"My husband and I were given a much deeper understanding of how gender healing MUST occur within the community context, since gender conditioning/wounding begins at that level.

Although we had been very actively working on this healing between ourselves for years, the group support became a bridge toward a much deeper, much-needed experience of interpersonal healing within the context of our marriage."

"I strive to see the divine masculine in the men I meet - even if they don't consciously identify with this in themselves.

Gender reconciliation work has also expanded my work of helping women to increase their self-esteem and reclaim their divinity, which has been denied them by all the major religions.

During Satyana's certification training in May 2005 - there were 17 of us in Colorado - my heart so overflowed with love I thought it would burst. The love within and without was so powerful - beyond anything I had ever experienced before. I feel these bonds are forever - that we will be there for each other no matter what. And, things weren't all 'nice' - we confronted one another and pened to new awareness in each moment - ALL in a community of love and respect."

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"My relationship with the most important woman in my life, my wife, has deepened into an unshakable friendship that still has deep passion after 34 years together. I no longer project onto her intentions that came from my early development with an alcoholic, abusive, sick mother but experience her as who she is without past baggage from my assumptions about 'all women'.

My relationship with my daughters initially drove me to this work because they were afraid of me. I didn't want to teach them to fear male authority figures. I also began to see the impact of social conditioning on them in middle school, which limited their opportunities and eroded their confidence
and self-esteem.

Following the gender work, my relationships with my daughters went through several years of transformation. Now, we have a great relationship in which they can tell me
anything and I have the ability to simply listen and love them, rather than trying to give them advice and fix them".

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"I realized how my internal Masculine and Feminine were at war with each other, and how in creating dialogue between them, they came into harmony and balance.

I realized that gender identities are not about sexual preference, but the internal relating people hold within themselves between the Feminine and Masculine energies. I also realized the great value that
the LGBT population brings to a ommunity; they dance between worlds, and can become great bridge builders for healing gender relations."

"I have more empathy for my son and his father, and increased empathy and insight on male behavior and ways to engage in dialogue around interpersonal gender dynamics.

I also have a greater appreciation of the spectrum of sexual identity and behaviors, and my impression expanded that these are not fixed conditions, but have the potential to fluctuate along a continuum from "male"- defined to "female"- defined over a lifetime.

Given a safe container with highly skilled group technicians, as well as gender econciliation specialist, this work cultivates the ability to cut through and resolve masses of limiting beliefs, woundings, confusion."

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