FAQ’s

Personal Breakthroughs

• What is a Life Coach?What is a Life Coach?

  A Life Coach is one who helps you to improve the quality of your life and attain your goals; one who partners with you in a thought-provoking, creative, yet structured, process that inspires and empowers you to maximize your potential and make your dreams come true.

  One-on-one coaching at Breakthrough Adventures involves dedicating 1 hour each week with Jason Sugar, 3 times a month, to focus 100% on you having the breakthrough you want. This is how it looks:

  Speak Your Mind & Heart: Jason will listen to you closely—with mindfulness and without judgment—as you discover and face your fears; so closely, in fact, that you’ll hear yourself speak aloud dreams and desires that you didn’t even know were in you—or maybe just haven’t had the nerve to say.

  Open To New Points of View: Jason will guide you through a process to explore your shadow side and break through the inner barriers of your limiting beliefs and disempowering stories—to a crystal clear vision of your values and goals, and what’s REALLY possible for you.

  Identify New Actions: Jason will help you identify the steps you need to take to reach your goals—as you dare to go for what you really want. Jason will also help you develop a personal “praxis” to help you integrate new ways of thinking with new actions in your daily life.

  Be Accountable: Jason makes sure you keep your eye on your vision—and he makes sure you remember that you’re worthy of it. You can count on him to call you on your “stuff”—consistently and lovingly. Not to make you “wrong”, but to remind you who you REALLY are—and what you’re committed to.

  Coaching is not counselling, therapy, consulting, or mentoring. Counselling and therapy are about healing pain, dysfunction and conflict from the past; consulting is about specialized expertise; and mentoring is about sharing one’s experience in a specific area or industry. Coaching is about, “What do you want a breakthrough in? What do you want to create moving forward?”

  Note: according to the American Society for Training & Development, only 10% of people who simply come up with a goal are likely to complete it; whereas 95% of people who commit to someone else that they will do it AND have an accountability structure in place are likely to complete it.

• What does the Breakthrough Process have to do with the “Think. Be. Do. Have.” paradigm?What does the Breakthrough Process have to do with the “Think. Be. Do. Have.” paradigm?
  The Breakthrough Process is one of personal discovery and re-creation, and has as its foundation the following model of reality: “As I think, so I am; as I am, so I do; and as I do, so I have”.

  Meaning, it is our thoughts—our point of view, perspective, stories, judgments, etc.—that give us our experience of life, that make us feel the way we feel; and it’s our experience that drives our actions, our behaviour; and it’s our behaviour that, to a great extent, produces the results in our lives.

  The flow is from thought to feelings to actions to circumstances—contrary to how most of us live most of the time. We normally tend to think that circumstances drive our behaviour and make us feel what we feel; however, within this paradigm, we recognize that it’s our thoughts ABOUT our circumstances that make us feel what we feel—not the circumstances themselves.

  Hence the “discovery” process. First, we examine our circumstances to see what’s not working in a particular area of our life; then we identify our (usually automatic and ineffective) behaviour in this area; then we acknowledge our (usually unwanted) feelings; and finally, we discover the (usually default) beliefs that are giving us our feelings, driving our behaviour and producing our (usually limited) results.

  Then there’s the “re-creation” process—which begins with acceptance.

  When we show compassion and love to ourselves and choose to accept—in this moment—all that we have discovered, without judgment, we create a new space for ourselves. We experience the “space” to shift our point of view to one that inspires and empowers us, one that makes us feel good. Which then of course drives us to take much more effective and powerful actions that produce expanded results in our life.

  This is why such great power, freedom and joy are possible within this paradigm. With awareness and a commitment to be responsible, we can learn to consciously and intentionally choose our thoughts. From which flow our experience, behaviour and circumstances!

  For more insight and information about this paradigm, please read “As A Man Thinketh” by James Allen; here’s what he has to say in his foreword:

  “This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that, ‘They themselves are makers of themselves.’ by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage.

  That mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.”

