Social Fluency

Taking a course with Social fluency will help rather than hurt. They wont teach you anything that will change your life overnight. But what they teach you will help you improve your social abilities over a period of time, its just the nature of learning, personality skills that take time to hone as long as you know the basics. Stuff like maintaining eye contact, correct posture and generally how not to feel intimidated in social settings. So they will arm you with the basics, make you aware of your social patterns and behaviors. You wont just go out and become popular overnight but if you are serious, you will have tools in your kit that will help you improve significantly over a period of time. I took a 6 week course that i bargained down to a palatable price, they were quoting a number 5 times that and i refused. But for what i paid, it was well worth it.

I appreciate Allen Young’s warmth and response to emails. He has always provided insightful feedback. I have been working with Maura Torkildson and she has been a wonderful coach. She has really helped me to explore my communication style and how to strengthen how I speak my truth. She is helping me to focus on my development so I can be supportive, understanding, caring, and compassionate towards others. My experience with Maura has been wonderful and I am very glad to have meet her through Social Fluency.

I highly highly recommend their 6-​week training class.
Here is my story:
I got out of a 9-​year relationship and had been experiencing a tremendous amount of growth and awareness. I realized what was happening between my ex and I and found my place and where I want to go. However, I still had a certain amount of self-​doubt and fear that I just couldn’t seem to shake off. One of my friends went to their 6-​week class and recommended it to me, so I went for it.
I learned and grew so much during these 6 weeks that I feel like a different person. There were weekly assignments that we had to complete and they weren’t easy. But if you stick it out and finish as much as you can, you’ll learn a lot about yourself and people around you.
I learned about how to read people and express myself through proper body languages. Overcoming fear of rejection and learning to be assertive were also some of the biggest lessons that I learned.
I feel so much more comfortable and at easy around people. My life is less stressful now than before and thank to this training class, I have been gaining new insight into what I want out of my life more and more every day.
Everyone will go through different stages in life and overcome different challenges. If you take this class, what you get out of it will be different than mine, but I truly believe that you will get something and something that’s really wonderful.
My instructor was Eric and I was in the man’s class. Eric was a great instructor and people in the class were great.
In my opinion, what they teach should be taught in high school. Mandatory!
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I took their six (really five) week course last spring, and it was mostly a waste of money for me. I should have just stuck with what I got from their $ 10 meet-​ups. I also paid $ 25 for someone to sell me the full course, which was not a good fit for me. I am not that socially unaware and what they give you in the course you can read in a book. The book is The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabone. She should really think about charging them for using so much of her terminology like «low-​status» and «high-​status.» I wish I had read her book first and saved myself a ton of money. I think if you are extremely introverted, which I am not, they may help you.
As another Unilocaler mentioned, they are sketchy with their sales tactics. They have some sort of tiered pricing going on, which I paid the highest for from what I can see. Everyone in my class paid a lot less than I did, but I was told I had a «special rate» by Eric their lead salesman. After speaking to my classmates, I come to find out is was «special» in being the highest where everyone else was paying a fraction of the cost. Good luck trying to get your money back.
If you are rich, extremely introverted, and have a lot of free time, you might get something out of it.

It’s been a few months since I’ve taken the full 6-​week Social Fluency course, so I’ve had some time to reflect on it.
First off, the 2-​hour class is awesome. Other people have already reviewed it here. I would recommend that portion to anyone.
The 6-​week course is an entirely other story. (You really only get 5 weeks since the first class is repeated)
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Whether or not you should take the course:
Consider taking it: if you’re a nice shy introvert and you have lots of money to spare. The course is tailored towards introverts who have trouble opening up to others, so if you are one, i could see it being pretty useful for the most part. Most people took the course were this, and absolutely loved the course. Some actually went and took the course again.
DO NOT take it: if you’re an abrasive introvert who wants others to open up to them (like me). They spent one class dedicated to standing up for yourself, which is absolutely useless, since its second nature for someone like me. Eric, who sold me the class, claimed I would be a «good fit» for the course. But really, only half or less of the class was actually worth my time, much less my money. The other half I was just twiddling my thumbs. You’re better off humbling yourself and asking your most socially adept friends what you’re doing wrong and how to improve.
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Other things to note:
— Fully Refundable. They do say you can get a full refund if you’re not satisfied. (Since I took it at the discount rate of $ 477, they said I couldn’t.)
— Tiered pricing. They told me one price and few weeks later, they gave me another price that was a third of the amount. I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone in the class paid a different amount.
— Sketchy recruiting. The way they get you to take the class is really sketchy. First they do a 2 hour class to give you a preview of the course. Then they have you pay for a 1 – 1 ‘consultation’ with a charismatic salesman. While I did learn some useful things from that, he spent half of the ‘consultation’ selling me the 6 week course and convincing me ‘why I’d be a good candidate for the class.’ (Turns out I wasn’t.)
— Hit or miss instructors. Perhaps I was unlucky, but I could tell the Instructor I was assigned to, Lani, honestly did not care about her students. However, the assistant instructor, Allen did care. I really appreciated that he went out of his way to talk to me after class.

