We Offer A Limited Number of Scholarships.
scholarship guidelines
Who We Are, And Who Our Scholarships Are For
We are a small, idealistic lesbian-owned business committed to accessibility! We offer discounts to those who face true financial barriers and/or navigate life as a person of color. We offer these discounts in a spirit of love and trust. Discounts cannot be combined, and apply only to our regular fees, not sale prices.
Our Discounts Are Not For You If:
You are just looking for a bargain, and/or you take overseas and/or Olivia vacations, drive a late-model luxury car, own multiple properties, own your home and have substantial equity, and/or spend money on luxury goods and dinners out. We mention this because in the past, people in each of those categories have asked for and received CGA scholarships, and we realized we needed to be clearer. Thank you for honoring our scholarships and our community!
Senior Discount
For those over 65
65+ Discount: Optional, 25% off everything scholarship
Of course, if you are able to pay the full price, doing so will support our work.
BIPOC Discount
For those with lived experience as Black, Indigenous, Latinx or Asian, and/or those living within local economies vastly different from the U.S. economy — e.g. the Philippines and India
In acknowledgment of the brutal systemic discrimination and white supremacy in the world, and to support our deep commitment to racial and ethnic diversity in the Academy.
Discount codes for
BIPOC 25%, 50% and 75%
off available
Of course, if you are able to pay the full price, doing so will support our work.
Low income,
Low assets
For those with low income and no substantial assets.
Discount codes for
25% off and 50% off
In all cases, we appreciate your spreading the word about CGA, so we can reach more of those who need us!
Options For People Who Cannot Afford CGA Even With These Discounts
1. Bring in two friends who pay full fee, and you can come free (at the same level of membership your friends have purchased)
2. Make use of the many programs we offer FREE to support the community
- Most months, 1 free class, coaching group or Q&A
- We will send a free PDF of the whole book fo anyone who requests it saying they can't afford to buy it
- We will have a whole page of free videos that anyone can watch
- Open FB group as forum to discuss CGA topics
- Spotify and Youtube audios and videos
Why Would You Need A Roadmap to Dating & Love?
Lesbians are highly motivated to love, and to love well. Relationships really matter to us.
Every woman who loves women has navigated a challenging journey to get where you are right now. And whether you've been out for decades or are new to dating women, the desire to love and be loved can move mountains inside you. No matter how many hard experiences you've had, that desire doesn't die, because it is essential to who you are, and it is holy.
The Roadmap Course exists to support your lesbian desire
and help it find its full expression
in the happy, healthy, lasting love you've always wanted.
If finding the right partner has been hard for you, you're not alone.
Lesbian relationships can be the very best relationships on the planet. But their endings can also be shattering. If you've been through that once or a few times, it's easy to start mistrusting love, or mistrusting yourself.
Let's get real -- no one ever taught us how to find the right partner. So when you feel magic, it's easy to dive deep and fast. You may have learned the hard way that early bliss doesn't equal long-term compatiblity.
You might have started to wonder: "Why do relationships have to be so hard?" "Is it too late for me?" "Maybe I'm just not meant to have a relationship." "Is my 'picker' broken?" "Is the right woman for me even out there?"
The Roadmap Course will restore both your faith in love
and your realistic understanding of what long-term
compatibility really takes.
We'll mentor and support you through a proven process for finding and building lasting love.
We often hear, "I'm just not attracted to many people." "It's hard to find lesbians near me." "I'm just coming out -- is there hope?" "I haven't dated in years." "I have no idea how to do this thing! But I don't want to stay single forever."
The Roadmap Course is the only lesbian course in the world that will support you step by step to understand what a healthy relationship actually is, develop a clear dating plan and relationship vision, and find her.
The Roadmap Curriculum
(Preparation For Both Dating And Love)
Understand What A Healthy Relationship Is, And Open To It
Learn the 5 key components for a healthy relationship
Identify your blocks and old beliefs that don't serve you, and discover powerful tools to help you re-pattern your beliefs and your heart.
Build Your Emotional Intelligence
Learn the key skills of emotional literacy and self-understanding.
Practice recognizing your feelings and regulating your nervous system so you can work skillfully with your own emotional states.
Transform Fear
Fear of being rejected... Fear of being loved... Fear of over-giving... Fear of receiving... Learn why we've all got so much fear, and how to meet it tenderly.
Decode the hidden messages in your fears so they don't have to block you from dating or love.
Develop Your Dating Plan
Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever matters most to you... she is out there, and you can find her. We'll talk about how.
Identify the dating pace and parameters that will actually help you create the love you want.
Build Self-Compassion and Self-Love
Learn why having compassion for yourself is necessary for a healthy relationship with someone else -- and how to develop it.