• Is this new age stuff?Is this new age stuff?
  You could say that. But like most—if not all—things “new age”, this is actually quite ancient wisdom, thought to have its origins in a 25,000 year old oral tradition.
• Where can I find out more about The Coaching Game?Where can I find out more about The Coaching Game?

  You can find out pretty much anything you’d want to know—and buy your own copy of the game—on breakthroughcoachinggame.com.

  But if you DO have any question that isn’t answered, or would like to talk to someone about the game, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you!

Scuba Diving

• What is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT)?What is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT)?

  A PADI MSDT is a dive instructor who, in addition to being able to teach the Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue, Divemaster, and Emergency First Response courses, is also certified to teach a minimum of 5 specialties (e.g. Wreck, Deep, Photography, etc.).

  For Jason Sugar’s specific dive instructor ratings, please visit the About Us page.

• Is scuba diving safe?Is scuba diving safe?

  The short answer is—yes. Very safe.

  While it is difficult to make comparisons to other sports or activities due to lack of data on how often people participate in these activities, it is estimated that both riding a bicycle on a city street and being a passenger in an automobile are more dangerous than scuba diving.

• Do I need to bring my own equipment?Do I need to bring my own equipment?
  Just your swimsuit! We provide everything else you’re going to need.

The Breakthrough Adventures Program

• Who will benefit from taking this program?Who will benefit from taking this program?

  This program is perfect for you if:

  1. You are open to NEW EXPERIENCES and you feel this unique program is a good fit to help you create the results and satisfaction you want in your life.
  2. You are highly motivated, COMMITTED and ready to create a personal breakthrough.
  3. You are willing to do the INNER work and outer work necessary to create success.
  4. You are open to being COACHED and supported in the process.
  5. You have a reasonable level of HEALTH and are medically fit to scuba dive. *
  6. Investing in this high-level program will not be a financial burden for you and your family.

  If this is you, you will experience lasting, life-changing benefits—you can count on it!

  * If you have certain pre-existing medical conditions, then you need to have the written approval of your physician to engage in SCUBA diving/training (please download and read the PADI medical statement for more information on this.)

• Does it work?Does it work?

  In a word, no.

  IT doesn’t work—YOU work.

  OK, we’re making a point here. Yes, absolutely—if you are open, take the coaching, and do the work—you will experience a profound transformation.

• Why are you combining scuba diving with personal development?Why are you combining scuba diving with personal development?

  We could go on and on about why scuba diving is the perfect context for personal development (more of which is outlined here).

  For example, we could describe how it allows you to experience an entirely new level of mental, emotional and spiritual well-being; or how it challenges your everyday way of relating to yourself and the world; or how stepping through a specific fear and accomplishing a challenge creates self-confidence.

  Or how exploring a completely different world helps you shift your perspective on your self and the world; or how the dive instruction process promotes reflection on feelings at peak moments to create further insight and understanding.

  But the truth? The real reason Jason Sugar chose scuba diving? Because he loves it almost as much as he loves personal development. It brings him joy.

  And, for Jason, “Joy is the point!”

• What is a Breakthrough Praxis?What is a Breakthrough Praxis?

  One may define “praxis” as, “the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas”.

  We like the following definition: “integrating belief and behaviour”. Putting what you believe in your mind—and feel in your heart—into action in your life.

  Specifically, a Breakthrough Praxis is a series of actions that you take—some scheduled, some not—to move you through each step of the Breakthrough Process, each and every day.

  Steps you take to help you examine what’s not working in your life; to identify your “automatic” behaviour, acknowledge and share your feelings, discover and share your underlying belief, and choose a new—and empowering—point of view.

