Posts Tagged ‘personal transformation’
TRANSFORMATION COMES ALIVE: THE SATVATOVE COMMUNICATION SEMINARS
Satvatove Institute offers communication seminars founded in Transformative Communication. In these communication seminars you will have full facility to gain mastery of skills, techniques and principles vital to highly effective relating. And in the process you’ll get tools and realizations essential for knowing yourself, and for facilitating others in their journey of self-discovery.
The Satvatove communication seminars, ranging in length from 1 hour to 7 days, are dedicated to create a safe environment for courageous intrapersonal and interpersonal exploration. This environment is established through rigorous commitment to avoid subtle and overt blocks to genuine communication, and to cultivation of effective and powerful communication strategies. In these communication seminars, such as the 3-hour Relationships That Work workshop, the Foundational Seminar, and the Advanced Seminar Experience, you’ll get to refine your ability to distinguish between life-enriching and life-alienating communication.
This atmosphere of sacred space provides special opportunity to explore, in yourself and your relationships, what is authentic, and what is superfluous. You’ll experientially discover and uncover qualities in yourself that, till now, have been less than fully manifest and expressed.
“The Satvatove communication seminars have been a fabulous experience every time I’ve participated. The Foundational Life Skills/Personal Transformation Seminar for me was humbling and very enriching. I feel I could take it ten times and continue to benefit every time.
This has helped me be stronger and rooted in my path. The more I use and commit to these communication strategies, the more connected I feel to myself. For this amazing gift, I wish to share my deepest appreciation and gratitude for your work and the opportunity to be a part of these communication seminars.”
- Mariah Rollins
My experience with the Satvatove Advanced Seminar was nothing less than amazing! I feel alive, happy, and brand new after having completed the course. I have reconnected with so many long hidden qualities such as assertiveness and self-confidence. I am definitely feeling empowered to speak out and let my voice be heard. … Even down to the smallest detail, every aspect of the course has helped me to grow. I have learned practical ways to continue to make positive changes in my life…and I feel incredible enthusiasm to achieve my goals. I have also learned the value of sharing honestly with others, and being real about who I am. To anyone who is experiencing frustration and unhappiness in their lives I would definitely recommend the Satvatove communication seminars
- Enid Sacasa
The 3-day Satvatove communication seminar absolutely was AMAZING! Taking this course is a decision that I will remember for the rest of my life as being life-changing!
- Tim Francis
The immeasurable value of this 3-day communication seminar became apparent within the first three hours. The principles are based in the truest nature of humanity as spirit beings … This course has awakened potential within me I forgot I had. I want more! I recommend the Satvatove communication seminars to everyone!
- William McLeod
DR. DAVID WOLF AT THE MASTER OF INFLUENCE EVENT
Excerpts from Dr. David Wolf’s workshop, Transformative Communication: A Foundation for Powerful Living, at the Master of Influence event in Palm Springs, California, on November 5, 2010. Transformative Communication is an approach to self-realization founded in ancient wisdom, innovative yet simple communication strategies, and breakthrough transformational methods. Join David and the 1300+ participants as you get a glimpse into the power of conscious living that characterizes the Satvatove experience.
A PERSONAL REVOLUTION
“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.”
Marianne Williamson
FAITH AND BEING
by David B. Wolf
“What’s wrong with striving for material comforts and affluence, like a big house, a boat, or the car of my dreams?” This question was posed towards the close of a personal transformation seminar.
“Why would you endeavor for such things?” I responded. The ensuing conversation revealed that amenities such as those mentioned, as well as other tangible attainments such as a position in an organization, fashionable clothes, and a healthy bank account, were commonly sought to achieve experiences such as security, power, self-confidence and a sense of personal value.
A Weak Position
I commented that this sounds like a weak position. The essential message is “I am not intrinsically a secure, confident, valuable person. To experience strength, worthiness and specialness I need various external trimmings.” This consciousness indicates lack of essential faith in oneself.
Genuine faith in self is apparent in a lifeview that starts with being rather than having. This approach to existence knows that to experience fulfillment, contentment, joy and vitality, I don’t need to do or have anything. I am inherently fulfilled, content, joyful and vital.
