Advanced Level Course Sequence
“Energy Awareness Training”
2008-2009
- Learn the methods and approaches used in the Basic and Intermediate Level courses from PTCI.
- Develop your own methods that are an expression of your own intuition and gifts.
- Deepen your own personal transformation and healing work.
- Be part of a “community of healers” that works together for a year.
Energy Awareness Training – also called Energy Constellation Training – will be comprised of four sessions spaced approximately every three-and-a-half months. The sessions for this one-year training sequence will be four days each. We plan to have two groups. A West Coast group will have three of their four sessions in California (with one session in Virginia Beach), and this group is slated to start in March 2008. An East Coast group will have all four sessions in Virginia Beach starting in April 2008
These training courses from the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute constitute the Advanced Level of course work and require completion of at least one Basic Level and one Intermediate Level course with PTCI.
There are four elements to each of the four-day training “sessions.”
- Learning concepts and skills about energy work, intuition, and constellation training. You will be exploring models for how to work intuitively with energy and consciousness, and you will see demonstrations and get hands-on practice with specific methods for working with people. Each new session will build upon the skills learned in a previous session.
- Deepening your meditation life – through active meditation and silent periods for personal retreat and renewal. We cannot do this work without a commitment to meditation.
- The transformation and healing of your own issues and energy blocks. To this end we will be doing group exercises and individual work to continue the personal process initiated in the Basic and Intermediate Level courses.
- Sharing and presenting talents and skills with each other. At some point in the one year training sequence, each participant will have the opportunity to present concepts with which they are familiar from other energy work methodologies and theories. We are all teachers to each other in this program.
Session One
Loving kindness and compassion will be explored at the first session. From the practice of quieting the mind and moving into the expansive and inclusive energy of the heart, we can learn the skill of listening deeply to ourselves and others – without judgment – and move into the role of the Witness. From the perspective of the Witness, we can better hear and understand the yearnings of the soul and the Ideal the soul is longing to connect with. As the connection with the Ideal is made, we also feel a deep and abiding connection with others’ pain as well as with their joy.
In this session we will explore many styles of meditation – each of which can help us to quiet the mind and body, and to create a “space” for the Divine to meet us, to speak to us, and to guide our lives.
In this session participants will learn and practice two very specific methods for working with deep listening to the various energies in our lives:
The Four Chair Exercise, and
The Voice Dialogue Method.
Session Two
We will look at the “Three Paths to Enlightenment,” a topic that some participants will have already explored in one of the PTCI Basic Courses.
The three paths are
- The Path of Perfection,
- The Path of Renunciation, and
- The Path of the Poison Pill.
We will move deeply into the meaning of each Path and explore how each has a gift to offer us in the way we approach opportunities and challenges.
Another central focus for this session is an examination of ten key spiritual laws and how they operate as guiding principles for energy to express itself spiritually, attitudinally, emotionally, and physically. What’s more, each of these spiritual principles inform the way in which we understand and live our Ideals. These ten central principles about how energy works will be a key to the methods that emerge throughout the rest of this training sequence.
Finally, we will return to our work with the framework of the “Three Paths to Enlightenment” to understand and feel more deeply the energies of our Ideals. We will be refining a sense of our own personal, spiritual ideal. And we will learn and practice a method for how to lead another person through an “Ideals Constellation.”
Session Three
Intuition is a crucial element of “Energy Awareness,” and it expresses itself uniquely in each of us. During this third session we will explore Intuition and look at our own particular methods for receiving intuitive consciousness.
Just as importantly, we will take a deep look at what gets in the way of our Intuition. We have fears and self-imposed limitations that block that gift. As a part of beginning to transform some of those patterns, we will look at our projections that stand in our way of claiming our own specific form of the intuitive gift; and we will also learn to stand in our power and affirm our specific gifts of the Spirit. We will also practice and learn to “feel” when our intuition is operating – in contrast to those times when other energy patterns are operating that block and distort our intuitive gifts.
A central skill that we will learn and practice in this session is how to “reframe” negative and limiting energies so that they can come into alignment with spiritual laws and spiritual Ideals. Within the framework of the ten spiritual principles we learned and worked with in Session Two, we will now practice moving energy from a negative or lower expression into a positive or higher expression – something that is more in keeping with the Spiritual Ideal.
Session Four
Session Four will bring together the concepts and skills learned in Sessions One through Three. We will listen, witness, intuit, and (through the eyes of the soul) look at many different forms that “Energy Constellations” can take. We will learn to “feel” how to construct a Constellation that expresses what another individual may be thinking, feeling, and expressing – either consciously or unconsciously. We will learn how to “step into another person’s energy field” and help that individual shift and raise energy – allowing what has been unconscious to become conscious, and what has been an unhealthy use of energy to become more life-affirming.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED
Send an e-mail to Mark Thurston at ptci2001@hotmail.com if you are interested and want to know more about tuition costs, venues, and dates.
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