Elicitation — Exploiting common sense to achieve purpose

Two-Day Cognitive Workshop | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM each day

KPIs

• Elucidation of everyday understanding and thinking
• Greater elicitation fluency and ability to defend against elicitation attacks
• Improved sales, negotiation, and marketing
• Enhanced management of personal and professional relationships
• Clarification of cognitive operations commonly specified for computational simulation (AI)

Task

Elicitation is remarkable in its averageness, practicality, and ability to liberate purpose. Its core transformations pertain to personal and professional relationships, sales, marketing, business, negotiations, polling, police investigations, psychological and intelligence operations, social engineering, user recommendation systems, software development, customer sentiment analysis, and AI. Its power is not confined to elicitation techniques or human susceptibilities. It corresponds to the ability to exploit common sense mindfully.

Response

1. Reduces elicitation to its basic system and phenomenological transformations.
2. Teaches the frame of mind to evoke the reciprocity of motives correlated with eliciting effectively.
3. Transmutes the analytic understanding of elicitation into an intuitive one that permits operational fluency.
4. Enables a more comprehensive understanding of elicitation than is available through standard USG briefings or studies of techniques and susceptibilities.

Cybernetic and phenomenological perspectives are enacted in simplest terms to optimize interpretability and applicability. The workshop is derived from the author’s scientific research, prior experience as a CIA Operations Officer, and current work coaching US Military and Special Forces intelligence and psychological operations.

Method

Best teaching practices are employed. They include discovery sessions, learning exercises, knowledge checks, and a rigorous reduction of human phenomena and core concepts. The vector subscribes to the teaching methods ordained by the . The CFD-IC is an integration of the Army Basic Instructor Course (ABIC), Small Group Instructor Training Course (SGITC), and Faculty Development Program Phase 1 (FDP1). It is the “gold standard” of adult learning. Dr. Trujillo received his 108-hour CFD-IC certification in 2019.

Sigetic CEO/CTO

Joaquin Trujillo is a former CIA Operations Officer and holds a PhD in Sociology from Florida International University (FIU). His CIA service comprised tours in Europe, the Middle East, and one combat zone, as well as designations as Acting Chief of Station (ACOS) and Acting Chief of Base (ACOB). Dr. Trujillo regularly coaches US military and Special Forces in the team, leadership, communicative, and high reliability processes ingredient to successful intelligence and psychological operations during war and evaluates their performance against those variables. His methodological expertise -- as evinced by his 30-plus peer reviewed publications -- comprises phenomenology, cybernetics, cognitive analysis, existential psychotherapy, and ethnography. His scientific work renders basic human phenomena in advanced technologies, including AI, and high risk systems.

Contact Information and Cancellation Policy

Sigetic is a cognitive operations firm based in Houston, TX. For details see: . Please send queries to Sigetic CEO/CTO — Joaquin Trujillo PhD — at .

The exact venue address is provided upon registration.

Public metered street parking is available. A paid private parking garage is also available. The venue is accessible by public transportation.

Refereshments and snacks are served. 10-15 minutes breaks approximately every hour plus a 30-minute lunch break NO LUNCH IS PROVIDED. PACK A SANDWICH OR SOMETHING. THIS IS WORK AND WE'RE MOVING AT A GOOD CLIP.

Full refunds for registration MINUS EVENTBRITE SERVICING AND PROCESSING FEES are available for cancellations executed 48 hours prior to the scheduled course start date and time. Cancellations less than 48 hours before the course start date and time are not refundable.