Harness the power of neuroplasticity to feel new levels of self-love, even if you never thought you could.
Clean Listening & Communication
Learn and practice the key skills involved in speaking so she can hear you, and listening so she'll feel heard.
Get the magic phrases to stop fights in their tracks and increase intimacy rather than conflict.
Attraction, Chemistry & Compatibility
Learn Conscious Girlfriend's unique framework for understanding the three levels of compatibility (this alone may be worth the price of the course.)
Understand how chemistry and attraction actually work for you, and how to make smart-for-your-heart choices.
Outsmart The Wiring That Leads to Heartbreak
Learn how to stop yourself from bonding with Ms. Wrong, even when it feels so right.
Understand how to distinguish red, yellow or green flags early in the dating process, and make wise choices.
Make Peace With The Past
Empower yourself with a new lens of self-compassion and self-responsibility.
Powerful experiential tools for bringing understanding and self-forgiveness to your past, so you can create a new present and future.
Self-Regulation As The Key To Healing
Learn Conscious Girlfriend's unique 5-step process for getting to the root of triggers, instead of fighting or "stuffing it."
Practice simple yet transformational tools for turning hard relationship moments into greater closeness.
Hone Your Relationship Vision
Learn the biggest mistake women make in looking for a partner, and how to get granular around what actually matters most to you and why.
Discover why you may have been seeking things that won't really make you happy, and how to refocus toward what will.
Date, Communicate, Assess & Create Love
Take your new skills from the roadmap to the road... and actually embark on your conscious dating journey.
How to listen to all the parts of yourself as you recognize real potential for love and go for the gold, not the foolsgold.
What's Different About Lesbian Dating & Love?
A lot! And we'll help you understand why, and how to navigate lesbian love wisely.
There's truth behind the lesbian joke about women bringing a U-Haul on the second date. Two women together do tend to bond far more quickly and intensely than couples of other genders.
We all long for that "special spark," magic and soul connection. But the truth is, the more high-powered the connection is, the better-prepared you need to be. Otherwise, you run the risk of bonding with lesbian super-glue to the wrong person... or, having triggers, fears and attachment style differences destroy your connection.
No one was born with conscious lesbian dating and love skills,
but everyone can learn them. The Roadmap Course exists to help you prepare for conscious dating and love,
so you can not only find the right partner, but be the right partner.
New to lesbian life? We've got you.
Late-in-life lesbians often tell us, "Wow, my heterosexual relationships never felt so intimate. But they were a whole lot easier." Two women together do tend to have more emotional triggers, meaning we need even better communication, self-regulation and attachment skills to keep our love thriving.
The Roadmap Course is based on cutting-edge neuroscience,
attachment theory and relationship research,
with lesbian knowledge & community you won't find elsewhere.
Not sure you're ready for a relationship? Great!
If you're still healing from a breakup, enjoying single life, or just don't want to wade into the deep end yet, it's still a great time to take the Roadmap class (especially since we only offer it once per year.) It'll help you gain clarity and get ready to get ready in your own right timing.
So What Do You Actually Get
In Conscious Girlfriend's Roadmap Course?
The Roadmap Course includes:
❤ Live weekly 2-hour classes on Zoom for 12 weeks, so you can get your questions answered, apply the material to your own life, get to know other lesbians++ on similar journeys, and practice new skills.
All classes are recorded. Each class also includes small group breakout sessions, which are not recorded, so it's best if you can attend live. But, women have had life-changing results just from watching the recordings!
❤ 12 weeks of self-paced worksheets to take your process deeper and help you dive deep into the curriculum.
❤ Roadmap buddies and buddy groups for support, camaraderie and accountability.
❤ Private Facebook group just for this Roadmap Course, so you can deepen connections with your classmates.
Ironically, the journey of seeking partnership is often a lonely one. It doesn't have to be that way! Over and over again, women in the Roadmap Course say, "It's so good to know I'm not the only one." "It's so good to share this process with like-minded women."
Getting to practice new skills with Roadmap class members is a big part of what makes this "not just another online course" that'll sit on your digital shelf. Instead, it will become a whole new life you can live, breathe and integrate.
But what if you want more than just 12 weeks of support?
Many women do, which is why we offer Roadmap Connection Groups year-round.
What Will The Roadmap Class Give You?
Imagine feeling good, really good, about your prospects for love. Knowing deep in your bones that of course she is out there, and that you've taken the steps to get ready, build the skills you need, learn how to find her, and create a strong, healthy relationship.
Sense your future self feeling clear, grounded and strong as you meet and communicate with women. Really knowing you can trust yourself, separate red flags from green, avoid jumping in too fast when there's chemistry, and assess who's actually right for you.
