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When it comes to sharing transformation in all its multifarious expressions (which is to say, both the multifarious expressions of it, as well as all the multifarious ways of sharing it), it harkens to one of the first things I ever learned regarding (both of) them. It's what I call "the dictionary and / or the telephone book" way of sharing them. It goes like this: if you stand up in front of a large group of people intending to share transformation with them, then rather than follow the manual's instructions for sharing transformation, if all you did was read them the dictionary and / or the telephone book, then if you were coming from transformation (that's the big "if", it's the caveat), they would get it. It's where you come from, even more than it's what you may say about it. That's what epitomizes how I've attempted to write these Conversations For Transformation. I've not so much written about transformation, as I've written coming from transformation. And when I say "... written coming from transformation", what that translates to in my case is "... written coming from my relationship with Werner". That's what I have been doing these past twenty three years. Why? Because it's what works best and I don't know why. I don't try to explain why. It just works. And I'm glad it does. It's the dictionary and the telephone book way. Very early on in the piece, Werner proposed "You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.". I had never heard that particular abstract articulated in quite that way before. Yet I knew exactly what he was referring to. I was enrolled ... and yet ... the "always and all the time" proposition that you and I really have that power at every moment? under all circumstances? eluded me. In my day to day experience, I had that power sometimes. And when I had it, I could deliver on it. At other times I just didn't have it (or so it seemed) until eventually (if I waited long enough) it would come back, seemingly under its own volition. I relied on that. It wasn't until decades later when I did The Leadership Course with Werner that something happened, I'm still not exactly sure about how or why, but from that moment on I was clear that I / we really do have that power at every moment, under all circumstances, and I'm able to exercise it at will. That's transformation! Having access to transformation at every moment under all circumstances, is nothing more than a matter of being willing to read the dictionary and / or the telephone book aloud. I had stopped trying to figure it all out. I had stopped trying to understand it. All the effort was going away (thank you Werner!). I wasn't making things so god-damned significant. Now it's twenty three years later, and I'm still transcribing the value I've gleaned from reading the dictionary and / or the telephone book. I've also circumvented the trap: the value isn't in what I read in the dictionary and / or the telephone book; it's in that I read them out loud while coming from transformation / coming from being already transformed. In this ever-changing world in which we're living, very little is certain, and I'm not certain of much. But if there's one thing of which I am certain, it's this: without your generous attention, without you giving your time, energy, and critical listening to these Conversations For Transformation essays, this project would have dried up a long time ago. Any conversation for transformation doesn't do well in a vacuum. And you do give your time, and your energy, and your critical listening to them. And when you do that, I experience it as a very personal gift, for which I want you to know I am truly and deeply grateful. Thank you for everything you are. Thank you for being alive. Our World is a better place with you in it. Thank You for your Relationship with Werner. |
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