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The Need for Spiritual Therapists and Teachers
The world we live in is changing. Families are falling apart. Adults and their children are struggling. The old values and social structures that helped us make sense of the world and guided our decisions are no longer intact.
People feel overwhelmed and confused. They live without passion or purpose, without goals or ideals to guide them. Many are self-medicating to get through the day. Some are giving up hope.
If you are a human service professional you see this every day. This is a time of intense crisis for many people. Yet their challenge is not just a worldly one. It is not just that they need to learn to cope better or become more functional in their lives. Their lives don’t work anymore. Humpty dumpy has fallen off the wall and crashed on the floor. They have tried to pick up the pieces and glue them together, but they have realized that it is a futile task.
Their old life has fallen apart. They are standing on a cliff, knowing that they cannot go back. They are afraid to jump, yet know that they have no choice.
As a helper and a guide, you cannot just keep pushing people away from the cliff. They have come to the cliff because they are ready to make a leap of faith. If you have made that leap in your own life, you will not be intimidated by their fear and despair. You will not be triggered by their brokenness.
You will understand that they have come to the key moment in their lives when they are ready to stop being victims, take their power back and begin living honestly and authentically. You will also understand that the process of letting go of limiting beliefs, roles and support mechanisms can often be disorienting and scary.
If you went through this process by yourself you know how difficult it is to take the journey alone. You know how helpful it would have been if someone had been able to give you a roadmap to guide you through the process.
The Roadmap to Real Happiness
During the last 30 years as a spiritual teacher and counselor, I have come to understand how real change happens for people. That understanding has given birth to my Real Happiness Workshop and the Training Program for Teachers and Counselors.
A major part of the workshop and the training is the Roadmap for psychological integration and spiritual transformation. This Roadmap guides us through the dark night of the soul when we are experiencing psychological pain and disorientation and our lives seem to be falling apart. It helps us relinquish what is false in our lives and embrace what is true. It helps us connect to our source, our higher power, our Core Self – call it what you will.
With the help of the Roadmap, along with wise direction and support from others who have been through the process of spiritual transformation, we are able to move more easily through the dark tunnel of our pain, our fear and our shame into the light of day. We are able to move from denial to acceptance, from victimhood to empowerment, from self betrayal to self actualization.
It would be great if we could be born without pain and struggle. But pain is an inextricable part of the birthing experience. The more we resist the pain, the more intense it gets. The only way to end our pain is to move through it.
One spiritual master told us, we have “to die and be reborn in order to enter the kingdom.” The death of the ego and the surrendering of control are essential steps in the process of spiritual transformation. The False Self must die for the True Self to be born.
If any of this makes sense to you, then you know that as a therapist, a coach, a teacher or facilitator of healing you must walk your talk. If you haven’t taken the journey, you cannot talk about it. To help clients in spiritual crisis, you must weather the storm in your own life. The True Self must be born in you if you are to be a mid-wife to others.
That is why I have designed this training program. It will help you deepen in your acceptance and love for yourself so that you can show up for others. It will help you embrace the light within so that it can shine out fully. It will empower you to live courageously in the truth of your heart so that you can be the voice in the wilderness, the guide who helps others cross the turgid waters when they are about to give up hope
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