Hosting an ISPS Training or Workshop
Questions and
Answers
Revision 1.0, October 2005
To:
Training Hosts
From: Support at ISPS
If you have any further questions or problems please email
us at 
, or Grant
McFetridge at 250-413-3211 in Canada. (This later
phone number is the Institute’s voice
mail—if we're traveling, it might take up to 5
days for us to reply.)
Which
type of workshop do you want to host?
Currently we
can divide ISPS workshops and seminars into 4 main
categories. The different types have different minimum and
maximum group sizes (and hence room size requirements), as
well as different restrictions on who can attend (set by
the nature of the material being taught).
A - General information seminars, open to all. The group
size can be large.
B - Specific healing technique workshops, open to all. Size
is between 8 and 15 people.
C - Targeted peak state workshops, open to all. Size is
between 8 and 15 people.
D - Professional workshops, restricted to qualified
individuals. Size is between 8 and 15 people.
Financial Arrangements
Does
this save me (the host or hostess)
money?
Yes. We reduce your cost by half or more, depending on
which workshop it is. Essentially, you're trading your time
for a reduced cost. Hosting can be a lot of fun if you like
people, are willing to send out information on how to get
to the class location and other details, and enjoy building
community by speaking to people on the phone.
What
are the financial arrangements?
The most common financial arrangement is to let us take the
risks. You charge the fees that we set, collect deposits,
and if there is insufficient attendance, we cancel the
workshop and you return the deposits.
Some people contact us to put on a workshop because they
are already running a retreat, seminar, or clinical
specialty business. These people pay a negotiated and
guaranteed flat fee and cover all advertising, food,
lodging, and transportation costs. The risks of
insufficient attendance are part of their business.
Contact us at for the
financial particulars of your workshop.
Who
do participants pay?
The organizer (you) needs to handle the student's money and
deposits. We don’t take credit cards at this time.
Do
I need to get a deposit from each
participant?
Definitely. You collect a deposit of half the course fee at
the time of their registration, to confirm their
attendance. We typically offer a discount for early
registration, that cuts off at 4 weeks before the class.
The checks should be made out to you. Participants should
receive a receipt for their deposit and the final payments.
The ISPS instructor will issue the organizer a receipt upon
payment of the final fee.
What
do I charge for returnees who have already taken the
workshop?
The typical discount is 35% for people who have already
taken the class. People who haven't taken the class get
priority up to 4 weeks before the workshop. However, if the
workshop is being run by a retreat company, any discounts
would have to be set by them, not us.
Before
the Workshop
Is
there a brochure I can hand out or mail to interested
people?
We refer most people to the website (www.PeakStates.com),
for more information than they can get from speaking with
you.
In addition we do have brochures that can be sent to
people. Some people may need this to get reimbursement from
their work. The brochure is available in printed form.
For a single page two sided brochure primarily about the
Institute, click here for the PDF
file (270k). For a single page two sided brochure
primarily about the 4 day WHH training program,
click here for the PDF
file (900k). The files are relatively large, so they may
take a few minutes to download.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page for a sample
announcement letter.
What
is the minimum and maximum number of
participants?
For our typical professional training, the class size is a
minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 students. If we have an
assistant or another teacher, we can raise the maximum to
15 students.
For seminars, the minimum number is 15 and there is no
maximum.
Do
I have to arrange for location and
facilities?
Yes. However, the size of the facility depends on which
class is being taught.
Our introductory lectures can have a large number of
people, and so the space has to be suited to the audience
size that you expect to attract.
The professional training typically involve only a small
group. ISPS instructors are generally very informal, and a
room large enough for 8 to 15 participants to sit around
comfortably in someone's house is fine. If it is necessary
to rent space, the cost for this will come out of the fee
paid by participants, but you need to handle all the
details of arranging it. (Given the intense nature of the
work and the occasional catharsis in students, if a hotel
conference room is chosen, it is best to discuss this issue
with the hotel management ahead of time so they can locate
a room in the building that would provide the least
interaction with other guests and other events.)
