ChoicePoints March 2003

"Every choice is a bridge that takes us from where we stand in this moment and moves us into a repetition of the past or the creation of something new. Either way, the future is of our own doing."  _{Louise LeBrun}

This issue released: Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Spotlight On - people, products and pronouncements
Today's Thought
Coming Attractions!
Quick Updates
The Morphing Continues…
Did you know? - arcane tidbits for fun & frolic
Thought Waves

Spotlight On — Self Healing Program in Ottawa and Montreal

Self Healing for Body, Mind and Spirit   is an invitation to join Louise in a new WEL-Systems® experience for personal wellness. Of interest to:

• those who are experiencing challenges of the body, mind or Spirit; and/or
• those who provide support services in this area and want a new and powerful perspective!

This two-day program will offer cutting-edge information from the Quantum sciences as well as facilitated conversation and guided meditations for accelerated consciousness, mindful living and personal wellbeing.

Providing a WEL-Systems perspective, and framed by the proven processes of The CODE Model™ and Quantum TLC™, participants are invited to sit back, relax and allow the body to do what it's designed to do. We soon discover that the greatest challenge we face is getting out of our own way! Whether your concerns are of the body (physical dis-ease), the mind (psychological) or of the spirit (energetic), this is the place to be to explore it all! In an Open Forum approach, the invitation is to discover new information, ask the questions that matter to you and allow yourself to be guided through a number of deep, meditative processes to open the flow for wellness.

Over the coming months, Louise will be offering this program in a number of locations across the country. If you are interested in brining this program to your area and want to know how to do that, drop us a note and we'll provide you with the details.

For more information on these programs, please visit the web site for the Self Healing program description.

Today's Thought

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices"
William James (1842-1910)

Coming Attractions!

We are pleased to offer you the following seminars, workshops and programs. Each one designed to provide thought-provoking and life altering experiences for your on-going personal and professional development.

The listing above only shows the first scheduled date for a particular location. For more details and the complete program schedule, see http://www.WEL-Systems.com/schedule.htm

Quick Updates

Inspiring Creative Change in Communities

15th Annual CANLP Conference
Valhalla Inn, Toronto, April 12 and 13, 2003
Preconference, Friday, April 11

Workshop leaders include Louise LeBrun, Gwen McCauley, Theresa Laurenti, Steve Davis, Shelle Rose Charvet and Isabelle David to name a few. See the full offering of workshops and seminars at the 15th Annual CANLP Conference. Together, we can inspire creative change in each other, in our communities, and in our world. Forward this email to friends in the NLP community, then visit the CANLP/ACPNL website at http://www.canlp.com/ to register for your opportunity to share in the inspiration.

The Morphing Continues…

communities of thought

Like you, we grow by pressing the edges of our own thinking. We seek to engage the world from and for an expansive world view. Stepping into the future with experience and strength of intention, we design programs, services, and experiences that more rapidly and directly result in accelerated consciousness, mindful living and generative change. We choose to share these with you.

For more than a decade, we have watched as our insights and discoveries have been in alignment with those of the Institute of Noetic Sciences   (IONS). We have been encouraged by their research and supported by knowing that we do not stand alone as we move beyond what is held to be 'real' and 'right' and 'true'. Year after year, we have been rewarded by the ever-increasing number of our clients, colleagues and friends who have engaged in what we offer and, as a result, have powerfully reshaped their world and the way they move through it. We encourage you to visit the IONS website (www.noetic.org) and discover just how vast the community of non-traditional thinkers really is. We are in very good company!

You might also enjoy reviewing the material for the September 2003 conference in California that is jointly sponsored by IONS and the Association for Global New Thought (www.agnt.org).

Stay tuned as we continue to grow, expand, evolve… and share it with you. Who knows what wonders you might discover about yourself!

Did you know?

That many of the world's greatest scientific and mathematical breakthroughs came to us… through reverie!

Many of us are familiar with the story of Albert Einstein beginning down the pathway to his breakthrough thinking around the Theory of Relativity from teenage reveries of imagining himself floating along a beam of light.

It was only recently as I was reading Willis Harman's book on Higher Creativity ("Higher Creativity: Liberating the unconscious for breakthrough insights." Willis Harman and Howard Rheingold. Putnam Books, New York. 1984) that I realized just how many aspects of hard science have come to us through the apparently highly unscientific processes of dreaming, reverie, day-dreaming or distraction. For example, the atomic weights table appeared to Dmitri Mendeleev almost completely formed and accurate in a dream. Similarly, Elias Howe who invented the lockstitch sewing machine discovered the solution to his puzzle in a dream. Sir Frederick Banting found the way to mass produce insulin in a dream. Otto Loewi, who discovered that nerve impulses have both chemical and electrical elements first had a hunch and then dreamed the experimental procedure that could prove his hunch.

Auguste Kekule von Stradonitz, founder of organic chemistry worked slightly differently. He discovered how molecules connect to one another during a day-dreaming state while riding a bus. Only years later did the mechanisms of organic chemistry come to him … in a dream! … I could go on and on with examples of both highly educated and not so highly educated people experiencing these kinds of breakthrough insights. Education levels seem to make little difference; a willingness to notice and follow bursts of intuitive knowing does.

What seems important to me is that we invite ourselves to question whether our time-constrained, work-fevered state serves us. Do the intensity with which we drive ourselves or the incredibly long hours of intense focus we impose on ourselves make the difference in the results we're seeking? Are they actually getting us the creativity and insights our Information Age jobs require? Maybe its time that we learned something from this rich history of breakthrough creativity and went for leisurely walks, or just lazed about for an afternoon or two allowing the veils of the inner reaches of our brilliance to surface.

Thought Waves

This article was one I wrote about a year ago to complete the requirements of a short program with
Edie Seashore, the 'grande dame' of Organizational Development

Thoughts on Self as Instrument of Change

The metaphor of a "thought virus" is one which is ever present for me when I think of myself as an instrument of change in this world .That means I need to be very mindful of what I'm carrying and how contagious I am!

My on-going growth and evolution is critical in this process to continue to expand my capacity to be self aware so that I increasingly know what I'm "carrying" and can add, change or delete things which I want to take on, modify or let go of. Increasingly, I am drawn to consider questions such as "Who do I get to be if I do/don't do X" "By paying attention to X, what is it that I get to not pay attention to?" These sorts of questions are perpetual reminders that who I am is not a static, fixed thing. I am continually growing, evolving and unfolding based on the moment-by-moment choices I make.

How contagious I am relates to the intention I carry for how I use myself in this world. What is my purpose? Is where in physical space and time I hang out aligned with that? Do I engage in conversations that reflect my purpose? Does my work engage my purpose? Am I open to surprises and new learnings that can expand my intention? Am I having fun? Am I modeling what I hold to be important as I move through my day and my life? For me, contagion happens when I am authentic and congruent within myself. It creates an "attractor" state which helps draw people who are looking for what I have to offer to me (in the same way that I am attracted to others). Then we can engage the dance of discovery and sharing.

Gwen McCauley

The WEL-Systems® Institute
Leaders in WEL-Systems Experiences
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