Power University™
Learn how to apply advanced social skills to effectively achieve any goal
Taught by the founder of the N.1 resource on power on the web, Lucio Buffalmano (+ inputs from TPM’s community).
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What is Power Dynamics?
The new system for social skills.
Power dynamics is the science of people. It’s the application of advanced social skills to all aspects of winning with people to achieve goals—and doing so efficiently.
And power is about getting what you want.
A foundational understanding of power dynamics boosts how to negotiate, engage, and succeed with people—whether they’re being their best selves or their darker, selfish, more manipulative selves.
This is what was missing, and this is what we focus on.
So, similar to how psychology applies scientific principles to the human mind, power dynamics applies scientific principles to social and life success.
Before self-development courses and qualified coaches started addressing social skills, books and trial and error were the only ways to improve.
Power dynamics is at a similar inflection point. The barrier to entry is large but the early adopters who start now will be years ahead of the competition.
The Curriculum
You will learn to apply these concepts, strategies & skills to social success and goal achievement:
Social exchange dynamics & strategies, rules of effective socialization, and foundations of self-development.
Social power dynamics, covert power moves, microaggressions & social calibration, self-defense, assertiveness, and manipulation.
High-power & dominant behavior to incorporate, low-power & submissive behavior to get rid of, role models to emulate.
Mindsets, foundational frame control strategies & techniques, and advanced techniques.
Career strategies, political intelligence & skills, high-power behavior at work (“exec skills”), and team & culture dynamics for founders & CEOs.
- Intersexual power dynamics, strategies & “hacks”, high-power & effective dating, leadership & dominance.
- Relationship power dynamics, how to maintain attraction, games men & women play and how to handle them, win-win relationship.
- Physical challenges, threats, violence, size disparity, and how to win when the going gets risky.
- Challenging situations, including nosy questions, subtly rude behavior, groups that ignore your presence, etc.
- Social finessing, case studies and video examples of effective, advanced social strategizing.
- Power tech: intuitive and easy techniques for maintaining power no matter the challenge, power protection to persuade, + case studies & examples.
How to become Machiavellian, mindsets of ruthless goal-achievement, advanced strategies & techniques, advanced negotiation.
Taught by the Founder of The Power Dynamics Institute
The course is developed by Lucio Buffalmano, founder of the Power Dynamics Institute and lead author at ThePowerMoves.com, and continually refined by Buffalmano himself, and TPM’s bright community of power dynamics practitioners.
Lucio Buffalmano
Holds a master’s degree from La Sapienza, department of communication and sociological research, is a member of the American Psychology Association (APA), and dedicates his life to researching, uncovering, testing, and refining the most effective strategies and techniques for social success.
The Power Moves (TPM) Community
The TPM community is a collective of students of power dynamics — all Power University alumni — who have helped to advance both power dynamics as a discipline and Power University as a learning tool.
Driven men and women with incredibly bright minds have applied Power University’s principles across numerous industries and areas of the world, in the most disparate environments and social situations.
Originally, they simply proved Power University’s concepts. But, then they went further, refining some of those concepts, and then coming up with brand new ones as well as strategies, techniques, and approaches validated by real-life testing and Buffalmano’s expertise as a social scientist. Perhaps best of all, they’ve brainstormed and shared better ways to structure and simplify Power University’s groundbreaking teachings, so it’s as easy as possible for future students.
TPM has been featured, quoted, or linked from:
- Psychology Today
- ResearchGate
- BBC
- Forbes
- And countless universities
What Is Your Advanced Resource to Win With People?
Everybody needs at least one.
Something more than the basic, common social skills that most mentors, books, and courses teach.
Problem is, it takes ~10 years to earn a master in communication and social research, read thousands of papers, hundreds of books, go through hundreds of courses, and then test to identify what information actually works in the real world.
I know because I did it.
This is why I created Power University: to cut the line.
Hundreds of the best minds in combination with decades of research on social dynamics, power, Machiavellianism, and strategies are condensed into a course on power for real-world skills and results.
