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  • Dismissal of Ex-Members 

    You are a beautiful spiritual warrior doing the best you can. Just because you are an individual, doing your own journey and minding your own business, doesn’t mean you can ignore what is going on around you, spiritually, emotionally or physically. Trainers say it is their own journey and that they have not experienced what…

  • Ethics 

    “You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection and their fear of debate” As a professional in the organization Training In Power: A Spiritual Journey of Service, you are ethically obliged to take seriously the matters brought forward by members and ex- members alike. In your professional life these…

  • Critical Analysis Applied to the Training in Power Power Structure; A Cult Dynamic

    The importance, power and significance given to the training system is based in superstition and fear. It exists in secrecy vows and oaths of silence. Discussing any of the teaching or practices challenges this aggrandizement, importance, preciousness, and places it in light for what it really is: a means to control perception, behavior and thought.…

  • Critique: Empowerment as Related to Training in Power

    The following relates directly to Training in Power with personal examples. It offers a degree of reality checking as to what contributes to the process of empowerment and what does not. The areas discussed have to do with major issues in Training in Power: Dependency Emotional Manipulation Authoritarianism Sacred Trust Accountability Healthy Spiritual Development Summary…

  • Correspondence with Diane – A Current Trainer’s Questions

    2006 A current tip student finds both value and problems in the training, and wants to sort out what needs to be changed. This student raises many questions and my responses show how very complicated this task is of sorting abuse from truth. A most admirable task for a trainer to take on; this student…

  • Examples of How Trainers Deflect Responsibility

    As modeled by the leadership of Training in Power Submitted Feb 2007, name withheld by request My observation with this sort of thing with trainers (and particularly those in higher levels) is that all of these accusations are made against someone speaking out or leaving in a desperate attempt by the trainer to avoid any…