What
about sleeping arrangements?
You need to find a place for the instructor(s) to sleep (at
your house is fine).
You need to find an inexpensive hotel for out of town
participants with a phone number so they can make
reservations (make sure they know THEY need to make them).
Many hotels or motels will provide a discounted rate for
groups - if this is negotiated, be certain to let
participants know how much the rooms cost. If sleeping
arrangements in private homes can be arranged, this is also
a good option to offer.
Do
students need to purchase textbooks ahead of time? What
would cost be?
Our different classes use our published books and handouts.
If at all possible, we recommend purchasing the textbooks
ahead of time and reading them before class. This gives
students the best learning experience. Click here to go to
Amazon's or other stores order page.
The handouts are given in class. The cost of the textbooks
are not covered in the training fee. We bring textbooks to
the class for purchase there, if the student wants to.
Who
would you recommend take the class?
Different workshops appeal to different kinds of people.
They're for practicing professional therapists as well as
interested lay people. It's particularly useful for people
who know and use energy therapies, as their beliefs about
healing have already shifted and have realized the
limitations with existing techniques from having clients
they couldn't help that way.
What
about CEU's?
We can get psychology CEU's through the Association for
Humanistic Psychology for each training, but that is
expensive and takes some effort. If a number of
participants need it, we can arrange this with enough
advance notice, but we discourage it just because of the
cost and effort involved.
A certificate of completion will be handed out on the last
day of the workshop.
What
if the people who call have questions I can't
answer?
If you have any further questions or problems please
contact us at , or Grant
McFetridge at 250-413-3211 in Canada. (This is the
Institute’s voice mail—if we're traveling,
it might take up to 5 days for us to reply.)
During the Workshop
What
do the participants need to bring?
- We recommend
that students purchase the textbooks ahead of time and
read them before class. They can be ordered *here*.
Otherwise, they can be purchased on the first day of
class.
- Students
should bring their lunches and snacks for each day,
(unless you decide to cook for us all)!
- Be sure to
have in mind at least 5 emotional issues to work on, and
2 physical issues.
- Notebooks are provided, but bring pens to write with.
What equipment do you need to do the training? Will I need an overhead projector, whiteboard or computer projector?
- We will need
a flip chart stand and paper, and a TV and VCR to show a
couple of videos.
- We like to video the trainings when possible. If you know of someone with that skill who would like to volunteer to do filming, that would be wonderful, but it is not necessary.
How long is each class?
- We start at 9
AM and go to 5 PM each day.
- If they can, it's a lot of fun to go out after class each day to a restaurant to get to know each other and bond better as a group. A lot of material is covered in these evenings also about the Institute, our work, and so on.
Will there be a certificate of completion?
Yes, these will be handed out on the last day of the training. We encourage qualified participants to put their names on the free referrer/provider page of the website.
About the Workshops
What
makes ISPS workshops special?
In many workshops, the students receive only minimal direct
assistance from the instructor - they get directions, go
off and work on their own and return when done. Peak States
work cannot work this way, as traumas often get triggered
and people can require very intense and specialized
assistance.
The ISPS workshops have been designed to transmit some
pretty paradigm-breaking concepts and, more importantly, to
heal key traumas that block people from certain peak
states. This healing process is quite dramatic for some
attendees and they need special attention as this happens.
Until one has experienced the depth of this, it is normal
to contemplate the ISPS workshops in much the same light as
other workshops. However, given that deep exposure to core
trauma is something very foreign to most healing workshops,
modalities and therapies (despite the advertising and the
catharsis that might occur), we at the ISPS take the safety
of our students very, very seriously. The triggering of
suicidal thoughts and other dangerous outcomes are possible
unless the situation is properly managed.
What
does the class offer that isn't on the website or in our
textbooks?
First, personal instruction makes learning this material a
LOT easier. People receive individual attention, a lot of
reinforcement, answers to their questions, and quizzes to
reinforce the basic material.