Feel the clarity that in your next relationship, you won't tie yourself into knots, give yourself up, or settle from the wrong person. You've finally got the skills to both find and be the right partner.
Imagine knowing that you've got a knowledgeable mentor and a whole team of like-minded, growth oriented lesbians++ supporting you, asking the tough questions and cheering you on.
Picture yourself meeting the woman of your dreams, taking time to know you're right for each other, then building a relationship better than any you've ever had, or perhaps even seen.
This has actually happened for many of our members.
Meet Some Past & Present Class Members
"This time, I choose to love with my full intelligence." Adrienne Rich
Pierce found community in the Academy, and then got help finding a partner, too.
After joining the Academy, Pierce went from feeling isolated to having a wide, deep network of friends. Then the Roadmap class empowered her to post an online profile, something she had never thought she would do. Now she and the woman she met online have been together for over a year. Pierce says, "What I learned in Conscious Girlfriend... is what has made us able to have this happy relationship."
As a late bloomer, Michelle came to the Academy for lesbian dating and relationship skills.
Michelle is a late-in-life lesbian who came out after a 23-year heterosexual marriage and raising three beautiful children. She says, "I've been dating my current partner for over a year now, and things are going very well. I attribute much of that to the skills I learned in the Conscious Girlfriend Academy."
Diana and Jen met as study buddies in the Academy, then fell in love.
Diana and Jen first connected by supporting each other with homework. As they recognized how compatible they were, their relationship blossomed. Now they say, "Not only did we find each other in Conscious Girlfriend, but we also got the tools to help us keep this going in a healthy way... And we also got a whole network, a community, a tribe of conscious friends." Diana adds, "I cannot tell you enough what a difference it has made in my life."
We Offer A Limited Number of Scholarships.
Meet Your Mentor, Academy Director Ruth L. Schwartz
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What People Are Saying
"I often send clients to Conscious Girlfriend and have seen it transform women's lives. CG is providing an incredibly valuable service to women who love women. It's run with integrity and heart and provides comprehensive information in a usable format. There's nothing else like it out there."
-- Julie Bjelland, LMFT
Director, Sensitive Empowerment Community (for Highly Sensitive People)
"I've invited Conscious Girlfriend Academy Director Ruth Schwartz back to my groups many times and even participated in Conscious Girlfriend Academy Coach Training because the CGA work is so FANTASTIC. I recommend the Academy every chance I get."
-- Jody Potiker, Founder, Lesbiangetaways.com and the international lesbian Meetup group So Many Women, So Little Time
Conscious Girlfriend is delighted to have our work recognized by a major international dating advice website! DatingAdvice.com lists us among their top queer dating experts, saying:
Supportive and fun community of lesbians... It’s open to single lesbians and couples and is designed to help you learn to create the kind of love life you're looking for.
"Lisa and I got married in October. My relationship with her is the healthiest and most secure I have ever felt. I’d like to think it’s due to the awareness you and the education of your content has given to me. Finding your special someone is possible past 50. I was starting to lose hope that I would ever find this kind of connection.
Thank you for all your support and life’s work to help people like me."
A Recap Of Some Of The Challenges We Help With
(How Many Of These Do You Face?)
You're single, and you don't want to stay that way forever -- but you also don't want to get hurt.
You've got a good life on your own, but you know the right partner would make it even better. But past hurts have made you doubtful about finding the right person this time around. You know for sure you don't want more heartbreak.
You're not sure how to date, or how to date women.
Many lesbians have never really "dated" -- we often feel a spark and dive right in. But you've reached a point in your life where you don't want to do that again -- and/or, you've come out more recently and need help understanding how dating works between women. You're ready to bring body, mind and heart together in conscious, intentional dating, so you can find lasting love.
You've gone through a painful breakup, and need help healing.
Lesbian breakups can be shattering. You need help from people who understand that pain, who can help you understand what happened and reclaim your life.
You're over 40 -- maybe over 50, or 60, or 70 -- and dating and love are different for you now.
Your needs and priorities have changed, and so has the world. You wonder if it's too late for you, but you also know yourself better than ever before, and want help finding a partner to be with for the rest of your life.
You're overwhelmed by the process of beginning to date, or your dating hasn't worked out well.
You wonder: Where do I even start? Should I use online dating? What should I say in my profile? How can I know who's real and who's not? What are the "rules" of app messaging and dating? How can I keep my heart safe?
You'd welcome having more growth-oriented lesbian friends.
It's a straight world out there. You've got room in your life for more lesbian, bi and queer friends who really "get" you, who see and value you as you are, and can support your growth.
Here's How The Academy Helps:
World-class LGBTQ+ mentorship.
Supportive like-minded community.
Lesbian-centric live classes & on-demand recorded classes.
Learn and practice the dating & relationship skills you need.
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