Read What Power University Alumni Say
“Your course helped me immensely in multiple business situations.”
“Your power dynamics course has helped me immensely in multiple business situations as an entrepreneur.
Learning from your course materials, I have managed to build alliances with other entrepreneurs in the same domain, and we are always building each other up.”
Mo, Los Angeles
“For a too nice person as myself, I feel empowered.”
“I am familiar with Jordan Peterson, Eckart Tolle, Matthew Hussey, Neil Strauss, and Aaron Doughty. But no one explains social dynamics in such a native way as Lucio – like, what it all boils down to, word for word, and explained with super concrete examples. It’s mind blowing! And soo powerful!
I see the whole world through more accurate lens now.”
Maya, Norway
“The best, the ultimate course.”
“I took a lot of courses in Udemy, Coursera, Mindvalley and from giants like Tony Robbins, Robbin Sharma, Robert Moore, Vanessa Van Edwards among many others. But the best, the ultimate course I have joined so far belongs to Lucio Buffalmano. (…) He has mastered evolutionary psychology and its application to daily life, which is why his course works and is probably the most actionable out there”
Matthew, London
Who is Power University for?
It’s designed for people who want to take their social effectiveness to a whole new level.
For driven men and women who want to become master persuaders, acquire status and power, and win promotions, but also make for and find great partners to establish an above average relationship with.
Yet, it’s also for those who are struggling a bit, such as if you still need to lose your “too nice” persona, naive mindsets, or learn how to defend yourself, stand up, and stop the assholes and manipulators in your life.
Power University is advanced, and to make the most out of it a minimum level of emotional intelligence and social skills is recommended (if you’re not there yet, start with these).
⚠️ Full disclosure: Power University is intense. We expect our students to be fully committed to internalizing new and empowering mindsets, and to apply in real-life our proven strategies and techniques. We help you along the way with quizzes, pop-tests, exercises, and assignment, but you must also do your part by taking action.
Power University™ Tuition
Executive One-Time-Saver
$1399 797
One-time payment, Power University is yours forever, including all bonuses and future updates.
✓ Self-paced curriculum
✓ Support guaranteed
✓ Step-by-Step Exercises
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Bootstrapping Plan
99/month for 9 months
9-month payment plan, start now and Power University is yours forever at the end of the payment cycle.
✓ Self-paced curriculum
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✓ Step-by-Step Exercises
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More Than A Course, It’s Training For Life
Power University’s groundbreaking curriculum is built to be the most effective for internalizing the mindsets, strategies, and techniques that achieve your (social) goals until they become second nature.
- Real-life video examples
- Audio samples for high-power voice
- Self-produced exclusive videos
- Real-life texts breakdowns
- Self-assessments
- Case studies
- Assignments
- Quizzes
- Infographics
- Community-based real-life scenarios
Bonuses
Wealth Guide
The best strategies and techniques from all the best literature on making and growing money. This is a meta-summary (and the last book you’ll ever need on money management).
Ultimate Power
The best mindsets, strategies and techniques for mental self-development. Scientifically vetted and field tested (the last book you may ever need on self-development).
FAQs
1. What is Power University?
Tested with attendees across 5 continents, Power University is a course designed to teach people how to apply advanced social skills.
Power University distills sociologist Lucio Buffalmano’s 10+ years of experience and expertise under what is called power dynamics, which helps people in a wide variety of social situations better negotiate power with their counterparts and groups, ethically using concepts and principles from social science.
2. Will Power University help me? Will it transform my life?
Power University has been transformative and life-changing for hundreds of students.
So whether it will be life-changing for you depends more on you, than on the course.
If you commit, it will be life-changing.
3. What’s the difference with your other content?
The articles on this website’s blog can sometimes contain more theory and politically correct ideas. This means you get more of the fun side of socialization and a more restrained version of certain content.
The Power University course, however, is more robust in its practical strategies, harsh truths, and real-world examples.