I have taken Social Fluency’s classes and have had personalized coaching with one of their instructors. Like the others here, I have found their techniques and exercises immeasurably useful. The results were immediate and measurable.
To be honest, I haven’t used my Unilocal account in a while and I had to go to the trouble of resetting the password just so I could review Social Fluency! That is how excited I am about this company. And I am a real person — if you want to see for yourself check out my page at
Immediately after my session I had an important all day conference. I have been to this conference several times in the past and had come to worry about all the networking involved — I wasn’t very good at it. Believe it or not after just a couple of Social Fluency classes, I was able to go to the conference and ROCK it. I walked out with a pocketful of business cards — many of them from people who gave them to me before I could ask. And when I got back to my office there were messages already in my email box from new contacts eager to connect.
Is this me? What happened to the guy who had to chase after contacts? Well now they are coming to me and converting into partners all thanks to Social Fluency. I will be back and I am telling all my friends too. If you are considering their courses, do it. Do it. Do it. It is worth the money five times over.

I attended a free introductory presentation at Social Fluency a few weeks ago. It was presented by Devon Ash and his colleagues, Rachel and Eric, were also in attendance. I was reluctant to attend since I’m a baby-​boomer and thought that everyone there might be much younger than myself. Indeed, I was given a warm welcome and several of the other participants were part of my age group. The presentation was absolutely fascinating, two hours went by in a flash, and the content was new and innovative, rather than a repackaging old ideas.
I recall the books that were around when I was a kid…“How to Win Friends…, etc.,” and they are all classics in their own right. However, the folks at Social Fluency have re-​introduced and augmented social-​skills training in a way that is truly relevant to today’s world which revolves around Social Media. Devon spoke about the sociology of community as it has evolved from prehistoric times to modernity. It was so interesting because I had several insights and realizations as to why certain social behaviors worked or didn’t work for myself and those I interact with. I loved the part about reclaiming the authentic, powerful behavior that we embraced as children, but since abandoned as a result of the socialization process.
All in all, this is really great stuff… and an important complement to all the Social Media skills that everyone is becoming so proficient in. After all, it’s critically important to know what to say and do in instances when you meet someone in person after meeting them online. I’m sure that anyone taking the Social Fluency course would notice an incredible improvement and greater success in their business and social interactions.

I’ve completed the program with Devon.
This is hands down the best social skills class I’ve done or ever heard about.
Other companies tend to stick to a lecture type of material delivery. After completing you feel like you’ve just had a book read to you by an author. Better that reading it on your own but overall not very effective.
Imagine learning math or grammar in school without ANY practice. How much would you know today if you’ve only learned the theory behind it?
The key difference with Social Fluency is in-​class training. I’ve learned the skills you keep hearing about from friends, media, books etc. like body language, confidence, conversational mastery, assertiveness right there IN CLASS by practicing it over and over until this light bulb goes off and you say to yourself «Wow, I’ve got it !!».
Just a few short month later I can’t count all the positive changes in my life. I didn’t have too much going on before the class. I was working on a project I did’t care for at work, single after a string of disappointing relationships, spending my evenings watching TV, doing anything outside the house not more than a few times per month, seeing some friends once in a while.
Now I’m working on the hottest project in my company, in the most satisfying relationship of my life with the funnest and most attractive woman I’ve ever met, seeing my roommate (who’s mostly home) a few times a month as I’m doing something cool literally every evening, having too many people who want to hang out with me and not enough time for most of them.
All this is happening only because of taking this one class for just a few weeks.
Do you think it’s worth the time and money spent?

I attended one of the workshops at the Social Fluency offices on 2^nd. The guy who signed everyone in explained that their office is part of a shared workspace where all of the walls are glass, and synergy happens between employees of different companies. Sounded cool.
Devon Ash led the 2-​hour workshop. Throughout his discussion, I wondered if he’d been following me around because he knows about all of my shy/​introverted bad habits: fidgeting w/​my hands, asking new people questions instead of talking, self-​deprecating humor, passiveness, etc. His prepared analysis of various behaviors was clear and organized, and his presentation embodied the principles therein. He also offered specific advice to individuals who asked about their own social hang-​ups.
The best part? He described specific strategies (ex: other forms of humor, ways to express displeasure) for handling various situations in casual and work contexts. I felt like I’d learned something that I could actually use.
At the end of the workshop, I decided to see Devon for an individual session.