Renée Trudeau & Associates

Advocates for Balanced Living - Coaching, Training and Workshops

Facilitators

"When I was a PRG member several years ago, I learned to focus on self-care and how to prioritize what matters most to me . I discovered how I wanted to redefine my life. Recently, I learned how to let go of my responsibilities with my husband's business so I could become a birth doula and focus on what I love - helping mothers transition into motherhood..."
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— Darlene, birth doula

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The Amazing Power of Groups

Why join or start a group? Why not just read The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal on my own?

You certainly can work on the exercises in the Guide on your own and benefit greatly from them, however, PRG Facilitators* share that group work is particularly powerful because it:

  • Provides the opportunity for members to receive validation.
  • Decreases feelings of isolation.
  • Provides the opportunity for connection around shared experiences.
  • Provides members with regular, ongoing emotional support.
  • Provides a safe venue and an opportunity to take your own "work" deeper.
  • Gives members the experience of being part of an intentional circle.
  • Challenges you to open your heart.
  • Makes things more "real": group members often serve as one another's mirrors.
  • Accelerates personal and spiritual learning/growth.
  • Provides a place of unconditional acceptance.
  • Holds the "space" for possibility for its members.
  • Provides the opportunity for us to connect with our "oneness."
  • Provides an intentional setting for reflection and meaningful dialogue.
  • Allows each group to experience/create a unique dynamic/energy all to itself.

*From the March 30th, 2007 PRG Facilitator's Training Retreat Weekend at The Crossings, Austin, TX.