I went to the retreat center in 2018 and returned this year. These last two months in Costa Rica I had the opportunity to work, heal and learn in the Choose Again residency program that I am very grateful I was accepted into.
In my experience I prayed and worked very hard in a program [AA] that I Love and owe my life to, but I was not able to surrender my character defects (my mistaken beliefs). I really could not fathom how to get rid of them or how to live without them. My “not good enough, fear of loss, my belief that I was a victim, guilty and deserving of rejection and punishment “ showed up and had a party with me, if only in my head. The Six Steps have shown me what the belief was for and how to change the stored belief and return to a state of Joy. This (the six steps) is very similar to the other program (AA) - we work the steps. We make a decision, we decide we will go to any length and most importantly - We are worth it! - Y.C.S, 2018, 2022 Choose Again retreat participant and resident
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The 4-week workshop is coming to a close. I have been experiencing more appreciation for your generosity with each day. This gift has been enormous. Thank you for allowing me to participate in this life-altering experience. Restored Faith, Generating Love, acknowledging choice, and of course, Peace Is what I feel graced with... Thank you once again to all the team… With Eternal Light and Love
For a long time I viewed the world in terms of victims and perpetrators and people in need of my help/fixing. This work of Choose Again has given words to what I sensed inside but could not articulate. When Dawn said that people are crying out "I've forgotten who I am. Can you help me?", the Truth of that pierced me to the core. I no longer see myself as a victim or a fixer and, if I ever do again, I have the tools to recognize the ego's voice and choose, again, to listen to the Loving Self. I finally understand what Diederik says about the Center being there for him. Wow. Fantastic!
-Valerie My name is Brenda. I attended Choose Again back in May and I just want to thank you and all the amazing people you have there for helping me find myself again!! I had all these tools and beliefs and my life was amazing and then I chose to let someone into my life that took everything away from me! At least that was what I told myself, but I realize now he came into my life to teach me that I had more lessons to learn! I was struggling to understand why I allowed this to happen and was second guessing my judgment! I finally uncovered what and why I did this and healed that part of myself who believed I wasn’t loveable enough to deserve better! I have forgiven that person and myself! Still working on some things but I truly believe I am love and love everyone around me! Thank you again for giving me my life back!! Please tell all those wonderful people you have down there that I am most grateful!!
Gratefully yours, Brenda My heart is filled with gratitude for what you and your team and Diederik are giving the world. My daughter attended a workshop last year in France. I have no words to express the gratitude I feel as she was way down the rabbit hole of victimhood. She is stepping up into her power using the Six Steps all the time now. She came out of an extremely painful situation with flying colours, without attacking and blaming, using the Six Steps relentlessly on the situation. I get a mouthful all the time now and I love it, because as "you teach you learn". The things she says to me are my reminders which I surely need too. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This work employs ideas that may not be new to some, but the Six Step process is an extremely effective way at tackling your 'upsets' in a powerful & useful way. I find the work liberating because the power is completely mine. What I like About Choose Again in comparison to other work in this genre is that it allows for love to flow through. Some types of processes are all cerebral, however we are multi-faceted beings and ignoring Spirit/Self/Love/Source/God means the work is incomplete.
Another bonus is that Choose Again starts right where you are. You have an upset about getting stuck in traffic, we can talk about that and go from there. We share together, in a circle, and there is better place to start where you are. The facilitators also share because everything is a gift to all who participate. It is extremely inclusive! -L. H. "No words can express what I experienced finding a practical guidance to the knowing, wise, and loving self within me and sharing it with a wonderful group of people in a wonderful surrounding." - South of France Workshop Participant
"The excitement of the course was hearing Truths spoken over and over again. I could then easily face my untrue beliefs that I had created, often, from years ago. The longing for love, to grow in understanding that I AM Love, that that is all there is touches a deep and forever experience in me. I'm so joyful to be offered ways to manifest/just be this truth. It just is and radiates by it's very nature. Despite challenges the whole atmosphere is of acceptance and love." - South of France Workshop Participant
"I leave Choose Again with the tools that if followed/worked will make a huge difference in my life and those of my extended family.
No greater gift can someone give to themselves than to better understand what thier purpose in life might be." - P "In this week (at a workshop in the South of France) I experienced so much love, I am deeply grateful for this experience."
"My time in Costa Rica, was life changing. I have never experienced a group of people with such love and compassion and light.
I was just blown away with the kindness, in a place of profound beauty, I felt safe and welcomed and at ease. I am so grateful. The process has become an important part of my life. I also bought the ACIM text book and am reading that too. Thanks for all that you guys do." Love Susan. "I feel the benefits of my time in Costa Rica. I was deeply struck but the sense of connection I felt so quickly there and it has definitely affected my day to day encounters with others." - Toodi W
"I came with no expectations and received wisdom, healing, and curiosity to pursue other workshops. The group healing began in the first five minutes and continued until the closure." - E
"Don’t hesitate. Don’t wait. do it now and change your life." - (Jeff - Vancouver)
If you want to free yourself from all the things that make you feel upset, Choose Again will transform your life to feel loving and peaceful. I’m eternally grateful for learning the tools so I can live a happy life and have unbelievable relationships. -(Stephanie - Vancouver)
It was in February 2017 that I first heard about Diederik Wolsak’s work and the Six Steps to Freedom Process.
At that point I had been a student of the Course in Miracles for 4 months and had been hoping for the miracle that would take me out of the deep anxiety and the feeling of hopelessness that I felt on and off for years. My life had become one coping mechanism after another for years, between a desperate spiritual practice, tools and medicine journeys, workshops, study groups and I had spent thousands of Dollars and countless hours in online courses to try to find out what was wrong with me – I figured there had to be something wrong with me because despite all the efforts, and the deep spiritual journeys, realisations and having lived in an Ashram for years nothing seemed to last more than a couple of days or weeks at best, before that same old feeling of desperation and being a failure came back. What was wrong with me?? "This experience was different than I’ve ever done. It really opened my mind up to opportunities in my life. I believe I will start a journey to being HAPPY again!! Thanks so much." (Jessie - Fort St John)
I wanted to let you and the rest of the team know that my time at El Cielo was life changing. I know that I have only been home a couple of weeks but I have been using the tools and feel so free. It is amazing how taking responsibility for my own happiness and giving up responsibility for anyone else's can flip the world upside down.
I have had no symptoms of anxiety or depression since I arrived in Costa Rica. I feel like a different person. It’s time I pour out my gratitude for the Six Steps! I am a “consciousness coach” and find the Six Steps to be the finest process I’ve ever come upon to serve the freeing up from suffering that is the longing in all human hearts.
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