Water in the cracks….

A new world-view is like water seeping into the cracks. It may not look like much and yet, the implications can be profoundly transformative!

Many who have come through a WEL-Systems stream of experiences have also discovered how to bring their awakening into their existing world. They become the long-overdue bright light shining into dark corners. Their depth of knowledge of and experience in their system of choice, combined with a potent new perspective, allows them not only to speak of what they see differently but to also take their colleagues and clients far beyond just the ‘rant’ of how it could/should be. They can actually show them how to see differently, experience differently and engage differently. The result? Hope and possibility begin to replace a sense of resignation to an entrenched ‘system’, untouched and untouchable.

Whether it’s professional sports coaching, physiotherapy, mediation, education, addiction recovery or corporate leadership; whether it’s about the individual or a collective that presents as family, friends or colleagues/community, etc, more and more people who have allowed their WEL-Systems experiences to transform their perspectives and their lives are stepping back into what has been familiar to them and bringing new potential into what they might just as easily have left behind.

I remember long ago, in my WEL-Systems:NLP days, having lunch with a wonderful woman from Montreal. Sitting in the sun by the Rideau Canal on a bright and breezy May day, we talked about growing and discovering; about expanding and becoming and about how differently we might live our lives. Her questions of me seemed to revolve around her interest in leaving her field of business and passion for more than 20 years (Real Estate development) and becoming an NLP Trainer. As I listened, I wondered: seems to me that there are lots of folks in the field of real estate development who would greatly benefit from getting their lives back! And yet, it had not occurred to her to bring her new knowledge into a community that she knew well, that she (at least at one time) greatly valued and had been her passion, and with which she was intimately familiar, greatly knowledgeable and densely interwoven. Who better to offer new hope in what had become a closed-loop system?

It takes courage to take a new perspective and enter an existing collective that is deeply committed to its own world view and often hardened for its own self-preservation. It takes particular courage to do so in a system like healthcare/medicine, education or – the big one! – family systems that have big teeth and bite back! To become one of the growing number of small voices in the wilderness that proffer a different perspective is an act of personal integrity. Doing so holds the potential to change the world.

It’s not always easy to move through the world choosing to be authentic in what we say and do. And yet, to do otherwise is a betrayal of who we know ourselves to be capable of becoming. In that moment of betrayal, all that is left is what we already have – and our drive to create results in getting more of what we’ve already got. Maybe we’re the one who’ll break that cycle.

Breathing is good…..