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| Courses Schedule |
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| ISM Support E-Forum |
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| Introduction to Relationships Courses |
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| Relationships I - Relationships in General - or - This Darned Elusive Happiness |
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| Threshold to Excellence |
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| Relationships II - Relationship with the Self |
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| Relationships III - Investing Responsibly in a Permanent Relationship |
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| Relationships IV - The World of Little People |
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| Relationships V - The Challenges of Puberty - Teenage Camp 1 |
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| Relationships VI - Hunting for Power - Teenage Camp 2 |
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| Frontiers of the Self |
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| Power of the Male |
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| Mysteries of the Female |
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On Teaching and Relationships
An Introduction
Economics, and Politics
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Our wishes are not just idle day-dreams. Our wishes are an expression of our innermost predilection - a predilection which it is perfectly possible to fulfill, provided we use our knowledge wisely.
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We make of our lives what we will.
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Life is not your social conditioning, and neither are you your behaviour.
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If you wish to change you must cast off your self-image.
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To relate to ourselves, to others, or to the world, we need to be aware. To relate implies understanding.
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Take responsibility for having this person in your life.
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Don't treat the other person in your life any differently than you would a stranger.
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Accept yourself for who and what you are.
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Always look for the positive; focus on the positive.
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Acknowledge gender according to its proper potential.
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Compress time.
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Believe in yourself and in others.
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Make allowances for the differences between males and females.
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Laugh! Life is fun!
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Be real. Make yourself and others real.
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The cornerstone of true love is intelligent co-operation.
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Ruthlessness and unconditional love are synonymous.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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All of life is a system of games. Some games just require more carefully defined rules than others.
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Life is a most priceless gift, but if we are to savour the full beauty of this gift we must be able to relate to ourselves and to those around us in a meaningful and fulfilling manner. We show you how to handle relationships with skill, for at the end of the day all of life is about relationships. Give yourself a most precious gift and register for a unique and masterfully facilitated Relationships Course!
"What makes my heart sing is to help those people who need clarity in their relationships to help themselves." ~ Elizabeth Schnugh
Our courses provide a carefully-prepared mixture...
- of life experience
- and practical tools and guidelines
...that you can take away with you and keep putting into practice in your
daily life.
We will, at all times...
- support you in an environment that is safe and secure
- to bring about the changes you desire
...whilst remembering that you alone determine the results that you achieve.
We all have the right to uplift ourselves; in doing so we benefit not only ourselves, but also everyone around us.
Our courses are for everyone...
- from all walks of life;
- no previous training or particular standard of education is required;
- multi-national and based upon universal principles.
show you how."
Participant Experiences
"I learnt more about fear and how to handle it. I also experienced a lot of fear during the
course and I had the opportunity to work with it."
~ Caroline, Belgium
"I very much enjoyed learning about my self-doubt and how my step-mother was mirroring this for me.
From seeing this behaviour within me, I could also see how I had been exhausting others in my life when I indulge in self-doubt."
~ Duane, Switzerland
"I had always seen the 'bad' things about me as making me a 'bad' person. I've now learnt to look at myself
differently. I see that I am a wonderful person! And I have a lot of potential."
~ Nicola, United Kingdom
"I learned that if I suspend my judgements, it is much easier to open up to and connect with people.
I realised that there is nothing wrong with being me, and that looking deeper within myself is not the same as
judging and beating myself up!"
~ Zhivko, United Kingdom
Course Content
The courses include discussions, individual work, group interaction and a variety of games. Everything is designed to show you how you behave in your life so that you can decide whether or not you like it, and then if you don't, we will give you the tools with which to change it.
Post Course Support
Because of the habits of a lifetime, these courses are the beginning and not the end of a process. With that in mind, there are a variety of other courses, after-course meetings, further learning opportunities and activities on an on-going basis. Whether or not you want to take part will depend on where you want to take your life.
A Message from Elizabeth
Through my experience of presenting these courses, I have found that, at the very least, every human being over 14 years old who has had only an academic education needs to complete the first two courses we offer.
Once you have completed these two courses, you can then choose to go on further, depending on how serious you are about your life.
The first two courses are Relationships I, how to relate to anyone, and Threshold to Excellence how to relate to yourself.
History of the Courses
It should also be noted that the first of these courses on relationships, termed Relationships I, was later rewritten by Théun Mares in the form of the book entitled This Darned Elusive Happiness, now Part One, Volume III of the Toltec Teachings.
Furthermore, the courses called Threshold To Excellence and Frontiers Of The Self, were originally not written by Théun, but instead were written by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. After Gurdjieff's death these courses were adopted, adapted and taught by an organisation called EST, and later these were again adopted by yet another organisation and adapted into two courses called I AM and Joy Spring. Much later Elizabeth met a teacher by the name of Christopher Nevill who had again taken these two courses and adapted them to his own style of teaching. He named them Harlequin and Quest, later Chalice, respectively.
When Elizabeth started her training with Théun she had been assisting Christopher in running the above two courses, but as their format was neither suited to the temperament of Elizabeth nor to the Toltec teachings, Théun rewrote them in a format that is today much more in keeping with what Gurdjieff had meant them to be.
Théun termed his own versions of these two courses Threshold To Excellence and Frontiers Of The Self respectively.
Consult the Current Course Schedule for times and locations nearest you.