genuine, lasting change, with the structure and support to help you follow through.

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What's included:
20 in-depth training modules from Dr Alex Howard
9 live Q&As with Dr Alex Howard, including live coaching with group members
9 group coaching calls facilitated by highly experienced group trainers
Enquiry groups with fellow students for peer-to-peer support
A powerful 5-day residential at a stunning UK venue
Lifetime access to all recordings
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Integrative Approach

The heart of The Mastery Program is a framework which integrates the best of NLP, mindfulness, developmental psychology, life coaching and EFT - resulting in practical tools and strategies you can use to create lasting change.

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The 9-month curriculum
Pre-course: Orientation
Set the foundations that make everything else work. Before the deeper work begins, you'll put in place the mindset and the daily practice that determine how much you get from the next nine months.
  • Cultivating a transformational mindset - how lasting change actually happens
  • The foundational principles that underpin the whole program
  • Therapeutic meditation: the three centres you can meditate from, and the 'safety loop' that keeps us stuck in our heads
  • Four types of meditation, plus visualisation as a healing tool
  • How to build a consistent daily practice - the single biggest predictor of change
Month 1: Foundation
Build the psychological scaffolding that holds you steady through demanding inner work. You can't go deep safely without support in place first - so we start by building yours, inside and out.
  • The three pillars of psychological scaffolding
  • Cultivating genuine self-care
  • Why radical honesty with yourself is non-negotiable - a theme we return to throughout
  • Getting the right external support around you
  • Therapeutic inquiry: what it is, the different types, and how to practise it - a core tool you'll use for the rest of the program
Month 2: Opening
Meet the inner critic - and learn to open where you used to brace. The critic is the voice that keeps us closed; this month you learn to defend against it and to accept your experience as it is.
  • What the inner critic is, and the three main ways it shows up
  • Inner morals versus the inner critic - do we actually need it to be a good person?
  • Practical ways to defend against and disengage from the critic
  • Why acceptance is what allows us to open - what we resist persists
  • The two types of truth, and how to unhook your feelings from the stories you tell about them
  • Recognising gaslighting, including the self-gaslighting the critic runs
Month 3: Awareness
See your patterns clearly - because if you can see it, you don't have to be it. Two powerful maps reveal both the shape of your personality and how far you've grown within it.
  • The Enneagram: nine personality types, and how you can hold qualities of all of them
  • Spotting your patterns, habits, and stories as they play out in real time
  • Spiral Dynamics: how our values and worldview evolve through stages
  • How a breakthrough at one stage can quietly become the limitation at the next
  • The difference between acting from your true self and acting out old conditioning
Month 4: Rewire
Move beyond seeing your patterns and start changing them. This month is all about learning the tools and strategies to rewire what's happening, both consciously and unconsciously.
  • The science of habits - how patterns are built, and how they're broken
  • The STOP process: a foundational Therapeutic Coaching tool
  • The presence process - how to deepen your connection to the present moment
  • A body-scan meditation to come back into the body
  • Why presence and embodiment are the antidote to the safety loop
Month 5: Depth
Turn inward toward your emotions and the needs beneath them. Having rewired the habits of the mind, we turn to the emotional life - what you feel, and what you needed but may not have received.
  • Why emotions matter, and what healthy emotional expression actually looks like
  • The six emotional defences - the six ways we learn not to feel
  • Discovering your own emotional style
  • Your three core emotional needs, with a checklist of how well each is currently met
  • The coping strategies we build to compensate for unmet needs — and how to start meeting them for yourself
Month 6: Feeling
Learn to truly feel - and to stay with what's there, even when it's nothing. This is the emotional heart of the program: not understanding your feelings, but actually feeling them.
  • What it means to truly emotionally feel, and the healing power of presence
  • Creating safety anchors that let you drop in more fully
  • Exploring how you habitually respond to feelings as they arise
  • Emotional layers, and how defences show up in the micro-moment of accessing a feeling
  • The theory of holes - understanding how to move through emotional layers
  • How to work with the absence of emotion, when all you meet is numbness or nothingness
Month 7: Recoding
You can't change the past - but you can change what lives inside you from it. A two-part journey from understanding your emotional history to actively recoding it.
  • Uncovering your beliefs about emotions and where they came from
  • An audit of your emotional history and the lessons - better or worse - you took from it
  • How those early patterns are still manifesting today
  • Why 'awareness' alone can become just a new story that explains away feeling stuck
  • The reimprinting process: recoding what you learned from past experiences so it no longer defines you
Month 8: Boundaries
Stay connected to yourself - especially around other people. Everything gets harder in relationship; this month is about holding your ground and your openness with others.
  • Staying emotionally open and connected when you're around others, not just alone
  • The three types of relationship
  • Recognising gaslighting and challenging relationship dynamics
  • Your history with boundaries - what you were and weren't given as a child
  • Where you need more 'yes' and where you need more 'no', with yourself and with others
  • The different types of boundaries, and how to bring healthier ones into your life
Month 9: Integration
Turn nine months of work into a life you can sustain on your own. As the structure falls away, you become your own support - and leave with a clear roadmap.
  • A review of the key principles and tools from across the program
  • The power of daily habits, and how to build your commitment muscle
  • Self-coaching: becoming the care and holding many of us never internalised
  • Setting SMART goals in a sustainable, effective way
  • Being your own best coach - and where to take the work beyond the program
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Testimonials

