Events

A polyamorous perspective-even if you don’t have a polyam lifestyle– can offer an approach for moving beyond the binary and an antidote to both guru culture and cancel culture. With an interdependent lens, we are able to navigate relationships in a way that maintains connection and the wholeness of each person. Relationships in the context of community allows for a more emergent return to collective care and collective wisdom.

Join us for an exploration of what we can learn about power from polyamory.

Note: This round of online Core Training meets from 10 am-2 pm MST over four days: August 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th, 2023.

Core Training in August 2023

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuse of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Our Core Training is a live, online learning experience for people of all professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices.

In our Core Training, you will:

• Stay in your heart while standing in your strength.
• Learn about your power style and power parameters.
• Practice simple processes for resolving conflict and repairing relationships.
• Learn to handle challenging interactions when there is a power difference.
• De-activate the power barriers that stand in your way.
• Develop essential skills for using power with ethical wisdom and skill.​

After our trainings, participants have said they can now:

• Lean in to conflict with more skill.
• Be more ethically proactive around power dynamics.
• See the positive potential of down-power roles.
• Be more aware of the shadow aspects of power.
• Understand that power differentials serve a valuable purpose.
• Use the “four dimensions of power” in so many situations.
• Own their power, both personal and professional, and embrace it with a full “yes!”

Required Materials:

• Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics – $24
• Handouts and other materials will be available through your group page that you will automatically be enrolled in upon purchasing your ticket.

Additional Details:

Zoom:
All of our trainings take place over the Zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs):

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an NBCC – Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP^TM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program (NBCC Provider #6736).
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an ICF– Approved Continuing Education Provider.Our Core Program has received a total of 12 CEU credits:
• 9 credits in: Core Competencies
• 3 credits in: Resource Development
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training
  -OR-
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Questions:

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at:

• [email protected] for any questions regarding the programs.
• [email protected] for any questions regarding our website, membership levels, or sign up.

Note: This round of online Core Training meets from 10 am-2 pm MST over four days: August 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th, 2023.

Core Training in August 2023

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuse of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Our Core Training is a live, online learning experience for people of all professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices.

In our Core Training, you will:

• Stay in your heart while standing in your strength.
• Learn about your power style and power parameters.
• Practice simple processes for resolving conflict and repairing relationships.
• Learn to handle challenging interactions when there is a power difference.
• De-activate the power barriers that stand in your way.
• Develop essential skills for using power with ethical wisdom and skill.​

After our trainings, participants have said they can now:

• Lean in to conflict with more skill.
• Be more ethically proactive around power dynamics.
• See the positive potential of down-power roles.
• Be more aware of the shadow aspects of power.
• Understand that power differentials serve a valuable purpose.
• Use the “four dimensions of power” in so many situations.
• Own their power, both personal and professional, and embrace it with a full “yes!”

Required Materials:

• Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics – $24
• Handouts and other materials will be available through your group page that you will automatically be enrolled in upon purchasing your ticket.

Additional Details:

Zoom:
All of our trainings take place over the Zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs):

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an NBCC – Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP^TM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program (NBCC Provider #6736).
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an ICF– Approved Continuing Education Provider.Our Core Program has received a total of 12 CEU credits:
• 9 credits in: Core Competencies
• 3 credits in: Resource Development
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training
  -OR-
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Questions:

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at:

• [email protected] for any questions regarding the programs.
• [email protected] for any questions regarding our website, membership levels, or sign up.

Note: This round of online Core Training meets from 10 am-2 pm MST over four days: August 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th, 2023.

Core Training in August 2023

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuse of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Our Core Training is a live, online learning experience for people of all professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices.

In our Core Training, you will:

• Stay in your heart while standing in your strength.
• Learn about your power style and power parameters.
• Practice simple processes for resolving conflict and repairing relationships.
• Learn to handle challenging interactions when there is a power difference.
• De-activate the power barriers that stand in your way.
• Develop essential skills for using power with ethical wisdom and skill.​

After our trainings, participants have said they can now:

• Lean in to conflict with more skill.
• Be more ethically proactive around power dynamics.
• See the positive potential of down-power roles.
• Be more aware of the shadow aspects of power.
• Understand that power differentials serve a valuable purpose.
• Use the “four dimensions of power” in so many situations.
• Own their power, both personal and professional, and embrace it with a full “yes!”

