ChoicePoints October 2003

"The greatest gift you can offer another human being is the depth of your own clarity."  _{Louise LeBrun}

This issue released: Friday, October 3, 2003

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

Spotlight On — CODE Model Magic… for becoming more

"You cannot change your life until you change the way you perceive your life."  _{Trick of the Light}

If you're ready for more - and if you feel the pull to dive into the deep end of the pool - here's your chance!

The two-day CODE Model Magic discovery intensive is for WEL-Systems:NLP Master Practitioners or Master Facilitators. Designed especially for those who have already travelled the WEL-Systems Certification path, this Open Forum experience will strengthen what you know and bring you up-to-date on new material and guided meditations. Using the powerful WEL-Systems tool The CODE Model™, you'll quickly deepen your sense of competence and confidence, moving into the unknown with curiosity and a sense of adventure. Move with greater ease as you lean into the next curve in the road. When you feel the need to be in the presence of others of like, enquiring mind, and when you can trust that expanding your thoughts expands your reality, this is the place for you.

You already know how to barbeque sacred cows. With CODE Model Magic, you'll discover how to pick them out of a crowd and not be fooled by their fancy gear! Explore how to move beyond where you are so that your life expands. For more information, visit www.WEL-Systems.com/programs/codemagic.htm. Register today and start now to consider your life through CODE Model Magic!

Today's Thought

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

Nelson Mandela

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.

WEL-Systems Experiences: October to January

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

Phoenix Rising Goes to Frankfurt, Germany

The second edition of Phoenix Rising: The Freeing of Human Potential is on its way to the October 2003 Frankfurt Book Fair. For the international publishing sector, this is the largest trading place for rights and licences. The new edition of Phoenix Rising has an extensive Foreword by Dr. Bruce Lipton and has already been requested for review prior to the fair beginning.

As a result of last years fair, the contract has been signed for translation of Fully Alive from 9 to 5! into Mandarin and it is also under consideration for translation into Spanish.

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Are you interested in learning how to work with the body?

Some of our alumni are highly skilled practitioners and trainers in disciplines that work with the body, i.e. massage therapy, reflexology, yoga, Reiki, etc. We are considering the possibility of making short, non-certification programs available to people interested in these disciplines. For example, a weekend workshop on Massage for Couples would be the kind of experience offered …all with a WEL-Systems perspective, of course!

As we begin to consider our program schedule for 2004, we'd be interested in hearing from you what your interests are in this area. Please drop us a line at Interested@WEL-Systems.com describing what type of program appeals to you and your preference for timing (weekends, evenings, half-days, etc.). Your interests will be reflected in our up-coming program schedule!

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ByRegion.net spotlights Chakras article

The ByRegion Healing Arts Newsletter has spotlighted Louise's article Levels of Thinking and the Chakras in their October 2003 issue (see Issue #51); an excerpt from this article:

"The first through the fourth chakras carry history; the sixth and the seventh carry possibility. The fifth chakra, at the throat, is the link between these points in time as well as the platform on which we stand in the "now". This platform is my connection to what I perceive as the outside world. As I stand on this platform in the present, do I speak from history or do I speak from possibility?"

This article, and many other free articles, are available to review on the WEL-Systems web site.

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It's all about You

Griffin At Work  presents …an introduction to the WEL-Systems® context for change. This 1 day experience is an invitation to shift your perspective and view life through a different lens. Explore some WEL-Systems models and what quantum science shows us about being human. Discover that by changing your perception of your world you can change how you experience life. It's All About You is happening in Ottawa October 11, November 1, and December 13.

Developed and facilitated by Susan Griffin, certified WEL-Systems Catalyst and CODE Model Coach™. For registration details call Susan at: 613-592-5237 or email Susan@GriffinAtWork.com

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New Joint Venture is Launched

Evolving Executives  is a new conversation jointly created by Carlos Fox, Intento International Inc. and Gwen McCauley, ProGenerations - an operating division of the WEL-Systems Institute. This program experience is being offered on a "by invitation only" to CEOs, Vice Presidents and other senior executives of corporations and service companies.

Evolving Executives  is a unique, intimate conversation where nine WEL-Systems® models of human behaviour are explored to deeply shape their world view of what's possible and allow them to engage at a much higher level of thinking with colleagues, customers, partners, employees and family… producing extraordinary results. If you are interested in learning more, contact Carlos at fox@intento.net or Gwen at Gwen@WEL-Systems.com.