Plus, with the course, you have access to private sections of the community forum, where you can also take part in private member discussions as well as more in-depth learning and tactical applications of power dynamics with stories, examples, and wisdom we can’t share publicly.
4. What if I’m not interested in power?
Then, you wouldn’t be the first to have joined Power University feeling that way.
As a matter a fact, based on previous students who have joined with that mindset, chances are you have a negative, biased definition of “power”:
Power is the ability to get what you want.
Yet, it’s also the ability to defend yourself against those who would tear you down to get what they want.
Any living organism needs a minimum level of power/competency to even survive (and let alone, thrive).
Power and its moral implications are completely up to you and, while we teach what works, we strongly encourage our students to practice collaborative, win-win attitudes and approaches.
5. How does the money-back guarantee work?
Send us an email within 30 days from your purchase, and you get your money back.
That simple.
There is a €9 administrative fee to incentivize people to read the basic information first and save the author’s time (and a good chunk of that time goes to making Power University better and better).
6. How long does the access last?
Forever.
And that’s a great benefit because Power University isn’t just a product, but a constantly updated repository of the of the best from all our research and development efforts.
And since the price will also increase, getting early sooner rather than later will also save money.
7. Is Power University also for women?
Yes.
There are lessons specifically for women and a large portion of the curriculum is valid for both genders.
Also, plenty of happy students are women, here’s just one example.
8. How is this different from other social skills or self-development courses?
Foundational social skills and self-development are both covered in our course.
Then, we take you further by covering all the more advanced social skills concepts, strategies, and techniques. (You won’t find them anywhere else because the Power Dynamics Institute developed them.)
You may view the course curriculum here.
9. What’s the “Power Dynamics Institute”?
It’s the parent company of this website, ThePowerMoves.com, and all other The Power Moves properties, coordinating all activities of research, funding, collaborations, and product development.
10. Can I also pay with crypto or other currencies?
You can pay in:
- Bitcoin: bc1q47qahjkey65y7dmz4lks2wuhxme439ss5c72ps
- GBP (£640):
- To: POWER DYNAMICS INSTITUTE LLC
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- Sort code: 23-14-70
- Account number: 66368909
Contact us for Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and Singaporean dollars.
Once you transferred the amount email us with your favorite nickname of choice and we’ll create an account for you.
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Try it out for 30 days, and if you are not becoming an emopwered, higher value, more effective person, get your money back (all, minus a 9 processing fee).
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These are just SOME reviews and testimonials.
And later in the page you also have the reviews of "those who didn't like it", together with my responses.
Let's start:
Power University Video Reviews
Power University is literally changing my life. More than one person came to tell me I'm different -for the better-. Not to mention how more confident I feel now knowing and noticing the power moves happening all the time. Of all the money I've spent on self-help books and courses this was by far the best investment.
I was expecting good content, but I also thought I was going to read things I already knew. Boy, I was wrong. It's the first time I'm hearing about most of this stuff, even though I bought dozens of other courses and had a mentor for a year. I only went through module 1 but I can already see what potential this knowledge has to improve my life. Power University paints the big picture and connects the pieces of the puzzle. I think the course is worth much, much more.
I had my reservations before signing up, but with only module 1 done I learned SO much more about the power dynamics that happened in my own relationships than I had EVER. Which is both awesome and disturbing
-Dayane
I'm completely blown away by the material of this course. I have an elite background, first class education, and yet I didn't have a clue about this stuff. This material is so powerful that I couldn't help but feel angry that I had been kept in the dark.
The lessons on frame control and video examples have opened my mind. I can come up with frame control techniques on the fly.
- Anthony R.
Power University is amazing. It already helps me to unnecessarily lower my power. It gives me strength and clarity, and keeps me from going back to my shy and defensive behavior.
- Kevin S.
I've never seen before something so complete, deep, and versatile in one program. And It works. In a few weeks I’ve increased my social intelligence by many folds.
