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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 – …

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 …

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 …

  • Letter to those in Training

    Submitted anonymously To all my healing buddies and colleagues in Training in Power. I love you.…

  • Update from Christiane

    Christiane, Germany February 11, 2007 In May, it will be 2 years that I freed myself…

  • Level VII

    Submitted anonymously Hi there! Thanks for your response. It is hard to be in this place…

  • Open Letter to Faye Fitzgerald

    By Christiane Hi Faye, this is Christiane, Germany This is the 1st open letter to you…

  • Community Resignation Germany

    On behalf of the German TIP Community To: Training in Power We are standing up for…

  • Christiane’s Resignation

    By Christiane (from her positions as a student and the executive director in Germany) To: Training…

  • Level III, March 2006

    From: Level III student leaving training I want to share a story with you about my…

  • Too Many Secrets…

    By Colleen Wilson While I freely acknowledge there were things I learned during my participation with TIP…

  • 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,…