Did you know?

Women are primary targets of mind-altering drug campaigns

Are you old enough to remember the Valium ladies of the 60's? I am. My mother was one of them. Taking a couple of little pills a day so that she could get through the trials and tribulations of life with too many kids, too little money, a philandering husband and social isolation.

But thanks to the feminist movement we don't have to worry about our wives, mothers and lovers living life flat lined, do we? Not so, reports a recent 13-year study of media coverage of depression. Since the advent of Prozac and its cousins, approximately 90% of stories aimed at women used emotional phrases such as "being a bad mother" and "feeling fat" as signs that the newer anti-depressants might be the solution. Men's coverage of depression during the same period has changed little and continues to focus on job performance.

The study further noted that not only is the media pervasive in its use of gender stereotypes in the depression discussion, but that up to three times as many women as men are getting prescribed Prozac and related drugs by their physicians. Media coverage of the drugs and depression have moved from the health section to the fashion section!

So what are we women to do? I think its time we started saying "no" to being handed a prescription for every difficulty we have in life. I think its time we gave ourselves permission to have bad days, to be cranky occasionally, to be less than perfect all the time. And I think its time we remembered the misery our poor Valium-lady mothers, aunts, grannies and cousins weren't able to avoid by obediently and quietly following the path of the promising little pill.

Thought Waves

Thoughts on - Self Healing and Accelerated Consciousness

September has been an incredible month! In this magical life that I live, I've had the opportunity to spend a week in Hawaii working on the third book (which will be available in the spring of 2004) and another week in Palm Springs, California at the Annual General Meeting of IONS - the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org). Squeezed into plenary sessions with more than 2000 other curious and committed folks, we were challenged, delighted and invited by some of the most creative and innovative minds in the world to press the edges of our own thinking about ourselves, our world and our ability not only to move through it but to create it.

As we approached the end of the conference, a panel was convened of senior directors from IONS, with each asked to comment on what they believed to be the pressing issues as we moved into the 21st century. My little ears came to a point as Peter Russell, the Director of Research for IONS, stated that he had two primary concerns : first, to discover how to accelerate the evolution of consciousness and the second, how to find ways to make acceleration of consciousness more easily accessible, to more people. When I heard this, I felt a quickening somewhere in my awareness.

My mind revisited the exceptional presentations and presenters that had graced various stages during the conference's four days. The intensity is increasing in the need to breakthrough the barriers of mind and body which prevent us, as human beings, from engaging directly with the various living systems that surround us; and become willing to let go of being separate from and better than many of these other living systems - even if they are not 'like us' in appearance! The urgency was palpable - and the frustration equally palpable as progress is being made in painfully slow increments.

Many of you have experienced and know that our approach to personal evolution and accelerated consciousness often defies description! Over the years, we've witnessed - time and again - miracle after miracle of awakening and healing. It is in those memories, past and future, that I was reminded that the one thing that all human beings have in common, regardless of geography, education, economics, politics, religions, etc. is a body. Not just the intellect - which we've focussed on for decades and wrung to a frazzle - but a physical body that we now know is a quantum biological processor. Bruce Lipton's science has helped us to gain clarity on the incredible processing power of this device and the degree to which we have profoundly underestimated its existing capability, let alone its potential.

As I listened to Dr. Russell, it struck me that the gateway to what we seek IS the body; that the ability to access faster, deeper and broader realms of consciousness lies not in the intellect but in the body; and that the living, organic medium that will connect us to all other living, organic media is the tissue of the body itself. When we allow ourselves to bypass the intellect and engage the body directly, information (energy, emotions, etc) moves through the tissue of the body at phenomenal speeds and in massive waves and, when the body restabilizes, leaves behind insights and internal 'knowing' that becomes the conduit for health, vitality and a sense of belonging to a much greater whole.

The body itself - in its living, organic tissue - is the gateway to accelerated consciousness. And just think - we all have one and it's free! To experience yours, you need but: Breathe… follow the impulses… and let yourself know the truth of your own experience. Self healing is not an acquired skill - it's the essence of who we are. All we have to do is get out of the way!

Louise LeBrun
September 2003

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