1. The Baseline Training Events
Operating from a Baseline mindset isn’t just a method — it’s a way of living. It is the most efficient and productive way to perform, lead, and thrive. At The Baseline, we demonstrate how this process drives measurable results, built on principles forged in combat, leadership, and team performance.
“If you cannot execute the baseline process in all areas of life, you will struggle to find the right people for your organization, you’ll waste valuable time through inefficiency, and ultimately, you won’t recover effectively from setbacks.”
— Thom Shea
Who Benefits from Baseline Training Events
Each event is intentionally limited to 12 committed individuals to ensure precision, focus, and personal impact.
To date, we’ve completed 15 events across four locations, training 137 men and women — ages 18 to 80 — all committed to establishing a baseline process for success and living it daily.
Our participants include:
Leaders and their teams
Individuals pursuing personal growth
Couples seeking connection through performance
Parents and their adult children looking to operate from shared strength and clarity
Investment and Return on Investment (ROI)
Financial Investment:
First-time participants: starting at $10,000
Adjusted rates available for teams, or for parent/adult child pairs
Time and Energy Investment:
Two days fully dedicated on-site
100% commitment of your energy, focus, and experience
Our instructors match that investment — bringing their expertise, energy, and complete attention to you.
This is a fully immersive, all-inclusive experience.
Your only job: show up ready to engage.
ROI — What You Will Gain
While On-Site:
Authentic Communication:
Learn a powerful communication process that eliminates delays, emotional misfires, and stagnation. Authentic communication drives immediate, decisive action in business, teams, and families.The “Three Simple Things” Process:
Apply a practical daily framework across the five areas of life — health, wealth, relationships, spirit, and intellect. You’ll gain clarity on what works, recognize what doesn’t, and know how to reset quickly back to your baseline.Evening Integration Sessions:
Each night, we connect lessons from the range to the five life domains, giving you a roadmap for efficient action and mindset — producing immediate breakthroughs in clarity, success, and freedom.
After the Weekend:
If desired, we offer continued partnership — joining you and your team in a results-driven engagement to help implement the Baseline process for measurable, sustained success.
BASELINE IMMERSION EVENTS
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Sawmill - South Carolina
Make the Complex Simple/Mindset of the Impossible
Mission: immerse SOF leaders with business leaders in complex environments during the day and Team room human performance discussions at night to apply human performance in your everyday life
Day One
Arrive by 5 pm Thursday at the Sawmill
Dinner Shaws
Baseline fireside chat (Authentic Communication/Three Simple Things/Impossible)
Day Two
Morning PT
Breakfast
Three Simple Things (Pistol)
Lunch
Pistol Steel
Dinner
Three Simple Things applied to life (Five Goals and Three Simple Things)
Day Three
Morning PT
Breakfast
Three Simple things and Impossible (Rifle 1000 yard Shooting)
Lunch
Impossible Rifle shooting
Dinner
Fireside roundtable (Making the Impossible Simple)
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Shaw's Shooting Lodge- Idaho
Make the complex simple/apply simple as a team
Mission: immerse SOF leaders with business leaders in complex environments during the day and Team room human performance discussions at night to apply human performance in your everyday life
Dates: Sep 12-14, 2025
Day One
Arrive by 2 pm Friday at Boise Airport SUV caravan to Shaws
Dinner Shaws
Baseline fireside chat (Authentic Communication/Three Simple Things/Team work)
Day Two
Morning PT
Breakfast
Three Simple Things (Pistol)
Lunch
Pistol Steel
Dinner
Three Simple Things applied to life (Five Goals and Three Simple Things)
Day Three
Morning PT
Breakfast/check out of rooms pack up
How to win by just doing the basics
Lunch
Drive to Boise
Flights out
SOF Instructors and Special Guests
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Thom Shea
Navy SEAL, Founder
Retired from the SEAL teams after 23 years with distinguished valor before writing best selling books, “Unbreakable: a navy SEAL’s way of life”, and “Three Simple Things: Leading during chaos”.
Thom deployed 6 times and earned the Silver Star, two bronze stars with Valor, for commendations with valor and a presidential unit citation. He was selected to lead the SEAL sniper program during his final tour.