- Ang
I discovered that I was sending lots of submissive signals (...) and giving my power away. And if I'm unconsciously communicating that I don't deserve respect, why should other people bother. (...) A necessary wake-up call for me, and now I can correct course. (...) I highly recommend this course.
- Leon
Power University Public Reviews
These are public reviews.
You can check them for yourself by following the links.
Keep in mind the course was previously called "Social Power", so some reviews reference "Social Power" instead of "Power University", but they're the same thing (actually, "Power University" is far better as it's gone through several updates).
- Most actionanable course out there
I took a lot of courses (...) from well-known individuals and respectable institutions (...) Mindvalley, Tony Robbins, Robbin Sharma, Robert Moore, Vanessa Van Edwards among many others. I learned a ton but the best, the ultimate course I have joined so far belongs to a man I had never heard before. His name is Lucio Buffalmano.
M. Coleman
(...)
This is a life changer (...) his course works and is probably the most actionable course out there. I truly recommend it to anyone who wants to gain social power. Because when you gain social power, you gain success.
See the review here.
- That course is genuinely amazing
See the review here.
for full disclosure, the full review is:
That course is genuinely amazing despite it looking like some 12 year old fresh off a power trip from 48 laws of power wrote the advertising for it
I appreciated the feedback on the marketing side :).
- There is no course that even comes close (when it comes to dealing with people)
Power University is the best course I've ever taken. I'm confident that there is no course that comes even close to covering the Power University curriculum of dealing with other people as well as Power University does
You can see the review here.
- Acquire real-life frame control superpowers
See this public review here.
- You will gain an edge in life
And the sooner you start, the better:
You can see this review here (plus my answer).
- You will see results in your real life
Note: John actually came up with the strategy that he applied himself, putting together different pieces of information, so all the credit to him.
I then added that strategy to Power University (thanks, John!).
- One of the best investments for personal wealth
As somebody who's starting to come to the end of a carer I can say (...) this is literally the best investment you could make
That's talking from a career perspective (there is a whole module on career strategies and power dynamics).
The little money you're paying now, will likely turn into 10x more income and success during your career.
- Social ju-jitsu techniques take your social skills to advanced level
I was blown away by this concept. It completely changed my way of interacting with people, for real.
This was a case study on handling micro-aggressions and covert aggressions, which together account for probably 90% of all aggressions you'll go through in your life.
Now, thanks to John's initial question and feedback, it's a lesson in the "advanced social skills" module.
You can see this review here.
- You will get rid of submissivness and become more assertive
What I learnt in the course is gonna extend to a lifetime ahead of me. It really helped me in terms of asserting myself. I can not describe my gratitude for this knowledge of power.
You can read this review here.
- Astounding developments await you
No one graduates from Power University without astounding developments
Read this post here.
- It's so good you will get hooked
- Two lessons of Power University better than a whole course on Udemy:
I got more value from two lessons in Lucio's course than I got from the entire Udemy course.
You can read that one here.
- Helps you turn over a new leaf:
I am finally seeing results and a light at the end of the tunnel.
You can read this review here.
- Using Power University's lessons to ace casting jobs:
You can see the review here.
- One of the best investments you can do on yourself:
One of my best investments
You can see that forum comment here.
- Entrepreneurs learn to develop better businesses
(PU) has helped me immensely in multiple business situations as an entrepreneur
This is part of a question in the customer-only area of the forum. Only Power University students can access that private area.
- Daily habits that make you more effective
Power University and your blog are stellar. Much of what I'm doing now I learned from you.
See it here.
- Power University is mind-blowing good
I (...) keep having my mind blown by how good this course is
You can see it here
- You have no idea what you're going to learn
This site is far ahead of the curve. Prospective customers don't know what they don't know
It's here, in the private part of the forum.
And he goes on to explain that it was the same for him when he first stumbled upon a red pill website.
Power University Email Reviews
Some of the email feedback:
- So good you wanna keep it secret
For me this course is too valuable to ever let it have search history
My answer: don't worry about others studying the same. First of all, this website is niche enough that you will most likely not meet anyone else who has taken this advanced type of training. And two, most people are too lazy to train themselves to elite levels.
