Mission & non-profit
One room. One price. Nobody priced out.
Everyone at El Cielo gets the same week — the same room, the same table, the same hours with Diederik — at the same price. And when that price is the one thing standing between a person and the work, the Scholarship Fund quietly carries the difference.
That is what being a 501(c)(3) is actually for. It lets the person who can give more quietly make room for the person who cannot.
You are not broken or stuck.
You just forgot the truth of who you are.
Our mission
Choose Again exists to help people remember the truth of who they are — whole, loveable, and free — beneath the fear-based beliefs and self-constructed identities that convince them otherwise. Through the Six Steps, group work, and facilitators who have walked this path themselves, we don't build people into something new; we clear away what's been blocking the truth that was always there.
Our vision
A world where people no longer mistake their fear-based beliefs for their identity — where "who I think I am" gives way to who they actually are, and every person lives from truth and love instead of the story they were taught to believe about themselves.
Why the fund exists
Almost everyone hesitates over the number
Some hesitate because the money is genuinely hard to find. Others could write the check without noticing and hesitate anyway, having spent a good deal before on things that promised more than they delivered.
The Scholarship Fund answers the first kind of hesitation. Nobody has to disclose anything to the room to attend — the ask happens privately, in a Discovery Conversation, and no one on staff or in the circle is told who received support. There is no lesser version of the week for scholarship participants, because there is no lesser version. There is one week, and one room.
It also makes for a better week. A retreat where everyone has the same bank balance is a narrower retreat. The people in that room have arrived from very different lives and find themselves working on remarkably similar beliefs — which is, for many of them, the most useful thing that happens all week.
Costa Rica · one week
One price. Help when it’s needed. A way to give.
A week at El Cielo, all inclusive. If the price is the obstacle, say so privately — and if you can give beyond your own place, your gift becomes someone else’s.
The week
$4,050
One price for everyone — all inclusive, payable in full at booking, intake form first. No tiers, no upgrades, nothing to calculate.
If cost is the obstacle
Just ask
Scholarship support is asked for privately, in a Discovery Conversation. No explanation is required, and nobody in the room will ever know.
If you can give more
Carry a place
A gift to the Scholarship Fund goes toward one thing: someone who had decided they could not come, coming. Anonymous in both directions, always.
In every case
The same week
Same room, same table, same twelve people, same hours with Diederik. No tiers of access, no upgrade, and no record anyone sees.
What we will not do
Commitments we hold ourselves to
No pressure selling
No countdown timers, no scarcity language we do not mean, and no follow-up call you did not ask for. People arriving in distress deserve better than a funnel.
No claims we cannot support
We publish figures we can source and no others. Where a number would be persuasive but unverified, we leave it out.
We say when we are not the answer
This is not clinical treatment and does not replace it. If someone needs care we cannot give, we say so — including on a call we could have converted.
The method stays yours
The Six Steps are published in a book and given away in a free guide. Learn them once and you can run them for the rest of your life without us.
From people who could have gone anywhere
Was it worth it
Attorneys, physicians, business owners, financial consultants — people accustomed to assessing what something is worth, most of whom had already spent a great deal elsewhere.
"After 30 years of personal growth programs, this is the most satisfying training. I cannot wait for more of this feeling in life."
R.E., 62 — Attorney and Investor, Hawaii
"I have read dozens of books and studied several spiritual practices, but none of them presented me with what Choose Again did."
D.F., 57 — Financial Consultant, Utah
"Over many years I've tried hundreds of teachings, techniques and workshops trying to live a better and more peaceful life. None really worked. This workshop/program changed me forever."
L.P., 49 — Business Owner, Hawaii
"It was the best investment of time and money I have made in myself in my six decades on the planet."
C.S., 62 — Teacher, British Columbia
"They showed me a way to freedom from sadness, anxiety, and worthlessness — to joy, peace and love. I am immensely grateful."
Michel, 60 — Medical Doctor, Pennsylvania
"The support and love from the staff is exceptional. This is love and peace with legs."
E.W., 64 — Alternative Medicine Physician, Austin, Texas
Where a gift goes
One chair, one person
We would rather tell you exactly what a gift buys than write a paragraph about impact. $4,050 is a full week at El Cielo, all inclusive, for someone who had already decided it was not for them. Smaller gifts go the same way — toward supported seats in the monthly circle and toward counseling for people who cannot meet the rate.
You will never be told who your gift went to, and they will never be told who paid. We report what was given and how many places it made — never who filled them. That anonymity is the whole reason people are willing to take the help.
Ways to GiveThe organization
Choose Again USA, Inc.
A registered 501(c)(3) non-profit
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. A receipt is issued for every gift.
Both matter
Come and do the work, or make room for someone who will
Most of the people who fund a chair sat in one first. They tend to know precisely what it was worth, and precisely what they nearly talked themselves out of.
Choose Again USA
Choose Again USA, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit and the American sister organization to Choose Again, founded by Diederik Wolsak.
© 2026 Choose Again USA, Inc. · Choose Again is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.