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Dan Corbett
Navy SEAL
Daniel Corbett III served on SEAL Teams 5, 6. He joined the navy shortly after graduating high school in 2002 and was deployed to Iraq in the summer of 2005 with SEAL Team 5. He joined SEAL Team 6 in 2007, deploying to various locations around the world. In 2010, Daniel returned to the West Coast and began instructing at the Naval Special Warfare Basic Training Command (NSWBTC). In 2017, Daniel made international news when he was thrown in jail in Belgrade, Serbia for eighteen months. Daniel still monitors international news and continues to entertain phone calls and meetings with those who need unique solutions to unique problems.
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Dave Davidson
Navy SEAL
CEO/Owner Veteran Recruiting Firm, Trident Talent Group
US Navy SEAL: Twenty-Six Year Career. Deployed Combat Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Naval Special Warfare Unit Three Operations, Leading Chief Petty Officer: Oversee all operational requirements for United States Special Forces operations in Arab Gulf States, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Leading Chief Petty Officer in charge of Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Program responsible for training and equipping Special Operation personnel for Clandestine Advanced Special Operations Worldwide. Adept at meeting all mission planning, operations, personnel, support, and budgetary requirements.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Learn how Special Operations leaders break down complex situations into Three Simple Things
No cell phones, no social media, this is a private leadership event
Real transfer of skills to apply to your life
Provide direct/hands on training in the five pyramids with direct transfer of Three Simple Things with pistols, carbine and sniper weapons
Provide a step-by-step methodology of both personal and business leadership growth
Learn how to achieve goals in the five pyramids of human performance
Principles Taught
5 Pyramids of Human Performance
Three Simple Things
Communication
Rule of not being right
Rule of 10,000
21 days to make a choice
Commitment without knowing the solution
Solving complex problems
Special Ops teamwork and how to rely on your teammate
The Baseline
Chaos and complexity runs the day to day lives of us all. Success is possible when you can learn and apply the SOF principles of Three Simple Things. Learn how SOF Leaders breakdown complex situations into Three Simple Things.
You are invited to participate in an exclusive opportunity to learn many of the ways SOF leaders solve complex problems and execute the Three Simple Things protocol. You will be challenged physically and mentally to solve for simple in complex environments, such as, physical health, mental capacity, wealth and leadership, key relationships, and spiritual impact
Prerequisites: must be willing to shoot weapons
Principles.
Communication, Three Simple Things, Rule of not being right, rule of 10,000, 21-days to make a choice, commitment without knowing solution, solving complex problems, SOF Team work-how to rely on your teammate.
Arrival (Thursday)
Arrive at airport
Transport to site
In-brief
Dinner
Introduction and overview of event
Communication
Team Selection
Day one
Wake up
- Controlling time is a sof skill. Learn what is behind this skill and how to overcome the alarm clock
Workout
- Consistent pursuit of physical capacity is the hallmark of leadership and team work in any organization. Learn how sof controls physical health and encourages the team on a daily basis
Breakfast
- What you eat and consume matters to all areas of life. Learn how SOF controls diet with intention.
Pistol Skills of Three Simple Things
- Shooting pistols is the most complex shooting dynamic. Learn how to apply the Three Simple Things principle.
Lunch
- What you eat and consume matters to all areas of life. Learn how SOF controls diet with intention.
Complex pistol/problem solving experience
- Apply the Three Simple Things principle in a complex environment and see the profound impact you will have.
Dinner
- What you eat and consume matters to all areas of life. Learn how SOF controls diet with intention.
SOF Team Room discussions
- The Crux of the SOF experience is the Team Room environment. Experience the value of the Team Room.
- Learn the rule of Ego and emotions and Not Being Right.
Day two
Wake up
Workout
Breakfast
Sniper weapons and Three simple things
- Precision weapons are inherently complex. Now learn to apply Three Simple Things to a complex system
Lunch
Full integration of multiple weapons and three simple things
- Final Training Exercise (FTX) shooting competition
Dinner
SOF Team Room discussions
- The Crux of the SOF experience is the Team Room environment. Experience the value of the Team Room.
- Topic 21-days to make a choice, 10,000 iterations to become good.
Day three (Sunday)
Wake up
Breakfast
Awards
Depart