Lessons In Awareness

Ex-Member Letters

This page contains many, many letters addressed to Diane Muir at the original Lessons in Awareness site, submitted to this site, or taken from the Yahoo support group site.  Personal letters are from ex-members in various states of recovery from TIP.  All letters are re-printed with permission, some have asked to have their names removed for safety reasons. 

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 …

Does This Path Have a Heart?

By Chiara Wood

When I resigned from the Training, I did so officially quite a long while after I was unofficially Gone! It didn’t seem important for …

Diane’s Letter of Resignation from Training in Power

Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:33 PM
Subject: Resignation

To the Boards of Training in Power, March 3, 2004

This is my official resignation from Training …

Letter to those in Training

Submitted anonymously

To all my healing buddies and colleagues in Training in Power. I love you. It’s hard to loose the closeness we once shared. I …

Thank you for the link to the site

Submitted anonymously

Wow

I think everyone should know of this site, and make their own educated choices about the Training.

I have to say reading the …

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 …

One former Training in Power seeker’s story      

By Germen Terpstra

(Originally posted in two parts)

Part 1

I feel that I came through the experience with Training in Power relatively unscathed – …

Community Resignation Germany

On behalf of the German TIP Community

To: Training in Power

We are standing up for the freedom to be who we are as individuals and …

Christiane’s Resignation

By Christiane

(from her positions as a student and the executive director in Germany)

To: Training in Power

I signed the letter “community resignation Germany”. This …

Just so happens

I have found myself in relationship with a person who’s sister is in this belief system aka cult.  We both find her negative nature and judgemental …

Level VII

Submitted anonymously

Hi there! Thanks for your response. It is hard to be in this place when so many of my friends despite how much negativity …

Your Soul is Your Own

By Kellie Newton

This letter is intended as a resource for those who are thinking of leaving Training in Power, and as a counter point for those …

Open Letter to Faye Fitzgerald

By Christiane

Hi Faye, this is Christiane, Germany

This is the 1st open letter to you from me

I haven’t heard from you after I represented …

“Worming”

By Christiane, Germany

Dear Trainers,

I want you to know, that I burst out laughing, hearing, that we, the ex-members of tip, are accused of sending as …

Letter of Resignation from Training in Power

By Wendy Fuentes

“The very reason they initially sought out the training – to heal from such attack in their past”

As I do not …

Level III, March 2006

From: Level III student leaving training

I want to share a story with you about my experience  (omitted for privacy). I feel freedom and an enormous …

Discrimination in Training In Power

This post is from the collective contributions of open circle members, a yahoo support group for those ex-members of the Training In Power Cult.

I have …

False Evidence Appearing Real

Submitted anonymously

Faye is a master at this. She presents False Evidence in such away that it appears real to the students. For example, in Teachers …

A lot of harm done

The most striking thing about all of this is that absolutely nothing in TIP has changed since the first posting many, many years ago. Nothing. No …

Update from Christiane

Christiane, Germany

February 11, 2007

In May, it will be 2 years that I freed myself from the cult “Training in Power”.

I feel free and …