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Live Online Personal Transformation Course — Core Transformation Foundation, with Tamara and Mark Andreas

Half-day live online training sessions over six days across two weekends — the complete ten-step Core Transformation process, developed by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.

Taught by Tamara and Mark Andreas — co-developers of the Core Transformation training curriculum and lead trainers of the live workshops. Tamara is also the co-author of Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within.

Backed by published researchTwo RCTs, one pilot
577 students worldwideFoundation graduates
Oct 23–26 & 31–Nov 1, 2026Next cohort

The training

What is the Core Transformation Foundation Training?

Core Transformation Foundation Training is a six half-day live online training in the complete ten-step Core Transformation process — an inner change methodology developed by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D., in the early 1990s. The method works by treating a stuck pattern not as a flaw to fix, but as a part of you with a positive purpose: you turn inwards and ask what it wants, and follow a step-by-step process into a core state like peace, presence, being, wholeness.

There is no forcing and no willpower, and most people feel a shift in just one or two sessions. The Foundation Training guides you through the full process — live demonstrations with Tamara and Mark Andreas, supervised practice in small groups, and the structural framework needed to apply the process in your own life. It is also one of the few methods of its kind to have been tested in published research, with encouraging results.

The published research

Braganza & Piedmont 2015 pilot in Journal of Religion and Health

Braganza et al. 2019 RCT in Journal of Counseling and Development (DOI 10.1002/jcad.12269, n=129)

Gray, Braganza & Andreas 2026 RCT in Spirituality in Clinical Practice / APA (DOI 10.1037/scp0000387, n=219)

The Foundation Training is the entry point for those who wish to continue on to the Advanced Core Transformation Training. You do not have to have any prior Core Transformation or NLP background. Day 1 walks you through the conceptual foundation. From there you move through the process in sequence with live demonstration, supervised practice in small breakout groups, and plenty of Q&A. By the end of the six sessions, you carry the protocol as a skill — not memorized as a checklist, but experienced as a process you can do on your own.

Dates and Times

Foundation Training SessionsFriday Oct 23 – Monday Oct 26, 2026, Saturday Oct 31 – Sunday Nov 1, 2026
Daily Schedule (MDT)10:00 AM – 1:00 PM MDT
Universal Time (UCT)4:00 PM – 7:00 PM UCT (DST-aware where applicable)
ReplaysPosted within 24 hours per session

Investment

What’s the Investment for the Foundation Workshop?

Early bird US $695

The Foundation Training is currently offered at a discounted early-bird rate of US $695 through the early bird registration deadline. The early-bird rate covers the full six-half-day live training and includes all training session recordings. Payment plans are available.

A 12-month payment plan is available at registration. Full terms are in the questions below.

Bonus — Complete Recordings of Your Workshop

Every session of the live workshop — instruction, demonstration, practice debriefs, and Q&A — is recorded and made available to registered participants for ongoing review. Foundation participants frequently describe returning to specific demonstration recordings months and years later, when a new pattern arrives in their life and they want to walk the steps again with fresh attention. The recordings convert the six-day workshop into a lifetime resource.

The curriculum

What do you learn in Core Transformation training?

In Core Transformation Foundation Training you learn the complete process developed by Connirae Andreas — a protocol for guiding any unwanted inner pattern to the core state it has been reaching for all along. The training combines live demonstration with Tamara and Mark Andreas, supervised practice in small groups, and the structural framework needed to apply the full process in your own life.

In the Foundation training, you experience Core Transformation for yourself. You watch Tamara and Mark work live with participants, so you can see how the process unfolds. Then in small break-out rooms, you go through it yourself — with something in your life you would like to change — while the trainers and assistants are there to support you. The whole training is built around your own experience of the process, not around learning to perfect it.

