1. How do you get results so easily and quickly? How can the results be achieved in 2 ½ days? How can SAW be equivalent to 1-5 years of counseling/therapy? How does SAW work?
You may be feeling skeptical about the rapid results of SAW. You may be saying that there are no easy or fast solutions, and since your problems have been around for a long time, it needs to take a long time to solve them. You may have been told that getting results needs to be difficult and expensive.

One of the reasons SAW's phenomenal results can be achieved in only 2 ½ days is that the Weekend is led by two professional leaders with 30+ years of experience. Identifying the root causes of the problems is critical. Here's an example:

Let's say your car is broken down and you take it to one car mechanic who says: "In order to find your car's problem so it can be fixed, it is going to take several hours to go over it and get to the problem. There is no guarantee we can find it. It will be based on your car and what your car does. It may cost hundreds of dollars to fix it and there is no guarantee."

Or, you take it to an experienced mechanic who says "In looking at your car for a few minutes, I found it has a muffler problem; I can fix it in l hour for the cost of $150; and I'll offer you a 2 year guarantee." This same idea applies to the leaders of the Self Awareness Weekend.

There are 25 hours for the counselors and participants to get to the heart of the problem and remove it. Often with individual, couples, or group therapy, a person will just get started on an issue when it's time for the session to end. Can you imagine a surgeon going into surgery and when the hour was up saying, "Let's make an appointment for next week" even though the surgery wasn't finished?

The program uses experiential processes so each person is actively participating and involved. A person can't think their way out of what they felt their way into. This is one of the reasons "talk therapy" doesn't work well. Do you want to "pull the weeds out by the roots" or only mow them down to watch them grow back?

The most crucial healing anyone can experience is emotional healing therapy. SAW goes beyond just identifying and quieting the pain. The counselors use Guided Visualizations which provide a rapid pinpointing of the underlying root causes of the pain, followed by processes to release the pain of anger, sadness, fear, and guilt/shame in a very safe environment. In order to be fully released and healed permanently, emotional pain must be expressed fully on an emotional level in a safe, protective environment. For some people volcanoes of anger have gone off, rivers of tears have been cried, and fear that could have shaken the building has been released. No one has ever gotten hurt, hurt anyone or anything else, or gone "crazy". These full expressions are done under the guidance of the professional counselors who are skilled to handle these expressions, and to make sure the participants are safe.

The counselors do not work with symptoms; they get to the root cause and remove it. Remember, buried emotional pain will not just go away on its own or by thinking it through or intellectually understanding it. Without being released from the body, mind, and spirit, the pain will continue to create harm.

Let me give you another example of how experiential therapy works better than talk therapy. Let's say you go to the doctor's office and the doctor tells you that you have the beginning stages of a cancer. You and the doctor talk about it, how and when it may have started, what might have caused it, and the rate at which it's growing. And then he sends you home with more understanding, but no plan for action.

Or, the doctor may cover all of the above and discuss and help you implement healthy alternatives to what you're doing now. The doctor may then prescribe medications or therapies to check the growth, and for the symptoms so you feel better. Or, if indicated, he may immediately schedule you for surgery to remove the cancer. Finally, he will teach you healthy lifestyle tools following the removal of the cancer.

You may still feel skeptical and that is OK. All it takes for the Weekend to work for you is your willingness to change what is not working for you. Truly, what do you have to lose?

More FAQ's about the Self-Awareness Weekend (SAW)

1. Tell me about couples/marriages attending Self Awareness Weekend and how it works.
2. How do you get results so easily and quickly? — How can the results be achieved in 2 ½ days? — How can SAW be equivalent to 1-5 years of counseling/therapy? — How does SAW work?
3. Being in a group: I don't feel comfortable revealing or exposing myself in front of strangers. I am a private person.
4. I'm a strong introvert. Will SAW's program work for me?
5. How much does SAW cost and what does it include?
6. Where is SAW held?
7. Will the professional counselors give me the time I need? — I'm afraid there won't be enough time for me. — I don't want to spend the whole weekend listening to other's stories and problems. — Since the SAW program happens in a group, I do not understand how you help each individual. Please explain.
8. Will I be left in a worse place at the end of SAW than when I started?
9. How safe is the SAW? — I am scared to attend. It sounds scary and intense.
10. Are there SAW graduates I can talk to?
11. What are Guided Visualizations and what is their purpose at the Self-Awareness Weekend?

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