Chasing Security And Happiness
It’s not that there isn’t activity, accomplishment and acquisition in the be-do-have paradigm. In fact, when living from being, my doing and having are imbued with potency, because they flow organically from my being. They are not separate endeavors, contrivances to obtain from the outside what already exists inside. Naturally if I am being the vibrant, trusting and confident person that I am, I will do what vibrant, trusting and confident people do, and have what they have, such as a life of adventure, satisfying relationships, and abundance. In be-do-have we live the truth that wealth is not about having more; it is about needing less. We choose security and happiness; we don’t chase security and happiness.
Reflection on our approach to life- for example have-do-be, or be-do-have- points to where our faith lies- in our spiritual essence, or in external objects and symbols. From a place of being we might acquire such objects or symbols, from choice and inspiration, not from need and fear.
Faith Is Inescapable
Our nature is to have faith, and how we live reflects where we place our faith. When we turn the ignition we display faith that there is not a bomb wired to the car. Each element of our lifestyle- e.g., diet, recreation, financial management, spiritual practice or lack of it- shows our faith, what we believe will provide us a life of fulfillment and happiness.
Our choice is where to place our faith, and we can consider this question with respect to inner being or external having. In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna exhorts Arjuna to “Be transcendental…be without anxiety…and be established in the self,” indicating that for a contented and fulfilled life, living from our transcendent spiritual core is the most reasonable choice. Epictetus said “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” Such teachings move us to live from being, trusting that the externals will come my way; and even if that doesn’t happen according to my plan, I’ll be okay, and more than okay, because my security and value is a function only of what can never be destroyed. That is a worthy place for faith.
Advanced – November 16-21, 2010
Advanced Seminar Experience
November 16 – 21, 2010
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Open New Possibilities For Greater Accomplishments And Joyfulness
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Life Skills Course, the Advanced Personal Transformation Experience is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
Open New possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: Alachua, Florida
When: November 16-21, 2010
Tuition Includes: 7-day, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group and Early Registration Discounts and Payment plans are available.
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
FROM NORMA
“I truly enjoyed the personal transformation life skills workshop. What really enforced the concepts were the role-playing and the games. The experience I felt while putting into practice what I learned is something I can draw on. I know these skills will only serve to enhance my work with my clients and my relationships with my family. Thank you.”
Norma Rivera BSW – Social Worker
3rd Level Seminar
Satvatove 3: An Adventure In Conscious Living
Satvatove 3 brings an entirely unique and potent blend of empowered communication, courageous introspection and purposeful action to explore and deepen our connection with our spiritual essence. Conscious living becomes a simple yet powerful step-by-step process rather than an overwhelming and intangible concept. By placing the one in front of the zeros the seminar provides an experience of meaningful and purposeful living, where genuine individuality brings about cohesive community.
You Will Get The Opportunity To:
- Integrate the Principles of Conscious Living into your everyday life in a powerful and practical way
- Experience yourself as a spiritual being having a human experience
- Discover what it means to live your life as a distinction
- Connect with your life purpose
- Deepen and refine your understanding of the principles of Transformative Communication
- Step out of the drama of life and into the adventure of living consciously
A Few Comments From Graduates:
Here’s what Lacey Nagy had to share:
“I had melted into a pool of God’s Unconditional Love for me. I experienced what a conscious world looks and feels like and I am more confident about a conscious world happening now rather than some day in the distant future. For me, the Satvatove 3rd Level Course is a uniquely powerful vehicle for conscious living and being happy and free for no particular reason.”
Belinda Aycrigg shares her experience:
“I experienced and continue to experience being much more conscious, confident and free in relating with people. I feel grounded and peaceful in being with others and able to honestly express and assert my needs… Since I have returned home I have been very focused, clear and determined in taking time to plan out my life in detail and set short and long term goals which I’m now implementing. This was one of the areas of my life which I chose to work on specifically in the course in our pre course assignment and even though I didn’t really consciously focus on it during the course itself, I still got such a great breakthrough.
I am experiencing clarity about my life and what I want and what I will and will not accept. This is a great change for me as before I used to find decision making challenging… I am experiencing being much more positive and grateful and seeing the glass half full. I used to be a whiner and always looking for the problem or the negative or the fault in a situation or person. Now although I am not perfectly reformed I am definitely far more conscious of when I am being negative and quickly choosing to be positive instead. This is a huge transformation for me.
