Of all the places in the world, in Gainesville, FL there exists a life-changing personal growth seminar that for 15+ years has been transforming the lives of thousands of people - people who have cared about themselves enough to courageously explore their inner landscapes so that they can free the liberating truth of who they truly are underneath the doubts, fears, and insecurities.
The Satvatove Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate spiritually-based personal and group transformation through empowered communication, courageous introspection and purposeful action.
Really, Satvatove is two people, my mentors Dr. David B. Wolf, Ph.D., LCSW, and Marie Glasheen, two masterful coaches devoted to your true-self-awareness. Through their expert coaching skills, seminar processes, and rare grounded ways of being, they hold the container through which life-changing transformation happens in the hearts of sincere people year after year. Their workshops and seminars are for anyone who sincerely desires to grow.
Their 3-day “Foundational Course” is for anyone who desires to learn life-long, relationship-building communication skills and who wishes to learn how to use communication as a vehicle for self-empowerment, deep closeness, mutual respect, inner freedom, and self-realization.
Their 7-day “Advanced Seminar” is for anyone who desires to feel valuable and lovable in your own skin; who seeks to embrace and own your unique nature and distinct contribution to the world; who is activated by a healthy urgency to to truly live your life - to thrive instead of survive; and who is willing to vulnerably excavate the fears that have been holding you back from truly living so you can uncover the door of your inner freedom. Within a safe, accepting, and accelerated growth environment of fellow sincere-hearted individuals, together get really honest in a beautiful way, and begin the journey of stepping out of the emotional patterns that have been pushing away the love, integrity, and purpose we desire.
Their transformational coach training program empowers current and emerging coaches to be truly transformational - in the sense that we learn how to empower our clients to use all the situations of their lives - from their suffering, to their joy, to their intimidating life goals - to get closer to the truth of who they truly are as valuable, whole, and complete beings.
With all Satvatove’s programs, the result is returning to our lives and relationships with transformational communication skills, a cleaned heart, a tremendous level of empowered self-awareness, and assured faith in our intrinsic worth and value in the world.
My Transformation Story with Satvatove
Hi, my name is Brielle. Throughout my life I have been haunted by the belief that there was something defective about me and that I wasn’t worthy of love. As a child I suffered emotional neglect from my alcoholic father leaving a hole in my heart that made itself known in my adulthood: co-dependent relationships, flighty insecurity, painful over-endeavoring for love, a harsh inner critic, and not believing in or trusting myself. These autopilot self-defeating behaviors held me back from the woman I wanted to be.
On a quest for inner freedom, in 2013 I graduated college and embarked on an attempted thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. While breathtaking views filled my soul with wonder and possibility, I was disappointed to realize that freedom was not a destination that could be chased. All my habits came with me and in the end I still wondered what true freedom meant.
Alive in that yearning, hope came my way in the form of a friend who I ran into some weeks later. He had just graduated from the Satvatove personal transformation seminars. Immediately when he described them, I felt a "yes" from deep within that there was something really meaningful here for me. I also felt hesitant. I was scared of being vulnerable. I was also nervous to make the financial investment. Trusting my intuition and the urgency I felt to truly live my life, I took a trustful risk. I participated in Satvatove's seminars for the first time in 2014.
It is hard to find words to describe the lasting transformation I experienced in just those 10 days of the seminars. In the 3-day transformative communication and self-empowerment “Foundational” course, I began to understand the self-limiting thoughts and patterns that were crippling my potential. The awareness alone gave me the power to begin choosing more empowering thought patterns in my life.
I also learned how to listen in a way that has radically transformed my relationships. The result has been a pervasive feeling of deep aliveness that comes from authentic, meaningful closeness and mutual understanding and respect.
I also learned how to break a lifelong pattern of communicating both passively and aggressively by learning how to speak my truth assertively in times of conflict. This changed everything. Relationships are significantly easier to navigate because I know how to assert my needs in a way that creates empowerment rather than disempowerment, and inspires respect rather than conflict.
Today I almost take it for granted that almost 6 years ago I had no clue about transformative communication and the empowering freedom it brings. Through this welcomed revolution in my life, I discovered that the saying was true: the quality of our communication determines the quality of our lives.
In the 7-day personal transformation “Advanced” seminar, with the facilitators' expert processes and support, I navigated deeply vulnerable emotional territory within me - emotional territory that I had no previous conscious awareness of, as well as emotional territory that I had previously addressed in therapy sessions but in the seminars we touched on them more profoundly than I ever had before. This allowed both my fears and ultimately, my light - the truth about my value - to come to the surface. In those 7 days I felt more seen, honored, accepted, and socially safe than I ever felt in my life. Through this level of unconditional acceptance with strangers, I largely healed the hole in my heart, and for the first time in my life, I embraced the truth that I was worthy of the love I so deeply craved, and that I didn’t need to try so hard anymore to receive it.
