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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 – …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

All bad is committed by humans… in their humanity

Submitted anonymously

Hey All,

So many amazing posts (on the support group site). Thanks again everybody! Had a few realizations the other day, and wanted to …

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 …