Volume Six, Number One                 April 23, 2009             Feel Free to Share With Others

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Dear Friends,

     I am pleased to report the great success of our first two Phase One Real Happiness Intensives last month near San Antonio, Texas, and Cologne, Germany.  Participants loved the intimate sharing and the opportunity to delve deeply into their core issues in an atmosphere of profound compassion and acceptance. These powerful workshops demonstrated that the safety, emotional healing and loving acceptance that people have experienced at our retreats can be recreated in small transformational gatherings all over the world.
     We all feel blessed to be facilitating such empowering work. Please be sure to read the reports below by BJ Garcia and Anita Breuer-Stass, who facilitated these events, as well as the testimonies of their workshop participants.
   In Germany in May and in Santa Fe in September, 2009, we will be graduating about twenty Level One, Level Two and Level Three Real Happiness Teachers.  They will be actively sharing this transformational work in Study Groups and Intensives all over the world.  This means that we will be able to reach out to more people who are in emotional, mental and spiritual crisis and offer them tools that can help them to walk through their fear and shame and heal their pain.  With more teachers, and thus more Real Happiness Intensives available, increasing numbers of students can complete the Real Happiness Learning Program in shorter period of time. Now, a process that used to take a year can be accomplished in 3-6 months.  As a result, serious students can expedite their healing journey, qualify for Teacher Training and step into their power and life purpose as teachers/coaches/counselors/ facilitators of healing for others.
     Indeed, in the next month, in both Europe and America, you have the opportunity to participate in Phase One and Phase Two Real Happiness Intensives with outstanding teachers and then to join me for my Phase Three Intensives in June in Germany and in July in Vermont. That means that you can receive your Certificate of Completion from the Real Happiness Learning Program and apply to begin Teacher Training in September, 2009. This is an unparalleled opportunity and I urge you to consider it if my work speaks to your heart and you wish to serve others at this challenging time in humanity’s  collective awakening.
     Here are the Upcoming Real Happiness Intensives being held in the US and Europe:

In the United States:

Phase One with Shari Sorbo in California May 1-3, 2009
Phase Two with Donna Yerman in California  May 14-19, 2009
Phase Three with Paul Ferrini in Vermont July 10-12, 2009

In Europe:

Phase One with Anita Bruer-Stass near Cologne, Germany May 1-3, 2009
Phase Two with Anita Bruer-Stass near Cologne, Germany May 8-10, 2009
Phase Three with Paul Ferrini near Saarbrücken, Germany June 8-10, 2009

     More information on these events can be found below.  Additional Phase One and Two Intensives in the US and in Europe are planned in July and August. Please visit my website www.paulferrini.com for more information about all of our workshops, as well as free introductory talks that might be available in your area.
     In a couple of weeks I will leave to begin my European Real Happiness Tour. I look forward to seeing many old friends and meeting many new ones. 

Love and Blessings,

Paul Ferrini
 

PS - I am posting my tour schedule below.  Please be sure to share this information with your friends and family.  You can be the doorway that brings them into a deeper connection with their Core Self.

2009 European Speaking Tour with Paul Ferrini

Click on the workshop topic to read more and to register.

http://weltinnenraum.de/mailing/wir/2009/NL_090131.htm

April 26, 2009, 19:00 - German teleconference   Register now
May 15, 2009 - Evening lecture in Cologne -- Topic: Creating Real Happiness     Register now
May 16, 2009 - Afternoon workshop in Leuven, Belgium -- Topic: Creating Real Happiness     Register now
May 17, 2009 - Afternoon workshop in Delft, Netherlands -- Topic: Creating Real Happiness     Register now
May 21, 2009 - Afternoon workshop in Munich -- Topic: Creating Real Happiness     Register now
May 29, 2009 - 1-day workshop in Bonn with Paul Ferrini & Robert Betz -- Topic: Freedom from the Past
May 30, 2009 - 1-day workshop in Bonn -- Topic: Creating the Life You Want     Register now
June 1, 2009 - Free noon talk at One Spirit Festival in Baden-Baden
June 2, 2009 - 1-day workshop at One Spirit Festival in Baden-Baden -- Topic: Dancing with the Beloved   Register now
June 4, 2009 - 8:00 evening lecture at Neumühle near Saarbrücken -- Topic: Creating Real Happiness     Register now
June 5, 2009 - 3-day Spiritual Mastery Retreat near Saarbrücken     Information auf Deutsch   Register now

Register now for both the 3-day retreat and the 2-day workshop for 498 Euros ($650) (tuition only)

Für diese Informationen auf Deutsch, klicken Sie hier.