Required Materials:

• Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics – $24
• Handouts and other materials will be available through your group page that you will automatically be enrolled in upon purchasing your ticket.

Additional Details:

Zoom:
All of our trainings take place over the Zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs):

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an NBCC – Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP^TM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program (NBCC Provider #6736).
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an ICF– Approved Continuing Education Provider.Our Core Program has received a total of 12 CEU credits:
• 9 credits in: Core Competencies
• 3 credits in: Resource Development
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training
  -OR-
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Questions:

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at:

• [email protected] for any questions regarding the programs.
• [email protected] for any questions regarding our website, membership levels, or sign up.

Note: This round of online Core Training meets from 10 am-2 pm MST over four days: August 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th, 2023.

Core Training in August 2023

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuse of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Our Core Training is a live, online learning experience for people of all professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices.

In our Core Training, you will:

• Stay in your heart while standing in your strength.
• Learn about your power style and power parameters.
• Practice simple processes for resolving conflict and repairing relationships.
• Learn to handle challenging interactions when there is a power difference.
• De-activate the power barriers that stand in your way.
• Develop essential skills for using power with ethical wisdom and skill.​

After our trainings, participants have said they can now:

• Lean in to conflict with more skill.
• Be more ethically proactive around power dynamics.
• See the positive potential of down-power roles.
• Be more aware of the shadow aspects of power.
• Understand that power differentials serve a valuable purpose.
• Use the “four dimensions of power” in so many situations.
• Own their power, both personal and professional, and embrace it with a full “yes!”

Required Materials:

• Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics – $24
• Handouts and other materials will be available through your group page that you will automatically be enrolled in upon purchasing your ticket.

Additional Details:

Zoom:
All of our trainings take place over the Zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs):

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an NBCC – Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP^TM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program (NBCC Provider #6736).
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

• The Right Use of Power Institute™ is an ICF– Approved Continuing Education Provider.Our Core Program has received a total of 12 CEU credits:
• 9 credits in: Core Competencies
• 3 credits in: Resource Development
• There is an additional $20 purchase fee for CE documentation. (Please add this to your total using the “custom amount” option.)

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training
  -OR-
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Questions:

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at:

• [email protected] for any questions regarding the programs.
• [email protected] for any questions regarding our website, membership levels, or sign up.

Please note: Core Training is also required in order to take the Teacher Training.

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuses of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Teacher Training & Mentorship Program

Our Core & Teacher Training is a live fully-immersive 9-month training, online learning experience for people of all helping professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices. Participant relationships are enhanced through small group time in Connecting Rooms (Zoom breakout rooms).

The Teacher Training has four parts that combine to give you the skills, confidence, resources and collegial support to begin teaching your own right use of power programs and developing your power-wisdom.

Our teacher trainers learn how to TEACH right use of power™ to others and receive ongoing training, mentorship, and full access to all RUPI resources and materials. RUPI Teacher Trainees also receive membership to our RUPI Teachers Guild which offers ongoing teacher development, guild conferences and events, and a community of RUPI teachers worldwide.

Total Program Includes

• 35 total direct training hours (whole group training, small groups, & individual mentoring)
• Teacher’s Resource Manual  and additional materials in electronic format (downloadable)
• 9 months of RUP Guild Membership with access to online resources and learning management system (during training)
• 9 months of RUPI guidance and support

Teacher Training:

4-hour training days over 9 months to include pod meetings and a graduation

During this time, you shift from being a student to becoming a teacher and co-collaborator in the evolution of right use of power work.  You study advanced topics, learning them through the lens of teaching, and you have a chance to talk with each other about what you are integrating and about topics of interest that arise.

10:00 am-2:00 pm (MDT – Mountain Time – Denver/United States) – each day (30 min break)

August 31st, 2023

September 1st, 2023

Monthly Training and Pods
 10:00 am-2:30 pm (MDT – Mountain Time – Denver/United States) – each day (30 min break)

First Friday of the month

October 6th, 2023

November 3rd, 2023

December 1st, 2023

January 5th, 2024

February 2nd, 2024

March 1st, 2024

April 5th, 2024

May 3rd, 2024

Small Group Pods & Individual Mentoring

Small group pods meet in the 2nd half of the meeting time each month

The purpose of these smaller 5-7 person groups is to practice teaching the core exercises that you experienced during the Core Training.  During these group times you will have a chance to practice giving and receiving feedback, to ask questions about concepts, to deepen your understandings, and to explore how to adapt the material to specific groups you are interested in.

