--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Any idea who that might have been? > > > > I have no idea. Most of the residence courses I did > > were planned by the residence course office in > > Cambridge and taught by local teachers. The only > > exception was in some of the few courses I did in CT, > > where sometimes teachers from further south would come > > north. One of my most interesting courses was in > > Litchfield, CT, always a favorite place for courses, a > > farm with duck ponds and great food that was owned by > > meditators or meditator-friendly people. Alan Solof > > and someone from PA, his name was something like > > Michael Moore, taught it. This was a 4-day course on a > > miserably hot and humid 1977 Easter weekend, a very > > short time before news of the new sidhis courses came > > out. Our two teachers had just come back from a long > > course with MMY, sidhis I suppose. Michael kept > > telling us how the teachers on his course were going > > into unity all the time, while Alan was so spaced out > > or else unstressing that he could barely interact with > > the group. They didn't know how to bring us down in > > rounds and asked if we should be doing two rounds on > > the last day or one round and a group meditation. We > > ended up doing both, which led to a spacey 2 1/2 hour > > drive back home. This was my last old-style residence > > course. After that, it was sidhis, then CCP and WPAs. > > There was a period, pre-Regional offices, when > any TM teacher could arrange for a place and > teach a weekend residence course. Then a decree > came down from on high that this was uncool, so > things had to be more "controlled." What that > meant in real life was that the Regional Offices > had to find a way to pay all of their people's > salaries without asking the TMO for money. > > I ran the Western Regional Office for a couple > of years, and it was *amazing* the amount of > overhead we had to stick onto the price of a > residence course to do this. A course that > should have cost $40 per participant per week- > end ended up costing $100. To our credit, we > did do what seems not to have been done on the > East coast and had training courses for teachers > who wanted to teach residence courses, going > over the kinds of things they needed to know > and the things they had to be aware of when > teaching them. I taught a lot of courses myself > during that period, and it was a fun but often > trying experience. To think of someone diving > into it without being aware of some of the things > that can come up is a little scary.
FWIW, every residence course/WPA I've been on (all in the Northeast) has been very well run by teachers who seemed to know exactly what they were doing (including dealing with difficulties). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
