How to make friends and create better social circles.

A guide for adults who are ready to improve their social life.

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How to make friends and create better social circles.
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Nov 2020
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What you will learn

How to start conversations with anyone.

Where and how to meet other adults also looking for new friendships.

How to move from superficial to meaningful conversations.

How to nurture a relationship forward from the initial interaction.

How to deal with the fear of rejection.

How to find the time and energy to meet new people.

How to receive more invitations and be included by others more often.

Professional networking techniques, and how to use them socially.

How to turn acquaintances into friends.

And more..

Why take this course?

Do you feel like you lack friends in your life?

Do you ever feel lonely?

Or would you simply like to freshen up and increase your social circles a little bit?

In this course, Norway’s most high-profile social and communications coach TJ Guttormsen shares the strategies and techniques used by thousands of people across the world to transform their social lives.

TJ’s expertise in social skills and personal networking is highly sought after, and he’s done well over 100 national media appearances in his home country discussing the topic.

Now living in Las Vegas, TJ is taking his work internationally yet again, and for the first time sharing these strategies – usually reserved for workshops and coaching valued in the thousands of dollars - in an affordable online program available for anyone.


"In short, if someone asks me how to be a good friend, I'll just show them this course. It has all you need to know about how to make new friends, how to be a good friend and how you can benefit of it. And even more. In details. This course is very well structured, it leads you step-by-step from basic info and principles to real-life practical guides and strategies that you can start using immediately." - ALEXANDER SHEVTSOV, UDEMY STUDENT

"Simple and efficient. Perfectly realistic advice! So I would say...dare to apply this training and get what you want! Already working for me!" - ALBERT FERNANDEZ, UDEMY STUDENT


The problem.

More adults are lonely or dissatisfied with their social life than ever before. Studies have shown that at least 20% of Americans feel lonely on a daily basis, and as many as 12% have said that they have no one to talk to.

And these numbers are not any lower in the rest of the world.

Even many of the ones who aren’t lonely are still not happy. They feel like they lack opportunities to socialize in the way they want, with the kind of people they want. They have become trapped in routines that keep them from fully enjoying life with other people.

As adults, we tend to have less exposure to new potential friends than we did as children. We used to almost continuously meet new kids through school, hobbies, sports, or just on the neighborhood’s playgrounds. And the simple act of being in the same place repeatedly tended to create bonds and friendships for many.

In adulthood, most of us have lost those arenas. And even when we do spend time in public with other adults, we hardly ever interact with them in any meaningful way that might lead to more than – at best - a superficial conversation.

Time and energy tend to be in shorter supply too, and many are simply unsure of how to approach someone new, and how to follow up on people we like to create a friendship with them.

We have become a population of adults who spend time around each other – but not with each other.


"Great material. Very well organized and presented. TJ makes the information easy to implement. It’s not rocket science, it’s a duplicatable process. Thanks!" - MARIE MANNING, UDEMY STUDENT


The solutions.

In this course, TJ gives you the solutions to all these challenges and more.

TJ’s teaching style is clear and straight to the point, with no fluff, abstract concepts, or guessing games. In the first section alone, you’ll learn simple and easily understandable techniques and tactics that will help you:

- Easily and comfortably start conversations with new people.

- Create conversations that are interesting to you and that attract the right type of people.

- Go from a superficial first conversation to something more meaningful.

- Move potential friendships forward easily and naturally.

- Turn acquaintances into friends.

- Multiply your friendships with one simple strategy.

- And much more.


In the second section, TJ shares simple and practical advice on how and where to meet other adults who are likely to also be on the lookout for new friendships themselves. You’ll, among other things, learn:

- Where people open to – and even looking for – new social connections can most easily be found.

- How to find the time and energy to socialize and meet new people.

- How to create your own events designed either to increase your social network or attract specific people to it.

- How to receive more invitations from others.

- How to be included by others in ways that almost automatically increase your social circles.

- And more.


There’s also a section on how to maintain the new friendships that you’re going to be creating. Because while this might seem simple (and it really is), we all need reminders now and then.

And to top it off, TJ will show you the most effective and most commonly used strategies that professional networkers use – and how you can apply those strategies to your own social life. In this section, you’ll learn how to build a relationship with basically anyone you’d like – whether they’re already in your network or a complete stranger.


"The fast-paced and logical sequence of simple and doable steps [that] TJ feeds his students in this course really worked for me. I like that the course was very action-oriented, as opposed to reflective. What I need are steps to take action. Not ways to reflect. So that's another reason I loved this course." - VANESSA KING, UDEMY STUDENT

"This is an outstanding course presented in an engaging manner. It is full of good advice and ideas for making friends and expanding your social circle." - JEFFREY D WILSON, UDEMY STUDENT


In other words.

This course will take you step-by-step through the process of finding potential new friends, creating a conversation with them, extending that conversation, and creating more time together until a fully formed friendship appears. You’ll learn how to use events – both yours and other people's – to quickly increase and design your social network. How to be included in the activities of others, and how to deepen and maintain your relationships.

This course really is the A – Z of making friends and building better social circles, and it has been used successfully by people of all adult ages, all over the world.

TJ himself has even used these exact strategies to build his social circles in cities like Trondheim and Oslo in Norway, and Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the US.

These strategies work for anyone who learns and uses them, so the only question is if you’re ready for a positive change in your life?


How often have you been bored or lonely because you didn’t have anyone to spend time with?