The heart of the method

Why Your Obstacles Are Actually Doorways

This is the heart of what makes Core Transformation distinctive. Every pattern that has been running you — the anxiety, the criticism, the compulsion, the reactivity — is a part of you trying to take you somewhere. It is clumsy, often. The path it has chosen is wearing you out. But the destination it is pointed at is not the problem. The destination is exactly where you want to go.

Connirae Andreas spent decades studying what happens when, instead of trying to defeat such a part, you ask it the next question. The ten steps are that line of questioning. Each one moves the part closer to what it has been reaching for. By the time you arrive at the core state — peace, presence, being, wholeness — the pattern has accomplished its purpose. It dissolves because the inner reach has been met, not because it has been conquered.

This is also why the work transfers. Once you know the ten steps, you can take any pattern through them — the one you came in with, and the ones that arrive next year.

Time commitment

How long is Core Transformation training?

Core Transformation Foundation Training is a six half-day live online training — October 23–26 and October 31 to November 1, 2026 — taught by Tamara and Mark Andreas. Foundation graduates can continue with Advanced Training (runs over 6 Saturdays) and then the Core Transformation Coach Certification on CoreTransformation.org.

The full Core Transformation pathway runs:

Foundation
6 half-days
Advanced
A separate training over 5 half-days on Saturdays
Coach Certification
Multi-month, with supervised practice and mentoring

Most participants take Foundation as a standalone experience for personal development. Those who want to integrate the work into a professional practice progress through Advanced and Certification over the year that follows.

In her own words

What Others Say About The Foundation Workshop

For therapists and coaches

A Special Note For Professionals Who Want To Offer Core Transformation To Their Clients

To our dedicated therapists, life coaches, and executive coaches: We understand the unique challenges you face. Each day, you’re entrusted with the hopes, dreams, and struggles of your clients.

They look to you for guidance, for tools, and healing. You’re committed to the growth of your clients. That’s why you’re always on the lookout for methods that can deliver consistent, impactful results.

How Core Transformation Can Be A Catalyst for Change in Your Practice

Deep Client Relationships

By introducing Core Transformation into your sessions, you’re offering a profound experience that builds trust, understanding, and deep personal change that most clients will begin to notice after just 1–3 sessions.

Consistent, Reliable Outcomes

With Core Transformation, you’re not just using another tool; you’re using a proven method that consistently delivers. Whether it’s a client struggling with self-worth or another grappling with a challenging habit, this is a reliable process that works.

Attract and Retain Clients

The unique depth and effectiveness of Core Transformation can elevate your practice’s reputation. It can draw new clients seeking genuine, lasting change. It can also inspire existing clients to delve deeper, committing to more sessions as they get a glimpse of what’s possible working more deeply with you.

An Investment That Has The Potential To Pay You Back Many Times Over

Think of integrating Core Transformation into your practice as a strategic investment in your continuing education.

With just a few additional client sessions, not only does it pay for itself, but it also amplifies the value you provide. That leads to increased client satisfaction, retention, and referrals.

In a profession where results speak louder than words, Core Transformation can help you create the thriving practice you know you can have.

Disclaimer: We are not making income claims here. Just showing you how this is an investment that can pay for itself when applied correctly in your practice.

Your trainers

Introducing Your Guides

Lead trainer · Co-author

Tamara Andreas

Tamara Andreas is co-developer of the Core Transformation training curriculum, lead trainer of the live workshops, and co-author of Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within (Real People Press, multiple editions, translated into more than twelve languages). She has taught the work for over thirty years.

What participants notice in her training is how the method becomes inseparable from the way she teaches it. The Core Transformation steps are precise; Tamara teaches them precisely. The work asks for warmth toward parts of yourself you have been at odds with; Tamara teaches with that warmth in the room. Foundation graduates often come back for Advanced not because they need more content, but because the way Tamara holds the training is itself a model for how the work lives.

Her teaching draws on three decades of partnership with Connirae Andreas, the developer of the method. The two have refined the live training curriculum across hundreds of live workshops, incorporating what works for the wide range of people who arrive at this work — clinicians, coaches, parents, executives, people in the middle of a quiet personal reckoning. Tamara has watched what each kind of person needs from the trainings, and she has shaped the workshop to meet them.