Hear from those who have done the program before. Click on a thumbnail to watch the video:

Your bonus gifts:
Bonus Gift 1

Healing Together

12 months' free access to Dr Alex Howard's weekly live membership community — 50+ live sessions.

$444
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Bonus Gift 2

Awakening Program

2 in-person tickets to the Awakening Program 2027 (or livestream if preferred).

$1,598
in value
Bonus Gift 3

Immersion Retreat 2027

Join Dr Alex Howard for the 2027 Immersion Retreat at Broughton Hall. In-person place included; accommodation not included.

$4,997
in value
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Your teacher
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Dr Alex Howard

Creator of Therapeutic Coaching®

Dr Alex Howard is Founder of The Optimum Health Clinic (OHC), one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics with an award winning team of 25 practitioners supporting thousands of patients in over 50. Alex received his PhD in Psychology from University of Greater Manchester and is creator of the Therapeutic Coaching® methodology.

Since March 2020, Alex has been documenting his therapeutic work with real life patients via his ground-breaking In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series. Alex has also created some of the largest online summits in the world that have been attended by over 2 million people.

Alex has published academic research in publications such as the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health, and is the author of three books which have been translated into 11 languages, including his most recent It’s Not Your Fault – Why childhood trauma shapes you and how to break free.

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Starts Tuesday, 29 September

W‍hat's Included
$6,000
20 In-depth Training Modules
9 Live Q&As with Alex
9 Group Coaching Calls
Enquiry groups with fellow students
A powerful 5-Day Residential
Lifetime Access to Recordings
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Apply for a part-funded scholarship
If you are interested in joining the Mastery Program but are worried about the cost, we have an option to apply for a part-funded scholarship where you could get up to 50% of the program cost covered.

For more information, please click the button below.

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Get up to 50% off Mastery Program with Scholarship Funding
Your opportunity to join for $2997
(payment plans also available)

Someone once helped me go on the healing journey I couldn't afford alone - I want to pay that forward. Apply for a partial scholarship toward my immersive 9-month pathway to lasting transformation.

Your Next Steps:
  • Fill in the application and book your call below to be considered for this scholarship opportunity. This is a limited-time opportunity, and applications close on 21st September (or when places have been allocated if this is before)
  • Approval of scholarship recipients is only through an assessment call during which suitability, and alignment will be determined.
  • Applications are reviewed on a case by case basis and will close once all Scholarship funding is allocated.
  • Prepare yourself for the assessment call: What is your motivation to join the program? What impact will it have on your life?

Terms and Conditions apply for the Mastery scholarship - please click here for more information.


Terms & Conditions
  • Enrolment for the Mastery Program Scholarship Fund is limited based upon available capacity.
  • This opportunity is not for paying clients already in the program.
  • Funding is not transferable to an appointed attendee and to any other program.
  • The Scholarship is not redeemable as cash.
  • Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
  • Acceptance of funding ends on 21st September (or before if places are all allocated)