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My loved one is a member of Training in Power. What do I need to Know?
Training In Power Academy is a high-control spirituality group with similarities to Scientology or NXIVM. It is led by Faye Fitzgerald, a charismatic figure who professes to be a “psychic of psychics” and teaches “vibrational psychology”, despite being un-credentialed in psychology or any relevant field. Like Scientology, Training In Power is organized into a hierarchy…
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Dearest Person Thinking of Joining Training in Power…
…Or Person Thinking of Leaving Training In Power or Person Who Has Left Training in Power and is Wondering What the Fuck Just Happened I was a member of TIP for about 14 years. I left it over a decade ago and am only just starting to really be able to articulate the harm this…
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The bait-and-switch of self-development
When you first join Training In Power, it’s under the guise of self-development. You’re learning “personal mastery”. You’re increasing your own self-awareness. In a lot of ways, that’s true, and a lot of the tools, borrowed from other disciplines around the world, are genuinely helpful. Eventually, however, what you’ve learned gets used as a tool…
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Before you take Level 6
Like Scientology, TIP has secret rituals and information that is revealed once you have progressed and been indoctrinated long enough, but students are primed for that information from Level 1. Starting from level 1, students are urged to “remember who they really are”, implying that they have a source or original “fixed” origin, or a…
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Building on the “work” of Carlos Castaneda
Amongst the required reading for Training In Power, Carlos Castaneda’s books are used like textbooks for classes, and are an underlying foundation for a number of Faye’s teachings. If you’re curious about the life of Carlos Castaneda and the origins of his books, this Salon article would be a good place to start.
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Training In Power’s Recklessness With Trauma
Submitted anonymously The more I’ve done traditional therapy to help deal with the aftermath of being in TIP (which I was skeptical of for a long time because of what I was taught), the more righteous rage I feel for how careless TIP is with trauma. When you deal with trauma with a trauma-aware therapist,…
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Resources on Cults
For more resources on cults, check out Daniel Shaw’s Cult Recovery page.
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Insights after taking level 1 twice
Submitted anonymously I’m going to start with the positives of my experience after taking level 1(twice) as I want to make the point that one of the reasons that I was unaware that the course was a cult without a trusted confidant revealing this to me is that its teachings are good! This is at…
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An Ex-member’s Story
Even though the best high-tech immunologists in the world were telling me that I was a carrier of a known but rare X-linked genetic mutation that they’d actually identified in my DNA, that day Faye insisted that the true reason Ray was sick was that my husband was sexually abusing him and had been for…
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Take your money and Run
By Joanna W. I spent 7 years with training in power, and went to level 6. It is easy to write a positive review as someone in levels 1-4. Levels 1-3 are wonderful, mostly. If you are hooked, if you must, go through with levels 1-3, then run far far away. There is a reason…