Trainer · Author · Co-author of the research

Mark Andreas

Mark Andreas trains Core Transformation internationally and, together with Tamara, co-designed and co-teaches the Advanced Core Transformation and Coach Certification trainings. He is also the author of Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree: 61 Stories of Creative & Compassionate Ways out of Conflict and Waltzing with Wolverines: Finding Connection and Cooperation with Troubled Teens.

Mark made Core Transformation the heart of his own coaching practice in 2009, and has worked closely ever since with Connirae Andreas — his mother, and the developer of the method. So the way he teaches carries a direct line back to how the method was created, kept current with how it has grown in the years since.

Mark is also a co-author of the published research on Core Transformation.

How the room works

How Core Transformation Can Be a Catalyst for Change in Your Practice

In today’s digital age, we are no longer limited by geography. Our Core Transformation Foundation workshop harnesses the capabilities of Zoom to bring you a live, interactive experience, no matter where you are in the world.

Here’s what you can look forward to during the workshop:

Personal Interaction

Engage directly with the trainers (Tamara & Mark) and fellow participants. Ask questions, share insights, and be an active part of this learning experience.

Breakout Sessions

Dive deeper into the material with breakout sessions. These smaller groups allow for more intimate discussions, hands-on practice, and personalized feedback.

On-the-Spot Coaching

Should you need guidance or clarification during exercises, experienced coaches are available to assist, ensuring that you walk away being able to do this process with yourself and others.

Comfort and Convenience

Attend the workshop from the comfort of your own home, eliminating travel costs and time. All you need is a stable internet connection and the desire to transform.

Full schedule

Dates And Times

The Foundation workshop takes place over two weekends over zoom. Here is the full schedule:

1Fri. October 2310:00am – 2:00pm Denver Time4 hours
2Sat. October 2410:00am – 1:00pm Denver Time3 hours, followed by 30 min bonus Q & A time
3Sun. October 2510:00am – 2:30pm Denver Time4–4.5 hours
4Mon. October 2610:00am – 1:00pm Denver Time3 hours, followed by 30 min bonus Q & A time
5Sat. October 3110:00am – 2:00pm Denver Time4 hours, followed by 30 min bonus Q & A time
6Sun. November 110:00am – 1:00pm Denver Time3 hours

Four shifts

Graduates who bring Core Transformation into their professional work describe four shifts.

First, client sessions move on patterns that talk therapy was circling.
Second, the working alliance deepens — clients feel met by a method that does not require them to be different before they can be helped.
Third, the practitioner reports their own inner steadiness in the room: the Core Transformation method gives you somewhere to put your attention when a session opens into unfamiliar terrain.
Fourth, the methodology framework complements existing training rather than competing with it.

The result is not a new identity. It is a deeper version of the one you already have.

Common question

Can you take Core Transformation training online?

Yes. Core Transformation Foundation Training is taught live online by Tamara and Mark Andreas in a group format that includes live demonstration, supervised practice, and Q&A — the same architecture used in the in-person workshop. A self-paced video study option is also available as a separate Core Transformation Online Foundation video course.

Live online preserves what the in-person workshop offers and adds time-zone flexibility through session replays. What live online preserves that asynchronous video cannot is the real-time demonstration with a participant in the room — the moment of insight as it happens, the moment of adjustment when the next step needs a different angle. For a fuller overview of the methodology itself, see the Core Transformation methodology overview.

The Live Online Experience — Engaging, Interactive, Convenient

Sessions are taught live over Zoom in a group format. Each of the six sessions includes live demonstration with Tamara and Mark, breakout rooms for supervised practice with assistant trainers present, multiple Q&A blocks across the session. Replays of every session are posted within twenty-four hours for time-zone flexibility, and the complete recordings remain available for one year after the training.

