Testimonials
“Each time I go to a GP retreat I grow. I gain some maturity, some wisdom, and some grace. I also reconnect more fully with myself and what it is that I truly value. An unexpected bonus for me has been that each time I attend one of these retreats, I fall even more deeply in love with my partner, myself, and life.”
K.B. — Santa Fe
“Going to the lab was like forming a new relationship with a new person and I’m that person.”
A.B. — Santa Fe
—”I challenged myself during the Green Psychology retreat to look head on at the various ways I was making myself unhappy and victimizing myself both in my personal and professional relationships. Through using this new language of personal responsibility I was able to see how I had even begun framing my life experiences in a way that did not allow me to grow and change.”
B.B. — San Francisco
“I positioned myself at a crossroad in my life, so I went to Tulum to gain clarity. The investment was well worth the time and money. I clarified myself regarding my issues and realized this new language will allow me to talk to myself more effectively.”
P.T.— Colorado
—”I resolved in myself the deepest issue of my entire life. I’m not sure how this is possible to do in eight days, but it’s exactly what I did.”
P.F. — New Mexico
“The group environment allowed me to witness myself and be witnessed by others even when I found myself haunted by past demons—the “Barbarians that go running around in the basements of our lives” and which poison our relationships because growth and reconciliation in the past was skipped or overlooked.”
C.B. — Albuquerque
“I learned to speak the language of personal responsibility and to understand myself more fully, including the various ways in which I need to change myself and the ways in which I use past experiences to frame present and future ones.”
G.H. — Berkeley
“I would highly recommend this workshop to anyone who is challenging themselves with growing in their personal and professional lives, and especially for those who need a new framework for putting past difficult experiences into perspective.”
H.H. — California
“Too many times had I bought a ticket for a ride, which in the end left me empty, stranded, and alone. Refusing to let me or my family or my business crumble, I chose G.R.E.E.N (Growth, Renewal, Emotional Footprints, Energy used wisely, Nurture diversity). The facilitators were sensitive not only to my needs but my abilities.”
D.G. — Kansas
“Perhaps the strength of this work is tapping into the health of each participant, then creating options and opening a space for choices and change.”
L.F. — Santa Fe
“I experienced a cellular transition of letting go, moving forward, and CHANGE.”
S.H. — Santa Fe
—”I believe the work of Green Psychology, by it’s principles of spiritual acceptance, compassion, and non-judgment creates an arena for transition and change.”
S.A. — Pecos
“I have me claiming my health and claiming change in me.”
A.T. — Taos
“I experienced health, serenity, freedom, and release of self-victimization.”
S.S. — Espanola
“What I attracted myself to with regards to the ‘lab’ was when I experienced my partner—who had already been to a ‘lab’—using Perceptual Language, and I found it to be a disarming way to communicate that took out the knee jerk reaction and defensiveness.”
G.T. — Albuquerque
“I had an avalanche of realizations, an incredible amount of learning that I’m still processing months after attending the lab.”
A.R. — Santa Fe
“I surprised myself with the experience of being in a group where the pervasive sense is one of non-threat, no blame no praise. I do not perceive myself as being a “group” type, but I appreciate the dynamic of stepping outside oneself and sharing how we each hurt ourselves with our old paradigms and myths.”
G.G. — New Mexico
“I fill myself up the most from the witness process during the “lab.” I enjoy myself the most when someone reveals himself or herself and there are no responses, no comments. I enjoy luxuriating in the sense and feeling of the NOW! When there is only silence.”
T.L. — Sandia
“The “lab” is a unique opportunity for me to experience a time of intimacy while deepening my understanding about myself.”
C.B. — Albuquerque
“I have the “labs” offer a time for personal work through three different levels of exploration—in the circle with the group, through the lectures, and with the sensory awareness.”
H.E. — Santa Fe
“I allow myself to stop my daily routine and contemplate myself. I give myself space and a safe conduit to analyze, discover, and realize my way of perceiving reality so I can be clearer with the meaning that I give to my interpretation of myself.”
L.S. — Santa Fe
“The location was extraordinary. I cannot think of a better way to look into my issues and meditate upon my life, like when I am surrounded by beauty.”
