The International Institute for Radical Forgiveness and Leadership (IIRFL) has been borne out of the Institute for Radical Forgiveness, which was developed by Colin Tipping in 1997. In 2018, Colin chosen Godfrey O’Flaherty to be the Custodian and owner of the Radical Forgiveness work. Godfrey has bought all the Radical Forgiveness Intellectual Property, as well as the business of Radical Forgiveness, as a Global Enterprise from Collin Tipping.
The Institute’s mission is to raise consciousness through expanding forgiveness across the globe. The IIRFL is the official international body which will govern all the work of Radical Forgiveness, globally.
Radical Forgiveness has been translated into 9 languages across 51 countries. The IIRFL accredit and register coaches across the globe, to add to its already thriving body of coaches and students.
Additionally, IIRFL will continue to expand its global reach, as it recently set up the Africa Institute Affiliate for IIRFL. The Africa Institute will work throughout the continent in the field of forgiveness and as a bridge-building institution for individuals, organizations and communities.
Training and Development
Under the direction of Godfrey O’Flaherty, we are establishing a Centre for Research, to focus on coaching research about the impact of forgiveness and healing of the body, mind and soul. The Institute is in the process of refreshing our current Radical Forgiveness Coaching and developing other future programs, including:
The IIRFL will house the Colin Tipping Foundation, in loving memory of Colin and his incredible work. This foundation will be a philanthropic organization, managed on behalf of funders. It aims to create projects and programs run under the Radical Forgiveness banner that will facilitate emotional healing around the world. Using the Radical Forgiveness methodologies, projects will include developing youth leaders, addressing gender base discrimination and guiding communities globally on dealing with social challenges. (Using the Radical Forgiveness technology, example projects include developing youth leaders, empowering woman and dealing with social challenges faced by communities around the world.)
IIRFL seeks to play a more active role in the education space. We aim to equip the youth globally, especially from disadvantageous communities to deal effectively with the challenges these communities face. With this aim in mind we strive to contribute constructively to the emotional wellbeing of young learners, throughout the world. The Colin Tipping philanthropy foundation will fund these international systemic forgiveness projects. The mission of the Colin Tipping Foundation is to facilitate emotional wellbeing, living with awareness and resilience which will enable learners to embrace, advance and develop their full human potential.
Finally, leadership development is also at the heart of the Institute’s future focus. With the IIRFL, Godfrey seeks to use his passion and experience in leadership development, by creating programs that will help leaders in communities, organizations and all walks of life to rise above their own egos and in so doing being released from their shadow that derails them from their purpose. In this way, the IIRFL aims to bring reconciliation and promote healing through Radical Forgiveness programs.
The International Institute for Radical Forgiveness and Leadership looks forward to partnering with you on this personal growth and development journey
Muss Hernandez, our senior coach in Lima, Peru put this 10-week class together a couple of years ago, and it’s proven to be an absolute winner. Not only do the people who attend the class love it and find it life-changing, they actually sell it for you by telling all their friends about it once they’ve experienced it. That means that once you get it going, it multiplies exponentially with little or no marketing. It builds and builds organically.
Muss very kindly has written it up in detail, week by week, for us all to use, so all the heavy lifting is done for you really. Just do it like she tells you, and it will be a success. She and Colin trained many coaches in Lima, and many of them are now doing the 10-week class very successfully. That means it is not just because Muss is doing it, or that she is more gifted than anyone else, and that no one else can do it. Not in the least.
With the template she has given you, there is no doubt that you can offer a 10-week course immediately and begin building your business. You’ve already run a book-study group so you should have found a level of comfort in that role by now, so there’s no reason to delay. In fact, we give it as an assignment to begin setting a 10-week class now, so that you will have completed it by the end of this course.
Your first one is likely to start small at first. Muss had just 3 people in her first class, but she gave it her all nevertheless. She now takes 25 people in a class and has a waiting list. She finds it quite easy to have three classes running concurrently. Some people like to do it in an afternoon session, while others do it in the evening, and others at the weekend, so it’s easy to spread the load that way. And, it is only a 3-hour time commitment for each group each week, so it’s not difficult to sustain. Business-wise, it’s a no-brainer.
Let’s say you charge $450 at the beginning for the entire course. You will up your price properly as demand grows, but we’ll do the math right now with $450.
If 5 people sign up, you make $2,250 — and that’s for 3 hours work per week; with a total of 30 hours @$75 an hour.
If 10 people sign up, you make $4,500 — 3 hours per week; total 30 hours. @$150 an hour. That’s what you will earn with 10 people.
If 20 people sign up, you make $9,000 — for the same time commitment of 3 hours a week. Total 30 hours and now you are doing it @ $300 an hour.
Compare that to doing 3 one hour sessions per week @ say, $75 per hour = $225.
10 weeks, doing 3 sessions per week = $2,250. And, that’s assuming you actually get enough clients to give you those 30 sessions in a 10-week time frame. Not impossible, but doubtful when you’re first starting out.
And, that $2,250 is it, whereas with a course, for same time commitment you make more money by having more people in the class. And, that’s called leveraging your time.
Bear in mind too, that your client acquisition cost for that number of private sessions will be a lot higher than enrolling 5 people for one 10-week class. Also, it is likely that quite a number of those who do your class will want some private sessions as well, so it is, without doubt, the best strategy to use in building your practice and making good money.
The way to get people to attend your class is by doing some local advertising perhaps, creating a Facebook Business page, using Facebook Live, and other social media. You may only get a few people at first, but you do the course anyway no matter what. Once you’ve done the first one, the word gets out, and it builds very quickly.
If you are not in a very populated area and you feel you might not get many people, you can run virtual classes using Skype or Zoom. However, our experience is that it’s sometimes easier to create a reputation for something in a less populated area than in a big city, so don’t use this as an excuse. You may find being a big fish in a small pond is a big advantage.
In the next video, we’ll go over the outline of the 10-week class, as Muss has written it. Our advice is to do it exactly how she has designed it. It is a model that works so don’t mess with it. When you’ve done few then you might get creative with it and make your own, but not yet.
So, good luck with it.