The Want^® Institute offers group instruction on the principles of communicating with integrity to help individuals and organizations to achieve goals of personal success, to enrich their personal and professional lives, and to create win/win situations in all their day-to-day activities. Success in life is not an accident...it's a learnable skill. The Institute was founded to promote and teach this skill, using the technique of WANT^® TRAINING.

The WANT^® TRAINING system works by helping you to avoid negative and self-destructive speech patterns that create emotional bottlenecks in your personal and business relationships. It teaches you to recognize and successfully deal with gaming, intimidation and seduction patterns used on you by others. Finally, it shows you how to achieve your goals through the simple technique of asking for what you want, and saying "No" to what you don't want. the Institute's facilitators help participants to achieve their personal and financial goals in life and to create successful interpersonal relationships by using these innovative, proven and patented WANT^® Training Techniques that allow you to "Speak Rationally, Decide Rationally, and Disagree Rationally."

Participants of the Institute's popular seminars include thousands of health care professionals, marriage and family counselors, executive leadership workshops and the public at large throughout the country. The power of WANT^® TRAINING has also been recognized by CNN, FOX Television, and PSI Seminars and has been endorsed by many notable celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Marianne Williamson and comedian-turned-psychologist Yakov Smirnoff.

Established in 1976, the Want^® Institute is a not-for-profit California Corporation operating for scientific, educational and charitable purposes. The Institute is also a Federally Registered and Approved Health Care provider, National Provider Identifier (NPI) 1912034216.

The founder of The WANT^® Institute is Transactional Analyst and Psychotherapist Dr. Pat Allen, who has been a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist for 34 years, and is also a nationally-renowned lecturer and the author of the best-selling books Getting to "I Do" and Staying Married & Loving It. The Institute was established to promote Dr. Pat Allen's system for personal growth, WANT^® Training, which employs her unique patented system of Androgynous Semantic Realignment, a cognitive behavioral modification technique, to identify and repair negative language habits. Because we think with words, changing those words changes the way we think, and directly affects the way we live.

Using WANT^® Training, you can learn how to use words as tools to get what you want out of life, to communicate lovingly and in a non-threatening manner, to confront men and women in a respectful-cherishing way, and to achieve fundamental self-esteem and restore good physical and mental health. She promises: "You can drive yourself sane using the same tools used to drive us crazy every day...words."

Please Consider Making a Contribution the WANT^® Institute.

We're always in need your support. The Want^® Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Ask your tax consultant about the benefits of making a tax-deductible donation. You can also mail your Tax Deductible Donations made out to "WANT^® Institute," in care of Dr. Pat Allen, Director of the Want^® Institute, 3355 Via Lido, Suite 205, Newport Beach, CA 92663. For more information please contact Jim Hallowes, Associate Director, at 310/390-4767. Thank you!

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