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 …

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 …

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 …

Gratitude for the Website

Submitted anonymously

I am so deeply grateful for all of the work, time, patience and passion put into this website. Many of us get off the …

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 …

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 …

Too Many Secrets…

By Colleen Wilson

While I freely acknowledge there were things I learned during my participation with TIP that had value and purpose for me, there was always …

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 …

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 …

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 – …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Making Peace with Leaving Training In Power

Submitted anonymously

I’m discovering this is no easy task. Friends in TIP do not understand the depth of indoctrination that is happening to them just as …

Returning to a semblance of “normal”

Submitted anonymously

Hi there,

As many others I would like to remain anonymous. I have been following your website since you posted it a while back …

“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 …

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 …