Amy
Before taking the Breakthrough Training, I was struggling—desperate to find friends, make health changes, and find something new. I was exhausted, lonely, sad, and discouraged. Then I took the Breakthrough Training.
During the training, the level of care, love and empathy communicated to me from the trainer and team surprised me. I also was surprised by how the exercises we did had ability to draw thoughts and feelings out of me that I was unaware of previously.
Since the training I have an attitude of responsibility instead of a victim mentality. I am making my own choices and initiating change in my life. I’m experiencing rest and joy. I’ve found amazing friends who love me and care about me. Now, when things get out of control, I can re-center on the most important things.
Jennifer
The Flourishing Life’s trainings have taken me from being socially crippled to leaping wholeheartedly into every moment with another human I chance to speak with. I have a much richer life and am able to more fully share the gift that I am to others after traveling through these trainings.
The Flourishing Training pulled the fundamental concepts together for me. I had big ‘lightbulb’ moments at this training. I become aware of what was really happening internally. My marriage had been on the verge of disaster, but since attending The Flourishing Life Trainings we’ve been able to communicate much easier with new tools and awareness of our individual outlooks and perceptions.
The Breakthrough Training helped me trust my husband who went to the training with me. The concepts of trust, promise, and betrayal were deep wounds for me, and I was able to work through these much more deeply in this training.
The Legacy In Action Training was the biggest thing I’ve ever done in my life so far. I wanted to have the best chance where I would follow through with this change into something that would last all my life. So many intricacies were explained and clarified to push me further into engaging in communicating, knowing, and showing who I am, and the gifts I have.
Gaby
When I participated in the Breakthrough Training, I had been married 11 years. The trajectory of our relationship was on a path that was unsustainable. My husband and I were dealing with an increasing lack of intimacy and trust. Personally, I was angry, a lot. I was clueless as to why, but it bled into my relationships with my then 6 and 3 year old sons.
I felt hopeless and lived in a level of despair I actually could tolerate and called it happiness—I thought I had a perfect marriage! I was completely emotionally disconnected from reality at that point.
The beauty of the training to me, was the Socratic way the highly-skilled trainers helped me see my what I couldn’t. Questions and distinctions made, allowed me to discover what I didn’t know, I didn’t know. That feedback brought to light into my life, the impact I was having on those around me, specifically my husband and sons. It caused me deep sorrow. Yet joy emerged as I was no longer blind to how they felt around me and realized that I had choice and the power to create something new with them.
Six months earlier, my husband participated in the Breakthrough Training. When he came home I noticed a shift in how he handled me and our sons. He became engaged, warm, and a hands on dad—things I had not experienced before. He was willing to talk and listen. I knew something profound had happened in his life. I wanted desperately what he had and knew that going to Breakthrough would give me that opportunity.
What I experience in my life now is a tremendous sense of freedom and flexibility in my thinking and actions. I realize, being right and being in control were two areas that drove my actions prior to the training. This mindset crippled me. I am better able to step back from those tendencies and see more possibilities. To say this training resurrected my marriage would be an understatement!!!
The Flourishing Training allowed me to process internally what I was learning about—love, trust, the baggage I held onto, the reasons why I acted or thought the way I did that did not produce the results I wanted with my husband and sons—there were many “A HA!” moments for me!
The Breakthrough Training helped me see my impact on others, revealed my blind spots. Breakthrough gave me space to choose a new way of relating and practice with others. I could ‘try-on’ new ideas and reach out to others without anger, control and the need to be right, getting in the way.
These trainings were truly life-defining. I know my life is abundantly enriched since participating. My family dynamic is rich and wonderful and loving—not likely to have happened outside of The Flourishing Life.
Joel
Before I participated in the training, one of the main challenges I had was a low view of self and a large amount of insecurity about myself. I felt pretty inadequate about most things in life, and was worried about failing at many different things. The training helped me to see and understand these beliefs about myself much more clearly.
I was surprised how intensive the training was. It challenged me to consider how I was living and offered the possibility of a much different way of living.
I gained such clarity and understanding of how my inner thoughts and beliefs affect me and drive my behavior, and then how my behavior impacts the people around me.
I didn’t think it would affect me as much as it did, and for that, I will always be thankful.
Michael
If I could compare these trainings to food, I would say that there are some meals you eat and then you are very hungry in an hour, and there are other meals that fill you for a long time. You could say they stick to your ribs. I would say that the The Flourishing Life trainings are the type of training that “sticks to the ribs” in life situations.
Recently I went through one of the biggest challenges of my life. I have stepdaughter with special needs—autism, epilepsy, and severe behavior. It took me more patience and day-to-day endurance to go through this situation than I thought I had within me.
So many of principles of the trainings just become part of life, like keeping promises, accepting reality just the way it is but also having a vision to call you through very difficult times. At this point my stepdaughter is in best place she could be for her, a place that specializes in brain damage and she is very happy there. I don’t know if it would have happened if I didn’t fight for this vision. And I’m sure if I didn’t make a lot of changes in my own life I would have been no good at helping her get there.
These trainings helped me transform my character.