I am just more conscious full stop. And I have a sense of urgency about taking complete responsibility for my life and living life ‘on purpose’. I finally feel that I am making big changes whereas before I felt stuck on a plateau. All of the things I set as intentions that I wanted to create from the course have manifested in my life in a remarkable and seemingly mystical way because after writing them down in the pre course assignment I didn’t really give them another thought – certainly not during the course- and yet I got breakthroughs in every single area. It’s hard to say how many of these developments have come about purely as a direct result of doing the course as I’ve been working on myself for a long time. I would say that the work I have been doing has been cumulative and the course was a major and vital milestone in catalysing and consolidating breakthroughs which were in process. A final powerful push to a whole new level of being which I was ready to embrace because the foundations were already laid.”
And as another graduate of this seminar said, this is an experience not to miss.
Click here to read what other seminar graduates have to say
Requirements:
Completion of the Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment Seminar Experience
Graduation from the Advanced Seminar Experience
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TRANSFORMATION IN THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER
By Anna Golson
From the Satvatove Archive:
Antoine, one of the editors of this newsletter, has been bugging me for months to write an article about a powerfully transformational and deeply touching event I had the privilege to participate in. On the one hand I have been trying to explain to him that it is impossible for me to write about it. On the other hand I know how important it is to write about what I have seen and experienced. The world should know about the place I have been and should see what I have seen.
Usually writing flows pretty easily for me. But not this time. I start writing, but after about two or three sentences my pen just goes on a trip of its own, scribbling on the paper images that got etched in my memory. The images of the building, the guards, and especially the boys; their faces, their expressions, their eyes. The way they struggled to maintain some dignity in those orange prison jumpsuits.
These boys were the participants in a transformational event I helped Marie conduct at the Alachua Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Gainesville, FL. The course was a somewhat modified version of the Satvatove Foundational Life Skills / Personal Transformation Course, stretched out to six half-day sessions to fit the boys schedule. The course was emotionally extremely intense and demanding. Marie would say the same. I’m not sure if either of us has completely recovered from it yet.
So, as writing things out on paper didn’t work, I tried it on my computer: Those hard and noisy black keys! That shiny bright screen! They are so perfect, so efficient, so much shouting at me, “Okay, what’s the job? Let’s just get it done!” But where I have been, in that prison, it is a place where things are not so perfect and efficient. Where things are hidden away that we don’t want to see, and the answers are not easy. There, the rules to get the job done are different.
When people ask me about the prison program, I’m at a loss for words. There were only two persons I could really talk to about it. Both of them are recent graduates of the Gainesville courses, and both have experience working in the correctional/prison system. I felt that they understood me. I felt that they do know those gray walls, the echo of the slamming of those big iron doors, the banging, the yelling trailing through the hallways, the hopelessness, desparation, and frustration thick in the air. And that hollow feeling in the heart.
One of the recent graduates of the Gainesville courses told me that a good definition of communication is the transmission of one’s internal images to another person. The better my communication skills are, the more accurate the sent copy is. So, both the sender and the receiver are able to look at the same picture. That is the perfection of communication.
I have been thinking about this in regards to this article. That this is what I’m trying to do; to convey the same images, the same feelings, the same experiences that I had during that week in jail. But how? How do I do that? How can I put into words what I have seen? All I have is a bunch of disconnected but powerfully vivid images that grab my heart every time I think about them. Images of:
The BIG and MEAN guard who by the third day was taking part of the processes, and who organized a competition amongst the boys to copy the drawings on some of our signs for him because he liked them so much…
The kids who almost jumped at each other during mediation, and Marie quickly had to break them apart…
The boys taking off their canvas, rubber-soled shoes to use them as erasers (because real erasers were forbidden)…
The guards who volunteered to demonstrate in one of the processes how to break through personal obstacles…
The boy who left the seminar because he was not used to looking at people in the eyes…
The kid who stole some paper (and risked severe punishment) to make us flowers…
The boys who were sharing their life stories for the first time in their lives…
The genuine eagerness they had to participate in processes…
Their realizations, their bright moments, and their frustrations. All the ups and downs of the roller-coaster…
The moments we cried, the moments we laughed, the moments we cried and laughed at the same time…
And the moments we were afraid to connect with the emotions that filled the space because it was too much, too raw, too frightening…
The big party at the end, when these hard-faced little rejects of society turned into giggly kids, stuffing as many doughnuts into their mouths as they could…
And the very end, when we left and the boys remained in their orange jumpsuits, with hands behind their backs in that world of no hope, no light, and no future, lining up and counting out as they left the room; “One, Sir! Two, Sir! Three, Sir!”, a routine we saw them go through countless times during the six days.
