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becomeALPHA is a global organization with a mission to empower each of its members with complete control over his or her personal, social, and professional environment. As in the animal world, every group of humans is led by an Alpha Male and/or an Alpha Female. The science and art of achieving social dominance and empowering individuals to achieve unprecedented professional and personal success is what becomeALPHA teaches.

Basic Concepts

Sphere Model

The Sphere Model of social interaction is the framework used by becomeALPHA practitioners. It has three parts consisting of a beginning, middle, and end. Each one of those parts are further divided into three smaller parts, resulting in a nine step process. This same framework is used whether the end goal be negotiating a business relationship, or gaining the affections of the opposite sex. The nine steps are as follows:

Beginning: Attraction/Marketing

Step 1: Intent

What you are is a product of Survival and Replication. Who you are is a product of your Experiences and Beliefs. Your Intent is the product of these elements, this is the real you. This step is about how the real you builds the ambassador for you, your Persona.

When someone meets you, it is your social mask for that situation they actually meet. As has been said: the entire world is a stage, and we are all actors.

Mastery of this step is having a true, balanced, and informed Intent that can quickly and easily build a Persona in accurate representation of it’s self.

Step 2: Them to You Attraction

How well can you get someone’s attention and hold it? This step is about you getting a message out, your message.

Think of yourself as a television. Are you black and white, color, high definition possibly? How big is your screen? Who can see you? Who is looking at you? Do you have sound? Are there features like none as ever seen before like 3D?

Mastery of this step is like the TV commercial you can’t stop looking at with the slogan you can’t get out of your head. There is just something about it.

Step 3: You to Them Attraction

It’s not about the first thing you say or do, it’s all about what you say or do in response to their reply. This step is about engaging the other person and getting a positive interaction going that is of fun and benefit to both of you.

This looks similar to professional ping-pong, back and forth, again and again.

Mastery is to be able to turn and keep any interaction positive. In doing so, you find the other person’s uniqueness and value. The result is that you let them into your world because they have qualified themselves to be there.

Middle: Comfort/Sales

Step 4: Connection

Once they have qualified themselves to you, you begin to open up to them. This step is about building on the commonalities you discovered, and showing them more commonalities and interesting differences.

Like two opposing magnets held together by a playful and curious child’s hands, the similarities build the situation and the differences engage our emotions and make it fun.

Mastery of this step is when people who you have just met feel like they have known you for years.

Step 5: Rapport

This is the feeling of harmonious connection between people. This step is about them feeling comfortable with letting you see and interact with the real them.

Like the lion with a thorn in his paw. They feel that they know you well enough to let their defenses down.

Mastery of this step is when they realize that you understand their fears, failures, and frustrations.

Step 6: Trust

There comes a point in every new relationship where we need to know that the person likes us for us and things truly are compatible. This step is about their desire and need to finally balance the person they display to us (their Persona) with who they really are (their Intent).

Like the magician showing us how he does his tricks, the fear is that we will no longer be impressed with him if we know the truth. Truth however is the cornerstone for any relationship worth being in.

Mastery of this step is them trusting you enough to volunteer the negatives about themselves that you would not otherwise know about yet.

End: Closing the Deal

Step 7: Them to You Desire

They are ready. This step is about their willingness and only happens after a representation has been made that they want to be a part of and they trust this representation to be true.

Like a child who has been good all year at Christmas. The child sees all the presents waiting under the tree and knows what pleasantries await.

Mastering this step is not knowing, but rather a feeling that this process is proceeding with no more effort from you.

Step 8: You to Them Fulfillment

The game at this point is simple. You are the prize. They are the contestant. Everyone is a winner. This step is about everyone getting what they want and expected.

Fireworks are amazing. Even though everyone knows what to expect from them, they are still so amazing to watch.

Mastering this step requires two things. The first is mastering all of the other steps. The second, well when you have mastered it you will know and you won’t need anything written on this paper to remind you.

Step 9: Result

The game continues. This step is about you reaping the ongoing results of your work. Successfully setup, this is a place of minimal efforts and maximum benefits.

Like an elaborate perpetual motion mechanism, the patterns continue as you sit back and watch.

Mastering this step is a matter of personal preference. Ask yourself what, exactly, do you want?

Evolutionary Psychology and Genetics

Humans possess traits (including behavioral, emotional, and biological) that have been passed down through generations and preserved by natural selection because of their adaptive function in a given environment. However, the given environment of an evolutionary period 40,000 or more years ago is quite unlike the environment that humans live in today. Traits that were at one time helpful to humans may now be a hindrance to them in their modern environment. The goal is to comprehend the programming and behaviors that humans have developed through evolution and to understand what parts of this programming are now detrimental to them.

Experience and Belief

The unconscious part of the human brain can process approximately two million bits of information per second (American Pacific University, 2007). Unfortunately, however, the conscious part of the brain is, for the most part, disconnected from this information. On a conscious level, humans can handle only 126 bits of information per second. A human being's concept of "reality" is actually less than %0.001 of actual reality. A human being's belief system dictates what, and more importantly how, they choose and process these 126 bits each second.

Training

becomeALPHA teaches a series of training seminars in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney, and London. Training consists of both lecture time learning their Sphere Model of social interaction and live in-field practice of the model in public. becomeALPHA has been featured in articles by Forbes, The Washington Post, and USA Today.