So, yeah... That's your chance, guys:
- Groundbreaking: there's no comparison on the market
It's the first time I'm hearing about most of this stuff, even though I bought dozens of other courses and had a mentor for a year. The course is worth much, much more.
And:
Eye-opener (...) the subtle and hidden power moves totally mind-blowing (...) I feel so lucky (...) Thank you for teaching me the most valuable currency in life
And:
Since then the course has improved 5x
And:
And:
And:
And:
Mind-blowing stuff. I'm getting a ton out of it.
Yeah, it's a life-changing course, but full access is a different product. On the other hand, Power University covers all the basics, so you might not need the full website access.
And:
It's by far the best self-help I've ever come across
Note: the course was previously called "Social Power", that's why the subject line
And:
I'm blown away by the value of your course. I'm not even at chapter 2 yet.
And:
And:
And:
The Power University is literally changing my life (...) each small thing I learn about social dynamics makes me realize how oblivious I was. More than one person came to tell me that I'm different somehow, for the better. This was, by far, the best investment.
And if you're interested in competing products, take a look at this thread:
Or go straight to what's been proven to work:
Customer Service Reviews
The people enrolling in Power University are actively improving their lives.
And I feel like we are kindred souls.
People who want more for themselves and their lives, and take concrete steps to have it.
And without them, this website wouldn't exist.
I always prioritize customers above anything else:
That was one of the first customers. And since then, the customer experience has only improved
Power University Negative Reviews
ThePowerMoves.com is not your typical business.
To begin with, it prioritizes product over marketing (there still isn't even a video or a teaser to advertise Power University).
Another way ThePowerMoves.com is different is by being far more open as to what happens behind the curtains.
So I'm including here the feedback of those who didn't vibe with Power University.
It's rare, but anything can happen.
This alumnus was looking for something shorter:
Power University can be a life-changer... If you are willing to spend some effort
I immediately refunded P, no questions asked.
P was not a good fit for the course, and I knew it.
We aren't yet in an era where we can install wisdom and skills by plugging a cable in our brain (and trust me sometimes I wish we were already :).
In our era, life doesn't change without some action. So you still need to do your part.
When Women's Sections Were Lacking
Power University constantly improves its curriculum.
The last major update was thanks to a customer called Kristina.
Kristina thought Power University was too male-centric:
I am extremely grateful for Kristina's feedback.
This is what she went on to say:
Kristina had a great point.
There is no such resource to teach women how to strategically handle power and success while still remaining likable and feminine.
And that's exactly what this website provides: smart social strategies for life success.
Since then and for 5 months I did nothing but research women and power.
All of my quarantine 15-hours workdays also all went into this project.
So I got the books she suggested. And many more. I delved into the research literature for women and power, and women in the workplace.
I recalled all instances of powerful women I've met, and I scoured movies and YouTube for real-life examples.
And I condensed all that knowledge into a few lessons tailored for women only. One addressing the mindsets, one addressing career strategies, and one on how to combine power and femininity.
All with practical examples and videos.
Now Power University is the best course on the market for women who seek to combine personal success with social success.
So if you're a woman, this might be for you:
Power University Reddit Reviews
There is good feedback in there.
And to reply to his last sentence:
No mate, it's all good, and (except for the reviews thing) not only I didn't take it personally, but I also appreciate both the plenty of good things you wrote in there, and your feedback in general.
Here's my reply:
I don't know when he went through it, and that can make a HUGE difference.
PU is a live and breathing product going through constant upgrades.
And it has gone through some MASSIVE ones.
And while the goal always was, and always will be, to be an eminently practical course for real-life skills, PU also condensed over time.
At the time of writing, Power University is 10x times more "concentrated" and more practical than just a few months ago.
Personally, I believe this might be an older review because I truly see little fluff now.
And it also is 10x times more "grammatically correct", so to speak.
It improved a lot and it's constantly improving also thanks to other alumni's help (something that, BTW, shows that casting doubt on the reviews is unfounded).
