Dear All,
I had the opportunity a week ago to participate in a special event...the morning Bill Turner mocked a classroom to qualify to lead Seminars in SLC.
It was powerful on a couple of levels. First, the honor to listen Bill as Seminar Leader...he's been that for me from the beginning. Second, to be re-accquainted with the distinction Enchantment/ Disenchantment.
I had heard several people make the comment: "Landmark seems to work for some people, but it just doesn't seem to work for me." I have to admit, that I bought into that...it matched up with my nasty little business that I NEED to be special. That would mean that since it worked for me, I WAS special. What a load that is!!
Once, I got past that, I was able to explore what might be going on with those who made that comment. I wanted to be able to get into their world and relate to how frustrating it must be to see something so amazing working for others and feel like it was "out there" and somehow not available to me. I remember feeling that way when people would talk about miracles and gifts of the spirit and I just KNEW I would never, ever be able to experience what that was like. My participation in Landmark Education, kept reitterating that "anything I want for myself or my life" is available to me out of my participation in the Landmark Education curicullum.
So, I looked at what it might mean to have Landmark "work" and "not work" or not work as well as you'd like it to.
I have some conversations to enjoy with others about this, but this is what I saw for myself.
I was watching a tape with Harry Rosenberg, CEO of Landmark Education, and he addressed this concept by using the analogy of a truck backing up to me and dumping transformation on me. He expressed the desire to be able to do that if it would make a difference...he wants transformation for all of us that much. It's just that transformation doesn't work that way. Drat!! It isn't even something that we do...just tell me what to do and I'll reproduce it. I get it that this is the reason so many of us, with such diversity, can claim our own incredible individual results from our participation in the Landmark Forum.
Jenn Kuhlmann shaved 71/2 hours off her personal best running 100 mile marathons...I doubled my income; Jake A. spent Christmas in a designed environment of love that made room for his ex-wife, her boyfriend, Jake's girlfriend, and most of all daughter, Shalom;Jaime S. got the relationship of her dreams...what about you?
So, I came out of the Landmark Forum on the "pink cloud" of enchantment. I was lit up and where enchantment is present, there is also disenchantment. It's the front and back of the hand. People like me, want only the enchantment. When the disenchantment shows up, I shrink, drop out, disown and kill off anything that resembles that state or who and what brought it to me. It is my story that I am especially nasty about disenchantment because I can live with those rose colored glasses endlessly swirling in the illusion that there's nothing wrong...different from living from there's nothing wrong here...and staying detached from "living life on life's terms" like bills and work and reality. YUK. Reality, what's that? It's the balance of enchantment and disenchantment. That's what I say. And for me to be able to live in BOTH is an awsome opportunity. To remain in action when the enchantment has faded, and the disenchantment has me by the tail, is a brand new invitation to me. It was my pattern to drop out, give up, blame others and make the situation wrong, bad and sick so I had to get out of it. Now, I see what's available if I stick it out to the other side where the magic awaits and enchantment occurs once again.
I was given a CD from the Hospice convention that introduced a concept called Liminal Space. It intrigued me and I googled the phrase and the article that popped up is attached to this e-mail. I think you'll find it fascinating that there is now a word to describe what "free fall" is.
You are invited to join me again in "Liminal Space" on Wed. at Susan Saalsaa's seminar--The Landmark Forum In Action, classroom 9. It will be a special guest event. It starts at the workspace at 7pm. Come, even if you don't bring a guest. It is an opportunity to re-engage in the magic you took away from your Landmark Forum no matter when it was...The conversation will be spectacular.
best,
Laurie Olson
I had the opportunity a week ago to participate in a special event...the morning Bill Turner mocked a classroom to qualify to lead Seminars in SLC.
It was powerful on a couple of levels. First, the honor to listen Bill as Seminar Leader...he's been that for me from the beginning. Second, to be re-accquainted with the distinction Enchantment/ Disenchantment.
I had heard several people make the comment: "Landmark seems to work for some people, but it just doesn't seem to work for me." I have to admit, that I bought into that...it matched up with my nasty little business that I NEED to be special. That would mean that since it worked for me, I WAS special. What a load that is!!
Once, I got past that, I was able to explore what might be going on with those who made that comment. I wanted to be able to get into their world and relate to how frustrating it must be to see something so amazing working for others and feel like it was "out there" and somehow not available to me. I remember feeling that way when people would talk about miracles and gifts of the spirit and I just KNEW I would never, ever be able to experience what that was like. My participation in Landmark Education, kept reitterating that "anything I want for myself or my life" is available to me out of my participation in the Landmark Education curicullum.
So, I looked at what it might mean to have Landmark "work" and "not work" or not work as well as you'd like it to.
I have some conversations to enjoy with others about this, but this is what I saw for myself.
I was watching a tape with Harry Rosenberg, CEO of Landmark Education, and he addressed this concept by using the analogy of a truck backing up to me and dumping transformation on me. He expressed the desire to be able to do that if it would make a difference...he wants transformation for all of us that much. It's just that transformation doesn't work that way. Drat!! It isn't even something that we do...just tell me what to do and I'll reproduce it. I get it that this is the reason so many of us, with such diversity, can claim our own incredible individual results from our participation in the Landmark Forum.
Jenn Kuhlmann shaved 71/2 hours off her personal best running 100 mile marathons...I doubled my income; Jake A. spent Christmas in a designed environment of love that made room for his ex-wife, her boyfriend, Jake's girlfriend, and most of all daughter, Shalom;Jaime S. got the relationship of her dreams...what about you?
So, I came out of the Landmark Forum on the "pink cloud" of enchantment. I was lit up and where enchantment is present, there is also disenchantment. It's the front and back of the hand. People like me, want only the enchantment. When the disenchantment shows up, I shrink, drop out, disown and kill off anything that resembles that state or who and what brought it to me. It is my story that I am especially nasty about disenchantment because I can live with those rose colored glasses endlessly swirling in the illusion that there's nothing wrong...different from living from there's nothing wrong here...and staying detached from "living life on life's terms" like bills and work and reality. YUK. Reality, what's that? It's the balance of enchantment and disenchantment. That's what I say. And for me to be able to live in BOTH is an awsome opportunity. To remain in action when the enchantment has faded, and the disenchantment has me by the tail, is a brand new invitation to me. It was my pattern to drop out, give up, blame others and make the situation wrong, bad and sick so I had to get out of it. Now, I see what's available if I stick it out to the other side where the magic awaits and enchantment occurs once again.
I was given a CD from the Hospice convention that introduced a concept called Liminal Space. It intrigued me and I googled the phrase and the article that popped up is attached to this e-mail. I think you'll find it fascinating that there is now a word to describe what "free fall" is.
You are invited to join me again in "Liminal Space" on Wed. at Susan Saalsaa's seminar--The Landmark Forum In Action, classroom 9. It will be a special guest event. It starts at the workspace at 7pm. Come, even if you don't bring a guest. It is an opportunity to re-engage in the magic you took away from your Landmark Forum no matter when it was...The conversation will be spectacular.
best,
Laurie Olson
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