Weitere Veranstaltungen zur Real Happiness Arbeit mit Anita Breuer-Stass

Spiritual Retreats with Paul Ferrini  

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Real Happiness Workshop Intensives with Paul Ferrini

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Real Happiness Workshop Intensives
taught by Certified Teachers

PHASE ONE REAL HAPPINESS INTENSIVES – REPORT FROM THE FACILITATORS

     On the first day of Spring a group of seventeen beautiful participants gathered in the Texas Hill Country at Canyon Lake to experience the Phase One Real Happiness Weekend Intensive.
     In trusting Love, all the details of this retreat seemed to fall into place, allowing the group to relax and be held in the Divine Mother energy as we opened our hearts, surrendered and deepened into the embrace of our Core Self. Uncovering denial and dropping the masks of self protection, it seemed as though the Texas winds carried away the False Self and helped participants to open up to their inner child.
     In the morning dance, the breaking of bread together, the meditation and connecting to Love, and recognizing a piece of ourselves in each other’s sharing, a group of individuals came together separately and left as a sacred family with one intention: Real Happiness.
     I am deeply grateful for having the opportunity to facilitate Phase One of the Real Happiness work and for the love and support of so many. I look forward to my next Phase One Real Happiness Intensives here in Austin at the The Crossroads.  I hope you will join us if you can.

                                                                                                       BJ Garcia

BJ Garcia’s Next Intensive: May 29-31, 2009 
Phase One Residential Intensive Austin, Texas,
Contact BJ at bj@freedombeyondbars.org for additional information.

Comments from participants in BJ’s Workshop

What a precious group of people opening their hearts! I was so glad to be there to open again and deeper. Thank you for a wonderful, rich, unforgettable time.
 
Thank you for the awesome, joyous workshop. It was difficult for me at times, but so, so rich in insights and healing experiences. I felt so nurtured.

I left renewed and uplifted and reminded of the power and connection to my Source. I look forward to completing Phase Two.

I feel very fortunate to be a part of such a loving, open and amazing group!

When I dropped that whole false belief and just allowed myself the space to love and accept myself I felt this enormous wave of welcome toward my Core Self.

This retreat humbled me to admit that I do still need a practice for connecting to my Core Self.
 
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to meet myself in a safe, loving and accepting space. I so much look forward to Phase Two and what will be revealed in me.

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     I once again recognized how important it is to have a safe space for this kind of work. And we had this in this 400 year old farmhouse with a really sacred room to work in. This supported our work in a way that cannot be underestimated.
      I also saw the importance of singing.  It’s an easy and wonderful way to open the heart…. I also played some inner child songs after somebody went through a deep process – and you could feel the love that was in the whole group during that time.
      For a lot of people in the group who shared their deep pain it was a relief that they were in physical touch with somebody. I offered in the beginning that this would be an option if this makes it easier for them and most of them were very grateful and asked for it.
       I was very grateful to see how courageous people were in sharing their deep pain. I also shared from my own experiences in the beginning and maybe this set the tone for others to dare to open up. And what I got as feedback from one woman was that she saw me as firm as a rock in the middle of all these ongoing processes of feeling the pain. So, we really lived and came in touch with what “feeling the pain” is about.
       We did Triads twice a day and they were very intense. And I had also prepared a list with the names for three Affinity Groups – but I felt and they also said so, that they preferred the sharing in the whole group. They had such a strong feeling of belonging together, they didn’t hold back anything because of the size of the group.
       What I tried to do during these three days was to go with what the group needed. So for me it felt more than a group process than anything that I was presenting.  What I did was to give them the opportunity to bring up their pain and they did.  I felt we all did it together and there was nobody who was more important in his role than anybody else.
     And what I shared with the group in our closing session and what took me to tears was, that I felt, how grateful I am to have found this work for my own healing and to pass it on to others who are in pain.  It feels so natural and organic as if I never did anything else other than that. I’m feeling so guided while facilitating the workshop that everything somehow seems to naturally unfold.

                                                                                         Anita Breuer-Stass

Anita’s Next Intensives in Germany:
May 1-3, 2009  Phase One Real Happiness Intensive near Cologne, Germany
May 8-10, 2009   Phase Two Real Happiness Intensive near Cologne, Germany
For workshop information, contact Anita at a.breuer-stass@t-online.de.

Comments from participants in Anita’s Workshop

I allowed my rage to come up and to feel the pain of being abandoned as a little child at the age of six.

What do I take home with me? The loving mother-energy around me while lying on my mattress, the growing of the loving acceptance of myself and others.

To dare to go near persons that are triggering me and to see my masks shatter and to feel the pain in my body that was under my mask.

My biggest challenge was to be open and to work with this huge amount of pain and feelings that were triggered through the sharing of the other participants.

To remember the crash-course of boundaries and accept myself as I am in the moment. To always see my innocence, no matter what is going on the outside.

I’ll take home a stronger connection with my inner child.

My biggest challenge: to open up, to talk about my mistakes in public, to speak frankly about them, to accept my own weaknesses, to be myself, regardless of what others think about it.

I recognized that no matter what has happened in the past, what counts is to be present here and now.

I learned to acknowledge my inner resistance and to let go of my projections.

I dared to show up. This was really a huge challenge for me!

To feel the loving acceptance of the group members and the many loving hands that touched me was such a wonderful experience for my soul.