The first is: is it possible to deliver the results
Werner's work
delivers in-person, online? I
share
my experience of this in this essay,
Online!: Free to Be and Free to Act II.
The second is: is it possible to deliver not merely the results
Werner's work
delivers in-person online, but specifically is it possible to deliver
transformation
online, particularly for non-Graduates? I
share
my experience of this in the essay titled
Online! II: Untethered.
As we all know,
our world
recently went into lockdown. And for all intents and purposes, the
delivery of
Werner's work,
like many other in-person endeavors and enterprises, came to an abrupt
halt. In the instant the in-person milieu became unavailable, the very
disbursement of
transformation
on
our planet
became imperiled.
Fast-forward about a year (maybe a little less in actuality) to when
word began coming out that
Werner's work
would soon make its appearance online - courtesy the
software doyen of the socially-distant: Zoom. I was (to put it
mildly) thrilled, but only partially because
Werner's work
would emerge online (I actually doubted it could be effectively
delivered that way). It's mainly because I was struck by the sheer
heroism
of pivoting its delivery from in-person to online on such short notice
- nimble, fancy footwork for such a large,
worldwide,
well-entrenched organization. But would it actually
work?
That would be the rub (as William Shakespeare embodying Hamlet may have
said). And there was only one way to find out:
participate.
So I registered myself to be in
Forum for Graduates -
Free to Be and Free to Act
online.
Cut to the chase. What I discovered, touched me, inspired me,
moved me to tears.
On a scale of one to a hundred,
participating
in
Werner's work
in-person, given it's the milieu, rates a hundred. But
participating
in
Werner's work
online, doesn't drop way down that scale. Rather it rates pretty close
to a ninety nine. True, it's not the hundred of
participating
in-person. It couldn't be. Yet it's astonishingly impressive
nonetheless. And given the persistence of the ongoing
worldwide
lockdown, if online is now indeed the only milieu in which to
participate
in
Werner's work,
then how could I not be delighted with a mere ninety nine
on a scale of one to a hundred?
Then I saw two things I wasn't expecting, neither of which could
ever appear in the in-person delivery, which garnered the
online offering a hundred and ten on a scale of one to a
hundred. I couldn't believe it! Yet there they were, so
obvious in hindsight (and hindsight is always
20/20 vision). These are they:
This is a big deal - the latter in particular, a very big
deal. The impact of what will fall out of this
breakthrough,
coming as it did congruent with the current
worldwide
lockdown, is stunning. Its
legacy
will be both sublime and profound. It will have powerful and lasting
personal, societal, and national and international ramifications. By
participating
online myself, I got clear that
Werner's work
can and does
work
online - indeed, it's brought forth with it many entirely
new realms of possibility. Again.