We are a School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM), whose classes’ purpose is to present a coherent, consistent, and clear process of forgiveness based on Dr. Kenneth Wapnick’s teachings on Jesus’s A Course in Miracles (ACIM).

**Unlike most ACIM meetings and discussion groups, our SFACIM classes are different in that they are actual classes, and are not meant to be open forums for Course students and other Course teachers to give their own teachings and opinions about the Course, or other spiritual systems or other spiritual books.

Questions are definitely encouraged as in any classroom situation, and examples of students practicing forgiveness are often requested from the facilitators. 

It is quite helpful at times to discuss and share what has, and hasn’t worked, for us in our own process of working and applying the Course, and specifically Ken Wapnick’s teachings on it.

To do that we first have to begin to learn what forgiveness and healing are in ACIM… as we study Ken Wapnick’s teachings on the Course.

During class, we try to avoid advice-giving (also called crosstalk in 12 step meetings)… directly to someone else or the group as a whole. Our personal challenge is for us to become aware and responsible for our own process of the ‘undoing’ of our own ego selfishness and preoccupation, and not to avoid that process in ourselves by sometimes trying to “help” or fix someone else.

• We definitely discourage individuals consistently judging and attacking others and their shares at mtgs (including in some unusual cases verbal bullying and/or intimidation). Those specific issues will be addressed and dealt with appropriately in as kind but firm way as possible. Once addressed, if that inappropriate behavior continues, we will ask the person not to return to the mtgs. We are trying to create and  maintain a safe environment for all of us in our sharing. 
  

It is suggested and appreciated that all class participants take advantage of the opportunity to simply be students again, ask questions if so guided, and listen and learn and apply the Course teachings right there in class… no matter how many times they have heard or even taught the material themselves. 

We are grateful for your patience and understanding.

Over-sharing in classes:

Although we definitely like and encourage our participants to share their questions and thoughts at our classes, please be mindful of over-sharing at the SFACIM classes. Some of us can get pretty chatty, and if we  think we might be doing that, we probably are. Any more than 6 to 8 shares per class is most likely too much.

It is very helpful simply to listen and spend time in class actually practicing forgiveness, and maybe not talk so much, giving others a chance to say something.

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Focusing on our own forgiveness of  others and ourselves…

Also please try in our shares to bring whatever we are discussing into a current framework of ACIM and its practice of forgiveness, whether it’s commenting on our past spiritual practices or anything else. In sharing about our past or current times where we feel like we may have failed God and/or ourselves, we try to eventually focus on how our forgiveness practice (by inviting Jesus’ or the Holy Spirit’s presence in our awareness) has helped us see past that guilt and shame, to who we truly are.

Any question about any of this please contact Tim and/or Lyn…. and most of all, thanks so much for your continued attendance and your willingness to participate in our classes and meetings.

Suggested more quiet time to actually integrate what we are talking about…

We would also recommend to our facilitators at least two full minutes of quiet time at the beginning and end of each class, and even sometimes in the middle of a class to help integrate quietly what is being discussed.

… best ask a participant to actually set a timer to remind the facilitator when at least two minutes of quiet have passed.