• Can I do the program alone, or with someone else?Can I do the program alone, or with someone else?
  Both—you can do the program either alone, or with someone else. The package price will of course increase if you’re doing it alone (as you don’t get to share the accommodation fees), but it doesn’t impact the program itself.
• Why did you choose Bonaire?Why did you choose Bonaire?
  Bonaire has swept top honors as a dive destination for the 9th consecutive year, receiving 11 awards; it is outside the “hurricane belt”, has year-round sunshine, low rainfall, pristine coral formations, and the most thriving fish population in the Caribbean.
• What immediate results can I expect out of the program?What immediate results can I expect out of the program?

  The single most profound result from doing this program is really getting that your experience in each moment is a function of your thoughts in that moment; and that, by becoming masterful at choosing your thoughts, you are able to effectively choose how you feel—regardless of where you are, what you’re doing, what you have, or what’s going on around you.

  You get to say, for example, if you feel anger, sadness, or anxiety—or freedom, peace, or joy. Now—you won’t be masterful at this after just one week. But you will have learned—and experienced the power of—the Breakthrough Process. And you will be inspired to put it into practice in your daily life.

  More on this can be found on the Benefits page, however here are some other results you can expect:

  • Break through any fear or anxiety around diving
  • Ability to break through any fear or barrier in your life
  • A personal Breakthrough Praxis to integrate what you’ve learned and experienced into your life
  • A community of “heroes”—to inspire, and be inspired by
  • Reshape some of your existing perceptions and habitual ways of thinking
  • Experience exhilaration, awe, joy, energy, tranquility, wonder, appreciation
  • Increase awareness and mindfulness
  • Deeper connection to—and appreciation of—the Universe, and Self
  • Ability to dive anywhere in the world to 18M with a “buddy”
• What qualifies you to lead people through this program?What qualifies you to lead people through this program?

  Jason Sugar has been doing his own personal development work for the last 25 years. And in the last 5 years, he has taken his training and development to a whole new level—including becoming a professional Life Coach and PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer.

  He received his coach training and certification at Erickson College, one of the first coach training institutions in the world to be accredited by the International Coach Federation, in a powerful, NLP-based, “solution focused” coaching model.

  Jason has studied and coached at Landmark Education, completing the Curriculum For Living as well as numerous Leadership Programs, Communications courses and seminars. He has studied a variety of personal development and leadership training programs, including the Mankind Project’s New Warrior Training Adventure and Primary Integration & Leadership Training.

  But perhaps what most qualifies him—more than his training, experience, and passion—is that he has done, and continues to do, his own work. He has created personal and professional breakthroughs in his own life, has transformed decades of anger, judgment, and fear and is living his life with power, freedom and joy.

• How often do you do the program?How often do you do the program?
  Approximately every 1 – 2 months.
• Why is the “post-program” coaching important?Why is the “post-program” coaching important?

  Two reasons.

  First of all, until you start to gain some mastery over the Breakthrough Process and develop some familiarity with new, empowering ways of thinking and being, it can be quite challenging to do the work on your own.

  When you are “in your story”, which is years or even decades old, you don’t see that anything else is possible in that moment. In that moment, it’s kind of like trying to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. Not easy.

  Second, a crucial part of the process is to acknowledge and share with someone else a) your disempowering thoughts, b) your acceptance (in the moment) of your thoughts, feelings, and circumstances, and c) your new, empowering point of view.

  It helps to have a “structure” to support you in this—a relationship in which you regularly have the opportunity to do this.

• What forms of payment do you take? And by when is full payment required?What forms of payment do you take? And by when is full payment required?

  Full payment for the Program is required to confirm and guarantee your place. Payment can be made by credit card, debit card or Paypal, and charges on your credit card statement will appear under the heading BREAKTHRU. All payments are charged in US funds.

  Our refund policy is as follows:

  60 to 45 days prior—75% refundable
  45 to 30 days prior—50% refundable
  30 to 15 days prior—0% refundable

• I’m thinking about signing up—what’s the next step?I’m thinking about signing up—what’s the next step?

  Fantastic! Contact us to set up a Discovery Session and together we will confirm that you and the Breakthrough Adventures program are indeed a perfect fit.

  We look forward to hearing from you!