How many times have you felt like life was passing you by socially?

How much more would you enjoy your life if you were surrounded by people that you had chosen for yourself, who were eager to do the same things as you – together with you?

Sign up now, and let TJ show you how to solve all of these challenges and more.

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Reviews

Daphne
September 3, 2023
This course touched on a lot of things I already knew or was at least aware of, but TJ was very good at breaking it down even more. I love that each video is no more than 8 mins, often each video lasts for around 4 mins. The bite-sized lengths are easily digestible and make the material very accessible i.e. I don't have to watch a 15 min video to see if I can find that "one" point. Thank you for creating this course! Looking forward to getting started on some of the new tips.
Ahmad
August 26, 2023
It was simple, yet it was what it needed actually to be social, and remember guys without taking actions outside our house and go take the risk trying to be social, nothing will ever change
Clarence
July 30, 2023
He has such a calm, yet engaging tone. I'm so excited, I will be putting in the work that he is suggesting. I'm positive that this is going to work. Wish I found this course sooner.
Jonas
May 7, 2023
TJ is a treasure and a very sympathetic teacher! The course material is easily understandable and I plan to put it into practice step by step.
Elías
January 22, 2023
El curso me dejó con muchas sugerencias para mejorar la forma cómo me aproximo a los demás y para mantener el contacto con mis amistades. La exposición es muy amena y el tono es muy motivador.
Allyson
November 10, 2022
I was pleasantly surprised by this course! Lot of new ideas put together into a thoughtful curriculum. The creator has definitely put time into the course, and it shows.
Alfonso
September 12, 2022
Yes it was, I have been single for a few years now feel lonely sometimes. Been trying to make friends and meeting new people, at times nothing seems to work other times it does.
Samuel
September 3, 2022
Good info for starting conversations, the teacher is nice. It sets good foundations and is a good course!
Yuet
March 17, 2022
I am an introvert and happy with my current state. I take this course just for curiosity. This course is like a kind of meaning of life & friendship and how to achieve them. It has some useful human skills. If you are very desperate or extreme, this course is very good for aggressive tactics and strategies in making friends and building networking.
Edwin
November 27, 2021
A nightmare. Looked for this to try to help me but made me feel really bad. He doesn't like people, he likes himself only. An extreme arrogance and a typical salesman (so much he keeps a watermark of his personal website in almost all the videos and also promotes his other products at the end). Contradictions after contradictions, lies here and there, typical preconceived mindset and beliefs of the Jurassic period, like his discourses where childhood is the best time to make friends because SOCIAL kids tend to go out more, do more activities and schools were THE place to make them and so on (well, if they are social, that's the "secret" ingredient then, not only the time period). It is like kids did not have any other place to meet others. No, schools were THE only sacred place. As he says, as a supreme rule, later as adults, it is more difficult to make friends, people are out of energy, have a boring routine etc. Well, according to him, as you get older, people stick to their old circles and to their own bubbles. As when he tells his tiring story (60% of this so called course is about himself): "My social life was just OK. I had a couple of 'friends' that I would spend most of my time with, and it was safe and it was nice and that was it. To be honest, most of the time I was bored, and a lot of the time I was lonely". What a contradiction here. If it was ok, nice and they were truly big friends, then why wasn't perfect? And why he felt lonely? Why they didn't stick together and followed him for the entire life? If it was so nice, maybe they should all make a contract to stick together till the end of the life? Since they were mostly from the childhood and keeping the same, old bubbles is nice, true and fulfilling. Shows how big "friends" they were and how true he was to them. Get bored with real friends?? Stick to the past and old acquaintances? Then why create new ones and make this training? Maybe he can repeat that behavior, get bored and discard any of the actual "friends". His another preconceived idea that you should stick to the appropriate age, the same age range etc (we all are humans and connection should be possible with anyone). Maybe it is needed to ask the age of a pet, then? So many degrees he says he has, so much "experience", but he did not learn the simplest things, like humbleness, charisma, humanity and sincerity. His mistakes like: "Humans bond through talking", well, he should know that communication is not only verbal. And a thousand words can be said with silence or simple gestures. What about speechless people, according to him, they don't have any chance then? He rewrites history there. His lying stories don't deceive me. I could go on and on. The best part was the end of the "course" and it should be properly named as: "How to have a nightmare and watch my sense of superiority along my ads". I couldn't lie here.
Penina
November 23, 2021
I have just started this course and so far I see that there is alot of knowledge that will be valuable to me. Thank you so much!
Theodor
November 10, 2021
It taught me alot of things and clarified the process for me, but I would love to hear more details about conversations
Marie
May 28, 2021
Great material. Very well organized and presented. TJ makes the information easy to implement. It’s not rocket science, it’s a duplicatable process. Thanks! You helped me get back to connecting with people after COVID-19.
Derek
April 29, 2021
This was a great course. Usually, I avoid video courses about personal development, as I prefer to read or listen to books for that. But, I'm glad I watched these videos. I got this course because, obviously, the title appealed to my current level of loneliness. I don't think I'll ever be as outgoing or extroverted as TJ in terms of hosting events, etc. Generally, just showing up to events stresses me out. haha But, there is a middle ground that I need to get to. And, I also picked up some great conversation starter ideas and ways to be more comfortable with myself. Thanks TJ!
Mali
February 19, 2021
This course teaches everything that you need to make new friends. It is something that is missing from books and other information when it comes to socializing. Thank you!

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