Mentorship

(3 mentoring sessions) Starts in December and meet three times before graduation.

Here you will meet 3 times with a RUP trained teacher and Guild Member whom you will be assigned after the initial training dates.  You will focus on personalizing what you want to do as a RUP teacher.

Power is everywhere and yet seldom talked about or taught.

Right Use of Power is a large body of topics, concepts, experiential practices that have been integrated from many sources.  In our programs, you will be learning to both use and teach conscious ethics and power with heart—core tenets in an alternative operating system for power that we call “Socially Conscious Power.”  This approach is a large and evolving orientation and set of information and embodied practices that are applicable and adaptable for many groups and many issues. 

The Right Use of Power Teacher Training is not a certification or licensing program.  At the completion of the Teacher Training you can use concepts, handouts, written materials, and exercises you have been given to share information or to design and deliver programs about Right Use of Power.  Our expectation is that you will feel confident, resourced, and well-supported in offering concrete modules and then more and more extensive programs as you grow in your confidence and understanding of and experience with the concepts and practices.  If you find that you wish to teach the entire core curriculum, as delivered, you can follow a more extensive learning path that includes working with a Core Faculty member who can mentor and/or co-teach with you.

At the end of the training, you will also be given an opportunity to choose how you wish to stay connected with RUP and RUPInstitute.  Through the free or Power Positive membership you may call yourself an Independent Teacher and have access to on-going learning opportunities and community connections.  If you choose the Guild Teacher membership, you will, in addition, have access to our extensive resource library, membership in Focus Groups, and continuing and advanced programs.  And you will be authorized to call yourself an Affiliated Teacher and use the Affiliated Teacher seal.  Please see more information about membership levels at the website.  Regardless of the level of membership you choose, we both trust and entrust you to freely use the materials and move at your own pace in sharing the concepts and processes. Our desire is that you will feel confident, resourced, and well-supported in moving at your own pace in whatever level of involvement you choose. 

We invite you to ask for a conversation with Dr. Barstow or other Core Faculty, if you have questions or want more information than is provided here, please email us at [email protected]

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People who have taken this training report:

• “I now have so much more confidence about how so many aspects of teaching—experiential work in person and virtually, how to present concepts simply and effectively, how to engage with participants, how to pace learning, and how to address multiple learning styles.”
• “Wow.  Feedback became both an art and a relationship-builder instead of something to be feared.”
• “This RUP material and the experientials fill in a gap about understanding power that I didn’t even know needed filling.”
• “I see now how power is somewhere in virtually everything and yet, so under-acknowledged.”
• “I can now be a cheerleader for the possibility and practicality of power being used wisely, consciously, and well.”
• “The teachers walk their talk.”
• “I’m much better at being decisive, yet warm, and clear and concise as a teacher.”
• “This training is incredibly important everywhere in my life, not just in teaching right use of power”

Language: ENGLISH

Cost: $2125*

*Cost does NOT include the Core Training, which is a required and essential per-requisite of the Teacher Training. If you have not already taken Core Training, you must add Core Training ($400) to your cart as well for a total of $2525.

NOTE: You have to login to the site before you can purchase your ticket below. You can choose the free membership (you will never be charged) or you can choose the paid plan and get 10% off this training! That is a savings of $2512.50 when you add Teacher and Core Training to your cart!

You will also need to purchase the textbook by Dr. Barstow for this training:

Electronic Version – $9.99

Print Book Version – $24

Additional Details

A Facilitators Manual and other written material will be sent with a link to download or print from.

Zoom
All our trainings take place over the zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Zoom recordings will be available after each session. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Scholarships & Work Trade Options
We are dedicated to making our trainings accessible to all those who wish to participate. We make available scholarships and work trade (and combinations of both) for all of our trainings. You can submit your application here.

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training OR
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Additional Questions? 

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at training@rightuseofpower.org

Please note: Core Training is also required in order to take the Teacher Training.

