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It's been said that yesterday's transformation is today's ego trip, and that today's transformation on the other hand, is simply transformation. So what about tomorrow's transformation? Tomorrow's transformation is what we designate as possibility. This isn't just your typical linear sequence of what we ubiquitously refer to as time. Tomorrow's transformation (possibility) has the uncanny ability to reach back into the past and transform the past. So much for being stuck in the past! So much for the access to the past being lost on the slag heaps of history. Transformation doesn't adhere to the typical linear sequence of time that only moves forward. Transformation can reach back in time, and recontextualize (I love that word) the past. Even if it isn't patently obvious, what's become clear is transformation's always been started, continuing on for all eternity like a possibility. If that idea was too much for me to lay on people in the early days of my sharing Werner's work, what worked well was keeping people connected with Werner. I'd share an experience of him, then I'd say (as others did before me) "You'll talk about him forever.". It was a long shot. It worked. As it turned out, it was very effective (effective in that it unfettered / unleashed the power and magic of Conversations For Transformation for people). I've been writing these Conversations For Transformation for twenty years today exactly to the day (this one is #1770), and I've connected people with Werner for forty five years this week almost to the week. Those are two ways of articulating what's happened. Yet in retrospect, both of them may not be entirely accurate. The first one, "I've been writing these Conversations For Transformation for twenty years today exactly to the day", may be better articulated as "These Conversations For Transformation have been writing me for twenty years today exactly to the day.". The second one, "I've connected people with Werner for forty five years this week almost to the week", may be better articulated as "Who I really am has been showing up in the Conversations For Transformation that is Werner's speaking, for forty five years this week almost to the week.". And no, that's not just playing with mere semantics (but listen: even if it were, it's all semantics - which is the subject for another conversation on another occasion). I have a mental picture of the perfect enrollment conversation. This isn't imaginary. It really happened. Afterwards, when I looked at what actually transpired, I realized it was everything I could aspire to in an enrollment conversation sharing the possibility of Werner's work and transformation with people. Here's how it played out: I was leading a guest event at the Newlands Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa in 1979. At the end, with the people milling around, a man walked up to the front of the room, stood before me, and just stared at me. I took it all in, smiling, waiting for him to speak. Then, in a thick "boer" accent, he said: "You spoke for an hour. I didn't understand anything you said. Whatever you've got, I want it.". "Whatever you've got, I want it ...". It was perfect. It's not what transformation's about that people want. It's the space it creates to be free to be and free to act that people, once we fully realize what it actually is, can't get enough of. It shows up in being, not in understanding, cleverness, or dogma. Being around Werner, I've had my own "Whatever you've got, I want it" moments. There've been many of them. Staying connected with Werner is a training entirely unto itself, a constant unerring reminder. For me, that's what's really at the heart of this twenty year long celebration. |
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