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If you're considering MITT's Basic Training, you probably want to know what you're walking into. Not the marketing version. The actual version.
Here it is.
The Basic Training is three days of immersive work. Day one begins at 10:00 a.m. on Friday. The program continues through Saturday and Sunday. The room typically holds up to 200 participants from every walk of adult life — entrepreneurs, retirees, parents, professionals, college students, people in their seventies, people who just turned eighteen — led by a trained lead facilitator who has worked with thousands of participants over years of practice.
The three days are designed as a continuous arc. Each day builds on the work of the day before. Friday opens the room and starts the work. Saturday goes deeper. Sunday brings things to a close — and concludes with a celebration that participants' friends and family are invited to attend.
The room is held at a major business hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. You go home each night and return the next morning. Your life — your job, your family, your relationships — continues alongside the training, not in suspension of it.
There's a perception, sometimes, that immersive personal development training is heavy, serious, or somber. The Basic Training is not that. It is real work, and parts of it ask something of you — but the room is also alive, energetic, often joyful, and frequently surprising.
There are exercises designed to help participants identify and let go of long-held limiting beliefs. There are exercises in self-awareness, in honest communication, in seeing yourself and others more clearly. There are exercises in leadership — particularly in the kind of leadership that comes from how you show up rather than from the authority of a title.
There are also activities that are genuinely fun. Music. Movement. Moments of shared laughter that surprise people who arrived expecting something more clinical. The facilitator holds the room in a way that allows participants to be serious when the work calls for it and to be lighthearted when the moment is one of celebration or play. Both modes serve the work.
Participants engage as individuals, in pairs, in small groups, and as a whole team. The variety is intentional — different kinds of exercises require different group configurations, and the rhythm of the three days moves between them.
If there's a single theme that runs through the Basic Training, it's leadership. Not leadership in the corporate-org-chart sense — though it serves people in those roles too — but leadership as a quality of how you show up in your own life. How you take responsibility for outcomes. How you contribute to a team. How you make decisions when no one is telling you what to do. How you support the people around you without losing yourself.
Many of the exercises are designed in a structure familiar to anyone who has done leadership work in MBA programs, Fortune 500 corporate training, military officer development, or graduate-level coursework on team dynamics. The exercises ask teams to make collective decisions, to take collective action, to navigate disagreement, and to find solutions that work for everyone in the room — not just for the loudest voice or the most senior person.
This is one reason MITT participants include so many people in formal leadership roles in their own work — executives, business owners, team leads, healthcare administrators, educators, and others who understand that this category of pedagogy produces real, applicable insight. It's also one reason participants who aren't in formal leadership roles often discover, in the course of the work, that they have more capacity for leadership than they knew.
One of the questions prospective participants ask most often is: when does each day end?
The honest answer is that it depends on how the team works together. Several of the Basic Training's leadership exercises are structured so that the team's performance — not a clock — determines when an exercise concludes. The exercises end when the team arrives at a working solution. Some teams arrive there quickly. Some take longer.
This is not unique to MITT. It is the same pedagogical structure used in MBA leadership programs, corporate executive training, military officer development, and academic research on team dynamics. Variable end times are how this category of exercise teaches collective accountability — the lesson is that the team's outcome is shaped by the team's choices, and an artificial time limit would defeat the point.
We don't name the specific exercises in advance for a reason that matters: their value depends on participants encountering them without rehearsal. A team that has researched the solution in advance can't actually learn what the exercise is designed to teach. Protecting that experience is part of how we honor the work each participant came to do.
In practical terms: most evenings conclude by midnight, though the precise end time depends on how each exercise unfolds. Some evenings end earlier when the team works through the material more quickly. The structure is honest about this variability rather than pretending to a hard schedule the work itself doesn't allow for.
Throughout each day, there are scheduled breaks: short 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, so the group exercises aren't repeatedly interrupted.
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.
Your physical well-being is not in tension with the work. It is part of how the work happens.
The Basic Training ends with a celebration on Sunday evening.
This is a graduation in the warmest sense of the word. Participants invite the people in their lives — partners, parents, adult children, friends, siblings, colleagues — to join them in the room. The graduation is a chance for guests to see the energy of the community their loved one has been part of for the past three days, to meet the facilitator and other participants, and to share in the moment of completion.
It's also, candidly, one of the most joyful evenings in the program. People are tired in the good way that comes from real work. They are connected to the people they did the work with. And they're surrounded by the people from their everyday lives who came to celebrate them. For many guests, the graduation is also where curiosity about MITT begins — not because anyone is being sold to, but because they see the result of three days of meaningful work in someone they love.
Guests are not asked to commit to anything. They're asked to come, observe, meet people, and celebrate. What happens after that is entirely up to them.
Different people take away different things. The patterns we hear most often:
None of this is guaranteed. The work, like any meaningful work, depends on what each participant brings to it. But for the people who engage fully, the outcomes tend to be substantial — and often surprising.
Read this post. Read our [FAQ](TK: link to FAQ). Read about our [refund and transfer policy](TK: link to refund policy). Talk to graduates if you know any — and if you don't, we can help connect you with some.
The Basic Training is currently $695. If cost is a consideration, ask us about payment options. If you have questions about timing, accessibility, or anything else specific to your situation, please reach out.
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Mastery in Transformational Training (MITT) is a Los Angeles-based leadership and personal development training organization. The Basic Training runs Friday through Sunday and is the entry point to MITT's three-step program. Learn more at masterytraining.com.