In this 3-day live experience, Steve and Joyce Brinton will guide you through understanding offense, releasing resentment, and practicing forgiveness in a way that brings peace — not denial.
Discover how unconscious filters, programming, and emotional patterns shape communication, relationships, and connection.
Have you ever had someone say something, but somehow you heard something completely different?
Maybe they were trying to help, but you felt criticized. Maybe they were simply speaking, but you felt hurt, frustrated, unseen, or defensive.
Most people are not listening from the present moment. We listen through filters — past experiences, emotional reactions, conditioning, assumptions, old programming, fear, and protection patterns.
In this live online challenge, Steve and Joyce will explore how these internal filters shape communication, relationships, and understanding — and what becomes possible when you begin listening with greater awareness and presence.
What You'll Learn
What mental and emotional filters really are
Why two people hear the same conversation differently
How unconscious programming affects communication
What prevents people from truly listening
How presence changes connection and understanding
A deeper awareness around forgiveness and emotional reactions
Live Challenge Details
Tuesday - May 26th, 2026
6:00 PM PST
Live Online via Zoom
During the event, participants will also have an opportunity to book a discounted private session with Steve or Joyce for $147.

Learn how past experiences, emotional reactions, and unconscious programming affect what you hear and how you respond.

Discover how communication becomes distorted when people listen through assumptions, fear, protection, and emotional patterns.

Explore how becoming more present can create deeper understanding, clearer communication, and stronger connection.
Begin noticing the filters and automatic reactions influencing communication in everyday life.
Understand the difference between what was actually said and the meaning the mind automatically creates.
Learn how listening, presence, and forgiveness can create more peace, clarity, and connection in relationships.

Steve and Joyce Brinton have been in the healing profession together for as long as they have been married, serving clients and their loved ones for decades.
Early in Steve's profession as a counselor he helped facilitate thousands of patients in their personal development but always at a cost he felt was too high to pay. Many of the journeys were filled with struggle and difficulty. It was often hard, slow, and gut wrenching work.
Steve knew there had to be a better way to go deeper, be less disruptive and get the same kind of results for his clients. After years of research, testing, investing, relentless determination, practical application and continuous encouragement and support from Joyce, he created it.
Steve and Joyce's innovative muscle testing approach to inquiry followed by immediate resolution of an issue helped their clients experience significant results with very little effort and a great deal of fun. In fact, the results were so powerful that their clients banned together and insisted on becoming students, thus creating the Muscle Testing Academy.
From resolving the darkest possible traumas to easing what seems like simple relationship differences, Steve and Joyce continue to facilitate their clients and students through profound transformations with ease and grace. They often describe a lightness to the deep spiritual work they do, which sets them apart from more serious, heavy approaches.
Steve and Joyce insist on fueling their sessions and teachings with the same key ingredients they use to create their life: a lot of light, hope, clarity, agency, affection, health, vitality, self-expression, connection, color, relatedness, belonging, peace, faith, love and joy.

"It truly has been transformational to go through the MTA. I had been really shut down from my own feelings and 'knowingness’ for a number of years. I wasn't even sure it existed in me anymore! Of course it did, and does, and now I use my knowingness to empower me to make decisions that felt impossible to make and stick with before. I'm grateful for the support of classmates. Through practicing muscle testing, it has helped me get through very difficult challenges."

"The BEST part of MTA training for me was personally seeing and having experiences that can only be described as miracles. I don’t exaggerate that word, and I don’t use it lightly. This is one of the GREATEST investments I’ve EVER made in my life."

"I had initially seen Steve, I did not know what to expect. He was referred to me as “someone you gotta see”. I came in with an open mind, and after the first session, my mind was blown. Steve was able to clear out things I didn’t know I didn’t know. He is so warm in his ways and chair-side manners. Some revelations were amazing, others were very subtle, both changed my perspective on the world around me for the better. I would recommend Steve to anyone who wants to know more about themselves and overcome things easily and effortlessly..."
Join Steve and Joyce live and discover how awareness, listening, forgiveness, and presence can transform communication and connection.

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