Since then I have participated in Satvatove’s other programs (Life Master Program, Coach Training, and personal coaching) and the result has been embracing the truth that I’m lovable just the way I am and that I have valuable gifts to offer the world. Living from this truth, my entire life changed. Almost 6 years later, my relationships are now flourishing with creative love and spiritual inspiration; my family and I are bonding with increasing closeness based on me being my true unfiltered self; my relationship with myself is deeply empathic, compassionate, and self-respecting; my spiritual life is stronger than it ever was; and I feel clear, inspired, and confident to contribute my unique gifts to the world.
My overall transformation helped me to get really clear about my purpose in life. I have now been successfully aligned in my dharma, self-employed as a transformative coach, trained by Satvatove, for 5 years. Almost every day I support sincere-hearted clients to heal their hearts and manifest their life purposes, too. I realized that the key to living a life of my dreams was embracing the truth that I was worthy of living it.
In a sense I still struggle with similar issues today - insecurity, inadequacy, co-dependency - though these cycles that used to keep me down for weeks or months I now manage with more grace in a matter of days, hours, or minutes.
Today many people see me with deep appreciation for the light I helped bring to their lives through my loving and supportive presence, which I know was only made possible because I decided one day that I was worth investing in my own healing. We can only help others as much as we’ve helped ourselves. The best training as a healer, a parent, a lover, seeker, or a friend is healing our own hearts.
You have so much medicine to give to the world. If you’re still here reading this, I imagine you know (and feel eager to) free that medicine from the fears you feel limited by. If you feel the call, I invite you to send yourself the clear and loving message that you are worth investing in your healing, too, by experiencing Satvatove’s programs. Like me, it could be the key you’ve been looking for.
The Satvatove Institute: Upcoming Seminars & Courses
Upcoming Satvatove Programs
The 10-day Combined Course
The 3-day Foundational + 7-day Advanced Seminar
The 3-Day Foundational Course
Transformative Communication & Self-Empowerment
The 7-Day Advanced Seminar
Personal Transformation
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Next seminar: August 29 - Sept 4, 2020
Gainesville, FL
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Next seminar: August 7 - 9, 2020
Gainesville, FL
Satvatove 3
Satvatove 3
The 4-Day “Adventure in Conscious Living”
TBA
Coach Training
Principles & Practices of Transformative Coaching
Next course begins June 26th.
Weekly Online (not in person)
“This Satvatove seminar in Gainesville, Florida, just in my back yard, was better than any seminars I have taken in New York or LA. After taking it, I felt empowered, and did transform my relationships with my parents, my partner, and my colleagues at work. I am now able to create trust. I am finally moving on with my life and I do not get caught up in the drama.”
– Helen Robert, Teacher
My graduating class from my first Advanced Seminar, April 2014.
Meet your Facilitators
Dr. David B. Wolf, PhD., L.C.S.W., Personal Transformation Facilitator, Master Certified Coach, Author
Dr. David Wolf has been teaching transformative communication for more than thirty years. He has been featured as a communication expert on numerous media sources, including Fox News and CNN News. David developed the spiritually-based transformational programs of Satvatove Institute, which have become an emerging presence in the world of personal development. He has decades of experience in social and mental health services, including counselor training, children and family counseling, and medical social work. In 1998 he established the international child protection organization, The Association for the Protection of Children, and served as its Director for more than six years. David created the Vedic Personality Inventory, a personality assessment tool based on guna psychology, and has been widely published in top social science journals in fields such as child protection, speciesism, and the effects of meditation on mental health and life satisfaction. His doctoral dissertation included research on the effects of chanting ancient mantras on alleviating stress and depression, and increasing life satisfaction. Also, David is the founder of the Satvatove Institute School of Transformative Coaching, and is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Dr. Wolf has practiced bhakti-yoga since the early 1980s. He is the author of Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living, How Transformative Communication Can Change Your Life.
Marie-Helene Glasheen, Personal Transformation Facilitator + Life Skills Coach
Marie-Hélène worked with David in developing the seminars. Her special contribution is based on her 25 years of studying human nature and psychology. Marie-Hélène also brings her qualities of warmth, understanding, and non-judgmentalism. She is an intuitive healer and assists people in realizing the emotional, psychological, and physical reason for their lack of vitality and enthusiasm.
Years of counseling and life experiences blended with her intuitive nature guide clients to the heart of the matter. This enables them to come from a point of clarity about real issues and to be motivated to make needed changes for the life they desire. Marie-Hélène specializes in the mastery of awareness of limiting belief systems, which also encompasses the subconscious beliefs that sabotage you. The programs she works with have created positive, profound and permanent life changes for the participants.
"I believe that Marie is one of the best coaches for deep healing, profound self-understanding, and radical personal transformation in the world. I trust her more than anyone else I know, and her level of mastery can be palpably felt in the seminar room." - Brielle Elise
"The Satvatove Experience is the highest level of authenticity, connection, self-fulfillment, and loving acceptance that I've ever experienced... This is what being a human being is really about."
- Brielle Elise
Interested in a Satvatove Transformational Experience?
If you’re not ready to commit but you want to learn more, schedule a free call with me to learn more and see if this is right for you. This program is quite intense (in the best way) so it’s really important that you are clear about & committed to what you want to create before registering. My intention on this call is to make sure this program is truly aligned for where you are at in your life, and if not, I can point you to other resources.