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuses of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Teacher Training & Mentorship Program

Our Core & Teacher Training is a live fully-immersive 9-month training, online learning experience for people of all helping professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices. Participant relationships are enhanced through small group time in Connecting Rooms (Zoom breakout rooms).

The Teacher Training has four parts that combine to give you the skills, confidence, resources and collegial support to begin teaching your own right use of power programs and developing your power-wisdom.

Our teacher trainers learn how to TEACH right use of power™ to others and receive ongoing training, mentorship, and full access to all RUPI resources and materials. RUPI Teacher Trainees also receive membership to our RUPI Teachers Guild which offers ongoing teacher development, guild conferences and events, and a community of RUPI teachers worldwide.

Total Program Includes

• 35 total direct training hours (whole group training, small groups, & individual mentoring)
• Teacher’s Resource Manual  and additional materials in electronic format (downloadable)
• 9 months of RUP Guild Membership with access to online resources and learning management system (during training)
• 9 months of RUPI guidance and support

Teacher Training:

4-hour training days over 9 months to include pod meetings and a graduation

During this time, you shift from being a student to becoming a teacher and co-collaborator in the evolution of right use of power work.  You study advanced topics, learning them through the lens of teaching, and you have a chance to talk with each other about what you are integrating and about topics of interest that arise.

10:00 am-2:00 pm (MDT – Mountain Time – Denver/United States) – each day (30 min break)

August 31st, 2023

September 1st, 2023

Monthly Training and Pods
 10:00 am-2:30 pm (MDT – Mountain Time – Denver/United States) – each day (30 min break)

First Friday of the month

October 6th, 2023

November 3rd, 2023

December 1st, 2023

January 5th, 2024

February 2nd, 2024

March 1st, 2024

April 5th, 2024

May 3rd, 2024

Small Group Pods & Individual Mentoring

Small group pods meet in the 2nd half of the meeting time each month

The purpose of these smaller 5-7 person groups is to practice teaching the core exercises that you experienced during the Core Training.  During these group times you will have a chance to practice giving and receiving feedback, to ask questions about concepts, to deepen your understandings, and to explore how to adapt the material to specific groups you are interested in.

Mentorship

(3 mentoring sessions) Starts in December and meet three times before graduation.

Here you will meet 3 times with a RUP trained teacher and Guild Member whom you will be assigned after the initial training dates.  You will focus on personalizing what you want to do as a RUP teacher.

Power is everywhere and yet seldom talked about or taught.

Right Use of Power is a large body of topics, concepts, experiential practices that have been integrated from many sources.  In our programs, you will be learning to both use and teach conscious ethics and power with heart—core tenets in an alternative operating system for power that we call “Socially Conscious Power.”  This approach is a large and evolving orientation and set of information and embodied practices that are applicable and adaptable for many groups and many issues. 

The Right Use of Power Teacher Training is not a certification or licensing program.  At the completion of the Teacher Training you can use concepts, handouts, written materials, and exercises you have been given to share information or to design and deliver programs about Right Use of Power.  Our expectation is that you will feel confident, resourced, and well-supported in offering concrete modules and then more and more extensive programs as you grow in your confidence and understanding of and experience with the concepts and practices.  If you find that you wish to teach the entire core curriculum, as delivered, you can follow a more extensive learning path that includes working with a Core Faculty member who can mentor and/or co-teach with you.

At the end of the training, you will also be given an opportunity to choose how you wish to stay connected with RUP and RUPInstitute.  Through the free or Power Positive membership you may call yourself an Independent Teacher and have access to on-going learning opportunities and community connections.  If you choose the Guild Teacher membership, you will, in addition, have access to our extensive resource library, membership in Focus Groups, and continuing and advanced programs.  And you will be authorized to call yourself an Affiliated Teacher and use the Affiliated Teacher seal.  Please see more information about membership levels at the website.  Regardless of the level of membership you choose, we both trust and entrust you to freely use the materials and move at your own pace in sharing the concepts and processes. Our desire is that you will feel confident, resourced, and well-supported in moving at your own pace in whatever level of involvement you choose. 