Students get to practice with professional feedback, and
get personal experience healing at least 3 and usually
around 10 personal issues (for our trainings, not
introductory day workshops).
All our classes cover a tremendous amount of support
techniques. Some are our own, others are what we consider
the best available. For example, we teach a technique not
available on the website called Distant Personality
Release, which is a simple and fast method to eliminate a
client’s blocks to working with the therapist and
heal more easily.
I
want to announce it to my friends through email. Do you
have a short announcement?
Sample
announcement email:
Hello
Everyone!
This is the official synopsis for the Peak States course
that we are all looking forward to in *month*.
I am delighted to tell you that Grant McFetridge of The
Institute for the Study of Peak States has agreed to
present a four-day workshop here in *City xxxx* - in fact
the workshop will be held in my *City xxx* home! The ISPS's
pioneering research on healing and states of consciousness
is very exciting and will take us into territory very few
individuals have experienced.
The goals of the Institute are to develop and spread
methods to bring anyone into peak states of consciousness,
and to develop methods and train healers to cure a variety
of physical and emotional conditions that conventional
processes cannot help. The Institute website is:
http://www.peakstates.com/
This workshop will cover healing techniques that are the
groundwork for Peak States, including:
Whole-Hearted
Healing - a process in
which negative emotions and many body sensations evaporate
rather quickly. Traumas and their effects disappear. Even
if an individual believes they have healed the
repercussions of a trauma, the related "strings" tend to
resurface after time. This process identifies the magnitude
of the problem and heals the "strings". The process is
simple and effective and can be used to permanently
eliminate emotional triggers which create stress,
depression, anxiety and highly unresourceful states. Whole
Hearted Healing is a regression technique that heals trauma
quickly and fairly easily. The therapy does not use
hypnosis, touch or muscle testing, and a typical issue is
finished when the client experiences only a sense of peace,
calm, and lightness around the issue that they came in
with, typically in under an hour. This is not a 'meridian'
therapy, so psychological reversal or energy toxins are not
a problem. It is often used for clients that energy
therapies are not effective with, although it can be used
simultaneously with energy therapies to make them faster
and more effective.
The training is for professional therapists as well as
interested lay people. It is experiential, and you will be
healing several of your own issues in the training. The
four day training is all that is necessary to master the
basic Whole Hearted Healing therapy. CEU's available.
Distant
Personality Release - learn how to
clear the issues of another regardless of their mental
state.
Per the Peak States website "A variety of changes can be
experienced from our work - either by healing the traumas
that block intrinsic abilities, or as a consequence to
changes in states of consciousness. They include: needing
little sleep, seeing surroundings in vivid three
dimensions, each moment of time feels infinitely long, the
body feels like it's floating, everything is effortless,
music sounds rapturous, merging with all past lives
simultaneously, and a host of other changes."
Course
Title: *xxxx*
Dates:
*month, xx,
200x*
Time:
9
am until 5pm with food breaks and then continue in the
evening if needed
Location:
the
home of *Mxxxx Dxxx* at *XXX street, city, country* (map
will be provided)
Contact:
*Contact
person*
*name@emailaddress.com*
*phone number*
Cheque
mailing address:
*Street
address*
*City,
state/province*
*Zip/postal code
Payable to:
*contact person*
Cost:
US$750 for the
5-day course and a $375 deposit is required upon
registration. In order to give the teachers enough time to
make travel reservations, the registration deadline is
*month, day, year* - attendance is limited, so please don't
wait to register.
Deposit:
Please have
your deposit of US$375 paid by *date*, with the rest
payable by *date*. Please send a post-dated cheque for the
reminder with the initial payment.
Lodging:
Nearby motel facilities available approx. *$xx.xx* per
night or bed & breakfast next door at *$xx.xx* per
night or sleeping bag on floor/outside at *name*.
Bring with you a list of issues (3-10)--anything about
which you do not feel calm, peace and lightness.