Ask anyone who's participated in
Werner's programs
and experienced transformation, to share with you how transformation
shows up
in their lives
where the rubber meets the
road
ie what it's like, what it's worth, what its benefits are etc. You'll
almost always hear transformation brings a rare, extraordinary quality
to bear. Living improves and becomes more enjoyable, more
workable
(if you will). Indeed,
Life itselfworks
better as a result of ie with transformation. Mind you (to be honest)
it's not that way for 100% of everyone. No it isn't. But it is that way
for well into the top ninetieth percentile of all those who
participate, most of whom say participating in
Werner's programs
is
the
experience of their lives.
That's a daunting claim ie it's heady stuff if you're asked to accept
it sight unseen the way I'm asking you to do.
Having experienced transformation, it's natural to
commit
yourself to it - which means nothing more (and nothing less) than
giving your
word
to living your life as your
word,
not because you've now joined some exclusive esoteric clique with a
kind of (wink wink) inner secret, the knowing of which makes you
better than (or worse, superior to) others, but because
Life itselfworks
better when you live as your
word
(that's a hypothesis you can test for yourself, or ignore at your own
peril).
Living a life
committed
to transformation is a stand anyone can take. I've
committedmy own life
to transformation. But with that said, I still manage my own life. I
run it the way I want to. I call my own shots. I write these essays
when I want to write them (and I don't when I don't). Nobody sets a
schedule for me to adhere to.
Then there are those truly
heroic people
who've
committed
their lives to transformation in a manner waaay beyond
what I've done. Their entire lives, and everything in them, and all the
slots in all their calendars are
committed24 / 7 / 365
to making transformation available for others. They're the staff of
Werner's
enterprises, the
leaders
of
his programs.
The lives they manage are the lives that are managed for them. The
shots they call are the shots that are called for them. The schedules
they adhere to are the schedules that are set for them. In such
positions, what goeswith the job (as
Alan Watts
may have said) is giving up their own privacy - which means giving up
doing it "my way" (as Frank Sinatra may have said).
That's what's called for, to do what they do. That's what
they've
committed
to
24 / 7 / 365,
some of them for
decades.
It's an
unimaginablecommitment.
I'm
committed.
But mine is not an
unimaginablecommitment:
I still do a lot if not most of this my way.
A woman who's a
hero
of mine made that
commitment
nearly five decades ago. She and I don't get to meet a lot, maybe once
every ten years - which isn't exactly "often". But whenever we do, I'm
clear she's one of the most important people in my life. One day she
contacted me and asked, clear out of the blue, if I'd like to schedule
time for a conversation. Would I? If McCartney calls and
asks "Would you like to come to Peasmarsh and play on my
new album?", you don't say "Sorry Paul, I'm busy.". No, you drop
everything and you run. Why? Because you get
transformation being receptive to it as an experience born of speaking
and listening - in other
words,
you get transformation inventing it as a possibility that lives in
language,
and being willing to
be coachable
in speaking and listening transformation.
Who is this person? Who is she who's made the
unimaginablecommitment
to make transformation available on
the planet?
It's said "It's not what you know: it's who you know.".
No! For me, that doesn't
work
as an
access
to transformation. "It's not what you know: it's who you know
speaking and listening transformation" does. That's who
she is: an
unimaginablecommitment
to be with people as their
word24 / 7 / 365
even when they themselves don't relate to their own
word
that way.