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Frequently Asked Questions: (FAQs) Have a question about the tutorial we didn't answer for you? What is The Spouse Abuse Tutorial? The Spouse Abuse Tutorial is an on-line interactive educational process. It supports open, honest, and spontaneous communication, zero withholds. These terms will be discussed in detail during the tutorial. Throughout childhood you were supposed to have had certain, very specific, conversations with each parent. If circumstances prevented these conversations from happening (through to mutual satisfaction) then you are incomplete, not whole, perhaps not well adjusted or well behaved. Such a person is usually uncomfortable and shy in many conversations. They carry around lots of sadness and hurt and usually have hundreds of incomplete communications from childhood. For example: Both parents were supposed to have asked you, "Are there any things you have had to hide from us because you were afraid to tell us the truth—are there any lies or bad things you've done for which you would like to be acknowledged?" If they didn't ask you and they didn't provide a safe space for the truth to be told then you are carrying around hundreds of unacknowledged perpetrations, (lies, withholds, broken agreements, and deceits) each of which is still having an effect on the results you produce. In brief, your integrity is out, it needs to be restored. The number of conversations we are supposed to have through-to mutual-satisfaction is awesome. If you did not hear certain things at certain ages, because other conversations were still rattling around in your mind as incompletes, or for a host of other reasons, then you are incomplete. Another Example: The first time you came home from school looking sad or upset, both of your parents were supposed to have engaged you in some very specific communications. If you have yet to have those conversations it could be said that you are here reading this today to finally have them. There is something about the interactions you had that day that are still incomplete.
Who is the tutorial for? The tutorial is for anyone intent on completing his/her experience of abuse. You do not have to be in a relationship to do the tutorial. The tutorial works equally well for males or females. Many male tutorial participants find themselves thinking, boy I wish all females would read this, conversely, many female tutorial participants find themselves thinking, boy I wish all men would read this. The tutorial is not for you—
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Please do not ask why about all of the above. It's just the way it is.
How much does it cost? (the tutorial is free—donations accepted) We do not reissue lost passwords. If you lose your password you must register again. For this reason, bookmark the Registration Confirmation Page, the one with the instructions and tips. The tutorial is sponsored by Community Communications, a 501(c)(3) educational organization, based in Hawaii, founded in 1989. It is funded through personal donations, consultations, and communication skills workshop and tutorial fees. It is nonpolitical and nonsectarian.
How long does it take to do the tutorial? There are two parts to the tutorial. Part 1 — About the Tutorial takes about 2-5 minutes to read each of the 18 pages (approx 1 hour total). You can read a page and come back the next day, etc. Take as long as you wish. There is tremendous value to be gotten from reading all 18 pages. If you intend to do the tutorial you must read each of the 18 About the Tutorial pages. Part 2 The Spouse Abuse Tutorial (also referred to as The Tutorial) has a total of 29 pages. It takes less than one hour to read. Six times throughout the tutorial you will be prompted to send feedback (your thoughts). Three of the six times are optional. Allow for the time it takes to compose and post your feedback on the password protected Spouse Abuse Tutorial Message Board. Many participants read a few pages and take a recess from the tutorial so as to allow time to absorb/process what they read. Some even take a recess and return several months later to pick up where they left off. For example: The coach may ask you to recall a time you hit someone. Because you have committed hundreds of perpetrations since then it's possible that your mind his hiding the incident, (it's called going unconscious). However, through one of the tutorial's communication exercises, and possibly some recess time, you will be able to recall and complete some of the incompletes that were in fact covering it up and then you'll be able to recall the hitting incident. The mind hides things from itself. Unbeknownst to you your first hitting incident has been running you to this day, affecting all outcomes. Each of us have several key incompletes, which when acknowledged, release the negative karma so to speak.
What will happen if I do the tutorial? You will facilitate completing your experience of abuse. Why? Because only someone absolutely intent on completing his/her experience of abuse completes the tutorial. It's that simple. Complete here means, that you will have control over your addiction to abusive conversations. You will recognize immediately when you are about to sanction/reward/cause abuse—you will give the person a choice to acknowledge, retract or correct it or you'll remove yourself from the conversation and the relationship until they do. In other words, you'll begin to notice yourself doing the same things you did before that created the abuse but this time around you'll observe yourself causing it, intending it, for reasons. Eventually you'll have a choice in the matter, right in the middle of a conversation. Eventually you will no longer attract abusive people into your life. What is the educational philosophy of the tutorial? The tutorial supports communicating from personal responsibility. It supports open, honest and spontaneous mutually satisfying communication mastery. It is nonsectarian and nonpolitical.
