Belief Coding free seminar starting tomorrow

[SwordToFlamethrower]

I want to state straight off that I am AuDHD and I have fallen for scams and deceptions many times in the past. I've had a lot of therapy to help me see this so I'm extremely erm... scared/worried/confused and I'd like some kind help please.

Some very dear friends of mine (retired and very wealthy) have signed up to the Belief Coding facilitaor training at £2.5k a piece and they are both sending me links to a free life changing seminar starting tomorrow and they both think I'd really benefit from it.

I've looked at the website and it says science backed, life changing, will make me rich and my true self. I can't find anything to say that it would be helpful for me as a neurodiverse person. There are so many emojis all over the place! They claim to be able to cure PTSD and I have PTSD/cPTSD. My friends are trying to help me, I know.

Has anyone done the free seminar then gone on to do the facilitator training and can genuinely say it has been life changing and made all their dreams come true? Do you have to become a therapist? I don't have £2.5k, I'd have to use my credit card to pay, and I know that I'd be forced to sign up to it once I do this free seminar. I really struggle to say no in these situations and I'm scared of getting in over my head.

Please help!

Please help!

Any quick fix, get rich, get free from trauma kind of scheme is suspicious in my book.
especially asking for a £2.5k payment…
I would stear clear from this….

Please please please do not do this. Please walk away.

There is already a thread about Belief Coding which you should read. It’s a scam. On 1st October the Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints about Jessica Cunningham and her close associates false claims of being able to cure all sorts of mental heath conditions, physical conditions and chronic illnesses, including being able to cure dementia in one session. They are also lying about the research they’ve done; Belief Coding is NOT evidence based or science backed and you will see these terms have now been removed even though she continues to imply it’s science-backed. Keep in mind that her ‘chief medical officer” is a charlatan who doesn’t have so much as an undergraduate degree.

since her telling off from the ASA about false cure and research claims Jessica has shifted the emphasis to talking about “making six figures” from Belief Coding, so now it’s all false income claims. It’s basically a coaching pyramid scheme and anyone who has paid to train as a facilitator has entered a cult where Belief Coders treat each other and then buy more and more training or recruit others to buy training. Your friends are trying to pull you into something that will damage you psychologically (they are not qualified to treat PTSD) and it will damage you financially. PLEASE so no.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5262887-has-anyone-done-belief-coding-with-jess-cunningham?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

I have enough problems of my own, I can't be a facilitator. They reckon the free seminar will cure all my limiting self beliefs. I kinda like the sound of that, and I am curious. I've got nothing to lose with a free seminar I guess?

I don't want my friends to think that I'm resistant to helping myself get better, but I am scared about being scammed. I'll take a look at the other thread.

These people are not your friends.
friends will not ask you to sign up to an expensive “magical” program.
a friend would suggest therapy or the GP or maybe share their own experience of something a bit more unusual but a friend will not pressurise you into signing up to something

please don’t get involved. You are being put under pressure now and there will be more of that pressure once you’re there. That is the behaviour of a cult not a legitimate therapeutic approach. Let your friends think what they like, Belief Coding isn’t the way to getting better. I’ve spoken to a few people who have handed over thousands and are worse off psychologically. Jessica doesn’t do refunds, any polite request for a refund is met with blocking. They are also careless with data so you may find your private health details are used and shared.

You’d be actively damaging yourself to even contemplate this obvious scam, OP.

Trust your gut @SwordToFlamethrower - don’t do it. A free seminar will not cure anyone’s limiting self-beliefs: all it will do is empty your pockets and send you into a downward psychological spiral you’ll find even harder to overcome. If your friends continue to pressurise you into signing up to this dangerous, expensive cult (and they will, because they’re brainwashed) say no, repeatedly. Don’t give them any reasons for your decision, or they’ll twist them around and carry on persuading you. Remember: nobody can force you to do something you don’t want to do.

If a counselling approach is that effective surely it'd be funded by the nhs? I'd be very worried the free seminar will be a hard sell.

It’s no bad thing to want to address your limiting self beliefs or improve your life in whatever areas you choose, be that physical health, mental health, career, relationships etc but you’d be better off looking for a certified coach who specialises in that field.

This seminar is a scam and you’ll be under pressure to sign up for more.

OK thanks everyone. I'll tell them I will pass this time and see how they get on. I'm slightly worried they are being scammed themselves though

Hmm. Now it's a free seminar with the option to pay £47 to become a "VIP". Really not cool to separate people into very important vs not. I really am not liking this.

The only thing that will cure your mental health problems is appropriate therapy. A good start for PTSD would be EMDR and cPTSD would be psychoanalysis. But no webinar, or coaching, with a general message for everyone, will do anything but make you feel worse (which is when they'll come with the add-on payments...)

@SwordToFlamethrower glad you have questioned it. The VIP thing is just a way of extracting more money out of people. It’s to create a feeling that by not paying £47 you’re being left behind, missing out, don’t care about yourself, have the wrong mindset etc. They will make a it very clear during the “free” seminar that paying £47 is essential if you want the fast track to success or recovery or “transformation”. It’s a cruel gaslighting trick.

Thanks everyone. You've all been great, I was expecting to be roasted but you've helped me figure this out.