It's almost a truism to say that the way you got transformation (or the
way you'll get transformation) is someone
shared
it with you (or someone will
share
it with you). Yet that is its nature. Transformation lives in the
sharing
/
speaking
of it. If you got it, you'll
share
it. Look: if you say you got it and you don't
share
it, you didn't get it in the first place.
In 1979 I went to South
Africa and led the first series of ten guest seminars there, enrolling
the first one thousand people, inexorably starting Werner's work
there.
At the end of one of those seminars which I led at the Newlands Hotel
in Cape Town, an Afrikaner man came up to me in the front
of the room and, in a thick "boer" accent, said this to me: "You spoke
for an hour. I didn't understand anything you said. Whatever you've
got, I want it.".
Speaking for myself (and only for myself), what I got which allowed me
to
successfully lead the first
series of ten guest events in South Africa,
didn't come from being
certified by the
introduction leaders program, to lead introductory events.
What I got, I got entirely from
being around Werner
- like osmosis, like a
direct experience.
Recreating being that way he be's, then being that way in front
of the audiences, was magically and unerringly enrolling. And what I
spoke and its format, while also critical, was only secondary. Being
that way, I could have read
the telephone book or the
dictionary
in front of them, and it would have worked just as well. It was the way
I was being, which the man with the accent (and everyone else)
got. That's what he was responding to and requesting when he said
"Whatever you've got, I want it.". It was that way of
being which he got. It was that way of being he wanted, a way of being
which speaks louder than words, a way of being which naturally enrolls
people in the possibility of being transformed. What
Werner's work
makes available at
introductory events
is
gapingportals
for every person's unique possibility of being transformed. For
introduction leaders,
as well as for the people they enroll, it's the opportunity to
serve
the higher good. Arguably it's
the only game in
town.
So outside of what was spoken, and outside of the format of the
introductory event
itself, what exactly was it that I've got (in his view) which, even
without understanding it, he wanted? If explaining
transformation didn't do it for him (and I stay away from explaining it
because doing so only seems to obfuscate it), what way of my
being in his view was it that could have been so perfectly
enrolling, so much so that whatever I've got, he wanted it? Be careful:
wanting to own that, is a bit like wanting to own the quality a
butterfly has which makes it so attractive in the first place, yet
which once owned, no longer exists ... and that's its freedom.
The way I was being which he wanted, was "free to be, and free to
act". That's language
Werner
actually only invented recently. Nevertheless however you designate
it, it's who I was being at the time. It's who people want to be. It's
who inexorably enrolled him. It works if you create it for yourself. It
doesn't if you covet it in another.
He saw what it was, and he wanted it without understanding what it was
he was seeing. That's the osmosis, the
direct experience
of thrilling, enrolled transformation.