How about a sample of the tutorial so I can get a feel for it? Once you have read the About the Tutorial: pages 1 through 18, you will have an excellent idea of the tutorial, its page sizes, how it's written, and it's format. There is nothing to learn and there is no outside reading. There is no homework or memorizing nor do you have to stop doing certain behaviors. It's definitely not about changing you or the way you speak or say things. And, the truth is, you will find yourself having choices. It is about enlightenment which is often defined as putting light where there was none. Most importantly, the tutorial is about your ability and willingness to follow instructions. The challenge when doing the tutorial is to read each sentence. Just as you pooh-poohed parents and adults when you were young, so too will you here. And that's OK. The difference here is that you are willing to allow it to enter your mind. And, you will express to the coach that with which you disagree rather than just shut down in hopelessness. You don't have to agree with the material. Just allow it to enter your mind, by choice. If there are any truths here they will begin to be acted upon automatically.
Is the tutorial the same as therapy? The tutorial is educational. It is not therapy nor is it a substitute for therapy. It is not about you getting better or someone trying to fix you. It's not about trying to figure out the whys or analyzing behaviors. A communication consultant (the tutorial coach) comes from the ground of being that you are fine just the way you are, even though you may believe there's something wrong with you. The coach also knows that there are certain conversations that you have yet to have in order to experience being whole and complete. The tutorial is about introducing you to another communication model. It's a given that your present communication model, the way you communicate, produces some undesirable problems. More accurately, the tutorial supports you in communicating from a different ground of being, one that produces the results you say you want. The tutorial supports you in looking at some conversations you've had. Together you and the coach look at what didn't work, much like a soccer coach will discuss the game with the team after a match, so that the team doesn't automatically go out and make the same mistakes. During such clearings the team also gets reinforced for what did work. Many of our childhood conversations are still floating around in the back of our minds, as incompletes, because we did not share them with someone skilled at just getting them. Many of our childhood memories are inaccurate, they exist as lies, and so they are cause for continually devastating consequences.
Can I get mentally damaged doing the tutorial? If this is a concern then you should not do the tutorial. It does not work to do the tutorial and be asking someone else, a spouse or friend, what they think about what you've read. To do so would definitely sabotage your tutorial and almost certainly turn someone against the coach and the tutorial without them having read the tutorial. It would in fact reveal your addiction to sabotage. If you relate something you read in the tutorial to someone it will definitely turn them off. If you find yourself trying to teach or inform someone of something you read in the tutorial the tutorial will not work for you. The tutorial is not designed to teach you how to teach others how to communicate or to teach them what you read in the tutorial. If you ignore this advice it will cause the tutorial to not work.
How do I get my partner/spouse to do the tutorial? There is a fundamental flaw in your thinking. For you to ask the question means that you believe that you can change them.
Even if you could get your spouse to look at the website it is highly unlikely that they would do the tutorial without you prodding them. Why? Because they would be doing it for you, to keep you from leaving, or to save the relationship, not because they searched out the tutorial. Notice that you are the one looking at doing the tutorial, not they. The truth is you don't have the leadership/communication skills it takes to effect a transformation in your partner. The tutorial will support you in becoming clear about your addiction to abuse and to abusive people. In so doing, eventually you will begin to have a choice, to not attract or hang around abusive people. Is your partner presently in therapy working on themselves or do they honestly believe that things would be OK if only you were . . . ? If they are blaming you, then you are addicted to hanging around a blamer. Not at all healthy. Unless you know for certain that they absolutely want, admire and respect you (not just love you) and that you know they desperately want the relationship to work (not, just believe them because they say they want it to work) it is doubtful that you will be able to "get" them to do the tutorial. Even if you threaten to leave them if they don't do the tutorial it won't work. If they do it because you force them you may at best have a civil way of communicating nicely during the split and thereafter. Here's what happens. If you do the tutorial and they don't then you'll no longer be communicating in the way that caused them to be attracted to you or in the ways that have kept them around. You will be communicating from certainty and power and equal mutually shared control. Worse yet, their victim/control communication patterns will be so obviously adversarial that you will be repulsed by them. In short, you must do the tutorial for yourself. If they choose
to come along, great. If not, that's great also. Is that honest
enough for you?
Would my responses be shared with anyone other than the coach or used in research or for educational purposes of any kind? Your posts (via email) are read by the tutorial
coach and immediately deleted.
Data accumulated
over the years is sometimes shared with others but only in general
terms. For example: Of X number of participants who have submitted a
tutorial agreement over the past five years , X number have
completed the tutorial. From this statistic we could say, "Integrity
is a key factor in completing one's experience of abuse." Or, from
data collected we could write, 'We have found that most participants
acknowledge that they are addicted to interacting with abusive
people." Or, "Most participants are able to identify their first
lie." If Community Communications
finds itself in litigation due to a participant's post, we reserve
the right to reveal all communications so as to effect clarity,
understanding, and resolution. The tutorial only works for those willing to
communicate openly, honestly, and spontaneously—zero significant thoughts
withheld. If you have something you want to get off of your mind,
use the Press Continue to return to the Home Page. You are not yet agreeing to do the tutorial.
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