April 2008 Issue PTCI Newsletter Article 4

Energy Awareness Training
(Advanced Course)

• Deepen your own personal transformation and healing work, building upon what you have done in previous courses at a Basic and Intermediate level.
• 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 intuition and gifts.
• Be part of a "community of healers" that works together for a year.

Then the Advanced Energy Awareness Training sequence might be the perfect course for you.

Energy Awareness Training is 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. These training courses require completion of at least one Basic Level and one Intermediate Level course with PTCI.

• Learning concepts and skills about energy work, intuition, and personal transformation. 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. 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 - that is, 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.

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.

Participants will learn and practice two specific methods for working with deep listening to the various energies in our lives: The Four Chair Exercise - a methodology developed by Mary Elizabeth out of the pioneering work of Mark Kantor and ways that disputes are mediated and resolved, and the Voice Dialogue Method - a methodology developed by Hal and Sidra Stone and which invites us to distinguish the specific energies (voices) in our minds and to begin the process of internal reconciliation and healing.

Session Two

We will look at the "Three Paths to Enlightenment": 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 the "10 Spiritual Principles of Energy." These universal laws describe how energy expresses itself spiritually, attitudinally, emotionally and physically. Each of these spiritual principles inform the way in which understand and live our Ideals.

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. 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 is how to "reframe" negative and limiting energies so that they can come into alignment with spiritual laws and spiritual Ideals. 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.

A training group will consist of no more than 12 individuals who are willing to make a commitment to the four-session sequence. Currently sessions are held in Virginia Beach and on the West Coast. Check our schedule for the 2008 training dates.