On the "hard to prove the power of the author", he raises a question I also often have about those who teach something.
The author himself doesn't present himself as the ultimate incarnation of power -and neither does he think he should-.
There is a difference between explaining something and "incarnating the ultimate version of what you explain".
Same as Robert Greene shouldn't necessarily be the ultimate powerful man or Machiavelli shouldn't necessarily be the ultimate expression of Machiavellianism to produce some of the best work in this field.
But the main point is that I don't think that's even the right question to ask.
I agree with him that it's far better for someone who teaches X to show at least some success in X.
However, there are some assumptions there on what constitutes the ultimate success of going through PU. The ultimate success of PU might certainly be to be "as powerful as possible".
However, not in the strict sense.
The success of PU is in understanding people, games, power and social dynamics so that you can make the most out of it.
What "the most" means varies from person to person.
And it's different for Lucio than it is for anyone else.
Making the most out of it might even mean that you call yourself out of the race for status and power that most people are after. And instead you meet your own definition of "success".
Lucio has largely called himself out a game purely based on power, status, and "achievement" -at least achievements in the way that society most frequently recognizes as such, also see "small pond fallacy"-.
Also worth noting is that S. writes on a seduction subreddit for "discussion about pickup companies, coaches, programs, books".
PU has a section on dating and much of what you learn on power/strategies applies to successful dating.
But PU is not a dedicated dating course.
Seduction University would be a better fit for that.
Finally, I'd note that S was taking notes while going through PU.
And expending some effort to copy and save, and come back to the course for the examples.
Power dynamics tells us that expending effort = seeing value in something.
And then there are some parts I plainly disagree with.
It's factually not true that "all reviews of PU" are on this website. There are plenty of links here to outside reviews (just look at the reviews on this page).
And there are also some reviews on the forum of people who didn't like PU.
This same review from S. here is not exactly stellar, I'd even say it's negative, and it's here.
When it comes to the reviews in the forum, doubting their honesty would mean that Lucio wrote them himself -or what else?-.
Those users have a history of posting though.
So faking those reviews would mean that Lucio spent... A lot of time to make that lie credible over years and over thousands of posts.
And if someone thinks that I spent days and days of my time making up a lie when I could spend that time making it a reality, well... I may understand the initial doubt. But that's also damn dumb, as well as low-value. Working on a lie means you don't have the confidence that you can develop a great product and actually make people happy about.
And that's exactly what TPM takes pride on: a focus on the product(s) and on advancing the discipline of power dynamics / social strategies.
As a matter of fact, the forum is a community and that community is the driving force and beating heart behind much of the innovation around power and social strategies.
So for those doubting the forum, I'd personally tell them "don't buy this course" -or just read it a bit more and you'll notice that each user has his own styles, approaches, and life situations they reference to-.
When you hate PU (and its author) because you got kicked out of it
Well, this was interesting.
I removed this user from PU and refunded her the initial price she paid.
And that eventually led the user to say it was "the worst experience she's ever had".
I fully accept the reality of her negative experience seen from her point of view.
On the positive side, if you think about it, the fact that one got so emotional and so badly wanted to stay in PU tells you a lot about how good it can be for you.
And then she says:
Her complaint confirms that every time we said that "the price will go up", we told the truth.
And the only reason why the price has gone up 10x is that the quality has gone up 100x.
So you actually get far better value now.
By the way, you can also learn more about how to handle challenging situations like an irate customer in PU.
Independent Authors' Reviews
And I will end with another public review.
This is what Alexander, an early student of Power University, says of the people he has learned from:
You can see that review here.
Full disclosure on vid reviews: since some students wish to remain anonymous, for some videos, I hired a professional to read the reviews aloud. The speaker's gender, race, and skin color are random.
To keep the videos short and meaningful I sometimes cut the original (video)reviews. Overall, the videos preserved the original meaning. And I believe the video reviews are a faithful and realistic representation of the full (text-based) reviews.
