Transformation Is a Constant as is Change

Today I want to speak to the idea of transformation. You may not have realized this, but much of life is all about transformation as change is one thing that we are going to always have to contend with whether or not you like change.

As anyone who has been reading these posts knows, my time here in Isreal is coming to an end come Sept 1. Part of me is happy about it because I have done mostly what I came here to do. Part of me is going to miss the daily interactions that I have with much younger and idealistic folks from all around the world. I would have to say that was the most fun and eye-opening part of the whole experience. Yes, I did learn a lot in the various courses that I took, much of it very timely for the changes that have been taking place over the past year-plus. However, it was truly the learning about the cultures and aspirations of the other students that brought me much joy and intrigue.

I am going to be moving to the Dominican Republic, a place that I have never been to. Yes, it is full of poverty though I will be living in a fairly isolated hotel providing retreats for folks to move on with various parts of their lives. Many have been hurt in loving relationships making it hard to move on to new ones, others have lost their jobs, or are unhappy with the jobs they have, and others are just interested in learning more about my areas of expertise which is that of removing emotional trauma from one's life with the use of hypnotism and NLP. These are some of the subjects for the retreats I will be running throughout the next year starting in October.

However, it's a very new endeavor for me in so many ways because though I have done a few groups years ago, I have never run a retreat in a far-off land. I am excited to work with the fabulous people who own and run the hotel - but to say that I am not a bit nervous about the whole endeavor would be untrue. Though this is what I have learned every time I have taken on a new challenge:

One puts one foot in front of the other and learns how to do it along the way. This is certainly the manner in which I got very proficient in doing hypnotism and NLP and it will be just as true in running retreats - which are fun to do because of the local and the less formal atmosphere that they are done in. I will need to learn how to have a lot less content and much more time for the participants to interact together and even have downtime to incorporate their learning - it is a whole different level of delivering services. So, there is a learning curve that I am going to have to attend to and that is fine. Because the one thing I know about myself is that I get real bored real easily - so changing things up brings in the adventure that my spirit requires to feel alive - and feeling alive is what makes life a valuable experience.

Learning: Transformation is a part of life as we go through the inevitable changes that life brings us. It is through these changes that we learn and grow allowing us to feel fully alive.

If you are a person who is sick of being stuck at home and ready to do something both fun and interesting on a beautiful island resort, do keep your eyes on this page as I will be posting information about the retreats I will be running including the dates, subjects, and other information as it is ready to be released in the coming weeks.