What Others Say About the Foundation Workshop

Graduates often describe Foundation Training the same way: they came in with a specific pattern they wanted to change, and they left with a method for meeting every pattern that arrives after it. Below, one Foundation graduate describes that arc in her own words. A full transcript is available below the player.

Where the process applies

What People Bring to This Work

Core Transformation is not a single-issue technique. The process applies to any internal pattern that won’t yield to effort alone. People bring it to:

Anxiety and reactive fear states that take over before you can choose otherwise
The inner critic — the voice that knows exactly where you are most tender and uses it
Addictive patterns and compulsions that have outlasted every plan to stop them
Grief that does not move, even when you have done the things grief is supposed to move through
Relationship reactivity — the moment a partner, a parent, or a child can still pull you down a path you didn’t choose
Performance and creative blocks that arrive exactly when the work matters most
Body symptoms that carry emotional history — headaches, tightness, the chest that refuses to open
Spiritual longing without a destination — wanting something more, without knowing what it is
Patterns of overgiving that look like care from the outside and feel like depletion from the inside
The felt sense of being stuck without a name for what is in the way

What unites these patterns is not the surface complaint but the structure underneath: a part of you that has been working hard, in the only way it knows how, to reach a felt state it cannot name. The Core Transformation process gives it a path.

What changes

What Core Transformation Can Offer You

Peace under pressure — the felt sense that you can stay with what is happening without bracing against it

Presence in moments that used to spin you — a quiet steadiness that the situation no longer dictates

Trust in the parts of you that have been carrying the most — even the ones you’ve been at war with

A felt sense of integration replacing the felt sense of being divided against yourself

Aliveness returning where numbness had moved in

The recognition that what you have been searching for has been inside you all along, waiting to be approached the right way

Registration

Ready to learn the ten-step Core Transformation process from Tamara & Mark?

Oct 23–26 & 31–Nov 1, 2026 · $695 Early Bird · Live online with Tamara Andreas

Live demos, exercises, & Q & A
Support of experienced assistants
Access the recorded training for a year
Comprehensive manual
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Graduate stories

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For practitioners

A Note for Therapists, Coaches, and Helping Professionals

If you are a therapist, a coach, or another helping professional, you may already be wondering how Core Transformation lives alongside the modality you practice. The honest answer is that it does not displace what you do — it deepens it. Many graduates of this Foundation come from helping professions, and most begin the same way: not by replacing the work they were trained in, but by discovering they now have a complete, evidence-supported protocol for the cases that talk therapy did not move. The published research — two randomized controlled trials and one pilot — gives you a citation surface that the parts-work category has often lacked. And because the work approaches inner experience without pathologizing it, you do not have to ask your clients to translate themselves into a clinical frame to participate.

If you are already past the consumer-discovery threshold and want the certification pathway, the Core Transformation Coach Certification on CoreTransformation.org is the formal route. This Foundation is the prerequisite.

Already a practitioner ready for the certification pathway? Explore the Core Transformation Coach Certification at coretransformation.org →

Before you decide

A Letter from Tamara & Mark

Dear friend,

If you have ever tried to push past a pattern you can’t seem to shake — the anxiety that returns, the inner critic that won’t quiet, the relationship reaction you swore you wouldn’t repeat — you already know that force is not what changes it. Effort doesn’t transform a pattern. Something underneath does.

Core Transformation is the work of meeting that something underneath. It is a ten-step process, developed by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D., that follows even the most resistant inner pattern back to what it has been reaching for all along — a felt experience of peace, presence, being, and wholeness. The pattern does not need to be defeated. It needs to arrive at the place it was trying to take you the whole time.

Three peer-reviewed studies — two randomized controlled trials and one pilot — support how this work changes people. I, Tamara, have taught it for more than thirty years. In this live online workshop, I will teach you the complete process from the inside.