We invite you to ask for a conversation with Dr. Barstow or other Core Faculty, if you have questions or want more information than is provided here, please email us at [email protected]

---

People who have taken this training report:

• “I now have so much more confidence about how so many aspects of teaching—experiential work in person and virtually, how to present concepts simply and effectively, how to engage with participants, how to pace learning, and how to address multiple learning styles.”
• “Wow.  Feedback became both an art and a relationship-builder instead of something to be feared.”
• “This RUP material and the experientials fill in a gap about understanding power that I didn’t even know needed filling.”
• “I see now how power is somewhere in virtually everything and yet, so under-acknowledged.”
• “I can now be a cheerleader for the possibility and practicality of power being used wisely, consciously, and well.”
• “The teachers walk their talk.”
• “I’m much better at being decisive, yet warm, and clear and concise as a teacher.”
• “This training is incredibly important everywhere in my life, not just in teaching right use of power”

Language: ENGLISH

Cost: $2125*

*Cost does NOT include the Core Training, which is a required and essential per-requisite of the Teacher Training. If you have not already taken Core Training, you must add Core Training ($400) to your cart as well for a total of $2525.

NOTE: You have to login to the site before you can purchase your ticket below. You can choose the free membership (you will never be charged) or you can choose the paid plan and get 10% off this training! That is a savings of $2512.50 when you add Teacher and Core Training to your cart!

You will also need to purchase the textbook by Dr. Barstow for this training:

Electronic Version – $9.99

Print Book Version – $24

Additional Details

A Facilitators Manual and other written material will be sent with a link to download or print from.

Zoom
All our trainings take place over the zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Zoom recordings will be available after each session. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Scholarships & Work Trade Options
We are dedicated to making our trainings accessible to all those who wish to participate. We make available scholarships and work trade (and combinations of both) for all of our trainings. You can submit your application here.

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training OR
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Additional Questions? 

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at training@rightuseofpower.org

Please note: Core Training is also required in order to take the Teacher Training.

Right Use of Power™ is at the very heart of ethics. We long for, and are capable of, magnificence in the use of our personal and professional power. And we have all been wounded by misuses of power. The Right Use of Power™ approach to ethics is dynamic and engaging and recognizes that the issues of power in helping relationships are complex. Linking power with heart, this program focuses on increasing skillfulness, engagement, and awareness. It is ethics from the inside out.

Teacher Training & Mentorship Program

Our Core & Teacher Training is a live fully-immersive 9-month training, online learning experience for people of all helping professions. Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging talks, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices. Participant relationships are enhanced through small group time in Connecting Rooms (Zoom breakout rooms).

The Teacher Training has four parts that combine to give you the skills, confidence, resources and collegial support to begin teaching your own right use of power programs and developing your power-wisdom.

Our teacher trainers learn how to TEACH right use of power™ to others and receive ongoing training, mentorship, and full access to all RUPI resources and materials. RUPI Teacher Trainees also receive membership to our RUPI Teachers Guild which offers ongoing teacher development, guild conferences and events, and a community of RUPI teachers worldwide.

Total Program Includes

• 35 total direct training hours (whole group training, small groups, & individual mentoring)
• Teacher’s Resource Manual  and additional materials in electronic format (downloadable)
• 9 months of RUP Guild Membership with access to online resources and learning management system (during training)
• 9 months of RUPI guidance and support

Teacher Training:

4-hour training days over 9 months to include pod meetings and a graduation

During this time, you shift from being a student to becoming a teacher and co-collaborator in the evolution of right use of power work.  You study advanced topics, learning them through the lens of teaching, and you have a chance to talk with each other about what you are integrating and about topics of interest that arise.

10:00 am-2:00 pm (MDT – Mountain Time – Denver/United States) – each day (30 min break)

August 31st, 2023

September 1st, 2023

Monthly Training and Pods
 10:00 am-2:30 pm (MDT – Mountain Time – Denver/United States) – each day (30 min break)

First Friday of the month

October 6th, 2023

November 3rd, 2023

December 1st, 2023

January 5th, 2024

February 2nd, 2024

March 1st, 2024

April 5th, 2024

May 3rd, 2024

Small Group Pods & Individual Mentoring

Small group pods meet in the 2nd half of the meeting time each month

The purpose of these smaller 5-7 person groups is to practice teaching the core exercises that you experienced during the Core Training.  During these group times you will have a chance to practice giving and receiving feedback, to ask questions about concepts, to deepen your understandings, and to explore how to adapt the material to specific groups you are interested in.