So did this seminar make a difference? I’d like to think so. I think, if nothing else, it left a ray of hope. A ray that there is a world out there that is not a jungle. Where there is sanity, hope, intelligence and opportunity. Where humans are made after the image of God, not after the image of animals. A world where these boys are given a choice. As one of them wrote on his feedback form (and all other feedbacks echoed the same thought), “Your course gave me motivation of what I wanted in life. Otherwise I might have forgotten my skills. But you made me realize what I was put on the Earth for. I’m very appreciative. Thanks.”
I also want to share about Marie, and her lioness-like fierceness to protect the seminar and the participants from all the obstacles that kept coming up at practically every moment, and at the same time her passion never becoming personal and damaging to anyone, neither the guards nor the participants. She single-handedly transformed the atmosphere that was everything but conducive for a seminar of this nature. By the last three days we were pretty much in our own world, that sacred space where real transformation can take place.
After the course we all went to the beach. We were floating in our tubes and being splashed by the waves. We were talking, about nothing in particular and everything in general. At one point Marie thought she saw a shark! She completely freaked out, and headed for the shore! I saw her in a split second turn into a frightened little girl, running for her life! That was one shark (if it was), not more then two feet long. I reflected on how many much bigger and scarier sharks she faced the days before with such intense braveness. But that is Marie: a fascinating and very real person with all the contradictions of being human.
by Anna Golson
From the Satvatove Archive:
Advanced – Mar 10-15, 2012
Advanced Seminar Experience
March 10 – 15, 2012
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment Seminar Experience, the Advanced Personal Transformation Experience is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
In This Seminar You Will Get The Opportunity To:
- Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Open New Possibilities For Greater Accomplishments And Joyfulness
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
Open New Possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: North Florida
When: March 10-15, 2012
Tuition Includes: 6-day, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group Discounts and Payment plans are available.
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
For Further Information Contact:
Nitai – nitaibechtol@gmail.com / 858.442.6311
Advanced – November 5-10, 2011
Advanced Seminar Experience
November 5 – 10, 2011
Developed & Facilitated By: David Wolf, Ph.D. and Marie Glasheen
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
The Advanced Personal Transformation Experience
Building on the groundwork of the Foundational Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment Seminar Experience, the Advanced Personal Transformation Experience is an intensive, highly experiential course that addresses life issues in a substantial manner.
In This Seminar You Will Get The Opportunity To:
- Discover And Manifest Your Full Potential
- Address Life Issues In An Honest And Meaningful Way
- Explore Your Heartfelt Commitments, And Gain Clarity And Courage To Act On Them
- Connect With What Is Vitally Important To You
- Transform Your Relationship With Fear
Open New Possibilities For Extraordinary Accomplishments And Satisfaction
In the Advanced Course participants explore more fully the real-life, practical applications and insights gained in the Foundational Course. The communication and personal growth tools acquired in the Foundational Course assist this process. Students identify their most genuine commitments and gain clarity and conviction to act on them. Through this Advanced Course you realize in a uniquely personal way what is integrally important to you. This realization results in aligning your life choices with your life purposes, and opens new possibilities for extraordinary accomplishments and satisfaction.
Personal Attention
This seminar provides directed coaching appropriate to each student’s intentions and goals. The staff assumes that students are committed to achieving excellence in all areas of their lives. Further, it is presumed that you have full capacity to effectively deal with your life situation, and that a stance of personal responsibility is best for achieving maximum potential and fulfillment. Students have abundant opportunity to realize their strength, ability, and potential for growth. During the Advanced Course students create and clarify their vision for their future, rise above self-imposed limiting beliefs, and discover the power to be the author of their life.
Tap Your Full Potential
There are vast reserves of unused strengths, unexpressed creativity, and unsung joy in each of us. This course offers the technology to bring this out, to remove the self-imposed limitations and allow the genuine self to shine. This seminar experience is an exciting opportunity to become conscious of your power and generate the life, accomplishments and relationships you want.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
RESERVE YOUR SPACE IN ADVANCE!
Advanced Course Information:
Where: North Florida
When: November 5 – 10, 2011
Tuition Includes: 6 days, approximately 70-hour course, course materials, lunch and 1-hour post-seminar personal coaching interview.
Tuition: $2,500
Scholarships, Group Discounts and Payment plans are available.
Florida Special
Register Now & Get A 40% Discount
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!
If you are not satisfied you can request in writing a refund of the tuition
within 24 hours of the end of the seminar.
For Further Information, Contact Us:
352.505.2959
fayenen@satvatove.com
