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The Advanced Training is the second step in MITT's three-part program. Participants come to it after completing the Basic Training, often months or even years later, when they're ready to take the work further.
If the Basic Training is about identifying what's been getting in your way, the Advanced Training is about building the tools to move forward — practical, applied, repeatable tools you'll use in your work, your relationships, and the everyday decisions that shape your life.
Here's what to expect.
The Advanced Training is five days of immersive work, generally held at one of the major business hotels near Los Angeles International Airport — the same venues used for the Basic Training. Sessions run across consecutive days, with scheduled breaks throughout and a longer meal break in the middle of each day.
The Advanced Training is smaller than the Basic — typically 60 to 90 participants per session. That smaller group size is intentional. The work in Advanced asks more of each participant in terms of practice, application, and direct interaction, and the smaller room makes that level of engagement possible. You're not one of two hundred faces. You're a participant in a working group where every person matters.
Participants come from every walk of adult life, the same range that fills any MITT training: entrepreneurs, executives, healthcare professionals, educators, artists, retirees, business owners, parents, people in their twenties and people in their seventies. What everyone has in common is that they've completed Basic, they've sat with what they learned, and they've decided they're ready for the next step.
The Basic Training is largely about awareness. Participants identify the patterns, beliefs, and assumptions that have been quietly shaping their decisions — often for years or decades. That awareness is meaningful on its own. Many people feel significantly different after Basic.
But awareness without application has a ceiling. You can see clearly what's been getting in your way and still not have the tools to do anything different. That's the gap Advanced is designed to close.
The Advanced Training focuses on clarity, communication, and effectiveness — the practical skills that turn insight into changed behavior. Participants work on:
These are not abstract concepts. They are tools designed to be used. Participants leave Advanced with frameworks they can apply the same week — in a difficult conversation at work, in a long-overdue conversation with a family member, in a decision they've been circling without making.
Participants often describe a noticeable shift in how the work feels between the two programs.
The Basic Training meets you where you are and helps you see yourself more clearly. The Advanced Training meets you where you've become and helps you build out from there. Many participants describe Basic as the program that opened their eyes, and Advanced as the program that taught their hands what to do with what their eyes now saw.
The smaller group size, the longer format, and the more applied curriculum combine to create a different kind of experience — more focused, more practical, and often more directly transferable to the situations participants are navigating in their actual lives.
"We both did the Advanced Training at MITT. We're building a women's health startup, and every day brings new opportunities and challenges. At Advanced, we learned how to effectively communicate, grow in our leadership, and develop a much more solid working relationship and friendship. We use the communication tools we learned at Advanced every single day."
— Dr. Mia Chorney, DNP, and her business partner, co-founders of a women's health startup
Mia is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and co-founder of a women's health startup. She and her business partner attended the Advanced Training together and continue to apply what they learned in the daily work of building their company.
This is one of the patterns we hear most often from Advanced graduates: the tools become daily practice. Not something they did once and remember fondly, but something they actively use — in meetings, in difficult conversations, in decision-making, in the small moments that compound into a working life.
As with the Basic Training, leadership runs through the Advanced curriculum. But the leadership focus shifts. Where Basic introduces participants to leadership as a quality of how they show up, Advanced asks: now that you can see this in yourself, how do you actually do it? How do you lead a conversation that needs to happen? How do you lead a team that's stuck? How do you lead yourself through a decision you've been avoiding?
The exercises are designed in the same category of pedagogy used in MBA leadership programs, Fortune 500 corporate training, and graduate-level work on team dynamics — but applied to a deeper layer than Basic offered. Participants are not learning leadership theory. They are practicing leadership behavior, in the room, with each other, with stakes that feel real because the work is real.
Throughout each of the five days, there are scheduled snack breaks roughly every two to three hours, and a longer meal break in the middle of the day. Restroom access is always available — participants can step out as needed, and we ask only that you align with the designated breaks when you reasonably can.
As with Basic, some exercises in Advanced are structured so that the team's performance — not a clock — determines when the exercise concludes. Most evenings conclude by midnight, though the precise end time depends on how each exercise unfolds. The structure is honest about this variability rather than promising a hard schedule the work itself doesn't allow for.
If you have a medical condition that requires specific timing — medication, blood sugar management, mobility considerations, dietary requirements — please tell us during enrollment. We work with participants to accommodate medical needs.
Different people take away different things. The patterns we hear most often from Advanced graduates:
The most common reflection from Advanced graduates, months or years out, is this: the tools work. Not magically, not without effort, but reliably. The frameworks become part of how they think, and the practical changes in their daily lives become evidence of work that actually lived past the program.
Advanced Training is open to graduates of MITT's Basic Training. If you've completed Basic and you're considering the next step, here's what we'd suggest:
Mastery in Transformational Training (MITT) is a Los Angeles-based leadership and personal development training organization. The Advanced Training is the second step in MITT's three-part program, following the Basic Training. Learn more at masterytraining.com.