For those of you working with others as a profession or as a vocation, this understanding has over 30 years of impact in every arena – from business to education to mental health to social justice and on it goes.
I have quoted Michael Neill a few times and I about to do so again. Imagine that in your work, Bill Gates comes to you for assistance. He has temporary amnesia and wants you to give him business advice. (lets assume you do have that skill). But you do have to make a decision – are you going to give him business advice as he has asked for it – or are you going to remind him of who he really is?
This is a deeper point that can’t be made too often…we can spend a ton of time and money on trying to fix, control or boost the self esteem of the people in our lives, from our spouse to our clients. OR we can remind them of how experience is created and who they are in life. This brings solutions to them via their own innate health and state of mind, and you get to watch this happen, right in front of you.
In the early days of this understanding, it had a “miracle” quality to it because as we learned it we were not deep in our own understanding – and it still had monumental results ( see Modello – book on transformation of a public housing development in Florida) . The reason it had those results even when we didn’t know what we were doing, is because the answers came from within the people we worked with – not from us.
We assisted them in remembering who they were and that was all that was necessary to begin the journey of change and transformation.