P.C. —Denver
“I was looking for an opportunity to center myself again, challenge myself in a different context and look into myself so I could grow and become clearer of what I want and what are my priorities at this time in my life.”
K.B. — Santa Fe
—”I realized that the men I have been in relationship with didn’t make me lose myself, growing up in my family didn’t make that happen, I did. I am the one who lost myself.”
S.S. — Santa Fe
—”I helped myself with Perceptual Language by seeing how I stuck myself for so much of my life. In the training I ceased blaming or praising . . . yes, others, and “life,” but more importantly for me, I quit blaming myself. I quit judging myself so harshly. I began to accept and respect myself. I began to honor myself in the space I created for myself when I quit judging myself. Perceptual Language helps me make this space for myself, in the training, and since the training.”
D.C. — Kansas
—”I excite myself and find I feel so much more alive in myself. The important part for me is that I find myself so very alive IN ME, and far less dependent on responses from others.”
B.E. — New Mexico
—”I now stay present with myself and accept many different parts of myself. I don’t run from myself—which kept me from being present. Previous to Green Psychology I would leave my body and try to avoid situations where I might discomfort myself because of a judgment I’m making about myself. Now I stay with myself and feel more of myself, which is leading to much better decisions in my life.”
L.L. —Portland
“It is now very easy for me to accept people without understanding them. My world is full to the brim with friends where before, I had just a few and did not make new ones often.”
R.V. — Alaska
“I have created a shift in my consciousness, similar to what I experience when I enter meditation practice. “Regular” language elicits separation and duality, in me. By changing my language so I am in the awareness of how I create “out there” in me, I discover my oneness with the outside. I experience practicing Perceptual Language as active meditation in my process of living.”
M.R. — Washington
“I perceive myself as more slow in responding and also listening, enjoying my ‘self-ownership’ and clear and respectful boundaries.”
S.R. — Santa Fe
—”Having done many workshops on ‘spiritual growth,’ I thoroughly enjoyed myself in this one, because I am linking Freud with Buddha. Yes, they are all about unconditional love, compassion and the present moment, but where can one actually EXPERIMENT freely and under safe and supportive, professional guidance with these ‘high ideals’ – and therefore setting free our own painful limitations/traumas?”
S.P. — Austria
“I am living myself now in a new way and will continue on this path.”
R.S. — New Mexico
—”I feel myself closer to my core; so all parts of me show up much more easily. My tears, sadness, laughter, and compassion—they come and they go and I am gently balancing all aspects of myself.”
K.K. — Colorado Springs
“It’s like being high for the first time—it was kind of disorienting—I felt myself turn toward myself instead of away from myself.”
L.L. — Texas
—”My metaphor is that a lab provides ways to tune our radio station, changing the frequency through which we receive all information, which helps us find heretofore-invisible forces in our lives—forces of health and clarity and maturity.”
A.B. — Santa Fe
“When I apply these tools I delight myself in the immediacy of the results.”
P.P. — Connecticut
—”After coming back from the “lab,” my daughter and I are playing around with Perceptual Language. I humor myself when she says, ‘I love myself with you Daddy,’ or ‘I frustrate myself with you Daddy.” I hear things very differently when we use Perceptual Language and I like myself more when I parent this way.”
M.A. — Davis
“I’m becoming a different ‘me’ as a result of this experience. I’ll keep the relationships I formed with people at the ‘lab.’ I’ll stop victimizing myself. I’ll establish much better relationships with my children. I will model this new way of talking so that I am a better partner and parent the rest of my life.”
P.T. — Colorado
— “Each time I go to a GP retreat I grow. I gain some maturity, some wisdom, and some grace. I fully reconnect with myself and my values. An unexpected bonus for me has been to fall even more deeply in love with my partner, myself, and life each time.”
K.B. — Santa Fe
“I decided upon arrival that I wanted to look at my relationship with my nine year old daughter. I have struggled with this relationship since she was about a year and have worked with a therapist extensively to help better my interactions with her. I have been amazed at the HUGE shift I had around dealing with her and my lack of patience and acceptance of this little person in my life. This is something I haven’t been able to do in eight years of therapy.”
L.C. — Seattle