This work has been a thread through our lives for more than thirty years. What still moves us is watching a person sit with a part of themselves they have been fighting and, over the course of the ten steps, arrive somewhere they did not know was reachable. The pattern does not disappear by being defeated. It dissolves into the wholeness it had been searching for.

If you sense it might be time to learn this work from the inside, we would be honored to teach it to you.

An Investment That Pays You Back Many Times Over

Foundation Training is a single tuition for a lifetime skill. Once you know the ten steps and have practiced them with live guidance, the process applies to every pattern that arises across the rest of your life. There is no chapter where you stop having access to it. More than 500 graduates worldwide describe the same thing in different words: they returned to themselves, and they have a method for staying in that returning.

With care,

Tamara and Mark Andreas

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions participants most often ask before enrolling. If your question is not here, please reach out — Tamara and Mark read every inquiry.

Is there a refund policy?

Yes. If after the first day of the live workshop you decide Foundation Training is not the right fit, we offer a full refund less a $60 administrative fee, provided your written request reaches us within 24 hours of the Day 1 close. After Day 1, refunds are not available, but you keep access to the recorded sessions you have attended.

Can I pay in installments?

Yes — a 12-month payment plan is available. You can choose the payment plan during the registration process. There is a $30 additional admin fee; with the total Foundation tuition $625 at the Early Bird rate.

What happens if I miss a session?

Every live session is recorded and posted to your participant training portal within 24 hours, so you can watch any session you miss in full. The Bonus Complete Recordings give you one year access to all four workshop days plus the Oct 31–Nov 1 integration sessions, which means you can attend live for the parts you can attend and catch the rest on your own schedule.

How long do I have access to the recordings?

The recordings live in your participant portal for one year. Foundation graduates regularly report returning to specific demonstration recordings years later, when a new pattern in their life makes them want to walk the ten steps again with fresh attention.

What technology do I need?

A laptop or desktop computer with a working webcam and microphone, a stable broadband connection, and a current version of Zoom. A quiet space where you can be undisturbed during the 6 half-day training is strongly recommended — the work is internal and a settled environment makes a real difference. Tablets and phones work for viewing replays but are not recommended for live practice exercises.

Do I need previous Core Transformation or NLP experience?

No. Foundation is designed for total beginners with no prior Core Transformation or NLP background. Day 1 assumes nothing and walks you through the conceptual foundation before any live practice. Reading Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within before the workshop is helpful but not required — the book and the training reinforce each other rather than substituting for one another.

Who is this training NOT for?

Foundation Training is not a substitute for clinical care. If you are currently in crisis — acute suicidal ideation, active psychosis, or untreated severe trauma — this is not the right entry point; please work with a licensed clinician on stabilization first and consider Foundation later. The work also assumes you can engage with structured introspection for several hours at a stretch; if that is not currently sustainable, the self-paced Online Foundation video course is a gentler entry.

Are group rates or scholarships available?

A limited number of needs-based scholarships are available each cohort for students, helping professionals in low-paid contexts, and participants from regions where the standard tuition is structurally inaccessible.

Does this Foundation training certify me as a Core Transformation practitioner?

No — Foundation Training is for personal mastery of the ten-step process. Practitioner certification is a separate, longer pathway that begins with the Core Transformation Coach Certification at CoreTransformation.org. Foundation is a prerequisite for that pathway. Many participants take Foundation purely for personal use and never pursue certification; others use it as the first step toward integrating Core Transformation into a professional practice.

What comes after Foundation Training?

After Foundation, the natural next step for most participants is Core Transformation Advanced — a separate 6 half-day live online trainings that deepens the ten-step process and introduces additional applications. From Advanced, participants who want to certify proceed to the Core Transformation Coach Certification on CoreTransformation.org, which includes supervised practice and mentoring. Many graduates skip the certification track entirely and use the ten-step process in their own lives and informally with people they care about.

Core Transformation Foundation · Oct 23–26 & 31–Nov 1, 2026 $595 early bird · live online with Tamara and Mark Andreas