Mentorship

(3 mentoring sessions) Starts in December and meet three times before graduation.

Here you will meet 3 times with a RUP trained teacher and Guild Member whom you will be assigned after the initial training dates.  You will focus on personalizing what you want to do as a RUP teacher.

Power is everywhere and yet seldom talked about or taught.

Right Use of Power is a large body of topics, concepts, experiential practices that have been integrated from many sources.  In our programs, you will be learning to both use and teach conscious ethics and power with heart—core tenets in an alternative operating system for power that we call “Socially Conscious Power.”  This approach is a large and evolving orientation and set of information and embodied practices that are applicable and adaptable for many groups and many issues. 

The Right Use of Power Teacher Training is not a certification or licensing program.  At the completion of the Teacher Training you can use concepts, handouts, written materials, and exercises you have been given to share information or to design and deliver programs about Right Use of Power.  Our expectation is that you will feel confident, resourced, and well-supported in offering concrete modules and then more and more extensive programs as you grow in your confidence and understanding of and experience with the concepts and practices.  If you find that you wish to teach the entire core curriculum, as delivered, you can follow a more extensive learning path that includes working with a Core Faculty member who can mentor and/or co-teach with you.

At the end of the training, you will also be given an opportunity to choose how you wish to stay connected with RUP and RUPInstitute.  Through the free or Power Positive membership you may call yourself an Independent Teacher and have access to on-going learning opportunities and community connections.  If you choose the Guild Teacher membership, you will, in addition, have access to our extensive resource library, membership in Focus Groups, and continuing and advanced programs.  And you will be authorized to call yourself an Affiliated Teacher and use the Affiliated Teacher seal.  Please see more information about membership levels at the website.  Regardless of the level of membership you choose, we both trust and entrust you to freely use the materials and move at your own pace in sharing the concepts and processes. Our desire is that you will feel confident, resourced, and well-supported in moving at your own pace in whatever level of involvement you choose. 

We invite you to ask for a conversation with Dr. Barstow or other Core Faculty, if you have questions or want more information than is provided here, please email us at [email protected]

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People who have taken this training report:

• “I now have so much more confidence about how so many aspects of teaching—experiential work in person and virtually, how to present concepts simply and effectively, how to engage with participants, how to pace learning, and how to address multiple learning styles.”
• “Wow.  Feedback became both an art and a relationship-builder instead of something to be feared.”
• “This RUP material and the experientials fill in a gap about understanding power that I didn’t even know needed filling.”
• “I see now how power is somewhere in virtually everything and yet, so under-acknowledged.”
• “I can now be a cheerleader for the possibility and practicality of power being used wisely, consciously, and well.”
• “The teachers walk their talk.”
• “I’m much better at being decisive, yet warm, and clear and concise as a teacher.”
• “This training is incredibly important everywhere in my life, not just in teaching right use of power”

Language: ENGLISH

Cost: $2125*

*Cost does NOT include the Core Training, which is a required and essential per-requisite of the Teacher Training. If you have not already taken Core Training, you must add Core Training ($400) to your cart as well for a total of $2525.

NOTE: You have to login to the site before you can purchase your ticket below. You can choose the free membership (you will never be charged) or you can choose the paid plan and get 10% off this training! That is a savings of $2512.50 when you add Teacher and Core Training to your cart!

You will also need to purchase the textbook by Dr. Barstow for this training:

Electronic Version – $9.99

Print Book Version – $24

Additional Details

A Facilitators Manual and other written material will be sent with a link to download or print from.

Zoom
All our trainings take place over the zoom platform. Zoom is accessible through video and audio wifi and through phone call-in. Zoom recordings will be available after each session. Please let us know if you would benefit from any additional learning accommodations.

Scholarships & Work Trade Options
We are dedicated to making our trainings accessible to all those who wish to participate. We make available scholarships and work trade (and combinations of both) for all of our trainings. You can submit your application here.

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

• Full refund minus a $50 handling fee available up to 2 weeks before the first day of training OR
• A voucher for the full amount paid for a future training available up to 1 week before the first day of training

Additional Questions? 

We’re happy to answer them! Email us at training@rightuseofpower.org