Christopher Howard Breakthrough to Success - what is it?

Hello, its been a year since this last post, but it is obvious that Chris Howard is going strong as i just attended some of his 3-day free "Breakthrough to Success" seminar in Melbourne, Australia. First off, we were introduced to Chris's right hand man. The first challenge we were faced with was finding 5 strangers in the crowd and going up to them and acting as if we were long lost friends who hadnt seen each other for a while. Very frightening but it got the enrgy levels way up(fear will do that...ever scared each other with stories until any noise in the house got you shaking...remember what the energy level was like) well, this is what happened. Then we went on to high fives with complete strangers every five minutes and repeated a mantra like, "I want this course," "I need Chris," "I love Chris," and so on. They then introduced a game where a person from the crowed was selected and they could win one of his packs or courses($000's of dollars worth) so every one went crazy with excitment. So they did a very good job of raising everyones energy levels. In fact, this is what i believe there main strength was. Getting everyone to feel good and energised. And intermittently, we would have to scribble down some notes in a book on something we found fault with ourselves with. And then share it with someone. This made you feel inadequate and unsuccessful for the moment, but at the same time, it made you bond with the strangers. All of this created a sense of belonging. And once that happened, you felt the extreme peer pressure to behave exactly the way the crowd was behaving. If you were told to scream that you love Chris, you did it. If you had to dance like a chicken(which we were told to do) you did it. And if you thought about not doing it(which any individual person would) you felt a greater shame about being the "black cloud" amongst the sun filled crowd. So you went along with it. And the more you went along with it, the more you believed it and lost your indentity Unfortunately for the Chris Group, there are lunch breaks, and the real world creeps back in, and after seeing the REAL sunlight of the day, i was struck by the absurdity of it all, especially once Chris finally made it to the stage. (Not being personal, just saying my first impressions), he looked like a used car salesman. Wasnt as enthusiastic as i thought a guru would be, had a great voice(reminded my exactly of Anthony Robins voice), and overall, looked quite normal. (didnt have that X-factor we look for in leaders). So im at this confrence looking for NLP improvement techniques. It goes for three days: from 9am to 11pm Friday, 9am to midnight on saturday, and 8am to 8pm Sunday. I guess there would be a lot of techniques taught and cutting edge stuff as they said they had. Well, there wasnt. For the one day i was there. The two bits of NLP he taught were concepts which were so old and basic that you could find it in any old NLP book. I actually went to the state library the day before to read up on NLP and the book i chose was about using NLP on a large crowd. The techniques Chris was using to wow us was classic text book stuff. "let the crowd finish sentences," "have inspiriational posters or posters of what you want to convey around the building," "find the values of the audience and then create anchors for them," etc etc. So, as i said ealrier, the best thing they did was using these techniques to make us part with our money. I left at about 4:30pm on the first day. I went back the day after for an hour to see how everyone was going. The crowd went absolutely crazy when they introduced the game they play each day to win a course. The talk had nothing to do with techniques, but subtle and not so subtle ways to hype the crowd, generate a mob mentatlity, and like you all said earlier in others posts, make you feel incomplete, promise you the completeness, and then dangel it infront of you. I believe they actually never make you feel complete because the only place to find it is on the inside, and from within, and that they do not do this because what they offer is all external fillers. If you are thinking of going to the 3-day breakthrough to success seminar, then go for a laugh and an insight into how Hitler used the same techniques to instigate his corruption(i really believe this). And ill end the post with the same analogy i gave to a few friends once i had left: "Chris Howards enterprise is like the Casino. They promise you wealth and riches, but in the end, the house always wins."

I've never ever heard of that program, but odds are you should stay away from it. So many of those things are scams and just ways to prey on people who desperate for solutions. I would steer clear!